Wise Words from a Pro-Life Hero

I have admired Joe Scheidler ever since I first heard of him. Truly, this granddaddy of the pro-life movement is an imposing hero. I once heard him give a talk where he told us he believed the apostles on the road to Emmaus recognized Jesus in the breaking of the bread because, as he raised his hands, they saw the wounds from the nails. Then he said Jesus will recognize us as His followers by our wounds. Do we bear the scars of Christ from the pro-life battle? If we do, we can be confident Christ, surrounded by the precious murdered innocents, will recognize and welcome us on Judgment Day. 

Here's a bit of what Joe has to say about the election:

Reflecting on our political situation, I have to confess that every four years I find I have fallen into the trap of expecting our political leaders to make my job easier. It is a terrible deception. In my heart I want to live by my (and St. Benedict’s) motto: “Ora et Labora—Pray and Work.” But along comes an election campaign and I am lulled into thinking that if a pro-life candidate gets elected, I can breathe a little easier. 

I say it is a deception, because our work as pro-life activists does not depend on who is in the White House, or the Congress or the State House, or even on the Supreme Court. We are commissioned by God to spread the Gospel, to restore respect for human life, to change the culture and build a Culture of Life. 

If we do our job right, we won’t have nightmares about radically pro-abortion politicians running our country, because the electorate will choose people who cherish life and liberty. (Read the whole article here.)

Thanks for your wisdom, Joe, and for teaching us what fidelity and fortitude are all about!

The Sun Came Up This Morning....

...Romney was never our Savior.

So make an early new year's resolution to pray every day for the President (At my parish we ask for his conversion every Sunday at Mass in the prayers of the faithful.) and for our poor country. And then, raise your children to be martyrs. I think we've reached the tipping point. I doubt if a true conservative can ever win a national election again. Too many people have embraced the intrinsic evils of contraception, abortion, fornication, and sodomy. Too many care about nothing but free goodies from the nanny state.     Too many engage in class envy and really believe that just taking more from "the rich" will provide enough money to keep the welfare state going full steam. And too many politicians on both sides of the aisle are opportunists for sale to the highest bidder.

And how is the Republican establishment responding in the post election period? Telling us that what Republicans need to do to win elections is -- become more like Democrats. Ah, "what fools these mortals be." Ann Coulter (whom I can't stand, but she's pretty savvy politically) is pessimistic. She believes we've reached the tipping point.

I agree, and it reminds me of a conversation I had with the good priest who witnessed our marriage. (Rest in peace, Fr. Hugh.) He asked me what I thought it was like for the average man living during the collapse of the Roman empire. Life goes on.

....Of course, the barbarians weren't very friendly and some folks suffered from looting and burning. But, hey, we're already seeing that with flash mob attacks, riots after ball games (even when the team wins!), gangs of youth going crazy, the "knockout game," and looting during disasters. What used to be normal Christian moral values no longer exist in America among a large percentage of the population. No surprise! As Mother Teresa often asked, "If a mother can kill her own baby, what is left for us to do to one another?"

Batten the hatches and keep your rosary running through your fingers. The barbarians are running the country and they've already told us they're out for revenge. These are saint-making times if we remember that "All things work together for good to those who love the Lord and serve according to His purpose." Be cheerful and remember the singing Christians in the coliseum. All the wicked can do is take your life; only you can give up eternal happiness in heaven!

When Will Our Shepherds Enforce Canon 915...

...against pro-abortion "Catholic" politicians, refusing them sacrilegious reception of the Body and Blood of Christ? I fear Fr. Tom is right in his assessment of the situation of the Church in the United States. How many of our shepherds will do everything to escape persecution and keep government money rolling in?

Note John 3:19-21 and 12:37-43.

With a majority of our electorate and Catholics, by their lifestyles, votes and apathy, embracing a leader who has openly proclaimed the dominion of:

revenge over love,
resentment over resilience,
obfuscation over honesty,
parasitism over patriotism,
slander over respect,
power over human rights,
perversion over integrity, and
death over "inconvenient" life,

we are now going to be granted the "privilege" of  witnessing a tragic acceleration of the degradation of our morals and of the spirituality of the Catholic Church in America. There are going to be some interesting job opportunities at the USCCB (U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops) for theologians, who can develop a way to accommodate the HHS abortion mandate. After all, with a tsunami of progressive judges being appointed and firmly ensconced by the President and the Senate, any legislative efforts to protect conscience rights will be aborted by labeling them to be pathological obsessive-compulsive disorder. And it makes sense, since Church praxis in America over the past fifty years has been to ratify the legitimacy of the sin-seared consciences of those who affirm that the Eucharistic Christ Himself endorses their efforts to promote the brutal butchery of "inconvenient" pre-born children.
God save us!


In Christ,

Fr. Tom

Death Threats Against Romney Expolode on Twitter

Read these to get an idea of who Obama's supporters are. Wow! This is the civility he brought to government? I have never heard a conservative talk about assassinating liberals!

And then there are the Philly shenanigans where court-appointed GOP inspectors were kicked out of polling places.

Can you Trust the Vote?

Election judge in Obama's Chicago ward wears Obama cap. Voter who took the picture says the judge gave an extra ballot to the person ahead of her in line. Hmmm..... (Read about it here.)

Looking forward to tomorrow and the end of...

...the robo calls, the "surveys," the emails from the Obamas, the TV ads, the Democrats' sicko obsession with sex, and hopefully...

THE END OF THE OBAMA EMPIRE

Wouldn't it be great to have someone with dignity in the White House again?

God Bless William Ender

Another black American who loves God more than the Democrat party! God bless him. Thanks William. When will blacks wake up to the fact that those who support Planned Parenthood, like Obama, favor black genocide. Blacks represent 12 or 13 percent of the population; they have almost 40 percent of the abortions and most Planned Parenthood abortion mills are in minority neighborhoods. Gotta make it easy for them to get to killing centers. Democrats don't mind killing those minority babies as long as the survivors keep voting Democrat!

Church Militant Assesses the Election Data

Keep praying. Does your parish have a holy hour or a prayer vigil or all night adoration tonight? I hope so. We're having a holy hour in my parish and my husband and I plan to be there. And we'll be on our knees at adoration tomorrow in front of our Blessed Savior at least part of the day while the polls are open. We plan to pray the 20-decade rosary begging Our Lady's intercession for the outcome of the election. My special intention will be for our children and grandchildren who have a lot longer to live in this post Christian nation than Larry and I do. And so I pray from psalm 10 with hope and confidence:

Why, O Lord, do you stand aloof?
Why hide in times of distress?
Proudly the wicked harass the afflicted,
who are caught in the devices the wicked have contrived.
For the wicked man glories in his greed,
and the covetous blasphemes, sets the Lord at nought. 

The wicked man boasts, "He will not avenge it"' "There is no God," sums up his thoughts.
His ways are secure at all times;
your judgments are far from his mind;
all his foes he scorns.
He says in his heart, "I shall not be disturbed;
from age to age I shall be without misfortune.".... 

You do see [O, Lord], for you behold misery and sorrow,
taking them in your hands.
On you the unfortunate man depends;
of the fatherless you are the helper.
Break the strength of the wicked and of the evildoer;
punish their wickedness.... 

The desire of the afflicted you hear, O Lord;
strengthening their hearts, you pay heed
To the defense of the fatherless and the oppressed,
that man, who is of earth, may terrify no more.

As St. Padre Pio often said, "Pray, hope, and don't worry." Psalm 11 follows the picture of the evil man and urges unshaken confidence in God ending with, "For the Lord is just, he loves just deeds; the upright shall see his face."

Obama is "of earth." Never fear the man of earth who can only kill the body, but fear God who can cast the soul into hell. And pray for those who put their souls in eternal jeopardy by their vote tomorrow, especially heretical Catholics like the members of Catholics for Obama, Catholics United, and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, as well as the Nuns on the Bus. Their scandalous actions will cry out against them on the day of judgment. May God have mercy on them.

No Wonder the Talking Heads are so Confident of Obama Win

North Carolina man brags he's voted multiple times for Obama

Do you trust the integrity of the election?

Ohio and Kansas problems with voting machines

Same problem in North Carolina

Democrats admit voting twice for Obama in 2008

The Talking Heads Predict Obama Win....Surprise!

Ah...what a surprise! The talking heads predict Obama's return to the White House. If it happens, and it's surely not over til it's over, the liberal media can pat themselves on the back over their success in protecting their guy from his disastrous first four years. They have covered for him at every turn including the recent Libyan betrayal of our ambassador and his heroic defenders. Just imagine the outcome if the media had given Charlie Woods, dad of one of the dead SEALS, the microphone like they did with Cindy Sheehan during the Bush years.

Ah...for the days of journalists who reported the news honestly keeping their own opinions firmly out of the "news," saving them for the editorial page. But I've hardly seen that kind of media honesty in my entire lifetime. I remember one "journalist" who came to dinner twenty years ago to interview me for a Washington Post article on the "anti-abortion" movement. She met our children and broke bread with us. (Actually meatloaf and mashed potatoes.) Then she painted a very false picture that included an unflattering description of my haircut  (Int the accompanying photo my hair looked green.) and where I sat at the table. (She described me being at the "foot" and Larry at the "head" although, for the life of me, I can't figure out how she knew which end of the table was which!) I discovered later that her mother worked for Planned Parenthood.

But no matter what happens tomorrow, Christians know who's really in charge. It isn't the president or vice president. It isn't the men with the money. And it certainly isn't the media. Life will go on no matter who sits in oval office. Perhaps the persecution will go into high gear. In the light of eternity the petty plans of despots make little difference. God wins and there is no virtuous act that will go unrewarded and no evil act unpunished. So pray and vote. Ora et labora. It is the prescription for a happy life filled with beatitude no matter how the storms rage around us.