MOTHER ANGELICA PLEADS FOR PURGING OF "OTHER" TERRORISM IN U.S.

LifeSite Daily News - October 1, 2001 ^ | October 1, 2001 | LifeSite Daily News

[Brian Kopp DPM]

MOTHER ANGELICA PLEADS FOR PURGING OF "OTHER" TERRORISM IN U.S.

Says we can't keep offending God here and expect that He will bless our other efforts

BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, October 1, 2001 (LSN.ca) - On the Sept 25 Mother Angelica Live program on Eternal World Television Network (EWTN), (www.ewtn.com) Mother Angelica made an open appeal to President Bush to first halt the social and other terrorism in the nation. The world famous nun stated "I don't think, unless we tackle the terrorists in OUR country, we can expect God to protect and guide us".... "We can't keep offending God here then ask for his blessing here. It's not going to work".

Mother Angelica, who is the founder of the Catholic radio and television network that is heard by millions around the world, had just returned to the program on Sept. 25 after a ten day absence caused by multiple strokes suffered just after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The strokes have left her with slightly slurred speech, some unresponsive facial muscles and the need to wear an eye patch over one eye because she is unable to close the eye lid.

The aftermath of the New York/Washington terror obviously weighed heavily on her as she was recovering from her strokes. While expressing great empathy with the attack victims, praising the President's speech to Congress and acknowledging that the U.S must bring about justice, Mother Angelica broadened the necessary strategy to win the battle. She identified pornography, abortion, child prostitution, the spread of drugs, the destruction of youth by an immoral media and the suppression of religious expression in public places as "other" terrorism that must be addressed. She stated that abortion has deprived the nation of millions of people who would otherwise be there to defend the nation. The influential nun summarized, "I think some drastic anti-terrorism has to be done in this country - to make us free - to make us filled with trust in God. Then, then you (Bush) can do the work that you have been given to do. And then the almighty God from on high will be with you, and with this country, and with the world."

Mother Angelica ended her comments with "We must be brave and we must accept our penance. We must also change".

See the full text of Mother Angelica's comments at:

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2001/oct/011001a.html

Listen to the program in Real Audio at :

http://www.ewtn.com/vondemand/audio/resolve.asp?rafile=mal092501.ra

[JMJ333]

bttt

[topher]

Bump. I need a pointer to this URL...

[Renatus]

Mother Angelica says it right, again! Thanks for the post.

[HiTech RedNeck]

A lot of Protestants, let alone Catholics, would give Angelica a hearty amen on the changes that would be good for America. One niggling little detail however: we can't put the battle against Islamic terrorism on hold while we wait the political cycles to get air headed liberals out of power, especially those in lifetime judicial seats.

[drstevej]

Will Mother Angelica get the same thrashing that Falwell did?

Your opinion...

[Brian Kopp DPM]

Honestly, I don't think she will. She is more respected (in some quarters) and less prominent. The main stream media will likely ignore this because she is not as easy to ridicule as Falwell, and she said what she said much better having seen the fallout of Falwell's off the cuff remarks earlier.

Finally, too many already think, in the back of their mind, Falwell's words were right but the way he said it wrong. Mother Angelica is wiser than Falwell in the way she said it.

[patent]

I agree. There is a big difference between blaming our domestic terrorists for the WTC, and saying we also need to get rid of our domestic terrorists while we get rid of the foreign terrorists. Mother Angelica bump.

patent

[Weirdad]

Will Mother Angelica get the same thrashing that Falwell did?

Great question, the exact one I was thinking myself. When people are a little bit hypocritical, it makes it convenient to go after them; but the underlying reason for the contrived media-pushed wave of disapproval is an underlying hatred of God and of Christians. It is always politically correct to excoriate American Christians. Since she has not yet been so marginalized as a hypocrite by the media, she is not so convenient a target, and she will not get hit with the same (ironically even more hypocritical) anger.

[Antoninus]

She won't because she didn't mention the massive sacred cow of the left at the moment - that being the homo-nazi movement. They are not worth directly mentioning anyway. They can feel quite comfortable in the 'immoral' category.

[Campion]

Mother has some sort of a nerve problem in her face which developed last week. My physician wife describes it as "Bell's palsy," a temporary paralysis of one of the cranial nerves. She (wife) further said that Mother has to wear the eyepatch because her eye is taped shut; otherwise she could not close it and it would dry out and ulcerate.

I have no idea what you mean by her being "empathic" to terrorists. I think you should retract your comment, because it strikes me as highly disrespectful to a good and decent American religious leader.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

Thoughts?

You don't want to hear my thoughts.

Any chance we can have this poster banned for inferring Mother Angelica, a highly respected Christian leader, is empathetic with evil and Islamic fundamentalist terrorists?

[Brian Kopp DPM]

Whether alethia retracted his/her statement (#12), the good folks here took it down regardless. Its good to see they are being vigilant.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

she didn't mention the massive sacred cow of the left at the moment - that being the homo-nazi movement

I'll be happy to mention it:

Homosexual behavior and health--Parental warning: The following "My View" contains graphic medical terminology about sexual activities that may not be suitable for younger readers.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

With all due respect, my dear Watson, I'll throw mine in with the "nutcase and freak" Mother Angelica any day, before I join someone like you who would say such things about such a great Christian woman. You are morally and spiritually blind if you confuse "freedom" with "license" (license: 3 a : freedom that allows or is used with irresponsibility b : disregard for standards of personal conduct : LICENTIOUSNESS)

[537 Votes]

Our moral terpitude goes a long way in explaining why we accepted Bill "Asleep at the Switch" Clinton as President for eight years, allowing our defense and intelligence-gathering agencies to become lax.

[Greg Weston]

You live how you want to live, and I'll do the same. If you don't like this idea why don't you go "purge" yourself from America along with "Mother".