Indulgent Forgiveness of Perversion

All but one Seminary in Ireland have closed and that Emerald Aisle of 'saints & scholars' has to import Priests - yet they have enough spare to send to Us Homosex Perverts who will Haunt our PUBLIC TOILETS like Rest Room Romeos.

Mr. Danielson was quoted as saying that No Minors (Meaning BOYS - Already the Target of Homosex Ephebophile 'Chicken Hawks') were involved in these Sick Perverted Public Acts.... Yet How he can maintain this position about Who Did and Did Not attempt to use the PUBLIC TOILET when Mr. Greene was Holding Court as chief Stallion of the Stalls, and How Young they were, Is impossible to fathom unless Mr. Danielson also claims that he was acting as a lookout at the time and no Boys needed to use the facilities while his Protege was Acting Lewdley.

Forgiveness is Fine - but that is not the Political Agenda at work here. Elevating someone to a position of Public Trust & Leadership after LEWD PUBLIC ACTS IN THE LOO - Makes a Mockery of the Concept, and is in fact simply Pandering to Homosex Perversions!

One of the Darkest times of the Catholic Church, and a direct cause of the Protestant Movement, was the practice of "Selling Indulgences". No matter what heinous act was committed, it could be Forgiven in return for a Donation to the Bull of Indulgence, and you could literally Pay for your Sins in coins of the day.

While the practice of 'indulgences' remains, the new coin required is Political Pandering to the Sick Hatreds and Vile Perversions or the Radical Gender Feminist / Homosex agenda - and those willing to donate their conscience to the cause of pimping children to such sickness will now be labeled 'tolerant' by Homosex Activists masquerading as 'priests' and acting as Judas.

Further - the notion that this is Mr.Greene's First Offense is simply ludicrous - one does not engage in such LEWD PUBLIC ACTS as a one time whim, but as a part of a Deep Personal / Mental Flaw that knowingly seeks to Harm Others with their INTENTIONAL PUBLIC ACTS. There needs to be further questioning as to Mr.Greene's behaviors in Ireland prior to his arrival, and whether he was transferred as a result of 'troubles'...

Mr. Greene should be Forgiven, provided he is truly repentant - and not using the Faith of Others as a tool to fool the gullible - Which unfortunately Seems To Be the Case Up Until Others Exposed Him. Mr. Greene may indeed even be able to contribute and lead a pious and productive life on a continuing Church Salary - but placing a Known Homosex Pervert as Pastor in a Parish - at the same time one Diocese after another goes Bankrupt to Pay for the Attack on the Church and its Boys by Homosex Perverts, is an Insult and an Outrage to the Faithful and Disgrace to the Whole Church.

Mr. Danielson has shown his true political colors as a Radical Gender Feminist 'Homosex Political Activist, who would rather see the entire body defiled than allow anyone to escape his Cannibal Soup ' communion' of Pandering to Homosex Hatreds and Perversions. Shame on them all.

Ohso
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell

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• Posted by: Theresa Aimar: The police report reads: March 2, 1999 . I (Officer) was assigned to work in plain clothes at the North Oakland Sports Center. I entered the boysroom and observed the suspect (Greene) standing facing the urinal. Mr. Greene was masterbating with his left hand. Mr Greens penis was erect and he was not urinating. I asked Greene if he had come there for an "afternoon delight" He said he was just relaxing.(still masterbating) Mr. Greene asked what I was doing there for and turned to face me he continued to masterbate. I responded "whatever comes up." He replied "whatever goes up must come down." I then took Mr. Greene into custody. Father Greene was jailed for 2 days. Should this Man be a Pastor? Hold power over children? Why did they withhold this information? • Posted by: Theresa Aimar

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Diocese reiterates support for priest
# PLEASANTON: Critics want to block clergyman with lewdness arrest from leading parish; officials defend selection
By Meera Pal STAFF WRITER 11/17/2007

A small but emotional group gathered outside the Catholic Diocese of Oakland headquarters Friday to question why a priest with a public lewdness arrest was chosen to oversee the Pleasanton parish...
But Joey Piscitelli and other members of the Survival Network of Those Abused by Priests say Greene's past behavior should be considered a warning sign. "This man committed a deviant sex act and wanted to be seen,"

Piscitelli handed out copies of Greene's police and court records ent two days in custody. The Alameda County district attorney later dismissed the charges against him after Greene agreed to six months of counseling.

Pleasanton resident Theresa Aimar, one of several parishioners who have renounced the Catholic Church entirely after Greene's past was made public, cautioned that the diocese should err on the side of caution and appoint a pastor with a clean slate -- someone without a history of sexual misconduct in public.

Piscitelli disagrees and plans to be at St. Elizabeth Seton Church on Sunday to hand out copies of the police and court records. "The bishop of Oakland is trying to force parishioners of Pleasanton to accept a lewd priest,"

God's Grace And The Homosexual Next Doorn (LC)

Author Alan Chambers (a former homosexual) and four of his colleagues at Exodus International offer practical and biblical insights on how both individuals and churches can become a haven for homosexuals seeking freedom from same-sex attraction.

In this comprehensive guide to helping homosexuals, readers will learn about the roots of homosexuality, God's radical grace for sexual sinners, how to reach youth both within and outside the church, dealing with fear and ignorance in the church, leading homosexuals to Christ, mentoring homosexuals in the church,

three degrees of homosexuality: militant, moderate or repentant, what not to do in reaching out to homosexuals and much more about this often perplexing subject.

Ambassador complains to Vatican about election statement.. PinkNews

Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos revealed on Saturday that
Ambassador Francisco Vazquez expressed his "perplexity and surprise" at statement issued last week by the Spanish Bishop's Conference.

"Catholics may support and join different parties it is also true
that not all (electoral) programmes are equally compatible with the
faith and Christian demands in life," the bishops said. This was widely interpreted as an instruction to the faithful not to
vote for parties that support gay marriage or negotiate with Basque
terrorists.

The Zapatero government introduced full gay marriage in Spain in 2005 and the main opposition party, Partido Popular, has said it does not intend to overturn it. However, some PP politicians have hinted they may "return" to the issue...

The rift between church and government in Spain shows no signs of
healing. Last month Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega said that the Church could no longer impose its morality on the country.

Radio Free Fresno

The following excerpts from an opinion piece in the Frisco Crock offer some insights in to the attack on Church Leaders who fail to pander to the sick hatreds and vile perversions of the Radical Gender Feminist / Homosex lobby.

However - as is required by the Censors at the Crock, the end result was just another Pro-Homosex Mau Mau piece denouncing sanity in terms of "Ism-Obia"... as if that is news. Ohso
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Religious freedom in Fresno

Andrew Fiala Thursday, January 17, 2008

The drama regarding the Episcopalian Church in Fresno shows us the complexity of the ideal of religious liberty. Americans are right to celebrate the separation of church and state. But we must acknowledge that religious liberty means that religions are free to espouse views that many of us believe are intolerant. This works so long as church and state remain separate.

Last month, a substantial majority of Episcopalians here in Fresno voted to leave the American Episcopal Church and align with the Church of the Southern Cone. The immediate cause of this fissure was the Episcopal Church's changing view of homosexuality and marriage. According to the more conservative reading of the Bible propounded by the Fresno Episcopalians, the church should not approve homosexual relationships or ordain homosexual clergy.

The Episcopal Church responded last week by "inhibiting" John-David Schofield, the bishop of San Joaquin. This means that he is prohibited him from carrying out his ministerial duties. In reply, Schofield claims that because he is no longer a member of the Episcopal Church, the order of inhibition does not apply to him.

The use of the term "inhibition" is intriguing.

The term evokes repression and restriction.

Ironically, in this case, the more "liberal" Episcopal Church wants to inhibit Schofield's freedom to preach.

And Schofield and his congregation claim that they should be "uninhibited," that is, free to create a religious community that does not sanction homosexual unions.

The principle of religious freedom is central here. Schofield has said that the vote to leave the Episcopal Church was a vote to affirm the "freedom to honor the authority of Scripture." In his pastoral letter announcing the split, he said that the result of this decision is "freedom from oppression and threat."...

I particularly like the way the Old Media refers to Unification as a 'defection' - at least from the Radical Gender Feminist / Homosex 'Pander or Perish' party line being enforced by the Thought Police... Ohso
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US bishop defects to Catholic Church in row over gays

Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent,Times Online
9, 25, 2007

In the most high-profile American defection to date in the row over gays in the Anglican Church, a diocesan bishop has explained why he is to be received into the Roman Catholic Church.
The Bishop of Rio Grande, Jeffrey Steenson, who was educated at Oxford and is in the Anglican Catholic tradition of the Church, said that to remain in his post in the Episcopal Church may lead him "to a place apart from Scripture and tradition”.

In a statement to American bishops meeting in New Orleans in an attempt to avert schism, in which he requested permission to resign both from his post and his orders, the Bishop Steenson said: “I am concerned that if I do not listen to and act in accordance with conscience now, it will become harder and harder to hear God’s voice.”

His defection will come as a further blow to an Anglican province already reeling from the plans of up to five dioceses to seek leadership from a conservative province outside the US. Insiders say that the small but wealthy Episcopal Church, with about two-to-three million Sunday worshippers, is losing hundreds of people every year...

The Right Rev Steenson indicated that those who want to go should go quietly.
He said: “I hope my decision will encourage others who believe they can no longer remain in the Episcopal Church, to respect its laws and to withdraw as courteously as possible for the sake of the Christian witness.”

Referring to another meeting of the Church’s bishops this year, he said: “I was more than a little surprised when such a substantial majority declared the polity of the Episcopal Church to be primarily that of an autonomous and independent local church relating to the wider Anglican Communion by voluntary association. This is not the Anglicanism in which I was formed, inspired by the Oxford movement and the Catholic Revival in the Church of England. Perhaps something was defective in my education for ministry in the Episcopal Church, but, honestly, I did not recognise the church that this House described on that occasion.”

Committing himself to seeking unity with the Catholic Church, he accused the Episcopal Church of making a “decisive turn away” from efforts to preserve the communion. He said: “It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the Episcopal Church has rejected the discipline of communion but wants it only on its own terms.”...

Church critic “outs” American cardinal
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Washington, Apr. 21, 2008 (CWNews.com) - Richard Sipe, a former Benedictine priest and psychologist who has commented extensively on the sex-abuse scandal in the US, has accused Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the retired Archbishop of Washington, of recruiting seminarians as sexual partners.

The problem of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church “is not generated from the bottom up— that is only from unsuitable candidates—but from the top down— that is from the sexual behaviors of superiors, even bishops and cardinals,” Sipe wrote in an open message to Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news).

Sipe said that he had received evidence that several prelates had preyed on adolescents and seminarians. He claimed to have received reports about the homosexual activities of the future Cardinal McCarrick more than 20 years ago, and to have “documents and letters that record first-hand testimony and eyewitness accounts” to support those accounts.

Sipe– who in the past has charged that the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin also “partied” with seminarians– said that although other reporters were aware of Cardinal McCarrick’s activities in a beach house in New Jersey, “legal documentation has not been available. And even at this point the complete story cannot be published because priest reporters are afraid of reprisals.”

In the U.K., Charity No Longer Begins at Home

Sadly, the political climate in the United Kingdom is proving as inhospitable to religious liberty as Canada's. Because the British refuse to grant a conscience exemption on its new "equality" laws to Catholic Charities, the organization is ending its 120 years of adoption services, according to LifeSiteNews.com

Under the government's policy, religious organizations can no longer refuse "goods and services" to individuals based on their sexual orientation. Rather than conform to the rules that would force it to place adoptive children with homosexuals, Catholic Charities will cling to the church's teachings and no longer pursue new homes for orphans.

While the government had hoped to send a message of forced approval to the U.K., its policy is victimizing thousands of foster children who looked with hope to Catholic Charities for loving families. This failed policy of political correctness is certain to haunt the U.K., which for decades has reaped the cultural benefits of committed faith-based charities like this one.

In the end, this intimidation won't lead to widespread acceptance of homosexuality but to a rise in social maladies created by the void these valuable ministries leave behind.

Additional Resources
After 120 Years of Service UK Catholic Adoption Agency Forced to Close Doors Over Forced Gay Adoptions

VA Churches Fight for Tradition in Word and Property Deed

While Anglicans from all over the world gathered in Jerusalem last week to bring the church "back to the Bible," stateside members of the Episcopal Church (EC) were battling 11 congregations in Virginia whose convictions led them to break away from the EC and remain faithful to traditional church teachings on issues like homosexuality.

The band of 11, whose property the Virginia Diocese is desperately trying to seize, won a critical victory in court in what is being called one of the largest lawsuits in the history of the denomination.

On Friday, Judge Randy Bellows upheld the constitutionality of the state statute that allows individual parishes to split and keep their property. In his 49-page opinion, Bellows deals blow after blow to the Diocese for arguing that the court was entering into a "forbidden religious thicket" by applying secular law to the Episcopal Church. Sadly, the Diocese treats the law the same way it treats Scripture -- by applying it only when it's convenient or rewriting it as it sees fit.

As the 11 churches rejoiced in the ruling, which is being closely watched by the 2,000 U.S. congregations who followed in their footsteps, the Diocese cut the celebration short by announcing in a scathing press release that it will not rest until it takes back the churches.

The Dioceses is certain to appeal, forcing the local churches to scramble for more money to defend their courageous stance in court. Meanwhile, as the EC tries to crush the breakaways in true Goalith versus David fashion, the message of the Global Anglican Future Conference was one of unity and reformation.

To the two-thirds of the Anglican Communion that remains faithful, Archbishop of Nigeria Peter Akinola encouraged them to be steadfast in their opposition to the apostasy of the Episcopal Church leadership.

"Whenever there is a crack in the wall, you cannot stop the reptile from creeping in," he said. For the latest on the Virginia case or to help the congregations involved, log on to

www.anglicandistrictofvirginia.org.

Additional Resources
Anglican District of Virginia

Crossing Over vs Getting Out

Sometimes referred to as "Pope-ing Up" - Anglican Bishop Andrew Burnham of England has asked the Catholic Church to extend a hand of friendship and welcome to refugees of his own Church, who can no longer abide its destruction and denigration in to an agent of Mandatory Pandering for the Sick Hatreds and Vile Perversions of the Radical Gender Feminist / Homosex lobby.

He said: "What we must ask for now is for magnanimous gestures from our Catholic Friends, especially from the Holy Father, who well understands our longing for unity and (freedom) from the hierarchy of England and Wales... Most of all , we ask for ways that allow us to bring our folk with us."

Finally - something good comes out of the Radical Homosex Attack on Society... Houda Thunk It.

Ohso

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell

FIGHTING POVERTY TO BUILD PEACE

MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE BENEDICT XVI
FOR THE CELEBRATION OF THE WORLD DAY OF PEACE
1 JANUARY 2009 - FIGHTING POVERTY TO BUILD PEACE

1. Once again, as the new year begins, I want to extend good wishes for peace to people everywhere. With this Message I would like to propose a reflection on the theme: Fighting Poverty to Build Peace....

4. Another area of concern has to do with pandemic diseases, such as malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS.

Insofar as they affect the wealth-producing sectors of the population, they are a significant factor in the overall deterioration of conditions in the country concerned. Efforts to rein in the consequences of these diseases on the population do not always achieve significant results. It also happens that countries afflicted by some of these pandemics find themselves held hostage, when they try to address them, by those who make economic aid conditional upon the implementation of anti-life policies.

It is especially hard to combat AIDS, a major cause of poverty, unless the moral issues connected with the spread of the virus are also addressed.

First and foremost, educational campaigns are needed, aimed especially at the young, to promote a sexual ethic that fully corresponds to the dignity of the person;

initiatives of this kind have already borne important fruits, causing a reduction in the spread of AIDS.

Then, too, the necessary medicines and treatment must be made available to poorer peoples as well. This presupposes a determined effort to promote medical research and innovative forms of treatment, as well as flexible application, when required, of the international rules protecting intellectual property, so as to guarantee necessary basic healthcare to all people.

Jail Time for All who oppose the Abomination - just another sign of 'Change' from the left... Ohso
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Pro-life pastor prepares for sentencing
Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow - 2/15/2009
An Oakland, California, pastor could face jail time for expressing his pro-life views.

Pastor Walter Hoye ran into trouble with an abortion clinic while doing an informational picket. Dennis Howard, leader of The Movement for a Better America, believes Hoye is innocent.

"His approach was simply to carry a sign that said 'Jesus Loves You. Can We Help?' and offering those who wanted it some information about alternatives to abortion," Howard explains.

A complaint was filed and Hoye was found guilty in spite of proof to the contrary. "There was a video taken of him doing this, and it shows that he was not harassing anybody," Howard points out. "In fact, he was being harassed by escorts from the abortion clinic."

Pastor Hoye faces up to two years in jail and a $4,000 fine. Howard is calling Christians into action. "We feel that pro-life organizations around the country ought to take up this man's cause and pray and fast between now and February 19," he concludes.

That is when Hoye is due to be sentenced.

Archbishop Burke's Keynote Address from Friday's National Catholic Prayer Breakfast

THE TEACHINGS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
WASHINGTON, D.C. MAY 8, 2009 KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Introduction

1. I am deeply honored to give the Keynote Address at this annual gathering of Catholics to pray for our nation. I express my heartfelt esteem and gratitude to those who, each year, organize and support the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast.

2. The theme of this year's Breakfast is most fitting to the difficult time through which our nation is now passing. Before the fundamental and great challenges which we as a nation are facing, how better to express our patriotism than by celebrating the teachings of our Catholic faith. The most treasured gift which we as citizens of the United States of America can offer to our country is a faithful Catholic life. It is the gift which, even though it has often been misunderstood, has brought great strength to our nation, from the time of its founding. Today more than ever, our nation is in need of Catholics who know their faith deeply and express their faith, with integrity, by their daily living.

3. Although I no longer have my residence in our beloved nation, I am no less bound to practice the virtue of patriotism, taught and exemplified by Our Lord during His public ministry. It is Our Lord Who gives us, in the Church, the grace to practice patriotism as a fundamental expression of the bond of charity which we have, in Him, with our fellow citizens. From my earliest formation in the life of the faith, received at home from my parents and in the Catholic schools, it was clear to me that duty to one's nation, to one's fellow citizens, is integral to our life in Christ in the Church. In the Baltimore Catechism, the virtue of patriotism is joined with filial piety. These essentially connected virtues, in the words of the Catechism, dispose us to honor, love and respect our parents and our country (Revised Baltimore Catechism and Mass, No. 3, New York: Benziger Brothers, Inc., 1949, 1952, no. 135). Surely, the most fundamental expression of patriotism is daily prayer for our homeland, the United States of America, her citizens and her leaders. Our participation in the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast is, I trust, an extraordinary expression of the daily prayer which we all offer for our country, as good Catholics and, therefore, good citizens.

4. It pleases me that today's celebration included a presentation by Mother Shaun Vergauwen, Superior General of the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist. I have known Mother Shaun's religious congregation for all the years of my priestly life. The consecrated life of the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist is an inspired witness to the truths of our Catholic faith, especially what pertains to the Gospel of Life, and, therefore, also makes a strong contribution to the good of all citizens in our nation.

Growing Crisis in Our Nation

5. I come to you, this morning, with the deepest concern for our nation. I come to you, not as someone who stands outside of our nation but as a citizen who, with you as fellow citizens, takes responsibility for the state of our nation and, therefore, cannot remain indifferent and inactive about what most concerns the good of us all, especially those among us who are small, weak and defenseless.

6. Over the past several months, our nation has chosen a path which more completely denies any legal guarantee of the most fundamental human right, the right to life, to the innocent and defenseless unborn. Our nation, which had its beginning in the commitment to safeguard and promote the inalienable right to "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" for all, without boundary, is more and more setting arbitrary limits to her commitment (cf. The Declaration of Independence: Action of Second Continental Congress, 4 July 1776, in The Constitution of the United States with the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation, New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 2002, p. 81). Those in power now determine who will or will not be accorded the legal protection of the most fundamental right to life. First the legal protection of the right to life is denied to the unborn and, then, to those whose lives have become burdened by advanced years, special needs or serious illness, or whose lives are somehow judged to be unprofitable or unworthy.

7. What is more, those in power propose to force physicians and other healthcare professionals, in other words, those with a particular responsibility to protect and foster human life, to participate, contrary to what their conscience requires, in the destruction of unborn human lives, from the first or embryonic stage of development to the moment of birth. Our laws may soon force those who have dedicated themselves to the care of the sick and the promotion of good health to give up their noble life work, in order to be true to the most sacred dictate of their consciences. What is more, if our nation continues down the path it has taken, healthcare institutions operating in accord with the natural moral law, which teaches us that innocent human life is to be protected and fostered at all times and that it is always and everywhere evil to destroy an innocent human life, will be forced to close their doors.

8. At the same time, the fundamental society, that is, the family, upon which the life of our nation is founded and depends, is under attack by legislation which redefines marriage to include a relationship between two persons of the same sex and permits them to adopt children. In the same line, it is proposed to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. At the root of the confusion and error about marriage is the contraceptive mentality - which would have us believe that the inherently procreative nature of the conjugal union can, in practice, be mechanically or chemically eliminated, while the marital act remains unitive. It cannot be so. With unparalleled arrogance, our nation is choosing to renounce its foundation upon the faithful, indissoluble, and inherently procreative love of a man and a woman in marriage, and, in violation of what nature itself teaches us, to replace it with a so-called marital relationship, according to the definition of those who exercise the greatest power in our society.

9. The path of violation of the most fundamental human rights and of the integrity of marriage and the family, which our nation is traveling, is not accidental. It is part of the program set forth by those whom we have freely chosen to lead our nation. The part of the program in question was not unknown to us; it was announced to us beforehand and a majority of our fellow citizens, including a majority of our fellow Catholics, chose the leadership which is now implementing it with determination. For example, I refer to our President's declared support of the Freedom of Choice Act, which would make illegal any legislation restricting procured abortion; his repeal of the Mexico City Policy, permitting U.S. funding of procured abortion in other nations, together with the grant of fifty million dollars to the United Nations Fund for Population Activities which, for example, supported the Republic of China's policy of one child per family by means of government-dictated sterilization and abortion; his proposal to rescind the regulations appended to the federal Conscience Clause, which assure that, not only physicians, but also all health-care workers may refuse to provide services, information or counsel to patients regarding medications and procedures which are contrary to their conscience; his removal of limitations on federal funding of embryonic-stem-cell research, involving the wholesale destruction of human life at the embryonic stage of development; and his choice of the members of his administration, who are remarkable for the number of major officials, including several Catholics, who favor the denial of the right to life to the unborn and the violation of the integrity of marriage and the family. These are only some examples of a consistent pattern of decisions by the leadership of our nation which is taking our nation down a path which denies the fundamental right to life to the innocent and defenseless unborn and violates the fundamental integrity of the marital union and the family.

10. As Catholics, we cannot fail to note, with the greatest sadness, the number of our fellow Catholics, elected or appointed by our President to public office, who cooperate fully in the advancement of a national agenda was is anti-life and anti-family. Most recently, the appointment of a Catholic as Secretary of Health and Human Services, who has openly and persistently cooperated with the industry of procured abortion in our nation, is necessarily a source of the deepest embarrassment to Catholics and a painful reminder of the most serious responsibility of Catholics to uphold the natural moral law, which is the irreplaceable foundation of just relationships among the citizens of our nation. It grieves me to say that the support of anti-life legislation by Catholics in public office is so common that those who are not Catholic have justifiably questioned whether the Church's teaching regarding the inviolable dignity of innocent human life is firm and unchanging. It gives the impression that the Church herself can change the law which God has written on every human heart from the beginning of time and has declared in the Fifth Commandment of the Decalogue: Thou shalt not kill.

11. As is clear, the anti-life and anti-family path down which our nation is being led has repercussions for many other peoples who rely upon the United States for aid or who are influenced by the international policies upon which our nation insists. The interest of so many nations in our recent presidential election is a clear sign of the world leadership which our national leadership exercises. What those who were so enthused about the strong message of change and hope in the United States, delivered during the last election campaign, are now discovering is a consistent implementation of policies and programs which confirm and advance the culture of death, which can only finally leave our world without the great hope, described by our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI in these words:
Let us say once again: we need the greater and lesser hopes that keep us going day by day. But these are not enough without the great hope, which must surpass everything else. This great hope can only be God, who encompasses the whole of reality and who can bestow upon us what we, by ourselves, cannot attain. The fact that it comes to us as a gift is actually part of hope. God is the foundation of hope: not any god, but the God who has a human face and who has loved us to the end, each one of us and humanity in its entirety. His Kingdom is not an imaginary hereafter, situated in a future that will never arrive; his Kingdom is present wherever he is loved and wherever his love reaches us.
His love alone gives us the possibility of soberly persevering day by day, without ceasing to be spurred on by hope, in a world which by its very nature is imperfect. His love is at the same time our guarantee of the existence of what we only vaguely sense and which nevertheless, in our deepest self, we await: a life that is truly life (Pope Benedict XVI, Encyclical Letter Spe salvi, On Christian Hope, 30 November 2007, Acta Apostolicae Sedis no. 31).

The change which brings hope can only be the renewal of our nation in the divine love which respects the inviolable dignity of every human life, from the moment of its inception to the moment of natural death, and which creates and gives growth to new human life through the love of man and woman in marriage. Any hope which is incoherent with the great hope is truly illusory and can never bring forth justice and its fruit, peace, for our nation and world.

Addressing the Crisis

12. How can we as Catholics address effectively the critical situation of our nation in what pertains to the fundamental right to life and the integrity of the family? What does the virtue of patriotism, together with all of the virtues inspired by the Holy Spirit dwelling within us, require of us for the common good, for the good of the whole nation? First and foremost, it demands what we are doing this morning, that is, prayer, and the serious reflection which arises from our communion with God in prayer.

13. When Our Lord descended from the Mount of the Transfiguration, he found that his disciples had tried, without success, to help a boy afflicted by an unclean spirit. Our Lord then cast out the unclean spirit, prompting his disciples, when they were alone with Him, to ask why they had been unable to free the boy from his affliction. Our Lord responded with these words: This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer and fasting (Mk 9:29). Our Lord reminded them that the good which they wished to accomplish in the face of great evil could only be attained through prayer and fasting. In other words, evil cannot be overcome by our own forces alone, but by the grace of God which inspires and strengthens our thoughts and actions. It is Christ alone who has accomplished the victory over sin and its most evil fruit, eternal death, and it is Christ alone, in the Church, who continues to bring forth the fruits of His victory in our lives and in our world.

14. In the battle for the protection of the right to life and for the safeguarding of the integrity of marriage and the family in our nation, we are easily tempted to give way to discouragement. And it would be right to do so, if the outcome of the battle depended upon us alone. But it does not. Christ is with us always in the Church and, in a particular way, in the struggle to restore the respect for the right to life of all of our brothers and sisters, especially those who are helpless and who have the first title to our care, and to safeguard the integrity of marriage and the family. Christ Who is the Gospel of Life, encountered in prayer and through the Sacraments, will give us the strength to announce His word of life and to act upon His word of life, on behalf of all in our nation, especially those who depend upon us to care for them and protect their God-given rights.

15. If we are serious about our patriotic duty, then we must pray everyday for our leaders, especially our President, and our nation. We should also practice more fervently our fasting and abstinence for the conversion of our lives and the transformation of our society. If we want to act for the common good, the good of all, in our nation, then we will seek to convert our lives each day to Christ, especially through the Sacraments of Penance and the Holy Eucharist. Christ desires to announce the Gospel of Life and bring about its saving effects in our nation by the complete conversion of our lives to Him for the sake of all our brothers and sisters, without boundary, and for the sake of the preservation of the sanctuary of human life, marriage and the family.

16. At various times of great crisis in our nation and in the world, the Holy Father and our Bishops have called upon all Catholics to offer special prayers for the nation and for the world. I recall so well, from my youth, the Leonine Prayers offered at the conclusion of every Mass to address the growing threat of atheistic materialism in our world. Remember, too, how Pope Saint Pius V, in 1571, called upon the whole Church to pray, especially through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, when the Christian world was under attack by the Turks. After the victory of the Battle of Lepanto, on October 7, 1571, he established October 7th as an annual feast in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary and introduced the title of Mary Help of Christians into the Litany of Loreto. In the present crisis, praying daily the Rosary for our nation and invoking daily the intercession of Mary Help of Christians will be powerful forces for the victory of life and love.

17. At every Mass, we should offer special prayers for our nation and her leaders, in order that the culture of death may be overcome and a civilization of love may be steadfastly advanced. All Catholics throughout the nation should take part in Eucharistic adoration and in the praying of the Rosary for the restoration of the respect for human life and for the safeguarding of the integrity of the family. In our prayers, we should seek, above all, the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, under her title of the Immaculate Conception. Mary Immaculate is the patroness of our nation. In a most wonderful way, she appeared, on our continent, in what is present-day Mexico City, in 1531, as the Immaculate Mother of God, in order to manifest the all-merciful love of God toward His children of America. Through her example and intercession, the Native Americans and Europeans, who were on the brink of a most deadly conflict, were brought together to form one people under her maternal care, and the widespread practice of human sacrifice among the native people was brought to an end. In our time, in many parishes and dioceses there are campaigns of prayer for our nation and her leaders. May these powerful spiritual works continue and prosper, so that, through prayer and fasting, the grave evils of contraception, procured abortion, euthanasia, the experimentation on embryonic human life, and so-called same-sex marriage may be overcome in our nation.

18. Connected with our prayer must be the thoughtful and faithful reflection upon the Church's teaching on the respect for all human life and the integrity of the family. In our homes, in our Catholic schools and universities, in parish study groups, and in everyday conversations and discussions with our neighbors, we are called to give an uncompromising witness to the Gospel of Life. Parents, parish priests and institutions of Catholic education must be aware of the constant anti-life and anti-family messages which constantly bombard us and our young people. One has only to think, for example, of the corruption of the goodness of our youth by the multi-million dollar industry of pornography, especially on the Internet. Our reflection as individuals and groups must open our eyes to the gravity of the situation in our nation, lest we fail to take responsibility for the widespread attacks on human life and the family. Our reflection must help us all and, in a particular way, our young people to see the godless secularism and relativism which underly and justify our nation's anti-life and anti-family programs, policies and laws.

19. Our encounter with the world must be clear and uncompromising. Parents must reflect in their daily living the lifelong and rich fruit of the Gospel of Life, which they are called to teach to their children. Catholic educational institutions must devote themselves ever more strenuously to the study of the truths of the faith, addressing them to the moral challenges of our time. In a culture marked by widespread and grave confusion and error about the most fundamental teachings of the moral law, our Catholic schools and universities must be beacons of truth and right conduct. Clearly, the same is true of our Catholic charitable, missionary and healthcare institutions. There can be no place in them for teaching or activities which offend the moral law. Dialogue and respect for differences are not promoted by the compromise and even violation of the natural moral law. The profound granting of an honorary doctorate at Notre Dame University to our President who is as aggressively advancing an anti-life and anti-family agenda is a source of the gravest scandal. Catholic institutions cannot offer any platform to, let alone honor, those who teach and act publicly against the moral law. In a culture which embraces an agenda of death, Catholics and Catholic institutions are necessarily counter-cultural. If we as individuals or our Catholic institutions are not willing to accept the burdens and the suffering necessarily involved in calling our culture to reform, then we are not worthy of the name Catholic.

Catholics and Public Life

20. Our prayer and conversion of life, and the serious reflection upon and study of the truths of the moral life, both as individuals and in our Catholic institutions, require that we accept our responsibility as citizens to work tirelessly to change unjust programs, policies and laws. In a nation set so firmly on a path of violation of the most fundamental moral norms, Catholics and others who adhere to the natural moral law are pressured to think that their religious commitment to the moral law as the way of seeking the good of all is a merely confessional matter which cannot have any application in public life. Apparently, a number of Catholics in public life have been so convinced. How often do we hear Catholic legislators who vote in favor of anti-life and anti-family legislation claim that they are personally opposed to what the legislation protects and fosters, but that they as public officials may not allow religious beliefs to affect their support of such legislation? How often do we hear fellow Catholics supporting candidates for office, who are anti-life and anti-family, because of political-party loyalties or for reasons of other policies and programs supported by the candidate, which they deem to be good? How often is such thinking justified by the claim that religious faith is a purely private matter and has no place in the public forum? On the contrary, the common good depends upon the active engagement of religious faith in the public forum.

21. Addressing the role of the Church in the political order, Pope Benedict XVI reminds us:

-  It must not be forgotten that, when Churches or ecclesial communities intervene in public debate, expressing reservations or recalling various principles, this does not constitute a form of intolerance or interference, since such interventions are aimed solely at enlightening consciences, enabling them to act freely and responsibly, according to the true demands of justice, even when this should conflict with situations of power and personal interest (Pope Benedict XVI, Ad Congressum a Populari Europae Faction provectum, Acta Apostolicae Sedis 98 [2006], 344)."

-  In his Encyclical Letter Deus caritas est, our Holy Father reminded us of the great gift of our faith which enables reason to do its work more effectively and to see its proper object more clearly (Pope Benedict XVI, Encylical Letter Deus caritas est , On Christian Love, 25 December 2005, Acta Apostolicae Sedis 98 [2006], 239, no. 28). When the Church addresses her social teaching to issues of the common good, she has no intention of giving the Church power over the State or to impose on those who do not share the faith ways of thinking and modes of conduct proper to faith (Deus caritas est, no. 28). Her aim, which is our aim as patriotic Catholics, is simply to help purify reason and to contribute, here and now, to the acknowledgment and attainment of what is just (Deus caritas est, no. 28). In addressing the critical issues of our nation, the Church and we, as her faithful sons and daughters, intervene on the basis of reason and natural law, namely, on the basis of what is in accord with the nature of every human being (Deus caritas est, no. 28).

22. Our uncompromising commitment to protect the inviolable dignity of innocent human life and to safeguard the integrity of marriage and the family are not based on peculiar confessional beliefs or practices but on the natural moral law, written on every heart and, therefore, a fundamental part of the Church's moral teaching. At the same time, what is always and everywhere evil cannot be called good for the sake of accomplishing some other good end. All of us must be concerned about a wide range of goods which are important to the life of our nation, but the concern for those goods can never justify the betrayal of the fundamental goods of life itself and the family. We must take care to uproot from our moral thinking any form of relativism, consequentialism and proportionalism, which would lead us into the error of thinking that it is sometimes right to do what is always and everywhere evil.

23. An important part of our moral reflection must include a clear understanding of the principles regarding cooperation in evil, especially by the act of voting. Too often, in our time, our inability to accomplish all that we should for the sake of the defense of the right to life and of the protection of the integrity of the family is used to justify the direct choice of a political leader who espouses a position or positions in violation of the natural moral law. The Servant of God Pope John Paul II, in his Encyclical Letter Evangelium vitae, addresses at length the question of cooperation in evil which violates the dignity of innocent human life. He offers as an example the case of a legislator who has the possibility of voting for a law which would restrict the evil of procured abortion, even though it would not eradicate it completely. He concludes that the legislator could vote for the legislation, while his own opposition to procured abortion remains clear, for his vote does not in fact represent an illicit cooperation with an unjust law, but rather a legitimate and proper attempt to limit its evil aspects (Pope John Paul II, Encylical Letter Evangelium vitae , On the Good and Inviolability of Human Life, 25 March 1995, Acta Apostolicae Sedis 87 [1995], 487, no. 73). In an analogous manner, as voters, we are often faced with a choice among candidates who do not fully oppose unjust laws. In such a case, we must choose the candidate who will most limit the evil effects of unjust laws. But, there is no element of the common good, no morally good practice, which a candidate may promote and to which a voter may be dedicated, which could justify voting for a candidate who also endorses and supports the deliberate killing of the unborn, euthanasia or the recognition of a same-sex relationship as a legal marriage. The respect for the inviolable dignity of innocent human life and for the integrity of marriage and the family are so fundamental to the common good that they cannot be subordinated to any other cause, no matter how good it may be.

24. In the present situation of our nation, a serious question has arisen about the moral obligation of Catholics to work for the overturning of the Supreme Court decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton. There are those who would tell us that such work is futile and, therefore, is to be abandoned, so that we can devote ourselves to help prevent individuals from choosing abortion. As Catholics, we can never cease to work for the correction of gravely unjust laws. Law is a fundamental expression of our culture and implicitly teaches citizens what is morally acceptable. Our efforts to assist those who are tempted to do what is always and everywhere wrong or are suffering from the effects of having committed a gravely immoral act, which are essential expressions of the charity which unites us as citizens of the nation, ultimately make little sense, if we remain idle regarding unjust laws and decisions of the courts regarding the same intrinsic evils. We are never justified in abandoning the work of changing legislation and of reversing decisions of the courts which are anti-life and anti-family.

Conclusion

25. As we gather this morning to pray for our nation, let us draw courage and strength from the glorious pierced Heart of Our Lord Jesus. Let us not give way to discouragement in our exercise of patriotism but rather be confident of the essential contribution which our Catholic faith makes to the life of our nation.

26. May the courage and strength which comes to us from the Sacred Heart of Jesus enlighten our minds to see more clearly the gravity of the situation of our nation and inflame our hearts to do our part to transform the life of our nation, in accord with the natural moral law, that is, with what is just and serves the good of all. Let us draw courage and strength from the Sacred Heart of Jesus through prayer and the Sacraments, especially the Sacraments of Penance and the Holy Eucharist. May the courage and strength of Christ guide our reflection on the state of our nation and lead us to that just action, taught to us by our faith, which serves the good of all.

27. Invoking the intercession of Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mother of America, let us pray today and everyday that we as Catholics, true to our faith and, therefore, patriotically devoted to our nation, may promote respect for all human life, safeguard the sanctity of marriage and the family, and, thereby, foster the good of all in the nation and in the world.

Thank you. God bless you.
(Most Rev.) Raymond L. Burke
Archbishop Emeritus of Saint Louis
Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura
God bless you.

(Most Rev.) Raymond L. Burke
Archbishop Emeritus of Saint Louis
Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura

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Church sues homosexual activists for disrupting service
Associated Press - 5/14/2009

EAST LANSING, MI - A Michigan church has filed a federal lawsuit against a homosexual activist group that claimed responsibility for noisily disrupting a worship service last November.

Midway through the Nov. 9 service at Mount Hope Church near Lansing, members of a group called Bash Back! stood up and shouted slogans at the bewildered congregation, including, "It's OK to be gay." Some of the activists threw pro-gay flyers. Others unfurled a banner inside the church. Outside, Bash Back! members protested what the group called Mount Hope's "anti-queer agenda."

Mount Hope Church is represented by the Alliance Defense Fund, which says it's a federal crime to interfere with people exercising their religious rights in a house of worship.

Bash Back! responds to the lawsuit on its website, declaring that: "Bash Back! and radical transfolk/queers cannot and will not be intimidated."

Redeeming the Rainbow (www.massresistance.org)

Dr. Scott Lively, internationally-known expert on the "gay" agenda, releases blockbuster book (now free on-line) on how to understand and fight back from Christian perspective.

Most people know Scott Lively as a major figure among pro-family leaders. He is an attorney, pastor (with a PhD in theology) and an international consultant on family issues with more than twenty years of ministry opposing the "gay" political agenda around the world.

He has written several classic books on the homosexual agenda, including "The Pink Swastika", "The Poisoned Stream," and "7 Steps to Recruit-Proof Your Child". He has run a pro-family law firm in California and is now an activist pastor in Springfield, Mass. (We've been honored to have had him as a featured speaker at two recent MassResistance banquets.)

For the past ten years, while lecturing and consulting on pro-family strategies in more than 30 countries, Dr. Lively has been writing the world's first textbook that teaches pro-family advocates how to defeat the homosexual agenda and re-establish family-centered culture in their respective nations from a Christian perspective.

The title of the book is "Redeeming the Rainbow: A Christian Response to the 'Gay' Agenda". The 232-page book is now being made available free on-line! It is sure to become another classic.

We've posted the entire book on line at www.massresistance.org , and also broken it up into chapters for easy reading.

There's a lot of meat in this book: background facts from history to philosophy to strategy, a lengthy discussion of the homosexual movement, and even the history of the "gay marriage" issue as it began in Massachusetts.

"This is my free gift to the international pro-family movement," said Lively. "Everything I've learned in twenty years on the front lines of the 'culture war' is in this book. I want pro-family people to have free access to these insights, analysis and strategies so that they will know that there is still hope for re-building family-centered culture, and how they can achieve that goal.

"I have devoted thousands of hours of work and all of the skills and training I have acquired through my career to produce the most straightforward, concise and easy-to-understand guidance that I can," he added.

Which churches oppose 'Harvey Milk Gay Day'?
Please deliver this special letter to your pastor
www.savecalifornia.com  With the vote on the budget expected tonight, we don't know when SB 572, instituting "Harvey Milk Gay Day" in California's K-12 government schools, will come up for an Assembly floor vote. It could happen anytime.

But, what we do know, is that the broad majority of California churches are either asleep or apathetic to the threat of "Harvey Milk Gay Day" upon children in your community and in your own congregation.

For the last week, we've been asking leaders of churches, businesses, schools and organizations to send our suggested SB 572 opposition letter to Governor Schwarzenegger and to copy SaveCalifornia.com.

So far, we've received letters on official stationery from 89 businesses, three schools, and nine churches, as well as from many individuals. Thank you to everyone who has cared enough to send letters and to use SaveCalifornia.com's suggested text.

www.SaveCalifornia.com commends these nine churches that sent letters. Do you see your church's name here?

Community Christian Alliance Church (Northridge, CA)
Immanuel Christian Outreach (Arcadia, CA)
Bethany Missionary Baptist Church (Oceanside, CA)
Riverview Church of God (Lompoc, CA)
International Messianic Jewish Alliance (La Mesa, CA)
Amanuel Ethiopian Church (Los Angeles, CA)
Christian Zion Church in Los Angeles (Rowland Heights, CA)
Chinese Full Gospel Fellowship International (Rowland Heights, CA)
Calvary Baptist Church (Benson, AZ)

If your church has NOT sent a letter opposing "Harvey Milk Gay Day" in schools," please approach your pastor this weekend, talk to him, and ask him to send a letter right away.

SaveCalifornia.com has created simple action steps. "Harvey Milk Gay Day" is a horrible thing to force upon children. If the Church won't protect children from the homosexual-bisexual-transsexual agenda, then the Church has forgotten how to love!

PLEASE ACT NOW:

1. If you have a home church or know pastors, print this special letter and give it to him this weekend. Click here for the special letter to give to your pastor.

Please be assured that even the IRS says churches can support or oppose legislation or ballot measures.

2. Send a letter yourself on the official letterhead of your church, business, organization or school. Ask your friends who lead other churches, businesses, organizations and schools to send in their letters. Click here for easy instructions.

3. Call Governor Schwarzenegger at 916-445-2841 (weekdays, 9a-5p) by calling his regional offices 24/7 to urge him to veto SB 572, "Harvey Milk Gay Day."

ECLA pastors consider costs of staying, leaving denomination
Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow - 8/24/2009

Conservative members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) are considering options afte the demonination decided on friday to allow non-celibate homosexuals and lesbians to be pastors...

Kal Moyer is pastor of St. Stephen's Lutheran Church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He spoke against the measure, stressing the Bible condemns homosexual practices -- and that, he stated, should be the factor in determining the policy. "For us to say one thing and to do another costs our church integrity, credibility, and our ability to evangelize in the future," he adds.

Some pastors are confident they will leave the denomination -- but the question remains, where will they go? Biblically solid representatives plan to meet in Indianapolis in September to determine their options.

Florida Prayer Case Reveals ACLU Agenda to Criminalize Christianity LC.org

Santa Rosa County, FL – Yesterday after an all-day hearing, Santa Rosa County, Florida, Principal Frank Lay and Athletic Director Robert Freeman were cleared of criminal contempt charges that arose from the simple blessing of a meal. When they heard the decision, tears of joy and cheers swept through the throngs of people who had waited outside in the rain for over ten hours.

A mixture of people, young and old, stood all day with signs and umbrellas. Many students missed class to show up with bright yellow T-shirts that read, “Lay’s Supportive Patriots.” Chants of “We came to pray for Lay,” the Lord’s Prayer, and hymns were at times audible inside the courtroom. By 9:00, when the hearing started, the scene outside looked like a revival. Busloads of church members, Christian groups and other supporters arrived from throughout the region and emptied into the congested parking areas.

Ironically, the criminal contempt trial occurred on the 222nd anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution. And also ironically, in the same courtroom where Lay and Freeman were tried as criminals for saying a prayer over a meal in the presence of 20 adult supporters of the school’s Athletic Field House, there hangs on the wall a picture of the signing of the Constitution. Only a few weeks before that great event, when the Constitutional Convention had begun to fall apart, Benjamin Franklin rose up and delivered his famous speech to remind his bickering colleagues that unless God is the foundation and builder of the house, those who labor do so in vain. He urged the members to pray, and after a three-day prayer meeting, the Constitution was born.

Liberty Counsel Senior Litigation Counsel Horatio Mihet was also part of the irony on the day of the hearing. He, along with Mathew Staver, represented Lay and Freeman. In 1990, at age 12, he witnessed the collapse of the repressive Romanian communist regime as the revolution unfolded in his town of 400,000. When police arrested a pastor for preaching, the people finally had enough. Crowds gathered outside the home of the preacher and shouted, “We need God.” In one week the revolution spread and the dictator was toppled. Harry witnessed his first day of freedom on December 25, 1990. While the crowd on National Constitution Day looked different than the one in 1990, both yearned for religious freedom.

Mathew Staver, Founder of Liberty Counsel and Dean of Liberty University School of Law, commented on the case: “I was deeply moved while sitting in the courtroom on National Constitution Day and hearing allegations that honorable men should be treated like criminals over blessing a meal. For a moment I felt I must be watching a futuristic movie filled with hyperbole about how it might one day be if we lose our liberties. But this was real. It was no movie. I have witnessed the day where someone who blesses a mea