Former BOD Chairman of St Stanislaus Sentenced to 1 Year

Brothers in tow company scandal get same sentence: 1 year, 1 day
From the Post Dispatch:

The brothers and owners of a towing and parking lot company each were sentenced to one year and one day in prison today for tax evasion.

A federal judge ordered William Bialczak to an additional two years of supervised release and a fine of $100,000....

The judge also ordered William Bialczak to make restitution of $370,185 to the Internal Revenue Service, although that money will be taken out of the $500,000 the government seized when it raided the towing company in August 2008.

...William Bialczak will serve his prison term first...

The Post-Dispatch article is here.

For previous posts regarding the excommunicated Bialczak, click here.

A special HT to Eugene B for the updates!

St. Stanislaus Lawsuit filed in St. Clair County

From the Belleview News Democrat:

St. Stanislaus lawsuit filed in St. Clair County alleges law firm used a 'spy'

A St. Louis-based law firm with an office in Belleville planted a spy and encouraged the former attorney for a rebel parish fighting the Archdiocese of St. Louis over property to violate, "...every relevant ethical duty and breached virtually every rule in the Rules of Professional Conduct," according to a lawsuit filed in St. Clair County.

Lawyers for the archdiocese planted the spy and caused a former lawyer for St. Stanislaus Kostka Church in St. Louis to turn against his ex-clients in the archdiocese' efforts to regain control of a church and its property, according to the lawsuit.

Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale "violated every relevant ethical duty and breached virtually every rule in the Rules of Professional Conduct" when it enlisted Roger Krasnicki, the former attorney for St. Stanislaus Church, stated a complaint in the Oct. 15 lawsuit filed by Thomas Q. Keefe Jr. of Belleville....

Read more here

Dr Edward Peters: Dissection of baloney journalism

Dr Peters writes:

Care to see just how many errors one AFP article on “women priests” can contain? Check it out my Dissection of baloney journalism, here.

It’s got me seeing red!

Priest is excommunicated over 'ordination' of woman

[Bishop Thomas Olmsted], the bishop of Phoenix has excommunicated another priest.

The Rev. Vernon Meyer, who had submitted his resignation to the bishop earlier this summer, becomes at least the fifth priest to be ousted from the church under Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted. He was not defrocked, which is a separate penalty...

Pray for the conversion of the heretics who repudiate Christ and His Church.

More here.

The Archdiocese of New York is refusing to answer questions about an incriminating internet video

Sex, Lies & Videotape

Obama praises Catholic Health Association for role in passage of health(Death) care legislation saying...

“I especially want to thank Sr. Carol Keehan”

Rejoicing, the dissenters and heretics continue to subvert the truth with more spin and lies:

On Monday, the Catholic Health Association (CHA) and its president, Sister Carol Keehan, opened the second day of the association’s annual summit with a video featuring praise from Pres__ent Barack Obama and Sen. Bob Casey Jr. for the organization's support of the healthcare bill signed into law by the pres__ent on March 23...

The video tries to provide, in less than 10 minutes, doctrinal and historic justification to CHA's controversial support of the healthcare bill, despite the opposition of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)...

The video does not feature any U.S. Catholic bishop or USCCB spokesperson, although the opening Mass for the CHA assembly was presided over by Bishop Robert Lynch of St. Petersburg, Florida....

Lest we forget, it was Bishop Lynch who failed to do his duty to help Terri Schiavo...

More here

'Planned Parenthood' president thanks dissenting "nun" for pro-abortion health care deform

Planned Parenthood head thanks religious sisters for ‘critical support’ of health care bill

Washington D.C., Mar 27, 2010 / 07:28 am (CNA).- Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards has praised the Catholic religious sisters who endorsed the Senate health care bill, claiming they deserve gratitude for making “a critical demonstration of support” for a bill that significantly increased coverage of “reproductive health care.”

Writing for the Huffington Post Wednesday in her capacity as president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Richards claimed that it was Catholic nuns who “most importantly broke with the bishops and the Vatican to announce their support for health care reform.”

“This brave and important move, demonstrating that they cared as much about the health care of families in America as they did about church hierarchy, was a critical demonstration of support.”

The group NETWORK claimed in a March 17 letter to the House of Representatives that it represented 59,000 women religious across the U.S. It urged members of Congress to support the bill....

Apostates and heretics - the whole lot! It's yet another in a LONG LIST of SCANDALS which generally remain unaddressed by US BISHOPS. The fact that these schismatic malcontents have yet to be disciplined is even more of a scandal to faithful Catholics.

Pray that our bishops and priests be graced with zeal and courage to do what they should do in addressing schism and heresy among those who claim to be "Catholic" yet continually pervert the Truth who is Jesus, Himself!

Article here.

Pro-abort Nancy Pelosi - an obstinate, lying heretic

Pelosi Calls Pro-Life Democrats Liars, Third Abortion Funding Denial This Week

In a press conference today. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi denied the abortion funding in the Senate health care bill for the third time in the last seven days. Reacting to a promise from pro-life Democrats to kill the bill over the massive abortion funding it contains, Pelosi essentially called them liars.

This morning, Rep. Bart Stupak said he and pro-life Democrats were prepared to vote against the bill because it funds abortions and contains other pro-abortion problems.

Pelosi got exasperated when a reporter asked at her weekly press conference about their unwillingness to support the bill over abortion.

“Let me say this: This is not about abortion! This is a bill about providing quality, affordable health care for all Americans,” she said, according to Politico....

She daily continues to condemn herself by her own lies, her stance as a death peddler, and her continued obstinacy in open defiance of God and the Church. Pray for the soul of this ardent disciple of Satan that she may repent while she still can.

John McCormack, a pro-life writer at the conservative Weekly Standard, said Pelosi is lying about the abortion funding component of the Senate bill...

Richard Doerflinger, the associate director of the pro-life office of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops put Pelosi's myth to bed in response to the second set of falsehoods....

Is it not the sign of a mentally disturbed crackpot to call those of whom she wants support of Resident 0bama Deathcare LIARS? Is that how one gains support? I fear she is so consumed with evil that her soul and conscience are now dead. And, as usual, where are the bishops?

More here.

New Scandal Strikes USCCB

From RealCatholicTV.com:

As more and more attention is being focused on the goings-on at the Catholic Bishops' Conference, it's important to try and keep it all straight.

The Church in America (and throughout the world) needs prayers.

The leaders are under heavy attack from the Enemy and the laity must rise to the occasion.

To that end, we share the following with you.

Please circulate it among as many friends as possible.
Michael Voris
~senior executive producer, RealCatholicTV.com

Third St. Louis area Roman Catholic Womanpriest To Be "Ordained" Today

A 'Press Release' was recently issued by the delusional women who hopelessly claim to have been ordained as "priests" in the Roman Catholic Church. Apparently, a third woman, Marybeth McBryan, of St. Louis, is to join the ranks of the heretics and schismatics!

The 'Press Release' as received on Saturday:

Deacon Marybeth McBryan, of St. Louis, will be ordained a priest on November 1, 2009, All Saints Day. The celebration will be in her home community of Therese of Divine Peace, with Bishop Joan Clark Houk officiating.

Marybeth has been heavily involved in parish ministries in the Archdiocese of St. Louis for nearly 30 years. A mother and grandmother, she is a former teacher in both parochial and public schools, and has also served on the Board of Education of the St. Louis Public Schools. Marybeth has a Master’s in education with secondary degrees in administration and counseling, and has accrued 40+ hours in theology, liturgy and religious education. She is currently a part of the music ministry and serves as deacon at Therese of Divine Peace, and will continue on the ministerial staff there following her ordination as priest.

Roman Catholic Womenpriests continue to validly ordain women and marginalized men to the Roman Catholic priesthood in an effort to bring reform and renewal into an unjust hierarchical structure that is increasingly misogynous and misoneist. Rather than looking backward and inward, Roman Catholic Womenpriests continue to look forward and outward in the spirit of Vatican II. We are here. We are ministering. We are growing. We are not going away.

The ordination is at 5 p.m. on Sunday, November 1, 2009, with the Therese of Divine Peace Inclusive Community. The Therese community meets at First Unitarian Universalist Church of St. Louis, 5007 Waterman Blvd. The ordination will take place in the sanctuary, and a light reception will follow in the Fellowship Hall.

Therese of Divine Peace Inclusive Community celebrates together every Sunday at 5 p.m. Regular services take place in Hope Chapel, at the rear of the First Unitarian complex. Our liturgy has continued without interruption since December 1, 2007, because we strive to imitate Jesus, who always and everywhere made clear to everyone that ALL ARE WELCOME.

Further information is available at www.thereseofdivinepeace.org.

Fortunately, I will be unable to attend this scandalous charade - once you've seen one you've seen 'em all...Pray for their conversion!

Dr Edward Peters: The NCRep's "simple fact" about marriage is simply wrong

Dr Peters writes:

Until the National Catholic Reporter repudiates Editor Joe "the-bishops-be-damned" Feuerherd's 2008 screed against the US bishops, nothing it says should be taken seriously. But some of what the NCRep says can be taken for chuckles.

Like now, the NCRep is treating us to a simple fact about marriage, but one which, I’m afraid, is simply wrong. About three different ways wrong.

Feuerherd's sophomoric views are, simply put, at odds with what the Catholic Church teaches. Why the local bishop has not taken action to forbid these clowns from using the "Catholic" is perplexing, to say the least.

Read about Dr Peters' view here

Fraud Marek Bozek Still Pretends To Be a Priest

After being dismissed from the priesthood by the Holy Father...

Pope Benedict XVI has dismissed Marek Bozek from the clerical state. Therefore, he may no longer function as a priest, with the exception of offering absolution to the dying. The dismissal from the clerical state focuses solely on Bozek, and does not address the status of the St. Stanislaus Kostka Corporation....

What a piece of work this imposter is...Leading souls away from God and the Church. It just proves how a failure to act or acting carelessly in the beginning (by accelerating this moron's ordination by Bishop Leibrecht) leads to all sorts of problems later on...Someone chose to ignore the "check engine" light in this case! What fools people can be!

Heretic & Schimatic Bozek Causes More Problems at St Stanislaus

Since last spring, the Rev. Marek Bozek, pastor of St. Stanislaus Kostka Church, has been telling his lay board, his congregation and reporters that his interest in aligning himself with bishops outside the Roman Catholic Church was merely research for a hypothetical future in which the pope strips him of his priesthood.

But according to documents obtained by the Post-Dispatch, Bozek a year ago requested — and was granted — priesthood in two Catholic organizations independent from the Vatican.

Leading his followers over a cliff...

Bozek was incardinated into the Married Priests Now! Catholic Prelature on Feb. 28, 2008.

Remember Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo?

Board members also were alarmed after Bozek participated in the secret ordination of a Married Priests Now! priest from Michigan at St. Stanislaus that same month....

In an interview Tuesday, Bozek said he told all six board members "in February or March" that he had been granted faculties by the two organizations....

"No one has an ambition to create a new denomination," Bozek said at the time. "My vision is to be Roman Catholic and wait for the regime to collapse."

Keep waiting, fruitcake...ain't gonna happen...You're lost and you need to repent. Your affiliation with Satan and your leading others in revolt against Christ and His Church will result in your eternal damnation! Save yourself and those whom you have intentionally misled!

Vatican decree lifts excommunication of SSPX bishops

Vatican, Jan. 24, 2009 (CWNews.com) - Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) has lifted the excommunications of the bishops who lead the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X (SSPX).

In a decree dated January 21, and released to the public on January 24, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re (bio - news), the prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, announces that the excommunications imposed on July 1, 1988-- after the four bishops were ordained by the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in defiance of Vatican orders-- are no longer in effect....

News Updates, 11/14

PepsiCo gives $500,000 to promote the 'gay' agenda in workplace
Company ignores two requests from AFA to discuss Pepsi's support of homosexual groups. [Petition and action items at website]

Palestinian Christians Suffering ‘Severe Blows’ From Muslims,
A Palestinian Muslim wrote in an exceptionally candid column about the situation of Christians in Arab countries. “Let us be honest with ourselves and courageously say out loud that Palestinian Christians are taking many severe blows, yet are suffering in silence so as not to attract attention,” wrote Abd Al-Nasser Al-Najjar in the P.A. daily Al-Ayyam.

It's time for Abp. Niederauer to excommunicate Pelosi the Pagan.
Pelosi: California Voters Just Didn't Grasp the Meaning of Proposition 8
In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi offered her explanation for why Californians voted to pass the true marriage ballot measure, Proposition 8: they just didn't understand what they were voting for..."I don't know if it was clear that this meant that we are amending the Constitution to diminish freedom in our state."
[This witch pollutes the Church - in fact, she pollutes all of society with her paganistic views promoting evil and hedonism. If Niederauer isn't up to the task of disciplining scandalous public heretics like Pelosi, then he needs to resign immediately! For all I know, he might agree with her. The same goes for that pillar of eclesiastical strength Abp Donald Wuerl of Washington DC!]
Congress Will Fund UNFPA, Forced Abortions for Obama, Representative Says
One of the leading pro-abortion members of the House of Representatives says Congress will do the dirty work for incoming president Barack Obama when it comes to funding the UNFPA and forced abortions. Rep. Carolyn Maloney held a press conference Wednesday discussing the taxpayer funding. Maloney told reporters that the Democratic-controlled Congress, run by abortion advocates, will restore the $40 million annual funding to the UNFPA with Obama's support...

Court Grants Italy Father Right to Kill Eluana Englaro By Starving Her to Death
Rome--The highest court in Italy has granted the right to a disabled woman's father to kill her via euthanasia by removing her feeding tube. Eluana Englaro has been in what doctors term a so-called vegetative state following a car accident and has received food and water via a feeding tube.
Terri Schiavo's Family Condemns Ruling Allowing the Murder of Eluana Englaro

Australian Committee Proposal to Pay Mothers to Abort Disabled Babies Compared to Nazis
“This revisiting of eugenics principles is repugnant to a society that prides itself on the contribution of all...”
[Making Hitler and other death peddlers proud!]

SC priest: No communion for Obama supporters
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion, and supporting him "constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil." The Rev. Jay Scott Newman said in a letter distributed Sunday to parishioners at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greenville that they are putting their souls at risk if they take Holy Communion before doing penance for their vote.
[Deo gratias! A priest with COURAGE and a backbone who tells it like it is! Sounds like he could teach some of our lost bishops a thing or two!]

UK Catholic Bishop: “I have been thrilled by Barack Obama’s victory and I thank God for it.”
[Every bishop and priest like this needs to resign and spend his remaining life doing penance! Apparently, they model their lives after Judas!]

Archbishop involved in Vatican bank scandal didn’t leave behind millions
Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, the Chicago priest who rose to become Pro-President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State until he was embroiled in a Vatican bank scandal, died in 2006 with $500,000 in assets, including a home worth $275,000, according to a Chicago television news report.

Serbian Abortionist Who Aborted 48,000 Babies Becomes Pro-Life Activist
Stojan Adasevic, who performed 48,000 abortions, sometimes up to 35 per day, is now the most important pro-life leader in Serbia, after spending 26 years as the most renowned abortion doctor in the country

Kansas Abortion Business Poisons Pro-Life Advocates With Unknown Substance
A late-term abortion business in Kansas has been accused of putting an unknown substance on the driveway leading into the facility and sickening two pro-life advocates.

Priest attacks reporter during interview
Incident reported to police, Sacramento diocese

Bishops approve rejected Missal translation
'A step forward in the continual renewal of the liturgy'

Bishops cite abortion deregulation fears
...from new Democratic-run Congress and Obama presidency

Bishop Blasts Pro-Abortion/Anti-Life Politicians
Is the bishop of the Diocese of Scranton implying that Roman Catholic politicians should be punished if they side with the Obama administration? Bishop Joseph Martino is suggesting that bishops should think about denying communion to politicians who support policies of the Obama administration, mainly the policy of keeping abortion legal because that goes against the teachings of the Catholic church. Martino's comments were made at a conference of Catholic bishops in Baltimore. Those comments are now ringing around the country.

Issues & Politics
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Now CBS Frets Gas Prices Are Too Low
After spending much of the spring and summer hyping the dire consequences of rising gas prices, CBS on Thursday night decided the plummeting cost of gas at the pump is really bad news.

Gun Owners Not Welcome on Obama's White House Team?
President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team is showing its hostility toward lawful firearm owners by questioning job applicants about what guns they own, a Second Amendment group says. Question 59 – part of a 63-item questionnaire given to Obama administration job applicants – asks for information about firearms owned by the applicant and his or her family. Although it’s not clear that gun ownership would disqualify a job applicant, ISRA says question 59 shows the Obama team’s “distaste” for firearm owners.

Israeli Beduins claim link to Obama
'We wrote a letter to him explaining the connection'

What Homeschoolers Can Expect Under an Obama Administration
Since the election of Barack Obama as U.S. president, HSLDA has received more than a few calls from both members and nonmembers. Some are quite concerned about the future of homeschooling under an Obama presidency...

FBI, USPS to investigate suspicious envelope at Temple Square
The FBI and US Postal Service inspectors are on their way to investigate the suspicious envelope found at Temple Square containing an unknown white powder. The letter was mailed to the temple and was opened inside an office in the entrance area to the Salt Lake Temple...

CCRKBA Asks Democrats: 'Has Party's Anti-Gun Mask Come Off?'
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) called on Democrats to "be honest" with America's 90 million gun owners and "tell us whether your campaign claims of adherence to the Second Amendment were all lies."

Obama camp: Lawsuits by citizens are 'garbage'
Legal challenges spring up across U.S., demand proof of eligibility for office
[If anyone would know 'garbage' it would be B. Hussein Obama and his thugs...Something is disturbing and wrong when any “public servant” refuses to provide documentary evidence of his/her eligibility for office.]

Ex-Hitler youth's warning to America
'Every day brings this nation closer to Nazi-style totalitarian abyss'

"Catholics" in Alliance [with evil] Issue Survey

The group, "Catholics"[So-called] in Alliance for the Common Good, has issued a survey now that Americans have placed the nation at risk by voting for abortion, infanticide, marxism, socialism, raising the white flag of surrender, spreading poverty, stifling of our Bill of Rights, nationalizing private enterprise, and only God knows what other evils await us. However "Catholics" in Alliance sees America at a[n] historic crossroads, and a new president-elect and a new Congress coming to Washington...

These promoters of dissent, "Catholics" in Alliance, want to hear from you about

how you think we should put our movement's common good platform into action so as to best work toward the common good this year.

Please click here and complete our survey of the top three issues you think the Alliance should focus on through advocacy and public awareness campaigns in the next year. These issues are in alphabetical, not in any priority order. We will definitely continue to work to build a consistent culture of life by advocating for the Pregnant Women's Support Act and other efforts, therefore we are not including it on the list because we are committed to this priority.
With input from you and our partner organizations and board members, we will prioritize these issues. This does not mean we will not work on all of the issues, but it will help us focus our resources!

What are the main issues listed from which one may select? Let's have a look-see:

* Climate Change/Environment [change the laws of nature, man is god!]

* Comprehensive Immigration Reform [Amnesty for all law breakers, criminals]

* Health Care: Advocating for universal health care [gov't bureaucrats can do it better]

* Living Wages and Rights of Workers: Employee Free Choice Act [close businesses]

* Poverty Reduction – Cut U.S. poverty in half [hike entitlements, lower standard of living]

* Responsible End to Iraq War [surrender]

More government intervention into many areas where it has no constitutional authority...And where is the fundamental right to life? Oh yes, already a priority [on the back burner, no doubt].

May God have mercy on us! After nearly 50 million abortions (not counting the millions upon millions of abortions caused by artificial contraception), perhaps we are to suffer a divine chastisement for our abysmal moral failures and morally bankrupt behavior?

Maybe I need to get down on my knees more often and ask for forgiveness and mercy? Perhaps mt sacrifices and prayers could be more sincere? Could Our Lord be granting our desires by allowing us the type of leaders many have requested?

O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I detest all my
sins because of Thy just punishments, but most of all because they offend
Thee, my God, Who art all-good and deserving of all my love. I firmly
resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to sin no more and to avoid the near
occasions of sin.

Dr Edward Peters:Fr. Bourgeois might be facing more than excommunication

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has given activist Maryknoll priest, Rev. Roy Bourgeois, about a month to recant his support for women's ordination or suffer excommunication....

Dr Peters foresees the possibility that Bourgeois could be dismissed from the clerical state based upon, among other things, his attitude as expressed the letter he wrote in reply to the CDF...Long overdue, IMHO...

Read more at Dr Peters' blog here

Roy Bourgeois threatened with excommunication

It's about time!
From the National UNCatholic Reporter we learn:

Maryknoll Fr. Roy Bourgeois has been threatened with excommunication by the Vatican's Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith for his support of women’s ordination, according to a letter made public today....

He apparently received notification from the Congregation on or about Oct. 21 and has 30 days to recant his “belief and public statements that support the ordination of women in our Church, or (he) will be excommunicated.”

As usual, St Louis' own group of heretics and schismatics, Catholic Action Network, has sent out an email notice to petition the Holy Father. This petition was started by the Women's ?Ordination? Conference. The text, in part, of the email is as follows:

On October 21, 2008, the Vatican sent a letter to the Maryknoll community stating that Fr. Roy Bourgeois, a Maryknoll priest of 36 years, has 30 days to recant his statement of public support of women's ordination or he will be automatically excommunicated.

Fr. Bourgeois co-presided and gave the homily during the ordination ceremony of Roman Catholic Womenpriest, Janice Sevre-Duszynska, which took place on August 9 in Lexington, Ky.

The Women's Ordination Conference has initiated a petition, with Roman Catholics Womenpriests and Call to Action as partners, to support Fr. Bourgeois. The petition will be sent to Pope Benedict XVI; the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S., Archbishop Pietro Sambi; and Maryknoll Superior General, John Sivalon. Please forward the petition link to your friends. In addition, we encourage you to send letters to the editor and op eds to your local papers.

What a group of malcontents and misguided souls...By the way, I will not post the petition link here...I will not be a party to the heresy embraced by these people - all of them should be excommunicated, shouldn't they?

An Election Day Vignette - God Helps Us!

Saint Louis Catholic is "subjected to the test" while in line to vote - I'm not certain that I could have kept my mouth shut...

There are forces of evil at work within the Church and outside the Church. And children are the most vulnerable as we should recall when reading this anecdote...The enemies of Christ seem to be everywhere...

"Pope" Kmiec Corrects Archbishop Chaput

I grow weary of pseudo-Catholics like Kmiec and others who routinely contradict the teachings of the Church and those bishops who faithfully hand on those teachings to the faithful. Kmiec's recent article in the National UNCatholic Reporter is titled:

'Why Archbishop Chaput's abortion stance is wrong'

He states:

The good Archbishop....has taken issue with my recent book, Can a Catholic Support Him? Asking the Big Question about Barack Obama, suggesting, in his personal view as a private citizen, that Catholic teaching does not support an affirmative answer.

No faithful Catholic can honestly suggest that a Catholic can vote for Obama without being complicit in cooperating with the grave evil of abortion. Kmiec resorts to intellectually dishonest rationalizations by suggesting otherwise.

Kmiec claims:

...it is not over the essence of Church instruction which gives primacy to the promotion of human life, but rather, the preferred means of implementing it.

Kmiec seems to assert that a vote for the most anti-life politician is a desirable means to end abortion - this is beyond ludicrous and borders on the insane.

Kmiec goes on to quote Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict, on "proportionate reasons" and then mistakenly advises Catholics as to what "proportionate reasons" means:

Cardinal Ratzinger (now His Holiness Benedict XVI) accepting the idea that voting results in a type of remote cooperation with sin counseled:

"When a Catholic does not share a candidate's stand in favor of abortion . . . but votes for that candidate for other reasons, it is considered remote material cooperation, which can be permitted in the presence of proportionate reasons."

...The Cardinal clearly affirms that Catholics -- like all Americans in the 2008 election -- have the full slate of parties and candidates available to them, with the determination of what is a "proportionate reason" to vote for an imperfect candidate a matter for individual conscience. It's hard to see Archbishop Chaput's essay as agreeable with the Cardinal's proposition.

"Pope" Kmiec grasps at straws, using erroneous reasoning, to justify a malformed conscience which is at odds with the truth, at odds with the Church, at odds with life itself, and at odds with God.

The circumstances for Catholics in 2008 are a happier one than Archbishop Chaput lets on. The social justice policies of Senator Obama and his ability to work toward the common good upon common ground makes him a source of hope for all Americans...

What does Kmiec know that others do not, especially about Obama's so-called "social justice policies" when he has not bit of experience in implementing anything other than political thuggery and promoting the murder of infants born alive from botched abortions? This charlatan's resume is paper thin, if it exists at all, yet we are to conclude from Kmiec that Obama will implement policies for the good of the country - which country is yet to be determined.

Kmiec ventures into theological areas in which he is ill-equipped to traverse, yet he does so as if he were an expert theologian - and in doing so, he scandalizes untold Catholics and aids them into committing grave moral sin by advocating support for "The One."

It also seems that National Catholic Reporter has been making great strides in usurping the role of the Church by promulgating numerous "teachings" by armchair pontiffs whose only aim is to call into question the Church's perennial teachings and support dissension among the multitude of Catholics whose moral foundations are are not on solid footings.

Shame on Kmiec and the National Catholic Reporter for its open opposition to the Church an to God, Himself. It's scandal to many that they are even allowed to call themselves Catholic.

It's well past time for bishops to address this usurpation of the rights of the Church.