The Language of Abortion

Are You Willing To Die For. . . ?

St. Charles Lawanga, martyr

The U.S. Government is waging war on the First Amendment to the Constitution and the right of religious liberty. This is nothing new. Throughout the history of the Catholic Church, government has always tried to destroy our faith. This video is about the men and women who were killed for their faith in Jesus Christ and His Holy Roman Catholic Church.

Splendor of the Church: Scott Hahn on the Letter to the Romans

In the continuing series, "The Splendor of the Church," this is presentation on the the Letter to the Romans (chapters 1-8) as explained by Scott Hahn.  Click here for audio session.

The Latest Government Attack on Religious Liberty

Since the devil is the father of lies, what does that make the present administration? The latest so-called "compromise" from the government is even worse than the the first attack.  At first, the HHS said that churches would be able to offer insurance plans that did not violate their consciences.  Now, in this new "compromise," even they will have to offer insurance plans that cover abortion, contraception, and sterilization, but they "just won't have to pay for them."  WHO is the government think there fooling?  DO NOT BE FOOLED by the government's latest tactic in this WAR on religious liberty.   The article from the National Catholic Register is so very good I am just going copy it in total.  If the link at the bottom does not work please got to National Catholic Register and click on the link which will take you to the website for the United States' Conference of Catholic Bishops which then links to a petition to send a letter to your Congressional representative. (you don't even have to know who they are, it send an e-mail automatically)

Attention, Catholics, Protestants, and everyone who cares about the causes of life, religious freedom, and freedom of conscience!

Do not be suckered by the “accommodation” announced today by President Obama and spokeswoman Kathleen Sebelius!

Under the guise of making room for religious conscience, the President has actually made the policy worse—far worse.

Here’s how . . .

The new policy mandates that insurance companies offer free sterilization, contraception, and abortion-causing drugs as part of their policies. According to President Obama himself:

Under the rule, women will still have access to free preventive care that includes contraceptive services — no matter where they work.  So that core principle remains.  But if a woman’s employer is a charity or a hospital that has a religious objection to providing contraceptive services as part of their health plan, the insurance company — not the hospital, not the charity — will be required to reach out and offer the woman contraceptive care free of charge, without co-pays and without

hassles.

Got that?

That’s worse than before.

Under the previous evil policy if you worked for an exempt organization—say, a church—then your employer could offer you an insurance plan that did not include sterilization, contraception, and abortion drugs.

Now there will be no such plans.

Remember that “If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it” promise? It was a lie then, but it’s even more of a lie now. Whether you like it or not, your healthcare plan must be modified to include sterilization, contraception, and abortion drugs.

So the policy is actually worse than before. It’s expanding evil services under the guise of accommodating religious freedom.

That’s why abortion groups are cheering it.

It’s also deceptive, and here’s why . . .

The idea that it will be insurance companies that pay for such services is just a shell game. Where are insurance companies going to get the money to pay for these services? They aren’t the Federal Reserve. They aren’t empowered to create money out of nothing the way the Federal Reserve is.

If they’re going to pay doctors, nurses, and pharmacists to provide these things then they are going to pay for them with money they got from someone else.

Who else?

Why! The very same churches, church-related organizations, and individuals who are otherwise paying.

That’s right. That means that now the churches are being asked to pay for the very same services that they were not paying for under the previous policy, because previously they could offer their employees insurance plans that did not include these services. Now the plans will include these services, and the churches are paying for the policies with the legal fiction that the insurance company rather than they are paying for the evil services—unless the insurance company offers the organization a lower rate on the policy, in which case the burden of paying for the abortion drugs and other services is just sloshed around through different parts of their internal spreadsheets but is ultimately still borne by those paying for the policies.

It’s just a shell game.

And this is why this should be of concern not just to Catholics but to our Protestant brethren and our non-Christian friends who share a concern about the cause of life.

What this means is that we all will be forced to pay for these services, but with the payment trail hidden.

In effect President Obama is insisting that the entire American people must pay for abortion drugs, sterilizations, and contraception, only he is having the insurance companies “launder” the money so that we don’t feel like we’re being forced to pay for them.

So, even if you’re not a Catholic, even if you don’t oppose contraception, but if you do care about not funding abortion—or even if you just care about religious liberty and freedom of conscience—then you need to oppose this plan.

Do not be a sucker.

Don’t fall for this.

And don’t let it die over the weekend (notice it was part of the Friday news dump, so come Monday the Obama administration can try to dismiss it as “old news”).

TAKE ACTION HERE!

So what do you think? Will Obama be able to sucker enough people on this one?

Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/blog/jimmy-akin/evil-obama-policy-now-even-more-evil?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NCRegisterDailyBlog+National+Catholic+Register#When:2012-02-10#ixzz1m6CuyRCK

Why Does God Allow Suffering?: part 5

You can have the resurrection without the cross. The nature of paradox. to suffer means to be open the the working of God. The Church as the Mystical Body of Christ will not be complete until the end of time, so Christ must allow His definitive and complete suffering to be open-ended. The Sacrifice of the Mass.  Click here for audio session.

This is what a REAL MAN looks like.

from Creative Minority Report

Why don't we have more vocations to the Priesthood?

A Boy Scout Is Reverent

I was invited to speak at a Boy Scout meeting on the topic of reverence. The major thrust of the talk was the need to recapture a sense of awe and wonder.  Click here for audio.

ANOTHER U.S. Government Attack on Religious Liberty

IT IS TIME TO DEFEND THE FAITH!   As if it was not enough that the the Department of Health and Human Services is violating the religious liberty of the Catholic Church, they are now joined by the the U.S. ARMY!

This report from The Blaze:

Last Sunday, Catholic priests across the country read an open letter to their parishioners. The letter condemned the Department of Health and Human Services’ decision to force religious employers to cover the cost of contraception and abortion-inducing drugs in its employees’ health-care coverage. The letter argued that the faithful could not and must not in good conscience comply with the HHS’ “unjust law.”

However, Catholic chaplains in the U.S. military were “forbidden” from reading this letter. . . Despite these instructions, some chaplains read the letter anyway. Business Insider reports:

Why Does God Allow Suffering, part 4

A discussion of paragraphs 16-20 of Bl. Pope John Paul II's encyclical Salvifici Doloris(Redemptive Suffering). Topics include: the relationship of love to suffering, The sacrifice of Christ as substitute or reunion, the voluntary and innocent nature of the sacrifice, the dual nature of Christ, that which is not assumed is not saved, how we share in Christ suffering.  Click here for audio session.