Beautifuloly explained! Pick up your Rosaries everyone. Padre Pio called the Rosary “THE weapon!”

You have the promise of my prayers and my Rosaries! Thank you for taking the stand, we are behind you 110%

Thank you, Dan.  What a beautiful post!  The Rosary never fails and if you feel like you’re “burned out” on the devotion, keep praying, because that’s when it takes on even more power.

the rosary with my children and alone…much prayer for your brave action!!

“Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far,
Don John of Austria is going to the war . . .”

Lepanto is an excellent source of inspiration in this assault on Holy Mother Church!

I think the Obama administration has managed unwittingly to do what the USCCB has been unable or unwilling to do…to get the USCCB to unequivically draw the line in the sand though I doubt it would have happened 10 or 15 years ago) Is there NOW any misunderstanding or lack of clarity in any functioning American Catholic’s mind what the Church proclaims regarding the immorality of contraception?  Blessed be Holy Name of Jesus!

You have my prayers and rosaries for this cause.  Everyone should give to EWTN (I just increased my monthly donation) and the Beckett Fund.  If athiests can do this for Planned Parenthood, let us show what faithful Catholics can do.

Here’s how I really look at this. 
1. I am near 49 and have never used the pill.  EVER! I could take a drug test and post it but I don’t know if I should do so. 
(TRuth is, I have never been on any drugs, EXCEPT ANTI-BIOTICS FOR THE FLU). 
2.  Since they have been ineffective to teach other women to be like me,  why is this story even coming to my eyes and ears OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN. Since they could not teach other women to be like me and keep their pants on and not be impulsive dog men and women who jump into bed at the drop of a hat after clubbing or going down to the club,  this is your reward.
3. How many time do people like me have to be bombarded with this OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER——AGAIN?  How many times do I have to play the stupid fool and call Congress again and again.

Doing so once is ENOUGH TO voice my point of view. 

You are the ones panicking.  Are we not Christians? Are we not the first Church?  Why are we fearing?  Isn’t that a sin?  Why are we not being prepared and doing what we are supposed to be doing? 

4. Think about it. How is the other opposing side behaving? Are they fearing? Are they calling us?  Are they pounding the pavement when the other side is ticked about something that we are going to do to them. No, they are prepared when they go to court. 

5.  In the diocese of St Petersburg, and in Florida BayCare is not just run by Catholics but Baptists and some Methodists.  I hope they are prepared when they go to court.

6. I know enough that while abortions are not going to be done, the Baptists do not stand like us when it comes to birth control.  This is going to be an issue in court.  Watch. Don’t shoot the messenger.
7. Don’t say I told you so when this happens. 
8.  Don’t point and assume that all women have used the pill. There are many like me who waited until they got married, knew what self control is and when they got married knew how to say no when they didn’t want kids or did not get married UNTIL THEY COULD AFFORD THEM AND NOT HAVE TO IMMATURELY SEND THE CHURCH OR CLERGY THE BILL.
9.  Why did we wait until most women were on the pill for this to get that big of an issue?  I guess it was pre conversion and when most of the leaders in the Church were on the pill also and going home and jumping each other in night clubs. 

You get what you pay for and right now, I do pray and am very pro-life. But have you all always been?  We have a purgatory on Earth coming up.

Abortion and the pill are not right. What does the law say and what does religious moral law say?  When the gavel goes down,  it is not going to be the same as a Catholic blessing at Mass. 
My real point:  don’t be the old lady wearing a jumper to Mass at a local parish who gets there by driving her grandkids or kids in a broken down minivan. REnt a nice one, look good and not the fool and be prepared and wear a suit to court and BE PREPARED IN COURT AND Know what they are going to throw at us.  Don’t be stupid. Have a clue. The BC pill is not the only abortifacient.  Prescription drug abuse causes birth defects too. 

Time to be wise to the issue and the whole picture when you pray about this.  Don’t pray with your eyes closed this time.

The USCCB helped to create this nightmare (plus the homosexual storm that is building up) and it is up to the USCCB to call for a day of prayer and fasting on at least one day of the week by each and every diocese through-out the U.S.. Also, Canon Law 915 is still available to them to use on those politicians that call themselves “catholic”. God does not want anybody to enter hell, including Obama or myself, so we need very much prayer to shut the gates of hell and work to save our souls.  +JMJ+

And pray we should.  One of my prayers will be that our bishops will have a collective examination of conscience, asking themselves when they truly last taught about contraception and Humanae Vitae.  I’m sure many people reading here can say that in decades they have never heard a bishop in their diocese or a priest in their parish talk about contraception.  More often than not, Catholics hear about it at lay-led seminars and on Catholic TV, radio and internet.  We even have Business Insider publishing an article yesterday, “Time to admit it: The Church has always been right on birth control”.  We have to fight the religious liberty issue, but our bishops and priests need to step up to the plate on the issue of contraception rather than leaving it to lay people.

Someone PLEASE start a blog for past Obama voters like me to say NO VOTE FOR OBAMA at least until HHS Mandate is rescinded. I will be first signer   Raymond J Ryan   Essex, Ct

Thank You to EWTN!  The rosary is a very powerful tool and now is the time for all of us to get on our knees and ask God to hear and answer our prayers.  It is time for the Catholic Church to speak out; we can’t just sit back and be quiet any longer.

I am most happy to pull out my rosary, it’s been a difficult for me to say it lately, so this will give me a darn good reason.  I am happy that this cause is bringing us together to fight for what is good and right.  Dear Blessed Mother, please join us in this prayer and ask your Son to overcome the evil that pervades in our society.

I just saw a website called “Catholics for Choice”—any comments? Are they “really” Catholics or just using the label?

Re: “Catholics for Choice,” by the title alone they just excommunicated themselves.  No, they are blatant CINOs (catholics-in-name-only).

Here’s the lowdown on “Catholics for Choice” from Catholic Culture’s site.

“Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC) is a dissident group which seeks to further the “rights” of women by pushing for “reform” in the Catholic Church on issues such as contraception and abortion. This organization advocates for the right of a woman to her own body and denies that life begins at conception. It also undermines the authority of the Church hierarchy and its teachings on issues such as women’s ordination and celibacy. CFFC is a dangerous organization and this website should be avoided except for research purposes.”

Here’s the link for more info:
http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/reviews/view.cfm?recnum=2627&repos=2&subrepos=0&searchid=837305

Seek out NaProTechnology and the Creighton Model System if you want to learn about your fertility and infertility cycles to have a family or to avoid so you have some spacing. I am learning this now and it is a Catholic faith based educational system from Pope Pius XVI Institute and it is awesome!

Do you think Mother Angelica ever doubted that God would use EWTN for such a mission?  Pass out EWTN envelopes at church.  Give anything.  Call on Our Lady of America.  Pray, Pray, Pray.  This country will be the beacon of light again. Jesus, meek and humble of heart.  Deliver us, Jesus. Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy.

I would like to see the priest come out on saying the roasryone night a week in church as a parish for this issue and I think it should be all 20 mystery I think we can all give one hour to save are country from the forces of satan God Bless EWTN.

Oh, I forgot the Catholic doctrine that the Pope is infallable and Catholics can’t tell the difference between right and wrong without his authority. No way to have a reasonable discussion with you people.

I think one benefit to the HHS regulations is that this matter is showing the whole nation and the whole world what Obama and his administration are REALLY like.

Anyone who voted for him last time, especially any Catholics (shame on you!!) should understand that they are responsible for this in part, and not vote for him next time. If he is re-elected, these kinds of tyrannical edicts will multiply, especially since he won’t be worried about re-election.

But none of this should surprise us, coming from a man who voted against a bill to protect infants who are born alive during an abortion. When he was in IL, he voted that infants born alive “by mistake” during an abortion should not receive any help whatsoever, just leave them to die. Without outlawing abortion, the Born Alive Infants Protection Act said that if the baby happens to be born alive, the doctors/nurses/staff must give the baby medical attention, etc. WHICH ANY HUMAN BEING WHO IS NOT A MONSTER WOULD NATURALLY DO! The reason for the bill was that it was discovered that such babies were being left to die in dirty laundry rooms and the like. Of course, we all know now that late term abortionists sometimes outright kill infants who somehow manage to escape death while in the womb…

Excuse the rant, but what did we expect from someone who votes against fundamental human compassion?

So, yes, we must oppose these regs now, with all our might, no matter what the cost, or before long he’ll be passing regs to force us to offer abortion and to teach and do abortion in our med schools and God knows what else.

Winston,
The Pope is considered infallible when he is operating in his official capacity from the Chair of Peter, teaching on matters of faith and morality. 
We do not regard him as divine, nor do we say he is sinless.
God Bless!

@Raymond Ryan: No votes for Obama at least until he rescinds the HHS mandate? Think about what you wrote. He has revealed his true self time and time again: pro-homosexual, anti-marriage, pro-abortion, anti-religious freedom, big government power mad politician. Yet, yet, he still might get your vote if he rescinds the mandate?! No way - there is an evil chess game being played. He may indeed rescind the mandate, get re-elected then impose it again anyway when there is no election hanging over his head. There is only one solution: fire him and all his fellow travelers and put in better public servants who will follow the Constitution. Out with Obama!

Why would those of us that hold the Catholic faith in our hearts be concerned with the laws and regulations of any Nation?  What I have been reading these past days is the ugliness that is in those that claim they hold to the beauty of our faith.  I find it very disappointing that many here are behaving in a manner that resembles the very thing that leads us away from that faith.

You should inform the Pope’s army’s Bishops and Priests about this battle you have signed them up for. When is the last time you’ve heard a homily about the evils of contraception? Do you suppose the Church Militant will spring into action after fifty years of “Father Friendly”? Do think that this modern epoch, full of gender-neutral nuns & priests, Protestant hand-holding, and rock-n-roll, has sapped the strength of our army? I sure hope the post-V2 liturgical freedoms have given us the power to be saints and martyrs.

Could someone please explain how an employer allowing employees to purchase an insurance policy through an insurance company is “forcing” the employer to pay for illicit services?  Wouldn’t it be the insurance company that is paying the costs and the policy enrollees indirectly subsidizing the insurance company?  Is it a sin to purchase a policy that happens to offer coverage for illicit services?  Because people do that everyday it seems.  I also shop at stores where my purchases might help subsidize the sale of other things I don’t approve of.  Am I not allowed to shop at those stores because of that?  I haven’t seen a clear and convincing explanation why this insurance thing with Catholic hospitals and universities is morally different from everyday situations where hundreds of millions of people buy insurance and shop at stores that have their hands in things we might not approve of.  Have the bishops or anyone prepared such an analysis for people to examine?  If so, where can we find it?  If it’s not available, why not?  Thank you.

The Dominican Sisters of Nashville have requested it be prayed as a Novena.

Act of Consecration of the United States to the

Immaculate Heart of Mary

Most Holy Trinity: Our Father in heaven, who chose Mary as the fairest of your daughters; Holy Spirit, who chose Mary as your spouse; God the Son, who chose Mary as your Mother; in union with Mary, we adore your majesty and acknowledge your supreme, eternal dominion and authority.

Most Holy Trinity, we put the United States of America into the hands of Mary Immaculate in order that she may present the country to you. Through her we wish to thank you for the great resources of this land and for the freedom, which has been its heritage. Through the intercession of Mary, have mercy on the Catholic Church in America. Grant us peace. Have mercy on our president and on all the officers of our government. Grant us a fruitful economy born of justice and charity. Have mercy on capital and industry and labor. Protect the family life of the nation. Guard the precious gift of many religious vocations. Through the intercession of our Mother, have mercy on the sick, the poor, the tempted, sinners - on all who are in need.

Mary, Immaculate Virgin, our Mother, Patroness of our land, we praise you and honor you and give our country and ourselves to your sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. O Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, pierced by the sword of sorrow prophesied by Simeon, save us from degeneration, disaster and war. Protect us from all harm. O Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, you who bore the sufferings of your Son in the depths of your heart, be our advocate. Pray for us, that acting always according to your will and the will of your divine Son, we may live and die pleasing to God. Amen.

Imprimatur, Patrick Cardinal O’Boyle, Archbishop of Washington, 1959, for public consecration of the United States to the Immaculate Heart of Mary;

renewed by U.S. Bishops, November 11, 2006

I am a Presbyterian Deacon, Protestants also stand with Catholics against the attack on religous liberty, and against the contraceptive mandate. I believe this is a united front by sincere christians of all denominations.

In response to Mr. Patton: Either you are a misinformed Catholic or you are posing as one. Every Catholic should know that morality encompass every aspect of our life-it is not something you put in a box. If you really held Catholicism in your heart you would realize as Horace says “Laws without morality are useless”.  I don’t hold it against you, I understand that many of us are just a product of our misinformed generation.

One of the great horrors of my life was learning that “the pill” did NOT prevent fertilization but only implantation—so I have perhaps many children in Heaven who never had a chance to be born. Why were we not told?? It is heartbreaking. Yet I know one day, by God’s mercy, I will be there with them and meet them for the first time—my babies.

Please consider signing the petition started by Frank at Why I Am Catholic.  Not so much because we are asking, but demanding that this unjust ruling be repealed.  About 28,000 have signed so far.  NARAL is trying to catch us (like they really need a petition when the administration is already on THEIR side!  I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried).  https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/rescind-hhs-dept-mandate-requiring-catholic-employers-provide-contraceptivesabortifacients-their/lBxr7SdP?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl

Thanks, George!

Thank you, Dan for this very informative Post. As I have stated elsewhere, along with praying the Holy Rosary for our Mother Church in U.S. of America - now under mortal threat from Obama - the Eucharistic Apostles of the Divine Mercy here in Kenya are praying for Christ’s Victory over the evil that is Obama and his Administration.  We especially pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet before the Blessed Sacrament at the 3.00 O’Clock - The Hour of Great Mercy. And to you commentators who feel your Bishops have been asleep, remember, the Apostles deserted Jesus during His Passion.  But that did not affect the Divine Duty for which He had chosen them for from commencing on the Day of Pentecost. And here we are - 2000+ years later. Christ’s Church has survived numerous persecutions and grown stronger from Her tribulations.  Be assured the entire Church Militant and the Church Triumphant are “in the trenches” with you. To those who think the Church is just making noise I say.  History shows that no Empire, no earthly Power attacked the Catholic Church frontal and survived. Pray, good Americans, vote out Obama and his evil team or your country will soon become an ex-Super Power…no one wants that. So rise up, rally around your Bishops and remain firm. Never kneel before the “Graven Image”. Fight with everything you have, but principally with Prayers and fasting and being united.  That unjust Law must be rejected, no matter the consequences.

How sad, but true:  The problem is getting those who don’t realize that this is an infringement of the rights of everyone to realize it.  This particular attack is on the Catholics.  If we let the administration get away with it, who knows who or what else they will target next?  Only the hopelessly naive fails to see that they will target the sick, the elderly, and those that the administration deems burdensome.  We’ve been given a great opportunity to make a stand and call a screeching halt to this march to perdition.  Go find that rosary, and get started praying, write your congressman, sign petitions, attend meetings, and urge court action to expose this administration as the unholy and unconstitutional abomination that it is!

Question of contraception, when it is contraception, is not only Catholic issue, or issue only for Catholics.
Infertility, curable or incurable, is by every medical classification serious illness.
What kind of behaviour is to inflict serious illness to oneself ? Obviously destructive, illogical, against sound reason and harmful. To inflist it to someone else, suggest, try to force is unjust, dishonest and against any kind of love or care.
Justice, honesty,constructivness, souind reason is for everybody, not just for Catholics.
Hormonal contraception has three modes of work, two are really contraceptive (against conception), one is prevention of inplantation of conceived child to womb, i.e. terminationj of existance and life of unborn child. For IUD, which is also called contraception, only method of work is prevention of inplantation of conceived child to womb, i.e. termination of life of a child.
Justice, honesty, mkindness and love, parental or spousal is for everyone, also for atheists and agnostics.
Best wishes to You all.

Maggie McC: I am a pro-life,pro Natural Family Planning OB/GYN.In our battle against abortion and contraception we must always fight with TRUTH. I realize perhaps you have been misinformed concerning the FOUR ways the pill May work. (please understand no one is exactly sure!)The methods are as follows: 1) Prevention of ovulation (the egg is not released from the ovary; hence no fertilization takes place and no new life is created), 2)Decrease and change in cervical mucous (this would be a deterrent to sperm traveling from the vagina, through this inhospitable mucous, trying to reach the fallopian tube), a decrease in motility of the cilia lining the fallopian tube (this would slow down the egg as it travels down the tube, it might also slow down the zygote ( NEW HUMAN LIFE!!!) on its path toward the uterus increasing the possibility of an ectopic pregnancy), and finally a 4) post implantation effect/or abortifacient effect caused by an endometrial lining that has not been prepared correctly and cannot sustain the newly implanted embryo. You are correct in that the pill may be potentially abortifacient. How often, no one is certain and you can be assured that the pharmaceutical companies are not interested in finding out. What is overwhelming , also, is the thought: how many souls have not come into existence and will NEVER have a chance to spend an eternity with God in Heaven. For LIFE, FOR CHRIST!

reciting the rosary is beautiful and the rosary speaks by itself through the blessed virgin Mary mother of God

I have been mobilized.  We are a nature of hypocrites who speak out of both sides of the mouth.

We say we love our nation, yet are willing to have government impose a restriction on the practice of our religion.  It is NOT freedom of worship, but freedom of RELIGION.

We say when a pregancy is wanted, even in the first few weeks, it is said that she is “going to have a baby” yet when it is unwanted it is said that the “fetus is not viable”? 

Natural family planning works.  It honors our bodies, and is truly “organic”, the current style of the time.  Why is being a vegetarian or a vegan regarded as self discipline, yet popping a synthetic hormone instead of exercising true self discipline similarly regarded as acceptable?

I have never heard a homily against conteaception. However by the grace of God, my wife and I early on decided to trust God and we abstained from sex when we chose to space our children. We only had 3 kids but never quit trying for more. The devil has many allies in Hollywood, Washington, and the media but God will prevail.

THANK YOU! for this article!  Sharing it and living it!!  We Will Not - We Must Not Kneel!
God bless you!

A courageous, very well written, highly courageous, faith filled article.
Thanks Mr. Dan Burke.

I am from Canada.  I rather concerned with Ms Sebelius and HHS edict. 
Truly they are seeking approval, kneeling and bow to the wrong god.

I join countless Christians praying the Rosary, our most powerful link to our Mother of the Church.  I have no doubt - we shall win.  I already see the angel in the background blowing the flames away.

Thank you.  Keep it up.

So all you Catholics think it’s just fine to increase the risk to a woman’s health just for the sake of dogma (how I hate that word). The medical value of contraception is proven. DATA beats DOGMA every time!

It’s certainly heinous for Catholic institutions to be forced to have health insurance policies that provide contraceptives including abortion inducing drugs and sterilization as this would also force employees to purchase the insurance. So it appears that the only options Catholic institutions would have would be to stop providing health care for employees and face the consequences which may mean paying fines or being forced to shut down. Meanwhile all this raises many other dilemmas.

Presently as far as I know every pharmacy carries contraceptive prescriptions and devices so every time we purchase legitimate pharmaceutical items we are being forced to help fund the pharmacy. Besides this there is the fact that manufacturers that make life saving drugs such as antibiotics, heart medication, pills for regulating blood pressure, etc. may also manufacture contraceptives. So every time we buy prescription drugs that are necessary for our health we are again being forced to help fund drug manufacturers that also produce contraceptives.

Along with this is the fact that the internet and television feature many things that are evil but since they also feature much that is good we pay for these services and as a result we are giving monetary support to something that also promotes evil. So what is a good Christian to do? In order to survive we need certain things and so we are forced to pay money to companies that also provide evil things. As Christians we must protest the evil things and never use them or be a part of them but we need direction as to where to draw the line. For if we have to refuse to give money to companies that provide evil things as well as things we need in order to survive then what are we supposed to do? Maybe we’ll have to start living like the Amish people do. I hope our clergy will give us some guidelines about all these issues which involve much more than this mandate.

Thank you Dan,
I think will be very useful if we can organize a march praying the holy
Rosary?
God bless you

I don’t wish to nitpick, but I think it is important to say that rosary was NOT “a lesser-known devotion at the time”. On the contrary, by 1571 the rosary was well established as a devotion. In England alone it was one of the main devotions of the faithful outside of Mass, and had been for several hundred years prior Lepanto.

When Henry VIII’s ship the Mary Rose sank on its maiden voyage over thirty years before Lepanto we have evidence that the English sailors were all devotees of the rosary. Maritime archaeologists brought the Mary Rose to the surface in the 80’s and the most common item they discovered was sets of rosary beads — hundreds of them.

“Posted by morrie on Friday, Feb 10, 2012 9:02 AM (EST): I have never heard a homily against contraception.”

I think that is because most are afraid to alienate a large number of their parish members—I’m not saying it’s right, but that’s my guess of why we don’t hear about it.  The priests don’t want to make anyone uncomfortable or have to deal with the confrontation that will come with speaking the message.

A conflict has been waging and sharpening for decades now between “real” Catholics and the so-called CINO.  Everyone has pretty much lived happily together, some saying clown Masses, some going to the TLM.  Some, and this includes bishops and priests, voting for Obama and embracing the discredited ‘seamless garment’ theory, and some believing your vote must reflect your values.  Well, now we have come, with the help of our bishops and their support getting Obamacare passed, to a crisis, to a pass, to a time of “separating the men from the boys” in terms of who is Catholic and who is not.  Our parish priest REFUSES to allow some parishioners who asked to say the St. Michael prayer after Mass.  (Of course he cannot do this rightfully, but they are intimidated and obedient.)  He doesn’t want to be “bothered with extra stuff like that and besides everyone is in a hurry to get to the parking lot.”  Hmm, very interesting logic when religious liberty is at stake in our country.  Does this priest realize he may soon be out of a job, out of a parish and out of a rectory when a totalitarian govt decides to just outlaw Catholicism altogether?  Wouldn’t be the first time in our nation’s history that’s been done or tried.  Who had the gumption to fire the first volley in self-defense?  The USCCB?  NO?  Little EWTN!  Feckless, fence-sitting, ill-formed or simply passive bishops and priests have put us in the position we’re in today.  Their top calling at this hour of desperation is to take responsibility for that and do a 180 quick, before it really is too late.

We do have strong priests who preach on the evils around us; we do have daily rosary after Mass; we do have 24 hour adoration. Our priests need faithful followers with whom they can work and who will keep them in their prayers as we all fight against the evil one and not blame them for everything that goes wrong. Let us work together and be thankful that we have priests and pray for them.

Oh, I forgot that the statists’ doctrine that Obama/Sebelius are infallible and secularists/atheists can’t tell the difference between right and wrong without their authority. No way to have a reasonable discussion with you people.  Nice try, Winnie.

Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/blog/dan-burke/why-the-popes-army-will-not-kneel-to-the-hhs-mandate/#ixzz1m1tk3NQv

We strongly recommend that the all the Bishops of the United States
re-institute the Prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel after every Mass in their dioceses to end the “crescendo of evil” in our country.

Paul: The pill has been found to be a carcinogen. It messes up the natural hormone balance in a woman’s body (as abortion does), increasing the risk of breast cancer.  It also is a carcinogenic agent in our drinking water!  Still think it’s good for women - or anyone else for that matter?

Please join http://www.thegregorian.org/memorare-army and

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Catholics-against-Nancy-Pelosi/268283653240652

THIS ‘CONCESSION’ IS NOTHING LESS THAN BEING FORCED TO HIRE A HIT MAN. And not just to be forced to be the one to make the contract, but then forced to pay the designated hit man’s fee—over and over and over. Or really, being FORCED to (as opposed to suicide) hire a hit man and pay him to kill yourself.

  I am too mad to retype – so am posting comment below to be placed at a great article on American Thinker at http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/02/whom_the_gods_would_destroy_comments.html#disqus_thread.

          “Now, I don’t mean that the Archangel Gabriel will appear out of the East to scourge the administration with a blazing sword, though I would pay to see that.”
    Well fire up the barbie and get out your popcorn, it is going to be a really good show. He may wish, in the end, it was AG, because it is going to be a “cadre of hundreds of thousands of highly [mad and motivated] … and dedicated … [women] that make Obama look like a kindergartner” – IN HIS TIME OUT CHAIR!  Lying-about-his own-mom BO is going to be put on a long time out – and his time out chair is back home in sweet Chicago. And his time out commences January 2013, and he will be banned from ever going back to the playground where his transgression occurred until starts acting his age.(Or converts!)

        “With this move, Obama has thrown down the gauntlet.  … Three-quarters of American priests condemned the policy….  Obama has accomplished something there—the pope himself couldn’t get that many priests to agree on anything. But it will probably be more subtle than that.” 
        Not ah – If Momma ain’t happy ain’t nobody happy, and the next 9 months will not be subtle, despite any deal the Church Heirarchy may make with the devil. Women will not take that chance again – we, once content (okay, and amused) with letting the men busy themselves with these matters, will be campaigning until election day in numbers the likes of which this country has not seen in generations. Parrhesia unleashed. And the Bishops and Priests that openly endorsed O in ’08 may find many of their parish pews devoid of women (and their children, and their children’s children) should they continue to openly support him. We will occupy a different Parish that (at least publicly) aligns with the Truth.

“… In short order, it will move on to the other Christian confessions and to practicing Jews.” NOT. NINETY THOUSAND Jewish women wrote HHS IN SUPPORT of keeping the mandate. Well we hope we put Herman Cain’s “999” on steroids and reach 999,999.99!  Yeah – how about a “Million Mad Mom’s March” – now that would be something!

“… it is the violation itself that brings about destruction, not any outside response.  The gods don’t need to step in.” No they don’t need to step in, we just need one precious Jewish Catholic Woman, Our Lady, with her entire army of regular, every-day, ladies behind her.

My daughter and I are starting “Fireupthebarbies.com” (not live yet) and we hope, with Our Lady’s Blessing and support, to have more members and clout than all the opposition combined. We are ladyists, not feminists (a term that has long jumped the shark)and as such, have much more unrealized power (we have families (sometimes big ones!), large communities of friends (that probably have lots of kids too!), etc., etc., versus spinster hateful feminists that may high paying jobs but little else in their angry existence.
Miracles happen, and my daughter and I are hoping with a lot of prayer, hard work, and some seriously thick skin, this one happens.

To quote a well known Jesuit, the Servant of God Fr. John Anthony Hardon who said many times: “Unless we have the zeal and the spirit of the early Christians, unless we are willing to do what they did and pay the price that they paid, the days of America are numbered.” We can change this course and God will fight with us to deliver us if we humbly ask and respond in prayer and acts of penance!
People really do not believe their are consequences to sin in this life. If we do not do pray and penance voluntarily I am afraid God may impose it on us through natural disasters, wars and persecutions of the church foretold by Our Lady at Fatima who said: “If my requests are heeded, there will be peace; if not, Russia will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated. In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.
O Immaculata Patroness of the United States defend us from our enemies! Mary Mother of Mercy implore the Mercy of your son for us!
Remember Abraham bargained with God to spare Sodom and Gomorrah if there were 10 just men living there! Let us find 10% to join us for One extra act of Penance a week for the 2012 elections!  http://www.causes.com/causes/645491-one-extra-act-of-penance-for-2012/actions

Hail, Full of Grace…  (not highly favored daughter)

Hail Mary Full Of Grace the Lord is With Thy Blessed art thou among Women and Blessed is the fruit of your Womb. Holy Mary Mother of God Haver Mercy on Us….Have Mercy On Us and Grant Us the Will of Our Father and have it be done according to your Word!

Praise be to God for our Bishops and Priests and Faithfull who Trust In Jesus and Stand Up for Life!

This rhetoric is so over the top of arrogance it leaves me breathless. No one is being asked to kneel to anyone. This is a representative democracy and a Christian President has proposed and them compromised a public policy which some Catholics find morally objectionable. Is this how we are supposed to talk to one another? Strident, self-aggrandizing, arrogant? I demur. Some humility here, please.

Clara, the humility needs to come from the President, not from Catholics. He’s the one arrogating to himself the power to violate the Constitution. We’re just fighting back.

But Dan Burke, never mind, “We will not kneel!” The more appropriate statement of defiance is, “We will not pinch (the incense)!”

The Pope’s army prays. The Pope’s army fights. The Pope’s army endures.
The Pope’s army does not kneel to the command to sin and abandon the Truth. If the Pope’s Army were made up of Catholics like you,  we would not be in the dire straits we are facing. I see a Catholic Church, generally speaking,  that has lost it’s way. How many of the people you shake hands with in church voted for the Planned Parenthood President ? How many of our ordained priests in our parishes voted for the Planned Parenthood President ? How many of our “holy” Conference of Catholic Bishops not only voted for the Planned Parenthood President, but made matters worse by accepting the “30 pieces of silver” when bargaining with the PPP over abortion care ? Our “holy” Univ of Notre Dame had a mock election in 2008 and the majority of students voted for the PPP. We have a Pope that instead of coming to the U.S. to read the “riot act” to the Kennedy,Pelosi,Biden,Kerry,Matthews style Catholics he is wearing a sombrero, designer sneakers, designer cologne,and fiddling with yesterday’s broken down dictators and trying to cut deals with environmental pagans, while giving lip service to the culture of death. No, I am not a fall away Catholic,  just a Catholic Soldier for Christ very tired of the unorthodox, jelly fish, phony style of Catholicism that satan has infected us with. Let’s read or re-read of CCC, sober up and get back to being Catholics with spine or let’s stop pretending. 65 million abortions and counting, HELLO, is anyone out there ? Gay marriage is at our doorstep and we cannot get up the spine up to say that gay unions are “intrinsically disordered” as per the CCC. God helps those who help themselves. All the prayers in the world will not reverse bad free will. Christi Fidelis !

I have seen surveys that indicate that a huge majority of Catholics do not believe that contraception is morally wrong (only 15% do in a Pew survey). That would include a not insignificant percentage of the Catholic hierarchy. In fact, the National Survey of Family Growth found that 98% of Catholic women in the childbearing years between 15 and 44 are using or have used contraception.

I must stress that the figures don’t show that contraception is morally OK, just that the majority of Catholics believe it is (or believe that it’s wrong and simply ignore the church’s position).

Doesn’t the church leave itself open to accusations of hypocrisy in trying to force its opinions on the state when it cannot do so within its own ranks?

Way to go, Dan.
But, why is this blog, “hidden”.

Why isn’t the message on the headline of NCR.

It is our call to arms.

All need to hear it loud and clear.

We must not forget that the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers before the second coming of Christ!  The Church however betrayed by many of her members will never be abandoned by Christ for the sake of the elect Jesus said to his disciples before he ascended into Heaven:  “Teach them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world.”  Matthew 28:20
The persecutions that accompany her pilgrimage on earth will lead to the unveiling of the “mystery of iniquity” in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth.
St. Paul wrote about this in 2 Thessalonians 2:11 Saying that men preferred falsehood to Truth so God punishing the apostates will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false ... they will believe a lie for truth. Can anyone doubt that this has constantly occurred in the world over the centuries?  Look how the likes of Hitler and Stalin were accepted.
Jesus also warned in the book of John of this worldwide acceptance of the Antichrist the lawless one (not accepting the laws of God but the laws of men. Men preferred live an illusion a lie as truth!  “I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.”  John 5:43
We are living what was foretold by the prophets and Our Lord as a consequence for our turning from truth individually in our personal sins and as a society. Let us turn to Our Lady at Fatima she alone was sent from God to warn us of the coming apostasy and the consequences for not turning form sin and doing penance to save our neighbor from the abyss directly in front of us!.  Maranâ’ thâ’ –Come Lord Jesus!
Spera Rose, OCDS http://speramus-hope.blogspot.com

Sister Campbell, you say the US Catholic Bishops say the Ryan budget failed a basic moral test and apparently it failed your test too. Well well ok let’s change the budget let’s address your legitimate complaints let’s get it right. But I don’t understand how that means tossing the whole Republican party under the bus by switching parties and going with the Democratic Party, the party that gives the sacred right of marriage over to homosexuality thereby defiling, degrading and debasing that most sacred of institutions. The Democratic Party that supports abortion on demand and supports planned parenthood which are mainly responsible for the 50 million infants now dead and whose blood screams out from the grave. The world that know the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob know that the act of a man putting his penis in another mans butt for sexual pleasure is wrong at least according to my Catholic bible and according to the doctrine of the Catholic faith—that would be the one headquartered over in Italy in Rome, where they use to throw those same people to lions and kill them for sport.  Homosexuality is fine with Obama he said so and it is fine with his political party they support it and so does Rachel Maddow a huge leader in gay rights cause, her and her girl friend her mate and a great deal of the main stream media and TV, etc. That political party supports that the infant, the fetus, be ripped out of the womb and put into the trash. The important thing for them is that a women has a right to control her own body and do with it whatever she pleases including killing her own child. That right is held strict by the Democratic party. With his Health Care Plan Obama has stabbed religious liberty through the heart. And with your speech at the DNC you just gave your support of all of these things.