News Not Fit to Print

As we enter Holy Week and reflect on the the redemptive mission of our Savior, we may want to consider making more of an effort at prayer, sacrifice, and reparation, especially as stories like this come to light:

Candidates Court Catholics

Sen. Hillary Clinton often evokes her Methodist faith on the campaign trail. But it is Catholics who make up one of her most reliable groups of supporters and could help her defeat Sen. Barack Obama in the Pennsylvania primary.

The Clinton campaign argues that its strength among Catholics in the primaries could mean Sen. Clinton is a stronger candidate in the general election against presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain....


Exit polls show that Sen. Clinton captured 63% of the Catholic vote in Ohio and 65% in Texas . Even in states in which she has lost to Sen. Obama by double digits the New York senator has in some cases won among Catholics...

And Barack Hussein Obama is also courting the "Catholic" vote...

About one in four Americans is Catholic and while the anti-abortion and anti-gay-marriage contingent has been vocal, a new wave of progressive Catholics focused on increasing minimum wage, ending the war in Iraq and implementing universal health care has emerged as a key Democratic bloc this election year.

A new wave of "progressive Catholics"? It's merely the same "cafeteria" Catholics, or fallen away Catholics whose 'religion' is one which satifies their own wants and desires - it is anything but Catholic. But it's even worse, if the stats are to be believed:

In a recent survey of 19 states that have held presidential primaries this year, 63% of Catholics identified themselves as Democrats compared with 37% for Republicans, a sharp increase from 2005 when 42% of Catholics identified themselves as Democrats, based on polls conducted by Edison/Mitofsky...

The purpose is not to be political, but to demonstrate how many professed Catholics support candidates/parties which advocate the murder of innocent children whose only "crime" is that they have yet to escape the womb (or the testtube)!

Some Catholic Democrats say that Sen. Clinton's emphasis on specific solutions is similar to Catholic social teaching, which urges its followers to use the doctrine as a way of bring about positive social change particularly when it comes to alleviating poverty.

Yes, government enforced universal health care (with monies forcibly stolen by a tyrannical, out of control government) and positive "social change" (whatever that means) always trumps basic fundamental rights rights like the right to life. What a backward, suicidal society we have concocted for ourselves and our children.

Are we, like Pilate, to simply wash this blood of tens of millions of murdered children from our collective hands so that the fortunate survivors - the non-aborted- can focus on change, or "free" health care, or whatever other wasteful government entitlement can be imagined...

What I what to know is - where is my access to a universal free gasoline pump? Since it's a necessity for some of us, are we not entitled to this?...Even though I might be a working, able bodied individual and capable of paying for gas myself, it really cuts into my other disposable income and has a negative effect on my desire for entertainment, food, drink, leisure - and health care...

Frankly, I'm not only saddened deeply by Catholics who vote for and support advocates of infanticide, but I'm ashamed and embarrassed. Perhaps, I'm not praying with conviction, or making sufficient sacrifices? Perhaps my prayers of reparation are not from the heart or lukewarm? Perhaps, my sacrifices do not stem from love and charity?

I can only wonder how long God will permit the senseless slaughter of His unborn little ones to continue unabated - How much longer will His Hand of judgment be stayed? How much longer will professed Catholics reject our Lord's graces?