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Category Archives: Emanations from Penumbras
20 February 2012
Pres. Obama’s pro-abortion record chronicled
This is useful.
LifeNews did a compilation of Pres. Obama’s promotion of abortion. HERE.
As one of my correspondents quipped to me, the list is “longer than a menu at a Chinese restaurant”.
Pres. Obama’s record concerning the promotion of abortion is frightening. … Continue reading
19 February 2012
Liberal social engineering is destroying us
National Review has a mordant piece by Mark Steyn. There are good points here. He links the so-called “social issues” (and if they go wrong, everything else must necessarily go wrong) and the partisan political mud fight, and … Continue reading
18 February 2012
Planned Parenthood child-rape records destroyed during HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ time as governor of Kansas
I’m shocked! Is it possible that HHS Sec. Kathleen Sebelius, pro-abortion catholic who may not receive Holy Communion according to can. 915, in some way helped Planned Parenthood officials dodge prosecution for failing to report cases of child rape?
From LifeSite:
No … Continue reading
17 February 2012
Sickening example of what is happening in the USA at the highest levels of government
I felt a bit physically sick as I read this whole thing. I give only a part of it, below.
Part of what makes me sick is the manifest death of reason together with ethics. It seems that liberal politicians today … Continue reading
Posted in De Novissimis: Four Last Things, Dogs and Fleas, Emanations from Penumbras, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, The future and our choices
Tagged Cardinal Newman Society, CNS, HHS, Pres. Obama, religious liberty, Rep. Elijah Cummings
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16 February 2012
All 180 diocesan US bishops have issued a statement about Pres. Obama’s attack.
The young papist, Peters Fils, has been tracking the response of the US Bishops to Pres. Obama’s attack on the 1st Amendment and, specifically, on the Catholic Church.
He has good news.
All 180 diocesan bishops have issued a statement concern Pres. … Continue reading
USCCB: “Seis cosas más que todos debemos saber sobre el mandato del departamento de salud y servicios humanos (HHS)”
From the USCCB Blog, the Spanish language version of what they have previously posted in English.
1. La disposición que ha creado tanto alboroto no ha cambiado para nada las cosas, sino que todo ha terminado como estaba. [...]
2. La disposición … Continue reading
Catholic League on Sebelius’s admission before a Senate committee
Yesterday I saw video clips of Kathleen Sebelius, catholic Dem who as Pres. Obama’s patsy is implementing his anti-Catholic agenda, testifying before a Senate committee. She admitted that the Administration did not to any significant degree consult with the … Continue reading
15 February 2012
Sr. Keehan backtracks?
Sr. Keehan! GIVE BACK THAT PEN!
It seems that Sr. Keehan’s Catholic Health Association, which in abandoning unity with the bishops gave cover to catholic dems so they could vote for Obamacare and get us now into the mess that has … Continue reading
14 February 2012
More things to know about the HHS Mandate
The USCCB had posted six things people should know about Pres. Obama’s HHS mandate, HERE. Again at the blog of the USCCB, you will find an entry:
Six More Things Everyone Should Know About the HHS Mandate
1. The rule … Continue reading
13 February 2012
If Pres. Obama can tell the Church what to cover, he can tell the Press what to cover
What’s next?
Pres. Obama has attacked the 1st Amendment. He is trying to tell the Church what it must do in a matter of conscience based on natural law, reason, and doctrine.
The first clause of the 1st Amendment concerns freedom of … Continue reading
Archbp. Chaput: Pres. Obama’s “deep distaste for religion’s moral influence”
The Archbishop of Philadelphia, Most Rev. Charles Chaput, has a good opinion piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer about Pres. Obama’s modifications of his attack on the 1st Amendment (“Plan B”). Read the whole thing, but here is an excerpt from … Continue reading
Keep your eye on the real problem with Pres. Obama’s attacks on the 1st Amendment
All weekend I saw news items about the US Catholic Church resisting the Obama Administration over “CONTRACEPTION”. When the story came up on the television, across the screen there would be a graphic saying, inevitably, “Contraception”.
No. This is not principally … Continue reading
12 February 2012
The White House in bed with the Magisterium of Nuns
Jack Lew, White House Chief of Staff, was on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. He was also on Meet The Press.
It was a stark lesson in exactly what I have been talking about with my phrase “The Magisterium of … Continue reading
“Well, here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into!”
When considering the Presidents attack on the 1st Amendment, and the resistance of the bishops, we have to remember another point.
The bishops supported Obamacare in principle. They thought they wanted to support an Obamacare without things that the Church … Continue reading
11 February 2012
Pres. Obama channels his inner Henry VIII in this new “Act of Uniformity”
On the site of National Review there is a piece by Mark Steyn which I recommend. Here is an excerpt.
[...]
Welcome to Obamacare.
The president of the United States has decided to go Henry VIII on the Church’s medieval ass. Whatever religious … Continue reading
