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Catholic governor hosting NARAL fundraiser

by Jeffrey Miller
written by Jeffrey Miller

SALEM — Archbishop John Vlazny is criticizing Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski, a Catholic, for playing host to an abortion rights fundraiser Friday night in Portland.

Vlazny, head of the Archdiocese of Portland, said it’s an embarrassment and a scandal for Catholics that Kulongoski is hosting the event two days before the church conducts its annual “Respect Life” mass in Portland to show opposition to abortion.

“For a Catholic governor to host an event of this sort seems a deliberate dissent from the teachings of the church,” Vlazny said in a statement today.

Kulongoski is a longtime supporter of a woman’s right to choose an abortion.

“The archbishop is the governor’s pastor, and he has only respect and admiration for the archbishop,” Kulongoski spokeswoman Anna Richter Taylor said. “They obviously disagree on the issue of choice.”

Kulongoski and his wife, Mary Oberst, are the honorary hosts of Friday night’s fundraising dinner for NARAL Pro Choice Oregon. U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is among those scheduled to speak. The event is to be held at a Portland hotel.

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Raymond Arroyo quipped about all of these bishop’s speaking out that we are having “bishop eruptions” in contrast to the “bimbo eruptions” of the Clinton years.

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Pro-life

How about sterilizing polilticians?

by Jeffrey Miller
written by Jeffrey Miller

New Orleans, Sep 30, 2008 / 03:20 am (CNA).- Archbishop of New Orleans Alfred C. Hughes has criticized a Louisiana lawmaker’s proposal to pay poor women to sterilize themselves, calling it “seriously wrong,” “blatantly anti-life,” and a “form of eugenics.”

Louisiana’s Rep. John LaBruzzo, a Republican from Metairie, last week said he is studying a plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied.

His proposal would also cover other forms of birth control, such as vasectomies for men, and could also encourage tax incentives for college-educated, higher-income people to have more children, the Times-Picayune reports.

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ParodyPolitics

Endorsement

by Jeffrey Miller
written by Jeffrey Miller

This has been a bad election year with unsatisfactory candidates. We have one candidate who supports abortion, infanticide in some cases, ESCR, cloning, euthanasia, and homosexual marriage. And the other candidate supports ESCR. So while I vote for the greatest good I was pretty happy to find that I now have another choice in this election and I totally endorse them. I will let this video make the case for me.

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PoliticsPro-life

Party of Death

by Jeffrey Miller
written by Jeffrey Miller

ROME (CNS) — The Democratic
Party in the United States "risks
transforming itself definitively into a ‘party of death,’" said U.S. Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, prefect of the Vatican’s highest court.

…Archbishop Burke was asked if he knew that the August Democratic National
Convention in Denver featured a guest appearance by Sheryl Crow, a musician
whose performance
at a 2007 benefit for a Catholic children’s hospital the archbishop had opposed
because of her support for abortion and embryonic stem-cell research.

"That does not surprise me much," the
archbishop said. "At this point the Democratic Party risks transforming itself definitely into
a ‘party of death’ because of its choices on bioethical questions as Ramesh
Ponnuru wrote in his book, ‘The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the
Courts and the Disregard for Human Life.’"

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Sheryl Crow appearing there is not as big of deal as Nancy Keenan, President
of NARAL and Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards being some of the speakers
there. I think "risks transforming itself definitively" is a charitable view of what has happened
since really they passed this point awhile ago.

Though the Republicans can’t exactly call themselves the Party of Life with the
support of some forms of ESCR by some Republicans including Sen. McCain. While
it was a good sign that rank-and-file Republicans for the most part were not
going to support pro-abortion Mayor Giuliani there were still plenty that were
willing to accept him just as long as he was strong on national security. We
must never minimize evil just because one party or candidate is less evil than
the other.

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Politics

Pastor problem

by Jeffrey Miller
written by Jeffrey Miller

Media revenge tactics are quite interesting to follow. Ever since the radical political rantings of Rev Wright hurt Sen. Obama to some extent they have been waiting to play “Pin the tail on the Pastor” to get at John McCain.

So first they said that Sen. McCain had a pastor problem with John Hagee. So somehow Obama siting in a church for 20 plus years listening to Rev Wright was the same as John Hagee whose church Sen. McCain has never attended. He became his “pastor” because he endorsed Sen. McCain. This didn’t really work out to the media hope so next they tried Pastor Rod Parsley’ another person who is not actually John McCain’s pastor or part of a church he attends.

So none of this really stuck so next they went after Gov. Palin and those “strange” Pentecostals. The fact that Gov. Palin does not attend an Assemblies of God church anymore didn’t matter. But it seems like a pretty stupid political move to make fun of Pentecostals considering how many their are. So they went after the sermons of the so-called non-denominational “Bible” church she attends. No red meat there other than pretty much normal Evangelical beliefs (still odd to the left though). Now the headlines is “Palin once blessed to be free from ‘witchcraft’.” She was prayed over by a visiting preacher from Kenya so now this person instantly becomes a pastor and other headlines include “Palin’s Pastor Problem.” The idea of spiritual warfare is of course alien to the media.

Obviously the media needs a lesson on whose one pastor is. It does not include people who endorse you or happen to visit your church. They also need to learn the difference between a pastor who makes political claims such as the U.S. created AIDS to kill blacks and a particular church’s theology. We have had many presidents with not exactly an orthodox understanding of theology. It would be a rare case when a candidate’s theology is actually relevant concerning presidential office. Obviously if someone belonged to some doomsday cult their theology would be quite relevant to their performance in office.

But the media and the left love gotcha politics, especially if it is in response to a gotcha.

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News

What is it with priest knife attacks?

by Jeffrey Miller
written by Jeffrey Miller

A Rome priest is fighting for his life after being stabbed in the neck and stomach by a deranged man who had just watched the film The Da Vinci Code on television.

Eyewitnesses said that Marco Luzi, 25, asked to see Father Canio Canistri, 68, parish priest at the church of Santa Marcella in the San Saba district on the Aventine Hill, and then attacked him with a knife hidden in a cloth. An elderly parishioner who came to the priest’s aid is also in serious condition.

A Peruvian childminder and a policeman were also injured as the assailant fled through a nearby park. Police said Mr Luzi, a former medical student with a history of psychiatric problems, had admitted watching the film version of Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code on television the night before the frenzied assault.

At his flat nearby, where he lived with his mother Paola, investigators found material on the Apocalypse and the anti-Christ, and the telephone number of L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper.

There was also a large reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper, which is at the heart of the mystery in The Da Vinci Code, with a note pointing to one of the disciples reading: “This is the hand in which a knife is hidden”.

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AN elderly Sydney priest who disarmed an intruder says he thought it was either “me or him” when he confronted the man in the church presbytery.

Father John Mello, 72, was stabbed in the arm while taking a knife from a robber less than half his age at St Kevin’s Catholic Church at Dee Why, on Sydney’s northern beaches.

The priest was having dinner and reading the paper about 7.20pm (AEST) yesterday when he heard something and disturbed the intruder, aged between 25-30.

Fr Mello said when he confronted the man, wearing a balaclava and armed with a knife about 25 to 30cm long, he was “vividly conscious” he could be “horizontal in one second”, and acted automatically to disarm his attacker.

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