Citizens for a Pro-Life Society Honor Hero of the Unborn, Joe Scheidler

Joe Scheidler is a hero of mine. On a few occasions I've had the privilege of working with him. I wish I could have made it to Chicago for the dinner honoring this champion of life. I remember hearing him say once that he believed the two disciples on the road to Emmaus recognized Jesus in the breaking of the bread because when He lifted His hands they saw His wounds. On Judgment Day, Joe said, the Lord will recognize His followers by our wounds.

Joe certainly has the battle scars to identify Him as one of Jesus' closest followers. God bless you, Joe! May God reward you for your faithful service to His precious babies! May many rise up to imitate your courage and dedication.

George Soros: Most Dangerous Left-Wing Demagogue

Human Events’ readers, in an online poll, recently voted billionaire financier George Soros “the single most destructive leftist demagogue in the country.” Here are the Top 10 Reasons George Soros Is Dangerous:

1. Gives billions to left-wing causes: Soros started the Open Society Institute in 1993 as a way to spread his wealth to progressive causes. Using Open Society as a conduit, Soros has given more than $7 billion to a who’s who of left-wing groups. This partial list of recipients of Soros’ money says it all: ACORN, Apollo Alliance, National Council of La Raza, Tides Foundation, Huffington Post, Southern Poverty Law Center, Soujourners, People for the American Way, Planned Parenthood, and the National Organization for Women.

Read more here....

Man's Best Friend...And Baby's Too!

Here's a wonderful rescue story about a family dog who stayed with his two-year old "master" when the baby wandered out into the cold night and got lost. The temperatures went down into the 40s and the baby had little on besides a diaper. The dog probably saved his life. Praise God for this happy story. And consider how all those rescue workers spent hours searching for that lost little one. If he were an unborn baby marked for murder, how many would care? Pray for the scales to be dropped from all eyes so people will recognize that the baby in the womb is no different from the two year old who wandered away in the night. "Rescue those being dragged to death." (Proverbs 24)  How? Join 40 Days for Life.

Sunday Meditation: The Blind Will See!

Today is Laetare Sunday. We are half way through Lent and rejoice to reflect on the sure knowledge of our rescue from sin and eternal death. The Gospel reading today is one of my favorites -- the story of the man born blind. Jesus doesn't heal him outright. He makes a paste with saliva and mud and sends the man to wash in the pool of Siloam. Why? Perhaps as a gift. The man didn't beg for a cure. The disciples used the man to ask Jesus a question about sin. Whose sin caused his blindness, his or his parents? Neither, Jesus answered. Bad things aren't necessarily a punishment for sin; sometimes they occur to allow God to show his power. And Jesus does just that, restoring sight to this man who did not ask for it.

But what about the person who does ask and does not receive a cure? Does that mean God isn't listening and doesn't care? No! Sometimes the biggest miracle is the cheerful acceptance of our misfortunes and offering them in atonement for our sins and the sins of others.

Blessed Margaret of Costello knew that. She was born blind and hunchbacked, shunned and abandoned by her parents. And yet she modelled cheerful abandonment to God's providence. When a woman she knew received news that she was going blind she despaired and begged Margaret, renowned for the power of her prayers, to ask God for a cure. Think of the irony of this wealthy woman, a member of the nobility, weeping and begging the poor little blind woman, who never had the use of her eyes, to pray for her sight to be restored. Margaret tried to convince her to accept her blindness as a gift to walk more closely with the Savior, but she could not. So Margaret prayed for her and the woman's sight returned. Perhaps had she accepted the loss of physical sight, she would have been particularly blessed with interior sight. It is something to ponder.

The blind man cured by Jesus had to act. Jesus sent him to the pool of Siloam to wash. And when he finished, he could see. He became a reproach to the Pharisees who questioned him over and over about who cured him. When he described Jesus as a prophet, the Pharisees rebuked him and called Jesus a sinner. You can almost hear the man, his sight restored, laughing in their faces as he asks has a sinner ever cured a man blind from birth? "If this man were not from God, he could never have done such a thing." They insult him and throw him out into the street. But Jesus, in a touching scene, seeks him out and asks, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?" And he responds, "Who is he, Sir, that I may believe in Him." Jesus reveals that He is the Messiah. "I do believe, Lord," replies this grateful and humble servant and he "bowed down to worship Him." (John 9)

How I love that blind man whose story shows us how eager Jesus is to seek us out and help us "to see." The Pharisees who overhear the conversation are indignant. Is Jesus calling them blind? To which he responds, "If you were blind there would be no sin in that. 'But we see,' you say, and your sin remains." We live among modern day blind Pharisees who claim to see. In fact, there is a Pharisees' conference meeting on Pentecost weekend to "reimagine" the Church in their own heretical image. They call themselves the American Catholic Council. Pray that the misguided among them will meet Jesus and have their sight restored. As for the malicious, many of their leaders, some demons are only driven out by prayer and fasting.

I'm praying today to have the faith of the blind man. Like the other blind man who sat at the gate calling, "Son of David, have pity on me." I want to respond to Jesus' question, "What do you want of Me?"  saying "Lord, that I may see...that I may see all those you put in my path and treat them as you would."

If you haven't been to Confession this Lent, it's not too late. Go now. It's the greatest cure for spiritual blindness.

Some Fascinating History of the USCCB and New Ways Ministry

Randy Engel has been fighting the good fight for years. And here's a fascinating glimpse into the history of the homosexualization of the Church in the U.S. through New Ways Ministry which was allowed to scandalize for years before anyone in authority taking any action. Don't trust any of the bishops mentioned in this article who helped bring us to the state of Sodom and Gomorrah we live in today. There's only one bright spot. God is not mocked and He is completely just. Every good act will be rewarded; every evil will be punished.

New lies for old -- The USCCB and New Ways Ministry

Traveling with Angels

Enjoy a lovely story about John Paul II's visit to the U.S. and the pilot who flew Shepherd I. See it here.

Open Your Eyes, America! Planned Parenthood is about Killing Babies.

Listen to Phyllis: No Constitutional Convention!

The first Constitutional Convention was called in Philadelphia to amend the Articles of Confederation. It was not given a broad brush to start from scratch. We are blessed as a nation that these wise and gifted men did exactly that. But would we be so fortunate today? Who would attend as delegates? Harry Reid? Nancy Pelosi? Newt Gingrich? Rahm Emmanuel? John Boehner? Do you trust any of them enough to give them a free reign to rewrite the Constitution?

Read Phyllis Schlafly's A Warning About Things to Come. The founders would be rolling over in their graves if they could see the abuses of the Constitution which is almost dead in this country. Phyllis is spot on when she says:

Calling a convention to amend the U.S. Constitution would be a plunge into darkness because the only rules to govern it are those specified in Article V. It takes two-thirds (34) of the states to pull the trigger, Congress controls and issues the Call, and the Convention must consider Amendments (in the plural).

Don't get on the Convention bandwagon. It's heading pell-mell for the cliff.

Two Important Messages from The Vortex: Know the enemy and defend the faith!

All faithful Catholics need to recognize what is happening in the Church and what we can do about it. Michael Voris is speaking prophetically in these two episodes of The Vortex. Know and defend the truth. If that means naming names and "unmasking the enemies," do it! As Voris says, many of these individuals are a "danger to your faith." Fight them.

Your Tax Dollars at Work in Loony Land!

This is what $600,000 of our tax dollars will buy to decorate The Mark Center Transportation Center in Alexandria, to be installed next fall.  Read the article here. Which of these beauties would you choose to get your money's worth? Should the government subsidize "art" when so many taxpayers don't even have jobs? Where in the Constitution is the Federal Government empowered to spend tax dollars this way?