Tuesday, November 04, 2008

News Updates, 11/5

Catholics Go For Obama (Rev. Thomas J. Reese)
Catholic voters ignored the instructions of a group of vocal bishops and delivered 54% of their vote for Barack Obama as president of the United States. These bishops, led by Archbishops Charles Chaput and Raymond Burke, argued that abortion was the most important issue in the election and that no other issues outweighed it. As a result, they argued, Catholics could not vote for a pro-choice candidate....
[Are these Obama "Catholics", in fact, Catholic at all? I think not.]

Not to Vote Pro-Life Is to Participate in the Culture of Death: Archbishop Burke
“A good citizen must support and vote for the candidate who most supports the inalienable dignity of innocent and defenseless life, and the integrity of marriage.”
[Polls indicate that the Catholic vote was split, generally, among both McCain and Obama. It is deplorable and repugnant that any Christian, Catholic or otherwise, would vote for a candidate for the office of president who supports legislation which allows the destruction of innocent human life, the murder of babies in the womb or outside the womb. I am so sickened and saddened that we, as a once God-fearing people, have failed miserably in the sight of Almighty God and his precious little ones by electing leaders who have no regard for life. We now reap what we have sown - especially if 'The One' follows through on his promises to undue the years and years of arduous work over the past 35 years in trying to right a monstrous and wicked wrong. Let us pray for Divine Intervention and mercy and ask our Blessed Mother and all of the Saints to pray for us as well. God suely knows that we need help!]

Bishop Cracks Down on Catholic Charities
Bishop Robert Hermann, in a memo to the Catholic Charities board, said that the organization had been allowed to drift in a direction that began to work contrary to the desires of Archbishop Rigali and Archbishop Burke...James Gunn, a former Catholic Charities board member and critic of the Archdioces said that the social ministry of the church is not nearly as important to them as their far-right conservative Catholic agenda.

Catholic law professor who endorsed Obama invited to speak at St. John’s Seminary
Douglas Kmiec, the Catholic law professor at Pepperdine University whose March endorsement of Barack Obama stunned conservatives, has been invited to give an election post-mortem at St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo...titled “Catholics and the 2008 Election: Are We a House Divided?”

American is now officially an Obamanation
Senator from Illinois elected 44th U.S. president

Xavier University ripped for holding Obama rally
Catholic college hosted get-out-the-vote event

American Catholic shifting to Barack Obama
Despite aggressive prolife push by more than 50 bishops

Catholics long sided with presidential winner
Gave Bush edge needed to win Ohio in 2004, Obama in 2008

The disappearing / reappearing Catholic vote
A 20% difference is the threshold for significance

Restaurant owner attacked by Italian priest
Two nuns also join in Wild West-style saloon bar brawl

Catholic priest jailed for child sex offenses
Sentenced on six counts of indecent acts with a minor

Pius XII saw 'miracle of the sun' four times
Handwritten note reveals Pope's experience in 1950

Issues & Politics
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From LifeNews.com - Read it and weep:
* Obama Captures Win Over John McCain, Expected to Promote Abortions
* Washington Becomes Second State to Legalize Assisted Suicide in Vote
* Michigan Voters Approve Proposition 2 to Destroy Human Embryos
* California Very Narrowly Opposes Third Try for Parental Notification
* South Dakota Voters Defeat Second Ballot Measure to Ban Abortions
* Colorado Voters Soundly Defeat Personhood Ballot Measure on Abortion
[Time for repentance and reparations?]


Why? Answer: Radical Chic Becomes Obama Kumbaya

Tom Wolfe wrote about this phenomenon in his 1970 bestseller Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers during the early years. Unfortunately the phenomenon Wolfe described grew and became accepted where it then became part of our American culture. That guilt driven phenomenon "radical chic" was welcomed and accepted as much as "global warming caused by man" is being accepted due to the non-stop brainwashing indoctrination at all levels of society...

President - Elect Barack Obama Makes History by Deacon Keith Fournier
What is clear is that Barack Obama will now be my President as well as the President of all those who voted for him. I will pray for him and respect his office. I will also do all that I can to influence him and his administration concerning the truth of this fundamental human right to life. I will also do something else. I will join with others in building a new movement which recognizes the failures of both major political parties and seeks to build a new alliance of Americans. This alliance will insist upon the primacy of the fundamental human right to life - not as a single issue - but as the very framework and foundation of a truly just society....

Fidel Castro Praises Obama on Eve of Election, Joined by Socialist Allies in Other Latin American Countries
Luis Lula, Brazil's socialist President and friend of Castro, has also praised Obama in the days leading to the election, saying that his election would be a "subject of joy in the silent mind of each one of us."
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And on a personal note, please keep in your prayers our Supreme Court Justices, especially Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, and particularly, Anthony Kennedy.

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