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The [Center for Medical Progress investigative] tapes [about the collection and sale of fetal organs and parts] have generated a visceral reaction independent of how they were made or whether Planned Parenthood was making a profit. Rather, the widespread revulsion over the tapes arose because they unmasked the fact that, in our public conversation about abortion, we have so muted the humanity of the unborn child that some consider it quite acceptable to speak freely of crushing a child's skull to preserve valuable body parts and to have that discussion over lunch.... This newest evidence about the disregard for the...

Lots to digest here. Enjoy the ride. http://www.metatech.org/wp/conspiracy/september-24-2015-23-cern/

Texas Senator Ted Cruz, a strong advocate of a move to defund abortion service provider Planned Parenthood in the Senate, was considered the biggest winner of the first Republican presidential debate that was aired on Fox television last week. An NBC News/Survey Monkey poll, which was conducted after the GOP debate in Cleveland last Thursday, found Cruz jumping to second place overall, gaining 13 percent voter support behind frontrunner Donald Trump with 23 percent. Cruz increased his prior rating by a whopping 7 percent, the biggest such increase among the Republican presidential contenders. Former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina was...

Ezekiel 34:31 Ye are My Flock, the Sheep of My Pasture. You are My Men and I Am Your God, Saith the Lord GOD.

When the Rapture of the Church finally takes place - in which Almighty God the Son calls out His body (saints and ambassadors) - it (The Rapture) will be a wondrous sign unto the apostate western world more so than a sign unto the whole world. For all had better be prepared, for Almighty God's "Day of Wrath" is now at hand (2 Thess. 2:3-12)! The official commencement of this horrific seven year period will be the breaking of the 1st seal (i.e., the "Confirming of the Covenant" - Dan. 9:27) by Almighty God’s Lamb (i.e., The Lord Jesus Christ)...

NEW YORK — Another federal appeals court Friday ruled against Catholic church-affiliated groups that oppose being required to provide contraceptive care to employees through a third party. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a Brooklyn judge’s ruling affecting over 25,000 employees at two high schools, six hospitals, three nursing homes, and several nonprofits. The appeals court in Manhattan said an Affordable Care Act provision that lets religion-related entities put the burden for providing contraceptive care services on third parties does not erode religious rights. The Obama administration has promoted a provision of the health care overhaul that includes...

Planned Parenthood, which makes money from selling dead baby parts, has a Clergy Advocacy Board, which released a statement defending the abattoir.I tried to find the names of the board members, but came up with this when I clinked their link.  HEREI want to know who the Catholics are.A commentator (below) found it. I dates to April 2015, but we can assume it is still accurate for the most part.Here is a screen shot.

Communism is the most logical and extreme form of Socialism, outcome of the revolutionary theory of Karl Marx. The underlying philosophy is materialistic and determinist; the social order evolves through economic struggles between the classes in the direction of the violent revolution and a dictatorship of the proletariat, to be followed by a "withering away" of the state and the substitution of a society where ownership of all things is common, where all will work voluntarily, and all take freely of goods produced according to his needs. As well as the abstract theory of Communism there must, since 1917, be...

Some of the most influential Christian leaders in the Middle East convened in Syria in late July to urge world leaders to support the persecuted Christian community, crying out for help to remain in the land "watered by the sweat of our fathers. The meeting in the Old City of Damascus was attended by the five patriarchs of the oldest Christian churches in the Arab world including the Antiochian Greek Catholic Church, the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, the Syriac Catholic Church, and the Maronite Church. The Vatican's ambassador to Syria also attended. "We call on everyone...

VATICAN CITY — In the lead-up to his first visit to the United States next month for the 8th World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, September 22-27, Pope Francis has sent a powerful message to American Catholics and all US citizens, urging them to defend traditional marriage and the freedoms on which their nation was founded, especially religious liberty, from “invasive public policies” and cultural tides that are antithetical to a just and well-ordered society. The Pope’s words to Americans came in a message sent this week by the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, to the Supreme Knight...

"With cries that pierce me to the heart, / my enemies revile me, / saying to me all the day long: / ‘Where is your God?’” — Psalm 42. "In paganism, the Divine is that to which sacrifices must be offered. This is almost a definition. In this recent movement, Man is something that should be sacrificed on behalf of the Earth. The divinization of the Earth is an extremely consequential move, since it is supposed to be higher than Man.” — Rêmi Brague, “Are There as Many Gods as Religions?” (Modern Age, Summer 2015) I. With so much current...

Catholic prelates from Iraq and Syria charged that US immigration officials are discriminating against Christian refugees from the Middle East. Speaking in Philadelphia to the national convention of the Knights of Columbus (KofC), Archbishops Bashar Warda of Erbil, Iraq, and Jean-Clement Jeanbart of Aleppo reported that only a tiny number of Christian refugees have been approved for visas to come to the US; Muslim refugees have been approved at a significantly higher rate. “Our people are asking these questions: How come we apply for the American visa and are denied,” Archbishop Warda said. The archbishops agreed that they would prefer...

Rorate Caeli recently published a translated excerpt taken from an interview of Cardinal Gerhard Müller that was originally published on the website of the German Bishops’ Conference: Question: It has been strikingly quiet recently regarding the Society of Saint Pius X. Are the attempts to find an agreement suspended or postponed? Mueller: Regarding this question, there is no substantial new development. The Holy Father wishes that we keep trying: “con tenacia e pazienza” – “with decisiveness and patience.” The precondition for a full reconciliation is the signing of a doctrinal preamble in order to guarantee a full agreement in the...

Despite the Catholic Church’s unambiguous teaching on the “intrinsic evil” of abortion, Catholic Colleges throughout the country continue to promote student internships and volunteer opportunities at Planned Parenthood—the country’s largest abortion provider. In fact, at the same time Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley, OFM Cap, Chairman of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities of the U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), issued a statement decrying the “throwaway culture” that has “enslaved the hearts and minds of so many” through abortion and the selling of “fetal tissue” at Planned Parenthood, students enrolled in the sociology internship course at Boston College, one of...

Cardinal Reinhard Marx, president of the German bishops' conference (CNS) Are we witnessing the beginnings of an international campaign of defiance against the Catholic moral law?I begin with two apparently different questions, which are, however, closely related.Have the German bishops moved decisively towards an Anglican-style (or maybe perhaps a Gallican-style) secession from the doctrinal authority of Rome?Are we witnessing an international liberal-Catholic campaign towards the Church’s acceptance of same-sex marriage?Germany first.On July 30, the website of the German Bishops’ Conference reported that a woman who heads a Caritas Day Care Centre in Bavaria, had been asked in April to...

Ordination Mass drew 1,400 people, with an extra 500 turned away by authoritiesA bishop has been ordained publicly in China for the first time in three years – and for the first time since the Vatican and China restarted its dialogue last summer. Fr Joseph Zhang Yinlin was ordained coadjutor bishop at Sacred Heart Cathedral in the Diocese of Anyang by three Vatican-approved and government-recognised bishops. Bishops not recognised by the Vatican were not present at the ordination, according to ucanews.com. August 4 was chosen as the ordination date because it is the feast of St John Vianney, patron saint...

Bernie Sanders will venture into unfamiliar territory on Sept. 14 when he delivers a convocation speech at Liberty University, a massive evangelical Christian university in central Virginia. Sanders, a culturally Jewish democratic socialist, is an odd headliner for the reliability conservative school that was founded by the late Jerry Falwell, a Southern Baptist preacher known as the father of the Christian right. Liberty released their fall convocation schedule on Wednesday and Sanders was listed at the Sept. 14 speaker. The other speakers include Christian artists and authors Korie and Sadie Robertson, stars of A&E's Duck Dynasty, and Rep. Louie Gohmert,...

The release of videos of Planned Parenthood physicians discussing the market for tissue harvested in abortions has produced varied and strong reactions, and has, ironically, given us a reason for hope and an opportunity as a nation. The tapes have generated a visceral reaction independent of how they were made or whether Planned Parenthood was making a profit. Rather, the widespread revulsion over the tapes arose because they unmasked the fact that, in our public conversation about abortion, we have so muted the humanity of the unborn child that some consider it quite acceptable to speak freely of crushing a...

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz announced Tuesday that he hired a couple who plans to erect 1,000 anti-gay marriage billboards around the country to his Iowa leadership team, the Guardian reports. Betty and Richard Odgaard lost a lawsuit earlier this year after refusing to serve same-sex couples at their wedding business. After having to pay a $5,000 fine and being instructed to not discriminate based on sexual orientation, the Odgaards decided to close up shop and start a new organization with the goal of putting up 1,000 billboards across America that attack marriage equality. So far, they've erected one in...

Jean-Clement Jeanbart, Melkite Archbishop of Aleppo, speaks at the KoC Conference in Philadelphia, while Bashar Warda, Chaldean Archbishop of Erbil, looks on, Aug. 4, 2015. Credit: Knights of Columbus Philadelphia, Pa., Aug 5, 2015 / 03:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Catholic archbishops from Iraq and Syria said Tuesday that while they hope to help their people stay in the Middle East, they also believe those trying to leave are being unjustly discriminated against when applying for United States visas. According to federal data, since October 2014, 906 Muslim refugees from Syria were granted U.S. visas, while only 28 of Syria’s estimated...