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Christ’s Commission and Obama’s Mandate: A Teachable Moment

The big news in American Catholic circles is the Obama administration’s “contraceptive mandate.” This latest unethical intrusion of big governmnet stipulates that employers, including religious institutions, provide their employees with insurance coverage for contraceptives, sterilizations, and specific abortifacients such as Ella and Plan B.

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle summarized the situation: “If this unprecedented aggression against the religious freedom rights of Catholics is allowed to stand, then virtually all Catholic institutions — colleges, universities, secondary schools, hospitals, charities, service providers, fraternal orders, and advocacy organizations — will be forced to pay for procedures, devices, and chemicals abhorrent to the consciences of Catholics.”

by Brother André Marie February 4th, 2012

College President’s Letter to NH Legislators on HHS Mandate


Brian Kelly

The following is an open letter that Dr. William Fahey sent to New Hampshire’s senators and Congressman Guinta voicing his outrage over President Obama and the HHS  mandate requiring submission of all employers to provide contraceptives, sterilizations, and abortions under so-called health insurance for employees.


Restore Communion On The Tongue Only


Brother André Marie

Two priests, Fr. Andrew Wise and Fr. John Speekman, have started a petition effort on their blog called “Restore Communion On The Tongue Only.” They, and the 2484 (so far) signatories to their petition, are asking the Pope to restore the ancient and traditional Roman practice of reception of Holy Communion that was obligatory until Pope Paul VI approved the 1969 Vatican Instruction, Memoriale Domini.


Color Flyer of Chapel Project


View the new color PDF flyer on our IHM Chapel building project.

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Brother André Marie to Speak in Louisiana


The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

On Wednesday, February 8, 2012, Brother André Marie will be speaking at Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Lacombe, Louisiana. The title of his talk is “Penance and the Conversion of America.” It will begin at 6:30 PM.

The talk is sponsored by the Mysterium Fidei Latin …


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Obama Says Social Policies Motivated by Bible and Teaching of Jesus


Brian Kelly

When most of our foreign aid goes to the militarization of bogus allies and population reduction of African nations through so-called health care, one is again stunned to hear the president ignore these facts and pretend that the purpose of foreign aid is to help feed the poor and the refugees and provide medicines for the sick.


Temporary Fruits of Ecumenical Reflection


Brother André Marie

From the Holy Father’s Address to the Participants of the Plenary Session of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith:
Also the study documents produced by the various ecumenical dialogues have great relevance. Such texts cannot be ignored, because they are an important, though temporary, fruit of the common reflection matured throughout the years. Nevertheless, they are to be recognized


Obama and Administration Wage War Against Pro-Lifers Freedom of Conscience


Brian Kelly

By imperial edict, and as a dark insult to pro-lifers who were preparing their annual march to the Capitol to protest Roe v Wade and the ensuing murders of the pre-born, President Obama and self-deluded “Catholic” Kathleen Sabelius of the Department of Health and Human Services  have given new meaning to the word dictatorial. Genuinely Catholic and pro-life employers have been issued an ultimatum. They have one year to decide if they will serve God or the leviathan state. What boldness! What injustice!


Is There Fight Left in Hungary?


The Philosopher

We hope so. Daniel McAdams exposes the reheated communist apparatchiks and their fellow revolutionary travelers who run the European Union, and who are trying to bring the nation of Saint Stephen to its knees. Now the Hungarians are taking to the streets to insist that their government not be cowed by the threats of a despotic EU leadership.
Are the Hungarians at it again? Fifty-six years ago Hungarians landed what was ultimately the fatal blow to Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.


Multiracial Protest against SPLC ‘Bigots’


The Philosopher

Said one black pastor to homosexual activists: “how dare you compare your wicked, deviant, immoral, self-destructive, anti-human sexual behavior to our beautiful skin color.” What merited such a lambasting? The SPLC’s smearing pro-family organizations as “hate groups” for opposing the homosexual agenda.

Wouldn’t it be good to hear Catholic priests speaking with such conviction?


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150Gs for A Total Corpse Freeze, 80Gs for Just a Head; Yes They’re Making Big $$$

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How dumb can people with no religion get? This dumb:

“Discovery News reports: What is death? Over the centuries, the line dividing life and death has moved from the cessation first of breathing, then of the heartbeat, and finally of brain activity. But cryogenic methods first contemplated in science fiction may push the line even further. The idea is to freeze legally dead people in liquid nitrogen in the hope of regenerating them at some future date.

“Today’s cryonics scientists believe that this future may be a mere 100 years away. Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz., the world’s largest cryonics company, charges US $150,000 to freeze and maintain a body and $80,000 for a head, typically paid for with a life insurance policy.” If you want to read more of this fascinating new way to make money off of gullible rich folks who’ll believe anything but the truth, it’s here.

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  • http://John.deRivaz.com John de Rivaz

    Jesus went about healing the sick and “raising the dead”, and told his followers to do likewise. Medical technology has got better and better at curing the previously incurable. Cryopreservation makes those given up for dead now easier to “raise” in the future.

    No one ever got rich from providing cryopreservation services.

    Cryopreservation is an act of gratitude for the gift of life.

    Some people believe that to neglect any means of continuing healthy life is wrong.

    Cryonics is not sure and certain knowledge of more life, it is a gamble to be taken when all else has failed. Cryonicists have done their best to survive. No one can expect anything more.

    No one can know the future, so no one can know for sure that cryopreserved patients cannot be restored to healthy youthful life.

    Cryopreservation does not offer immortality, only indefinite lifespan. Once ageing is curable, people may live as long as Methuselah using future medicine, but eventually they will fall to an irrevocable accident, such as falling into a star.

  • Theo

    Dear Brian,

    I sympathise with your point of view.

    However you have misunderstood. “Clinical death” (the state in which cryonics patients are kept) should not be confused with final death and the permanent departure of the soul.

    Patients *can* be resuscitated from clinical death. In fact it may be deliberately created in “standstill” operations where a patient is kept without heartbeat and circulation for many hours in order to facilitate surgery.

    Such a state lies firmly within the earthly world and the domain of medical science.

    Cryonics is simply a method of maintaining the very sick patient in that state for longer periods to await the development of medical technology that could restore them to health.

    That’s a worthy goal.

  • Mark Plus

    Mr. Kelly:

    A few financially successful people have signed up for cryonics, including the casino operator Don Laughlin, financier Ed Thorp and Canadian electronics entrepreneur Robert Miller. But they don’t represent the mostly nonwealthy people, like myself, who have made arrangements for cryonic suspension, funded with life insurance.

    Regardless of our net worths, we view cryonics as a speculative attempt at “medical time travel,” not as some dodge around the metaphysical reality of death. Cryonics as a form of experimental medicine therefore should not conflict with the beliefs of the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam), all of which have strong health care traditions.

  • Charles

    “Falling into a star”?? Hahahaha! Yep, that would ruin your whole day!

  • http://John.deRivaz.com John de Rivaz

    Matthew 10:8 Jesus instructs people to heal the sick and raise the
    dead. Paul in Philippians 1:23-26 says he would rather depart this
    life and be with Christ, “for it is far better,” but for the sake of
    others he wants to remain here on Earth. A Christian, then, will want
    to stay longer in this life to do as much good in the world as
    possible. Making a try at a longer life can be justified even if
    success is not guaranteed, as is true with conventional medicine.