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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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Iraq’s Dechristianization Continues

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by   March 01st, 2010
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“The United Nations estimated that 683 Christians fled Mosul between February 20 and February 27. Chaldean Catholic Bishop Emil Shimoun Nona of Mosul estimated that ‘about 400 families’ had left the city’s community of 4,000 Christians.”

This disheartening data comes from an article in Catholic World News. The Iraqi Catholic bishops themselves are bemoaning the situation. But that’s not all they are doing; they are also praying, fasting, and organizing their people to protest peacefully. The facts are not to be denied, and they are not the “spin” of liberal news pundits trying to make a Republican effort look bad. The neoconservative fantasy of a better Iraq, one which has cost our armed forces so many lives, was never in the best interests of Iraq, or of the United States. There were voices raised early on pointing out that this war did not meet the criteria of a just war. One of these was Pope John Paul II. We agreed with him then and we still do.

Iraq’s Christians are reaping the bitter harvest of the global social engineering that passes for American foreign policy. God have mercy on them. God have mercy on us.

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  • justin

    In Jack Mcmanus’ talk about the UN someone in the q and a session at the end remarked that maybe the whole “social engineering” in the Middle East through war was a way to sort of get UN control over what, ever since the time of the false prophet Mohammed, has been nearly impossible to tame due to the vicious and violent nature of Islam. As he said, you already have “free trade agreements” and the secularist UN puppet behemoth the E.U., along with the Asian free trade blocs and the US has been answering to every beck and call of the beast for so long that it is really only Islam and the Middle East that stand in the way of its dark ambitions at a worldwide government with God and Jesus Christ banned from the program.

  • Robert Wilson

    I get very irritated when people insult our troops by saying their lives have been thrown away for nothing. My father is in the military, and went through a year-long deployment in Iraq. There are good people there, people who suffer far less now than they did under Hussein. Is that not a good result?
    The US protects its own interests in this war by creating a democratic ally in the heart of the middle east.
    Finally, you seem to insinuate that Islam itself is forcing Christians out of Iraq. This is erroneous. While I agree that Islam is inherently an extremist religion, not all Muslims are terrorists, and not all hate Christians.
    I recommend that you read Michael Yon’s “Moment of Truth in Iraq.” It contains true stories you may find informative, including the tale of an Islamic community calling for Iraqi Christian refugees to return home, and rebuilding the Christians’ church in preparation for that return.