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February 4th, 2012%
Read the original post: On Obama’s Unwinnable Battle Against Religious Liberty
What a crazy week it has been, between the Obamacare/HHS mandate, over 150 bishops speaking out against it , and the battle between Susan G. Komen and Planned Parenthood. A great many people are visiting this site today because of my comments on the Komen situation — my most recent thoughts on that can be found here (ongoing updates can be found at my twitter page @AmericanPapist — the story is very fast moving and complex). But I don’t want to lose track of the “bigger” story – Obama’s war against religious liberty in this country and the Catholic effort to win this war definitively. Peggy Noonan calls this a “battle the President can’t win” in her syndicated column today for the Wall Street Journal and says “President Obama just may have lost the election” because, in going after the religious liberty of Catholics, he has “awakened a sleeping giant”: If [Catholics] stay strong and fight, they will win. This is in fact a potentially unifying moment for American Catholics, long split left, right and center. Catholic conservatives will immediately and fully oppose the administration’s decision. But Catholic liberals, who feel embarrassed and undercut, have also come out in opposition. …
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February 4th, 2012%
More here: Biden Story on Rejecting Komen Over Planned Parenthood Not True
Numerous news agencies, including LifeNews, were misled into believing pro-abortion Vice President Joe Biden was upset over the original decision by Komen to cut Planned Parenthood funding. Turns out that wasn’t the case. As US News and World Report reported today: “Washington Whispers published in error a story stating that Vice President Joe Biden’s wife, …
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February 4th, 2012%
Read this article: Want to know what is actually happening with Komen vs. Planned Parenthood?
by Thomas Peters February 3, 2012 (CatholicVote.org) – First of all, everyone needs to take a deep breath. About an hour ago my twitter feed exploded with headlines of “KOMEN CAVED!!!”, etc, etc. No, they didn’t. They released a very carefully scripted statement today which echoes what their President Nancy G.… …
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February 3rd, 2012%
Read the complete text here: Prominent New York priest sentenced to life of penance
A prominent New York priest has been directed to life “a life of prayer and penance” to atone for sexual abuse. Wallace Harris, who was once the president of the New York priests’ ……
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February 3rd, 2012%
Read the full article here: European evangelization initiative to spread to 72 cities
The president for the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization has announced that the metropolitan missions that are taking place in 12 European cities this Lent will expand ……
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February 2nd, 2012%
Read the full text here: Planned Parenthood TV Ads Defend Obama’s Attack on Catholics
The Planned Parenthood abortion business is defending President Barack Obama’s decision to put in place a mandate forcing religious employers to pay for insurance coverage for their employees that covers birth control or drugs that may cause abortions. The Obama Administration issued a statement re-iterating the “contraceptive mandate” requiring all insurance providers cover the full …
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February 2nd, 2012%
Read the full article here: Business leaders decry HHS contraception mandate
Washington D.C., Feb 2, 2012 / 06:00 am ( CNA/EWTN News ).- Catholic leaders of both religious and secular businesses across the country are denouncing the Obama administration’s contraception mandate for forcing a moral dilemma on them and negatively impacting their companies. Jonathan Reyes, president of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Denver,
February 1st, 2012%
See more here: New Komen Pro-Life VP Credited for Planned Parenthood Cuts
The decision by the Komen for the Cure breast cancer group to stop funding the Planned Parenthood abortion business is making huge waves today and a little known decision to hire a pro-life vice president may be responsible for it. In 2010 Georgia Republican Secretary of State Karen Handel decided to run for governor to …
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February 1st, 2012%
Go directly to: Leading Southern Baptist backs bishops on contraception mandate
The president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary says that he supports the United States bishops’ opposition to the Obama administration’s contraception-coverage mandate. “You at ……
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January 31st, 2012%
Read the full article here: Pope praises Italy’s former President Scalfaro, dead at 93
Upon the death of former Italian President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Pope Benedict XVI praised the deceased leader as “an illustrious Catholic statesman.” In a telegram to Marianna ……
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January 31st, 2012%
Originally posted here: BREAKING: Starbucks coffee co. officially backs gay ‘marriage’
by John-Henry Westen SEATTLE, January 30, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In news that will come as a heavy blow to many coffee lovers, Starbucks has officially backed homosexual ‘marriage.’ In a January 24 letter to U.S. partners, Kalen Holmes, Starbucks executive vice president, expresses support for the homosexual “marriage”… …
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January 31st, 2012%
Go straight to: Obamacares Great Gift: Clarification
Recently we have learned that under Obamacare-that is, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act-employer insurance plans must provide free non-medical contraception, abortifacients, and sterilization for their employees. Free is as affordable as it gets; for an accountability-spurning culture, its just the right price, indeed. Let us pay nothing in order to beget nothing and, says this government, let us force those interfering churchy” institutions-who keep insisting that there is something worth contemplating beyond ourselves-to pick up the tab, for good measure. There is an odd we are nothing” philosophy behind this HHS decision and the Secretary who made it, and the President who supports it-a chilling promise of emptiness where tomorrow should be. Humanity, cajoled away from fertility and trained in sterility, is being weaned from those thoughts that travel beyond the present moment; we are self-interested beyond reason, and thus profoundly bored; condom-strangled, tube-snipped, and detached from the essential materials of reproduction either through artificial means or artificial equivalencies, our vision of the future is as limited as a pay-telescopes viewer: tick, tick, tick and then a resolute click!, and it is gone. With the administrations decision, the covert culture of death has finally made a truly overt move against the culture of life. On one side, there is cheering. …
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January 31st, 2012%
Go straight to: Obama administration’s commitment to religious freedom questioned
Washington D.C., Jan 31, 2012 / 06:04 am ( .- Dr. Thomas Farr believes that the Obama administration’s verbal commitment to protecting religious freedom around the globe is not being backed up with sufficient action. “The administration has invested far more energy and resources in the international advancement of LGBT rights than it has the advancement of religious freedom,” said Farr, who served as the original director of the State Department’s Office of International Religious Freedom. Farr told n Jan. 27 that the current administration is not doing enough to support “one of the most important foreign policy initiatives undertaken by the United States.” The topic of religious freedom was recently addressed in the video series “Conversations with America,” which features top State Department officials holding online discussions with leaders of non-governmental organizations and citizens from around the country.
January 30th, 2012%
Read the full text: Obama makes dangerous steps to oust religious liberty
(Manhattan Declaration) – As many of the Manhattan Declaration signers are probably already aware, President Obama’s Justice Department, under the leadership of Attorney General Eric Holder, has decided to ignore the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) because he does not believe it to be constitutional. In choosing which laws to enforce, the Justice Department has set forward a dangerous precedent…
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January 30th, 2012%
Read the full text here: The potential consequence of Pres. Obama’s abandonment of DOMA
Writers and bloggers are hammering away at the Justice Department’s decision, under President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder’s direction, to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act in federal court. They have essentially decided to abandon the law. For the various reasons given for why this is an affront to liberty and justice, the most important was pointed out by the Manhattan…
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January 29th, 2012%
Read the original: Your Interview With the President
The White House is currently holding an open forum hosted by YouTube here . The idea is that citizens can type up questions for the President, and then he will answer some of the more popular questions in a special live interview on Monday, January 30. In that special interview, I want the President to speak about the new HHS mandate. Go to the website and post your own HHS-related question, or search for mine and give it a thumbs up: “The federal government now requires that virtually all employee health plans provide free abortion-causing drugs. The majority of Americans think abortion is morally wrong, according to a 2011 Gallup poll. Why, then, do you support this HHS policy?” The deadline for submitting and voting on questions is January 28 at midnight. Let’s get more people talking about this! …
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January 29th, 2012%
Original post: Sebelius’ Contraception Mandate and the Media
By JOAN FRAWLEY DESMOND | WASHINGTON — Last November, Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York was rewarded for his persistent efforts to meet with the White House to discuss the pending federal rule requiring Catholic institutions to provide contraception services in their employee health plans. The “quiet” meeting between the archbishop of New York and soon-to-be cardinal — who is president … …
Original post: Sebelius’ Contraception Mandate and the Media
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Obama makes dangerous steps to oust religious liberty
Read the full text: Obama makes dangerous steps to oust religious liberty
(Manhattan Declaration) – As many of the Manhattan Declaration signers are probably already aware, President Obama’s Justice Department, under the leadership of Attorney General Eric Holder, has decided to ignore the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) because he does not believe it to be constitutional. In choosing which laws to enforce, the Justice Department has set forward a dangerous precedent…
Read the full text: Obama makes dangerous steps to oust religious liberty