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There Are No Inconsistencies In Bishop Tobin’s
Pro-Life Leadership
Peter J. Smith-Bishop Thomas Tobin, the leader of Rhode Island’s Roman Catholics, took a personal lead in the 40 Days For Life Lenten campaign last Friday, joining his flock and other Christians in two peaceful pro-life demonstrations at Rhode Island abortion clinics.
Tobin reminded pro-life advocates that they were setting a positive example by challenging social acceptance of abortion and giving the issue a high profile, when others would rather keep the problem of abortion out of the public consciousness, the Rhode Island Catholic reported.
“Your witness to life is very important. It’s very effective and it’s very encouraging,” the Catholic bishop said. “Thank you for that.”
Rhode Island pro-life advocates, many of them Catholic, gathered to pray and give a pro-life witness at the Women’s Clinic on Broad Street in Cranston and the Planned Parenthood in Providence. The RI Catholic said that those praying at the abortion centers also recited the Rosary, a traditional set of prayers asking the intercession of the Virgin Mary, and the prayer to St. Michael the Archangel, which asks the angel by the power of God to “cast into Hell Satan and all evil spirits.”
Sandra Jeanne Lefebvre of Woonsocket told the RI Catholic that standing shoulder to shoulder with the bishop and others at the abortion clinic filled her with hope, and felt uplifting.
“Earlier that day, God’s sovereignty was so evident when one of the women who never made it into the clinic to seek an abortion was Spanish speaking and we did not speak Spanish,” she said. “God provided someone at the end of the phone to counsel her and she left. We called the place where we thought we called and they said you didn’t call here. So we don’t know who, but there was an angel of mercy out there.”
 The day before, Tobin gave a homily on a pro-life theme at St. Martha’s Church for the Feast of the Annunciation, the day the Catholic Church celebrates the Virgin Mary’s consent to bear Jesus Christ in her womb.
Tobin told the packed congregation at St. Martha’s that Mary’s “yes” gives a powerful example for both Christians and those in the pro-life movement.
“Mary said yes, let it be done to me according to your word,” the bishop said during his homily at St. Martha Church. “With that yes she allowed God’s plan to be fulfilled. Like Mary, you are saying yes to life, like Mary you are accepting his word, like Mary you are doing God’s will.”
For Catholics and pro-life advocates, Tobin’s actions have provided a consistent pastoral example of showing how a bishop should lead on the life issues and uphold Catholic teachings on the sanctity of life.
The Rhode Island bishop was thrust into the national spotlight over a duel with Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.), a pro-abortion Catholic and son of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, when Rep. Kennedy rebuked the U.S. bishops in October as not being “pro-life” because they opposed the Democrats’ health care reform legislation.
Tobin chastised Kennedy for his remark, calling the lawmaker “a disappointment to the Church and to the citizens of Rhode Island.” A public exchange followed between the two men in which the bishop subsequently warned Kennedy that his pro-abortion stance “absolutely diminishes your communion with the Church.”
Kennedy ended his public confrontation with Tobin when polls in the state, which has the highest per capita density of Catholics in the U.S., revealed that taking on the bishop had hurt him politically – but not before he revealed that Tobin had privately instructed him not to receive communion in 2007.
Tobin also went on the record at the time saying that pro-abortion Catholics in politics “must quit your job and save your soul” rather than advance the abortion agenda.
Peter J. Smith (with slight editing)
Who Else Wants to Discover Why Our Government Spends Money on Hate Crimes and Murder?
My Dear People,
Palm Sunday points the way to the Cross. Jesus enters Jerusalem triumphant. He leaves the city carrying the Holy Cross. The crowd cries, “HOSANNA…HOSANNA” in the highest, as Jesus enters. They scream “CRUCIFY HIM..CRUCIFY HIM” as He leaves. What happened in that short period of time? How could things have changed so quickly? It was the sin and the hatred of the elders that caused such a rapid change. We have to be careful not to get caught up in the sin and hatred of others.
The Government is Executing Our Future
It is so easy to get persuaded by the blindness of the immoral majority. We don’t have to look any further than our government officials to see this today. More and more money is directed toward the killing of our children within the womb. These acts of murder and hate crimes have only intensified as we continue to pour more and more of our FEDERAL taxes into the execution of our future. WHY the blindness? As in Jesus’ day, it is the sin of the elders, our elected officials. We share in their sin if we have put them into office. Pray for an end to the ultimate hate crime of abortion. Pray for our elders who so blindly appropriate federal funds to, “Murder, murder the children in the womb.”
Entrusting you to the care of Our Lady,
Fr. Mark Bozada
May we suffering of Jesus inspire us to make our own sacrifices and to support the work of the church.
Scourged at the Pillar
And Crowned with Thorns
Michael Ventura writes–Archbishop Timothy Dolan defended Pope Benedict XVI during Palm Sunday Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral amid a growing church abuse scandal that’s aimed directly at the Vatican.
Dolan called on Catholics to pray for the pontiff and compared the Pope’s plight to that of Jesus Christ, in that both faced unjust accusations, according to news reports.
“[Reforms] could never have happened without the insistence and support of the very man now being daily crowned with thorns by groundless innuendo,” Dolan said during the service, the Daily News reported.
The Pope is accused of looking the other way when, as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, he was allegedly presented with evidence of child abuse among priests in Ireland, Germany and Milwaukee, Wisc.
“The somberness of Holy Week is intensified for Catholics this year,” Dolan said, according to NBC New York. “The recent tidal wave of headlines about abuse of minors by some few priests, this time in Ireland, Germany and a re-run of an old story from Wisconsin, has knocked us to our knees once again.”
Meanwhile, in Rome, the Pope said during Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square that he would not be “intimidated” by “petty gossip” from the abuse scandal, the News reported.
Still, Dolan said the church should face scrutiny for the abuse scandals, but that the Catholic Church was not to blame for every incidence of child abuse that “has cursed every culture, religion, organization, institution, school, agency and family in the world,” the News reported.
Michael Ventura (with slight editing)
Let us pray for our Pope and bishops and all our clergy so that they will be strengthened and that the church will emerge from this crisis holier and stronger than ever. Sacred Heart of Jesus, Have Mercy on Us. Immaculate Heart of Mary, Pray for Us.
Bishop Robert Vasa Answers Why Abortion
Destroys the Morality of the Health Care Bill
By John Quinn
Baker, Oregon Diocese, March 26, 2010 (CourageousPriest.com) – In an address to his Baker Diocesan Newspaper, Bishop Robert Vasa explains why one cannot support the Health Care Bill, which funds abortion, even if one believes enormous good benefits would result. It appears the Bishop is indirectly answering the position of Sr. Carol Keehan, President of the Catholic Health Association, that even with the abortion issue the good outweighs the bad.
The Bishop writes that not only is such a position “a serious understatement,” but also a “serious error.”
“If they were further to claim that the plan has so many other good features that an insistence on the elimination of abortion provisions is really a demand for an unrealistic “perfection” then they are in serious error.”
To clarify his point he uses the example of the importance of fidelity in marriage.
“No one would claim that a fiancee’s insistence on fidelity … is an enemy of an otherwise “good” relationship. Absurd! No one would counsel a fiancee to ignore the present infidelities … on the grounds that he or she is really a good, well-intentioned person. No, the infidelity destroys the possibility of an authentic relationship.”
No matter which side of the fence you are on for authentic health care reform, as a Catholic “the provision of abortion funding or abortion expansion destroys the very heart of health care.” Which means that one in good conscience cannot support the Health Care Bill. How can true social justice include Satan’s number one attack on our society today, consisting of murdering innocent little babies?
Sometimes when writing about such controversial topics one might water down what is true, but Bishop Vasa is very clear when he says, “a plan that includes funds for the direct and intentional killing of innocent human beings is much more than imperfect, it is nothing short of positively evil.”
Although the Bishop did not mention Mr. Bart Stupak by name he does refer to his misconceived thought process. “I do not at all believe it is legitimate to conditionally support such a plan even if there is a “promise” that the objections to abortion will be worked out once the plan is approved.”
Bishop Vasa concludes by saying , “besides involving the federal government in the business of killing pre-born children, such a policy would coerce men and women to pay for a procedure they find absolutely abhorrent.”
Four Lessons Learned From The
Government Takeover of Healthcare
Archbishop Charles Chaput-As current federal health-care legislation moves forward toward law, we need to draw several lessons from events of the last weeks and months:
First, the bill passed by the House on March 21 is a failure of decent lawmaking. It has not been “fixed.” It remains unethical and defective on all of the issues pressed by the U.S. bishops and prolife groups for the past seven months.
Second, the Executive Order promised by the White House to ban the use of federal funds for abortion does not solve the many problems with the bill, which is why the bishops did not — and still do not – see it as a real solution. Executive Orders can be rescinded or reinterpreted at any time. Some current congressional leaders have already shown a pattern of evasion, ill will and obstinacy on the moral issues involved in this legislation, and the track record of the White House in keeping its promises regarding abortion-related issues does not inspire confidence. The fact that congressional leaders granted this one modest and inadequate concession only at the last moment, and only to force the passage of this deeply flawed bill, should give no one comfort.
Third, the combination of pressure and disinformation used to break the prolife witness on this bill among Democratic members of Congress – despite the strong resistance to this legislation that continues among American voters – should put an end to any talk by Washington leaders about serving the common good or seeking common ground. Words need actions to give them flesh. At many points over the past seven months, congressional leaders could have resolved the serious moral issues inherent in this legislation. They did not. No shower of reassuring words now can wash away that fact.
Fourth, self-described “Catholic” groups have done a serious disservice to justice, to the Church, and to the ethical needs of the American people by undercutting the leadership and witness of their own bishops. For groups like Catholics United, this is unsurprising. In their effect, if not in formal intent, such groups exist to advance the interests of a particular political spectrum. Nor is it newsworthy from an organization like Network, which – whatever the nature of its good work — has rarely shown much enthusiasm for a definition of “social justice” that includes the rights of the unborn child.
But the actions of the Catholic Health Association (CHA) in providing a deliberate public counter-message to the bishops were both surprising and profoundly disappointing; and also genuinely damaging. In the crucial final days of debate on health-care legislation, CHA lobbyists worked directly against the efforts of the American bishops in their approach to members of Congress. The bad law we now likely face, we owe in part to the efforts of the Catholic Health Association and similar “Catholic” organizations.
Here in Colorado, many thousands of ordinary, faithful Catholics, from both political parties, have worked hard over the past seven months to advance sensible, legitimate health-care reform; the kind that serves the poor and protects the rights of the unborn child, and immigrants, and the freedom of conscience rights of health-care professionals and institutions.
Archbishop Charles Chaput (with slight editing)
Your Comments
- What do you think will be the biggest concern with the new health bill?
- Who disappointed you most? Who stood tall?
Two Reasons Why Archbishop Listecki Opposes the Health Care Bill
Written by The Catholic Herald: As the U.S. bishops called on Congress and people in the Catholic community to make sure promises are kept that new health care legislation will not expand abortions in the United States, Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki stated two reasons why he opposes the health care bill.
Writing in his weekly March 23 “Love One Another” communiqué to people involved in parish and diocesan ministries, the archbishop stated,
- I am not convinced that there are sufficient provisions to protect federal funds from their use in supporting abortions (the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops was right in their opposition).
- The price tag on the current legislation will severely cripple the already fragile United States economy placing on the backs of our future generations a terrible financial debt.”
Archbishop Listecki acknowledged a need for health care reform but said “passing flawed legislation … will turn the most advanced national medical environment into a profession that is satisfied with the adequate rather than the excellent.”
He said he was not convinced that the poor would be better served as a result of the legislation, but added that time will determine that.
 Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki “Until then we all must be vigilant that abortions are not the product of the new health care reform; that doctors and nurses will be able to exercise their right to conscience; and that the poor will have access to adequate health care,” Archbishop Listecki wrote.
Noting that people of faith were responsible for those in need, the archbishop said that some are trying to characterize the term “social justice” as “an offshoot of a socialist or communist agenda.”
“Social justice is the responsibility all of us have to cooperate with each other to further the common good that is individually, locally, nationally and even globally. The Gospel is the ultimate criteria by which our actions are judged,” Archbishop Listecki wrote.
He noted that “any social legislation claiming it furthers the common good, consideration must first be given to the dignity of all human life.”
In a statement issued moments after President Barack Obama signed the Senate version of health care reform legislation approved by the House of Representatives by a slim margin, March 21, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, said the bishops applauded “the effort to expand health care to all.”
However, he noted concerns about the legislation, including that “the statute forces all those who choose federally subsidized plans that cover abortion to pay for other people’s abortions with their own funds.”
Cardinal George pointed to President Obama’s executive order that said “it is necessary to establish an adequate enforcement mechanism to ensure that federal funds are not used for abortion services.”
The need for such an order underscores deficiencies in the bill, Cardinal George said.
“We do not understand how an executive order, no matter how well intentioned, can substitute for statutory provisions,” he said.
President Obama and others claimed the bill does not expand abortion, Cardinal George noted.
“We and many others will accompany the government’s implementation of the health care reform and will work to ensure that Congress and the Administration live up to the claims that have contributed to its passage. We believe, finally, that new legislation to address its deficiencies will almost certainly be required,” he said.
The statement was approved unanimously by the 32-member Administrative Committee of the USCCB
Chicago bishop: abortion ‘quietly’ decimating black community
By Matt C. Abbott (with permissions)
Lamenting the news early this year that “the number of abortions performed in Illinois reached a 10-year high in 2008,” Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Perry describes in a written statement/talk how the black community in general has been profoundly affected by abortion.
Bishop Perry, who is African-American, writes:
“Abortion killed at least 203,991 blacks in the 36 states and two cities (New York City and the District of Columbia) that reported abortions by race in 2005, according to the CDC. During that same year, according to the CDC, a total of 198,385 blacks nationwide died from heart disease, cancer, strokes, accidents, diabetes, homicide and chronic lower respiratory diseases combined. These were the seven leading causes of death charted for black Americans that year.”
 Bishop Perry asserts that “African Americans have a keen understanding of civil rights and are often hard-pressed to be found on the opposite side of an argument for” moral issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage.
Still, abortion “is a topic essentially kept hush-hush in the black community, defying the often quoted mantra that black families are welcoming of their children, all children, anybody’s children, legitimate and illegitimate.”
Bishop Perry also notes that the abortion industry specifically targets the black community. He writes:
“Dr. Alveda King, niece of slain Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is a pro-life activist. In August 2007, she told a meeting of Priests for Life ‘those abortionists plant their killing centers in minority neighborhoods and prey upon women who think they have no hope…. the great irony is that abortion has done what the Klan only dreamed of.“
Catachesis and Evangalization Are The Key
Bishop Perry calls the large number of abortions procured by African-American women “alarming” and believes there is “urgency for catechesis and evangelization in our black churches and the wider community.”
Abortion “is quietly spelling the decimation of the black community in our society,” writes Bishop Perry.
“Considering the gun violence … in many of our urban areas as well as the violence of abortion and pervasive breakdown of marriage and family life, religious and community leaders are trying to get the community to stop and reflect upon the cultural and moral disintegration that is evident in our communities.
“In churches all over, prayer is constantly raised for a change of heart on part of persons considering abortion and especially on part of our lawmakers. In parishes and in dioceses all over the country, Catholics consider the subject of abortion one of the chief witnesses of our modern times for which we are pledged to continue to raise awareness about alternatives to abortion, particularly, to let women in trouble be aware that they have other options….
“The Church’s articulation offers Catholics and other sympathetic individuals a higher consciousness, one grounded in the teachings of Jesus Christ in the gospels. Notions of freedom in the secular city are simply inadequate at framing a proper moral analysis of this great evil. Human life is sacred. When we dismantle life at its source, nothing can stop one from reasoning to dismantling life at any stage of development.”
Bishop Perry concludes:
“In the final analysis, there are certain things we can never do and certain things we can never be simply because we love and admire Jesus Christ. And once we have handed over our lives to Him, the playing field suddenly shrinks and options are few. One option remains, and that is to do that which is good and to hold the good above every expediency.”
On a related note, the targeting of the black community by the abortion industry — specifically Planned Parenthood — is the subject of Maafa 21, a documentary produced by Texas-based Life Dynamics.
The documentary even has the strong endorsement of Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, who said, “Maafa 21 must be seen by everyone who values freedom and equal rights.”
See the trailer for Maafa 21 here.
Bishop Perry’s full statement can be read on www.blackcatholicchicago.org.
Yes Perverts are Just A Symptom!
The Cancer is that There is No Real Belief
In the Supernatural!
Father Dwight Longenecker-What’s the real cancer at the heart of the church? Not pedophile priests…they’re a symptom of a much deeper problem. Gerald Warner at the Daily Telegraph let’s fly in this article about the real problem underlying the child abuse scandals. I think he’s on target in much of what he says.
The secular press are fond of saying that the child abuse problem is caused by the demand for priestly celibacy. There is an underlying cause, but it’s not that. The underlying cause is that too many Catholics have lost the plot completely. For the last forty years the church has been infected with modernism, and the key tenet of modernism is that there is no such thing as the supernatural. What you see is what you get.
This serious sickness at the very heart of the church swept through monasteries, convents and seminaries. The honest priests, nuns and religious lost their faith and got out. The lazy ones stayed put and enjoyed a meal ticket for life. No longer believing in the reality and power of the sacraments, they drifted into a no man’s land in which they were priests, bishops and religious without believing in religion. What were they supposed to do? They decided to re-create the church as a kind of dining club with a social conscience.
When it came to sexuality, well since the invention of the pill, everyone else was playing around with whoever they wanted. The apostate priests had no reason to insist on such an outmoded thing as chastity, and if no one else had to be chaste, why should they? If they no longer had to believe in heaven or hell (you make your own heaven or hell here on earth don’t you know?) then there was no real penalty if your sexual tastes were, errm, unconventional. Homosexuality was presented as natural, and sex wasn’t for procreation, and everybody was sexually active, so why not play around with whoever you liked?
A therapeutic culture swept in and suddenly nobody was a sinner. “I’m OK. You’re OK.” You don’t need punishment or banishment. You don’t even need forgiveness and a demand for reparation. You need therapy. No wonder they covered up. In their anthropology no one was a sinner. No one was bad. They were just wounded. They were just sick. They needed help.
G.K.Chesterton said that “Every argument is a theological argument.” and it is always and everywhere true that a moral crisis is linked with a theological crisis. Benedict XVI’s letter to the Irish church rightly calls for a spiritual and liturgical and theological renewal. The pedophile priest crisis is not just a crisis of morals, but a crisis of belief.
Finally, this crisis of belief is not just a crisis among a few twisted and evil perverts. It is a crisis of belief in our whole church. Archbishops, Bishops, Abbots, Mother Superiors, Seminary Rectors, Theologians, Priests and people have all been swamped with something other than the red blooded Catholic faith of our Fathers. They’ve been tromping along like drug addled zombies following a feel good false religion that has been used to deceive millions.
We all need repentance in the face of this. We all need to turn again to the awareness that the devil is real, that sin is real, that nice people are capable of terrible evil. We must be on our guard. We must believe in the power and reality of the sacraments. We must be New Testament Christians with missionary zeal, the discipline of ascetical prayer and a warrior spirit.
Nothing else will do.
Liberal Nuns Support Abortion Funding
in the Name of Social Justice
Father Z reaches out to correct disillusioned Nuns in an article he called A Magisterium of Nuns.
Fr. Z – In this matter of contingent, prudential judgments, whose judgment will in time prove to have been the more prudent?
The Catholic bishops with pro-life groups or their opposition, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) and Catholic Health Association (CHA) and National Catholic Reporter (NCR), etc?
I happen to think the bishops are right and the CHA and NCR and LCWR are wrong. I think the bishops are right this time, not because they are bishops, by the way, but because they happen to be right. Even if there really is a barrier between federal money and the procuring of abortions, a barrier which might allow a Catholic legislator in this byzantine tangle to vote for the bill, is that barrier going to stand?
Or will it – as I fear it will – open the gates to direct federal funding for abortions?
At this point I doubt many people are going to change their minds about their positions.
Therefore, I have this to say to those Catholics who support the passage of this bill.
I am speaking especially to the women of the LCWR and the CHA and the dissenters of the NCR.
No one is going to forget that you supported this bill when, in years to come, your barrier did not hold and children are being killed with tax-payer funding.
In years to come, you will be held accountable by Catholics on the street.
You will be held responsible for this and you will be made to answer for this down the line.
You will be responsible for federal funding of the most extreme form of child abuse.
You are in for a Dante-esque contrapasso in decades to come.
Dear readers, think about how these same people scream for the heads of bishops and priests who years ago harmed innocent children. Today those who support this legislation have in the past also relentlessly pursued bishops and priests who, 40 years ago, showed compassion – rightly or wrongly – in trying to rehabilitate priests who harmed children.
“If we only knew then what we know now…”, people will say in years to come, just as they do now about child abuse in years past.
“What harm we could have avoided if we, moved by compassion, had made a different prudential judgment!”
When federal funding for the extreme child abuse of abortion starts to flow, I suspect people will find you, Sister – Reverend Mother – Sister “President” – in the same kind of nursing homes in which various groups has searched out priests who abused children decades ago.
Organizations will be formed, seek you out, and extract your public mea culpas because of your “prudential” judgments today.
Sisters… what you are doing is WRONG.
Your magisterium of liberal nuns has told us that if only women had been priests or had been in power positions, then maybe there wouldn’t have been a crisis today with sexual abuse of children.
Is that so? Perhaps if there were men in power positions in the LCWR and CHA we might avoid the abuse to come.
You tell us, Sisters, that out of compassion for the poor we ought to take the risk that federal funds, in a worst case scenario, might go to pay for abortion.
I think that is the wrong prudential judgment.
The bishops are right and you are wrong.
They are right, not because they are bishops, but because they are neither naive nor governed by false compassion…nor false motives.
And I think we must, Sisters, question your motives.
This moment, Sisters, will come back to haunt you.
Discover 12 Practical Benefits of Going To Confession
Father Dwight Longenecker – I’ve always been befuddled by those who consider repentance to be a gloomy and unhealthy exercise because it seems to me that it is just the opposite. Admitting our sins and going to confession is actually one of the healthiest and happiest things we can do. Apart from the spiritual graces of the sacrament, here are the practical benefits:
- Penitence makes me realistic about myself. - As soon as I say, “Lord Jesus Christ Have Mercy on me a Sinner” all the self delusions fall away and I can begin to see myself as I really am.
- Penitence makes me realistic about other people. – Not only realistic, but compassionate. If I’m a struggling sinner, then so is everyone else. What’s the saying, “Be kind, everyone is fighting a great battle.”
- Penitence makes me realistic about God – If I’m a sinner and see myself clearly, then I suddenly see God clearly too. I cut through the sentimentality or the fear or whatever false image of God and should be able to see him as the loving and forgiving Father.
- Penitence makes me able to learn. – You can’t learn anything if you think you know it all. You can learn to be righteous is you think you already are. Saying you’re a sinner is the first step to enlightenment.
- Penitence makes me aware of my need for God – The cry “O Lord make haste to help me!” is the cry of a person in need. We can only be given what we need when we ask for what we need and we can only ask if we first realize we have a need.
- Penitence opens my heart – The hardened heart is a fearful thing, and no one who is truly penitent can have a hardened heart. Immediately we cry out in penitence we make a great soul jump forward. The opened heart is a heart that can sing.
- Penitence takes me to the heart of humanity – When I am penitent I see the whole human condition and therefore the whole of human culture, history and relationships from a new and amazing light. The whole world is crying out to God. Every aspect of human culture and accomplishment and learning is a desire for God, and now I can see it.
- Penitence makes the angels sing and the demons howl – This is in the gospel.
- Penitence makes me aware of death – and this is a good thing.
- Penitence makes me humble - humility and humorous and humus are all the same word: they’re linked with the earth. Penitence brings me down to earth. Down where I ought to be.
- Penitence gives me joy – Sorrow first, then joy. When I’ve come down to earth I’ve come down to myself, and that gives me joy and freedom and make me laugh.
- Penitence helps me to be myself. – At last I can be who I was created to be. This is who I am. I am good, but not perfect. I am a sinner but I am forgiven. I am a fallen Son of God, but I’ve been lifted up, put on my feet, brushed down and headed toward home.
O’ Immaculate Heart of Mary lead us to the Merciful Heart of your Son in the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
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