God bless their efforts.

Bishop Baker, why don’t you and your brother bishops hold the mirror of the Catholics’ Profession of Faith, and the Lord’s Prayer up to your flocks so they can look at themselves in it to see if they really believe what they profess to believe and pray for like St. Augustine advised centuries ago?  Then Fr. Pavone and the other good priest in his Priest for Life won’t have to waste gasoline and pollute the air driving around the country calling attention to the abortions and the mothers who suffer for what they have done.  Over half of your flocks, bishops, give their name and their votes to a political party that is diabolically opposed to what they profess to believe and pray for every Sunday.  And probably half of you clergy do as well.

Don’t you think the Church can do a better job addressing those in their flock that keep abortion-on-demand remaining the law-of-the-land by their name identification and votes going to the pro-abortion party?  Maybe if you separate the so-called “social justice” issues that Cardinal Bernardin from the Archdiocese of Chicago, the most corrupt Democrat run town in America, got your brother bishops to accept as prolife, Catholics might stop blaspheming the Holy Spirit when they profess to believe in “the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life.”

Stilbelieve, these Freedom Rides ARE part of holding up the mirror of our profession of faith up to everyone’s face.

These Freedom Riders are just paying empty lip service to it either, like so many pro-abortion Catholics have, the Freedom Riders are living the profession of faith.

Bishop Baker does his job and does it well. The pope knew to put the right man in the diocese where Mother Angelica and EWTN are. Praise the Lord!

These Freedom Rides are doing a courageous thing!  More power to them.  When will the rank and file realize the agenda of Planned Parenthood?  “Take it to the people” is the advice of Pope John Paul II. and that is what they are doing - taking it to the people.  It’s about time Pro Lifers concentrated on this particular issue - the diabolic and eugenic motives of P.P. These are Margaret Sanger’s (Founder of Planned Parenthood) words, “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro Population”.  (She wrote this in a letter she sent to Clarence Gamble) So let’s get behind these Freedom Rides.  May God bless their efforts.

I asked this in a previous article about this “freedom” ride.  Why is there a need for an organization called, Priest for Life?  Shouldn’t that be obvious?  Aren’t all priest for life?  Perhaps not.  Over half of the clergy voluntarily give their name and probably votes to the pro-abortion party, as does the laity.  It seems like the U.S. Church should clean up its own back yard before going on a road show to someone else’s.  After all, it has been 37 years and over 52,000,000 murdered babies. 

And, oh, yeah, then there was Cardinal Bernardin, you know the head of the Archdioceses of Chicago, who talked the U.S. bishops into expanding the definition of prolife to include other issues for a more “consistent ethic of life?”  He said that would bring in all these other people with “prolife” leanings into the fold, people who were opposed to our nation defending itself, and people opposed to capital punishment, and the poor and low income who needed loans to buy homes, etc.  That was supposed to help the cause of the unborn babies.  All it did was invigorate the Democrat Party and the Catholics to remain in it since it, too, now had what was thought to be “prolife issues” that assuages their consciences about the dead babies.  That was over twenty-five years ago and about 30,000,000 murdered babies. 

No, Catholics, don’t look at yourselves – look at persuading other people to be against abortion and take necessary action to end it, something the Church can’t even get its own people to unite behind and do, no matter how many Profession of Faiths they say they believe, and Our Fathers they pray.

WE shall overcome. We shall overcome. We shall overcome one day….O deep in my heart, I do believe that the Culture of Life will overcome the Culture of Death one day.
Ride on, brothers and sisters!

Here is my complaint:

The following are excerpts of what was in my inbox this morning and probably in a number of yours as well:

“It is critically important that you do this before you go on to your next email.

“But Priests for Life is in a huge financial hole.  I just met with our finance department and our outstanding payables have reached the critical stage:

“Not only that, but in spite of the fact that I serve on the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life and that so many bishops wholeheartedly endorse our Priests for Life ministry, we are not funded at all by any official Church entity ... neither from Rome nor here in the United States.

“I’m counting on your help because our financial crisis here at Priests for Life threatens to derail your pro-life mission. 

    … Priests for Life is the voice of America’s pro-life movement!

“Which means Priests for Life is YOUR voice when it comes to speaking out for the unborn and warning our fellow Americans about the evil of abortion.”

WHERE ARE THE BISHOPS?  They have an army of priests across the U.S. speaking to tens of millions of people every week!  Why is “my voice” for the unborn delegated to one priest in the U.S. Catholic Church?  What is wrong with our bishops?!  What is wrong with our Church?  We are 37 years into abortion-on-demand being the law-of-the-land, with 4000 babies murdered per day, and our ONLY voice for the unborn is on a bus trip retracing the freedom ride of past? Where are our bishops’ voices?  Where is their FREE SPEECH?  Oh, I remember - they are using it for extending unemployment insurance for a fourth or fifth time; and with Arizona’s new law dealing with illegal aliens; and comprehensive immigration reform to allow 12,000,000 illegal aliens to stay in our country and maybe pay a fine; and also there was nuclear arms treaty with Russia (now there’s somebody we can trust); and a year of comprehensive healthcare reform they supported except for abortion and conscience clause which now will give us born the same right to life as the unborn has, etc, etc, etc…just too busy with all those important “social justice” issues to focus on just “one single issue.”

“just too busy with all those important “social justice” issues to focus on just “one single issue.”
We need to uphold the value and dignity of every life. That includes all “from womb to tomb.” Every person has a voice, not just the Bishops. The Bishops need to be busy with all these important social justice issues. They can’t discount the value of an illegal alien (a person) or someone that can’t find work to support their family (a person) to less than the value of the unborn (a person) without sacrificing their commitment and vow to the whole Church. That is the point of speaking of the seamless garment as Cardinal Bernardin did. We can’t call ourselves “pro-life” if we don’t support work for justice in all areas of human rights and dignity. We are our brother’s keeper.

Zach- “Above all, the common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights…IS FALSE AND ILLUSORY IF THE RIGHT TO LIFE,…IS NOT DEFENDED WITH MAXIMUM DETERMINATION.” (John Paul II 1988, The Vocation and the Mission of the Lay Faithful in the Church and in the World (Christifideles Laici), n.38).

What about that priority?

In the Brooklyn, diocese our bishop is more concerned with the immigration problem than the saving of the unborn. He has the obligation to have the homilies of the priests at Mass to emphasize the killings of the thousands of the unborn is unacceptable and must cease. The seamless garment of Bernandin is still permeated here and is certainly having the effect of confusion among the faithful. At my parish I have never heard the priest explain the evils of abortion at Mass.

I know of a man who just lost his daughter in law who was a freedom rider.  so instead of hatefilled words, lets lift them up in prayer and praise them for their efforts to support life.  which is what we are all supposed to be doing.  not condemning but lifting up in the Name of God.  Where is all this hate coming from?

stilbelieve - If you continue in that document, the “right to life” is defined as pertaining to “every phase of development, from conception to natural death.” We need to defend the right to life, not just of the unborn but of every person on the earth, with maximum determination. Let’s work together and pray for one another. We are called to be one and need to be in our mission of love.

Zach - so you want to ignore John Paul II’s explicit statement saying that those “other alleged prolife issues” you identified, though worthy, are “false and illusionary if the Right to Life is not DEFENDED with MAXIMUM DETERMINATION?” 

Please define what “Above All” means to you; and “False and Illusionary.”  And please define what “Defended with Maximum Determination” means to you.

Here is the quote from John Paul II’s “Christifideles Laici” as published by the U.S. Catholic Bishops in their Statement – “Living The Gospel of Life: A Challenge to American Catholics.”

“Pope John Paul II elaborates on this responsibility in his 1988 apostolic exhortation…’The inviolability of the person which is A reflection of the absolute inviolability of God, finds its PRIMARY AND FUNDAMENTAL expression in the inviolability of human life.  ABOVE ALL, the common outcry, which is justly made on BEHALF of human rights – for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture – IS FALSE AND ILLUSORY IF THE RIGHT TO LIFE, THE MOST BASIC AND FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT AND THE CONDITION OF ALL OTHER PERSONAL RIGHTS, IS NOT DEFENDED WITH MAXIMUM DETERMINATION….’”

“ABOVE ALL” is the right to life which comes BEFORE any other “common outcry” of “human rights” mentioned by you or addressed by Bernardin in his so-called “social justice” issues.  It is the primary right; i.e., to be born - the reason the term “prolife” was coined in the first place to counter the pro-aborts calling themselves, “pro-choice.”  This was years before it was coopt by Bernardin for reasons other than Christian charity.

Diane D’O - You said, “Where is all this hate coming from?”

Were you “talking” to me?

If so - please explain what you see as “hate filled” with what I said?

Further thoughts on Zach’s statement that, “They (the bishops) can’t discount the value of an illegal alien (a person) or someone that can’t find work to support their family (a person) to less than the value of the unborn (a person) without sacrificing their commitment and vow to the whole Church. That is the point of speaking of the seamless garment as Cardinal Bernardin did.”

Zach, 4,000 murdered babies a day.  Are the illegal aliens going to be murdered?  Are the workers who can’t find a job going to be murdered?  Illegal aliens and unemployed workers have advocates to help them.  There is no way and nobody able to stop the murder of 4,000 innocent human beings each day except those who profess to believe God is the giver of those lives that our government is allowing to be murdered.  And those murders are occurring only because one political party has defended, and fought for, those murders to continue.  And that political party’s largest, single support group and voting block are church-going, Profession of Faith professing, Our Father praying, Communion receiving and distributing Catholics.

Are you seriously trying to tell me you really believe the bishops are rightfully busy with these social issues that have nothing to do with good and the evil, right and wrong, and the murdering of God’s greatest creation when half of their flock is responsible for that happening?