The White House Games, Also Known as The Games Tyrants Play

Tyrants play games with the people because they see them as no more than wage slaves to keep their empires going. Remember Rome? Tax and spend with beaucoup bucks spent on the comfort of the elites running the games. So it is with Obama. To keep the slaves riled up and targeting his "enemies" the tyrant is closing down public parks and monuments that require NO federal presence. Closing the World War II Memorial illustrates the game in spades! But I'll let Gary Bauer from the Campaign for Working Families describe what happened next:

World War II Vets Kick "O's" Butt Again 

As I reported yesterday, the Obama Administration, citing the government shutdown, has "closed" the World War II Memorial. The Park Police were ordered to shut it down. This was a vicious, mean-spirited act by the Obama White House.

Of Obama's Game Playing: Don't Mess with the Vets!

The Democrats are experts at playing games. There was absolutely NO need to close every monument in D.C. And how many times have you seen a park ranger along the C and O canal or at the local playground. This is nothing but a game, like closing the local Post Office and the rest stops on the highway, to make sure the most people are inconvenienced. When you see Obama cancel his latest vacation trip....Well, you get the picture. It's the typical tactic of the community organizer. And it's not Congress who is shutting down the government; it's the Democrats who are extremists committed to turning America into a socialist paradise. Obama would shut down everything (except Air Force One -- gotta have that airborne limo available for the New York night out -- to hold Americans hostage to Obamacare. 

Anyway, two thumbs up to these vets who traveled to D.C. to visit the W.W. II memorial and stormed the beachhead. They tore down the police tape and crossed the line set up by our venal and tyrannical president.  

More on the Pope's Latest Interview

Martyrdom of Jean de Brebeuf and Gabriel Lalemont 

The Pope They’ve Been Waiting For

Ah...conscience...such a beautiful thing...especially in a liberal who believes that good is a woman's right to choose to kill her baby and evil is daring to judge her action as immoral. 

What is the pope thinking? Can this mish-mash really lead people to and through the narrow gate? (If you haven't read the interview see it here.) Do we want a church where "Each of us has a vision of good and of evil." where "We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is Good." What if what they "think is good" is really evil?

Jesus warned us there would come a time when people would call good evil and evil good. We're there and now the pope seems to have created a situation where liberals can quite comfortably bash those "obsessed" prolifers with their skewed vision of life and marriage. But we don't want to "proselytize" them because "Proselytism is solemn nonsense." Oy vey!

I wonder what the North American martyrs who were savagely butchered in their mission of "solemn nonsense" would say to their Jesuit confrere in Rome. Ah, for Jesuits like them. The Church would not be in the mess it's in! 

NB: The picture hints at the suffering of the two Jesuit priests, John de Brebeuf and Gabriel Lalemant. The Iroquois applied hot coals to their feet. They heated tomohawk heads fiery red and hung them around their necks. Flaming torches were thrust down their throats and applied to their bodies. In a mock the Indians poured boiling water over their heads. Their fingers were chewed off and their eyes gouged out with burning sticks. Finally, their hearts were cut out of their chests and eaten by the Iroquois who admired their incredible bravery. Oh for shepherds like these men willing to suffer all for the conversion of the Indians in the New World.  

Good Morning, Guardian Angel...

...Happy Feast Day! And thank you for watching over me so well.

This painting by Murillo is in the Louvre and shows a Franciscan friar in ecstasy in the kitchen while the angels do his work. His superior and another man look on. Now don't you think the guardian angel of the friar gathered up all the other friars' guardian angels to make sure the monks all had their dinner?

John Vennari Comments on the Latest Papal Interview

Have you read the interview? I had problems with the pope's statements on conscience as well. And are we not called to be an evangelizing Church? Things are getting murkier and murkier.

It's a Privilege to be Paisley's Dad!

Down Syndrome kids are PERFECT!

The Latest Papal Interview

Interesting...

The Pope: How the Church Will Change

I think it's important to read the pope's interviews yourself. The statement about narcissism was completely twisted by the media. I don't happen to agree with the pope's assessment of the biggest problems the world faces being "youth unemployment" and the "loneliness of the old." There won't be any youth unemployment unless little ones are allowed to be born and become tomorrow's youth. And you have to see the light of day before you can grow up and grow old. But then I'm one of those folks "obsessed" with the murder of children -- must be the mom and grandmum in me.

October: A Great Month for Saints!

Starting with St. Therese of Lisieux...

Don't you love the Little Flower? What a method to sainthood her little way is. Think of it: sanctifying every tiny act of your day and offering it to the Lord. From the small effort involved in just getting out of bed to making meals, washing up, making a phone call to cheer up a suffering friend, working the stitches on my prayer shawl, feeding the honeybees (They teach me about the sanctity of hard work!) writing a blog post. Gosh, the list is endless and every tiny thing on it can become a little offering for the Lord, a little flower placed on the altar. 

Thank you, St. Therese, for your wisdom and your holiness. How wonderful Holy Mother Church is to make you a Doctor of the Church. 

St. Therese, pray for us.

A Heartwarming Story about Love and Fidelity

I have a banner in my bedroom that says, "Love Stands Tallest When It Suffers." The story below reflects the truth of that saying. What a tribute to true love, love that endures "in sickness and in health, in good times and bad times...until death do us part."

Of years of love, and a long goodbye

Pray for the Pope and for Holy Mother Church

I've only read snippets of "the interview," but I'm going to read it myself after watching this discussion. Think I'll also read Janet Smith's article about it. As a pro-life activist who's spent most of my adult life fighting abortion, teaching NFP, and in general working to promote Humanae Vitae, I also feel unsettled by his description of being "obsessed" with these issues. Has my life of pro-life work been misdirected? Should I have put my efforts elsewhere?

While the pope may not be saying anything new (Fr. Z has an interesting column on the interview bit on homosexuality.), he's speaking a language most people don't understand so misinterpretation is guaranteed! Phil Lawler at Catholic Culture whom I admire, doesn't think that's a bad thing and his take on all this appeals to me.

In the meantime, we continue to get to know our new pope who certainly has a different style than all the popes in my lifetime. Let's pray for him. The crowds followed Jesus so maybe the world love-fest is not a bad thing. We'll see what happens when the persecution intensifies. After all, the mob called Jesus king and killed him a week later. Pray for Pope Francis.