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Building a Catholic Resistance Movement
LifeSite News ^ | 5/7/16

Posted on 05/11/2016 6:08:28 AM PDT by marshmallow

John Smeaton, SPUC’s chief executive, and co-founder of Voice of the Family called for a Catholic resistance movement to respond to “the crisis of truth and the crisis of leadership within Catholic Church structures” that seriously threatens the well-being of children and the family. He ended his talk by reading out a letter that he intends to send to Pope Francis, calling on him “to recognise the grave errors in the recently published Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris Laetitia, in particular those sections which will lead to the desecration of the Holy Eucharist and to the harming of our children, and to withdraw the Apostolic Exhortation with immediate effect.

Building a Catholic resistance movement

Rome Life Forum – 7 May 2016

Why do we need to build a Catholic resistance movement? Let’s begin by putting this proposal into context.

We are arguably experiencing the greatest catastrophe in the recorded history of humanity. At a conservative estimate, since 1966, around 2 billion babies, made in the image and likeness of God, have been killed by abortion worldwide according to leading researchers from both the pro-abortion and pro-life lobbies. Moreover, the number of human embryos destroyed in the past 50 years by abortifacient birth control drugs and devices worldwide is simply incalculable; and in the UK alone, 2 million embryonic babies have been killed as a result of in vitro fertilisation procedures since 1990, according to the British Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority; add to that the scores of other countries where IVF is practised and the number of human beings killed is once again incalculable.

Estimates for the total number killed in wars throughout all of recorded human history range from 150 million to 1 billion. Even if the number were twice that higher figure, the last 50 years has witnessed the killing.....

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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Ministry/Outreach; Theology
KEYWORDS: francischurch

1 posted on 05/11/2016 6:08:28 AM PDT by marshmallow
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2 posted on 05/11/2016 6:13:15 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: marshmallow

I have ten children. I have resisted.


3 posted on 05/11/2016 6:37:04 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("We like us the way we are. That makes us real, true friends." ~ The Undead Thread)
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I resisted by leaving the institution and speaking out against it’s current leadership at every opportunity.


4 posted on 05/11/2016 6:50:49 AM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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This pope is obsessed with taking money from those who earn it and giving it to those who whine for a living.
He is unfit to be pope.


5 posted on 05/11/2016 6:55:44 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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+1.

Or +2.


6 posted on 05/11/2016 7:37:12 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.)
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At least +2, since one of them is Tom ;-).


7 posted on 05/11/2016 9:55:31 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("We like us the way we are. That makes us real, true friends." ~ The Undead Thread)
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To: Travis McGee

BIG BROTHER IS HERE!

Another canvas for MS Paint.

(From a video address to an April youth gathering in a Rome stadium. Not photo-shopped.)

8 posted on 05/11/2016 3:03:47 PM PDT by SGNA
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