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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

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College President’s Letter to NH Legislators on HHS Mandate

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

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.

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Brother André Marie to Speak in Louisiana

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.

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Obama Says Social Policies Motivated by Bible and Teaching of Jesus

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

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

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Is There Fight Left in Hungary?

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’

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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The Wreck of the Deutschland

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by Brian Kelly December 30th, 2008

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The great Catholic priest, convert, and poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., was so affected by the sinking, in 1875, of a German ship, the Deutschland, in a storm off the coast of Bremen, and the heroism of five Franciscan sisters on board who died in the tragedy, that he wrote what he considered his best poem, The Wreck of the Deutschland, to honor them and the other victims. In his short life of forty-four years, Hopkins did not compose a very large number of poems, but those he did write were profound, intense, and extremely evocative of the inner dimensions of the fallen nature’s struggles to preserve peace and the grace of God. After his conversion, and entry into the Jesuit order, he voluntarily ceased writing verse altogether, and even burned all of his past manuscripts. It was seven years before he picked up his pen to paint the eschatological and prophetic moral lessons that were aroused in his visionary mind in the wrenching episode of heroic acceptance of these terrifying deaths at sea. The five Franciscans, who perished in the tempest, had fled their country to escape the anti-Catholic injustices of Germany’s Falck laws only to meet their God by drowning. It was the valiant fortitude of the six-foot-tall superior of the sisters — who, according to the survivors’ accounts, kept encouraging the others not to fear — that inspired Hopkins so much. The final words of the superior, to whom he gave the name Gertrude, rang hauntingly in his ears as he put them to verse: “Christ, O Christ, come quickly!” In the last four stanzas Hopkins directly addresses God, and, in the true spirit of St. Ignatius, implores the Almighty for the conversion of his native England.

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