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All Christian should argue for the integrity of every individual person made in the image of God, and that the gospel, if we're going to be faithful to that gospel and faithful to biblical anthropology, requires us to be engaged as advocates for the sanctity of human life wherever we encounter it.
On May 17, 2003, Cardinal Arinze told the Georgetown University graduates that happiness is found not in the pursuit of material wealth or pleasures of the flesh, but by fervently adhering to religious beliefs, and spoke of the importance of family to the Catholic Church.
"In many parts of the world, the family is under siege", the cardinal said, according to a transcript of his remarks provided by the university. "It is opposed by an anti-life mentality as is seen in contraception, abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia. It is scorned and banalized by pornography, desecrated by fornication and adultery, mocked by homosexuality, sabotaged by irregular unions and cut in two by divorce."
This is from where my screen name was derived; I didn't really give it much thought and wanted to respond to a thread and needed to register. I was thinking while looking up and this is what was in my field of vision so I said what the heck.
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I am a Constitutional Conservative who is Catholic and Pro Life. I believe in the constitution as it was written and the Bill of Rights, all 10 of them. I am anti-UN and anything International and Global, the USA is an independent and sovereign nation. I attended many freeps (I'm a member of the Tri-State Chapter of the FR) and frequently protest against pro-abortion candidates. I'm a member of the Knights of Columbus, 4th degree, the NRA as an instructor, Christian Coalition, American conservative Union; Concerned Women for America, American Life League, National Right to Life and the Republican Party as a dues-paying member and elected official.
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Past President of my Municipal Republican Club. Former School Board Commissioner, County Committeeman-Republican Party, Certified Lifeguard for 23 yrs., Member of the Polar Bear Club; former EMT-A and First Aid Squad Member-6 yrs.; I am a pro-life activist and do sidewalk counseling to the mothers entering the abortion clinics. I try very hard to have them turn away and keep their babies. I join in protesting pro-abortion politicians (especially Catholic ones) every chance I can and work for pro-life candidates/incumbents.
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Christ and Freedom
1. The dogma of the physical freedom of man is clearly set forth in the Old Testament.
We read in Genesis that God, in creating man, uttered these significant words, which are not employed for any other creature: "Let us make man to our image and likeness." [Gen. 1: 26]. Now, this likeness [not equality] is derived from the fact that man has a spiritual and immortal soul and a free will. Spirituality, immortality, freedom, are attributes of God.
In Ecclesiasticus we read these words: "God made man from the beginning and left him in the hand of his own counsel. . . . Before man is life and death, good and evil; that which he shall choose shall be given to him." [Ecclus. 15: 14-18].
The New Testament takes for granted the freedom of the will. The whole preaching of Christ would be an absurd labor, all His precepts and counsels would be but empty words, if man were forced to act automatically or instinctively. The whole plan of the Gospel would have no reason for existence, because fallen man would not be capable of redemption, and the punishment of eternal fire, with which Jesus threatened the reprobates [Matt. 25: 41] would be an unheard-of cruelty. For whoever is not free is not responsible for what he does and deserves neither reward nor punishment.
2. Holy Writ also also proclaims and defends moral liberty.
Already in the Old Testament, God is pictured as the Deliverer from the many ills that man has brought upon man. The Psalmist hails Him thus: "My refuge, my support, and my deliverer." [Ps. 143: 2].
But the true Deliverer,; the Restorer of every legitimate freedom, is the God-man. Jesus championed the liberty of man, as such, even before the liberty of the citizen, the worker, etc., for as we have seen, slavery was the social condition of the great majority of men.
And this work of social redemption He accomplished not with violent means, not by demagogic expedients, but by the peaceful preaching of lofty moral principles which, like grains of yeast, penetrated into the great mass of humanity and gradually transformed it.
The first principle is that of the substantial equality of all men, made to the image and likeness of One only, that is of God, the Creator, and redeemed by the same Blood of Christ, who commanded that the message of redemption be brought to men of all races and of all nations: "Preach the gospel to every creature." [Mk. 16: 15].
Another principle is that of the brotherhood of man, which the Redeemer proclaimed in the plainest way when, before a group of men of different social classes, He said: "All you are brethren."
[Matt. 23: 8].
More sublime, still, and more decisive is the principle of adoption as sons of God, granted to all the baptized: "Who are born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." [Jn. 1:13]. That means that the loftiest nobility has been granted even to those who occupy the lowest spheres in the social order.
From all these evangelical principles, there springs forth as a practical corollary: the moral freedom of every man. And, in truth, to equal subjects belong equal rights. Neither can a brother fetter a brother, nor a son of God become a slave of man.
Hence it appears that the famous and much abused threefold label of the French Revolution ----- equality, fraternity, liberty ----- in its genuine meaning is but a radiation of the teaching of the Gospel.
Ernest Renan himself, who wrote of the Gospels in a sacrilegious manner, was compelled to confess in his Marcus Aurelius that: "the abolition of slavery dates from the day in which the slave ----- that being whom the ancients conceived as devoid of moral stature ----- became the moral equal of his master." And it was the Gospel that proclaimed him such an equal.
The Church and Freedom
1. The Church, walking in the footsteps of Christ, was at all times the champion and the protector of every legitimate liberty and the enemy of every tyranny.
First of all, the Church championed the physical liberty of man and thus defended the crown of this king of creation.
She condemned the theories of those heretics ----- like Luther, Calvin and Jansen ----- who held that Original Sin had destroyed free will, and in our days it condemned the nefarious doctrines of determinism and materialism.
Leo XIII, in his Encyclical Libertas, says: "Like the simplicity, spirituality, and immortality of the soul, so likewise its liberty; no one has affirmed in stronger terms or championed them more consistently than the Church that teaches them at all times, and upholds them as a dogma."
2. The Church, moreover, in the same way that she defended rights of authority against anarchistic theories, so she upheld the rights of moral freedom against the claims and the violence of oppressors. The Church of Christ, from its inception, not the French Revolution of 1789, was the first to proclaim the rights of man.
St. Paul, writing to the Christians of Ephesus, exhorts them: "And you, masters, do the same things to them [the slaves], forbearing threatenings, knowing that the Lord both of them and you is in Heaven; and there is no respect of persons with him." [Eph. 6:9]. And to the Christians of Galatia he clearly states: "There is neither Jew nor Greek; there is neither bond nor free: there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus." [Gal. 3: 28].
That means that before God there is no difference, either of nationality or of social condition, or of sex, contrary to what was then held among pagan peoples and among the Jews themselves.
These words of the Apostle of the Gentiles ----- which have since been reiterated unceasingly by the rulers of the Church ----- are clear condemnation of slavery, which among Christians soon ceased to exist in their minds, if not in their outward practices. The Christian master was bound to see a brother in his slave.
3. But the most effective teachings of the Church were, as always, her actions. In the internal life of the Church, slavery was soon abolished by means of the equal treatment that was accorded to free men and slaves. All, without distinction, were admitted to the same Sacraments, to the same honors, to the same spiritual favors. The words of St. Paul, "There is no difference between a slave and a freeman," immediately became a reality in the liturgical life of the Church.
Some do not give credit to Christianity for this immense social benefit ----- to wit, the abolition of slavery ----- for the reason that there is no clear condemnation of this social plague in the Gospel, nor has the Church ever launched a campaign against it.
Now here we must make ourselves clear. It is true that the Church, like Christ, never preached a crusade against slavery and that neither has she ever urged the slaves to rebel. By so doing she would have put the world in turmoil. At that time slavery, as we have seen, was one of the props of social life. Therefore, the sudden suppression of slavery would not only have caused confusion, but also damage to everybody and to everything. The Church preferred, as always, evolution to revolution, by means of a slow, peaceful work of education, without violence and without upheavals.
The reform had to start in souls, in order to be translated little by little into actions and into laws. Experience, in fact, teaches that lasting and beneficial reforms spring from within man and cannot be imposed by force from without. Hence the proverb: "Whatever is forced does not last." The Church, therefore, following the example of Christ, achieved this great work of transformation, above all, by her teachings, proclaiming a sound doctrine of equality.
The reform had to start in souls, in order to be translated little by little into actions and into laws. Experience, in fact, teaches that lasting and beneficial reforms spring from within man and cannot be imposed by force from without. Hence the proverb: "Whatever is forced does not last." The Church, therefore, following the example of Christ, achieved this great work of transformation, above all, by her teachings, proclaiming a sound doctrine of equality.
4. The Church has made the highest proclamation of the highest liberty ----- religious liberty ----- through the martyrdom of countless sons of hers. Martyrdom is the declaration of the most sacred rights of man, written in blood. The purple army of Christian Martyrs is an heroic defense of freedom.
Dante, in the Divine Comedy, puts in the mouth of Virgil the famous words: "He seeketh liberty, which is so dear, as knoweth he who life for her refuseth." [Purg. II: i 71- 72].
No one is better entitled to pronounce these words than the martyr of Christ, who has surrendered his life in order to save the dearest of all liberties, the liberty to serve the True God.
Thus Pius XII teaches us to distinguish between liberty and license, which is liberty without restraint and without limitations. "True liberty," he writes, "that which truly deserves this name and which constitutes the happiness of peoples, has nothing in common with license, with brazenness. True liberty is just the contrary of that. It is that which guarantees the profession and the practice of what is true and of what is just under the guidance of the divine commandments within the sphere of public welfare. It has therefore need of just limitations." [Message to the Swiss People: Sept. 21, 1946].
Thus, Leo XIII in his Encyclical Libertas condemns freedom of worship, of speech, of the press, of teaching and of conscience as understood by liberalism, which would grant the same rights to good and evil, to truth and error.
However, while freedom of evil is always unlawful, the toleration of evil may at times be advisable. On this point Leo XIII teaches: "Without granting any rights except to truth and honesty, the Church, in order to avoid a greater evil, or to achieve or preserve a greater good, does not forbid public authority to tolerate certain things that are at variance with truth and justice."
Pius XII in his Encyclical Summi Pontificatus condemns an opposite error, to wit: Statism, which accords unrestricted power to the State, to the prejudice of the liberty of the individual and of the family, pointing out "that man and the family are by nature prior to the State and that the Creator endowed both with certain powers and rights and assigned to each a mission answering to positive natural exigencies."
Physical Liberty
The word liberty is equivalent to absence of necessity and has various meanings.
First of all, one should distinguish between physical liberty and moral liberty:
1. Physical, or psychological liberty, is the power of man to decide for himself, to will or not to will, to will one thing or another: This self-determination presupposes an absence of necessity, not merely external, but also internal.
External necessity, or constraint, derives from a power that lies outside of man and compels him to do what he does not want to do. Such is the power that forces an individual to remain shut up in jail, or to ascend the scaffold.
Internal necessity comes instead from an impulse within man that forces him to act. Such is the case of a somnambulist, of an insane man, of those who act under the stimulus of an interior power which they cannot control.
From the above we can understand how two cases diametrically opposed to each other may be supposed in man: the case of the external, without any internal necessity [as in the case of the condemned man who walks toward the scaffold because he is obliged to do so against his will], and that of an internal, without any external necessity [as in the case of one who walks in his sleep under the impulse of nervous excitement, without being subject to any external force].
2. The absence of internal necessity is called free will, inasmuch as it makes man the arbiter of his own actions.
Free will is an effect of the spirituality of the soul, and is innate in every man. However, there are internal and external causes that may diminish or destroy free will. Some such internal causes are: passions, temperaments, habits, ignorance, sleep, insanity. Nervous diseases that produce mental disorders have a more or less pronounced influence upon the will which, as we know, follows the judgment of the mind.
Inasmuch as the extent of the influence of these internal causes is nearly always uncertain, in many cases it is almost impossible for man to determine the exact degree of responsibility that attaches to an action, since obviously the responsibility of an action is always in proportion to its freedom.
Formerly, in judging of the responsibility of human actions, little or no account was taken of the internal causes that take away or diminish the freedom of the will. Today, the tendency is to the other extreme, even to the point of denying freedom itself and thus of every responsibility. Mental diseases, hereditary psychoses, monomania and other morbid conditions have become the stock in trade of criminal lawyers.
3. The existence of free will has often been denied by philosophers and theologians. In ancient times, these persons were called fatalists because they held that the will of man was dominated by a higher and mysterious force that is called fate. Nowadays, they are called determinists, because they claim that every act of the human will is determined by an interior irresistible force like instinct in animals.
Modern determinism is very largely the result of materialism. If man is nothing but matter without a spiritual soul, it is evident that everything in him has to be subject to the inflexible laws of matter, and hence there is no room for freedom.
Fatalism and determinism deprive man of his highest dignity and debase him to the level of the brute, because, as Dante writes:
"The greatest gift God of His largesse made at the creation, and the most conformed to His own excellence, and which He most prizeth, was the will's liberty, wherewith creatures intelligent, both all and alone, were and are endowed." [Par: 5:19].
4. There are many arguments that prove the existence of free will. We will here mention the two principal ones:
(a) The testimony of conscience.
We feel inwardly that it is in our power to act or not to act, to act in one way or in another. We feel, for example, that we have the power to eat or not to eat, to eat much or little, this or that; whereas it does not depend upon us to make a good digestion. Therefore, our very conscience assures us that both free acts and necessary acts are attributable to us.
A modern philosopher, Antonio Franchi, in his book Ultimate Critique makes this shrewd observation: "They feel free and to be free is the same thing, as it is the same thing to feel happy and to be happy, to feel sad and to be sad, to feel in doubt and to be in doubt. And just as it is impossible to have a feeling of doubt, of sorrow, of joy, without the real state of doubt, or sorrow and of joy, so it is impossible to have a feeling of freedom without the real state of freedom."
(b) The testimony of mankind.
Mankind has always praised virtue and blamed vice, rewarded merit and punished guilt. But these words, praise and blame, reward and punishment would have no meaning if a man were not free and hence responsible for his own acts. Were there ever any rewards or punishments established for animals?
Accordingly, the determinists, to be logical, should burn all codes, abolish the courts and close the jails. In fact, some followers of materialistic determinism consistently proposed to convert all jails into sanitariums, considering every criminal either a patient, an abnormal being, or a psychopathic case. But this proposal was never taken seriously.
Similarly, laws, prohibitions, commands, counsels, reproofs, and threats that mankind has always made use of would become practical absurdities if man is not master of his own acts, or acted after the manner of a machine or of an animal.
Moral Freedom
1. Moral freedom is entirely different from physical freedom, though having its roots in the latter. It consists in the power of doing everything that is not forbidden by a just law.
Moral freedom is therefore a right, the object of which is the good. No one has a right to do evil. Therefore, the power of doing evil is a defect and does not belong to the essence of freedom, just as tendency to sickness does not belong to the essence of health. Therefore, as Leo XIII teaches us in his Encyclical Libertas on Human Freedom: "Thus it is that the infinitely perfect God, although supremely free, because of the supremacy of His intellect and of His essential goodness, nevertheless cannot choose evil; neither can the angels and the saints who enjoy the beatific vision. St. Augustine and others urged most admirably against the Pelagians that if the possibility of deflection from good belonged to the essence or perfection of liberty, then God, Jesus Christ, and the angels and saints, who have not this power, would have no liberty at all, or would have less liberty than man has in his state of pilgrimage and imperfection."
Consequently, public authorities, while allowing full liberty to goodness, cannot equate liberty to evil and to error. That would not be true liberty, but license.
Social order and peace are based upon a proper balance between authority and liberty. It cannot be denied that this balance is difficult of achievement, for both authority and liberty are easily abused. Thus history bears witness that peoples frequently pass all of a sudden from an excess of authority [authoritarianism] to an excess of liberty [libertarianism].
2. There are different kinds of moral freedom, according to the objects upon which it is exercised. Thus we have religious, civil, economic, professional, scientific freedom, and so on.
The liberals, by posing as the champions of all liberties, have proclaimed the liberty of thought, of conscience and of religion in opposition to the Church that prescribes dogmas to be believed and religious acts to be performed. What are we to think of such liberties?
If, by these words, the liberals mean that religion cannot be imposed by force, they are stating the truth, but they are not stating anything that has not already been proclaimed by the Church. Religion is a free homage to God; and no one can be forced to believe or to profess that which he does not believe.
Alcuin in his famous letter to Emperor Charlemagne who, with unenlightened zeal, was seeking to convert the Saxons to Christianity with the sword rather than with the word, admonished him: "Remember that the faith, as St. Augustine defines it, is an act of the will and not of violence. Man may be drawn to faith, but he cannot be forced into it. You may drive people to baptism, but you cannot make them take one step forward toward religion. Therefore, those who evangelize the pagans must use words of peace with the people, because Our Lord knows the hearts that He wants, and enlightens them so that they may understand." Leo XIII referred to this teaching in his Encyclical Immortale Dei: "It is the absolute will of the Church that no one be forced to embrace the Catholic Faith because, as St. Augustine wisely observes, man cannot believe except by his own free will."
3. But the liberals by those words mean to affirm that "each one is free to profess the religion that pleases him and even profess none at all," as Leo XIII states in his Encyclical Libertas; they mean liberty to think and to do whatever one wishes concerning God; they mean, in a word, religious indifferentism.
Now this unlimited freedom in religious matters would be lawful only in the event that it were not possible to know the true God and the true religion. But such is not the case, because the existence of God and Christian revelation are truths that can be proved and have been proved by human reason.
Therefore, to these statements, so common in our days: "Man is free to think as he pleases . . . he is free to profess the religion that he likes best" ----- and other similar statements, we answer as follows: "He is free physically, but not morally." In the same way, a son is free to honor or to dishonor his father.
A note from Pope John Paul II:
"......Certainly, the intrinsic value of life and the duty to love oneself no less than others are the basis of a true right to self-defense ... legitimate defense can be not only a right but a grave duty for someone responsible for another's life, the common good of the family or of the State. Unfortunately, it happens that the need to render the aggressor incapable of causing harm sometimes involves taking his life. In this case, the fatal outcome is attributable to the aggressor whose actions brought it about, even though he may not be morally responsible because of a lack of the use of reason." - Pope John Paul II, Encyclical Letter from 1995, EVANGELIUM VITAE
St. Gabriel Possenti...The Patron Saint of Handgunners
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One a summer day a little over a hundred years ago, a slim figure in a black cassock [Possenti] stood facing a gang of mercenaries in a small town in Piedmont, Italy. He had just disarmed one of the soldiers who was attacking a young girl, had faced the rest of the band fearlessly, then drove them all out of the village at the point of a gun....[W]hen Garibaldi's mercenaries swept down through Italy ravaging villages, Brother Gabriel showed the kind of man he was by confronting them, astonishing them with his marksmanship, and saving the small village where his monastery was located."
Saint Gabriel Possenti's "astonishing marksmanship" was displayed after he had just disarmed the soldier. The mercenaries' leader told Possenti that it would take more than just one monk with a handgun to make the mercenaries leave town. The saint pointed out to the mercenaries a lizard which was running across the road. Possenti shot the lizard right through the head, at which point the mercenaries decided that discretion was the better part of valor; they obeyed Possenti's orders to extinguish the fires they had started and to return the property they had stolen. They then fled the village, never to be heard from again.
Possenti was canonized by Pope Benedict XV in 1920. He died in 1862 and his feast occurs on February 27th.
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In 1973 two things happened: 1. The Endangered Species Act was enacted where animals, trees and scum in rain puddles became protected under law. 2. Roe vs. Wade where 9 mortals, allowed it to be made possible for Humanity to slaughter, burn, aspirate and sever Human Babies, created in God's image and likeness. Since then, humanity, and the USA, spiraled in a downward trend. Touch a turtle egg or its nest, Canadian goose or a spotted OWL and get a yr. in jail and a $50K fine, and don't cut down certain trees or fill in that puddle! abort a child, get paid $750.00. And we wonder why there is NO respect for HUMAN life created in God's image. This is why we need to inculcate a culture of life in our society in general and in churches and schools (starting in kindergarten) . People tend to think of children as disposable items. A pro-life education Program Genesis 9:3 But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for EVERY careless word they have spoken."--Jesus (Matt. 12:36) In Florida, women dying in bed have less rights than turtle eggs! (FL Law 370, US ESA of 1973)
Quanta Cura THE SYLLABUS OF ERRORS CONDEMNED BY PIUS IX William Jasper, author of "A New World Religion" describes the religion of the UN: "...a weird and diabolical convergence of New Age mysticism, pantheism, aboriginal animism atheism, communism, socialism, Luciferian occultism, apostate Christianity, Islam, Taoism, Buddhism, and Hinduism".
Pope had critics, too (It started way before he was buried!!!, this reporter just couldn't wait)
Pope John Paul II put the commies in their place
In an encyclical officially stating the Catholic Church’s positions on a variety of social issues, published March, 1991, he utterly condemned socialism, saying:
“Socialism considers the individual person simply as an element, a molecule within the social organism, so that the good of the individual is completely subordinated to the functioning of the socio-economic mechanism. Socialism likewise maintains that the good of the individual can be realized without reference to his free choice, to the unique and exclusive responsibility which he exercises in the face of good or evil. Man is thus reduced to a series of social relationships, and the concept of the person as the autonomous subject of moral decision disappears, the very subject whose decisions build the social order.” |
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Be a Our Lady of Guadalupe Insulted This Isn't Just Any Blasphemy!
Just when blasphemy is withdrawn from one place, it rears its ugly head in another. This time in New Mexico.
The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) and its America Needs Fatima affiliate campaign had just finished a successful rally of reparation and protest at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The controversy centered around two portrayals of Jesus Christ that were finally taken off display. Press reports described them as a photo of a nude woman standing in Jesus' place at the Last Supper and another of a topless woman on a cross.
Now, the American TFP and America Needs Fatima's anti-blasphemy network is opposing another offense.
There is no such thing as an ordinary blasphemy since all blasphemy is by definition an extremely serious offense against God. However, Alma Lopez's "Our Lady exhibit at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico goes to new extremes. Press reports describe the exhibit as a computer collage portraying a bikini-clad Virgin of Guadalupe, held aloft by a topless woman-angel.
A Special Devotion to Our Lady
Our Lady of Guadalupe is full of significance. The word Guadalupe was actually a Spanish mistranslation of the local Aztec dialect word, Coatlaxopeuh, which means "one who crushes the serpents. Within six years of this apparition, six million Aztecs had converted to Catholicism. The cloth where Our Lady's image appears, shows her as the God-bearer - she is pregnant with her Divine Son.
What makes this exhibit especially offensive is the fact that the Virgin of Guadalupe is officially the Patroness of all the Americas. She is the powerful intercessor cherished and loved by the Mexican people. Since she is shown as a mother with child, she is also considered protector of the unborn.
"This isn't just any blasphemy, claims Mr. Robert Ritchie, campaign coordinator. "It targets Our Lady in an invocation that is so dear to Catholics, Americans, and those who fight abortion. The 'artist' could not have picked a more cherished image of Our Lady to deform.
Need to Oppose Blasphemy
For these very reasons, the TFP's anti-blasphemy network is mounting a peaceful and legal campaign to oppose this latest exhibit called Cyber Arte: Where Tradition Meets Technology, where the offensive portrayal appears. As always, all violence is strictly forbidden in this protest.
Protesting is the only way to prevent more blasphemy. Just because this exhibit follows closely behind the Brooklyn exhibit is no reason to remain silent. In fact, public pressure recently forced officials at Kennedy airport to cover an unclothed Christ painted on a mural there. Email protests to Yahoo! led that company to abandon plans to market pornography directly on its search engine site.
Grassroots action can be extremely effective and Catholics - especially those devoted to the Blessed Mother - must come to her defense when so vilely attacked. Many local faithful have already staged protests at the museum in Santa Fe and voiced their objections. Now is the time to join with them.
To remain silent and indifferent only encourages the promoters of blasphemy to shamefully peddle their agenda. The American TFP campaign is well underway and includes Enough is Enough! protest postcard fliers, email protests, and a future rally of public reparation. Campaign participants are also encouraged to download a true picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe and spread this image to family and friends.
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"This Christmas, the American TFP extends to all friends and supporters, its sincere desire that the Blessed Mother and St. Joseph together with the Infant Jesus grant them true peace this Christmas Season.
On December 25, all Catholics and so many others turn to the stable of Bethlehem, filled with faith, to adore the Child that lies in a manger or to admire that which cannot be explained by the laws that govern human events.
Today, amid the material ruins and moral catastrophes, only highlighted by the events of September 11, Christmas stands out as a luminous point of hope among the nations that grope for order and tranquility.
Unfortunately, most look upon Christmas as a time when energies are momentarily recharged, but without it infusing new and lasting vigor.
Wanting peace, harmony and happiness, modern man expects these blessings to fall upon him from heaven without the least personal effort. At best, he seeks only to be enchanted by the ineffable charm of the Child who inexplicably can unite all hearts.
That Child God, who man seeks and needs so much, is, in fact, the "Prince of Peace.(Is. 9,6), who can change the earth in an instant.
But His Peace depends upon only one thing: that men and nations submit themselves to His Law and His Gospel.
This is the peace the Child God brought to the earth. All nations and individuals should unite and work with docility to obtain this. Only these men of real good will enjoy the Peace that Christmas brings.
This Christmas, the American TFP extends to all friends and supporters its sincere desire that the Blessed Mother and St. Joseph together with the Infant Jesus grant them this true peace this Christmas season. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Catholic Church's Position on "Fetal Stem Cell Research
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The Church, Holy
and Immortal, Shall Prevail!
“Thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build My Church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against Her” (Matt. 16:18). To this first promise, Our Lord added a second: “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away” (Matt. 24:35). Thus did Jesus Christ establish the One Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church, sealing Her immortality with His divine guarantee.
The violence of the storm currently assailing the Church would likely bring down many a human institution, but not the institution supported by God’s own promises. The Church’s enemies try with all their might to defame and dishonor Her. They hurl mud and muck, but they fail to sully Her.
They declare that She cannot survive the scandals perpetrated within and against Her, but their words ring with the uncertainty that it will indeed be so. Confronted with the silent testimony of history, they know by experience that the Church is both holy and immortal. Nothing stains Her, not even infamy rising from Her ranks, for She is the spotless Bride of Christ.
Even at the height of His passion—when the insults against His Divine Person, the wounds inflicted on His Sacred Body, and His public humiliation had reached their apex—the Word of God Incarnate lost none of the grandeur in His moral profile.
We see this in the Holy Shroud of Turin. Here is a Man atrociously wounded, one would almost say crushed, yet, no painting or sculpture of a king presents more majesty, dignity, or honor than the figure stamped on that burial cloth.
Betrayed ignobly from within, attacked fiercely from without
So it is with the Catholic Church today. At the height of Her passion, betrayed ignobly from within, attacked fiercely from without, nothing can disturb Her serenity. When this frightful storm finally abates, She will appear again radiant and victorious.
But while the storm lasts, the suffering is intense, and our faith is tested. For us Catholics this means the shocking realization that a hostile element, a horrendous cancer, grows within the Mystical Body of Christ. We shudder at the tragic and unnatural “peaceful coexistence” between vice and that which is virtuous and holy.
The existence of homosexuality in the institution that is the very soul of purity and chastity is deplorable beyond words. Equally deplorable is the fact that this “peaceful coexistence” has lasted for decades due to the unpardonable connivance of shepherds who should have been ready to lay down their lives if necessary to prevent this evil from gaining access to the fold.
The Catechism of St. Pius X calls homosexuality a sin that “cries out to Heaven for vengeance,” and the Catechism of the Catholic Church promulgated by Pope John Paul II in 1992 says: “Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that ‘homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.’” Homosexuality is a sin condemned in the Old Testament and by both Saint Peter and Saint Paul in the New, by Fathers and Doctors of the Church, and by the Popes for 2,000 years. Saint Peter Damian, Doctor of the Church, says it “should not be considered an ordinary vice, for it surpasses all of them in enormity.”
We speak of homosexuality, for this indeed is the problem. We all know the truth: the vast majority of the exposed scandals are cases of pedophiliac homosexuality, and thus a particularly heinous spillover of the more widespread problem of homosexuality. Large sectors of the media, however, choose to gloss over the homosexuality and highlight the pedophilia.
This same media has no qualms about unleashing a ferocious uproar against the Church, Her doctrine and morals. Adding insult to injury, it gives the impression that the criminal behavior of some is the general rule. This is a supreme injustice to all the priests and religious who are faithful to their vows. Moreover, it suggests that the scandals exist because of clerical celibacy. Callously oblivious to the faith and feeling of one billion Catholics, it makes scant attempt to show the other side of the coin, namely the sublimity of the Catholic priesthood as reflected in its saints down through the ages.
A mysterious process of “self-destruction”
Let us put aside, however, this external assault on the Church and focus on the more important problem within.
The first step in solving any problem consists in its thorough and accurate analysis. Then we can see its detrimental consequences and especially its root cause.
The problem would not exist but for the most culpable negligence of numerous shepherds and, in some cases, the most condemnable complicity of others. There is much for the clergy to address within its ranks, vigorously and urgently. Oh, how many tears will turn to joy when the faithful see bishops like our glorious Saint John Neumann, Philadelphia’s fourth (1852-1860), fearlessly taking on those who would harm Christ’s “little flock.” It behooves us all to beseech God earnestly to send saints and heroes to teach, govern, and sanctify His flock.
Is the clergy alone responsible, though? Is there not the possibility that we—the Catholic laity—stand to be blamed as well, if in varying degrees? Surely, we trusted in the watchfulness of our shepherds. Surely, we feel that our trust was betrayed. Nevertheless, Our Lord had more than just the shepherds in mind when He said, “Watch and pray, that you enter not into temptation” (Matt. 26:41); He addressed us as well.
Did we “watch and pray?” Unfortunately not. In the Garden of Olives, we would have been among those who slept. If our analysis is to be honest we must acknowledge this.
Decades ago, Pope Paul VI warned that “the smoke of Satan” had entered the Church. He also said that She was undergoing a mysterious process of “self-destruction.” Did we take this warning to heart? Did we investigate this mysterious process? Its methods? How it affected both clergy and faithful?
We let this “smoke of Satan” fill every nook and cranny in the Church. Like a stupefying gas it relaxed and anesthetized us. It diminished our fighting spirit. Indifference became generalized, and the process of “self-destruction” was left free to do its nefarious work. Today we see the consequences.
This “smoke of Satan” also spread intellectual and moral “relativism” throughout the Church. This relativism spared nothing: the sublime vocation and sacred persons of priest and bishop; the respectful and prayerful atmosphere within churches; the rules of beauty in Church art and architecture; the reverence due to consecrated religious life; the rules of modesty in dress, not only in public but even in our churches; and so much more. All that elevated the souls of the faithful, all that filled them with admiration and veneration for the supernatural, was targeted.
Inevitably this relativism slowly weakened in consciences the notions of good and evil, sin and grace, vice and virtue. The Church’s clear teaching on every aspect of sexual behavior was gradually blurred. Virtue was replaced with a pathetic feel-good spirituality, so that eventually we fell to where we are today, proof positive of the existence of a process dubbed “satanic” by a Pope in our own lifetime.
Some critics, moved more by emotions and force of habit than clear thinking, will deny this process of “self-destruction.” Unfortunately, the media brings us daily a most palpable sign of its continuation: Seeing the Church so hard pressed by the scandals, Her enemies both within and without are quick to clamor for additional “reform.” In open challenge to Her Supreme Magisterium, they demand that the Church abolish clerical celibacy and accept the ordination of women, divorce, contraception, abortion, and, oddly enough, even homosexuality. This is exactly what the Church should not do! This would be the next step toward the abyss of total relativism.
Retracing our steps
There is only one way to extricate ourselves from the problem we are in—now that our eyes are open. We must retrace our steps. We must return from whence we came. Only in the fullness of Church teaching will we find the solution to the present crisis. The Church has dealt with many problems during 2,000 years. She is no less able to deal with them today.
The first and obvious step then is to pray.
The second is to watch, as Our Lord commanded. We must hone our ability to watch, to pay attention to lurking danger. Thus, when danger appears—particularly when in sheep’s clothing—we must know how to resist it; we must know how to assess things in the light of Catholic principles. This presupposes a clear understanding of the perennial truths of the Faith and the unchanging principles of morality, for which we must study. This “back to the basics” study of Church teaching will rekindle in our hearts a burning love for all the principles long eroded by relativism.
A call for heroism
The third step is a proper understanding of sanctity—the heroic struggle for virtue. True and heroic virtue is not anemic or self-centered. It is full of fruits in the apostolate with others. It rejects the comfort zone and the dictates of human respect—the fear of creating complications for ourselves. When faced with opposition, be it from within or without, it does not cringe and boldly proclaims the faith and sound doctrine. The truth is not something to be ashamed of. Our Lord wants us to influence society, as yeast ferments the dough. He expects us to be courageous in the face of public ridicule, like Veronica. He invites us to heroism: “Everyone therefore that shall confess Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father Who is in Heaven” (Matt. 10:32)
For this journey back to the paternal home to be successful it must become a true spiritual crusade, with all the dedication, self-sacrifice and zeal shown by the heroes of old. These answered Blessed Urban II’s call to arms at Clermont-Ferrand, when he launched the First Crusade, with reverberating cries of “God wills it! God wills it!”
If this crusading spirit burns within our breasts, our ecclesiastical leaders will have no doubt that they can rely on our enthusiastic support, provided they courageously assail this largely unchallenged process of “self-destruction” with the indispensable vigor of shepherds defending their flock from ravenous wolves.
Beyond any doubt, the Church shall prevail
If both clergy and faithful carry out their respective duties, with the unfailing help of the Blessed Virgin Mary, of Saint Joseph, Her most chaste spouse and Protector of the Universal Church, of all the angels and saints, we will be rewarded by seeing the Church win one more battle. The present crisis is but one more episode—even if one of the worst—in Her glorious history of struggles.
We are reminded of this by the Catholic intellectual Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, who wrote in his seminal work, Revolution and Counter-Revolution: “Amid the storms through which She passes today, the Church could proudly and tranquilly say: ‘I have seen other winds, I have beheld other storms.’ The Church has fought in other lands, against adversaries from among other peoples, and She will undoubtedly continue to face problems and enemies quite different from those of today until the end of time.”
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1. In opposition to a usage that is becoming generalized, we restrict the term “homosexuality” to homosexual practices, thus excluding the mere inclination. No individual who suffers from such unnatural inclination and resists it with the help of grace can be called a “homosexual,” just as no one who resists the inclination to steal or lie can be called a “thief,” or a “liar.”
2. Theologians give Gen. 19:13 as the scriptural basis for this designation.
3. Catechism of the Catholic Church (New York: Doubleday, 1995) # 2357, p. 625.
4. Cf. Gen. 19:1-29; Lev. 18:22; Deut. 22:5.
5. Cf. 2 Pet. 2:6-7; Rom. 1:24-27; 1 Cor. 6:10; 1 Tim. 1:10.
6 St. Peter Damian, The Book of Gomorrah (Patrologia Latina, vol. 145, col. 159-190) quoted in Roberto de Mattei, L’Église et l’homosexualité (Paris: Pierre Téqui Éditeur, 1995), p. 12.
7. Cf. Allocution Resistite fortes in fide, of June 29, 1972, in Insegnamenti di Paolo VI (Vatican: Poliglotta Vaticana), vol. 10, pp. 707-709.
8. Cf. Allocution to the students of the Pontifical Lombard Seminary on December 7, 1968, in Insegnamenti di Paolo VI, vol. 6, p. 1188.
9. Moral “relativism” tries to adapt Catholic doctrine and morality to one’s personal fancies or the ruling form of worldliness. Objective norms of thought and action are thus destroyed. The person becomes the slave of his own caprices and those of fashion, as channeled by the media. Eventually, he accepts evil in the guise of good. Cf. Pope John Paul II’s allocution to the religious and priests participating in the First Italian National Congress on Missions to the People for the ’80s, February 6, 1981, L’Osservatore Romano, February 7, 1981.
10. “Alios ego vidi ventos; alias prospexi animo procellas,” Cicero, Familiares, 12, 25, 5.
11.Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, Revolution and Counter-Revolution (York, Penn.: The American TFP, 1993) p. 115.
TFP Calls for Return to Catholic Tradition
Dear Friend,
"Thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build My Church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against Her (Matt. 16:18). Thus did Jesus Christ establish the One Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church, sealing Her immortality with His divine guarantee.
The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) is launching a major campaign putting the recent scandals in the Catholic Church in this perspective. The effort is centered on the document, "The Church, Holy and Immortal, Shall Prevail! which is an analysis of the causes of the present crisis and proposals for resolving it.
The American TFP, a civic organization of Catholic inspiration, has already started its campaign with placement of full-page ads in newspapers throughout the country. Beginning with publication in The Washington Times in the nation's capital, friends and supporters are now working to place the ads in local, city and diocesan papers.
In addition, hundreds of thousands of flyers with the TFP statement are circulating in Catholic parishes. Pastors are inserting them in parish bulletins or distributing them at Catholic events. Copies were mailed to every Catholic bishop and priest. It also reached 9,000 religious nationwide. The TFP has been encouraged by letters of support from the hierarchy and clergy.
"We are quite overwhelmed by the response, says TFP vice president Thomas McKenna. "Catholics want something different from what the media is telling them.
The TFP statement in no way downplays the heinousness of sins committed, the complicity of Church authorities or the suffering of the victims. However, the document stresses "the violence of the storm currently assailing the Church would likely bring down many a human institution, but not the institution supported by God's own promises.
Despite media attempts to label the acts in question as pedophilia, the vast majority of the exposed scandals points to homosexuality and pederasty as major causes. Nevertheless the same media has no qualms about unleashing a ferocious uproar against the very mechanism the Church uses to fight this behavior: Her morals and clerical celibacy.
While acknowledging the most culpable negligence and even condemnable complicity of many shepherds, the TFP also cites what Paul VI called the "mysterious process of self-destruction inside the Church that has affected both clergy and faithful.
This process has spread intellectual and moral relativism throughout the Church. It has undermined notions of the sublime vocation of priest and bishop, the rules of beauty in Church art and architecture, the reverence due to consecrated religious life, the rules of modesty in dress, and so much more.
The TFP campaign hopes to show how this relativism slowly weakened in consciences the notions of good and evil, sin and grace, vice and virtue. It blurred the Church's clear teaching on every aspect of sexual behavior.
Mr. McKenna contends that it is exactly this atmosphere, which provides the ideal conditions to feed the scandals that rage today.
The TFP study's timely release comes as many both within and outside the Church clamor for "reformas a solution. They demand lay involvement in Church government. They seek to abolish clerical celibacy and promote the ordination of women, divorce, contraception, abortion and even homosexuality. This is exactly what must not be done.
Instead, the TFP document proposes a return to tradition. "Only in the fullness of Church teaching will we find the solution to the present crisis."
Through prayer, watchfulness and heroic action on the part of clergy and laity, Catholics are called to return to principles eroded by relativism and to develop a proper understanding of sanctity. Catholics must have the courage to boldly proclaim their faith and sound doctrine in a veritable spiritual crusade.
Among the letters of support, Archbishop William Levada of San Francisco sent a message of gratitude to the TFP "for your support and love of the church that prompted you to write and publish the public statement. Bishop Raymond Burke of La Crosse, WI. noted that he especially liked "the call to retrace our steps for conversion of life in the whole matter of the church's teaching on faith and morals. Archbishop Alfred Hughes of New Orleans termed the TFP statement as a "strong expression of support of the Catholic Church at this time of trial."
"The TFP's message is one of hope, Mr. McKenna claims. "We must not forget the divine nature of the Church and how the present crisis is but one more episode-even if one of the worst-in Her glorious history of struggles. We must have no doubt the Church will prevail!"
To read a copy of the TFP study, "The Church, Holy and Immortal, Shall Prevail! click here.
June 12, 2002
Dear Friend,
The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property - TFP sent the letter below to all the nations bishops, expressing its concern about reformist pressure groups taking advantage of the present crisis to foment revolution inside the Church. The letter will be published in tomorrow's edition of the Dallas Morning News, to encourage the bishops, meeting in that city, to resist heroically the subversive agenda being pushed by the media-reformist alliance.
Pressure Groups Push for Revolution
Inside the Catholic Church
Your Excellency:
Mr. Thomas McKenna, the American TFP's vice president, recently sent you and all the other bishops a copy of a full-page ad we published in The Washington Times on April 11 titled "The Church, Holy and Immortal, Shall Prevail! This was the first phase of a nationwide campaign to defend the Church in face of the current upheaval. The many bishops who responded were all supportive. In the campaign's second phase, the statement was sent to all 48,000 priests in the country and to 9,000 religious. Currently, our campaign is in its third phase. The statement continues to be published in other papers and distributed in flier form. About 400,000 copies of the enclosed flier have gone out.
In following the news from around the country, we have become painfully concerned as to how the crisis surrounding the sexual abuse scandals is unfolding. We would like to share these concerns with you and all members of the U.S. hierarchy.
Although the crisis lies more immediately within the spiritual sphere, it also affects profoundly the whole temporal sphere within which the TFP acts.
We are worried, seeing how a reformist pressure movement is beginning to take shape within the ranks of the laity. This movement is taking advantage of the crisis to foment revolution inside the Church, and it enjoys extensive coverage from the secular media.
This subversive intervention is all the more improper if we consider that the real solution has already been given by appropriate authority in the April 23-24 meeting of the American Cardinals with the Pope in Rome. The "Final Statement issued at the conclusion of this meeting presents clearly both the problem and the effective measures that must be implemented to resolve it. Point 5 of the part on Principles, for example, states:
"5) Given the doctrinal issues underlying the deplorable behavior in question, certain lines of response have been proposed:
"a) The Pastors of the Church need clearly to promote the correct moral teaching of the Church and publicly to reprimand individuals who spread dissent and groups which advance ambiguous approaches to pastoral care;
"b) A new and serious Apostolic Visitation of seminaries and other institutes of formation must be made without delay, with particular emphasis on the need for fidelity to the Church's teaching, especially in the area of morality, and the need for a deeper study of the criteria of suitability of candidates to the priesthood. (Zenit, 4/25/02)
We see the crisis being presented quite differently, however, by an alliance of the secular media and reformist pressure groups. From child abuse, the problem becomes Church government and doctrine.
This metastasizing of the problem is illustrated by an affirmation reportedly made by Dr. James Muller: "Pedophilia is only a symptom of a disease. The disease is absolute power (as quoted by Mary Rourke in Los Angeles Times, 4/23/02). Dr. Muller is the president of Voice of the Faithful, a movement that somehow resembles a poisonous mushroom, for it appeared overnight; it is growing fast thanks to the media and assistance from such long-standing groups as Call to Action; and it holds positions that clash with Church teaching.
To advance its agenda, the media-reformist alliance must first shake the trust of the faithful in their priests and bishops. To achieve this a veritable army of muckrakers was set in motion whose claims and findings are constantly paraded in the public eye. Additional pressure is being brought to bear by orchestrated efforts to seriously undermine Church funding - apparently a Call to Action idea (see Rourke) - thus crippling financial resources already burdened by a growing number of lawsuits seeking damages for sexual abuse. In a vain attempt to legitimize their subversive actions, reformists cast themselves as American patriots, with allusions to "the Boston Tea Party and the use of slogans like "no donation without representation.
It is from within, and conditioned by this hurricane of pressure, that reformists make their demands: empower the laity; eliminate, curtail, or render meaningless all priestly, Episcopal, and papal authority; make priestly celibacy optional; ordain women; change Church teaching on birth control, divorce, abortion, and homosexuality; and so forth.
In a May 27, 2002, article in America, retired Archbishop John R. Quinn of San Francisco compared the present crisis to the Reformation and the French Revolution. Indeed there are analogies, both between those two historical upheavals (cf. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, Revolution and Counter-Revolution, 1993, p. 17), and between them and the reformists' agenda today.
For example, reformist pressure groups would love to see the bishops use the Dallas meeting to abdicate from their rights and responsibilities following the example of the French nobility during the French Revolution, on August 4, 1789.
Reformists entertain hopes that Dallas will lead to the creation of lay boards at the national, diocesan, and parish level to "oversee the clergy. Reformist pressure groups such as Voice of the Faithful advocate "a general assembly of lay people to be consulted, potentially, on everything including finances, personnel and liturgy" (Pam Bullock, The New York Times, 5/31/02; our emphasis). This "general assembly of lay people would mirror the Estates General that initiated the revolutionary process that toppled the French monarchy.
Reformists want to create a type of national lay advisory board on sexual abuse, which might parallel the "Committee of Public Safety, the group of revolutionaries that radicalized the process, leading in a short time to the Terror.
Today's reformists look at the clergy the same way the Jacobins looked at the aristocrats during the French Revolution, in other words, as imbecilic, arrogant, oppressive, and corrupt (e.g., Fr. Andrew Greeley, America, 5/27/02).
The analogies continue. Reformists see today's laity as the Jacobins saw the sans culottes (the revolutionary plebeians): they alone are capable of leading, they alone are virtuous and immaculate. Ironically, the bloodstained plebeian Robes Pierre was known as "the Incorruptible. Of such stuff, revolutionary myths are made.
Based on our broad contact with American Catholic public opinion, we conclude that these reformist pressure groups do not represent average American Catholics. The latter are often silent, but they love the Church, as holy and immortal today as ever. They love everything associated with the Church. They love the Papacy and the Church's hierarchical structure.
Obviously, this silent majority of American Catholics is deeply hurt by the present crisis. Their hearts bleed profusely for the victims of so much criminal abuse. Theirs, however, are not the hearts of revolutionary firebrands, but the hearts of sons, the hearts of daughters. American Catholics are hurt, but they are not rebellious.
In and beyond Dallas, the struggle continues between the Church and the media-reformist pressure groups alliance. The American TFP is doing what it can to bring hope and perspective to Catholics across the land. We are moved to do this out of love for the Church, whose hierarchical structure was divinely instituted by Our Lord.
Dallas, however, is the immediate concern. As Your Excellency meets with other bishops to address the crisis, the American TFP's directors, members, friends, and supporters around the country will be praying for you, asking the Holy Spirit, through the intercession of Mary Most Holy, to assist you with His gifts, granting you wisdom and strength to resist heroically the subversive agenda being pushed by the media-reformist alliance.
Asking for your blessing and prayers for our efforts, I remain,
In Jesus and Mary,
Raymond Earl Drake
President
To read a copy of the TFP study, "The Church, Holy and Immortal, Shall Prevail! click here.
"Every child is our child."
-- Motto of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
"To achieve One World Government it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, their loyalty to family traditions and national identification."
Brock Chisholm, when director of UN World Health Organization
1948 -- UNESCO president and Fabian Socialist, Sir Julian Huxley, calls for a radical eugenic policy in UNESCO: Its Purpose and Its Philosophy. He states: "Thus, even though it is quite true that any radical eugenic policy of controlled human breeding will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for UNESCO to see that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake that much that is now unthinkable may at least become thinkable."
• "In order to stabilize world population, it is necessary to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it." - Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau Published in the Courier, a publication of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Big Media Won't Touch Agenda 21
MODEL UNITED NATIONS-FREE ORDINANCE FOR YOUR CITY OR COUNTY
UN Wants to Replace the 10 Commandments!
UNICEF and the WAR on the Family
UNICEF-Guilty As Charged.pdf 15 pages
U.N.'s Kofi Annan Calls Abortion Group 'Shining Example' for World
Your UNICEF dollars at work
The New World Religion
What's UNESCO Good For?
UNICEF--United Nations International Children's Fund, The War on America's Family!!
UNICEF and Halloween--Vatican Halts Payment
The UN, your child, your land, your religion and your freedom, check links
UNICEF wants YOUR Children
UNICEF, Uninvited House Guests
UNICEF, THE UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN’S FUND: WOMEN OR CHILDREN FIRST, NO WAY? by C-Fam
UNICEF, and The War on Your Family, Guilty as Charged!
UNICEF HALLOWEEN BOX DONATIONS USED TO FUND PRO-ABORTION ACTIVISM
Your UNICEF dollars at work
Jesus Christ, The Bearer of the Water of Life: A Catholic Reflection on the New Age, A One-World Religion Which = Satanism
A Call to Vigilance (Pastoral Instruction on New Age
NEW WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION CHIEF INVOLVED IN [abortifacient] POPULATION CONTROL VACCINE SCANDAL
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Support the PRO LIFE, MICHAEL FUND, and not the PRO ABORTION, FDR, March of Dimes
The March of Dimes: A Time for Reassessment
BEYOND ABORTION The March of Dimes
POPULATION CONTROL, THE FINAL SOLUTION (1 of 3)
POPULATION CONTROL, THE FINAL SOLUTION (2 of 3)
POPULATION CONTROL, THE FINAL SOLUTION (3 of 3)Role of the United Nations in Population Control
Planned Parenthood: MYTHS & FACTS (TVC's Memo to Congress)
PLANNED PARENTHOOD SAYS POPE GUILTY OF "WAR" AGAINST WOMEN
The New World Religion! Satanism, New Ageism and Luciferism
Ushering One-World Religion, CBN News
Child Sex Book Given out at UN Summit
Bush Says YES to UNESCO
UN WANTS POPULATION CONTROL IN ETHIOPIA and ATTEMPTS TO SKIRT PROCEDURES TO RATIFY FEMINIST DOCUMENT (CEDAW)
UNFPA [United Nations Population Fund] Supports Forced Sterilization in Mexico
54 Socialists are in the United States Congress
The UN Wants Population Control in Ethiopia, CEDAW Passed, Appointed 3 Pro-Abortion Judges to the International Court
Resolve to Keep America FREE!! mp3
International Criminal Court, Unsafe in ANY form
UN Treaty on Women - ACTION ALERT
CHRISTIANITY UNDER SIEGE, TOWARD A ONE WORLD RELIGION
The UN is EVIL!
The UN-American United Nations By: Steve Farrell
The United Nations by Theresa Dunford
THE FEARFUL MASTER
The Ideal of the Universal Republic Blessed by the Conciliar Pontiffs
United Nations Plans New Form of Government for United States
The United Nations Rapid Deployment Police and Security Act of 2000 SOMETHING YOU SHOULD KNOW [Bretton Woods institutions]
Independent American Party
Enter Stage RIGHT
What the UN Doesn't Want You to Know
Population Research Institute, Get the TRUTH Here About Population Control!!
The UN's Earth Charter
The Earth Charter Index
UNESCO: A Budding Global School Board
Get the US out of UNESCO
The New World Religion!
The New Ark of the Covenant in the UN
The Earth Charter Index
A CHRISTmas to Remember
Defender of the Decalogue Interview of Chief Justice Roy Moore by Thomas R. Eddlem
Feeding the God of War
Teaching God's children to worship "Divine Nature"
Homosexuality and the Church of England
Rebutting Rockefeller and the New World Religion
The Apostle of Perversion
Divine Design
Unmentionable Vice "GAY" Goes Mainstream
THE NEW WORLD DISORDER, Global 'gay' rights measure before U.N.
Focus on Population Control
Red Star over the Christ Child
Quotes on Christmas
Quotes on God and Country
Quotes on Religion
Quotes Worth Repeating
The EU's Stealth Attack on Religion
The New World Religion
Focus on Homosexuality
Deconstructing the Western Mind: Gramscian-Marxist Subversion of Faith and Education
Do Public Schools Have a Prayer?
Parents' Rights and the Decay of the American Family
The UN's BIG Green Machine
