Bishop Strickland's Heartfelt Plea to His Brothers in the Episcopate!

I suspect the Vatican had no idea what they were in for when they dropped the nuke on Bishop Strickland. He has become a voice of encouragement and hope for persecuted Catholics. At CPAC recently he had the courage to boldly address the evil of IVF and the terrible consequences for the millions of preborn infants abandoned in the deep freeze. How many bishops will treat that monstrous evil with the same silence they treated Humanae Vitae's condemnation of contraception? Where are the bishops with the courage of the apostles in whose footsteps they supposedly walk. Every bishop can trace his succession back to one of the apostles. Do they mirror their successor's courage and willingness to face martyrdom?

Then a few days ago Bishop Strickland released a letter to all the bishops of the world. John Henry Weston reads the letter in the video below, but I've also included the text below. Pray for Bishop Strickland and all his brothers. We need them to address the crisis in the Church and the world and prepare us for the increasing persecution. May Jesus Christ be praised.

Black Voters are Turning Conservative! Say Good-Bye to the Democrats' Liberal Plantation

Diamond and Silk, the dynamite duo, score a home run with their speech at CPAC. You can tell they have the left quaking in their boots, because the liberal shills at Google, Facebook and Twitter are trying so hard to suppress their message on social media! 

Here are some of my favorite quotes from Diamond and Silk's speech. 

Will the Country Return to Common Sense?

Ben Carson for president in 2016!

CPAC: The Great Betrayal

Pro-lifers are used to being in the back of the bus. But now it's not just reserved for those who oppose murdering babies. Move over to make room for those who oppose "gay" marriage.

CPAC has lost its way and this year it lost a lot of its support as well. See the full page ad that ran today in the Washington Times. So called conservatives have spent years saying the social issues just aren't that important. Killing babies and destroying the traditional family matter less than gas prices. Some of us don't agree and we won't be dupes of faux conservatism any more.

American Family Association of Pennsylvania sent out the following press release about CPAC:

CPAC Alienates Social Conservatives to Welcome Gay Agenda!

Ann Coulter isn't the only conservative jumping on the gay bandwagon. The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has welcomed GoProud into the fold and, in the process, are driving out a large number of pro-life, pro-family groups. The annual CPAC conference in February will take place without The American Family Association (AFA), the Heritage Foundation, the Family Research Council, the Center for Military Readiness, the American Principles Project, the Liberty Counsel, and the National Organization for Marriage. The lineup of speakers at the annual event includes Newt Gingrich and Mitch Romney and other Republican insiders not known for their vigorous defense of the social issues. In fact, the chatter is that the social issues have to take a back door to the economy. The powers that be don't recognize that many of the tea party supporters are pro-life and pro-family. It isn't just about money. In fact, for many of us, it's not the main issue.

The Republican Party has always sent pro-lifers to the back of the bus. Happy to have us walking the precincts and manning the telephones and polling places, party hacks offer us nothing but empty promises when it comes to defending the rights of the unborn and the traditional family. The arrogance of the big-spending, earmarking establishment helped fuel the taxpayer revolution and it's one of the reasons the tea party doesn't trust the Republican Party.

CPAC's welcome of Go Proud is one more example of the willingness of establishment Republicans to ignore as irrelevant the country's moral disintegration and the millions of social conservatives whose first priority is the family starting with its tiniest members. If Republicans follow that same tired path, I suspect they will return the gavel to liberal democrats by the next election.

Judson Phillips, founder of Tea Party Nation, says this about the social and fiscal issues:

When social conservatives and fiscal conservatives work together, we win. End of discussion. When fiscal and social conservatives united, Reagan won in 1980. When fiscal and social conservatives united in 1994, conservatives carried the day. When fiscal and social conservatives united in 2000, George Bush won, though both sides were very disappointed in his administration.

History cannot be denied. When fiscal and social conservatives unite, we win. Any group that seeks to divide the two needs to be viewed with suspicion because when the two are separated, we end up with bad, losing candidates. 

Phillips says at least 50% of tea party supporters are social issue conservatives. (Go here.) Will the Republican elite repeat the mistakes of the past by dissing pro-life, pro-family supporters...again? Will they gut the tea party movement? Time will tell. We have the momentum for now, but the capacity for the stupid party to get it wrong seems unlimited.