Hey! Catholic Dems! Are you for infanticide?

I saw this on Life News.  You can read the whole thing there.

New Audio Surfaces of Obama Defending Infanticide in Illinois

That President Barack Obama was the only member of the Illinois legislature to not support a bill to provide medical care for newborns who survived failed late-term abortions is one of the key reasons pro-life voters will never support him.

Now, Weekly Standard reporter John McCormack has uncovered new audio of Obama, as a state legislator in Illinois in 2003, defending his position. Obama essentially argues that there is no need for the law because he trusts abortion practitioners to provide medical care for the baby they unsuccessfully tried to kill in an abortion.

The transcript of the video McCormack unearthed follows:

OBAMA: I just want to be clear because I think this was the source of the objections of the Medical Society. As I understand it, this puts the burden on the attending physician who has determined, since they were performing this procedure, that, in fact, this is a nonviable fetus; that if that fetus, or child – however way you want to describe it – is now outside the mother’s womb [fetus outside the womb… whatever you want to call it.  What do you want to call it?  In any event, there is audio, below.  When you hear him say this, the impact is clearer.  And the whole thing is chilling.] and the doctor continues to think that its nonviable but there’s, lets say, movement or some indication that, in fact, they’re not just out limp and dead, they would then have to call a second physician to monitor and check off and make sure that this is not a live child that could be saved. Is that correct?

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But WAIT! There’s MORE!

Note how he blathers on and on, even as he does now.

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Pres. Obama has supported infanticide.

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John Paul I was concerned about the SSPX

The intrepid Andrea Tornielli reports, as part of coverage of what would have been Papa Luciani’s (Pope John Paul I’s) 100th birthday, that the late Pontiff was very concerned about the followers of Archbp. Lefebvre and the “rip” in the garment of the Church which they posed.

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Card. Dolan will not offer a prayer at Dem convention as will for GOP.

Life News says:

Obama Rejects Catholic Leader for Democratic Convention Prayer

by Steven Ertelt |

Timothy Cardinal Dolan will deliver the benediction at the Republican Party convention but, in a slight to Catholics, pro-abortion President Barack Obama rejected Cardinal Dolan’s similar offer of a prayer at the Democratic convention.  [Perhaps they understand the power of a photo-op.]

Dolan told Democrats he would be “grateful” to deliver a blessing in Charlotte, according to the New York Post, but Obama turned him down.

Dolan — considered the top Catholic official in the nation, as head of the Archdiocese of New York and president of the Conference of Catholic Bishops — tipped off Democrats a few weeks ago that he had agreed to deliver the prime-time benediction at the Republican convention in Tampa next week, Dolan’s spokesman Joseph Zwilling told The Post.

As the Post reported:

“He wanted to make sure that they knew that this was not a partisan act on his part and that he would be just as happy and grateful to accept an invitation from the Democrats as he would to have received one from the Republicans,” said Zwilling.

“He has not been contacted by them” since, he added.

A senior Obama campaign official said yesterday that the Democrats would have a “high-ranking” Catholic at the convention, but indicated the arrangements weren’t yet final.

“I can’t announce it because the person hasn’t got their plane ticket,” said the official.

Obama campaign spokesman Adam Fetcher would say only, “The Catholic clergy will be an important part of a diverse community of interfaith leaders represented in Charlotte.”

The symbolism of Cardinal Dolan praying at the Republican convention is important as Romney works to reach Catholic voters in swing states to defeat pro-abortion President Barack Obama.

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Another note about registration and comments

I must increase my level of screening for registration and for some comment moderation from “twitchy” to “paranoid”.  My registration queue is being hammered by vile spammers.

As a result, I may have to impose bans on large ranges of IP addresses.  If you wind up with a “banned” note – and you are not a spammer or someone who has not recently annoyed me beyond my patience level (which has been pretty low these days) that’s why.  Drop me a note and I’ll try to put in an exception for your IP address.  That means you will have to find your IP (try whatismyip.com).

Also, because of the spammers trying to register, it may happen that I by accident delete your registration or there is not enough information in the profile box that convinces me that you aren’t an attacker.  Again, I am at “paranoid” level for the time being.

Keep in mind that maybe you really were purposely banned!   o{];¬)

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REQUEST TO READERS

Prayers today, please.  I have a few daunting tasks during the day.

Perhaps in your kindness you would ask God to send His holy Angels to protect me and all other readers here, who have need, from all spiritual and temporal harm.

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Favorite Catholic Speakers

Brandon Vogt has an interesting poll going on about Catholic speakers.

Go check it out.

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Whence Big Puppets? Why do dissidents like them so much?

Did you see the article at Catholic World Report about “big puppets”? You know the ones.

Whence Come These Puppets of Doom?

August 21, 2012
“Liturgical puppets” have shown up in churches for years, but aren’t limited to Catholic venues—they have long been used as agents of iconoclasm and revolutionary agitprop.
John B. Buescher

“We sit by and watch the Barbarian, we tolerate him; in the long stretches of peace we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence, his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creeds refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond: and on these faces there is no smile.”

— Hilaire Belloc, This That and the Other (1912)

I, for one, hesitate to welcome our new puppet overlords.

They visited the 2008 West Coast Call to Action Conference closing liturgy, the video of which the proprietors of the Orate Fratres blog have linked under the title “Mr. Potato Head Concelebrates the Holy Mass?”

Other recent sightings (among many) are documented on the web, showing one puppet floating through a nave at a Minneapolis church’s Palm Sunday Mass, and several puppets pausing for a few moments from Speaking Truth to the Man to pose with their human wards, stimulating the owner of the Bad Vestments blog to ask, “What is up with leftists and giant papier-mâché puppets of doom?”

Sightings of the large, sad variety of “liturgical puppets” go back some years, and are by no means limited to Catholic venues. Episcopalians, unsurprisingly, have paraded them down the aisle of St. John the Divine Cathedral. And St. Michael’s Episcopal Parish in Litchfield, Connecticut supports the Colossal Puppet Theater Company. In recent years, puppets have appeared in many denominations’ services.

All of which has elicited enraged incomprehension in some quarters—what is the point of these visitations into the sanctuary?

The Spirit of Vatican II as today’s special guest on Sesame Street

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Read the rest there.

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Card. Dolan to offer prayer at GOP convention

From AP:

Romney: Cardinal Dolan to offer convention prayer

NEW YORK (AP) — Roman Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan will give the benediction at the Republican National Convention on the night Mitt Romney accepts the presidential nomination. The cardinal’s spokesman said the appearance was not an endorsement.

Dolan is the New York archbishop and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Romney announced Dolan’s appearance in an interview with Raymond Arroyo’s “The World Over Live” on EWTN Catholic network.  [Get that?  I have looked over part of a transcript.]

The archdiocese is one of more than 40 Catholic groups suing President Barack Obama over his mandate that employers provide health insurance that includes free birth control as a preventive service. The rule exempts houses of worship but includes faith-affiliated employers such as hospitals, charities and colleges.

Obama promised to change the requirement so that insurance companies and not faith-affiliated employers would pay for the coverage. But details have not been worked out and many religious leaders have said the compromise appears to be unworkable.

Romney has been pressing the issue in an ad and on the campaign trail. He told EWTN that any legislation he proposed would be evaluated according to “its impact on religious freedom.”

Romney, who would be the first Mormon nominee on a major party ticket, said his service as a lay pastor with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Boston area helped him “understand the very real concerns and pains people have, the struggles that they have,” according to interview excerpts EWTN released.

Dolan’s spokesman, Joseph Zwilling, said the cardinal told both the Republican and Democratic parties that he would accept any invitation to offer a prayer at their conventions. [!]

“It’s not an endorsement,” Zwilling said of the RNC benediction.

“It’s as a priest going to pray.”

The EWTN interview with Romney will air at 8 p.m. EDT on Thursday. The four-day GOP convention begins Monday in Tampa, Fla.

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O-Me-O-Mi-O! Misspelling OHIO!

I understand that The First Gay President is on a big education kick right now.

That’s right.

During a trip to a college campus in Ohio, he and some supporters spelled out the name of the hosting state:

Unless, of course, they were going to “moon” Ohioans behind them.

Had a Republican done this, the media frenzy would be relentless.  Since it was Obama, you probably will not hear much about it.

November 2012!

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22 August: “Nate, nate, Symphoriane!”

In the traditional Roman calendar, today is the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. In the newer calendar it is the memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Either way it is also the anniversary of the Battle of Bosworth Field.

In the 2005 Roman Martyrology we find the entry for St. Symphorianus (he and others had a commemoration in the 1962 Missale Romanum today). He is the patron of Autun, and he was killed during the time of Marcus Aurelius.

This is an interesting entry because it contains a quotation.

2. Augustoduni in Gallia Lugdunensi, sancti Symphoriani, martyris, quem, dum ad supplicium ducebatur, de muro urbis mater commonuit dicens: “Nate, nate, Symphoriane, in mente habe Deum vivum. Hodei tibi vita non tollitur, sed mutatur in melius”.

Amen!

The phrase “vita mutatur non tollitur” is in the Preface for Masses for the Dead. “Life is changed, not ended.” I am sure this is from St. Augustine, though I can’t remember where off the top of my head and I can’t look it up right now.

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