WHY WE SPEAK UP

I'm posting this reply from Ioannes at Commentarius de Prognosticis to an article posted below not because he says nice things about me but because it's important that everyone understand why we're "attacking" the Bishops. The Bishops, and through them the Church, have become so entangled in government largess that it is becoming impossible to preach the truth without fear that the money will be shut off. And it's not just the financial connection with the politicians; there seems to be a commonality of beliefs in a system of Socialist governance that can only be described as diabolical.

I believe that it is our job as members of the Church to defend her, from enemies inside and out. I pray that I'm doing the right thing and that I'm not making false accusations that will damage the Church I love. That being said, based on the information as I see it some members of the Church leadership are not preaching the truth of Christ, rather the opinions of Marx.

I feel compelled to defend against this.

"Folks,

Catawissa Gazetteer has written another excellent piece about the current health care debate and the mistaken notion that health care is a human right:

STEALING IS GOOD- THE BISHOPS SAY SO

Interestingly and consistently, Archbishop Dolan figures prominently in this debate. Let us recall that he has stated he will NOT bar pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage Catholic politicians from receiving Holy Communion. Lest anyone accuse me of slander, please see the following report from Catholic World News Agency:

Archbishop Dolan will not deny Communion to pro-abortion politicians

One wonder if the Archbishop understands the gravity of 1st Corinthians 11:27-32, or Canon Laws 912 through 923 (specifically 915).

That aside, Archbishop Dolan has also stated that "...New Yorkers could get clobbered with even higher taxes if the state continues to default on its school aid promises to Catholic and independent schools."

Thus (as WTEN TV reports it), the Archbishop requires funding authorization from pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage Catholic Governor Patterson for State to float the Catholic school system in NYS. Again, lest anyone accuse me of slander, please see the following:

Archbishop: NY'ers face higher taxes if more Catholic schools close

One can easily see why Archbishop Dolan does not want to discipline Governor David Patterson: he is beholden to him for largess from the teat of the public treasury.

Now (as Catawissa has so masterfully explained it) the Archbishop wants to use money from this same public treasury to fund health care for illegal aliens. Once more, lest anyone accuse me of slander, please see the following:

Archbishop Dolan: Abortion funding in health care bill still a ‘grave concern’

So one can see the appropriateness of the title for Catwissa's most recent blog post entry:

STEALING IS GOOD- THE BISHOPS SAY SO

This is NOT slander. Rather, what we are doing is what the German people of the Weimar Republic should have done in the first half of the 20th century when Adolf Hitler was vying for ascendancy. But the Germans (after the punishment of WWI) repentend and became good people, being loathe to engage in calumny. After six million murdered Jews and twenty million murdered Ukranians and other Eastern Europeans, one would think we had learned our lesson. But now, because of the moral weakness and hippie theology of some of those who are ordained as Bishops we have more than 50 million murdered babies.

The choice is clear: the apostates and heretics in political office must be publicly ex-communicated for their public defiance of Holy Mother Church, all support for nationalized health care and every other socialist agenda must be withdrawn, and we must return to the true Gospel of repentance and conversion. After all, this is the Lenten Season. We must do those things or suffer the wrath of God Almighty. Indeed, God holds the Shepherds and the Kings more accountable than anyone else, as Ezekiel 34 and Wisdom 6:1-9 so amply demonstrate.

Let us pray for Archbishop Dolan and the remainder of the Bishops in the USCCB. Let us pray for our political leaders, starting with Barack Hussein Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden and on down. Let us pray that we all repent and convert.

Hail Mary, full of grace,
the Lord is with thee;
blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen"

POPE URGES JOBS BE SAVED

"The economic crisis is causing the loss of many jobs and this calls for a huge sense of responsibility by everyone: entrepreneurs, workers, governing officials," the pope said after his weekly Angelus blessing.

"I think of some difficult situations in Italy, like, for example, Termini Imerese and Portovesme ... Do everything possible to protect and spur job growth, assuring dignified and adequate work to sustain families."

Reuters

I wish that I could find some other reporting on this comment besides that supplied by Reuters. Professional journalists are no better than us bloggers in this respect. They take a news feed and run with it seemingly without checking it for accuracy or trying to add any clarification. Sorry, just had to get that off my chest.

What I would like to know is exactly what the Pope expects? Does he believe that someone, whether it is business or the public sector, should create and fund work that is meaningless? Because if someone is paying somebody else to produce a product for which there is no market then someone is promoting pointless depletion of capital. And, since most governments are, for all intents and purposes, living on credit cards, this action would promote debt slavery for future generations. And if corporations are being asked to do this isn't the Pope essentially calling for a transfer of wealth from owners and investors to workers? For no profitable reason? Why should the workers reap the benefits of this largess at the expense of the owners and investors? Don't the owners and investors have needs and rights, too?

So I would like to know if the Pope has something specific in mind that I don't understand or if this comment was a knee jerk reaction of a European Socialist just looking to the government for the solution. I would like some follow up to this story instead of being left to hang.

But, I'm not going to hold my breath. This sort of reporting lends itself to the interest of those on the left that would love to see the Church side with the socialists. And, since the Church won't do that, leaving the impression that it has will have to suffice.

DETROIT IS OUR FUTURE IN THE RUST BELT

I'm full of stinky cheese and fish after fulfilling my obligation to perform old family traditions last night and so I'm not really up to writing. This video says it all. The combination of government mis-management and union excesses have destroyed Detroit and will destroy America if our current administration has anything to say about it.

So much of what is shown in this video could have been filmed in St. Louis, another one time great American city that has been run into the ground by the same crew. St. Louis, once second only to Detroit in the production of cars, has been turned into a Beirut clone in some neighborhoods. Maybe this isn't fair to Beirut. This city has been controlled by liberal Democrats for years. The unions have exerted control over all manufacturing, eventually driving employers away. We are still a union city, which would be great if there were any jobs to be had. Ford shut down their plant, Chrysler shut down theirs and GM is down to one shift. All of the suppliers that once employed thousands have shuttered right along with them.

This has left a huge, unskilled workforce unemployed. These are people that have made really good money for doing very little. I know plenty of them and have listened to the descriptions of their workdays. Sure, it's hot and the labor is physical but, compared to digging ditches or framing houses for a fraction of the wage, please! Most of the people that I know that were laid off from the auto plants sat around sucking up the job bank pay and made no real attempt to educate or in anyway prepare themselves for life without the automakers. They've been lulled into complacency by the socialist lies of their union and government masters.

Consequently, out where I live, the economy is terrible. The money that would have flowed into the local economy from the guys at Chrysler is gone and this is slowly causing other businesses to go under, further reducing the number of jobs available.

We've got real problems here in the rust belt. The root cause can be laid at the foot of big government, big unions and greed. There is no quick or even semi quick solution. It will be a long time, if ever before we see the economy come back around here. Detroit is just the first. Many more cities and the people that live there are going down the same road if we stick to the old paradigm of business, unions and government as usual.

People need to wake up and realize that the government uses them to acquire power for itself and enslave them, the unions use them to acquire power for its leaders and the government it supports and business uses them to make a profit. Of those three only business is honest about its intent and only business can help the worker to achieve actual growth in wealth and security. Yet, isn't it strange that both the unions and the government vilify the one thing that could lead to true independence for the people?

I wonder why?

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