Why I didn't post yesterday or today.

Tornadoes.

From Borden IN, through Marysville and Henryville, and on into Clark country there is a path of devastation.  That's here.  Yesterday, on the way home from my volunteer gig, I was serenaded by tornado sirens, from crossing the Ohio River, through Jeffersonville, and Clarksville until I hit the Floyd county line.  When I got home, they went off again.  It was bad, and I won't bore you with a recap.  Last night we went up to Henryville to get some food and coffee and things to the responders, it was dark, and things were still pretty disorganized.

Today we gathered up  non-refrigerator food and, and friends chipped up cash, so we bought blankets, baby formula, diapers, wipes, paper plates, cups , plastic flat wear, etc. and went up again.  The relief supplies coming up from the south were being gathered in St. Francis Xavier Church, (which has been damaged), from the north they were going onto a Christian retreat center which is also set up as a shelter.  As we came from the south we hit St Francis, off loaded and them the Queen of the House had us stay and help sort for a while.  It looks much worse in daylight than it did at night, and worse in real life than in video or photographs.

It's really bad--as bad as the '73 outbreak.  And the destruction looks like a couple of brigades of artillery just pent a day or two randomly destroying these towns--but it happened in minutes. 

Now I'm tired, I think I'll drink a scotch, and go to bed.  So no thoughtful, incisive criticism today (SNARK! We all know I rant.  I LIKE ranting!).  Say some prayer for all those, through out the Midwest and South, who have been hit by these storms.

A stange in seach words!

Someone found this blog using the search term "lubrication theory".  I have no idea what that even is.

John Paul II and Einstein

I have a flip page calendar on my desk that is good forever.  It just has the day of the month, and a quote from John Paul II on each page.  Today's quote has stuck with me all morning:

Christianity is not an opinion, nor does it consist of empty words.  Christianity is a person, a living person!  To  meet Jesus, to love him and make him loved: This is the Christian vocation.  --Message for the 18th World Youth Day, March 8, 2003.

It's staggering in it's implications.

If you don't believe me, think about Albert Einstein, and his famous thought experiment that led to the theory of relativity.  That experiment was important, not only for the theory, but for it's validation of though experiments as a starting point for understanding.  So let's do a thought experiment of our own.

Imagine that you are married, and speaking to an acquaintance.  You say to your acquaintance "I love my spouse, but I loath my spouses body!  I want nothing to do with it, I don't even like to be around it.  It's disgusting and  old fashioned and filled with imperfections!"  Now imagine you spouse overheard you.

Well, that wouldn't go over well.

The thing is, the Church is the Body of Christ.  When someone says they love Jesus, but hate the Church, they are in the position of the speaker in our imaginary experiment.  You cannot hate the Church and Love Christ.  That's like saying you have no use for your spouses body.  Seriously.  The deep intimacy that occurs between a married couple is rooted in their bodies as well as their emotions.  And the Church is also the Bride of Christ, to claim to be a Christian and yet to hate the Church is like claiming to married, yet refusing the bodily aspects of marriage.

To profess a love of Christ, yet to harbor hatred or contempt for the Church is to deceptive.  You lie to the world, to God, and possibly to your self.  To be obstreperous, to instigate against love for the Church in others is to fail in your Christian vocation.  

Get Real, or Get Out.

I'm sick of some of the stuff I see going on around me.  Sick and angry, and ready to get in peoples faces.  Really ready to get in their faces.  It's time for truth, even if it's a hostile truth. I would have more respect for the President and his minions if they would  straight up say what they intend, rather than bandy words and seek to convince us they respect those of us with faith, ethics and a belief that rule of law applies to the government as much as to the people.

Like that's going to happen.

Stephen Cote' is co-author of a study that surprised him.  He is a psychologist at the University of Toronto, who has conducted a series of experiments.  What surprised him was that across the series of seven different experiments  it was found that Highly educated, successful people are much more likely to lie and cheat than the rest of us.  That explains a lot.  For one thing, it explains how Obama and Ilk have been so successful in convincing people that they, a coterie of rich academics and policy wonks, have the well being of the masses at heart, even while wrecking the economy and doing almost nothing for the majority.  They lie.  And they are practiced liars.  (For instance, the sudden drop in unemployment figures, created by redefining unemployment, not "creating or saving" jobs.)  There is another unpleasant fact of sociological research to consider as well--that the biggest current factor affecting whether or not someone will complete a college education is how much money they come from.  If your family is in the top 50%, you will most likely finish.  If not, you most likely will not.  Since a university education opens doors to influence, power and government jobs, we are staffing our government with the people most likely to lie and cheat.  Not only that, they are woefully ignorant.  it turns out that 7000 seniors tested on American Civics--history, political Thought, Foreign policy and history, and economics, the average score was 54.2%--an "F".  So we have ignorant liars, formulating policy, which they then manage to foist off on the two least competent demographics to understand such policy--ignorant university educated liars and welfare recipients, who have very low academic achievement. The Ignoretti deceiving the ignorant.

This is why we have such spectacles as women attending Georgetown University complaining that they spend three grand a year on contraceptives, and so are entitled to the University insurance program to pay for them. Being ignorant of basic economics they fail to realize that the cost will simply be added to the premiums they pay for student insurance.  Being liars they insist that they are spending thousands of dollars per year in contraceptive costs.  With forty percent claiming that the cost of contraception is a struggle, and with a months worth of birth control pills averaging $9 at target, one begins to suspect they are lying,hoping to get something for nothing.  And, by the way, these are students at the Law School--a traditional entry way into government service.  But it breaks down further, in an interesting way.  Not only do these women want you and I to chop up $1000 a year to pay for their fornication, Craig Bannister, writing for CNS news figured something out--the push on college campuses is for students to use condoms to prevent STDs.  Well, he found that  CVS pharmacies will sell, on their web site, name brand condoms at a buck a pop.  That means that if they are following recommendations, they are having sex 2.74 times a day. Here's where to get real:  Ladies, close your damned legs, or go to a secular school where the insurance will pay for your pills.  or maybe, just go to any one of the innumerable sources fro free condoms that already exist around any college or university.  I lived for 15 years in a university town, and condoms were so heavily distributed that they littered the sidewalks at times.  So--Stop lying, stop sleeping around, pay for your own vice, or get the hell out of Catholic School.  Nobody makes you attend there in the first place.

This same thing is seen among faculty member of universities, and the progressive factions.  I will never forget a college educated woman trying to escalate a situation to get a working class rival expelled from a group by upping the rhetorical ante by calling a rhythm stick and "assault weapon".  Like wise, the faculty of John Carrol University, well 25% of them, are insisting that the university accept the "compromise plan" and urging the bishops to "avoid rhetoric" about this issue.  They cite Non-Catholic groups acceptance of contraceptive and abortive practices, groups such as the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the Institute of Medicine.  Being largely from the Arts and humanities faculties, with a healthy admixture of those involved in "Population and Public Health", etc.  they seem oblivious that the member of the groups they cited turn a profit from contraceptives, sterilization, abotificients and abortions.  Being liars, they include members of the "Theology" faculty.  here's where to get real:  you work for a Catholic University, if you don't like that, and don't like the fact that your benefits don't include ways to violate the fifth commandment, get the hell out.  You are lying by your very presence, especially those in the Theology department.  You are supposed, by implicit actions, to support the goals of Catholic education.  If you don't. please stop taking Catholic cash that supports your middle class, comfortable existence.  It's that simple, we are tired of paying our enemies to stab us in the back, and we don't need you.

It's time we get in peoples faces, it's time we speak our minds, clearly, without worrying about tact, or being insensitive.  Our culture is dominated by opportunists, liars, cheats and ignoramuses.  We will not be free, we will not be comfortable, we will not prosper until we eliminate lying, cheating, corruption and faithlessness that masquerades as reason.  Especially troubling to is the way that ignorance begets arrogance, which gives rise to lies to force the ways of an elite upon us all.  These things are part of the cause of our current difficulties, and part of the punishment these difficulties are.

We fought a revolution about things like this, and it might take another one to correct it, if we do not unify the decent, working people, and oppose the elite which seeks to take the place of the British nobility and Crown we ran out of here over 200 years ago.

Don't Forget!

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Why Yes, the Government is Out To Get the Church.

Today has been set aside by our parish as a day of special prayer and fasting for the recension of the HHS mandate that makes us pay for contraceptives (against our religion to pay for), sterilizations (against our religion to pay for) and abortificients (against our religion to pay for).   Fasting and praying for this is also fasting and praying for our religious liberties, as this is the most egregious attack on the liberty of Catholics by the Federal Government, ever.  It is the most serious attack on our rights since the first quarter of the twentieth century, when the Klan was rampant, and Oregon passed a law making Catholic schools illegal and implementing a curriculum that was Anti-Catholic in intent, outline and detail.  The Federal courts ruled Oregon's law unconstitutional, and thus extended protection to the all parents' right to educate their children, and the Klan was broken by the FBI and other law enforcement.  I have no hope for such support this time around.

That this is an attack on the Catholic Church specifically is easily demonstrated by fact.  The first item to be considered is Obama's favorite "Catholic" group--"Catholics United".  This group is not a Catholic organization.  In fact, is is so not a Catholic organization that the USCCB flatly stated that it was a Non-Catholic group in 2008.  But by having this group as a front and a rubber stamp Obama and his minions can point to it and say they have the support of Catholics.  This constitutes the President, and his godless, modernist minions trying to say who is, and who is not, Catholic.  That is a blatant intrusion of the Executive ranch of the Government into our internal affairs, and a step--a big step--towards a strategy of divide and conquer.  Likewise citing such groups as "Catholics for Choice", NCAN and other groups that claim to be Catholic but that are actually heretical and schismatic. 

Another thing to be considered is the 'compromise" that was put forth.  The original HHS edict--and it is an edict--said that Churches per se, and grandfathered plans would be exempt.  The "compromise" said that insurance companies wouldn't charge premiums for contraception, sterilization or abortaficients.  That was piece of slight of hand so bizarre as to impress Dr. Goebbels with the size of the "Big Lie".  The insurance companies won't itemize the cost of these things in the premiums, they will simply increase the premiums across the board to cover the expense.  And under this, even insurance for those within Church and Rectory walls will be charged.  This alleged "compromise" expands the intrusion further than the original edict, and ensures that we will be forced, if we comply, to pay for the immoral and murderous predilections of our Satanicly inspired regime amoral technocratic bureaucracy at every turn.

The Fascist Gauleiter Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius,  has said  that they will be announcing a finalized version of the Edict shortly.  This is another example of the attack upon the Catholic Church, when one considers the details.  Yesterday she told reporters that "We intend to propose a rule in the near future that I think do exactly what the president (sic) says--which is make sure women have preventative health services... ." She went on to say that they intend to respect religious freedom.  Uh-Huh.  I flat do not believe her, for is demonstrably a liar, having lied in the past.  It's telling that she lists the groups they have consulted with to formulate the new rule:  "I have talked to Catholic health leaders. I'm reaching out to priests [Who, if you are familiar with the Faith, you will immediately recognize as having no magesterial authority.]  We're also talking to union leaders, we're talking to our partners at labor who run the self insured plans to figure out a strategy."  You will notice, glaringly conspicuous by it's absence, any  mention of the Catholic Bishops who actually hold the authority in this mater, and the authority over any Catholic activity.  "Where the Bishop is, there is the Church" is a saying that dates far back in our history, to The Fathers of the Church, specifically John Chrysostom.  They have not consulted with the Church at all, merely with those they think can give the impression that they have.  Likewise they have not spoken with the Missouri Synod Lutherans, the Orthodox Bishops of North and Central America, with the Evangelicals, or with the Catholic and other Christian Schools that have registered their opposition on religious grounds.  In fact, they have ignored their existence.  Were I a member of one of these ecclesial bodies, I'd be angry at that alone.  As to speaking with the unions, how on earth can they claim that unions have any sort of authority or credibility to decide what is or is not against anyone's religion?  And for one branch of the government, especially a regime that is hostile to religious freedom ( do not forget Obama's famous quote about us clinging bitterly to guns and religion!) and that constantly seeks to redefine it as "freedom of worship" to consult with the Department of labor to decide what protects our religious liberties is at best obfuscation, and more likely conspiracy to violate the Constitutional limits of Federal power.  Least you take umbrage at that statement, I suggest you remember Obama writing that progress in the US depends on "getting past constitutional limits on government power".

My final facts in support of my thesis that this is an attack aimed at fragmenting and silencing the Catholic Church are these:  There have already been exemptions granted for religious reasons, the Amish, the Mennonites, the Muslims, the Seventh Day Adventists, all are exempted.  But we Catholic are told to get over our conscience and pay for violations of the Fifth Commandment.  What's even stranger is the fact that Thirty-six union funds have been exempted, along with Twenty-five major businesses.  The union and business exemptions leave over one million workers with out this coverage, which is deemed so important that our Constitutional right to Freedom of Religion must be trampled. 

Gestapo Chief and Fascist Enforcer Attorney General Eric Holder has held forth that the new edicts that force us to abjure our religion or face ruinous fines is constitutional. ( I said ruinous fines, as in computed to be just under 650K.  Per Parish. With the parish school a separate entity. Per soup kitchen.  Per university facility with it's own separate identity.  Per homeless shelter.  Per convent that has a hired handyman. We Catholics have seen this before, in the Recusant Fines levied against us by the British Crown.)  Oddly enough, the Attorney General doesn't get to make theses decisions--the supreme court does, and somehow he has decided that he does, just as he decided not to enforce Federal Laws, such as the DOMA act.  Do we trust him?  Can we?  Since he's neck deep in the gun running scandal, and is actively trying not to answer questions from congress, I think we can safely assume he is one of the Satanic Operatives  Fascist Minions  Administration Lackeys Cabinet Level Officials trying to establish precedents to subvert the constitution, and render the Church ineffective and marginalized in American life.

I will close with a length quote from Father Robert Baron, which comes from a column he wrote for the February 8 edition of  National Review Online.

The secularist State wants Catholicism off the public stage and regulated to a private realm where it cannot interfere with secularism totalitarian agenda.  I realize that in using that particular term, I'm dropping a rhetorical bomb, but I am not doing so casually.  A more tolerant liberalism allows, not only for freedom of worship, but also for real freedom of religion which is to say; the expression of religious values in the public square and the free play of religious ideas in the public conversation.  Most of our founding fathers advocated just this type of liberalism. But there is another modality of secularism--sadly on display in the current administration--that is actively aggressive toward religion, precisely because it sees religion as its primary rival in the public arena.

TV and Me

I don't watch a lot of TV.  Right now I watch Grimm and Alcatraz.  I find myself watching Once u\Upon a Time, because the Queen of the House and my Daughter (the guest blogger this week) watch it.  I seldom sit through an entire episode.  But these are not the shows I want to talk about.

I want to talk about Two Broke Girls, because it's Lent.

I find the show to be very funny.  Not with gut-busting laughter humor, but with a sort of ongoing wry view of the world that slides through the entire program without the huge outbursts of hilarity.  I find it to be funnier than The Big Bang Theory, or any of the other sit-coms.  I avoid watching it.

I avoid watching it because it's a near occasion of sin for me, sometimes a flat occasion of sin.  Not because the humor is "off color".  I don't have a problem with off color humor.  Virtually everything about us humans  is fair game for humor, because we are, by and large, a laughable species.  Certainly our sexual peccadilloes, especially in an era when sexuality is unbridled by morality or taste, are ripe for parody and ridicule.  The occasion and near occasion of sin can be pinned down in two words:  Kat Dennings.

She is one of the two main characters in the show, and it's humiliating to admit I find her more than attractive.  This isn't due to her figure (although she is amply provided for) it's a combination of her movement style, humor and timing and especially her eyes and face. 

For someone who's supposed to be a good Catholic, who practices Chastity, I'm not very chaste, or this actress would not have quite such an effect.  I guess in a way it's good, because it points out to me a place that needs work.  But it's still and embarrassing admission.

Random Note.

I kinda enjoy seeing what search terms brought someone here.  Although, it does open me to the temptation to write a completely off the wall post, with a bizarre title and all sorts of obscure or offensive references, just to see what that does to my search word.

Vote on the New Poll....

...it makes me feel important.

Poll Results

Well 93% of respondents want to attend liturgies with Latin, chant, and reverence, that emphasize the saving power of God and repentance.

3% just want to sleep in.

3% want a mass where they an oogle the altar girls and the communion ministers.

Well, I think the 97% should all stand up, down shout the 6%, and tell their pastors that either mass gets reverent, beautiful and relevant to salvation or they will withhold the donations.

The Situation is This:

"When tolerance becomes a one way street it leads to cultural suicide"--Rep. Alan West. 

We need to engage in conversation about this idea, especially as it pertains to the Catholic Church, but not neglecting other Christian bodies as well.  To be blunt, we live in the most intolerant times I have experienced in my life.  There are those who will immediately scream about the Civil Rights Movement and how horrible we were, and use that to expostulate that we are more tolerant now than then.  I will say to that:  Balderdash!  The civil rights movement succeeded precisely because we were more willing to be tolerant then than now.  Has the American polity been unwilling, in it's majority, to practice racial tolerance, the Civil Rights movement would not have succeeded.  In fact, some of the violent expressions of that movement would have resulted in violent repression of it.  Instead, after waking up the majority of Americans to to injustice among us, we worked to correct that injustice, with both white and black Americans doing the work.  But now, instead of a government that was willing to at least look at the problem, we suffer under a government that is fomenting the problem, playing to the growing Anti-Catholic and Anti-Christian prejudice among the intelligentsia.

It must be said that there is visceral prejudice against Catholicism that cuts across both class and educational lines, but I must also say that I have encountered much, much more Anti-Catholicism from upper middle class people, and those with college educations than I have among the working class.  In the matter of Anti-Christian prejudice in general, that I have found only among the college educated.  I have met many working class people who do not embrace Christianity, but these people haven't really expressed outright hostility to it.  What I see is a rise of a class division, in which the upper middle classes are hostile to Christianity, or support a kind of Christianity which is based in relativism and an embrace of the current trends or fashionable causes.  Oddly enough, the Denominations which are facilitating this seem oblivious to their own demise, the rapid hemorrhage of adherents and the loss of their youth.  I read an interesting statistic a couple of years back that only about 2% of young people who were raised in the Episcopal Church identified as Episcopal or Christian.  The idea of relativism and  embracing secular causes and measures had destroyed their faith, and their very willingness to believe.  The Episcopal Church has the highest per capita income of any denomination, and the highest per capita educational attainment of any denomination.

A university education seems to not only be the portal to economic achievement, with university graduates earning much more than non university graduates, but the entry to a form of tolerance that tolerates everything except traditional morality and Christianity, with Catholicism being singled out for especial contempt.

I think that this particular observation has special significance for Catholics, because we are the second most affluent Christian Group in the US, and the second best educated.  The contempt in which the church is held in Academia has entered into our own body, like an infection that resists antibiotics.  One sees this almost daily.  The most famous example would be Nancy Pelosi, and her tendency to pontificate against the Faith, while maintaining her pose--and it is nothing more than a pose--as a 'devout" Catholic.  A rich, educated person, infected in University with feminism, and the false tolerance which supports everything except traditional morality is waging a campaign against the Church, especially against the bishops, by obfuscation, and conflating sociology with theology, to the detriment of the latter and the glorification of the former.

This tendency has permeated the Church, especially in it's outreaches that are of necessity administered and dominated by university trained professionals.  Health care is an example.  This area is one of the biggest battle grounds we are engaged upon, and it's one of our weakest spots.  WE have the example of Carol Keehan essentially abandoning the Church-- and Christ--to endorse a relativistic concept of what is right, while feeding the cause of those who will tolerate anything but Catholic Liberties.  We also have the example of Catholic healthcare West who severed ties with the church so they could engage in the relatively high profit practices of abortion, sterilization and contraception.  There are lower profile issues as well.  The Baylor University study that found that half of "Catholic" hospitals are performing elective sterilization procedures comes to mind.  Hospitals are disputing this, attacking the methodology of the study and it's conclusions.  One of the strangest refutations I have heard is that the study relied on the diagnostic and procedural codes used in hospital records keeping, and that these codes might be entered by mistake.  I find it hard to believe that 50% of Catholic hospitals are that sloppy in their records keeping.  Clearly someone is lying here, or at least misrepresenting the facts, and my money is on the hospitals.  Our Bishops, Priests and Laity have refused to enforce, teach or follow the Churches teaching on this subject for 44 years, and these are the fruits. 

We tolerated deviance from the Faith among those charged with it's preservation and transmission.  G.K. Chesterton said "Where orthodoxy is optional, it becomes forbidden", and that has been the trend.  When was the last time you heard a priest preach about contraception?  When, for that matter, was the last time you heard a priest preach about Chastity?  We have in the name of  "tolerance"  or "harmony" ceased to teach these things, and now among a great many Catholics they are ridiculed.  And the lack of adherence to our own Faith has become ammunition for those who would silence us, and declare us marginal.  To the point that the "progressive' regime that is dominating our republic seeks to evict us from the public square, to banish us to a Ghetto of Faith, that is only as free as what ever is kept in the four walls of the Church building itself.  Cardinal George has noted that under the current regulations, there will be no Catholic Hospitals in the US in two years.  We have already been driven out of the adoption services in many states, and our schools are being pressured to teach secular morality, under the guise of tolerance.  All fueled by the heretics and apostates who haven't the honesty to leave the Church.

There are however, two statistics that we can keep in mind.  The Church of Sweden, a Lutheran body, claims 70% of Swedes as members.  About 2% of  their members go to Church on Sunday, and most are atheists, who consider the Church a cultural institution, where one goes to get married and to get buried.  The famous Scandinavian tolerance has rendered the Church there irrelevant and impotent in cultural discourse.  Yet in Russia, where the Church had seen nothing but persecution and oppression between 1917 and 1991, 71% of Russians attend services on Sunday.  Unlike Scandinavian Christians, American Christians are trying to resist, to fight back, and the ideologues in Government will push harder. They will use kangaroo courts and biased trials against our bishops--as in Philadelphia--and misrepresentations and lies against the faithful, as on TV now to oppress us.  I believe that this oppression while being a Chastisement from God for our lukewarm faith and practice, will in the end give the Church in the US strength and vitality so at the end of it, we will emerge with great vigor, and become once again the salt of the Earth.

GUEST BLOGGER: local womens business awards

          This is not what you think it is.

    One of our local news stations had a piece on women having their own awards ceremony for women in business.  I had this thought when I heard it.


      Why do they have to have their own ceremony? Is it because they can't compete with men in business?

   Personally, I think it is. I am a woman. I  know I can't compete with men in business. I can be very decisive when i'm out shopping,but in a business I know I just can't do it the same way a man can. Men are more objective and practical than women. Our hormones come into our thinking too much and our emotions rule a great deal of our life and the way we think and process information.
   I truly think women need to take off the wants, put their skirts back on and get back in the home where they belong. Then the men could get back to work and the families wouldn't fall apart so much.
  Sure the girls should go to college, a job, maybe even work after they get married. But once they start having kids they should stay home and care for them and clean house and cook meals for the family. Weekends you can still do fun stuff.Not all of it has to be with the kids.
    But men need to be let back into the workplace and women need to get back in the home where they belong. Sure it'll bee hard at times. That will make the easy times that much sweeter.
    So I say all women should sign on for what I call "neo-feminism" (really it's just original feminism, not that crap from the 60's). Take back the home girls and put your men to work!

This was written by my daughter, who has her own blog, "Happy Domestic".  I didn't write it.  

Aktion T-4

Aktion T-4 as a program to murder the mentally ill, the developmentally disabled and the crippled in Nazi Germany.  It was accounted a crime against humanity, and there were prosecutions over it in the post war era.  Blessed Clemens Von Galen came to prominence by his outspoken opposition to it, which created enough of a problem that the program was suspended for a over year. 

Too bad the Nazi's seem to have won the war, after all.

The rise of 'assisted suicide" and euthanasia in Europe is a tragic example of the core beliefs of Nazism surviving and flourishing in Europe.  The idea that there is "life unworthy of life" seems to be at the heart of this evil political philosophy and seems to have been internalized by the medical profession in Europe.  it's worth remembering that  2/3 of the physicians in the Third Reich were members of the Nazi party--the most thoroughly nazified profession in the country.

Holland leads the pack in this drive towards murder, and somehow I do not find it surprising.  Of all the occupied territories, the Dutch Government and police were the most cooperative in rounding up Jews for the camps, and Holland provided the personnel to raise and maintain a division of the Waffen SS.  Holland has been at the forefront of the Euthanasia movement in Europe, the first to decriminalize, then regulate and legalize the practice, which now murders children with such treatable conditions as cleft palate and club foot.  And tellingly,  the mentally ill, to include the depressed.

But we in the US haven't anything to be proud of.  We have legalized the murder of unborn children in our own nation who for whatever reason are unwanted by their mothers--as they are judged to be too much trouble to allow to live--life unworthy of life.  This is made much more explicit when one considers the statistic than just over nine out of ten children diagnosed with Down's Syndrome or other forms of trisomy are murdered in utero, as having no chance at any sort of  "quality of life".  It's an American Aktion T-4 program, done for profit on the part of amoral physicians who are actually serial killers.

The word "progressive" gets thrown around a lot.  Consider that Holland is considered a progressive nations, with a tolerant government.  Consider too, that many Germans considered the Nazi party to be progressive.  We have elected a government that is backed by self proclaimed "progressives" here.  And as in Holland, and the Third Reich, and the Soviet Union or virtually anywhere else "progress" has been extolled as an end in itself, the culture of murder has gained massive amounts of power.  If you doubt that, look at the recent debacle of Komen for the Cure, where they quit funding Planned Parenthood, were castigated, and backtracked.  What didn't get as much coverage, was the resignation of Komen's CEO because of it.  She quit because the idea was to use those funds for effective early detection of breast cancer--not annual exams by palpitation, but mammograms.  The Party of Death shot that down.

Where ever a regime or movement that describes itself as progressive, or claims to be giving power to the people two things fall by the wayside.  These being the Christian Faith and the value of human life.  One needs only to look at the body count of Marxist regimes, the Fascist regimes or the French Revolution to see it. 

And here in the US, we have plenty of self described "progressives".

Wednesday my Parish, St. Martin of Tours in Louisville KY is having a day of prayer and fasting for the repeal of the HHS mandate.  By logical extension, it is easy to consider this a day pf prayer and fasting for the restoration of religious liberty in our country as well.  I would very much like to see people from other places, parishes and traditions join us in this.

Because one in four American children are murdered by physicians before they ever draw breath.  And our government supports that, and is waging a campaign against the Church because we oppose this murderous rampage of selfishness and greed conducted in the name of "progress" in women's rights.