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Category Archives: Emanations from Penumbras
A priest with something to say to Planned Parenthood
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A more cheerful One Child Policy!
If Pres. Obama has his way, this will coming to a neighborhood near you. From the Beeb: China to overhaul ‘threatening’ one-child slogans By Viv Marsh BBC News China is to overhaul the sometimes threatening slogans used to enforce its … Read More
Posted in Dogs and Fleas, Emanations from Penumbras, New Evangelization, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged 1st Amendment, ABC, China, HHS, John Holdren, One Child Policy, PRC, Pres. Obama, religion, religious liberty
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Ethics group says babies are not “actual persons”, and killing them is fine.
In a straight line from Epicurus to Machiavelli to Descartes to Hobbes to Rousseau to Mill to Darwin to Sanger to your front door…. Killing babies no different from abortion, experts say Parents should be allowed to have their newborn … Read More
“In the formation of their consciences, the Christian faithful ought carefully to attend to the sacred and certain doctrine of the Church.”
From Dignitatis humanae, the Declaration on the Right of the Person and of Communities to Social and Civil Freedom in Religious Matters (1965): 13. Among the things that concern the good of the Church and indeed the welfare of society … Read More
NY Dem pro-abortion “catholic” Congresswoman booed for supporting HHS attack
A parish priest helped organize some feedback for a NY congresswoman Kathy Hochul (D-NY 26 – Buffalo) running for re-election, a catholic who supports abortion and Pres. Obama’s attack on the Catholic Church and on the 1st Amendment. Rep. Hochul is … Read More
Pres. Obama owes you and me an apology!
Mr. President, you owe me and millions of American Catholics an apology. You apologized to Islamic extremists and other Muslims abroad and in the United States for something done against the Islamic faith by mistake. What you are doing to … Read More
“America Magazine ran away, bravely ran away, away!”
I saw this by Matthew Archbold on the site of the Cardinal Newman Society about America Magazine‘s role in defending the Church against Pres. Obama’s attack on the 1st Amendment: ARCHBOLD: America Mag Bails on the Fight for Religious Liberty Run … Read More
Free contraception is good for big business abortion
Abortion is big business. Merchants of death such as Planned Parenthood, and now apparently the White House, know this. Therefore they promote promiscuity, which will lead to more abortions which will produce more profits. It isn’t difficult. As part of … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, The Drill
Tagged abortion, death, Planned Parenthood, Pres. Obama, religion, religious liberty, White House
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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 … Read More
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 the rapidly … Read More
Greg Hlatky on Some notes for your Sunday Mass in the Vetus and the Novus Ordo: ““By pursuing perfection we will achieve excellence.” – Vince Lombardi”
