Belloc has something to say about today

Belloc on September 11

Via Fr. Schall.

The Plague of Bad Behavior

I've been busy, but really wanted to comment on this. My poor husband had to hear me rant for almost an hour Easter night while watching the news. My first thought, Are these people idiots??? My second thought was one of pity, that one could be so uninformed, that they could not see the consistent church teaching and action on the War in Iraq.

Has our society completely lost a sense of respect for the sacred? I mean, it was Easter. It was the newly re-opened Cathedral. As one parishioner said, "there were children there". Obviously these "catholic school girls" need to go back for a better education. They clearly did not learn the meaning of charity, respect or reverence.

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.

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."

More on Planned Parenthood clinic, again

I'm not as impressed with this story as some of the other media coverage. I especially love the fact that the Trib quotes a woman who is a member of the socialist worker's party. Yes, communists/socialists have a long history of supporting an individuals rights. (I hope the snarky tone is clear here!) I'm pretty much to mad to comment any further on the stupid comments the anti-life people made.

More on Planned Parenthood clinic

The Daily Herald wrote an article on the Vigil. I have rarely gone to pray at abortion clinics, but I guess this is the time to begin. I went at 7am today, earlier than I would have liked, but then it was more of a sacrifice. Please pray for those out praying. Most people are nice, but the few that are not are really ugly in their choice of words.

But They say they're "helping" Women!

Ah, Yes, helping must include physical, psychological and emotional trauma and abuse. The thing that gets me the most is not in the story. Aurora is a nice town, I live really near by, in its much wealthier cousin. What is not being said, is that Aurora has a large Spanish speaking population, many of whom may not be legal citizens. Citizen status is not the issue, but what is, is the fact that these women may not have options for health care. Here comes PP, to "help", to remind them they do not have options, to remind them they should not have a baby, and to take advantage of their situation. Many of these women are married, not the teens we often think of. Even if they are teens, everyone has error in judgement sometimes. Some of the nicest kids I know are children of unmarried women. Then some of those women made a brave noble choice, Adoption. Ah, but PP will tell you Adoption is hard, it hurts, women suffer. Abortion is quick and easy. Lies Lies and more Lies! PP was founded on lies and the desire of a truly evil woman to kill off the poor, uneducated and not European (she also counted the Irish as not European).

This same woman advocated "free love". Those of us who are in love can attest to the fact that true love is never, and should not be free. It is very pricey, the cost of sacrifice goes unmeasured. To think that the part of marriage that unites a man and woman should be free is disgusting. To say it is free makes seem worthless, and to view the result of sharing in the work of creation as an object to be destroyed is to view oneself as greater than God. Ah, but PP makes lots of money this way....

Chesterton was a contemporary of Margaret Sanger, and had more than a few things to say.

"For the next great heresy is going to be simply an attack on morality; and especially on sexual morality. And it it is coming not from a few Socialists surviving from the Fabian Society, but from the living exultant energy of the rich resolved to enjoy themselves at last, with neither Popery nor Puritanism nor Socialism to hold them back...The madness of tomorrow is not in Moscow, but much more in Manhattan."

-The Next Heresy, June 19, 1926

or Chicago.