Posted on 10/28/2014 1:56:47 PM PDT by NYer
In fact, Kennedy apparently went to weekday Masses on Capitol Hill. And he certainly did receive when cameras were around. E.g., at Pope Benedict’s Mass at D.C. Stadium. (R.F.K. Stadium?)
the new bishop is a serious conservative and an improvement over previous ones. I have no idea what or how he plans to change things in the Diocese.
In the 1980s, we had a pro-abortion politician in Maryland, Connie Morella, who was lector at St. Bartholomew’s parish in Bethesda. This went on for years and years. Cardinal Hickey (Democrat in his DNA) didn’t lift a finger. Eventually, a new pastor arrived, and he ordered her to stop serving as a lector. I don’t recall the issue of Communion coming up. This was before Cardinal Burke’s “discovery” of Canon 915. (I.e., Cardinal Burke “discovered” that Canon 915 isn’t about the divorced-and-remarried. It’s about ALL public sinners.)
I have been praying for Cardinal Burke.
I will put him on my pray for list. If we could get this stopped, it would help a lot.
The Demonrat in the most trouble is said to be Bradley Schneider of IL-10, a thoroughly social revolutionary upper class enclave of materialist and mostly nominally "Republican" airheads. The GOP candidate is babykiller former one term Congresscritter Robert Dold. Neither Dold nor Schneider is remotely worth electing. The 10th District is an empty hole in the suburbs north of Sickago. The 10th was long the district so addled as to elect Mark Nancyboy" Kirk to Congress five times.
Every district deserves a pro-lifer. If none are available, it seems obvious that none deserve votes from pro-lifers. In Illinois, we have all we can do to resist a state party leadership that seems determined to enact the entire gay agenda and the entire babykilling agenda and the gun grabbing agenda if they could get away with it.
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals substitutes so far in enforcing the Second Amendment Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Thank you, Judge Posner, and no thanks to the spineless worms who run the state GOP into the ground here in the Land of Lincoln.
I will vote against Nancyboy in 2016 if he runs again. His opponent in 2010 was Alexei Giannoulias, a thug and gangster and bankster from the somewhat conservative sliver of the Chicago Machine. Voting for Giannoulias is the most efficient way of eliminating a state level disgrace like Nancyboy Kirk who is fully competitive with such trash as Myth Romney or Whackobird McCain. I hope Giannoulias runs in 2016. If not, there will be several respectable third party candidates to choose from.
Obozo eagerly supported by such noted "Republican" toadies as Myth Romney, John McCain, Robert Dole, anyone named Bush, Weeper of the House John Boehner, Kevin McCarthy, John Cornyn and all too many other "Republican" quislings share a passion to sell this nation down the river to the same sort of Wall Street barons who gave Connecticut the likes of Lowell Weicker and his state income tax.
My duty is, by any means necessary, to offer full resistance to such quislings. Most of these quislings favor baby-killing, "gay" everything, gun grabbing, reducing citizens of modest means to conditions of misery, and, inter alia, ever escalating taxes burdening everyone other than themselves.
The simple answer to the three cited catechism sections is that when the choice is between Hitler and Stalin, the response should be organizing an underground against both not sitting around weighing the respective merits of Hitler and Stalin to decide who should be the blood-soaked dictator du jour. By a narrow margin, no doubt. Likewise, military service is owed to neither but, if the opportunity presents, perhaps military service, uniformed or not, against both.
As a Roman pagan, Pilate would have seen his obligation to his emperor Tiberius and then to himself. Nonetheless, he extended himself repeatedly in efforts not approve the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
I get the impression that he did not want to execute Jesus but finally decided not to anger Annas and Caiaphas and the crowd before him. So, he refused to cooperate by sharing in the murderous passions of the crowd.
Every year, in most abortion mills in the USA, secularists commit murder against a total of 1.3 to 1.4 million innocent pre-born babies and cooperate in inducing the moral degeneracy of most of the mothers and others who are morally complicit. Dare I suggest that their sins outweigh any alleged culpability of those who refuse to choose and vote either for Obozo or for Myth Romney? Those who refuse to choose between such dreadful alternatives are quite unlikely to be secularists in any event.
Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried.
I think you need a second opinion on Pilate’s sins and what significance it has to today’s culture war. I mistakenly thought there was a consensus about his place.
if I was in politics, I’m retired and participate solely in the minor leagues of state rep races and occasional primaries for Congress.
But the worse things get, the greater the duty. See Buchanan principles.
http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/Our_Culture/why_we_cant_quit_the_culture_war.htm
There have been no shortage of true conservative prolife candidates for state house in central CT. Numerous new people elected. I can see their exasperation with a constituency that has tuned everything out.
Gay Marriage roll calls .... hearings on assisted suicide ... over the past ten years. Without a peep of backlash. Many allies got picked off by leftists one at a time. Churches have tuned out.
I don’t know who we are fighting for when we’ve reached 90% nonparticipation. $1 million was spent to try to defeat Roraback and it failed due to a comatose constituency. Followed 2 years later by the conservative Boughton ending his Gubernatorial bid due to lack of cash.
THe Christian Boycott is brilliant.
Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction, by David Kuo, whom CBS delightedly described as “an evangelical Christian and card-carrying member of the religious right, who got a job in the White House in the president’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.”
Mr. Kuo is calling on his fellow evangelicals to undertake a political “fast.”
CBS itself would not urge evangelical conservatives to sit out the 2006 elections, but it would give Mr. Kuo prime airtime to do so.
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/gaynor/061019
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