Last week brought us two interesting revelations: The jobless rate dropped to 8.3%, and Obama is a Christian. Horse hockey! Liar government and oppressor Socialist Obama need to have their sins exposed.
Fact: In the past month a record 1.2 MILLION persons dropped out of the labor force! Just imagine - at this rate in a few years, we'll have no unemployment and, at the same time, no employment! We'll all be slaves. Socialism will put an end to private enterprise.
Oppression of the poor is one of four sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance. Can you name the other three? Do you realize that our government now has policies that commit all four sins? Pray the Rosary for an end to Socialism.
(This is excerpted from the Diocese of Pittsburgh website. Maybe Catholics will finally fight our Marxist in Chief.)
It is really hard to believe that it happened. It comes like a slap in the face. The Obama administration has just told the Catholics of the United States, “To Hell with you!” There is no other way to put it.
In early August, the Department for Health and Human Services in the Obama administration released guidelines as part of [ObamaCare]. The guidelines mandated that by Summer 2012 all individual and group health insurance plans, including self-insured plans, cover all FDA-approved contraception, sterilization procedures and pharmaceuticals that even result in abortion.
A million things are wrong with this: equating pregnancy with disease; mandating that every employer pay for contraception procedures including alleged contraceptives that are actually abortion-inducing drugs; forcing American citizens to chose between violating their consciences or providing health care services; ...
(read the rest here)
From Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Quod Apostolici Muneris, against Socialism and Communism, 133 years ago
For the Socialists wrongly assume the right of property to be of mere human invention, repugnant to the natural equality between men, and, preaching up the community of goods, declare that no one should endure poverty meekly, and that all may with impunity seize upon the possessions and usurp the rights of the wealthy. More wisely and profitably the Church recognizes the existence of inequality amongst men, who are by nature unlike in mental endowment and strength of body, and even in amount of fortune; and she enjoins that the right of property and of its disposal, derived from nature, should in the case of every individual remain intact and inviolate. She knows full well indeed that robbery and rapine have been so forbidden by God, the Author and Protector of every right, that it is unlawful even to covet the goods of others ... Nor does she, on this account, loving mother as she is, omit solicitude for the poor or fail to provide for their needs ... Moreover, she lays the rich under strict command to give of their superfluity to the poor, impressing them with fear of the divine judgment ...
... In fine, she cheers and comforts exceedingly the hearts of the poor, either by setting before them the example of Christ, Who, being rich became poor for our sakes (2 Cor. 8:9), or by reminding them of the words by which Jesus pronounced the poor to be blessed, and enjoined them to hope for the reward of eternal bliss. Who then does not perceive that herein lies the best means of appeasing the undying conflict between the rich and poor? For, as the evidence of things and facts clearly demonstrates, if such conclusion be disallowed or made light of, it must come about either that the vast majority of mankind will fall back into that most abject condition of bondage which through a long lapse of time obtained amongst pagan nations, or else that human society will be agitated by constant outbreaks and ravaged by plunder and rapine, such as even of late years we have had occasion to deplore.
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China doesn't make the Vatican's "top ten" list of countries that persecute Christians. Holy See spokesman and defender of therapeutic abortion, Fr. Federico Lombardi, listed North Korea, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Iran, Maldives, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Iraq and Pakistan, but didn't mention China (link). For shame. It is encouraging, though, that Fr. Lombardi acknowledged the role of "Islamic extremism."
Asia News just requested the release of missing and imprisoned Chinese bishops and priests (link). Read more about China and the Vatican compromise with Communism here, here, here, and here.
"Bishop John Wang Ruowang of Tianshui (in the photo) and some of his priests have been forced to attend `study sessions' since the end of 2011" according to UCA News. The article adds, "When contacted, Bishop Wang said he was undergoing `education and conversion classes.'”
In addition to this holy bishop, Pope Benedict has appointed a schismatic Communist bishop in the same diocese. The holy bishop gets forced into re-education camp while the other lives without fear. This is a travesty. Who can imagine that both men are doing the will of God? It seems that Pope Benedict is the one in need of re-education. Pray the Rosary for an end to Communism
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"Mgr James Su Zhimin [pictured], 80, has done 40 years in prison; Mgr Cosma Shi Enxiang, 90, has spent 50 years. No one talks about them whilst the Chinese government says it 'does not know where they are'. Many fear they might die under torture as other bishops have done before. The Vatican should demand their release as a condition for dialogue. A campaign is launched on their behalf in 2012." (Read the entire article here.)
Please remember these holy bishops in your prayers. They are forgotten by the world and forgotten by Pope Benedict who continues to appease the Communists. The pope treats the Communist "Patriotic Association" as if it is Catholic, even though this is obviously false.
These holy bishops suffer in our place. It's the American Catholic Church that has sold its soul to socialism under the guise of "social justice" and consequently deserves the punishment. As our country is on the brink of descending into socialist hell, we may yet learn how to suffer well. Pray the Rosary for the conversion of Russia.
An article entitled The Vatican scientists approve of evolution and alien life begins as follows: "The Vatican's senior scientist Brother Guy Consolmagno is ready to greet alien life and will be happy to baptize any of them should the opportunities present themselves."
I can't resist but just have to know, what if water causes them to melt like witches?
Keep praying that the good God will convert or remove Pope Benedict and his fellow evolutionists.
At least Brother Guy is happy to baptize (oh yes, upon request only - how politically correct). I wonder if he believes that Baptism is necessary for salvation? Join a discussion here, or start one below.
From Asia News: "On 30 November, feast of St. Andrew, Fr. Peter Luo Xuegang, will be ordained coadjutor bishop of the diocese of Yibin (Sichuan). ... This ordination in the official Church is taking place with the permission of the Holy See ..."
Pope Benedict continues the betrayal of Our Lord Jesus Christ begun by Pope John XXIII who conspired with Russians prior to Vatican II to prevent any condemnation of Communism (abundant references here). Our pope spits in the face of each true Catholic bishop, such as Bishop Su Zhimin, pictured above, who has spent 40 years in Chinese prisons and who is still missing (read more here).
Is there any wonder why the world is going Communist? Why we have a Marxist president who will be reelected with the help of the US bishops? Why our bishops support Socialist "health care" that will inevitably end in rationing, and coerced euthanasia and abortion? The corruption comes from the top. And the rank-and-file Catholics support it every week when they put their envelopes in the baskets.
Pray the Rosary for an end to the "errors of Russia."
In the course of never ending horrible decisions coming from our bishops, they have elected a man who created and owned a 49% stake in an abortion-referral business to head up their pro-life activities. O'Malley partnered with a firm to get state monies for Caritas hospitals, all the while knowing that the state mandates that babies be murdered if the mother desires. (Aside: this is known as RomneyCare, named after the child murderer himself.) It took months of bad press from Joe Doyle and Carol McKinley to get him to back down, all the while he was impugning Joe and Carol's character on the web. A nefarious person, O'Malley is. Since that time, he has sold out the Catholic hospitals to companies that will eventually abandon their Catholic identity, leaving good Catholic doctors and nurses with no protection for their consciences (see here and here).
For shame. Pray the Rosary for an end to abortion.
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