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- Elizium23 on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “My baptismal anniversary. I’m mostly Scottish/Irish Catholic, birthed and educated by the Mercy Sisters during the height of the Troubles.…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “Father, it was perfect symmetry for two people. One cup handle facing one way and the other the other way.”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “From a reader: “What are in the frames between the vestments?” Those are the priest’s vesting prayers. I’ll show more…”
- on WDTPRS: 4th Sunday of Easter (Novus Ordo) – Mighty humble Shepherd, humble mighty flock: “Fr Z you are an inspiration in your knowledge about and love for the things of God and the church.…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 32 (-9): Happy Birthday Rome!: “Holy cow that pasta. I wish we had smell-o-vision and taste-o-vision.”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “The German grind continues. It is in their nature.”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Scary about the women. What I mean is this: it would be disheartening enough just to find out that a…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “I wonder what’s going on with these women. Don’t they know that the greatest example of womanhood is Our Blessed…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Fr.Z sez: It is really sad that some people still push this rock up the hill. Reminds one of Sisyphus,…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Alas, those men pushing for ordaining women. STILL trying to get women to do all the work. My mother warned…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Dear Dcn PB, I don’t see how the reality can be described differently than by saying that the one sacrament…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Most people, whether pro or con, misunderstand the history and practice of the female diaconate. The deaconess was a separate…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes: 3rd Sunday after Easter (N.O. 4th of Easter) 2024: “I remember only the joke at the beginning of the homily: Priests get four weeks of vacation per year. Some…”
- on “you must not remember your forefathers…” Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “My children at one of the solid Chesterton Academies have been taught science and theology by an amazing young Catholic…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “What is it that changed about the Catholic Herald? Interesting interview by George Farmer. (If only the faithful could be…”
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Tag Archives: health care reform
USCCB to Pres. Obama: your supposed “accommodation” falls short
Today the U.S. Bishops issued a statement about the supposed “accommodation” proffered by the Obama Administration in regard to the anti-1st Amendment HHS Mandate. HHS Proposal Falls Short In Meeting Church Concerns; Bishops Look Forward To Addressing Issues With Administration … Read More
Posted in Dogs and Fleas, Emanations from Penumbras, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged 1st Amendment, anti-catholicism, health care reform, HHS mandate, Obama Administration, Obamacare, Obamatax, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pres. Obama
26 Comments
26 Comments
Your Pro-Liberty Rally Reports
All across the nation today there have been Pro-Liberty Rallies. Post a report! UPDATE 24 March: I have liked Star Parker for a long time. She spoke at a Pr0-Freedom Rally in D.C. yesterday. [wp_youtube]T7rPymALfgM[/wp_youtube] Alas, there is a guy … Read More
Posted in Religious Liberty
Tagged anti-catholicism, health care reform, HHS, Pres. Obama, rally, religious liberty, Star Parker
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54 Comments
“If it wasn’t for health care…”
The nice UPS gal swooped in with a review DVD from First Run Films about the late Archbishop Oscar Romero. I’ll probably watch it tonight. In our brief chat, I mentioned how impressed I was that UPS and FedEx can move … Read More
“Cave-in Catholics”
Carl Olson at Catholic World Report has a good piece to which I direct your attention: The CWR Blog The Emptiness and Deceit of Cave-in “Catholicism” March 21, 2012 06:20 EST By Carl E. Olson “The Bishops speak for the Catholic … Read More
“There’s nothing to stop them”
Hey Bart! From CNA with my emphases and comments: Executive order on abortion funding won’t stand, Washington Post columnist says Washington D.C., Mar 29, 2010 / 06:56 am (CNA).- Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker has denied that President Obama’s executive … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, The Drill
Tagged abortion, health care reform, Kathleen Parker, Rep. Stupak
8 Comments
8 Comments
Good clear talk about health care debate issues – useful!
I complained the other day that neither side in the Catholic field, the USCCB nor the dissidents, had adequately explained the presumed barrier – or lack thereof – or unacceptable weakness thereof – between federal money and the procuring of … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged CNA, health care reform, Richard Doerflinger
3 Comments
3 Comments
A magisterium of nuns
In this matter of contingent, prudential judgments, whose judgment will in time prove to have been the more prudent? The Catholic bishops with pro-life groups or their opposition, the LCWR and CHA and NCR, etc? I happen to think the … Read More
CNS: “‘Catholic’ Health Ass.” backs bill, USCCB says NO!
From CNS with my emphases and comments: CHA backs health bill; bishops reiterate objection to abortion wording By Nancy Frazier O’BrienCatholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — "Despite the good" that proposed health reform legislation "intends or might achieve," concerns about … Read More
Archbp. Chaput on the healthcare bill
His Excellency Most Rev. Charles Chaput, Archbishop of Denver, is neither shy nor vague nor harsh about his positions. He has expressed himself about the healthcare bill facing some sort of vote… by what weird procedure we don’t know yet… … Read More
USCCB: Senate health care bill “deficient”
From the USCCB: BISHOPS CALL SENATE HEALTH CARE REFORM BILL ‘DEFICIENT,’ ESSENTIAL CHANGES NEEDED BEFORE MOVING FORWARD Seek to retain federal policy on abortion funding and conscience protectionWant to protect access to health care that immigrants have now, remove barriers to … Read More
Sen. Nelson sold himself
Sen. Nelson (D-NE) gets from Pres. Obama and Sen. Reid (D-NV) federal money for Medicaid … for Nebraska… pretty much forever? Sen. Nelson is apparently okay with other states paying for Nebraska’s free ride. Sen. Nelson must be okay with … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged conscience clause, health care reform, Sen. Nelson, USCCB
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66 Comments
USCCB statement: ‘Compromise’ would make citizens pay for others’ abortions
From the USCCB: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ‘ABORTION COMPROMISE’ DOES NOTADDRESS CORE PROBLEM IN SENATE HEALTH BILL, SAYS CARDINAL DINARDO, BISHOPS’ PRO-LIFE CHAIR ‘Compromise’ would make citizens pay for others’ abortions Senate should mirror House of Representative’s Hyde amendment … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged abortion, Card. DiNardo, health care reform, USCCB
3 Comments
3 Comments
Archbp. Nienstedt radio interview on health care reform
I want to direct your attention to an interview on Minnesota Public Radio with the Archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis, His Excellency Most Rev. John Nienstedt. He is interviewed about health care reform and the increasingly audible role of … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged abortion, Archbp. Nienstedt, health care reform, MPR
6 Comments
6 Comments
Prez of Planned P’hood, Speaker Pelosi’s former staffer, attacks bishops
I picked up from the young Papist that Cecile Richards – President of Planned Parenthood, the eugenics inspired organization originally intended to kill off black people – said in pages of Hell’s Bible that the US bishops are ideologues because … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, The Drill
Tagged abortion, Cecile Richards, health care reform, Nancy Pelosi, Planned Parenthood
22 Comments
22 Comments
Elizium23 on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “My baptismal anniversary. I’m mostly Scottish/Irish Catholic, birthed and educated by the Mercy Sisters during the height of the Troubles.…”
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