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Posted on 10/25/2007 7:52:37 AM PDT by wagglebee
Msgr. remains a great presence in our lives today. At Pinellas Park I sought his guidance and thanked Our Lord for Msgr.'s words each day as he tended to Terri and kept our spirits bolstered with the Faith which can come only from Above.
As all may recall, Msgr. has posted his thoughts on Terri exclusively here in our Terri Dailies last year and I remain in touch with him, having had a wonderful talk with him quite recently. Msgr. played a core role in this epic scene, one for which we may give abundant thanks to Our Lord, for Terri's Legacy.
And need I remind, Msgr. was touched by the passing of our compatriot, T'wit, and offered us his comfort and wisdom.
Deo Gratias.
Boźe, coś Polskę
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STAMFORD - Thaddeus Malanowski has been a brigadier general, missionary and monsignor. Though his duties may have differed for each position, his job has remained the same for the past 60 years. Stamford's Patriotic and Special Events Commission chose Malanowski as grand marshal for today's Veterans Day Parade, which begins at noon in front of Ridgeway Shopping Plaza on Summer Street and ends in Veterans Park at Bank and Atlantic streets.
"My calling is serving God's people," Malanowski said. "That's my primary responsibility, or privilege."
Pat Batinelli, who has spent the past 22 years on the events commission, said about 1,500 people will march, including Malanowski and about 100 veterans from Stamford. Batinelli, 75, served with the U.S. Marines. Malanowski served as grand marshal for the 1977 parade as well.
"He had a great and impeccable record in the military and at the church, and we decided to have him as our man this year," Batinelli said of Malanowski.
The 85-year-old Stamford native, a retired Roman Catholic priest, lives in the rectory at Holy Name of Jesus Church in the South End. He attended parochial elementary school there, growing up in the neighborhood, which then had a large Polish population.
Malanowski was ordained in May 1947 and enlisted in the U.S. Army as a chaplain two years later.
"It's not even like a profession, like a doctor or a lawyer," he said. "It's a commitment and a dedication in serving God's people and God."
During stints in Germany and Korea with the Army, Malanowski rose through the military ranks and was promoted to brigadier general in 1973, serving as the branch's deputy chief of chaplains. He also counseled Elvis Presley while stationed in Germany and led a cheer in President Reagan's honor in Vatican City during a state visit with Pope John Paul II.
As brigadier general, he held the second-highest post among chaplains. After retiring from the Army in 1984, Malanowski worked as a civilian priest in Florida for the St. Petersburg Diocese, where he served as the court-appointed spiritual adviser to Terri Schiavo, whose death in 2005 caused an international controversy.
Schiavo, a comatose woman whose husband wanted to remove her feeding tube because her condition was thought to be irreversible, galvanized supporters and detractors of euthanasia.
Malanowski returned to his hometown in June, leaving behind his experiences with Schiavo, which at times led him into depression, he said.
"I spent some of the best years of my life here in Stamford, as a child growing up and being educated here," he said. "So I'm very, very happy because I got away from that big problem in Florida, with the press and the negativism."
Now a monsignor, Malanowski also served as a missionary over the past 23 years in Haiti, where he helped establish a 24,000-square-foot medical clinic.
In Stamford, Malanowski, who speaks English and Polish, celebrates about 10 Masses a week at Holy Name. The majority of the members of the congregation are Polish immigrants, he said.
So far, he has been a hit among parishioners, including Marta Medyna, who runs the church's "MIKI" program, which teaches about 20 children traditional Polish dances. The dancers also will march in today's parade.
"He is the nicest person you can meet - very warm, humble, smart - and you can talk to him whether you are young or old," she said. "He always finds time to talk to you.
Veterans Day Parade marshal recalls a lifetime of service
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WICHITA | An abortion protester who claims Dr. George Tiller intentionally hit him with his vehicle outside the clinic has sued the Wichita doctor in a small claims case that has attracted the attention of two court television programs.
Mark Gietzen, the director of Kansas Coalition for Life, is seeking $4,000 for his injuries for an April 2006 incident at the edge of the driveway into the Women’s Health Care Services. Two court television programs — Judge Judy and Judge Joe Brown — have written Gietzen asking him to allow the case to be arbitrated on their shows..................
Abortion protester claims doctor intentionally struck him with car
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A really dear and courageous man.
His efforts to comfort and love Terri
are forever etched in my mind.
Ditto.
It must have been Monsignor Malanowski who told (I’m paraphrazing) that he would pray with Terri each time he saw her, and one day he told her that since he was Polish, he would pray with her that day in Polish.
Terri laughed, which showed she was cognitive.
I recall hearing that, too.
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on Veteran's Day
Watching the parade, Strain awaited her two grandchildren, Ashley Strain, a Stamford High School senior who marched with the Black Knights, and Scofield Middle School seventh-grader Eric Strain. She also watched for her pastor - and the parade grand marshal - retired Army Brigadier Gen. Thaddeus Malanowski, 85, a retired Catholic priest and former Army chaplain.
"He's a wonderful man and a holy priest," Strain said.
Stamford steps out for Veterans Day Parade
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Although it was revealed by Rachel Alexander of Intellectual Conservatives.com on July 30, I didn’t now until last night: Canada Free Press (CFP) is ranked high among the most popular 100 conservative political websites and blogs for 2007.
Indeed as number 47, CFP is among the 50 most popular conservative websites and blogs.
~Snip~
It was three and a half years of one of our writers making it to Drudge, Michael Savage, FoxNews, Lucianne, the Gathering of Eagles, Melanie Morgan’s website and to so many others. It was having my column about Terri Schiavo read, word-by-word on air by Rush Limbaugh.
Canada Free Press makes it to most popular top 100 Conservative websites
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Thread by wagglebee.
MORE than 30 Britons have written statements confessing to helping friends or relatives to die at a Swiss euthanasia clinic as part of a test case to change the law.
Details of the admissions will be submitted to the director of public prosecutions (DPP) as part of a legal challenge by a woman suffering from a progressive form of multiple sclerosis.
Dozens admit aiding relatives commit suicide (UK)
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The lie is that decent Americans would want innocent lives to be snuffed out if they are in the way, and those same decent Americans would condemn anyone with the audacity to try to protect those innocent lives.
We see it repeated regularly.
Thread by wagglebee.
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A new Harris Poll claims a majority of Americans favor the Roe v. Wade decision that allowed virtually unlimited abortions nationwide. However, the poll's question erroneously told respondents on three occasions that Roe only allowed abortions up to three weeks into the pregnancy.
Harris has asked the poll about support for the landmark Supreme Court case almost every year since the decision was handed down in 1973.
However, the question misleads survey participants.
Harris Poll Claims Americans Favor Roe Abortion Case, Question Biased
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Prayers sent for Ruoflaw!
They really showed their true colors.
Anti-abort but pro-euthanasia. Abandon the vulnerable.
Terri's voting blog won't go for Fred Thompson no matter how NRTL pushes his candidacy.
NRTL told us to take down our anti-Jeb and anti-Greer signs and told us at the Vigil the day Terri died not to say anything negative to anyone.
I havent' trusted that org ever since. They can be bought off as they were by Fred Thompson.
They tried to dictate to me to take down my sign and to censor my speech. Well, uh, that didn't work. Orly Salinas interviewed me and I hit all the politicans where they live. Orly was hypertenvilating.
Pro-life means from conception to natural death, not Fred Thompson's version of pro-life or the NRTL money changers. FV
Monsignor comforted and blessed many of us and held mass right there on the lawn at that horrid place. What a leader and fine human being.
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/scn-sa-parade1nov11,0,6518048.story?coll=stam-news-local-headlines
“NRTL told us to take down our anti-Jeb and anti-Greer signs and told us at the Vigil the day Terri died not to say anything negative to anyone.”
I was just telling my husband this, and he is just as surprised as I am.
Orly interviewed me live for Dayside w/Linda Vester but I changed "what I learned" when it was time to talk.
Shame on the NRTL to go with a faux-life candidate based upon his votes many years ago in the Senate.
Terri was killed recently - March of 2005. How can candidates not even acknowledge the festering ingrown toenail that is euthanasia and the ANTI-EUTHANASIA ADVOCATES?
I recommend Priestsforlife.org. They are not beholding to Washington DC politicians. Fr. Pavone’s organization is more true to protecting all life.
We vote in Terri's name because Terri had no rights and this disregard for human rights must cease.
Fregards, floriduh voter
http://terrisfight.org/
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