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Category Archives: Dogs and Fleas
A more cheerful One Child Policy!
If Pres. Obama has his way, this will coming to a neighborhood near you. From the Beeb: China to overhaul ‘threatening’ one-child slogans By Viv Marsh BBC News China is to overhaul the sometimes threatening slogans used to enforce its … Read More
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A sermon explaining what Pres. Obama is doing.
A good sermon on 5 February 2012 by Fr. Sammie Maletta at St. John the Evangelist Parish in St. John, Indiana. You will not regret the 11 minutes you spend. [wp_youtube]ltTd81XpDnc[/wp_youtube] Good job, Father. WDTPRS kudos.
“In the formation of their consciences, the Christian faithful ought carefully to attend to the sacred and certain doctrine of the Church.”
From Dignitatis humanae, the Declaration on the Right of the Person and of Communities to Social and Civil Freedom in Religious Matters (1965): 13. Among the things that concern the good of the Church and indeed the welfare of society … Read More
WaPo bigot attacks Rick Santorum’s Catholicism
The unhinged lefty liberals are having a spittle-flecked nutty about Sen. Rick Santorum. Liberal hack Richard Cohen of the WaPo: Mullah Rick has spoken. He wants religion returned to “the public square,” is opposed to contraception, premarital sex and abortion … Read More
Santorum’s Catholicism, candidacy, and Archbp. Chaput’s address “The Vocation of Christians in American Public Life”
It is timely to haul this old PODCAzT out of cold storage. In light of presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s comments about Pres. Kennedy and Catholicism and the public square, let’s review Archbp. Chaput’s outstanding address in Houston in 2010. This … Read More
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NY Dem pro-abortion “catholic” Congresswoman booed for supporting HHS attack
A parish priest helped organize some feedback for a NY congresswoman Kathy Hochul (D-NY 26 – Buffalo) running for re-election, a catholic who supports abortion and Pres. Obama’s attack on the Catholic Church and on the 1st Amendment. Rep. Hochul is … Read More
“America Magazine ran away, bravely ran away, away!”
I saw this by Matthew Archbold on the site of the Cardinal Newman Society about America Magazine‘s role in defending the Church against Pres. Obama’s attack on the 1st Amendment: ARCHBOLD: America Mag Bails on the Fight for Religious Liberty Run … Read More
An edgy video about Pres. Obama’s lies
Fr. Leo Patalinghug, who does some cooking now and then, has a good video commentary on how Pres. Obama is undermining the 1st Amendment and, well, lying to us. This is the sort of video that could appeal to young … Read More
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Catholics and Public Life: toward a response to Pres Obama’s Act of Supremacy
There is a thought provoking piece at The Catholic Thing by Fr. James Schall, SJ, a professor at Georgetown. He muses about a future in which we will have to withdraw from participation in public life, or at least in … Read More
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Religious Persecution and Martyrdom
A reader sent me this. It contains comments made by His Eminence Francis Card. George, Archbishop of Chicago. In 2010, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago outlined the degree to which he believed religious freedoms (in the United States and other … Read More
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