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Fools and Their DisobedienceThis is the first article in a series of articles on fools. Some people may hear the word fool and think of a silly friend or comedian. However, most folks associate the word fool with a negative connotation. The Bible has much to say about fools and without hesitation it presents the foolish in a negative light. Why study fools? If the Bible frowns on the foolish, then it would behoove man to learn about fools so that they can avoid being one. The series to be embarked upon will examine foolishness in a number of categories:...

Monday August 23, 2010 Priest Apologizes, Retracts Statements Favoring Contraception By Kathleen GilbertNASHVILLE, Tennessee, August 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Nashville priest who issued a video criticizing the Vatican's stance against contraception and divorce, among other issues, has retracted his statements and apologized to parishioners and the pope.Rev. Joseph Breen, whose recent conflict with the Church hierarchy comes 17 years after he was first told not to publically criticize Magisterial teaching, also indicated in a letter to parishioners of St. Edward Church that he planned to retire as pastor at the end of the year, according to a News Channel 5...

Thursday August 5, 2010 Nashville Priest May Face Canonical Discipline Over Heretical Video By Patrick B. CraineNASHVILLE, Tennessee, August 5, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A priest of the Nashville diocese may be facing canonical discipline after putting out a video on the front of his parish website this week denouncing the Pope and various Church teachings such as those against divorce, contraception, women's ordination, and the married priesthood.The video, titled 'The State of our Church', is staged as an interview of the priest, Fr. Joseph Patrick Breen, by one of his parishioners at St. Edward's Catholic Church.  It appears to be...

Rush Limbaugh has made a brilliant suggestion for a nationwide civil disobedience reaction to the judge striking down the Arizona illegal immigration law: EVERYONE leave your Drivers Licences at home and reply to EVERY official request for identification with "NO HABLO INGLES" and force all law enforcement to arrest you and run down your ID themselves and then take them to court for illegally requiring citizens to identify themselves while looking the other way for illegal aliens. With full participation by ALL CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATIVES nationwide, the entire legal system can be brought to IT'S KNEES IN ONE DAY. This act...

'Civil Disobedience' Training Offered to SB 1070 ProtestersUpdated: Friday, 23 Jul 2010, 6:44 PM MDT PHOENIX - Assuming a judge doesn't step in, we're less than a week away from Arizona's immigration law going into effect. As the tough immigration law takes effect, organizers are calling for a day of "non-compliance" - meaning there will likely be a number of arrests during next week's protests - and now training is being offered to protesters. Isaac Martin is a local activist who's putting on a training class for people who want to protest the immigration law. He won't talk about specific...

Groups opposed to Arizona's tough new immigration law said Tuesday that they were planning "civil disobedience" on July 29, the day the legislation takes effect. Alfredo Gutierrez, organizer with the group Somos America and a former state senator, declined to specify what the "civil disobedience" would be, but emphasized it will be nonviolent. Gutierrez characterized the protests as acts of defiance and hope for the Hispanic community. The groups plan to hold a candlelight vigil at the state capitol downtown, march to a nearby church at 4:30 a.m. for a nondenominational service and then to the federal courthouse, they said....

Planned Parenthood head thanks religious sisters for ‘critical support’ of health care bill Washington D.C., Mar 27, 2010 / 07:28 am (CNA).- Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards has praised the Catholic religious sisters who endorsed the Senate health care bill, claiming they deserve gratitude for making “a critical demonstration of support” for a bill that significantly increased coverage of “reproductive health care.” Writing for the Huffington Post Wednesday in her capacity as president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Richards claimed that it was Catholic nuns who “most importantly broke with the bishops and the Vatican to announce their support...

I've been thinking, how does a person respond to this radical lurch toward socialized medicine and the tyranny that is pushing us where we don't want to go. Tea Parties have been great fun and have been a good way to express one's exasperations with the white house and congress (read Democrats, Leftists, Communist Progressives and the like). But marching and going to rallies will only take us so far, there must be a new level of activism that takes up where speechmaking and rallying left off. As a group, I don't think we're quite ready to start breaking things,...

There's been a lot of talk on FR about "Civil Disobedience." Back when I was a kid, filthy disease ridden hippies burned their draft cards to protest against the Viet Nam War. Should we respond to Obamacare by burning our census forms in a public act of civil disobedience? Does anyone have any better idea?

I've been seeing more and more people who are now ready for civil disobedience. This is a big step, and one with risks. It is what it says "disobedience". Not criminal, not violent, not unjustified, either. If, after the votes are over, the lawsuits are finally settled, we still have Obamacare, or any part of it, it will be time for the civil disobedience. Of course, crap and tax, amnesty for illegals, or anything else is perfectly justified reason for it, as well. The Declaration of Independence lays down the fundamental principles - when a government fails to work for...

I don't know if Obamacare can be passed, and if it does, survive the legal fights it faces... But, whether it does or not... I think I'm ready for a citizen's revolt. One where I promise that whatever means the fed intends to use to force my compliance with its wishes, I will not comply. For instance, the IRS is part of this scheme to force me to buy insurance. I will refuse to answer thier questions. I will refuse to buy "insurance of their choice", as well. Further, not only would I like to publish this, I'd like to...

I think it's high time that we start to consider more than words, my friends.. Action more than apathy, and our nation and it's future more than ourselves: In this course, I implore you all to think about but do NOT act yet. I think it is high time that we start thinking about a TAX PROTEST (Civil Disobedience); aka a Tax Rebellion. Peaceful civil disobedience has been used throughout history to change the direction of a nation. I would like to ask you if the next step of the Tea Party movement might be a (peaceful) civil disobedience of...

... Every half-millennium or so an event occurs in our history that changes the basis of society. The Romans come, the Romans go. The Normans come; and between their arrival in 1066 and the outbreak of the Great War in 1914 there is one seismic event after which society sets off (after a false start or two) on an entirely new course: the Reformation in England. When the Convocation of Canterbury of the Church in England agreed in March 1531 to accede to Henry's demands about church governance that included the clergy's recognition of him as head of the English...

19 November 2007 Archbp. Ranjith interview in L’Osservatore Romano on liturgy CATEGORY: SESSIUNCULUM — Fr. John Zuhlsdorf @ 12:41 pm His Excellency Most Reverend Malcolm Ranjith, the intrepid Secretary of the CDWDS is in the news a great deal these days.  So much so, with so many interviews and comments that I am thinking he has been purposely set cat-like amidst the progressivist pigeons. Today we also see what a different a new director for the Holy See’s daily L’Osservatore Romano can make.  Signore Vian is having an impact!Here is the whole interview in Italian from the 19-20 November...

The liberals have used "civil disobedience" for decades. It has worked on occassion. Do you think such actions are right or wrong?

Last year, just one priest was ordained in the Diocese of Linz. The ordination had in fact been postponed as the candidate had called for an open revolt against Rome. After full and as we can now see less than frank discussions with the Bishop, the ordination went ahead, the Bishop giving himself cover by ordaining two FSSP priests using the old books at a separate ordination around the same time. Father Golatz has now broken every bound of discretion and published a new interview in the Standard, one of the main Austrian newspapers. The Bishop has issued a statement...

Those who are overly upset by the fact that millions of illegal immigrants are in the country need to consider two facts. Immigrants have traditionally played an important role in the U.S. economy and will be even more important in the future. Americans are not the most law abiding people. Americans have even been known to venerate lawbreakers. Critics of illegal immigrants should be criticizing the law instead of those who decide to ignore it. There is something wrong with an immigration law that allows people to enter the country legally to learn how to kill Americans by flying planes...

The disciplinary arm of the N.C. State Bar dropped charges of felonious misconduct against two former Union County prosecutors Friday because of a 1999 clerical error at the state Supreme Court. The State Bar had charged Kenneth Honeycutt and Scott Brewer with lying, cheating and withholding evidence in a 1996 death penalty case. The ruling Friday marks the second time that Honeycutt and Brewer won on procedural grounds before the bar's Disciplinary Hearing Commission, which sits as judge and jury in disciplinary cases. . . . Prosecutors around the state are concerned that the case is damaging their reputation and...

SALISBURY - Rowan County officials paid private investigators more than $23,000 over the past five years to search for the writer of anonymous letters criticizing county spending. According to the private eyes, that person turned out to be one of the county's own. The Board of Commissioners never discussed or approved spending for the investigation at any formal meeting. Only County Manager Tim Russell, his assistants and possibly two commissioners' chairmen knew of the investigation, The Salisbury Post reported. Russell said he hired the agency because of the letters' threatening tone. The investigation was revealed after Kiker Investigations issued a...

The Right to Resist an Abuse of Power by Michael Davies The Redemptorist Christian Encounter is one of the most widely read Sunday bulletins circulating in Britain. Its issue of 11 May 1975 contained a short account of the life of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, who was born in 1175, or thereabouts, and died in 1253. The fact that 1975 may mark the eighth centenary of his birth could account for the article. It is a matter for regret that the few brief details given in the bulletin will be all that most of its readers will ever learn...