Just as reported by Real Catholic TV the USCCB has responded to the reports of involvement with pro abort and homosexual advocates not by addressing the accusations but by trying to take the argument off subject. They have yet to refute the what RCTV and others have reported.
"Various offices of the U.S. Bishops Conference (USCCB) have reacted to the two new reports issued by the Reform CCHD Now coalition (RCN) this week, but the reactions, claims RCN, have not addressed the core message of their reports.
While RCN has offered evidence that 31 CCHD grantees are partnered with a pro-abortion and homosexualist group, the Center for Community (CCC), and that two USCCB officials have served on the same group's board, the reactions have focused primarily on defending the pro-life beliefs of one of those officials - John Carr, who, as executive director of the USCCB's Department of Justice, Peace, and Human Development, oversees the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD).
The report on Carr’s involvement in CCC was received by some as questioning Carr’s personal pro-life convictions. However, RCN says that the reports in question – one from American Life League (ALL) and another from the Bellarmine Veritas Ministry (BVM) – specified that they were not questioning Carr or any USCCB staffer's personal stance on pro-life.
Immediately after the issuing of the reports Monday, a line supporting CCC was quietly removed from the CCHD website. Not so quiet however was the backlash against the perceived attack on Carr."
"-Fr. Thomas Reese, who was forced to resign as editor of America Magazine by the Vatican for his refusal to stop publishing articles which question church orthodoxy on issues like contraception, human embryonic stem-cell research, same-sex marriage, homosexual priests, mandatory clerical celibacy, and whether Catholic politicians who support abortion rights should be given communion
-Diana Hayes, professor of systematic theology at Georgetown University and noted speaker for Call to Action, the “Catholic” dissident group. Hayes is a homosexuality activist who wrote a book espousing liberation theology, calls for women’s ordination and promotes same-sex “marriage.”
- Page six of the official “Catholic Social Gathering” program gives a schedule for the Catholic Labor Network Gathering. USCCB exec John Carr is scheduled to join Paul Booth (click for Labor Network schedule) on a panel discussion. Paul Booth and his wife Heather Booth (another prominent pro-abortion activist with ties to the National Organization for Women, who helped organize a group called “JANE” in 1965 which helped young women obtain illegal abortions) founded the Midwest Academy – a training institute for progressive activists.
-Paul Booth and his wife have served as host committee members for the National Organization for Women's Intrepid Awards Gala.
-Currently Paul Booth is executive assistant to the president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. The AFSCME endorsed the pro-abortion March for Freedom of Choice, held in Washington, D.C. in 2004."
Real Catholic TVis doing a great job of reporting on the evil being done in the name of Christ and His Church by the Bishops. Many complain of the changes in the Church after Vatican II, blaming the Council for the abuses of the Faith we have witnessed. It wasn't the Council but the way it was implemented, especially here in the US. There are many good and faithful Bishops but unfortunately it seems the ones that have accumulated power unto themselves, like the politicians they are, have worked for their own good and not the good of those they have sworn to protect. They have led many astray but their time is short.
God is bringing everything out into the open so that we can make a choice. Good and evil are being brought into the light of truth so that when the time of judgment comes none of us will be able to claim ignorance. We are fast approaching the time when we will no longer be able to go through life passively. A choice will be forced on us.
Revelation 3:16
But because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold, not hot, I will begin to vomit thee out of my mouth.
"Now today's "soft-headed, eco-green, commie-pink, liberal democrat" so-called Christians say, "That was the Old Testament and not how God operates any longer under the New Convenant because Jesus is all loving and He would never ever punish anyone." Well, I have news for such people. God does NOT change, for Hebrews 12:5-6 states very clearly:
My son, do not disdain the discipline of the Lord or lose heart when reproved by him; for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines; he scourges every son he acknowledges."
All of you that say that it isn't possible that God could have had anything to do with Haiti need to read the post from Ioannes at Commentarius de Prognosticis.
The modern idea that Jesus (God) is this all loving, all forgiving, non judgmental hippie is laughable, or at least it would be if it weren't so dangerous. We are responsible for what we do and further our sin affects those around us. We need to come to grips with this because it is the truth, whether we like it our not. We are being lied to because we want to be. Most go to church to hear what they believe is true and if the church disagrees they move on until they find one that agrees with them. This is more true of Protestants but we Catholics are guilty, too. We follow a lie because the lie is easier to hear.
2 Timothy 4:3-4
For there shall be a time, when they will not endure sound doctrine; but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears:
And will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables.
As the world we have built begins to crumble around us we will look at each other in anger and scream, "Why?" The answer is clear:
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death.
We have earned what is coming. If we understand that our punishment is just and we accept it as the gift it is intended to be we will find reason and truth in it. If we refuse to accept it we will find only despair. Those that have followed a lie in place of sound doctrine will see what is coming as proof there is no God while those that have followed the truth will see God's hand at work all around us.
Haiti was a warning to the world. We refuse to see it for what it was meant to be at our own peril. We can choose to be people of the truth our followers of the lie.
So I just finish writing about the IRS and healthcare and look at what pops up on my bloglist. Coincidence?
"We should have seen this coming.
TheObama IRS needs your money – purchases guns.
FBO.gov reported, via Archer:
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to purchase sixty Remington Model 870 Police RAMAC #24587 12 gauge pump-action shotguns for the Criminal Investigation Division. The Remington parkerized shotguns, with fourteen inch barrel, modified choke, Wilson Combat Ghost Ring rear sight and XS4 Contour Bead front sight, Knoxx Reduced Recoil Adjustable Stock, and Speedfeed ribbed black forend, are designated as the only shotguns authorized for IRS duty based on compatibility with IRS existing shotgun inventory, certified armorer and combat training and protocol, maintenance, and parts.
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"When a state ‘nullifies’ a federal law, it is proclaiming that the law in question is void and inoperative, or ‘non-effective’, within the boundaries of that state; or, in other words, not a law as far as the state is concerned.
Nullification has a long and interesting history in American politics, and originates in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798. These resolutions, secretly authored by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, asserted that states, as sovereign entities, could judge for themselves whether the federal government had overstepped its constitutional bounds, to the point of ignoring federal laws.
Virginia and Kentucky passed the resolutions in response to the federal Alien and Sedition Acts, which provided, in part, for the prosecution of anyone who criticized Congress or the President of the United States."
I was thinking last night about the effects of nullifying the health care act and how the Federal Government would fight back. It's interesting that the IRS has been chosen as the enforcement arm of the health care bill. Actually, it's brilliant.
Let's say I'm an employer. The Federal Government tells me that I am required to hold back money from my employees to cover their health insurance. The state says that I can't do that because the Fed has no authority within the state and to do so would violate state law. What am I going to do?
If I don't hold back the money then the IRS could seize my accounts and force me to pay. Will the state override this seizure? I suppose that if the bank was chartered by the state with no connection to the Federal Government that would be possible. But that would require an entirely new banking system. Taken to its logical conclusion it would require local currency and the ability to decouple from the Federal monetary system and stand alone.
In the real world banks are completely controlled by federal law and regulation. So what do you think the chances are that a bank will refuse the IRS when it comes calling? And it's not like the IRS has to even show up to do the deed. Everything will occur electronically. How can the state enforce it's laws under this scenario?
All of the above also applies to individuals. If you are self employed and don't pay your insurance your accounts will be seized. How can the state stop that from happening?
Here's how. For every dollar taken from its citizens to cover federally mandated health care the state could withhold tax money that it would normally send to Washington and reimburse the healthcare premiums. This will put the focus on the state, taking leverage away from the IRS. Like all bullies they would prefer to pick on the weak, and that is what individual citizens are. But, if we stand together as a state we stand strong.
I just wonder if the politicians that are voting for these nullification acts have really thought through what they are starting? What I wrote in the last paragraph is the same sort of state action and state unity that led to the War Between the States. The politicians are playing a game. Sure, many probably believe in states rights and the Tenth Amendment but how far are they willing to go? Most are showboating, playing to the Tea Party vote in hopes of reelection. The only problem is, this isn't politics as usual. They are opening a can of worms that goes all the way back to the founding of this country. The power of the states versus the national government was never really decided. Lincoln forced a decision on the people, but because it was forced it was never truly accepted or settled. Well, it's back.
The politicians that are playing this game, with no sense of history, need to realize they are striking matches in a room full of dynamite.
OK, Ron Paul gets it. But what good does it do us when he seems to be the only one? How can he translate his belief into meaningful action? Something's got to give here because time is running out. We are one crisis away from the sort of government control that he talks about in this video.
"Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that the antichrist was coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. Thus we know this is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not really of our number; if they had been, they would have remained with us. Their desertion shows that none of them was of our number. But you have the anointing that comes from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge. I write to you not because you do not know the truth but because you do, and because every lie is alien to the truth."
1st John 2:18-21
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality”
Dante Alighieri
“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”
John Quincy Adams
“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.”
George Washington
“If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.”
Thomas Jefferson
" I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me."
Willard Duncan Vandiver
"The issue is, to use a sporting metaphor, whether in the game of life the government shall captain the national team or shall act as referee."
S. Harcourt-Rivington
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
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