Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Obama's Georgia Hearing on his ELEGIBILITY

Obama Attorney Knows Eligibility Hearing Was Disaster For The President
Posted by Doug Book on January 30, 2012 ·


Though we’ll not know the outcome of the Georgia hearing regarding ballot eligibility for the nation’s number 1 undocumented worker until the first part of February, Barack Obama’s high-powered attorney apparently suffered an attack of rapid, shallow breathing just before the courtroom drama was about to unfold.

One day prior to the scheduled hearing before Administrative Judge Michael Malihi, Obama attorney Michael Jablonski addressed both a letter to Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp AND an email, directed to the Secretary via one of the court’s hearing officers, asking Kemp to cancel the hearing.

Georgia law allows “any elector is eligible to vote for a candidate” to file an objection to that candidate’s inclusion on the State ballot. (1)

Such objection filings go to the Secretary of State who makes a determination to either overrule or pass them along to the State Administrative Court for disposition. Michael Malihi was the Administrative Judge to whom a number of these objections were directed by the Secretary and he found them worthy of pursuing in court.

The dozens of similar suits questioning Obama’s eligibility, filed in other venues around the nation were dismissed because the plaintiffs “lacked standing”—that is, were unable to prove direct, personal damage if Obama were to be permitted to remain in or run again for the office he holds.

But Georgia law trumped that defense, throwing Obama and Jablonski into uncharted waters. And forced to follow the new tack of actually having to lawfully and properly PROVE Obama’s eligibility, in the weeks since the original filing, Jablonski had pretty much emptied his quiver on behalf of the acting president.

On January 3rd his motion for an outright dismissal of the lawsuits was denied by Judge Malihi. And on Friday the 20th, his motion to quash subpoenas demanding the presence of Obama in the courtroom along with original copies of his Hawaii birth certificate and all Social Security information was denied as well.

But what degree of audacity, arrogance, hutzpah and perhaps downright panic does it require to demand that the Georgia Secretary of State cancel arguably the most anticipated hearing in state history less than 24 hours before its scheduled start? Never mind that it was Secretary Kemp who believed the suits had enough merit to be explored in the first place!

Jablonski’s letter alternately reads like a threat, a whine and a prayer as he misstates Georgia statute, belittles Judge Malihi, refers to irrelevant previous findings and ultimately states that because he and his revered client are not receiving the absolute acquiescence they so richly deserve at the hands of these minor Georgia officials, they will take their marbles and go home.

Indeed, so much in a dither was the mighty mouthpiece, he actually winds up his petulant epistle by telling Secretary Kemp that he doesn’t have the legal right to inconvenience the president in the first place! “…No law gives the Secretary of State authority to determine the qualifications of someone named by a political party to be on the Presidential Preference Primary ballot,” writes Jablonski. “…The attempt to hold hearings on qualifications which you may not enforce is ultra vires.” (2)

It is not difficult to imagine Jablonski writing these words as he wags a finger in Kemp’s face while threatening to hold his breath until he turns blue!

In his written reply to Jablonski, Kemp briefly corrects the attorney’s incorrect reading of Georgia statute while issuing a friendly though unmistakably direct warning: “…if you and your client choose to suspend your participation in the OSAH proceedings, please understand that you do so at your own peril.” (3)

Obama supporters and other useful idiots around the country are laughing at what they consider the efforts of a backward, Southern state to capture the national spotlight for its 15 minute allowance of fame.

But rest assured that Michael Jablonski does NOT see the humor! And Americans who recognize Barack Hussein Obama for who and what he is might be a fortnight away from breaking news which even the New York Times will be forced to print.

Divine Mercy Prayers

"Today bring to Me the Souls of those who have separated themselves from My Church*,

and immerse them in the ocean of My mercy. During My bitter Passion they tore at My Body and Heart, that is, My Church. As they return to unity with the Church My wounds heal and in this way they alleviate My Passion."

Most Merciful Jesus, Goodness Itself, You do not refuse light to those who seek it of You. Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who have separated themselves from Your Church. Draw them by Your light into the unity of the Church, and do not let them escape from the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart; but bring it about that they, too, come to glorify the generosity of Your mercy.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls of those who have separated themselves from Your Son's Church, who have squandered Your blessings and misused Your graces by obstinately persisting in their errors. Do not look upon their errors, but upon the love of Your own Son and upon His bitter Passion, which He underwent for their sake, since they, too, are enclosed in His Most Compassionate Heart. Bring it about that they also may glorify Your great mercy for endless ages. Amen.

*Our Lord's original words here were "heretics and schismatics,"



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Monday, January 30, 2012

Divine Mercy Prayers

"Today bring to Me those who do not believe in God and those who do not know Me,

I was thinking also of them during My bitter Passion, and their future zeal comforted My Heart. Immerse them in the ocean of My mercy."

Most compassionate Jesus, You are the Light of the whole world. Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who do not believe in God and of those who as yet do not know You. Let the rays of Your grace enlighten them that they, too, together with us, may extol Your wonderful mercy; and do not let them escape from the abode which is Your Most Compassionate Heart.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls of those who do not believe in You, and of those who as yet do not know You, but who are enclosed in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. Draw them to the light of the Gospel. These souls do not know what great happiness it is to love You. Grant that they, too, may extol the generosity of Your mercy for endless ages. Amen.

*Our Lord's original words here were "the pagans."



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Sunday, January 29, 2012

An Army with No Soldiers

An Army with No Soldiers
Hello everyone and welcome to The Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and
exposed. I’m Michael Voris.
Well we now have developing before us one of the strange cases in Church history.
Consider .. the Obama White House has now declared that religious institutions must
now begin paying for contraception in their employees health plans.
What certainly seems to be a violation of religious freedom is going to wind its way
through the courts it now seems .. if the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops follows through with its plans.
But consider further the great irony present here. The bishops are outraged that such a matter can come to pass. Good for them. Outrage IS the correct response.
But now .. they appear to be rallying the Catholic troops to gather round and support the cause of defending religious freedom in the specific case on birth control. Do you see the great irony here? For years .. almost 50 years now and counting .. much of Church leadership has either passively rejected Church teaching on birth control or .. in some cases actively worked against it.
From the very first moments that Pope Paul VI issued his shattering encyclical .. Humane Vitae .. On Human Life .. which proclaimed and affirmed the Church’s age old teaching that the marital act must be open to the transmission of new life .. meaning no birth control .. clerics and religious ran like mad in the other direction. Theologians decried it .. denounced it .. pilloried it .. and many religious just sat by silently on the sidelines and let their chanceries and seminary faculties and theological advisors trample the Pope’s words.
That kind of rebellion doesn’t happen with NO consequences. In fact .. it was left
unchecked for so long .. that it has proved to have devastating consequences. The
percentage of Catholic laity who either use birth control or support its use is over 90 percent.
One recent survey in fact revealed that 98% of Catholic women of child bearing years
practice some form of birth control at least periodically.
So .. step back for a second and look at this. Yesteryear’s church leadership in America
as well as many current chancery personnel have pushed or stood mute on the subject of birth control.
Taking the cue from the leadership .. Catholics .. all these years later now simply reject out hand the Church’s teaching they were never taught as laughable.
And then Obama comes along and challenges the Paper Tiger that is the current state of crisis the Church in America now finds itself in.
And in response .. many of the bishops and their staffs snap to .. as they should .. and try to rally the troops behind a CONCEPT that they should oppose this incursion by the Feds into church matters on the VERY SUBJECT over which 98% of American Catholics disagree with the Church. Seriously?!
Hats off to the Bishops for challenging Obama and his Catholic in name only .. shouldn’t be using the name Catholic .. secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebellius.
But after these past 50 years .. they shouldn’t be surprised if they sound the trumpet blast and lead the charge .. only to look over their shoulders and see no army and no soldiers running up the hill with them. The generation of bishops before them took care of that.
They may well win the legal battle that is looming .. and they should. But Obama could not have struck at a weaker point in the defenses of a shrinking population of faithful Catholics.
If you consider yourself a Catholic and you think birth control / contraception is
legitimate .. then you need to learn more about this issue. We produced a CIA .. Catholic Investigative Agency special on this very topic a few months ago and we think it is well worth the watch.
It’s called .. The Contraception Deception. We’ve attached the link right over it.
GOD Love you.
I’m Michael Voris.

5 out of 6

5 out of 6!
Hello everyone and welcome to The Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and
exposed. I’m Michael Voris.
Though we often look at developments inside the Church for points of discussion ..
sometimes its helpful to pop our heads up and take a look at other places.
Like .. the upcoming issue of Vanity Fair .. for February. Inside its secular-laden pages is
a very telling piece of info.
They teamed up with CBS News’ 60 Minutes .. and conducted a poll on all sorts of
things. The one that screamed off the pages at us was this question. BTW – the link is on this page.
“Which comes closest to your view?
1) The world would be a better place if there were one global religion.
2) The world would be a better place if there were one global religion but only if that
religion was Christianity.
3) The world is a better place because of its religious diversity.
4) the world would be a better place with no religion.
Vanity Fair then posted the results of answers to that question based on the following
categories .. Protestants .. Evangelicals .. Catholics .. and All.
For the record .. Evangelicals are a subset of Protestants, even though THEY don’t see
themselves that way. Nonetheless they are. But we digress.
It’s interesting when you compare the ALL group (which is a amalgamation of everyone
in the US .. Christians, Jews, Muslims, atheists, etc.)
Among EVERYONE .. or ALL .. religious diversity won the day .. 54%.
Among Protestants generally .. the same opinion held .. 52%.. but among evangelicals
there was a pretty steep departure from the general norm.
While small majorities of the overall population as well as their fellow protestants view
religious diversity as a positive .. only about a third of evangelicals did. In fact .. almost
half of evangelicals thought their should only be one world religion AND it should be Christianity.
A-N-D T-H-E-N came the Catholic response. Yep. You know where this is going.
In yet another stunning triumph for the Modernist forces that have been working like
busy little bees in the Church for decades now .. corrupting people’s minds by expressing
the Church’s teachings as vaguely as possible .. drum roll please .. 2 out of every 3 Catholics .. a whopping .. poll leading .. 65 percent of Catholics .. think diversity in religion is the best option .. a splendid thing.
Let’s zoom in and take a really close look at the total Catholic response. Based on the
four possible answers .. one world religion .. Christianity being the world religion .. all
kinds of religions or no religions at all .. just 15 percent of Catholics thought the world
would be a better place if Christianity was to be the sole world religion.
Re-formulated .. that means 85 percent of Catholics simply reject the idea of the
superiority of Christianity. This is an impossible situation to square with Our Blessed
Lord’s command to go out and baptize all nations.
Heck .. a little more than one in six .. ONE in SIX Catholics believed the world would be
a better place with NO religion! Imagine that .. One of out nearly every six US Catholics
thinks the world would be better with NO religion at all .. and two out of three US
Catholics don’t think there’s anything head and shoulders about their own faith.
Every now and then .. we will hear comments from Church leaders in the US that there
really is no crisis in the Church in the US – problems, sure. Things that need to be fixed,
yea. But NO crisis.
5 out 6 US Catholics have no clue what the Catholic Church REALLY is .. and Church
leaders have the audacity to grandstand and make speeches and offer public comments
saying “there is no crisis”. REALLY?!?!
I guess it doesn’t reach crisis proportions until that number is 6 out of 6! Then we can get
down to business.[Or God forbid - you use the name Catholic without filling out the paperwork].
Well, some Catholics aren’t willing to wait until that happens!
GOD Love you.
I’m Michael

Divine Mercy Prayers

"Today bring to Me all Devout and Faithful Souls,

and immerse them in the ocean of My mercy. These souls brought me consolation on the Way of the Cross. They were a drop of consolation in the midst of an ocean of bitterness."

Most Merciful Jesus, from the treasury of Your mercy, You impart Your graces in great abundance to each and all. Receive us into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart and never let us escape from It. We beg this grace of You by that most wondrous love for the heavenly Father with which Your Heart burns so fiercely.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon faithful souls, as upon the inheritance of Your Son. For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, grant them Your blessing and surround them with Your constant protection. Thus may they never fail in love or lose the treasure of the holy faith, but rather, with all the hosts of Angels and Saints, may they glorify Your boundless mercy for endless ages. Amen.



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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Divine Mercy Prayers

"Today bring to Me the Souls of Priests and Religious,

and immerse them in My unfathomable mercy. It was they who gave me strength to endure My bitter Passion. Through them as through channels My mercy flows out upon mankind."

Most Merciful Jesus, from whom comes all that is good, increase Your grace in men and women consecrated to Your service,* that they may perform worthy works of mercy; and that all who see them may glorify the Father of Mercy who is in heaven.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the company of chosen ones in Your vineyard -- upon the souls of priests and religious; and endow them with the strength of Your blessing. For the love of the Heart of Your Son in which they are enfolded, impart to them Your power and light, that they may be able to guide others in the way of salvation and with one voice sing praise to Your boundless mercy for ages without end. Amen

Friday, January 27, 2012

Divine Mercy Prayers

"Today bring to Me the Souls who have become Lukewarm,

and immerse them in the abyss of My mercy. These souls wound My Heart most painfully. My soul suffered the most dreadful loathing in the Garden of Olives because of lukewarm souls. They were the reason I cried out: 'Father, take this cup away from Me, if it be Your will.' For them, the last hope of salvation is to run to My mercy."

Most compassionate Jesus, You are Compassion Itself. I bring lukewarm souls into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart. In this fire of Your pure love, let these tepid souls who, like corpses, filled You with such deep loathing, be once again set aflame. O Most Compassionate Jesus, exercise the omnipotence of Your mercy and draw them into the very ardor of Your love, and bestow upon them the gift of holy love, for nothing is beyond Your power.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon lukewarm souls who are nonetheless enfolded in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. Father of Mercy, I beg You by the bitter Passion of Your Son and by His three-hour agony on the Cross: Let them, too, glorify the abyss of Your mercy. Amen.



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Thursday, January 26, 2012

FIVE REASONS WHY THE CONSERVATIVES LOST

Five Reasons Why Conservatives Lost

Hello everyone and welcome to The Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and
exposed. I’m Michael Voris.
When you come to Washington DC you obviously realize that you are in the seat of
power. All these buildings are the tools that the victors in the ideological war use to impose their view on a nation and that nation’s culture.
Whoever wins elections .. wins the spoils of that war. The old phrase .. elections have consequences rings very true.
And it’s time now to be brutally honest and simply admit that conservatives have lost this battle. The secularists got hold of some necessary institutions .. and slowly .. over the years .. bred a couple of generations .. who then voted these secular minded people into these halls of power.
Conservatives in Washington have a great resemblance to the last holdouts at the Alamo.
How did this happen. How did America go from 200 plus years of moral and political
conservatism to the secular liberal state we see today?
Five reasons have been identified by scholars and historians.
1 – Conservatives were much more concerned with economics and foreign policy than
they were morality. The morality was a given. The Cold War was raging with the Soviet
Union. Political conservatives were much more comfortable and able to talk in those terms than they were theology, philosophy and history. We see this still .. even today in the split in the GOP between social conservatives and economic conservatives
2 – The Entertainment media grabbed the youth back in the 1970s and have never let go. While parents were blithely unaware of things like MTV and a wild assortment of
subversive messages being sent to their children .. their children were being intellectually and spiritually kidnapped. By the time many parents realized what was going on .. it was too late.
3 – The Courts .. more than any other single institution is where the secularist liberals have been able to pound the nail in the coffin. It took decades .. but once education and entertainment were sufficiently corrupted .. it was inevitable that a new generation of voters would start casting their votes without any concern about basic moral issues. And the liberal-secularist have done the better job of securing those votes by appealing to emotions and passions.
4 – The innate conservative quality of obedience and almost automatic accepting of
authority. By definition .. conservatives are not rebels .. they don’t rebel.
So when for example .. when the Supreme Court said in the late 1960’s that prayer in
school in unconstitutional .. even tho a majority of Americans at the time identified
themselves as conservative .. they simply accepted it .. even tho every single poll taken at the time revealed that HIUGE majorities disagreed with the court.
5 – and the last reason why .. and perhaps the most important .. is that the one single institution that .. at the time .. had the moral authority to challenge the secularist-liberal juggernaut .. did not do it. The Christian faithful. And in this group we include Catholics and Protestants.
The decades of dissent that has been allowed to go unchecked in the Catholic Church in America coupled with the widespread abandoning of practically everything Christian by huge swaths of Protestant America has been the single biggest reason why we now stand where we stand as a nation.
The near total abolition of duty in the face of the contraception mentality by nearly all Protestant denominations and the near total silence and under the radar rejection of the Church’s teaching on it among Catholics and their leaders set the stage for the moral collapse which would inevitable lead to the dissolution of the family .. abortion and now same sex marriage.
Once the sexual act could be decoupled from procreation in biology and law .. it was only a matter of time until the culture became saturated in a sex-is-for-pleasure mentality. Christians were both blind-sided by this initially and then all too happy to accept it. It’s fitting therefore .. some would say ironical or poetic justice then .. that the issue that is now being warred over by the Catholic Church and the federal government has come down to a fight over contraception.
This needs to be a lesson for all of us .. if you don’t get rid of dissent early .. you will have a heresy later.
GOD Love you.
I’m Michael Voris.

THE MARCH

The March:

For the 39th year .. Americans are commemorating and demonstrating against the
continual slaughter of millions of children in their mothers’ wombs .. 56 million and
counting.
In fact .. in the couple of hours it takes this march to happen .. close to 300 children will
have been murdered in the nation’s abortion chambers.
With the uptick in consciousness over the evil and horror of abortion and Planned
Parenthood being on the run with regard to their funding .. the pro-aborts are beginning to fight back.
This past Saturday night .. there was a youth rally in the Capital Hyatt ballroom where a thousand pro-life youth were gathered. Suddenly about two-three dozen pro-aborts stood up and disrupted the rally with signs and chanting .. see for yourselves. NATS
This is the FIRST TIME this has ever happened .. that pro-aborts have sneaked into a
pro-life gathering at March for Life and deliberately disrupted the event they were
eventually escorted out by hotel security after a few minutes .. but not without proving the point that they consider themselves to be in a pitched fight.
This is the real face of pro-abortion America .. standing in the middle of a pro-life
gathering .. yelling .. pro-life that’s a lie .. you don’t care if women die.
And their other chant .. not the Church not the state .. women will decide their fate. It’s not even worth the trouble to de-construct their slogan pabluum .. but that they would do this at all .. demonstrates a certain mind set .. that they now feel the initiative is being lost in the public square as poll after poll concludes that American society views abortion less and less favorably .. especially the younger generations.
As a side note on this .. while the momentum may be on the side of the pro-life cause
among the common folk shall we say .. you wouldn’t know it by the secular media
coverage. If there was ever an example of secular media bias .. it’s this annual March .. and note this .. the largest annual gathering in Washington .. year after year .. bar none .. and to the secular media .. it never happens.
It is essentially ignored or treated so slightly that it may as well not have happened. Each year .. anywhere from 350,000 to 450,000 .. sometimes more .. an ocean of people stream up to the US Supreme Court protesting the evil of abortion and in favor or Roe v. Wade being overturned .. and yet .. you’d never know it by the secular media. The only hint you might get .. that SOME people came to DC and did SOMETHING .. is the Associated Press or Reuters News Agency pictures of a dozen or so pro-aborts from NOW holding their signs in front of the Court amid hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers ..and hearing commentators on CNN say something stupid like .. so are the numbers on each side about the same?.. That was the observation of one of CNN’s crack reporters and anchors last year.
20 or so vs. 400,000! Are the numbers about the same?!
More than perhaps anything else .. it has been the world of the media that has advanced this evil .. in the lies it has told .. the truth it has ignored .. the glamour with which it portrays unbridled sex in movies .. music .. publications .. and the news coverage .. or rather .. lack of coverage of the effects on a society of wiping out nearly 56 million of its citizens.
To date .. that we know of .. not one US secular media outlet has done a single story on the economic impact of abortion. The devastating impact of 56 million would be consumers simply never having been born, not spending money buying houses, cars ..
educations .. clothing .. contributing to the tax rolls for socials security .. medicare etc. It’s why we felt compelled two and a half years ago to examine the issue ourselves in an hour long program we produced called The Cost of Abortion. We’ve attached a link to it to this page.
Catholics have got to recognize that they have been lied to and manipulated by various forces for decades now .. and among those forces have been the media. Time to wisen up and spread the truth.
GOD Love you.
I’m Michael Voris.

Never

The sleeping giant has been awakened.

Right now we're witnessing an unprecedented response to the Obama administration's decision last Friday to proceed with their new mandate forcing all Americans (including the Catholic Church) to fund birth control, sterilization, and some abortion-inducing drugs.

Since Friday we have been receiving reports from individuals and parishes across the country. Catholics of all stripes, left, right, and center -- "political" categories that are not typically helpful -- are nevertheless coming together like never before.

We are united as one Church.

Bishops, priests, pastors and the laity are rising up. Many priests and bishops preached last Sunday on the threat, with numerous reports of congregations spontaneously erupting with standing ovations. Blogs, news sites, and grassroots organizations (on both left and right!) have erupted. The emails and calls to CV are pouring in.

Retired Cardinal Mahoney in Los Angeles responded to the decision saying: "This decision must be fought against with all the energies the Catholic Community can muster...there is no other fundamental issue as important as this one as we enter into the Presidential and Congressional campaigns...[i]f any candidate refuses to acknowledge and to promote those rights, then that candidate will not receive my vote."

And just this morning, New York's Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan authored a blistering editorial in the Wall Street Journal in which he concluded:

"This latest erosion of our first freedom should make all Americans pause. When the government tampers with a freedom so fundamental to the life of our nation, one shudders to think what lies ahead."

The assault on our religious freedom may not come as a surprise to many of you. For years, hostile groups and some elected officials have been working to destroy the influence of the Church in America. For years they have flaunted our social teachings, insulted our clergy and hierarchy, and mocked our Pope. The attacks are endless.

And now they want us to fund their agenda.

NO WAY.

We will not accept this new mandate, and we will not rest until it is overturned.

Divine Mercy Prayers

Today bring to Me the Souls who especially venerate and glorify My Mercy*,

and immerse them in My mercy. These souls sorrowed most over my Passion and entered most deeply into My spirit. They are living images of My Compassionate Heart. These souls will shine with a special brightness in the next life. Not one of them will go into the fire of hell. I shall particularly defend each one of them at the hour of death.

Most Merciful Jesus, whose Heart is Love Itself, receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who particularly extol and venerate the greatness of Your mercy. These souls are mighty with the very power of God Himself. In the midst of all afflictions and adversities they go forward, confident of Your mercy; and united to You, O Jesus, they carry all mankind on their shoulders. These souls will not be judged severely, but Your mercy will embrace them as they depart from this life.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls who glorify and venerate Your greatest attribute, that of Your fathomless mercy, and who are enclosed in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. These souls are a living Gospel; their hands are full of deeds of mercy, and their hearts, overflowing with joy, sing a canticle of mercy to You, O Most High! I beg You O God:

Show them Your mercy according to the hope and trust they have placed in You. Let there be accomplished in them the promise of Jesus, who said to them that during their life, but especially at the hour of death, the souls who will venerate this fathomless mercy of His, He, Himself, will defend as His glory. Amen.

*The text leads one to conclude that in the first prayer directed to Jesus, Who is the Redeemer, it is "victim" souls and contemplatives that are being prayed for; those persons, that is, that voluntarily offered themselves to God for the salvation of their neighbor (see Col 1:24; 2 Cor 4:12). This explains their close union with the Savior and the extraordinary efficacy that their invisible activity has for others. In the second prayer, directed to the Father from whom comes "every worthwhile gift and every genuine benefit,"we recommend the "active" souls, who promote devotion to The Divine Mercy and exercise with it all the other works that lend themselves to the spiritual and material uplifting of their brethren.

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Some of the comments to the above article

Some of the comments to the above article:
Posted by: FrMatthewG - 2011 9:16 AM ET USA

Well said. All too often I run into people (both laity and clergy) who self-identify as Catholics, and yet dissent on important Catholic teachings. As a priest, this makes my duty of guiding souls in the truth much more difficult. I can tell people what the truth is, but if other priests and theologians "in good standing" say the opposite, it makes people think that it all depends on your personal point of view...

Posted by: jimgrum697380 - 2011 10:57 PM ET USA

Pope Pius X on Modernists: "...thinking not at all of finding some solid foundation of truth, but despising the holy and apostolic traditions, they embrace other vain, futile, uncertain doctrines, condemned by the Church, on which, in the height of their vanity, they think they can rest and maintain truth itself." Many of the bishops themselves were educated at some point by questionable theologians. Good luck in attempting to exclude them now. It might be easier to start from scratch.

Posted by: Cornelius - 2011 2:55 PM ET USA
Some of this failure to rule may be attributed to the idea that error need not be combated - the mere presentation of truth will vanquish it. Was this a legacy of Vatican II and Pope John XXIII? I believe so. But aside from the sheer naivete of this view on its own merits, the idea gained traction that even the presentation of the truth was too aggressive. Someone might feel excluded or offended. So the Bishops made 'happy talk'(ala Lisante)fine and dandy, we're all going to heaven.hurrah

Divine Mercy Prayers

Today bring to Me the Meek and Humble Souls and the Souls of Little Children,

and immerse them in My mercy. These souls most closely resemble My Heart. They strengthened Me during My bitter agony. I saw them as earthly Angels, who will keep vigil at My altars. I pour out upon them whole torrents of grace. I favor humble souls with My confidence.

Most Merciful Jesus, You yourself have said, "Learn from Me for I am meek and humble of heart." Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart all meek and humble souls and the souls of little children. These souls send all heaven into ecstasy and they are the heavenly Father's favorites. They are a sweet-smelling bouquet before the throne of God; God Himself takes delight in their fragrance. These souls have a permanent abode in Your Most Compassionate Heart, O Jesus, and they unceasingly sing out a hymn of love and mercy.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon meek souls, upon humble souls, and upon little children who are enfolded in the abode which is the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. These souls bear the closest resemblance to Your Son. Their fragrance rises from the earth and reaches Your very throne. Father of mercy and of all goodness, I beg You by the love You bear these souls and by the delight You take in them: Bless the whole world, that all souls together may sing out the praises of Your mercy for endless ages. Amen.



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The ways of the Devil

Have you heard this?

Satan went beyond all the limits of deception when he went to Father Pio pretending to be a penitent. This is the Father Pio’s testimony: “One day, while I was hearing confessions, a man came to the confessional where I was. He was tall, handsome, dressed with some refinement and he was kind and polite. He started to confess his sins, which were of every kind: against God, against man and against the morals. All the sins were obnoxious! I was disoriented, in fact for all the sins that he told me, but I responded to him with God’s Word, the example of the Church, and the morals of the Saints. But the enigmatic penitent answered me word for word, justifying his sins, always with extreme ability and politeness. He excused all the sinful actions, making them sound quite normal and natural, even comprehensible on the human level.. He continued this way with the sins that were gruesome against God, Our Lady, the Saints, always using disrespectful round-about argumentation. He kept this up even with with the foulest of sins that could be conjured in the mind of a most sinful man. The answers that he gave me with such skilled subtlety and malice surprised me. I wondered: who is he? What world does he come from? And I tried to look at him in order to read something on his face. At the same time I concentrated on every word he spoke, trying to discover any clue to his identity.. But suddenly; through a vivid, radiant and internal light I clearly recognized who he was. With a sound and imperial tone I told him: “Say long live Jesus, long live Mary!” As soon as I pronounced these sweet and powerful names, Satan instantly disappeared in a trickle of fire, leaving behind him an unbearable stench.” (Don Pierino is a priest and one of the father Pio’s spiritual sons who were present at the same time.)

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Catholic Catechism Regarding Homosexuality

Catholic Catechism Regarding Homosexuality - 1997

#2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.” They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.

#2358 The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God’s will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord’s Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.

#2359 Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection

(oh I forgot, "Itchy Watch" has no knowledge of the Catholic Catechism, probably because of the Christian stand against Homosexuality. I wonder why?)

Homosexuality is condemned in the Bible

Homosexuality is Condemned in the Bible!

The Bible's condemnation of homosexuality is as clear and plain as the Bible's condemnation of murder, adultery, premarital sex, kidnapping, lying and idolatry. Further, for me to openly condemn homosexuality theologically makes me no more a "gay basher" than I am an "adultery basher", "premarital sex basher", "kidnapper basher" or a "murderer basher". If you disagree, your argument is with God's Bible.

The homosexual community has two ways of promoting their personal choices of being homosexual through the religious forum. First, some will claim the Bible actually promotes and condones homosexuality. Second, others try to get the Bible banned from public use by categorizing it as hate literature.

For any to use the Bible to condone rather than condemn homosexual activity in the theological arena just proves such a one has absolutely no idea what the Bible actually teaches. For anyone to suggest the Bible says homosexual activity is acceptable to God, is nothing short of willful blindness. So to set the record straight once and for all, here is what the Bible teaches on the subject.

Anyone who has heard of the cities of "Sodom and Gommorah" knows that they were notorious hotbeds of homosexuality. Gen 19:5-8 "and they called to Lot and said to him, 'Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may have relations with them.' But Lot went out to them at the doorway, and shut the door behind him, and said, 'Please, my brothers, do not act wickedly.'" The Greek word in the New Testament for homosexuality is literally "a sodomite". Jock is trying to redefine what the term "sodomite" means. (A term that has unchanged in 5000 years, even today- "sodomy") Apart from the fact the city was clearly destroyed by God because of homosexuality in the narrative of Gen 19, even the New Testament clearly states exactly the same thing in Jude 7 "Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example, in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire." Any sinner should always remember that the God who commands us to love our neighbour is the same God who will cast any and all unrepentant sinners into the "eternal fire". Here are more Bible quotes, Lev 18:22-23 "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination." Lev 20:13 "If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death." 1 Cor 6:9 "Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals" 1 Tim 1:9-10 "realizing the fact that (civil) law is not made for a righteous man, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers" Rom 1:26-27 "For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error."

If the homosexual community chooses to practice homosexuality in privacy, that is there free choice. But let such persons know for certain that the Christian Bible condemns all such practices and God will judge them unfit for the kingdom of heaven if the continue to practice and openly promote homosexual sex.

Divine Mercy Prayers

"Today bring to Me the Souls of those who have separated themselves from My Church*,

and immerse them in the ocean of My mercy. During My bitter Passion they tore at My Body and Heart, that is, My Church. As they return to unity with the Church My wounds heal and in this way they alleviate My Passion."

Most Merciful Jesus, Goodness Itself, You do not refuse light to those who seek it of You. Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who have separated themselves from Your Church. Draw them by Your light into the unity of the Church, and do not let them escape from the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart; but bring it about that they, too, come to glorify the generosity of Your mercy.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls of those who have separated themselves from Your Son's Church, who have squandered Your blessings and misused Your graces by obstinately persisting in their errors. Do not look upon their errors, but upon the love of Your own Son and upon His bitter Passion, which He underwent for their sake, since they, too, are enclosed in His Most Compassionate Heart. Bring it about that they also may glorify Your great mercy for endless ages. Amen.

*Our Lord's original words here were "heretics and schismatics,"



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Monday, January 23, 2012

FREEDOM OBAMA STYLE

The Obama administration and their idea of 'freedom of conscience'
Matt C. Abbott
On Jan. 20, the Obama administration, specifically Health and Human Services, made it known that it will indeed require, in the words of a U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops news release, "that sterilization and contraception--including controversial abortifacients--be included among 'preventive services' coverage in almost every healthcare plan available to Americans."

The administration is throwing an extremely small bone to opponents of the mandate by delaying its enforcement among faith-based groups until 2013.

Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York and president of the USCCB, promptly denounced the decision.

"In effect, the president is saying we have a year to figure out how to violate our consciences," the cardinal-designate said. "To force American citizens to choose between violating their consciences and forgoing their healthcare is literally unconscionable. It is as much an attack on access to health care as on religious freedom. Historically this represents a challenge and a compromise of our religious liberty."

So much for freedom of conscience.

As a practicing and assenting Catholic, I applaud Archbishop Dolan's statement. Yet I fear it may be too little, too late. Over the last several decades, Catholic leadership in the U.S., with certain notable exceptions, has chosen to remain largely silent in the face of "politically correct" evil; or to dialogue with the devil, so to speak.

Whether it's been mainly out of fear or actual complicity in moral corruption is hard to say, but it's obvious that too many purported Catholics--clergy and religious included--don't care a wit about Catholic moral teaching on abortion, contraception, euthanasia, fornication and homosexual activity. In other words, we can, at least in part, thank a majority of Catholics for electing politicians and supporting elites who have given us a culture of death.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/01/the_obama_administration_and_their_idea_of_freedom_of_conscience.html#disqus_thread#ixzz1kKDuYcX8

Divine Mercy Prayers

"Today bring to Me those who do not believe in God and those who do not know Me,

I was thinking also of them during My bitter Passion, and their future zeal comforted My Heart. Immerse them in the ocean of My mercy."

Most compassionate Jesus, You are the Light of the whole world. Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who do not believe in God and of those who as yet do not know You. Let the rays of Your grace enlighten them that they, too, together with us, may extol Your wonderful mercy; and do not let them escape from the abode which is Your Most Compassionate Heart.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls of those who do not believe in You, and of those who as yet do not know You, but who are enclosed in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. Draw them to the light of the Gospel. These souls do not know what great happiness it is to love You. Grant that they, too, may extol the generosity of Your mercy for endless ages. Amen.

*Our Lord's original words here were "the pagans."



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Sunday, January 22, 2012

FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY

The fulfillment of the prophecies of the Bible is a vast subject. In fact, the Messianic prophecies alone have provided enough material for the publication of many books. Other books have been written solely about the Old Testament prophecies concerning certain cities or about certain world empires, while still others consider the fulfillment of Biblical prophecies in the twentieth century.
Some authors have identified more than 300 Old Testament passages that are cited by the New Testament as having been fulfilled by Jesus Christ. The question of the New Testament's treatment of the Old Testament will be treated in a later section, but it is certainly clear that Jesus fulfilled a great many of the Messianic prophecies of the Hebrew Scriptures. The study of the libretto for Handel's Messiah is very instructive in this regard, because although the story line portrays the life of Jesus, many of the passages used for this purpose are taken from Old Testament prophetic passages concerning the Messiah.
Some of the fulfillments of the Messianic prophecies in Jesus were as follows: He was to be the seed of the woman (Gen. 3:15) who was to bruise Satan's head (Gal. 4:4). As the seed of Abraham (Gen. 22:18, Gal. 3:16) and the seed of David (Psalm 132:11, Jer. 23:5, Acts 13:23), he was to come from the tribe of Judah (Gen. 49:10, Heb. 7:14).
He was to come a specified time (Gen. 49:10, Dan. 9:24-25, Luke 2:1), born of a virgin (Isaiah 7:14, Matt. 1:18-23), in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2, Matt. 2:1, Luke 2:5,6). Great persons were to visit Him and adore Him (Psalm 72:10, Matt. 2:1-11), and through the rage of a jealous king, innocent children were to be slaughtered (Jer. 31:15, Matt. 2:16-18). He was to be preceded by a forerunner, John the Baptist, before entering His public ministry (Isaiah 40:3, Mal. 3:1, Luke 1:17, Matt. 3:13).
He was to be a prophet like Moses (Deut. 18:18, Acts 3:20- 22), and to have a special anointing of the Holy Spirit (Psalm 45:7, Isaiah 11:2, Isaiah 61:1,2, Matt. 3:16, Luke 4:15-21,43). He was to be a priest after the order of Melchizedek (Psalm 110:4, Heb. 5:5,6). As the servant of the Lord, he was to be a faithful and patient redeemer for the Gentiles as well as for the Jews (Isaiah 42:1-4, Matt. 12:18-21).
His ministry was to begin in Galilee (Isaiah 9:1,2, Matt. 4: 12,16-23); He was later to enter Jerusalem (Zech. 9:9, Matt. 21: 1-5) to bring salvation. He was to enter the temple (Hag. 2:7-9, Mal. 3:1, Matt. 21:12). His zeal for the Lord is mentioned (Psalm 69:9, John 2:17); His manner of teaching was to be by parables (Psalm 78:2, Matt. 13:34-35); His ministry was to be characterized by miracles (Isaiah 35:5-6, Matt. 11:4-6, John 11:47). He was to be rejected by His brethren (Psalm 69:8, Isaiah 53:3, John 1:11, John 7:5), and a "stone of stumbling" to the Jews--a "rock of offense" (Isaiah 8:14, Rom. 9:32, I Pet. 2:8).
He was to be hated without cause (Psalm 69:4, Isaiah 49:7, John 7:48, John 15:25), rejected by the rulers (Psalm 118:22, Matt. 21:42, John 7:48), betrayed by a friend (Psalm 41:9, Psalm 55:12,14, John 13:18,21), forsaken by His disciples (Zech. 13:7, Matt. 26:31-56), sold for 30 pieces of silver (Zech. 11:12, Matt. 26:15), and His price given for the potter's field (Zech. 11:13, Matt. 27:7). He was to be smitten on the cheek (Mic. 5:1, Matt. 27:30), spat upon (Isaiah 50:6, Matt. 27:30), mocked (Psalm 22:7- 8, Matt. 27:31,39-44), and beaten (Psalm 50:6, Matt. 26:67, 27:26,30).

His death by crucifixion is described in Psalm 22. The meaning of His death, as a substitutionary atonement, is provided in Isaiah 53. His hands and feet were to be pierced (Psalm 22:16, Zech. 12:10, John 19:18, John 19:37, John 20:25), yet not one of His bones was to be broken (Ex. 12:46, Psalm 34:20, John 19:33-36). He was to suffer thirst (Psalm 22:15, John 19:28) and be given vinegar to drink (Psalm 69:21, Matt. 27:34). He was to be numbered with the transgressors (Isaiah 53:12, Matt. 27:38).
His body was to be buried with the rich (Isaiah 53:9, Matt. 27:57-60), but was not to see corruption (Psalm 16:10, Acts 2:31). He was to be raised from the dead (Psalm 2:7, 16:10, Acts 13:33), and ascend to the right hand of God (Psalm 68:18, Luke 24:51, Acts 1:9, Psalm 110:1, Heb 1:3).1
It is sometimes asserted that Jesus did not fulfill all of the Messianic expectations outlined in the Hebrew Scriptures, only many of them. It must be remembered, however, that Jesus said repeatedly that he would be coming again in glory, and there is every reason to expect these additional passages to be fulfilled at that time. Certainly the vast number of prophecies that he did fulfill defies all odds, such that, after considering them carefully, it would take more faith to believe he was not the Messiah than to believe that he was.
The Biblical prophecies concerning Tyre, Sidon, Capernaum, Chorazin, Bethsaida, Samaria, Ashkelon, Gaza, Jericho, Jerusalem, Palestine, Moab, Ammon, Egypt, Assyria, and Edom, to name just a few places, have all been fulfilled to the letter. Detailed explanations of how these prophecies have been fulfilled can be found in many books on the subject.

One of many examples would be the prophecy concerning Tyre found in Ezekiel 26: 3-5,7,12,14,16:

Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up. And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea.... For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon ... and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.... And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the Lord have spoken it, saith the Lord God.... Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling.
This prophecy was written in 590 B.C. Four years later, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, began laying siege to Tyre, a process that took thirteen years. When he finally captured the city, he broke down her walls and towers, but the rulers of Tyre had taken everything of value to an island about half a mile off the coast. Nebuchadnezzar simply destroyed the coastal city, left it in ruins, and returned to Babylon.

In 322 B.C., Alexander the Great decided to capture the island city of Tyre. In order to do this, he built a causeway from the mainland to the island, taking stones, timber, and dirt from the ruined city. His army then marched to the island city and captured it. Other neighboring cities were so frightened by the conquest of Tyre that they surrendered to Alexander without opposition.

Divine Mercy Prayers

"Today bring to Me all Devout and Faithful Souls,

and immerse them in the ocean of My mercy. These souls brought me consolation on the Way of the Cross. They were a drop of consolation in the midst of an ocean of bitterness."

Most Merciful Jesus, from the treasury of Your mercy, You impart Your graces in great abundance to each and all. Receive us into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart and never let us escape from It. We beg this grace of You by that most wondrous love for the heavenly Father with which Your Heart burns so fiercely.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon faithful souls, as upon the inheritance of Your Son. For the sake of His sorrowful Passion, grant them Your blessing and surround them with Your constant protection. Thus may they never fail in love or lose the treasure of the holy faith, but rather, with all the hosts of Angels and Saints, may they glorify Your boundless mercy for endless ages. Amen.

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Saturday, January 21, 2012

Divine Mercy Prayers

"Today bring to Me the Souls who have become Lukewarm,

and immerse them in the abyss of My mercy. These souls wound My Heart most painfully. My soul suffered the most dreadful loathing in the Garden of Olives because of lukewarm souls. They were the reason I cried out: 'Father, take this cup away from Me, if it be Your will.' For them, the last hope of salvation is to run to My mercy."

Most compassionate Jesus, You are Compassion Itself. I bring lukewarm souls into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart. In this fire of Your pure love, let these tepid souls who, like corpses, filled You with such deep loathing, be once again set aflame. O Most Compassionate Jesus, exercise the omnipotence of Your mercy and draw them into the very ardor of Your love, and bestow upon them the gift of holy love, for nothing is beyond Your power.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon lukewarm souls who are nonetheless enfolded in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. Father of Mercy, I beg You by the bitter Passion of Your Son and by His three-hour agony on the Cross: Let them, too, glorify the abyss of Your mercy. Amen.



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Friday, January 20, 2012

Divine Mercy Prayers

"Today bring to Me the Souls who are in the prison of Purgatory,

and immerse them in the abyss of My mercy. Let the torrents of My Blood cool down their scorching flames. All these souls are greatly loved by Me. They are making retribution to My justice. It is in your power to bring them relief. Draw all the indulgences from the treasury of My Church and offer them on their behalf. Oh, if you only knew the torments they suffer, you would continually offer for them the alms of the spirit and pay off their debt to My justice."

Most Merciful Jesus, You Yourself have said that You desire mercy; so I bring into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls in Purgatory, souls who are very dear to You, and yet, who must make retribution to Your justice. May the streams of Blood and Water which gushed forth from Your Heart put out the flames of Purgatory, that there, too, the power of Your mercy may be celebrated.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls suffering in Purgatory, who are enfolded in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. I beg You, by the sorrowful Passion of Jesus Your Son, and by all the bitterness with which His most sacred Soul was flooded: Manifest Your mercy to the souls who are under Your just scrutiny. Look upon them in no other way but only through the Wounds of Jesus, Your dearly beloved Son; for we firmly believe that there is no limit to Your goodness and compassion. Amen.

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Thursday, January 19, 2012

"Catholic" womans lib.

Vort-2012-01-19
Hello everyone and welcome to The Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and
exposed. I’m Michael Voris.
This is the fourth part of a five part discussion all this week on Men, Masculinity and the Catholic Faith. Today’s topic .. how feminism has emasculated the Church.
Men and women are different. As obvious as that seems .. because it is, .. not all people in the Church accept this. There has been and continues to be a strong push in the Church to equate the masculine with the feminine.
We see this in inclusive language for example when the Holy Trinity is spoken of either as being composed of what is feminine or at the very least described in gender neutral terms .. replacing Father Son and Holy Spirit with Creator .. Redeemer and Sanctifier for example. It also crops up in many places in Mass and official prayers and hymns.
The philosophical problems arises when people try to make the concept of EQUALITY
the same as BEING THE SAME THING. A simple illustration helps here. If I have a
one dollar bill .. it is equal to .. in its vale and worth .. the same as this stack of four quarters .. but the paper and the coins are not the SAME thing.
Despite their equal worth .. they are different .. not only in substance .. what they are made of .. but also in function. You can’t put a dollar bill into the standard parking meter .. but you can insert quarters for example. Equal worth .. different in kind. Equality does not become equal sameness.
But this is the way equality is passed off in modern culture .. an idea which has roamed free in the Church for decades now .. unchecked .. smashing the place up. Men and women are different .. but much more to the point .. masculinity is absolutely distinct from femininity. (except for Homosexuals)
As detailed in Vortex episodes from earlier this week .. masculinity is characterized as becoming heroic. The man who has attained the fullness of his masculinity is the hero. He is the one who is separated from the community so he may return to it as protector. This is evidenced even in primitive tribal communities.
In the time away he struggles, fights, combats,finds himself, discovers his
manhood. All men face the problem of establishing their identity as a man. Raised in the comfort and protection of the feminine .. it becomes a struggle to leave and engage in the fight.
But this is precisely what a MAN must do. He is not called to a life of ease and comfort in the bosom of the feminine .. but to go out and confront the ravages of life .. face the dangers .. and find himself .. his identity .. his masculinity .. in the struggle.
By definition .. this involves a separation .. an aloneness. And from a Catholic
perspective .. this is the very definition of what it is to be holy. The word holy comes from an ancient word meaning .. to be called out .. to be separated. So despite the disagreement of modernists and cultural liberals .. read feminists and their making allies in the Church and the world .. the very paramount expression of masculinity, is to "BE HOLY".
If this is the case .. then why do SO MANY men more than women have such a problem
with religion .. the spiritual .. the public commitment to the Holy. The answer is simple -faith .. spirituality .. religion have become the haunts of the feminine .. the cult of femininity.
And this is why there is so much carnage in the world today .. why we find so much
abandonment of authentic masculinity in men. Men should be anchored to the holy, but
they perceive access to the holy as somehow blocked to them by the goddesses of
feminism and so they go in search of some other place to be a man .. to express their
masculinity.
Sons join gangs .. treat women as objects to be dominated sexually and physically ..
engage in self-destructive behaviors at rates incredibly higher than women could ever
dream of. Men drink, gamble, fornicate, abuse drugs and are sitting in jail for violent crimes way out of all proportion to their numbers compared to women.
These sons are ill-equipped to be fathers not to mention husbands. They are incapable of passing on manhood to their sons because they aren’t authentic men themselves. One of the very first principles of philosophy is – you cannot give what you do not have. It is impossible for them to impart masculinity to their own sons.
And this is largely owing to the surrender to the cult of the feminine. And when we turn to the Church .. whose founder is the Perfect Man .. we see that the feminine has virtually overrun it. It does not produces heroes or patriarchs to any measurable degree any longer as it once did.
Western Christianity has largely abandoned the idea of CONFRONTING and
COMBATING evil .. the masculine approach .. and been taken in by the feminine
approach of trying to create community and common ground and dialog.
Many men are off put by this approach. They see it rightly, in many cases, as wimping
out. Our Blessed Lord NEVER created nor looked to create common ground with evil.
He came to destroy it and vanquish it. But he did not seek to destroy for the sake of
destruction .. but to protect and love his own.
Somewhere in the depths of the male psyche .. there seems to be an inherent desire to
assert control and dominance. If channeled properly .. which the pursuit of holiness
provides .. in fact was designed for .. then peace and harmony follow in the wake of
destroying the all that is unholy.
But if that inherent desire for dominance is not channeled properly, meaning for the
sake and protection of the other .. then it can become a massively destructive force and in fact .. has. Until masculinity is retrieved in the Church .. sacrifice for the sake of the good the true and the beautiful .. men will continue to see the Church and religion as the arena of the exclusively feminine and will stay away and if there is one thing that the world needs now .. perhaps more than any other time in its history .. it’s Holy Men.
GOD Love you.
I’m Michael Voris.

Divine Mercy Prayers

Today bring to Me the Souls who especially venerate and glorify My Mercy*,

and immerse them in My mercy. These souls sorrowed most over my Passion and entered most deeply into My spirit. They are living images of My Compassionate Heart. These souls will shine with a special brightness in the next life. Not one of them will go into the fire of hell. I shall particularly defend each one of them at the hour of death.

Most Merciful Jesus, whose Heart is Love Itself, receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who particularly extol and venerate the greatness of Your mercy. These souls are mighty with the very power of God Himself. In the midst of all afflictions and adversities they go forward, confident of Your mercy; and united to You, O Jesus, they carry all mankind on their shoulders. These souls will not be judged severely, but Your mercy will embrace them as they depart from this life.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls who glorify and venerate Your greatest attribute, that of Your fathomless mercy, and who are enclosed in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. These souls are a living Gospel; their hands are full of deeds of mercy, and their hearts, overflowing with joy, sing a canticle of mercy to You, O Most High! I beg You O God:

Show them Your mercy according to the hope and trust they have placed in You. Let there be accomplished in them the promise of Jesus, who said to them that during their life, but especially at the hour of death, the souls who will venerate this fathomless mercy of His, He, Himself, will defend as His glory. Amen.

*The text leads one to conclude that in the first prayer directed to Jesus, Who is the Redeemer, it is "victim" souls and contemplatives that are being prayed for; those persons, that is, that voluntarily offered themselves to God for the salvation of their neighbor (see Col 1:24; 2 Cor 4:12). This explains their close union with the Savior and the extraordinary efficacy that their invisible activity has for others. In the second prayer, directed to the Father from whom comes "every worthwhile gift and every genuine benefit,"we recommend the "active" souls, who promote devotion to The Divine Mercy and exercise with it all the other works that lend themselves to the spiritual and material uplifting of their brethren.



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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Masculinity and Catholicism

Vort-2012-01-17
Hello everyone and welcome to The Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and
exposed. I’m Michael Voris.
It’s really only talked about in hushed tones these days because of fear or worry over being labeled chauvinist or whatever .. but no matter how you slice it up .. the
Christianity in general and Catholicism specifically has been reduced to a faith which appeals much more to the feminine.
The masculine is pretty much outright rejected or told to be subject to the feminine and this has had a devastating effect on the faith. Of course, we see this same cultural occurrence as well.
Every where the societal norm is that men .. or more specifically .. the masculine is
denigrated. Men are made to appear as weak or buffoons in everything from TV
commercials .. where the “smarter, hipper, more with it” woman almost always bests the man .. to TV programs where the male is often just nice loveable dunce who has
engaging smile and that’s about all.
Men have been robbed of their masculinity and with that theft .. the entire notion of
masculinity and ALL that comes with it has been reduced to little else than a video game where young boys shoot and kill zombies or whatever.
It’s fair at this point to ask – what is masculinity? First off .. maleness and masculinity are not the same thing. Being an adult male is simply not enough. One must BE A MAN. Being a man is a CHOICE to live a certain way. It comes from the will.
Maleness is a biological .. physical quality .. masculinity is a spiritual and cultural quality that does have SOME connection to the biology of being male, but there is more to it. A male must be brought into .. taught .. initiated into the life of masculinity. This being brought into masculinity .. moving from a boy to a man is a current which flows through vast amounts of western as well as world literature .. from Homer and Hamlet .. to Hemingway to F. Scott Fitzgerald. In fact .. much of the plots and narratives of the most famous stories we have as a culture revolve around the successful or failed attempts of young males striving to become men. So what is masculinity? The first thing to express is from the realm of the biological. The female is the norm .. the baseline .. the standard. It is from the female that the male must biologically be differentiated. Science has concluded and proven that in the womb the small embryo will develop into a female naturally .. unless certain “chemical baths” wash over the developing human being. So the male comes about only through a positive action.
This biology has far reaching effects in the infant and young boy. Unlike the young
toddler girl who only needs to differentiate herself as merely a separate being from
mother .. the young boy must differentiate himself as not just separate but ALSO of a
different kind altogether. Hence the male has to “leave the feminine” and go in search of what he actually is.
He needs to be taught and learn what it is to be masculine. As an aside, History may
well record this signal fact as the overriding condemnation of our age .. that when young males turned to find out who they were .. there were no masculine men or authentic fathers to teach them or from which to learn.
Growing into manhood .. the rite of initiation .. has been a staple of every civilization right back to the beginning of recorded history. In more tribal times .. boys were taken from the protective embrace of the feminine and led by the village men into a various rites almost always involving hardship, danger and bloodshed .. from which they emerged as men.
They then returned to the community which the feminine had gathered together .. and
protected it. This then becomes the defining understanding of the masculine that the
feminine the community must be taken leave of .. and hardships must be borne so that
the bit becomes a man and comes back now to feminine not to be protected by it .. but
indeed to protect it. If you think about this .. it is precisely what the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity did.
The people of God .. Israel .. were like a bride to God .. it was the feminine. God
indeed .. often spoke of the collective people as His spouse.
The Second Person departs from the feminine .. in a manner of speaking .. and moves
from infant male to manhood through blood and suffering .. through sacrifice in other
words .. and then returns to the feminine as protector .. to His Bride the Church.
Our Blessed Lord then becomes the example of masculinity par excellence. He is the
perfect male .. willing to depart from the community so that he may return to it as
protector and provider. What defines the masculine therefore is one phrase .. a
willingness to sacrifice for the other. It is in this way that we can say God is masculine ..not male .. but masculine.
But what happens to our understanding of God if our understanding of masculinity is
abolished swamped by an over emphasis on the feminine. Within the Church herself ..
much disaster arises. In liturgy, the Mass for example the notion of sacrifice the masculine is overcome by the feminine which is much more oriented to the community. The emphasis has shifted from the altar to the people. And we have seen this in parish after parish all over the Western World.
Women run everything and men leave .. from altar girls to lectors .. to every kind of
ministry there is in the Church. In a 1987 University of Notre Dame study of Catholic
Parish life since Vatican II .. the following facts emerged.
85 percent of those involved in social justice work and tending to the poor and sick are women.
80 percent plus of those involved in CCD and RCIA work were women.
80 percent of prayer groups are women. 75 percent of bible study religious discussion
groups are women. 60 percent of the time youth groups are headed up by women.
In country after country in the west and culture after culture .. poll after poll suggests that men view being outwardly religious or spiritual as feminine. This has robbed the faith of one of its most foundational and vivifying truths .. that the faith is ultimately about sacrifice for the sake of community .. the willingness to shed blood if necessary. This notion appeals to men at their core .. we are hard wired for it .. and when it is absent from the daily life of the Church .. men sense they have nothing to identify with and they leave.
Tomorrow .. more on men, masculinity and the faith.
GOD Love you.
I’m Michael Voris

Divine Mercy Prayers

Today bring to Me the Meek and Humble Souls and the Souls of Little Children,

and immerse them in My mercy. These souls most closely resemble My Heart. They strengthened Me during My bitter agony. I saw them as earthly Angels, who will keep vigil at My altars. I pour out upon them whole torrents of grace. I favor humble souls with My confidence.

Most Merciful Jesus, You yourself have said, "Learn from Me for I am meek and humble of heart." Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart all meek and humble souls and the souls of little children. These souls send all heaven into ecstasy and they are the heavenly Father's favorites. They are a sweet-smelling bouquet before the throne of God; God Himself takes delight in their fragrance. These souls have a permanent abode in Your Most Compassionate Heart, O Jesus, and they unceasingly sing out a hymn of love and mercy.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon meek souls, upon humble souls, and upon little children who are enfolded in the abode which is the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. These souls bear the closest resemblance to Your Son. Their fragrance rises from the earth and reaches Your very throne. Father of mercy and of all goodness, I beg You by the love You bear these souls and by the delight You take in them: Bless the whole world, that all souls together may sing out the praises of Your mercy for endless ages. Amen.



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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Divine Mercy Prayers

"Today bring to Me the Souls of those who have separated themselves from My Church*,

and immerse them in the ocean of My mercy. During My bitter Passion they tore at My Body and Heart, that is, My Church. As they return to unity with the Church My wounds heal and in this way they alleviate My Passion."

Most Merciful Jesus, Goodness Itself, You do not refuse light to those who seek it of You. Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who have separated themselves from Your Church. Draw them by Your light into the unity of the Church, and do not let them escape from the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart; but bring it about that they, too, come to glorify the generosity of Your mercy.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls of those who have separated themselves from Your Son's Church, who have squandered Your blessings and misused Your graces by obstinately persisting in their errors. Do not look upon their errors, but upon the love of Your own Son and upon His bitter Passion, which He underwent for their sake, since they, too, are enclosed in His Most Compassionate Heart. Bring it about that they also may glorify Your great mercy for endless ages. Amen.

*Our Lord's original words here were "heretics and schismatics,"



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Monday, January 16, 2012

Immigration, Politics, Bishops

(if you wish to listen to Michael Voris, click on the address below)

This fissure is quite capable of leading to other types of divisions and exposing great divides among the faithful. Before Ronald Reagan .. much of the Catholic vote went to democrats. There are a host of reasons for this emerging from the immigrant Catholic experience in urban areas of the United States.
But since Ronald Reagan and the political attention to eroding morals and values in the culture, the Catholic vote has become an almost 50-50 proposition .. with serious
faithful Catholics unable and unwilling to support child-killing and sodomy promoting
politicians regardless of what they say about things like immigration and health care. And this is the point that seems to have been missed by many leaders in the Church. They seem stuck back in a perpetual pre-Reagan era of Catholics=Democrat except for abortion. The truth is that .. many Catholic voters who are also faithful Catholics are turned off by this.
And now one who is turned off by it is running for president. And the position put
forward by some of the bishops has created a conflict where a conflict did not need to exist.
It’s a very interesting conundrum for the hierarchy in America .. Catholic candidates
unabashedly saying the bishops are flat out wrong on policy statements .. those same
candidates getting endorsed by Catholic organizations that use the name Catholic and
Catholic voters lining up behind those candidates and organizations with their money and their votes.
Even the esteemed author George Weigel recently came out and said in article that it
would perhaps be wise for bishops to stop issuing policy statements on every issue that arises in the culture or political arena.
The problem is that their authority and excellent teaching on the intrinsically evil issues of abortion and same-sex marriage is seen to be watered down when they support policy initiatives that do NOT deal with intrinsic evils put forward by the same party that keeps the killing and sexual immorality chugging along.
It causes massive confusion among the faithful and results in them having to choose sides and politically .. at least since the days of the Reagan Presidency .. more and more Catholics are being forced to choose against the bishops. Just ask Candidate Santorum.
GOD Love You.
I’m Michael Voris.
http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/2011/12/12/santorum-in-iowa-catholic-bishopsare-
wrong-on-immigration/

Divine Mercy Prayers

"Today bring to Me those who do not believe in God and those who do not know Me,

I was thinking also of them during My bitter Passion, and their future zeal comforted My Heart. Immerse them in the ocean of My mercy."

Most compassionate Jesus, You are the Light of the whole world. Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who do not believe in God and of those who as yet do not know You. Let the rays of Your grace enlighten them that they, too, together with us, may extol Your wonderful mercy; and do not let them escape from the abode which is Your Most Compassionate Heart.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls of those who do not believe in You, and of those who as yet do not know You, but who are enclosed in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. Draw them to the light of the Gospel. These souls do not know what great happiness it is to love You. Grant that they, too, may extol the generosity of Your mercy for endless ages. Amen.

*Our Lord's original words here were "the pagans."



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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Divine Mercy Prayers

"Today bring to Me the Souls of Priests and Religious,

and immerse them in My unfathomable mercy. It was they who gave me strength to endure My bitter Passion. Through them as through channels My mercy flows out upon mankind."

Most Merciful Jesus, from whom comes all that is good, increase Your grace in men and women consecrated to Your service,* that they may perform worthy works of mercy; and that all who see them may glorify the Father of Mercy who is in heaven.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the company of chosen ones in Your vineyard -- upon the souls of priests and religious; and endow them with the strength of Your blessing. For the love of the Heart of Your Son in which they are enfolded, impart to them Your power and light, that they may be able to guide others in the way of salvation and with one voice sing praise to Your boundless mercy for ages without end. Amen.

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Friday, January 13, 2012

Divine Mercy Prayers

"Today bring to Me all mankind, especially all sinners,

and immerse them in the ocean of My mercy. In this way you will console Me in the bitter grief into which the loss of souls plunges Me."

Most Merciful Jesus, whose very nature it is to have compassion on us and to forgive us, do not look upon our sins but upon our trust which we place in Your infinite goodness. Receive us all into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart, and never let us escape from It. We beg this of You by Your love which unites You to the Father and the Holy Spirit.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon all mankind and especially upon poor sinners, all enfolded in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. For the sake of His sorrowful Passion show us Your mercy, that we may praise the omnipotence of Your mercy for ever and ever. Amen.



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Thursday, January 12, 2012

You Gotta be Kidding!

Hello everyone and welcome to the Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and
exposed. I’m Michael Voris
Now .. under the category of .. SERIOUSLY?!? .. Last week .. a little firestorm started up
on the campaign trail because a Baptist minster made a comment that Mormonism is a
cult.
Mitt Romney is Mormon and that was the context of the comment. When pressed further
on the topic .. Rev. Robert Jeffrees .. a senior pastor at the first Baptist Church in Dallas didn’t back down .. although he did get more specific.
He said he wasn’t talking about a sociological cult .. like Charles Manson or Jim Jones ..but a theological cult. He said that Christianity has never viewed Mormons as
Christians .. and he’s actually right there.
But then he went on further and here’s where it gets ridiculous. He asked rhetorically ..how COULD Mormonism be Christian .. get this now .. because the Mormons came on the scene 1800 years after Jesus .. have their own book in addition to the authentic scriptures and have their own doctrines.
Awesome. Really! He just perfectly summed up why PROTESTANTISM is a heresy ..
meaning the Baptist faith, evangelical faith Pentecostal faith .. Episcopalianism ..
Presbyterianism .. and all the other 40-thousand protestant denominations.
It’s especially rich coming from a Baptist preacher. He points out that Mormonism is not really Christian .. and rightly so .. because it only began 1800 years after Jesus. LOL!
Yep. Those Johnny come lately Mormons. Nothing like that time tested enduring
authentic expression of Christianity known as Baptist which began MUCH closer in time
to Christ .. only 1600 years after the Ascension.
A HAH! The Mormons aren’t real Christians because they started 1800 years after the
ascension .. they obviously missed the 1600 years later cutoff that allowed the Baptists to sneak in under the wire.
Then on to his point about the Mormons having their own Scriptures. Yea. Again true
enough. They have the Bible .. the wrong one by the way The King James .. and also
have the book of mormon .. a strange strange book if there ever was one as far as
religious writs go.But what the preacher fails to recognize.. again .. is that all of the 40 thousand Protestant
sects .. one of which HE belongs to .. also have their own set of scriptures manifested in two ways.
One .. the Protestant Bible is incomplete owning to Martin Luther and his zippo box
cutter where he cut out 7 .. count ‘em SEVEN whole books from the Bible .. the same
bible which had been in use for over a thousand years and still is to this day.
He also carved certain chapters and passages of other books leaving them deficient ..
even on the best of days. He was ready to go to town on the New Testament as well
before his slightly .. slightly .. more sober reformation pals told him to chill out and put the knife down. Add to this that he essentially said his new and deformed Bible could be interpreted by anyone to mean whatever they wanted it to mean. And this happens every single Sunday in tens of thousands of Protestant pulpits week after week .. century after century.
So in the end you have nearly the very same situation among the 40 thousand heretical
Protestant faiths .. that preacher Jeffrees is complaining about with the Mormons.
And as to the a different set of doctrines.HA. Have you taken a survey of Protestant
doctrines lately? They cant even agree among themselves. Episcopalians cheer
homosexuality .. the Baptists don’t. Presbyterians allow women clergy .. Pentecostals
don’t ..at least some of them, others do. Abortion yes. Abortion no.Fundamentalists
like one thing ..Congregationalists don’t.
Some followers of Calvin support all five of his points known as TULIP which stands
for: Total Depravity, Unconditional election Limited Atonement Irresistible Grace ..
Perseverance of the Saints.
Now some others only support three of those.And still some like four.. but others are
less risky and back only two. C’mon. There is more variety .. which really means
confusion and theological chaos. among Protestants and their so-called doctrines then
there are choices of French or Italian wine.
By the way.There’s another theological war among Protestants.Is alcohol allowed or is
not? When it comes to varying doctrines among Protestants the hits just keep coming.
Now when it comes unchanging doctrine .. one solid ratified forever Scriptural text with only one authentic interpretation and an unbroken line back to the Apostles and Jesus Christ Himself .. perhaps the real point that needs to be made is NOT why Mormonism is not authentically Christian .. which it isn’t .. but why men like preacher Jeffreess haven’t followed their own correct observations out to their logical conclusion and converted to the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Faith.
And just think .. your mother always told you .. never talk about politics or religion. This election is gonna be FUUUUUNNNNN!
GOD Love You.
I’m Michael

Divine Mercy Prayers

Today bring to Me the Souls who especially venerate and glorify My Mercy*,

and immerse them in My mercy. These souls sorrowed most over my Passion and entered most deeply into My spirit. They are living images of My Compassionate Heart. These souls will shine with a special brightness in the next life. Not one of them will go into the fire of hell. I shall particularly defend each one of them at the hour of death.

Most Merciful Jesus, whose Heart is Love Itself, receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart the souls of those who particularly extol and venerate the greatness of Your mercy. These souls are mighty with the very power of God Himself. In the midst of all afflictions and adversities they go forward, confident of Your mercy; and united to You, O Jesus, they carry all mankind on their shoulders. These souls will not be judged severely, but Your mercy will embrace them as they depart from this life.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon the souls who glorify and venerate Your greatest attribute, that of Your fathomless mercy, and who are enclosed in the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. These souls are a living Gospel; their hands are full of deeds of mercy, and their hearts, overflowing with joy, sing a canticle of mercy to You, O Most High! I beg You O God:

Show them Your mercy according to the hope and trust they have placed in You. Let there be accomplished in them the promise of Jesus, who said to them that during their life, but especially at the hour of death, the souls who will venerate this fathomless mercy of His, He, Himself, will defend as His glory. Amen.

*The text leads one to conclude that in the first prayer directed to Jesus, Who is the Redeemer, it is "victim" souls and contemplatives that are being prayed for; those persons, that is, that voluntarily offered themselves to God for the salvation of their neighbor (see Col 1:24; 2 Cor 4:12). This explains their close union with the Savior and the extraordinary efficacy that their invisible activity has for others. In the second prayer, directed to the Father from whom comes "every worthwhile gift and every genuine benefit,"we recommend the "active" souls, who promote devotion to The Divine Mercy and exercise with it all the other works that lend themselves to the spiritual and material uplifting of their brethren.



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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Its a Free Country

It’s a Free Country
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Hello everyone and welcome to The Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and
exposed. I’m Michael Voris.
Republican presidential hopeful Senator Rick Santorum has ruffled the feathers of the
liberal religious establishment .. in this case .. the Jewish anti-defamation league .. also known as the ADL.
In one of the purest pieces of hypocrisy you are likely to read in the arena where politics and religion cross over .. the ADL has issued a press release telling Santorum to shut up about his religion .. which by the way is Roman Catholicism.
The statement says in part .. "religious appeals to voters are simply unacceptable and un-American." First of all, says who? Abe Foxman of the ADL? Who appointed him the arbiter of what can be said by political candidates?
Secondly .. he never seemed to get all upset when candidate Obama was tromping across
the country and speaking in every protestant church who would let him in.
He never seemed to get upset when the Clintons were barnstorming across the United
States and speaking to every inner-city black Church congregation who would welcome
them. In fact .. Clinton spent soooo much time speaking before church crowds in the inner city, that he was nicknamed “the first black president”.
So where Foxman comes off saying its un-American and unacceptable is quite the
mystery. Perhaps he means its un-American and unacceptable when an actual
BELIEVING traditional Christian .. in this case .. Catholic says it.
BTW – Am I allowed to say “catholic”? Just sayin’!
Anyway .. this is the default position of the liberal political class .. of which the Jewish Anti-Defamation League is a prominent cheerleader and card-carrying member .. despite their claims to be .. um .. non-partisan.
Just a 5 second scroll through their homepage will reveal that they have come down
squarely on the side of every liberal political position known to man .. from partial birth abortion .. to “regular” abortion to individuals of the same gender engaging in sex with one another and demanding it be called marriage.
Yep ..nary a cause célèbre of the perverted political agenda goes by without the ADL
right there with their smug self-righteous pronunciations on what’s allowed to be said and what’s not.
And of course if someone challenges their stance on something .. the liberal elite PR
machine kicks into high gear and the dreaded .. conversation ending .. charge of anti-Semitism is leveled against all opposition .. much the same as the charge of racism is leveled against opponents of Obama’s.
Well, while we are on the topic of all these “isms” sure seems to me that the ADL is
guilty of propagating the foul social illness of anti-Catholicism. After all .. Rick Santorum is Catholic .. loud and proud about it as a matter of fact .. and he committed the political heresy of using the name Jesus NOT in connection with the liberal agenda. After years of having quite successfully hijacked Jesus for their own political purposes .. liberals simply cannot stand to see Him spoken about in actual TRUTHFUL terms .. such as his calling out of sin and evil and the consequences of a political and cultural order not conformed to His Divine Will.
Expect more of this condescending bluster as the campaign rolls along. We’ve attached a link to their press release on this page.
GOD Love You.
I’m Michael Voris.
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/RelChStSep_90/6212_90.htm

Confusing the Faithful

Hello everyone and welcome to The Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and
exposed. I’m Michael Voris.
Perhaps one of the most dangerous things that has occurred in the Church these past fifty
years is the lack of clarity when it comes to things “Catholic”.
This ends up creating oceans of confusion among the faithful when what is said from
pulpits or press releases or articles in diocesan or national publications is vague and open
to interpretation.
The end of the road effect is simple .. Catholics end up unsure of this or that about the
faith and begin to see Church teaching as malleable and not all that different from other
religions.
They lose their identity as Catholics because they lose their understanding of what
Catholicism is.
And when the Catholic identity is lost .. game over!
Which is why remarks by Chicago’s Cardinal George in the on-going drama of the annual
Chicago Gay Pride parade are causing Catholic blogs to light up.
Without getting into too much background .. the cardinal had likened the idea of a rerouted
gay parade passing in front of a Catholic Church on a Sunday morning to KKK
demonstrations of former days aimed at disrupting Masses.
Of course .. this brought homosexual groups out of the woodwork .. crying that they had
been hurt and demanding an apology. At first Cardinal George defended his comments
and refused to acquiesce to their demands for an apology.
Then a few days later he reversed himself and did in fact apologize .. saying his
comments were not meant to offend or hurt and were motivated by fear for the Church
being victimized by the demonstrations.
But the issue that has now upset faithful Catholics beyond whether what he said
ACTUALLY DID merit an apology is what he said immediately after. Here’s the
relevant quote from the Chicago Tribune story ..
“it [The Church] does encourage the faithful to 'respect everyone’. The question is,'Does
respect mean that we have to change our teaching?' That's an ongoing discussion, of
course.... I still go back to the fact that these are people we know and love and are part of
our families. That's the most important point right now.''
Back up there just a minute and read that again!“Does that mean that we have to change
our teaching? That’s an ongoing discussion, of course ..”
IT IS??? Really? There’s an ongoing discussion in the Catholic Church about whether or
not we have to change a dogmatic teaching? Well, I, and lots of other people never got THAT memo.
Now, to be fair, I don’t think that Cardinal George MEANS to suggest that the Church’s
magisterial teaching is now open for discussion. But to many many people who actively
want to think that .. they now have the ammo .. and that includes people in and out of the
Church.
That’s a bombshell of a headline .. Catholic Church Re-evaluates Homosexuality. Talk
about confusing the faithful.
As a matter of fact, as this whole sorry episode has revealed .. its been nothing but a
source of confusion from beginning to end.
The Cardinal quite correctly pointed out a valid historical reality regarding the KKK and
that groups treatment of the Catholic Church in America. The hatred spewing out of the
homosexual activists camp about the Church has a VERY familiar ring to it.
Then .. the Cardinal is opposed and digs in his heels. Then he reverses course and not
only apologizes .. where many feel an apology wasn’t needed to begin with .. but goes a
step further and suggests that the Church’s teaching isn’t settled .. which of course it very
much is.
Of course driving this back and forth .. flip flop .. on again off again .. multiple
clarification issued story is the politics of whining and hurt feelings.
Every single time the truth is stated .. as it was in the this case as well .. all that has to
happen is someone start sniveling and crying and carrying on about their hurt feelings
and the story automatically shifts from the TRUTH to someone’s hurt feelings.
As members of the Church keep playing this game .. making apologies where none are
really called for .. it reduces the profile of THE TRUTH and makes it appear to be
subjective and having no substance of its own.
And then to come out and say .. whatever the intention .. that the truth of the teaching is
open to discussion pretty much seals the deal for the enemies of the Church. No wonder
they all danced with glee in their multiple press releases saying .. we consider the matter
now closed. His apology was wonderful. For more .. click on the link on this page.
Why wouldn’t they think it was wonderful? The cardinal said the truth. They cried. He
backed down and said it’s all up for discussion anyway. That’s a grand slam for the
Church’s enemies. And the next time this issue comes up .. you can fully expect that this
retreat and confusion will be used as another weapon against the Church.
Saying the truth cannot be dependent on whether someone starts crying when you say it.
GOD Love You. I’m Michael Voris.
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/abbott/12...
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Divine Mercy Prayers

Today bring to Me the Meek and Humble Souls and the Souls of Little Children,

and immerse them in My mercy. These souls most closely resemble My Heart. They strengthened Me during My bitter agony. I saw them as earthly Angels, who will keep vigil at My altars. I pour out upon them whole torrents of grace. I favor humble souls with My confidence.

Most Merciful Jesus, You yourself have said, "Learn from Me for I am meek and humble of heart." Receive into the abode of Your Most Compassionate Heart all meek and humble souls and the souls of little children. These souls send all heaven into ecstasy and they are the heavenly Father's favorites. They are a sweet-smelling bouquet before the throne of God; God Himself takes delight in their fragrance. These souls have a permanent abode in Your Most Compassionate Heart, O Jesus, and they unceasingly sing out a hymn of love and mercy.

Eternal Father, turn Your merciful gaze upon meek souls, upon humble souls, and upon little children who are enfolded in the abode which is the Most Compassionate Heart of Jesus. These souls bear the closest resemblance to Your Son. Their fragrance rises from the earth and reaches Your very throne. Father of mercy and of all goodness, I beg You by the love You bear these souls and by the delight You take in them: Bless the whole world, that all souls together may sing out the praises of Your mercy for endless ages. Amen.



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