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Tag Archives: HHS
HHS money to church entities long before waves of illegal immigrants
Via Pewsitter I learned of this from Liberty News. My emphases. EXCLUSIVE: HHS Bankrolled Catholic and Baptist Church from 2010 to 2013 to Prepare for Obama’s 2014 Invasion! A month or two ago news broke that Obama’s HHS was calling for … Continue reading
Posted in Liberals, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged HHS, illegal immigration, Pres. Obama
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Catholic Health Ass. bends over for Pres. Obama’s HHS “compromise”
From Seattle Times. Here is how the secular press views the bone-head BS stupid move of the Catholic Health Ass. When you hear the words Catholic Health Association you should start thinking: CANON 216 And now the news: Catholic hospitals accept … Continue reading
Your Tax Dollars At Work
I had to work a while to get my mind around this headline. From CNS: $357K Federal Project Will Use Spanish Ads to Promote Condoms Among Gay Foreign-Born Men Your tax dollars at work for Pres. Obama’s agenda. This is … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Religious Liberty, The Drill
Tagged HHS, National Institute of Health, NIH, Pres. Obama
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USCCB Plea To Congress, Obama Administration To Repair Obamacare… er… ObamaTAX
Bishops Renew Plea To Congress And Administration To Repair Affordable Care Act [My emphases and comments.] June 28, 2012 Supreme Court decision does not address fundamental flaws in the law Legislation still needed to fix conscience, abortion funding, immigration problems … Continue reading
“c”atholics United: Who runs the dissident group politicizing the HHS mandate issue and fighting the US bishops?
Catholics United is politicizing the HHS mandate issue. A reader sent an article from the Baltimore Sun about the opening Mass for the Fortnight for Freedom. I am sure you have read about that elsewhere, so I will only point … Continue reading
Posted in Biased Media Coverage, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, Throwing a Nutty
Tagged 2012, American Patriot Catholic Association, Catholics United, Fortnight for Freedom, George Soros, HHS, HHS mandate, James Salt, Kathleen Sebelius, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pres. Obama
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What are YOU doing to defend your religious liberty? No. Really. What?
The First Gay President, Pres. Obama, and his administration have been eroding our first liberties. He is attacking the First Amendment, this time through the Dept of Health and Human Services (HHS). The most aggressive pro-abortion president in history is … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, Emanations from Penumbras, New Evangelization, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged 1st Amendment, Fortnight for Freedom, HHS, HHS mandate, Pres. Obama, religious liberty, The First Gay President
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CNS: Catholic Colleges Urge HHS to Rescind ‘Direct Violation’ of Religious Liberty
From the Cardinal Newman Society: Faithful Catholic Colleges Urge HHS to Rescind ‘Direct Violation’ of Religious Liberty Joined together by their firm commitment to strong Catholic identity and fidelity to Catholic teaching, 19 Catholic colleges, universities and online programs partnered … Continue reading
VIDEO: Georgetown and Kathleen Sebelius
The Cardinal Newman Society has this about Georgetown University’s invitation of HHS Sec. Kathleen Sebelius, supporter of Tiller the late-term abortionist, the President’s pointman in the attack on the Church’s and on freedom of religion, the architect of forcing Catholic … Continue reading
Pres. Obama’s problematic proclamation for National Day of Prayer (3 May)
In the wake of Pres. Obama’s direct attacks on the 1st Amendment both in its religious liberty clause and freedom of speech clause, in the wake of the Pres. Obama’s bungling of the Chen Guangcheng Affair, I read this on CNA: … Continue reading
Posted in Dogs and Fleas, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged 1st Amendment, Employment Division v. Smith, freedom of speech, freedom of worship, HHS, National Day of Prayer, Pres. Obama, SCOTUS, Sherbert v. Verner, Supreme Court
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Operation HOT MIC!
Perhaps this could be run as an ad from now until the election in November? [wp_youtube]-Czo5Vf8KZs[/wp_youtube]
Posted in Dogs and Fleas, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty
Tagged 1st Amendment, abortion, contraception, HHS, HHS mandate, Pres. Obama, religious liberty
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What about Pres. Obama’s surrogate Hillary Rosen? Huh?
Hillary Rosen, the left-wing political and lesbian activist and Obama operative, thinks that Ann Romney, the DCIS cancer surviving, MS enduring mother of five, has “actually never worked a day in her life”. [wp_youtube]T_BRWBUVhyc[/wp_youtube] Does that jive with your experience of … Continue reading
Posted in The Drill, The future and our choices, Throwing a Nutty
Tagged 1st Amendment, Ann Romney, DCIS, family, HHS, Hillary Rosen, MS, Pres. Obama, women
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Card. Burke on the HHS mandate: “There is no way to justify it. It is simply wrong.”
In an interview, Raymond Card. Burke has offered his view on Pres. Obama’s attack on religious liberty, his erosion of the 1st Amendment, his duplicitous, anti-Catholic… okay.. you get it. From Life News with my emphases: Thomas McKenna: “It is beautiful … Continue reading
Good piece by Catholic League on links between Obamacare, HHS mandate, and ACLU
Be sure to review and file away for reference this piece from the Catholic League: OBAMA ENLISTS ACLU TO WAR ON CATHOLICS April 4, 2012 On April 3, Catholic News Service published a story on an internal memo from the … Continue reading
CATHOLIC BLOGGERS! ACTION ITEM! POLL ALERT! Time Magazine on Card. Dolan
Bloggers! Please pick this up. You don’t have to link to me. Just DO IT. Solidarity! The dreadful TIME Magazine (dreadful when it comes to anything about the Catholic Church) is having a poll and you should participate. From their … Continue reading
Religious Liberty
1 April… and I’m not foolin’. Pres. Obama isn’t foolin’. The US bishops are NOT foolin’ either. Biretta tip: Sword of Peter!
30 March: USA: Day of prayer and fasting for Religious Liberty
From the Catholic Sentinel: US bishops set March 30 as day of prayer, fasting for religious liberty Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The U.S. bishops have urged Catholics and “all people of faith” across the nation to observe March 30 … Continue reading
Bp. Morlino on the mission of lay people in the public HHS mandate battle. Wherein Fr Z rants.
Some music to accompany my preliminary rant. Read while listening. [wp_youtube]TVjDP0vlem4[/wp_youtube] I have seen sharp criticisms launched by lay people against bishops whom they accuse of being weak in the public debate about Pres. Obama’s attacks on the religious … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Dogs and Fleas, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged abortifacients, abortion, Bp. Morlino, contraception, D. Madison, health care, HHS, laity, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pres. Obama, religious liberty, vocation of the laity
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FNC: Hemmer interviews Obama surrogate: hijinx and anti-Catholicism result
I saw on FNC Bill Hemmer’s interview of two talking heads, Monica Crowley (conservative pundette) and Christopher Hahn (former aide to Sen. Chuck Schumer D-NY). I hope they post the video of this surprising exchange. The wonks were reacting to … Continue reading
Posted in Dogs and Fleas, Emanations from Penumbras, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, Throwing a Nutty
Tagged Bill Hemmer, Christopher Hahn, contraception, FNC, HHS, Monica Crowley, Pres. Obama, religious liberty, Sen. Schumer, sex
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Card. Dolan interviewed by Bill O’Reilly
Last night His Eminence Timothy Card. Dolan was on with Bill O’Reilly on FNC. O’Reilly actually let him get a word in. This is the first part of the interview. I understand that the rest of it will be posted … Continue reading
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty
Tagged 2012, Bill O'Reilly, Card. Dolan, FNC, HHS, HHS mandate, Pres. Obama, religious liberty, USCCB
47 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 … Continue reading
Posted in Religious Liberty
Tagged anti-catholicism, health care reform, HHS, Pres. Obama, rally, religious liberty, Star Parker
54 Comments
