Obamacare firesale: Three Catholic Hospitals for sale in Pennsylvania

It looks like it’s not just insurers that suddenly want to get out of the health care business. Three Catholic hospitals in Pennsylvania are now on the market, and the hospital management is telling the local media that Obamacare is a major reason why the facilities are being unloaded:

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"You think health care is expensive now? Wait until it's free." PJ O'Rourke

Peasants May Not Fish from the King's Waters...

The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing some of the nation's oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters...

"When the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) completed their successful campaign to convince the Ontario government to end one of the best scientifically managed big game hunts in North America (spring bear), the results of their agenda had severe economic impacts on small family businesses and the tourism economy of communities across northern and central Ontario," said Phil Morlock, director of environmental affairs for Shimano.

"Now we see NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and the administration planning the future of recreational fishing access in America based on a similar agenda of these same groups and other Big Green anti-use organizations, through an Executive Order by the President. The current U.S. direction with fishing is a direct parallel to what happened in Canada with hunting: The negative economic impacts on hard working American families and small businesses are being ignored...

How much longer will it be before you will be unable to legally grow, fish or hunt your own food and provide for your family?

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Catholic "Left" Hangs Itself

William Donohue writes:

The Catholic Left is hanging itself right before our eyes. Having never come to grips with the Church's teachings on sexuality, they are now tightening the noose on themselves in public. It is not a pretty sight. This month alone they have embroiled themselves in a debate with three separate archbishops, with no end in sight.

Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City recently rebuked Catholic Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius for vetoing a bill imposing new restrictions on abortion providers. Indeed, he publicly urged her not to go to Communion. The archbishop was not shooting from the hip: He has met with Sebelius on several occasions regarding her pro-abortion position.

Catholic Left apologists like Catholic Democrats have blasted Archbishop Naumann for doing his job. But in doing so, they have exposed themselves as lining up behind a public official whose record on abortion makes a mockery of their game plan to reduce abortions....

Haven't these so-called Catholics simply rejected the Faith?

"Roman Catholics for Obama '08" is another group on the Catholic Left that now looks rather enfeebled. They deliberately took Denver archbishop Charles Chaput's words out of context, making it look like he was in the tank for Obama. Nothing could be further from the truth.....

Groups like this could just as easily call themselves "Roman Catholics for Abortion" or "Roman Catholics for Tyranny & Slavery" or "Roman Catholics for Hitler" (were he still living). Again, some of us find it impossible to refer to them as "Catholic", let alone Christian.

The third archbishop to become embroiled in a fight with the Catholic Left is Roger Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles. Mahony has denied Australian bishop Geoffrey Robinson permission to speak in his archdiocese, citing his dissident positions. The Aussie bishop disagrees with the Catholic Church's teachings on adultery, women priests, homosexuality, and "papal power." And who is sponsoring Bishop Robinson in his grand tour of the United States? Voice of the Faithful (VOTF)....

More accurately, "Voice of the UNFaithful." But so few seem to care. The good part is that the membership numbers of such dissident groups have been in decline for years and they continue to decline due to death or, thank God, miraculous awakenings to the truth.

At bottom, it is not the Catholic Left's quarrel with three archbishops that is doing them in; it is their total failure to convince Catholics (as well as non-Catholics) that it is okay to vote for NARAL-approved candidates for public office and then claim with a straight face that this adequately represents the Catholic position. Everyone knows this is bunk.

Since neither the Catholic Left nor its 'agendas' are from God, we know that they will not survive. We are saddened, however, at the confusion they cause and loss of souls that they leave in their wake.

Christ told us that we would always have the poor with us. Is there any doubt that this would include, not only those who suffer from not having even the barest necessities of life, but also those whose poverty of mind and spirit needs to be fed by truth and charity? Let us continue to pray for and educate these confused souls so that, perhaps one day if it be God's will, this country may be governed by morally upright people with common sense and and a deep, abiding respect for the sanctity of all human life.

of Donohue's article.

The 'Generosity' of the United Nations

Bangkok - The United Nations will send nearly a quarter of a million condoms into cyclone-hit Myanmar to help needy survivors with no access to contraceptives, a UN official says.

So far, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) said it had sent 72 800 condoms to survivors struggling to maintain their family planning after the storm hit in early May.

A total of 218 400 condoms would be delivered, UNFPA aid advisor Chaiyos Kunanusont said.

"We don't want regular use of contraception disrupted. An emergency usually damages the health system, so people don't have access to condoms and contraceptives," said Chaiyos...

Maybe the condomns are edible? What a worthless organiztion!

Meditation for January 18, The Vow of Poverty

Here is a very apt remark:

"The vice that contributes most to laxity in a religious community is the violation of the vow of poverty....Failures against obedience and chastity are personal, and, with some exceptions, more hidden; failures against poverty destroy every economy of the religious state."

They are in general more visible, and defy the very Rule which is the rampart of the religious life.

I must, consequently, give all my attention to the observance of poverty; submit to the common rule, to the adopted customs. I must not seek finer things than those provided for everyone else; accept nothing from outsiders, except with permission, and then give it to the superiors to dispose of as they see fit.

I will gratefully accept objects that are less good, already used, less modern and less convenient; I will not think it strange that others, for reasons that I do not know, are better provided for than I, and except by the express permission of my superiors given for legitimate reasons, I will not permit myself to be better provided for than others.

Poverty encompasses religious life with a sacred barrier. To raise a hand against it is a kind of sacrilege. We do not see Mary and Joseph installing an expensive chandelier or any precious object in the stable at Bethlehem, or wearing costly garments near the crib of the Little Jesus. It would be just as gross an anomaly to
play the rich lady in my life of poverty. I must live poor in my poor life.

"I will be vigilant during the day, O my Jesus, to see if You are asking a sacrifice of me in the objects given for my use; I do not wish to be content with resolutions made in the chapel, but without being perturbed or meticulous I desire to practice the actual poverty of my state in all its rigor."

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Adapted from Meditations for Religious
by Father Raoul Plus, S.J. (© 1939, Frederick Pustet Co.)