Tonight, 18 January, there will be a LIVE Presidential ProLife Forum presented by Personhood USA in partnership with other national pro-life organizations 6:45 pm – 8:30 pm EST.
All Presidential candidates have been invited to participate, and, as of this moment, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Rick Perry, and Rick Santorum have been confirmed.
Catch the live stream at: http://www.personhoodusa.com/live-stream
Coat of Arms by D Burkart
on Daily Rome Shot 1197 – Another note to donors: “My bad. WHITE’s play. 1. Ne5+ Ke6 2. Qf7+ Kf5 3. g4# 2…. Kd6 3. Nc4# 1. Ne5+ Ke7 2.…”
on A few good causes for end of the year giving: “There is a similar group of Carmelites in my general area, near Gettysburg, Pa: fairfieldcarmelites.org.”
on Daily Rome Shot 1198 – I deny the premise: “The Atlantic article on Bishop Baron can be accessed on the New Advent website without the paywall.”
on Daily Rome Shot 1198 – I deny the premise: “Why does this papacy and the windy city prince of the church want to interfere with the Holy Spirit? Isn’t…”
on 13 Dec – St. Lucy in the sky with her own eyes – UPDATED: “Lovely story, Anneliese. Fr. Zuhlsdorf, why is it that for today’s traditional Mass, we use the commons for a virgin…”
on Daily Rome Shot 1197 – Another note to donors: “Father Z, unless White makes a foolish mistake — e.g., allowing Black to play Qd1++ after he takes White’s Queen…” on Daily Rome Shot 1198 – I deny the premise: “There is nothing more orderly or unifying than using a Communion Rail. Reminds me – When at the Communion Rail…”
on 13 Dec – St. Lucy in the sky with her own eyes – UPDATED: “Something interesting about St Lucy in my life. About 13 years ago I had a dream where my dad’s older…”
on Daily Rome Shot 1198 – I deny the premise: “Ben Affleck: “AI can’t make film that is considered art.” Neither can Ben Affleck. Or 90% of producers and actors.…”
on Daily Rome Shot 1197 – Another note to donors: “@dholwell: Bl. Ildefonso Schuster OSB and Basil Hume OSB immediately come to mind, but it seems there haven’t been any…”
on Fishwrap and Pelosi. What a pair.: “I don’t get it. If we are to take her at her word, Ms. Pelosi’s “Catholic faith is, Christ is…”
on Daily Rome Shot 1198 – I deny the premise: “Dear Father Z, Did you post “Lord of the Rings in a Trailer Park” because Redneck Gollum is a metaphor…”
on Daily Rome Shot 1198 – I deny the premise: “So thankful that I am not a deacon in Chicagoland, where I’d have to endure all the “teaching” of Cupich.…” on Daily Rome Shot 1198 – I deny the premise: “White to move and mate in 4. [NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t…”
on Fishwrap and Pelosi. What a pair.: “The astonishing thing is that she is a lot more reasonable than the Pope on the Vatican-China deal. From a…”
Loading ...
A Daily Prayer for Priests
Nota bene: I do not answer these numbers or this Skype address. You won't get me "live". I check for messages regularly.
WDTPRS
020 8133 4535
651-447-6265
They find you a pro-life agent in your area who commits to giving a portion of the fee to a pro-life group!
PLEASE subscribe via PayPal if it is useful. Zelle and Wise are better, but PayPal is convenient.
A monthly subscription donation means I have steady income I can plan on. I put you my list of benefactors for whom I pray and for whom I often say Holy Mass.
In view of the rapidly changing challenges I now face, I would like to add more $10/month subscribers. Will you please help?
For a one time donation...
Loading ... Loading ...
Use my code for a discount
Help Monks in Wyoming (coffee – UPDATED LINK) and Norcia (beer) and the wonderful "Soap Sisters" of Summit, NJ!
Please follow me on Twitter!
Visits tracked by Statcounter
since Sat., 25 Nov. 2006:
Mitt Romney wouldn’t be able to participate with a straight face:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_w9pquznG4
This oughtta be good. I wonder if Ron Paul will get any grief a la the American Right to Life piece that called him pro-choice because he disagreed with a part of their tactic. An attorney sort of responded to that attack here–long story short, Paul doesn’t believe we should violate the Constitution to end abortion, he thinks he has a better plan (jurisdiction-stripping). ARTL’s President, Mrs. Lolita Hanks, stated: “Either Ron Paul will use governmental authority to stop the slaughter of children, or he is just another worthless politician.” Ouch!
The whole exchange re tactics for ending abortion kind of reminded me of the famous dialogue between St. Thomas More and his son-in-law William Roper from A Man for All Seasons, which illustrates the danger of a zeal that focuses on the short-term victory at the expense of valuable, long-term protections we Christians might desperately need–as our founders envisioned–if and when the tide turns against us:
Should be a really interesting debate! Santorum’s bona fides are clear; he has a good answer for the Arlen Spector debacle (he supported Spector because Spector controlled judicial nominations). Gingrich makes me wonder–thoughts, anyone? Perry has been good in Texas, if erratic, but he’s an Exceptioner (life, health, rape, incest, etc.). Romney’s truly a “worthless politician,” as the video above demonstrates.
One thing’s for sure: I am not voting for another candidate who treats abortion like a carrot-on-a-stick issue, riding the pro-life donkey into election after election but never giving us our carrot, a la George W. Bush the Exceptioner who had majorities in BOTH houses and did nothing and wouldn’t even show up at a March to Life!
Wait, turns out Perry isn’t a Total Exceptioner. He’s only a mother’s-lifer now.
Poor Ron Paul—imagine trying to Sound Bite this in the debate!
(Sorry, Fr. Z, my GYOB lunchbreak is now over.)
Thank you for publicising this event, Fr. Z. It is absolutley crucial that we vote for pro-life candidates, on every level. The stuff that goes on is truly evil. Int’l. PP wants to increase by 82% the number of abortions in Africa. Our money is being used to kill the most innocent of all God’s children both here and around the world. We must vote this administration out of office. We must. St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle.
Perry lost me a long time ago when he tried to piggyback the mandatory HPV vaccine onto the pro-life platform in the gubernatorial race. Bringing in other battles to fight doesn’t help in the fight against abortion, and confuses the issue of what it means to be “pro-life.”
I’m hoping I can watch! Should be good. Santorm and Paul are the only two that seem to have anything of real pro-life substance on their campaign websites. The issue doesn’t seem that important to the others.
I hope there is some discussion about the anti-life nature of the phony “war on terror” which is completely contrary to Catholic social principles.
I could not glean from the website the particulars of the forum topics. Will this forum only cover abortion, or other pro-life issues such as unjust wars, the death penalty, euthanasia, and embryonic stem cell research?
@Athanasius: I recognize that picture! Excellent article on catastrophe preparations.
Thanks. I’ve got another one coming out on the same subject sometime soon.
@Mary Jane
I think you are right about Paul and Santorum being the most pro-life (in the anti-abortion sense) candidates in the debate. It’s a shame Santorum spends so much time criticizing Paul via straw man arguments, and supporting the killing of civilian scientists.
In my mind, unless he has changed his mind, that makes him less pro-life than Paul, by far.
The Romney file: I think, especially after viewing this, that Romney is little different from Obama, as his funding seems to show us.
Romney File
As far as a reasoned argument in favor of Paul over Santorum, I would offer the following brief video by Catholic historian Thomas E. Woods, Jr.: http://tinyurl.com/7nwtv8z.
Father Z, I am somewhat surprised at a more recent comment by you in re:
But I do thank you for the qualifier, as those of us who find his arguments compelling are not all unreasoning individuals.
Pax et bonum,
Keith Töpfer