Sunday, October 12, 2008
On Open Letter
“As a fourth degree knight since 1981, and as a formerdemocrat who was pushed out of the party by thepro-abortion pro homosexual radical leftists, I takegrave exception to the false and incorrect informationyour website presents both from a spiritual andtemporal perspective on this years presidential race.
Barack Obama is not pro-choice.
He is pro-abortion.
Don’t believe me, then listen to his speech given last
year to Planned Parenthood.
He embraced the organization which is the largest
abortion provider in the world.
PP is philosophically anti-catholic.
Barack Obama supports the Freedom of Choice Act
which would wipe out all state laws that restrict
abortion.
Barack Obama would pick judges that will support
continuing Roe. vs. Wade as the law.
One million dead babies.
1,000,000 dead babies
Don’t YOU want to stop the killing.
Look I wish that the Democrat party would field a
Democrat who is pro-life. I wish that both parties
would have a pro-life platform.
I wish Catholics would not be the target of the different
political parties and their candidates. But abortion is
legal in this country.
Until you and I change the law, the killing will continue.
Until you ands I agree NOT to support pro-abortion
candidates, the killing will continue.
John McCain may not be perfect. But he personally
adopted a baby that would have otherwise died.
He has voted for 26 years to support pro-life
legislation.
He has committed to me to be a pro life president.
Has Obama committed to YOU to stop abortion, to
pick pro-life judges, to reach out and help unwed
moms and their children.
Or after using you and others like you, will he invite
his planned parenthood friends to continue to spread
their anti-life, anti-Catholic venom throughout the
world.
Are you a soldier or Christ, a protector of the innocent, or some Vichy collaborator and a pawn for the abortion industry?”
John Jakubczyk
Father Novatus Council 4425
Scottsdale Az
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
This is the proposed Democrat Party Platform on abortion
The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v Wade and a woman’s right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right.The Democratic Party also strongly supports access to affordable family planning services and comprehensive age-appropriate sex education which empower people to make informed choices and live healthy lives. We also recognize that such health care and education help reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and thereby also reduce the need for abortions. The Democratic Party also strongly supports a woman’s decision to have a child by ensuring access to and availability of programs for pre and post natal health care, parenting skills, income support, and caring adoption programs.
Compare the proposed language to that which is currently in the Democratic Party platform:
Because we believe in the privacy and equality of women, we stand proudly for a woman’s right to choose, consistent with Roe v. Wade, and regardless of her ability to pay. We stand firmly against Republican efforts to undermine that right. At the same time, we strongly support family planning and adoption incentives. Abortion should be safe, legal, and rare.
Notice the effort to have it both ways in the proposed language. The Democrats want to affirm the right to kill babies BUT they want to pander to the compassionate elements of the party and therefore want to “reduce abortions” by increasing health care and education.
Of course the Democrats want Planned Parenthood to provide the health care and education. Care to guess what kind of education they want to provide to your children? Read Kathryn Lopez and weep.
Do not be confused by the efforts to attract the frustrated and the gullible. The abortion minded Democrats have only one thing on their mind - and it ain’t protecting babies.
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Regarding the Bishop’s booklet and basilica press
Someone wrote in that the link to Basilica Press was not responding. I checked it out and it does not appear to be currently in operation. Perhaps the site is under construction. For information on Bishop Olmsted’s booklet, there are a number of sources, one of which is the Aquinas and More Catholic Goods. You may also contact my friends at the Catholic Children’s Company.
I understand that the Bishop is updating the booklet to address some additional questions.We will keep you informed of the latest developments.
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Duty - and being properly informed
For those looking for the definitive pamphlet or booklet describing the responsibilities and duties of Catholics (and dare i say, any person who cares about protecting innocent human life), there are a few that will answer any questions and fully explain the role of the Catholic voter. Catholics in the Public Square, written by the Most Reverend Thomas J. Olmsted, Bishop of Phoenix, and published by Basilica Press is part of the Shepherd’s Voice Series. I understand that they are preparing a second edition. In addition to this booklet, Catholic Answers has published A Voter’s Guide for Serious Catholics along with bulletin inserts for parish distribution.
Our duty as Knights is to promote the truth. As we begin to examine the candidates, do not allow anyone to distort the truth. Simply put - it is morally wrong to support a candidate who supports abortion on demand, who is opposed to the reversal of Roe v. Wade, and who will not work in any way to change the laws that have allowed the killing of over 35 million babies since 1973. When apologists for the Democratic nominee try to avoid the truth about his extreme pro-abortion position, be clear and concise. Pro-abortion candidates will not get our vote.
This issue is not a liberal or a conservative issue. This is a human rights issue. Over the 4th of July weekend, I watched the movie, “The Patriot” with my boys. We discussed the crucial role that the family must play in the protection of our liberties and freedoms. There is a price for vigilance. To ignore what must be done is to set ourselves on the path ot destruction. During this summer stay informed, get involved and most important of all pray. Pray. Pray for God’s mercy and love. Pray that He will forgive us for the sins of this land. Pray for our own salvation. start with a new sense of purpose. Remember that each one of us has his duty.
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Exploring the Time article on the Catholic vote
On InsideCatholic.com Deal Hudson wrote a blog about a Time article written by Amy Sullivan concerning the upcoming election and the Catholic vote. From reading the article it would appear that Time Magazine wants Catholics to believe that they can vote for Obama with impunity and without any constrictions. The writer therefore showcases Doug Kmiec, a conservative law professor, former dean, and well known Catholic who appears “hell bent” on making himself the Benedict Arnold of the pro-life movement.
The article suggested that Catholics were evenly split between McCain and Obama and that such polling did not bode well for McCain. Hudson begged to differ and I would agree although maybe for slightly different reasons.
The story pulls up the old canards and reminds everyone of Pastor Hagee’s past anti-Catholic statements, ignoring what one could would suggest was a serious step in the improving Catholic-Protestant relations when conversations between Hagee and Bill Donahue of the Catholic took place this Spring. There is also the typical arrogance of such magazines as Time, suggesting that the priests had better be careful or else.
The story also failed to address some of the reasons that this theory was suspect or any person who thought different from Kmiec. But enough of the bias, I was concerned if there was any truth to the story. After all Sullivan referenced a poll done by Time/CNN and as much as I poured over the story, I could not find any of the details. So I clicked on a graphic and there on the bottom of the page was the source of the data and the polling organization.
There was the headline. “Catholic Vote Up For Grabs”
It sounded as though Sullivan was right. Then I read the next paragraph.
“John McCain holds a wide 11-point lead over Barack Obama, 42% to 31%, with 26% undecided among likely Catholic voters, according to the latest national Time Magazine Poll, conducted June 18 – 25.”
Sullivan throughout her whole article conveniently ignores this bit of data. She does not even mention this part that likely voters support McCain by 11 points.
It is only when polling all those who identify themselves as Catholic (and that could include a lot of non-practicing Catholics) that one gets the results mentioned in the article claiming that the vote is ‘up for grabs.”
So let us look at why there was “sloppy” reporting by Time.
Go back to the story’s use of Doug Kmiec. The Democrats know that they have to weaken the Catholic vote on the pro-life issue. They know that they cannot attack it straight on or we pro-lifers will just quote Obama as supporting infanticide, Planned Parenthood, PBA, etc.
So the Obama people have decided to dust off Kmiec, quote him as being for Obama and point out how “pro-life” and “Catholic” he is, using the daily mass language, etc.
Next we read how Obama gave a speech on faith based initiatives. The press spoke in glowing terms. Barry Lynn of the ACLU lamented Osama’s tack toward the Center and everyone was supposed to believe that he is moving toward reasonableness. Until you read the speech.
Until you realize that in Osama’s world, religious and faith based organizations would not be allowed to exercise freedom of speech.
Let me quote directly from my friend Hugh Hewitt
Here’s the core of Obama:
He’s hard left.
He wants the marginal rate on total federal taxes, including his social security tax hike, to immediately rise at least 57% on the highest earners. Obama wants to raise taxes even in a weak economy, though this is a recipe not just for recession but worse. Obama also wants to raise taxes on dividend income and to return the death tax to its highs of eight years ago.
Obama has proposed more than a trillion dollars in new spending.
Obama wants to cut and run from Iraq, with withdrawals of crucial forces beginning immediately upon his entry into office. Obama has never met one on one with General Petraeus and has not been to Iraq in more than 900 days. He is indifferent to the incredible progress made by our troops and the Iraqi Defense Forces and the Iraqi government in the last 18 months.
He supports the decision extending habeas rights to Gitmo detainees and he thinks the most liberal member of the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is a great model for future Supreme Court appointments.
Obama supports gay marriage, and opposes the California constitutional amendment to restore marriage to the definition overturned by a 4-3 vote of the California Supreme Court in May. He supports abortion on demand, including partial birth abortion.
Obama has the slightest grasp on history, and routinely makes the sort of errors about basic facts that shock knowledgeable observers, like arguing the Kennedy-Khrushchev summit in Vienna was an example of the benefits of one-on-one diplomacy.
Obama is not a strong friend of Israel. He spent 20 years in a church that was openly hostile to Israel, and he reversed himself on Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel after one day of criticism by Palestinians.
Obama is running a dirty campaign, and the serial assaults on John McCain’s service, most visibly by Wesley Clark but by many others closely associated with Obama, is repulsive. These are not hits by independent 527s but by close associates and advisors of Obama.
Michelle Obama’s campaign rhetoric has been very divisive, is full of anger and resentment about “moving the bar,” and not being proud of the country, and has led to her high negatives with the public.
Obama’s close friends, mentors and associates are deeply troubling: the radical pastor Jeremiah Wright, the unrepentant terrorists William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, the convicted swindler Tony Rezko, and now a long line of “public housing developers” who took the money and failed to deliver on promises of safe and secure housing for Obama’s poorest constituents.
Obama’s judgment on key appointees is suspect, and he has had to fire the head of his vice presidential search team because of ties to the subprime mess and dump numerous “foreign policy advisors” for their hostility to Israel.
Obama’s deal with the Teamsters to end federal oversight of the union smells very bad indeed and telegraphs the sort of cronyism we could expect from an Obama Adminsitration. Obama’s mentor and real estate partner is Rezko, who helped the Obama’s buy their home, a home on which the Obamas received a mortgage that looks to many like a sweetheart deal.
Obama, like the other leaders of the Triple D Democrats –the Don’t Drill Democrats– doesn’t care about the price of gas, and refuses every initiative to increase supply and thus bring that price down.
Obama has broken his word on his commitment to public financing of the campaign and to meet John McCain in frequent debates. Obama can’t be trusted to keep even high-profile promises he made even only weeks ago.
Away from a teleprompter Obama stumbles and stutters and lapses into a closed circle of cliches that betrays almost no reading or curiosity about the world around him,and a massive ignorance of the war in which we find ourselves. Even when he works from a prompter he says nothing at great length with wonder phrasing but zero substance.
Make no mistake. The national media is going to put an all out push for the election of Barack Hussain Obama. The press and the media hate the Republicans and Bush so much that there will not even be any hint of fairness.
Be prepared. This election is going to get ugly.
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Saturday, April 12, 2008
And now a word about elections
while the attention that most of the press wants us to give is toward the national democratic contest between “who wants to lose the war faster” and ” I’m more pro-abortion and more gay than you,” the real area of concern is the congress and the state houses, i.e. the local elections. If pro-lifers do not get active in local and state races, the pro-abortion elements are going to continue their control of the congress and many of the state houses throughout the country.
You and I must take the time to get involved. Here are some ideas and suggestions.
1. We should make sure that we are registered to vote.
2. Wwe should make sure everyone we know WHO thinks consistently on the life issues is eligible to vote.
3. We should know who is running for public office in our area.
4. We should know where each candidate stands on the abortion issue.
5. If pro-life support them and financially as well.
6. Talk to friends of like mind about the importance of voting. Stress the moral duty we have to cast our ballot.
more later
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Reflections of a late Knight
Try as I might, I cannot do everything that I would like. Indeed I am reminded of St. Paul’s comments about doing the things that I am not suppose to do and not doing the tihings that I am suppose to do. Like this blog for example. Here I set up this blog and put on a few posts and promptly get so caught up in everything else that I neglect to even check it out. So I see these nice comments by people and I have not had even the decency to acknowledge them. Mea Culpa. Mea Culpa. And thanks for the nice comments and considerate thoughts.
So now suspecting that there may be one or two folks who may read this, let me give you an update and some “reflections” that are helpful to anyone who may peruse the site.
Next week Pope Benedict XVI visits the United States and will say mass in Washington, D.C. and New York City. he will visit the White House and speak at the U.N. Everyone will use his being here in the U.S. to advance their own agenda. This may be for good or for ill, but that is the way of all flesh. Hopefully the citizens of the U.S. will be treated to fairr and balanced reporting from the major mainstream media, but I am not holding my breath. I suspect that the “liberals” within and without the Church will attempt to use anything the pope has to say to advance the elect Obama campaign and the Republicans will echo the pope’s respect for life message to draw in the pro-life Catholics.
Benedict’s pontificate has been focused on a couple of simple thoughts. simple can be profound so please do not misunderstand my words. His first encyclical Deus Caritas Est - God is Love - was a powerful reminder of “what’s it all about.” His constant refrain has been to introduce reason and logic into the various conversations circling the globe. He challenged Islam to think in terms of reason and condemned all forms of violence to propagate ones particular beliefs. This is a follow up to the themes of past popes who condemned the use of violence to advance communism, socialism, and fascism. I suspect that he will continue this approach and challenge us here in the U.S. to apply reason and logic to the various issues facing us her in the States. After all his first role is that of a priest, called to bring us the love and mercy of Jesus Christ.
We who are fortunate to be Knights have a special responsibility to promote the gospel of Jesus Christ in our daily lives and through our work. Having been given much we are called to share the good news by our example. Starting at home and with our family we must reflect the truth that God calls us to live. As men we must be examples for the next generation of young men who need role models in order to learn what is right and wrong.
We must teach them proper respect for women, the absolute necessity of respect for all human life and the importance of marriage. Let’s be candid. Much of the problems in today’s society are the result of the failure of men to exercise their proper roles in their families and in society at large. WE Knights must make a difference if we are to rebuild a culture of life.
Finally we must take our faith and apply it in the public square. We should not allow public officials to avoid their public responsibility to protect and defend all innocent human life. We should never allow candidates for public office to even think to ask for our vote if they are not pro-life. Regardless of party, no one who thinks killing babies in the womb is permissible should ever get our vote. Any candidate who wants to destroy the unique place of marriage by equating aberrant behavior with marriage does not deserve our vote.
Simply put if the candidate is pro-abortion, and against protecting marriage, he or she should not get our vote.
Till next time (and I intend it to be sooner rather than later), May Our Lord grant you His peace and mercy.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Bella - Opening in August 2007
Award Winning “Bella” the directorial masterpiece by Alejandro Monteverde and starring Latin American film and television star Eduardo Verastegui will open across the country on August 15, 2007. The winner of the 2006 Toronto film Festival, “Bella” is a thought provoking look at life and the effects that decisions can have on one’s life.
Supreme Knight Carl Anderson has offered the full support of the Knights to promote the film and joined the producers at a private screening in March hosted by former Florida governor Jeb Bush and his wife Columba at the Guzman Theater in Miami. Many State deputies from throughout the U.S. joined Brother Knight Carl for the showing.
Stayed connected for more information or go to wwww.prolifemovies.com for the latest news.
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Saturday, January 27, 2007
All through the Knights
Having just returned from Washington, DC and the 34th annual March for Life, I can report that the presence of my brother Knights was to be seen everywhere.
It was a very powerful sight to see over 200,000 marchers of all backgrounds, from all over the country, young and old, and those in between, but mostly young, who were standing up for life.
The press coverage was horrible. But, what can you expect from a media and a press that are knee deep in their deathly collaboration with the abortion profiteers.
Yet from a perspective of hope, the March was amazing. Young people were everywhere. There were young families, moms and dads carrying their little children on their shoulders so they could see the waves of people ascending Capitol Hill on their way to the U.S. Supreme Court. At the Supreme Court the crowd converged upon the temple built to uphold the law, now the symbol of oppression and hypocrisy. While some prayed silently, others sang. Signs with the Knights emblem figured prominently on the horizon. As dusk fell, the women who regretted their abortions came forward and the eerie irony of the effects of the so-called ‘right of abortion’ in front of the very branch of government that created the so-called right became painfully clear.
The Knights helped at all levels. They were in charge of crowd control. They handled the organization within the March for Life Conference. At the Shrine, Knights assisted in mass.
So here is our mandate as Knights: to continue throughout the country to stand up for life and to be a living witness of the call to respect the life all persons from the moment of conception until natural death. Get involved with your local AZRTL chapter. If there is not a chapter, call AZRTL and we can start one in your area. We cannot stand back and not defend children. That is our calling as men - to protect and to serve.
For those of you in Arizona. mark your calendars for March 3, 2007, Arizona Right to Life’s annual Gala. You won’t want to miss it. Check us out at www.azrtl.org
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Bishop Olmsted on Catholics in the Public Square
Thanks to John Ellenwood of NW Tucson Right to life for getting me this link to the Bishop’s booklet at Basilica Press.
This booklet is must reading for anyone looking to understand the role of the person in the modern world. And while it is titled “Catholics in the Public Square.” it actually applies to all persons. As John Ellenwood noted, “It is a refreshingly clear moral document.”
This is an important booklet for our brother Knights to read. Every Knight to get a copy of this booklet and pray before and after reading it. Then ask God what is His will regarding our obligation to vote.
The Sacred Scriptures tell us to “CHOOSE LIFE.”
Choose life so that we and our descendents will live.
Vote pro-life vote por la vida.
Do not be afraid to spread the message.
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