Wait, I don't rember voting for him...

This week China has decided it's one child policy is an utter failure, at the same time one of the far too many Czars of the US government is being called out for this. I'm pretty sure this guy would consider a newborn whale an actual whale, and a do whatever it takes to protect it. It is sad that far too many do not see human babies in the same light.

Respect Life Sunday and my journey back to the faith

October 7th is Respect Life Sunday this year. Every year the clergy are supposed to address life issues from the pulpit. Do they always? No, matter of fact it was the issues NOT being addressed that marked my full return to the church of my baptism.

Long story short, I fell away from the Church at the end of High school, many do. I was going to other churches, I frequently was dragged to mass by my boyfriend, who went faithfully (that is why I married him!). In college, being the lazy gen-x college student I was going to the Newman Center at my college, because it was the closest church to my dorm. I got involved with the choir, after all, I was a music major. Respect Life Sunday rolled around, and the Pastor, gets up and informs us all he will not be speaking on respecting life issues, because he does not want to offend anyone, after all we are all different people with different values and opinions. EXCUSE ME? This was the one thing I thought I was certain I agreed with in the Catholic Church, and HE was not going to address it to the group that needed it the most.

My poor boyfriend had to hear me rant for hours, How bad that priest was, how terrible, how the Church is pretty clear on this issue, and on and on (he still married me). Then I got to thinking, If I knew that this priest's actions were wrong, maybe I wasn't as bad of a Catholic as I had thought. If the Church was right about this, maybe I was wrong about other things, not the church.Hmm, I do not like being wrong. It really made me think, for months, but as I said, lazy college student, I did not really do much more about it, besides argue about issues I disagreed with with my boyfriend.

There were a few BIG issues I had, and being an eighteen year old "educated" female, I could not reconcile. Praise be to God, The Catechism was published while I was in college, and my boyfriend bought it for me so I would stop arguing with him (he is still waiting!). I was overwhelmed by the pure logic of the Faith, it simply "made sense". All of my questions were answered, and clearly, I read that puppy from front to back and dog-eared the heck out of it.

In my work I have seen many Pro-life people come into the Catholic Church based on her strong stand on truth. That is why this is such an important Sunday to pray for conversion of hearts, not just of those who are anti-life, but of those who are pro-life, but not part of the Church established by Christ Himself.

Sad Day..

After two weeks of legal battles, the Aurora Planned Parenthood clinic opened. This is a defeat, but not the end of the battle. Now prayers are needed more than ever, for the babies who will not come out of the clinic, and the women who will not come out the same. May their angels be with them.

Just today I heard another story of a woman who is being forced to have an abortion by her family and doctor, Why? Because she has severe depression. Please pray for her, she wants the baby, but is not being given a choice by those who care for her. Proving even further that abortion being a choice is a myth in many many cases.

We use technology for good, not evil.

I found this particularly interesting, Families Against PP has been really savvy with its use of the Internet.

I guess I will keep my cruddy Verizon Phone contract another year, and will write them a note to tell them how I support their policy.

h/t: Sheila Liaugminas

UPDATE: So much for the note I was going to send...

According to the Internet Broadcasting Systems/Associated Press, also this morning:
Verizon Wireless has reversed course and will allow NARAL Pro-Choice America to use its mobile network for a sign-up text messaging program.
Company spokesman Jeffrey Nelson said the decision not to allow text messaging was incorrect.
Nelson had said Wednesday that abortion was among topics barred from mass distribution based on the company's code of content.
However, the code was developed before text-messaging became a mass-market phenomenon.
NARAL lets people sign up to receive its text messages by keying in a message to a five-digit number.

We won in Court, for now.

I know it is not the end of this battle, but for now, the death center will not open. I have Praise God from Whom all Blessings Flow stuck in my head. I think I will take that as a cue, to give Him the praise due today.

Um, what about the 5th Commandment

I guess I'm just too simple, but I cannot comprehend how anyone who calls themselves a Christian, and a minister at that, could be pro-Planned Parenthood.This quote just gets me.

The Rev. Greenfield was even more blunt.
"To deny somebody choice," he said, "is contrary to what I believe to be the teachings of Jesus as a Christian."

Planned Parenthood Clinic Update

All I can say is keep praying, fasting and making little sacrifices. Ask Our Lady to intercede for the many women and babies that this clinic will hurt if it ever opens, ask Her that it NEVER open.

A Day of Prayer and fasting

September 7 has been declared by my Bishop as a day of prayer and fasting against abortion. It is only two weeks until Planned Parenthood is scheduled to open their new death and deception factory. Please join us in Prayer. I know that this might only seem to effect my "small" corner of the world, but it effects us all. Babies will die, women will be hurt, a communities will suffer. Those babies will not grow up to be YOUR doctor, teacher, Priest,where ever you live. Those women will suffer depression and regret, and be at greater risk for breast cancer. I've known many women who have had abortions, they suffer, in ways you would never think. Men suffer from abortion, too. The CFR's have done a good deal of work to bring this to people's attention. How many families suffer because of abortion? How many living siblings suffer from the joy of a sister or brother never known? Please join my family, friends and community in praying to end this suffering, pray to end abortion, even if it is just in my "small" corner of the world.