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Edwards Hired Klu Klux Klan Bloggers

Bill Donohue Kicks it into the open

From the New York Times

The two women brought to the Edwards campaign long cyber trails in the incendiary language of the blogosphere. Other campaigns are likely to face similar controversies as they try to court voters using the latest techniques of online communication.

Ms. Marcotte wrote in December that the Roman Catholic Church’s opposition to the use of contraception forced women “to bear more tithing Catholics.” In another posting last year, she used vulgar language to describe the church doctrine of the Immaculate Conception.

She has also written sarcastically about the news media coverage of the  three Duke lacrosse players accused of sexual assault, saying: “Can’t a few white boys sexually assault a black woman anymore without people getting all wound up about it? So unfair.”

Speaking of politicians hiring nutcases  - Hillary Clinton and John Kerry's Boy, Eric McFadden, has a new blog.

Above all his violent psychopathy against prolifers, he writes:

Didn't Jesus say something about forgiveness? Loving thy neighbor? Can some one point out to me where hate is a value discussed in the Gospels?

This type of hate scares me. When I hear about it - I think back to a time in the 1930's in a place called Germany. We can do better in America and we should demand just that.

Could it be schizophrenia? 

Whatever it is, Eric McFadden, is now hosting a blog under the name of "Eamon". 

Eamon is the name of a musician with profane, vulgar, demeaning, sexually violent lyrics (which can be (found here WARNING - RATED XX FOR PROFANITY AND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN)

Politicians hiring McFadden, Marcotte, McEwan to intimidate Catholics is an escalation in audacity.   

These politicians and initiatives are counting on our silence in the public square.

They are sadly mistaken.

Hiatus is over!

The project has been completed!

I have 125 emails loaded with stuff to post.

I am not blind and deaf to the many emails and conversations about my focus on national stuff as opposed to the local.  We'll see what happens as we roll along.    I've a lot of energy to spend putting the kibosh on the Romney is a prolifer charade - but we'll see what happens as life rolls along.

I do have one little fun thing to share this evening - Deal - Kathy Shaidle - Dale Price
put out the story that Terry McAuliffe had applied to become a Knight of Malta.

Lifesite also picked up the story and ran

Must Be Another Order” Say Disbelieving Malta Knights Over Pro-Abort Terry McAuliffe’s Revelation

Arrogant McAuliffe broke tradition not to talk about application

By Peter J. Smith

ROME, February 1, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Sovereign Military Order of Malta has expressed disbelief that Terry McAuliffe, a high profile pro-abortion Catholic, would be attempting to join the Knights of Malta since his pro-abortion views conflict with the Catholic Church’s defense of the sanctity of life.

The Order’s Communication’s Office in Rome contacted LifeSiteNews after LifeSiteNews reported that McAuliffe had boasted on Monday’s edition of the Hugh Hewitt show that he was a pro-abortion Catholic and was even invited to join the Knights of Malta. (http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jan/07013108.html)

“You can be absolutely sure that the organization Terry McAuliffe is referring to, is not the legitimate Order of Malta,” Eugenio Ajroldi from the Knight’s Communications Office in Rome told LifeSiteNews. “Unfortunately all over the world are active bodies and associations which sell false knighthoods, making use of our name or variants for commercial or personal purpose quite unrelated to the aims and traditions of the Order.”

Incredulous that a high profile pro-abortion leader like McAuliffe would apply for the famed Knights of Malta – an order distinguished by a long history of defending the Catholic Church and Christian Civilization – the Knights have posted a warning today on their official website titled “Self-styled Orders” warning Catholics not to be taken in by organizations “trying to represent themselves as legitimate and recognised orders of Saint John.”

“Besides creating misunderstanding and confusion, they hurt the good will the Order has established over many years” reads the statement. “These organisations have no connection whatsoever with the Sovereign Military Order of Malta whose headquarters is located in Rome… and which maintains formal diplomatic relations with over 96 States and International Organisations.”

However, the Order of Malta Federal Association, USA, is indeed one of the Knights of Malta’s three American branches, and a source there reconfirmed for LifeSiteNews that McAuliffe has merely applied for knighthood. The formation process, however, takes a year and requires approval from the order’s leaders headquartered in Rome, who are unlikely to approve McAuliffe in light of his public repudiation of the Church’s teaching on life.

See the Knights of Malta reaction that a pro-abortion Catholic would consider becoming a Knight:

http://www.orderofmalta.org/orgim.asp?idlingua=5

To respectfully contact the Order of Malta Federal Association, USA to discuss Terry McAullife's anti-life positions:

1730 M. Street, NW, Suite 403
Washington, DC 20036
202-331-2494 - Phone
202-331-1149 - Fax

Contact form on website:
http://www.smom.org/contact.php

The Knights may also be contacted at headquarters in Rome:

Sovereign Military Order of Malta
Magistral Palace
Via Condotti, 68 - 00187 Rome - Italy
Tel. +39.06.67581.1 - Fax +39.06.6797.202

Email address: info@orderofmalta.org

Related LifeSite Coverage:

Terry McAuliffe: A Pro-Abortion US Knight of Malta?
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jan/07013108.html &nbs...;

After a stampede of emails and phone calls to the Knights of Malta over the proabort's application -- - McAuliffe's Knighthood has been canceled.

Be sure to check out Deal Hudson's posts on the proabort Drinan's legacy of infantcide in the United States.

Let's not get confused about our private duty to pray that henious proponents of holocaust repented on their death bed and the public duty to oppose his legacy.   It's ok to mention Herod's slaughter of the innocents as reprehensible.   Come to think of it - no matter how many good works Herod did - it really never made the Bible.

Nighty Nights!

Oh, please do tune in to the Prolife Mitt Romney Watch for the Mitt Romney Friday Flip Flop Flyer - it's going out late this week because of a few little surprises that will blow some fresh stink off of the Mittster.

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Fr. Tad attempts to convert the Chancery

I recall once hearing a story about a philosopher who visited with a group of junior-high students at a private school in the Midwest. He had a discussion with them about ethics, and offered a few arguments to suggest that direct abortion was always unethical and unjust. A 14-year-old girl put up her hand and asked him if he would make an exception for rape in his position against abortion. He put the ball back into her court by asking her to carry out a kind of “thought experiment.”

He asked her to consider the hypothetical case that her own father became a rapist: “If your dad goes out and rapes somebody, and we convict him of that rape in a court of law, do you think it would be right for us to then say, ‘O.K., because your dad is guilty of that rape, we’re going to kill you, his 14-year-old daughter?’” The girl and her classmates unanimously replied, “No”. He pursued the same line of logic a bit further, asking if it would be acceptable if, instead of 14 years old, she were only 2 years old, or 2 months old. Again, they said, “No.” Finally, he asked, “So how could I say that I’m going to let abortion happen because of rape? If I permit abortion because of rape, I am killing a child in the womb for a crime committed by his or her dad. Is that right?”

His coherent and dispassionate approach helped the students appreciate the need to scrutinize their own assumptions and move beyond emotionalism when important ethical or bioethical issues are being debated.

Rape is always a grave and unconscionable crime, a tragedy of enormous proportions. If a woman becomes pregnant following sexual assault, abortion is sometimes offered as a path to fixing the rape. But the decision to encourage a second trauma after the first trauma of sexual assault represents, ultimately, a misguided response to a situation that needs to be handled with much greater sensitivity and compassion. A kind of unexamined emotionalism and anger can arise in these situations, directed towards the child, even though the child conceived in rape is an innocent bystander, and a victim of the same awful set of circumstances as the mother. He or she clearly ought not be treated as some kind of surrogate for the rapist.

Catholics must never be involved in advocating murder of any human being for any reason whatsoever.  Consequences happen to all of us because of the crimes committed against us.  Two wrongs don't make a right.

If the woman has ovulated - the duty of a Catholic Hospital, a Catholic physicain, a Catholic pharmacist, a Catholic nurse at a Catholic Hospital - is to advise and counsel the woman about the teachings of the Catholic Church and pray with her.

Why would a Cardinal comply with an edict from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in murder?

Nice story about a local prolifer

TAUNTON -- Six-month-old Geneva Smithson has never met Dr. Eric Keroack, but she’s alive in part because of his pioneering work in ultrasound technology.

Keroack is the pro-life gynecologist named Nov. 17 by President George W. Bush to oversee federal family planning and abstinence programs.

A Marblehead resident, Keroack had served on the Salem Hospital staff since 1993 and supervised much of the ultrasound work for A Woman’s Concern, a non-profit group of crisis pregnancy centers in eastern and southeastern Massachusetts.

At one of the centers last year, Geneva’s mother Angela Smithson of Taunton saw an ultrasound of her unborn daughter’s heart beating.

“Everyone in my life at the time was telling me to have an abortion,” she said in an interview. “I was really torn. I knew this was a baby, but it wasn’t until I saw the ultrasound that it really hit me -- she’s alive!”

Smithson, 31, credits the counselors and ultrasound technicians at A Woman’s Concern with giving her the support to continue her pregnancy.

“They were excited about the baby, but they never pressured me. I was able to make an informed decision,” she said. “Before, I believed in God on and off, but I thought that having this child would ruin my life. Instead, everything that she’s needed has been provided for, and she’s been the beginning of my life. I’m so glad I made that decision.”

Stories like Smithson’s don’t make national news, but they motivated Keroack to work for nominal pay the past six years with A Woman’s Concern. The faith-based group has offices in Boston, Brookline, Revere, Beverly, Fall River and Hyannis.

What did make national news was Keroack’s appointment as the new deputy assistant secretary of population affairs under U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt.

A storm of vitriolic criticism ensued from pro-abortion advocates because of the doctor’s pro-life background and his work in discouraging pre-marital sex.

A graduate of Tufts University School of Medicine, Keroack also served on an advisory panel to define guidelines for federally funded abstinence education programs, according to Dr. John Agwunobi, DHH Assistant Secretary for Health. He noted that Keroack is nationally recognized for his work in preventing teen pregnancy and explaining sexual risk behaviors.

Twenty-one pro-abortion congressmen called for President Bush to rescind the appointment. They were joined by Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a major recipient of family planning funds and the nation’s leading abortion provider.

“This is all over Dr. Keroack’s objection to contraception,” said Mark Conrad, president of A Woman’s Concern. “The irony is that more than half the women that come to us were using some form of birth control. We just try our best to ensure that women get the truth.”

Keroack’s appointment does not require Senate approval.

The Virginia Sheister denies he's married

A priest suspected of stealing more than $600,000 from two churches denies accusations in court documents that he was living a double life as a family man in a neighboring county.

 

 

The Rev. Rodney L. Rodis, 50, acknowledged that there is a woman and three girls that live at the home, but denied he was married and declined to comment if the children were his daughters, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported Sunday. Rodis also said the woman he lives with knew he was a Catholic priest.

YOWZA.

The Catholic Diocese of Richmond was surprised to hear about Rodis' living arrangements, diocese lawyer William Etherington said, as were neighbors in the subdivision where the family had lived in a two-story brick home for at least eight years.

The diocese is shocked, shocked I tell you.

The Spotsylvania County real estate assessment Web site lists Joyce Sillador as owner of the house, and neighbors said Rodis' wife's name was Joyce.

 

 

No one answered the phone at a number listed for the address.

I'll bet.

Rodis, a Philippine citizen, was pastor at St. Jude Catholic Church in Mineral and Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Bumpass, both in Louisa County, until May, when he retired due to health problems.

The poor man must have been exhausted.

Lech Walesa joins the frey

The church is resigned to fresh revelations of collaboration as the country's media have been pursuing claims that other senior clergymen were once collaborators. A book by the Rev Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski, to be published soon, is expected to name 39 priests, including three bishops, for collaboration with the secret police between 1944 and 1989. Some estimates have suggested that up to 15 per cent of the clergy may have been informers.

Walesa faced similar accusations himself as President when he refused to open up secret archives from the communist era, but was cleared last year by a special vetting authority. In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, he said it was 'no coincidence the (Wielgus) scandal exploded at the last moment. The men of the secret service acted in a calculated way, perfectly aware of the fuss this case would create in Poland, abroad and in the Vatican. They are specialists in destabilisation.'

That would be a swell ending. However, the Bishop has admitted he was turning over people to be tortured and killed.

Archbishop Wielgus quit last Sunday at a special mass that was to have marked his appointment as Archbishop of Warsaw, after reluctantly admitting he was an informer.

I hasten to post this least we see bubbles in Boston...

HE new Bishop of Taunton was given a bubbly welcome by the Bath and Wells Diocese on Saturday.

The Rt Rev Peter Maurice's two passions - the ministry of the Church and West Ham football club - came together at a formal service in Wells Cathedral.

At the end of the event, a stream of soap bubbles suddenly appeared above the nave altar and the choirs and congregation burst into the Hammers' song I'm for ever blowing bubbles'.

Holy Family in Duxbury eat your heart out.

Interesting Coverage on Weiglus

If by ordering his resignation the pope finally decided to reverse his position of constant support for Wielgus as head of the most important diocese in Poland, it must be because he was convinced by very serious facts.

Very interesting development

Sex abuse victims can pursue damages from the Vatican in a negligence lawsuit alleging top church officials failed to report known or suspected cases of child abuse, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

I don't disagree.

I would like to see what they knew, when they knew it and what they did about it.  The problem is, Catholics do not get a fair presentation of facts and a fair trial, a fair jury, a fair judge - fair coverage in the press.