Just impeach Obama:
The IRS official who led the tax-exempt organizations unit when Tea Party groups were targeted is now in charge of the IRS office responsible for ObamaCare, two Capitol Hill sources tell Fox News.
In other words, if you’re Catholic and don’t pay into Obama’s abortion super-fund via Obamacare, this henchman will cut you down. It’s a promotion for him.
Just impeach Obama. Do it now.
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New HHS Rules Welcomed
February 1, 2013
Bill Donohue comments on the revised rules, announced today, regarding the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate:
The rules proposed today by HHS appear to go a long way toward rectifying the most problematic provisions of the mandate. Essentially, the rules provide insularity for Catholic institutions: they will not be directly involved in providing health insurance coverage for contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs.
Perhaps the most welcome aspect of the new strictures is the elimination of the criteria that define what constitutes a religious institution. Gone altogether is the highly objectionable definition that excludes an exemption for those religious entities that hire and serve mostly people of other religions. As has been pointed out many times, this definition punishes Catholic institutions for not discriminating against Jews, Protestants, Muslims, Mormons, agnostics, and atheists.
The new rules now simply revert to the established understanding of a religious employer as defined by the IRS. This makes eminently good sense.
Still unresolved is the issue of private employers who invoke a religious objection to providing insurance coverage for services they deem morally objectionable. Because the new rules have not been finalized, and there is an opportunity for further public discussion, more progress may yet be made.
While many aspects of the new proposal need to be examined before a final conclusion can be rendered, the decision to expand religious exemptions, and to adopt the IRS definition of a religious institution, is a sign of goodwill by the Obama administration toward the Catholic community.
HSH Comment: Actually, I just think Obama figured out that he was going to lose in court, so instead of being slammed down by the courts again, he took the hit, kind of, for he can still play with it for months. And, actually, the court cases can still go forward since nothing is finalized yet, and, therefore, the penalties still apply, right?
I love it when I see the Lion of the Tribe of Judah among the beloved of His sheepfold, having them lay down their lives out of love for the brethren, in this way confirming them in the faith. The grace of our Lord has His shepherds die to themselves so as to live for the Head and members of the Mystical Body of Christ.
For a spectacular article on the status quo of the developing Kristallnacht against all people of good will, see this FoxNews story: HERE.
Father Gordon MacRae (about) has written an awesome post on the proper Separation of Church and State, whereby the State is not to persecute and control the Church, defining and establishing a state religion which controls every aspect of everyone’s lives, effectively having everyone worship the head of state.
Of course, no one could care less with all the Orwellian brainwashing that goes on, and no amout of punditry and commentary will change anyone.
That’s why Father Gordon, with great pastoral zeal, brings the message home to the Lord’s little flock, citing the Gospel of Matthew, and then closes with some rather incisive encouragement from Father John Harden, S.J.
“In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus cautioned us that we must go out in public as though sheep in the presence of wolves, but He never intended that we should follow the wolves.”
“Unless we recover the zeal and spirit of the first-century Christians – unless we are willing to do what they did, and pay the price they paid – the future of our country, the days of America are numbered.” Fr. John Hardon, S.J.
Now, I’d like to point out to HSH readers that when you head over to Father Gordon’s TheseStoneWalls, don’t forget to be taken by the irony of what you are doing, that is, reading some of the most incisive, thoughtful observations and meditations on the blogosphere today, that is, written by someone, wrongly accused, wrongly imprisoned, who has lived for more than 18 years in the midst of the 24/7 absolute mayhem of prison.
Whether Father realizes it or not, all the posts have the sharpest of analogies with his own prison life, so edgy, in fact, that I wonder if most people get this. Just something to keep in mind. For this week’s post, you have to know that Father has recently read over some of the very recent rehashes of the prosecution. I’m sure he must be wondering if the prosecutors are suffering from some of the electile dysfunction that he writes about in this great article. Oh, yes… that link for a terribly good read today: here. What a title.
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IN THIS POST, I’ll fisk the article in the Catholic Encyclopedia on being an ACCOMPLICE, something which I hope will bring a bit of clarity to the situation.
But first, let’s begin with a few words of Cardinal Burke whom I hope will be the next Roman Pontiff should he somehow outlive Pope Benedict XVI, gloriously reigning, who, I hope, will outlive everyone.
Thomas McKenna: “So a Catholic employer, really getting down to it, he does not, or she does not provide this because that way they would be, in a sense, cooperating with the sin…the sin of contraception or the sin of providing a contraceptive that would abort a child, is this correct?”
Cardinal Burke: “This is correct. It is not only a matter of what we call “material cooperation” in the sense that the employer by giving this insurance benefit is materially providing for the contraception but it is also “formal cooperation” because he is knowingly and deliberately doing this, making this available to people. There is no way to justify it. It is simply wrong.”
Here’s the audio for that. Turn the volume up on your computer before starting. The above two paragraphs follow after about a minute of conversation to that you can get the flow of what’s being said.
See LifeSiteNews for the full article. People dismiss the Cardinal’s statement, saying that he is a canon lawyer, not a moral theologian, and therefore has no right to speak of such things. But this isn’t about “authority” of name-throwing or the declared competencies declared by letters after one’s name, is it? No. In fact, it is a matter of natural law, of reason. So, let’s reason this out, shall we?
From the old Catholic Encyclopedia digitized by NewAdvent and [fisked] by yours truly. Let’s use the example of providing a gun to someone, and then make some distinctions afterward.
Accomplice
A term generally employed to designate a partner in some form of evildoing. An accomplice is one who cooperates in some way in the wrongful activity of another who is accounted the principal. [The "principal" is a girl who will murder innocent people with a gun that she buys from you.]
From the viewpoint of the moral theologian not every such species of association is straightway to be adjudged unlawful. It is necessary to distinguish first of all between formal and material cooperation.
To formally cooperate in the sin of another is to be associated with him in the performance of a bad deed in so far forth as it is bad, that is, to share in the perverse frame of mind of that other. [You know of her plan to shoot innocent people, and willingly sell her the gun, wanting this to happen.]
On the contrary, to materially cooperate in another’s crime is to participate in the action so far as its physical entity is concerned, but not in so far as it is motived [motivated] by the malice of the principal in the case. [You don't know of her plan to kill innocent people, and sell her the gun in view of all the other motives there can be, such as self-defense, recreational target shooting, etc.]
For example, to persuade another to absent himself without reason from Mass on Sunday would be an instance of formal cooperation. To sell a person in an ordinary business transaction a revolver which he presently uses to kill himself is a case of material cooperation.
Then it must be borne in mind that the cooperation may be described as proximate or remote in proportion to the closeness of relation between the action of the principal and that of his helper. The teaching with regard to this subject-matter is very plain, and may be stated in this wise:
Formal cooperation is never lawful, since it presupposes a manifestly sinful attitude on the part of the will of the accomplice. [Wanting to murder the innocent is always evil.]
Material complicity is held to be justified when it is brought about by an action which is in itself either morally good or at any rate indifferent [Selling a gun to someone you don't know wants to murder innocent people], and when there is a sufficient reason for permitting on the part of another the sin which is a consequence of the action [Guns can also be used for self-defense, which is a commensurate reason as you don't know the other's intention of malice]. The reason for this assertion is patent; for the action of the accomplice is assumed to be unexceptionable , his intention is already bespoken to be proper [Selling guns with good intentions is always unexceptionable and proper, all things being equal], and he cannot be burdened with the sin of the principal agent, since there is supposed to be a commensurately weighty reason for not preventing it [such as the use of guns for self-defense].
[Let's re-cap that with the example of the HHS abortifacient mandate. Murdering the innocent in the womb is the express intention of the principal agent. She takes abortifacients to kill children. This must also be the wilfull intention of the accomplice, who provides Obamacare abortifacient mandated insurance. One is paying for the abortifacients to be used with the express intention of murdering innocent children. One is, de facto, ipso facto, in agreement with the girl who is out to murder children in her womb. Paying for Obamacare insurance cannot be mere material cooperation. While guns can be used for good purposes, abortifacients are very precisely manufactured to have the one purpose of murdering innocent people in the womb.]
Practically, however, it is often difficult to apply these principles [not in this case], because it is hard to determine whether the cooperation is formal or only material [not in this case], and also whether the reason alleged for a case of material cooperation bears due proportion to the grievousness of the sin committed by the principal, and the intimacy of the association with him [The evil of losing one's business because of not being able to pay fines because of not providing Obamacare fades into insignificance compared to the evil of willingly facilitating the murder of innocent people in the womb].
It is especially the last-named factor ["intimacy of association"] which is a fruitful source of perplexity. [This bit about being able to distance oneself from the perception of being an accomplice out of concern for scandal is simply an added factor. Whether or not others know of the sin doesn't mean there is no sin. Note well that this bit about "distancing" is very common among some bishops. But, our Lord sees all, no matter how distanced one is. Hell is not so far that He cannot put someone there.]
In general, however, the following considerations will be of value in discerning whether in an instance of material cooperation the reason avowed [saving one's business by paying for Obamacare] is valid or not. The necessity for a more and more powerful reason [not to be an accomplice] is accentuated in proportion as there is
• a greater likelihood that the sin would not be committed without the act of material cooperation [It has been shown time and again that the introduction of contraceptives/abortifacients is immediately followed by a sharp rise in sexual activity, promiscuity and abortion. When you throw such things at people, they will be used, even and especially by those who would have stayed chaste until marriage.];
•a closer relationship between the two [The employer/employee relationship is about as close as it gets. If the employer provides abortifacients, the employee will feel encouraged to think that it is O.K. to use them with the blessing of the employer, even though the employer has said that he personally disagrees with their use. No one builds a crematorium in Auschwitz and then says to the Commandant that he personally disagrees with the use of the crematoriums. That would be ludicrous. It is what some bishops already do with very bad advice.]; and
•a greater heinousness in the sin, especially in regard to harm done either to the common weal or some unoffending third party. [The common weal is destroyed more easily and quickly and thoroughly in this way than in any other way. The unoffending third party, the innocent child in the womb, is murdered. This is a greater heinousness any way you look at it.]
It is to be observed that, when damage has been done to a third person [the murdered child in the womb], the question is raised not only of the lawfulness of the cooperation, but also of restitution to be made for the violation of a strict right [How does one even restore the right to life to one who is already murdered?]. Whether in that case the accomplice has shared in the perpetration of the injustice physically [Yes.] or morally (i.e. by giving a command, by persuasion, etc.) [Yes.] whether positively [Yes.] or negatively (i.e. by failing to prevent it) [Yes.] the obligation of restitution is determined in accordance with the following principle. All are bound to reparation who in any way are accounted to be the actual efficient causes of the injury wrought, or who, being obliged by contract [In this case, natural law and the ten commandments], express or implied, to prevent it, have not done so [There it is]. There are circumstances in which fellowship in the working of damage to another makes the accomplice liable to restitution in solidum; that is, he is then responsible for the entire loss in so far as his partners have failed to make good for their share. [One will be at a loss on the brink of hell, will one not?] Finally, mention must be made of the Constitution of Benedict XIV, Sacramentum Poenitentiae, governing a particular case of complicity. It provides that a priest who has been the accomplice of any person in a sin against the Sixth Commandment is rendered incapable of absolving validly that person from that sin, except in danger of death, and then only if there be no other priest obtainable. [I wonder what politically correct priests will say to our Lord about their lack of fatherly governance in parishes.]*
*The article’s bibliographical data are placed in this post after the “continue reading” button below.
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The author of this article is a bit carried away with “intention”. This feeds into what would later be condemned by Pius XII as situation ethics with its proportionalism lacking, by definition, any true comparative possibility. However, one merely needs to ask what one is doing as well as what the intention is. For instance, providing flowers for your wife to beautify her dreary hospital room is no reason to steal flowers from the local flower shop. In this case of the provision of abortifacients, what one is doing is commensurate with why one is doing it, even if one comes up with different reasons. For instance, the what of buying Obamacare abortifacient insurance is evil. The only reason why one would provide abortifacients is to murder the innocent in the womb. Even if one says that one’s only intention is to save one’s business from being shut down by Obama, this rings as hollow as any cry for help that one screams out as one falls into hell.
By the way: There are those who say that since the murder of innocent people in the womb is only a possibility, though really a probability, there is not guilt involved. But that would be like saying that the gun dealer who sells a gun to someone for the specific purpose of killing innocent people is not guilty of a sin just because it snowed later that day and the intended victims got away. That’s just ludicrous.
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She lives just down the road on Holy Souls Mountain.
Welcome to DHS Obamacare!
They didn’t go to the blog’s main page, but immediately to these two articles:
HSH, bringing the new evangelization to abortion-monger diplomats of the world. Thanks be to God.
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An excerpt:
Normally, patients are not evaluated as possible organ donors until after a decision to remove life sustaining medical care is made. This ensures that the decision to withdraw extraordinary means of support is made without coercion from the transplant team waiting for the patient’s organs. [That's no longer the case] The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), a nonprofit organization contracted by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) [Obamacare politbureau] to administer the nation’s organ transplant program, is revising the requirements for organ donation programs in order to allow patients to be evaluated as potential organ donors before any decisions are made about the withdrawal of life sustaining measures. The first attempt by UNOS to revise the guidelines actually designated specific neurological diseases such as high level spinal cord injuries, muscular dystrophy, and Lou Gehrig’s disease as conditions to be flagged as potential organ donors on any admission to the hospital. This brought such an outcry from disability advocates that the current revision no longer recommends singling out specific diagnoses for organ donation. [But watch this: it gets much, much worse, and will include those groups as flagged by the death panels of Obamacare:] Instead, all patients will be evaluated as potential donors, and no consultation with families is required. In fact, UNOS states that it is unnecessary to obtain consent for organ donation from the next of kin or other health care surrogate if a patient has indicated they want to be an organ donor through something like a living will or a check in the organ donor box on their drivers license. This rush to label a patient as an organ donor effectively removes the protective barrier between patient care and preparation for organ donation, thus diminishing the trust between patients and their doctors.
Equally disturbing is the push to remove vital organs from living patients…
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The erosion of ethics in organ transplantation: what’s a Catholic to do?
| Denise J. Hunnell, MD |  |
Mon Nov 19 11:02 EST | |
Opinion |
Organ donation can certainly be a supreme act of generosity. Pope John Paul II endorsed organ transplantation in both his encyclical Evangelium Vitae as well as his 2000 address to the 18th International Congress of the Transplantation Society as a way to build up an “authentic culture of life”. However, Pope John Paul II was also careful to insist that this lifesaving technology must be governed by critical ethical principles in order to fulfill its life affirming potential.
The first principle is the donation must Continue reading
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Obama’s Obamacare persecution — hand in hand with a most willing John Boehner — will not prevail against the Church, which conquers in the fidelity of the martyrs.
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Remember when Obama was caught on microphone to say to Putin’s aide that he was to relay the message to Putin that he, Obama, would have more freedom after the election, a statement which was not repudiated when Romney brought this up in a debate?
Remember when the Obama admin (Department of Homeland Security) said that all returning vets are potential terrorists [had the military been allowed to vote, would the outcome have been different?], along with all those who are peacefully pro-life, and can therefore be remanded, on that mere potentiality, to an offshore prison camp for terrorists without anyone knowing it even for life (however soon that may then end)?
Remember the Monday before Super Tuesday in Madison Wisconsin, 5 November 2012, when Obama said the following?
Sometimes you gotta fight. Sometimes you gotta stand on principle. If the price of peace in Washington is cutting deals to cut students off financial aid [free abortifacients], or get rid of funding to Planned Parenthood [which the Department of Health and Human Services equated with the government, saying that the Catholic Church is out to bring down the goverment by not wanting to pay for Planned Parenthood], or let insurance companies discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions [like the sickness of healthy fertility, which brings about a "punishment" (as Obama calls it) of a baby] or eliminate health care for millions of folks on Medicaid [which is exactly what Obamacare does by over 700 billion $$ wiped out] who are poor [except for Planned Parenthood clinics in African American neighborhoods for the sake of black genocide] or elderly [all to be euthanitised with obamacare], or disabled [all to be aborted from now on, because all you disabled people out there have no value for his hitleresque* vision], I won’t pay that price [of peace]. That’s not a deal I’ll take. That’s not bipartisanship, that’s not bipartisanship. That’s not change. That’s surrender.
Spoken like a true Marxist. The Catholic Church will be put down with all the rest he wants to eliminate.
*People mock any use of Hitler’s name as all being in the category of exaggeration, the old reductio ad hitlerum trick to be dismissed as easily as Williamson dismissively denied the Holocaust, because, you know, when we say NEVER AGAIN! — which begs for an analogy with other genocides that are now going on or will start up shortly — it’s said that such an assertion is never actually to be used for an analogy with any other genocide since that would mean that NEVER AGAIN! would actually mean NEVER AGAIN!, and we wouldn’t want that, because we’re not sincere, but rather want genocide when it pleases us, like with the slaughter of children in the womb, the slaughter of the handicapped, the slaughter of the elderly, the slaughter of those who say NEVER AGAIN! and actually mean it.
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After being stabbed with a bayonet in the back (because the government crowd were cowards), Blessed Jose Luis Sanchez del Rio starts to write on the ground to which he had dropped:
With his own blood, he traces out the sign of the cross, the sign of our salvation, for in this sign do we conquer with Christ Jesus…
He then says: “I’m going home!” As he says this, he’s shot in the back (because that’s the only way cowards can do this to a boy).
He’s then kicked into a grave where they killed him…
Dead.
That’s what atheism is all about. That’s what death mongering governments are all about.
Have you looked at the provisions of Obamacare recently? It’s all about power. About death. Death of youngsters in the womb. Death of our elderly. Death of the vulnerable. Because that’s what cowards do. We have cowards leading the government of these United States. What to do about it?
Vote Obama out.
Of course, we’ve seen a huge amount of election fraud favoring Obama already. Most of the military have been excluded from voting. Many voter machines select Obama even though the vote went for someone else. Etc. Etc. Etc. It’s widespread.
Then what?
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Obama says that he can constitutionally limit freedom of religion to worship in closed buildings. Chief Justice Roberts agrees. Roberts signed his legislation, his judicial trumping of the constitution, which cannot but have the effect of a death warrant, a persecution of Catholics, even to death as time marches quickly on.
So, the attempt is already being made to force Catholics to formally participate in murdering their young neighbors in the womb by trying to force them to pay for abortifacients for girls who, in Obama’s opinion, just because they are girls, just can’t help themselves in their college years and need to have sex, sex, sex, you know, for free, as if they are having sex with him (as per his obscene political television message). But it’s O.K., he says, for Catholics to have Mass indoors, all that hocus pocus stuff.
Lots of Catholics agree. I’ve met many. They think Obama is God’s gift to the world, that abortion and contraception and planned parenthood is just great. They will vote for Obama, of course, and then go where after they die?
Anyway, one cannot divide one’s conscience which must be formed by the Church and which one must act on in public life (rejecting Obamacare and its penalties), from worship.
How is it that one could offer Jesus, the Head of the Mystical Body, during Mass, but then go ahead and put the littlest, most defenseless members of that same Mystical Body to death in the womb? “What you have done to the least of these you have done to me” says the King of the Universe. The cowardice of killing such defenseless people is what? There’s just no description…
As Obama wades through the corpses of the little ones he’s helped to slaughter on his way to judgment (for we will all be judged by our Lord), do you think he and those who vote for him so enthusiastically will get a good hearing?
Just to say, there will be no freedom of worship if he is re-elected. Catholics will be held to be enemies of the state. The Department of Health and Human Services, the new polit-bureau (which can legislate at will, on anything), has already stated that the Catholic Church is out to bring down the Government of the U.S.A. by not wanting to support Planned Parenthood.
This is the worst it’s ever been ever in the history of mankind. I mean, usually, tyrannical rulers just want people to go against their conscience by offering incense to the gods, to the politicians of the day. Sometimes, as in this past century, until today, they have instigated genocides of hundreds of millions of peoples. Hundreds of millions.
But now, it is insisted that people pay for the sacrifice of the little ones to the politicians of the day against their consciences. That brings it all to a whole other level. We are on the threshold.
There will be no freedom of worship. Instead, let’s just repeat that picture:
For Greater Glory is now on DVD. A. Must. See.
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“Today, Catholic politicians, bureaucrats, and their electoral supporters who callously enable the destruction of innocent human life in the womb also thereby reject Jesus as their Lord,” Jenky added. “They are objectively guilty of grave sin.”
He’s having all his priests at every weekend Mass read his pastoral letter about voting at the homily. This is wonderful. This is the kind of Bishop we need. A true pastor, who also cares about the unborn. Go Bishop Jenky! (h/t V)
You will be euthanized by your doctor with Obamacare.
It’s all totally anti-American, against the constitution, and immoral.
A perfect reflection of the culture of death, Obama style: death for all.
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October 22, 2012
President Obama has been attacking Republicans on Medicare, claiming that they will end Medicare as we know it. Yet, the President’s health care reform law has put in place measures that assure that Medicare as we know it will no longer be available for seniors in the very near future. As a physician, I believe seniors should know what those changes are.
First, the Affordable Care Act – or as the president likes to refer to it, ObamaCare – cuts $716 billion out of Medicare to pay for ObamaCare. The president claims that seniors do not need to worry because this massive cut does not change what Medicare recipients are eligible for.
While that is technically true, it is also profoundly misleading. [That which is profoundly misleading is a lie.]
President Obama pays for this cut by dramatically decreasing reimbursements to physicians and hospitals, reimbursements that in many cases are already below cost. As a result, many physicians will no longer be able to care for Medicare patients because of prohibitively low reimbursement rates. How does it benefit someone to have Medicare coverage if you cannot find a physician to care for you? Further, reimbursements to hospitals for procedures will be so low that many will no longer be able to provide many services. This is back-door rationing.
Second, approximately $200 billion has been eliminated from the popular Medicare Advantage program which gives seniors choice in how they receive their Medicare benefits.
Those cuts were supposed to take place several months ago, but the services were conveniently extended until after the election, thanks to a “pilot program” from the department of Health and Human Services. After the election, many will lose the option to be in Medicare Advantage. “If you like your health insurance, you can keep it.” Really? [Part of the lie.]
Third, the Independent Payment Advisory Board, or IPAB is a panel of 15 unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats who are charged with cutting the growth of Medicare spending. The cuts they make will be deep. The recommendations of this board are law and can only be overturned by a supermajority of Congress, something which almost never happens. The only tool IPAB has to reduce spending is to further cut reimbursements to hospitals and physicians. So when services are no longer available to seniors, legislators will simply say, “It’s out of our hands – it’s IPAB’s doing!” [Euthanasia will be mandatory.]
Fourth, President Obama is preparing to require drug companies to pay a rebate to the federal government for prescription drugs sold through the popular Medicare Part D. This prescription drug program utilizes market competition to get the best drug prices for seniors. Medicare Part D has been so successful that the costs are 40% below their estimate when the plan was passed into law. The average monthly beneficiary premium for Part D coverage is about $30 in 2012, virtually unchanged from 2011, and far below the $56 originally forecast.
The proposed rebate tax would force some drug companies out of the program, resulting in decreased competition and increased cost that would simply be passed on to seniors. Douglass Holtz-Eakin, the former director of the Congressional Budget Office, estimates that this tax would increase premiums up to 40%, as well as increase annual out-of-pocket costs an average of $200 for as many as 17 million seniors.
So why would President Obama take these actions that are clearly detrimental to seniors? To answer that question, consider the philosophy embraced by the architects of the President’s health care law.
One of the chief architects of the law is Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a bioethicist. He was appointed as a health policy advisor at the Office of Management and Budget and a member of the Federal Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research. Dr. Emanuel has been critical of the Hippocratic Oath (Journal of the American Medical Association, June 18, 2008), claiming that adherence to it led to the overuse of resources as a result of a physician’s sense of obligation to “help the sick to the best of my ability and judgment as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of cost or effect on others.”
Alternatively, Dr. Emanuel has advocated a “complete lives system” in which scarce resources can be allocated. In this system, patients between age 15 and 40 get the most care, while the very young and the elderly have a lower chance of intervention; the young because we have not “invested” in them as yet, and the elderly because there will be less “return on investment” (Lancet, Jan 31, 2009). [This is typical communism: you are just a gog in the wheel. You have no personal worth. If you're a bit rusty, you will be taken out. Euthanasia against your will. After 40 years old. I'm 52.]
As a physician, I have taken an oath to do everything in my power to promote the health and well-being of my patients. I, and many of my colleagues, will refuse to practice medicine if the government starts making decisions that should be reserved to patients and their physicians.
We are at a crossroads in American medicine. We will either accept a top-down, central command-and-control model of medicine as embodied in ObamaCare, or we will fight to restore the best health care system in the world.
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Yikes! V’s graphic at V’s sanctepater.com. Now, just to say…
The Al Smith Dinner was the un-Last Supper, in which the littlest ones, the un-born, were made all so un-important, you know, those un-born, who were ideologized as those who were mere differences in political platforms to be set aside for the evening’s jocular tyranny of relativism…
Sure, those littlest ones among us were given a wink and a nod of solidarity, but that only played into the hands of the number one enemy of the Church in the world today. The cameras never panned to the floor. Had they done so, you would have seen that they were all situated on a small mountain of babies’ corpses that had been bulldozed into the dining hall for the evening for the proper atmospherics.
The rest of us, who don’t understand such “prudence”*, will go to our deaths singing, please God, the Te Deum and, while the death camps send up their smoke and the glistening ashes settle upon America and environs, the compromisers with the world, the flesh and the devil will surmise that we are not going about the new evangelization in the right way, and from on high will despise our deaths as the result of incompetent consensus building. “If only they had known better!” they will exclaim as guests for the next Al Smith dinner are short-listed.
The Immaculate Conception’s Divine Son had His own way of going about making friends and influencing people, drawing all to Himself by way of truth provided in all charity, and this from the cross, the Sacrifice not of the Al Smith Dinner, but of the Last Supper.
That’s how to embrace those who are now redeemed and who need to be saved.
Here’s the Te Deum sung by so many martyrs on their way to their deaths, to their ultimate witness to the truth and charity of Mary’s Son, to their bid for unity in worship of God in eternity. The words are provided in Latin and English, for your memorization pleasure:
Also, if you missed the critique of Cardinal Dolan’s rationalization for the invitation of Obama, here it is with the link. And here’s some fisking for the speech at the dinner itself:
It traditionally falls to the host of this enjoyable evening, the Archbishop of New York, to “call it a night.” ["night"]
Thank you, everybody, for your gracious company this evening.
What a unique honor and joy to welcome and thank our two candidates, and Mrs. Romney.
Our two candidates claim that both your parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, are “big tents,” containing extraordinarily diverse, even contrary, opposite people and groups. Well, you don’t have a thing over the Catholic Church. We got both Biden and Ryan! [Well, no. We don't. Biden has exclaimed time and again that he believes the doctrine of the Catholic Church that life begins at conception, and then goes on to push abortion from conception onward with all his energy, thuggery and buffoonery. This lifts him out of communion with the Church. He is ex-communicant with the Church. The only tent the Church has is the "tent", the Body, which our Lord took upon Himself for our redemption: Καὶ ὁ λόγος σὰρξ ἐγένετο, καὶ ἐσκήνωσεν ἐν ἡμῖν /// Et Verbum caro factum est, et habitavit in nobis /// And the Word became flesh, and pitched His tent among us. In having the un-born ripped to shreds, Biden is having our Lord ripped to shreds: "What you have done to the least of these, you have done to me. Biden is not in communion with the Catholic Church.]
Governor Romney, thank you for being up here sitting next to me; although I must confess I was secretly hoping the Republican candidate would be Governor Christie, because I sure would have looked good sitting next to him!
Mr. President I trust you’ll be able to report to Mrs. Obama that I ate my vegetables and salad. If she had been “first lady” instead of Mamie Eisenhower when I was growing up in the 50’s, I wouldn’t be in this shape!
As you may know, I just returned from Rome a couple of hours ago, where I’m participating in the Synod of Bishops. Thanks to Mr. Mort Zuckerman’s jet, I will be able to return to Rome right after the dinner. [Yours truly also is good friends with the Zuckerman crowd, who frequent this very blog. Imagine that. The point is, let's not be distracted with the who's who list for the dinner.]
By the way, just before I left this morning, Pope Benedict XVI asked me to deliver a special personal message to both candidates. Mr. President, Governor Romney, do you know what the Holy Father asked me to tell you? . . . neither do I, because he said it in Latin. [This jocularity, though rightly siding with Mitt's incisive remark against Obama's abortifacient mandate and consonant slights of hand, relegates the gravity of what is happening with the persecution of the Catholic Church by Obama to the level of other jokes of the evening, such as the one which follows. The Cardinal will get more serious further below, when he launches into his "un"-speech. But we'll see what he does with that.]
Both candidates expressed shock that Mayor Bloomberg had a 16 ounce cup in front of him. Not to worry, Your Honor — I explained to them that it was not a sugar-laden soft drink, but a martini.
The mayor might want to challenge that remark, but, I’m sorry Mr. Mayor, Candy Crowley has already said she agrees with me. [A great jab at the horrifically biased type of "moderator" presiding over the debates. But this was a kind of seamless garment bias.]
Only the Al Smith dinner could bring together two men, of the same calling, who disagree on almost everything, both of whom think they are the world’s experts on everything, who don’t like even being in the same room together: Roger Ailes and Chris Matthews.
The Al Smith Dinner . . . in thanking all of you for your presence and support, might I suggest that this annual dinner actually shows America and the Church at their best?
Here we are: in an atmosphere of civility and humor, hosted by a Church which claims that “joy is the infallible sign of God’s presence;” men and women; young and old; of every ethnic and racial background;
Democrats, Republicans, and Independents;
Catholics, Christians, Jews, Latter-Day Saints, people of no particular creed;
people of wealth, yes, but some folks as well who barely get by;
guests from Westchester and the Bronx; Dutchess County and Staten Island;
Grateful to be people of faith and loyal Americans;
Loving a country which considers religious liberty our first and most cherished freedom, convinced that faith is not just limited to an hour of Sabbath worship, but affects everything we do and dream;
privileged to be in the company of two honorable men [So, Obama was provided the honor by the Cardinal not just of being entitled "your honor" but calling him, in fact, honorable], both called to the noble vocation of public service, whose love for God and country is surpassed only by their love for their own wives and children [That statement just doesn't work any way you put it, does it?], and who, as happy as I hope they are to be here with us tonight, would rather be home with Michelle, Ann, and their families.
All of us reverently recalling a man of deep Catholic faith and ringing patriotism, who had a tear in his Irish eyes for what we would call, the “uns;”
– the un-employed
– the un-insured
– the un-wanted
– the un-wed mother, and her innocent, fragile un-born baby in her womb; [That's great, about the original Al Smith of yore, but I don't think he would appreciate what happened on this evening, the selling out of un-born in favor of niceness.]
– the un-documented
– the un-housed
– the un-healthy
– the un-fed
– the under-educated.
Government, Al Smith believed, should be on the side of these “uns,” but a government partnering with family, Church, parish, neighborhood, organizations and community, never intruding or opposing, since, when all is said and done, it’s in God we trust, not, ultimately, in government or politics.
Al Smith . . . the “happy warrior” on behalf of the “uns” who were so close to Jesus, or to the Native American Kateri Tekakwitha, and the “Angel to the Lepers of Hawaii,” Sister Mary Anne Cope, both women of New York whom this Sunday Pope Benedict will declare saints; so tenderly close to Bl. Mother Theresa of Calcutta who reminded us of the “five- finger gospel” — “As often as you do it for one of these, the least of my brethren, you do it for me!” [Just a reminder, your Eminence: Mother Teresa never had fund-raisers, ever. She was even known to refuse millions of dollars, telling the would-be donor to help those in need personally, since merely throwing money at anyone won't help anyone. Moreover, her "dialogue", consonant with that of the Holy Father, was to unabashedly bring pro-abort politicians to task. Remember the prayer breakfast -- another meal[!] — when she trounced Clinton and Gore and the whole pro-abort establishement, not with jocularity, but with a deadly serious lecture, televised for all the world to see. Let’s review, shall we? You yourself quoted Mother Teresa from this very video. What she did is what dialogue with pro-abort policians is all about, NOT what happened at the Al Smith dinner:]
God bless the memory of Al Smith!
God Bless the “uns!”
God bless the Al Smith Foundation in this Archdiocese of New York which continues his solicitude for the “uns!”
God bless all of you for helping them this evening! [$$$ The financial contributions are a drop in the bucket compared to the political milage Obama took from the evening. Obama would have had to pay much more in campaign finances in order to get such publicity for his continuing persecution of the un-born and oppression of the Catholic Church, his trouncing of the freedom of religion in America.]
God bless our two candidates! [God bless Hitler? Really?]
God bless America!
Thank God for this grand evening!
Amen.
Goodnight! [Night, yes. Good, nope. Your Eminence, with all due respect, you are right now in Rome discussing the new evangelization. Watch this guy in this video. This is what should have gone on at the Al Smith dinner. This is what real dialogue is all about with those who have been scandalized:]
* “prudence”= This is a cardinal virtue (no pun intended) which is all about the judgment of what is good in a particular circumstance. It is in quotes in context since I don’t think that the judgment to invite Obama was correct. Prudence is not a free for all, a tyranny of relativism in which everyone has the right to be wrong.
Filed under Catholic, Persecution, politics, separation of church and state
Might makes right for knuckleheads (knuckle=might; head=right).
That’s because they don’t have reason on their side. Only thuggery. Only buffoonery. Kill all the kids. Outlaw religious freedom. Make the government the be all and end all of everyone’s lives = Marxism.
I know a lot of people who like Obama. They’re either ignorant (really) or Marxists (really).
Biden won last week’s debate in the eyes of democrats, because being a democrat is all about killing kids and hating God. The more he was a thug and a buffoon, the more they cheered him on. That’s what child killers are like.
Obama, an embarrassment to the nation, says that he’ll be imitating Biden tonight. Democrats will cheer him on no matter how boorish, anti-American, anti-Catholic he is. Good strategy. If he can solidify the democrats in this way, he might just win.
Does it matter that they lie? No. The abortion mandate is what it is. But they say it doesn’t exist, and then they say it does, all in the same breath. I guess they think Democrats are really… um… not very intelligent. Perhaps they are right.
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Mother Teresa, a criminal according to Obamacare. After all, she took care of non-Catholics as well, even — gasp — Muslims.
This is my all time favorite bit on Mother Teresa. All time all time.
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You spooky friends of mine (CIA, FBI, DHS…) ought to check out the fellow who was seated next to me on my U.S. Air flight from Paris to Charlotte on 26 July, 2012. All seats were assigned except for mine, until the last second.
The last time I was not assigned a seat was back in 1984, on my way to war torn Managua from Miami, on route to the Bluefields Vicariate. It was an open seating, first-come first-served situation. Though I and a friend were one of the first in line, we weren’t allowed on the half-empty plane, given the excuse that the plane was already full! The next day, it looked like we were to be refused again, but then a gentleman arrived and we were given assigned seating, with that gentleman between us. It turns out that he was CIA agent who wanted to know what we were doing going to such a country just then. He was very courteous, figuring us out, and gave us some expensive liquor to give to the great Cardinal of Managua, which we did.
Now, on the flight from Paris the other day, a way overbooked flight with all assigned seating, I did not have an assigned seat, even though there were some 100 people behind me in line. My boarding gate was changed to the “Envoy” gate. Just as I was about to board the plane, the airport speaker system announced my name. With that, I was told to go to a certain counter of another gate on the far side of that part of the terminal. There I was provided with a special ticket, this time with assigned seating. Next to my seat was a gentelman who, instead of sitting with his wife, he said, up in the front of the plane, came to sit next to me in a just-happened-to-be-vacant seat of a terribly overbooked flight. His excuse was that his wife was sick. Maybe the fellow who was supposed to be next to me had to sit next to his sick wife! All just coincidence, surely…
Anyway, this fellow is the present chairman of a super-NGO affecting untold numbers of run of the mill NGOs and a multitude of directly vetted and chosen individuals of countries around the world, all of them hyper-influential people. His super-NGO makes it it’s business to very effectively steer perspectives of countries and regions of countries with large sums of money as bait, though making this appear to be a grassroots initiative. No debate. No room for inititive. All participants must be sycophants, of which there are many in this world, apparently. This fellow liked to talk, so he couldn’t but mention now and again the branches of the U.S. government which had a direct, dicisive interest in his activities. Of course, I also like to ask questions and make comments that are bound to get things out of people, but I digress. In effect, he was happy to be a government pawn, changing his decades old, prestigious super-NGO into a willing puppet of the Obama administration.
He reeked of a liberalism which gets nervous around principled people. The stakes were jacked up in the conversation (perhaps five hours total), every time he realized I was more studied up in whatever direction the conversation wandered, for instance, into liberation theology (my teacher having been Gustavo himself). Soon he let himself repeat all the lines of Obama and the HHS, for instance about Catholics illegally “forcing” others not to contracept because Catholics didn’t want to pay for abortifacients. He insisted that the common good of encouraging sex followed by abortion had to be protected by the government, even if that meant forcing Catholics to go against their consciences, having them pay for the misbehavior of others.
When I brought up the great film of this Summer called “Cristeros”, about the self-defence of the Catholics who were getting slaughtered in Mexico in their tens of thousands as their religious rights were being trampled, he came out with the line in the title of this post: “Catholics ought to immitate the submissive cooperation of the Jews in their final solution.” He said this with a tone of voice that indicated praise for the Jews who so nicely went along with their own executioners. Get it, my Jewish friends? If you don’t help us Catholics now, don’t think it will not happen to you as well, all over again. This has got to stop, and it’s got to stop now. He’s just as willing to kill Jews right now as he is willing to kill Catholics. Get it? What kind of influence is he spreading with your tax dollars?
Now, if I was at a real computer, I would check out this fellow who was sitting next to me on the plane. But I’m not. But some of you reading this post are. Help us Catholics. Help the Jews. It’ll give you work, but that’s good, no?
Update… Touched a button. Good.
Updated again (27 August 2012): You’ve surely heard the stupid saying that religion is responsible for all violence in the world. That’s usually said as a throwaway line by atheist knuckleheads who have an axe to grind against whatever member of the Church, somehow speaking to the violence that they would like to do as revenge against any real or perceived stupidity by that individual. Well, take an advance course in all this:
The other day I went into a business and was asked how I was doing, and how my trip overseas went. I said fine, except that I had the strangest conversation with a gentleman on the return flight. I told the story above. Both examples, mind you, as above, were about the Nazi government killing off all the Jews and about the Socialist government of Mexico slaughtering the Catholics in the earlier part of last century.
The response was to ask me whether I was a Catholic priest. I said yes, and that it is difficult, isn’t it, to know it someone wearing a Roman Collar is really just a Lutheran or Anglican “priest”. The response to my saying that I’m a Catholic priest was to say that religion is responsible for all the violence in the world. Get that? The hatred against Catholics and those of any religion has been jacked up recently. What’s going on?
Just to say, huge persecutions have been taking place in this most bloodiest, violent, hellish past century. And it’s still going on. It may be that America will be next. There are those who hate religion, who hate life. They should be voted out of office. But most importantly, there is prayer: Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee. And… Our Father…
I think I might mention all this to the Jewish community in Brevard. They use Sacred Heart Catholic Church. I mean, how can we forget the horror, and who did it? Here’s the video I made, once again, of the names of the children being read out at the Yad vaShem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem:
The banner of the Cristeros:
Filed under Just me, martyrdom, politics, separation of church and state, terrorism
The spider above is nicknamed Obama. Sleek, sound, a fighter… and very, very quick, like lightning. Overconfident.
The spider below is nicknamed Pavone. Fat, slow, could hardly be a fighter… at least all of this would be the opinion of Obama.
Take a look at the knobby bits on the back of Pavone. You would hardly believe it, but they’re kickstands, of sorts.
Anyway, let’s put them together and see what happens…
A blur of a fight, hard to tell the outcome, but then… a victory dance! Pavone leans back on his kickstands and thows his arms into the air in victory!
That’s my prediction about the real Father Pavone of Priests for Life and President Obama. The latter is overconfident, fining Priests for Life $100.00 per employee who is not provided abortion insurance. Father said he will never pay it. I believe he will win. How many Catholic businesses are following his great example? What’s happening with all the Catholic Charities and Colleges? Are there any martyrs out there, from day one? Here’s the story from LifeSiteNews:
Priests for Life announces it will defy HHS mandate:
goes into effect today
Ben Johnson Wed Aug 01 14:20 EST Abortion
NEW YORK, August 1, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – The HHS mandate goes into effect today for businesses and non-religious employers, but one organization has already announced it will not comply.
Fr. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, said that while that organization “advocates the observance of all just laws…I want to make it clear to you today that we will Continue reading
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Filed under martyrdom, Persecution, politics, religion, separation of church and state
“They’re gonna squash you like a bug” = You are dead, squashed. Get it?
You’re just a cockroach.
Chapeau to the Z
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Accompany me, Father George David Byers, S.S.L., S.T.D., as I begin life as a Catholic Priest-Hermit by choice. Holy Souls Hermitage is dedicated to the sanctification of my fellow priests, bishops, deacons & seminarians going through the purgatory of this life or the next. Prayer and sacrifice go up, of course, for both Benedict XVI and the next Successor of Saint Peter.
All told, Masses offered for Benedict XVI came to 918.
י ב ר כ ך י ה ו ה ב ה ת א ם ל ת פ י ל ת מ ר י ם ה ק ד ו ש ה
May the Lord continue to bless you
according to the intercession of Mary Most Holy
