Thursday, June 21, 2012
Archbishop Charles Chaput: Launching the Fortnight for Freedom
By Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.
Editor's Note: This speech was delivered to a
group of Catholic journalists on the eve of the “Fortnight for Freedom,”
a national campaign of teaching, witness, and prayer against the
Obama regime's abortifacient and contraceptive mandate and disregard for the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
I’ve known Greg Erlandson as a friend for many
years. So I was glad to accept his invitation to join you tonight. And
I’m very glad to speak on the theme of religious liberty because events
in our country have made it an urgent concern. I can sum up my remarks
tonight in five simple points.
First, religious freedom is a cornerstone of the American experience. This is so obvious that once upon a time, nobody needed to say it. But times have changed. So it’s worth recalling that Madison, Adams, Washington, Hamilton, Franklin, Jefferson–in fact, nearly all the American founders–saw religious faith as vital to the life of a free people. Liberty and happiness grow organically out of virtue. And virtue needs grounding in religious faith.
First, religious freedom is a cornerstone of the American experience. This is so obvious that once upon a time, nobody needed to say it. But times have changed. So it’s worth recalling that Madison, Adams, Washington, Hamilton, Franklin, Jefferson–in fact, nearly all the American founders–saw religious faith as vital to the life of a free people. Liberty and happiness grow organically out of virtue. And virtue needs grounding in religious faith.
Kirby Center Lecture: "Becoming a Statesman - Ten Counsels from Thomas More"
Stephen W. Smith is the Virginia Townley Chair in English Literature and Associate Professor of English at Hillsdale College. Dr. Smith's lecture is part of the Summer 2012 Fusco Lecture Series.
A man in full and a man for our season, Thomas More (1478-1535) has intrigued generations of writers and thinkers, citizens and statesmen alike. William Shakespeare, for example, wrote of More as living justice "for truth's sake and his conscience," while Jonathan Swift numbered Thomas More among the six greatest defenders of liberty and claimed that More was "the person of the greatest virtue these islands ever produced." In the twentieth century, Winston Churchill admired "the noble and heroic stand" of More's last years, and GK Chesterton wrote that More "may come to be counted the greatest Englishman, or at least the greatest historical character in English history." How did one free and educated man make an impact like this, on his own country and across the centuries, such that he would be canonized on the eve of the second world war, named Lawyer of the Millennium in 1999, and finally proclaimed Patron of Statesmen at the beginning of the third millennium? This talk will offer ten counsels from Thomas More on statesmanship and the needs of the present moment.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Over 100 Protestant Leaders Announce Opposition to HHS Mandate
From Catholic World News
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| Despots and heirs of Valerian and Diocletian |
Despite their differing views on the morality of contraception,
nearly 150 leaders of religious institutions, most of them Protestant,
are opposed to the HHS mandate because it creates “two classes of
religious organizations: churches—considered sufficiently focused
inwardly to merit an exemption and thus full protection from the
mandate; and faith-based service organizations—outwardly oriented and
given a lesser degree of protection.”
In a letter written under the aegis of the International Religious Freedom Alliance, the signatories state:
It is this two-class system that the administration has embedded in federal law via the February 15, 2012, publication of the final rules providing for an exemption from the mandate for a narrowly defined set of “religious employers” and the related administration publications and statements about a different “accommodation” for non-exempt religious organizations.
And yet both worship-oriented and service-oriented religious organizations are authentically and equally religious organizations. To use Christian terms, we owe God wholehearted and pure worship, to be sure, and yet we know also that “pure religion” is “to look after orphans and widows in their distress” (James 1:27). We deny that it is within the jurisdiction of the federal government to define, in place of religious communities, what constitutes true religion and authentic ministry.
Signatories of the June 11 letter included the presidents of dozens of
Protestant colleges and the leaders of the National Association of
Evangelicals, the Salvation Army, and World Vision.
Catholic signatories included officials of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, Aquinas College (Tennessee), Belmont Abbey College, Catholic Distance University, Christendom College, DeSales University, John Paul the Great Catholic University, the College of St. Mary Magdalen, Mount St. Mary’s University, and St. Gregory’s University.
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Grifter in Chief?
Barack Obama, the Illusion
From Canada Free Press
By Judi McLeod
If Barack Hussein Obama were a movie, he’d be the Steven Spielberg directed Catch Me if You Can.
Politicians and despots down through the ages have proven out as
phonies, liars and thieves, but the one who took Barry Soetoro all the
way to the White House as the self-proclaimed President Barack Obama, is
a painstakingly crafted illusion.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Obama's Grandfather Tortured by the British? A Fantasy (Like Most of the President’s Own Memoir)
" All Marxists are liars. Marxists have to be liars; being a liar is virtually a definitive characteristic of being a Marxist. It is a requirement. The ultimate goal of the Marxist is to move all of society toward or into Communism; that 'worthy' goal is the supposedly noble 'End' that justifies, in the mind of the Marxist, any 'Means' at all that may be applied to achieve it."
--Vic Biorseth
A new biography of Barack Obama has
established that his grandfather was not, as is related in the
President’s own memoir, detained by the British in Kenya and found that
claims that he was tortured were a fabrication.
'Barack
Obama: The Story' by David Maraniss catalogues dozens of instances in
which Obama deviated significantly from the truth in his book 'Dreams
from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance'. The 641-page book
punctures the carefully-crafted narrative of Obama’s life.
One
of the enduring myths of Obama’s ancestry is that his paternal
grandfather Hussein Onyango Obama, who served as a cook in the British
Army, was imprisoned in 1949 by the British for helping the
anti-colonial Mau Mau rebels and held for several months.
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Now Korea Is Cleaning Our Clock
By Patrick J. Buchanan
“The entry into force of the U.S.-Korea trade agreement on March 15, 2012, means countless new opportunities for U.S. exporters to sell more made-in-America goods, services and agricultural products to Korean customers — and to support more good jobs here at home.”
Thus did the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative rhapsodize about the potential of our new trade treaty with South Korea.
And how has it worked out for Uncle Sam?
“The entry into force of the U.S.-Korea trade agreement on March 15, 2012, means countless new opportunities for U.S. exporters to sell more made-in-America goods, services and agricultural products to Korean customers — and to support more good jobs here at home.” Thus did the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative rhapsodize about the potential of our new trade treaty with South Korea.
And how has it worked out for Uncle Sam?
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