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Thanksgiving, 90 second video: Pope Francis "Open Your Hearts to Life"

Video from the U.S. Catholic Bishops Conference -

 

NYC Mayor-elect De Blasio off to a bad start with transition team

From the Catholic League - excerpt below the link to the full report

DE BLASIO SHUTS OUT PRIESTS

Yesterday, Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio announced the appointment of 60 New York leaders to his transition committee. He instructed them to “identify women and men from every part of our city and walk of life” that wants a better New York. He lied. Also lying was Transition Co-Chair Jennifer Jones Austin, who said that committee members “come from every slice of civic life—business and labor, science and the arts, clergy….” (My italic.)

In fact, there are two ministers, two rabbis and one imam on the transition committee. There are no Catholic priests. Catholics make up 52.5 percent of New York, yet they have no clergy representation. This is not an oversight: every attempt was made to include persons from virtually every sector of New York. This was clearly done by design. Looks like de Blasio’s politics of inclusion has its limits.

To make matters worse, de Blasio showed his contempt for Catholics by naming to his transition committee the man who insulted them in 1999 with the “Sensation” exhibit, Arnold L. Lehman, director of the Brooklyn Museum of Art. That exhibit featured a portrait of Our Blessed Mother with elephant dung and pornographic cut outs on it. I led a demonstration against it.

Catholic League writes MSNBC over presenting Catholics for Choice as representing the Catholic church

Here's the link and text below -

OPEN LETTER TO MSNBC

November 22, 2013 by Bill  
Filed under Latest News Releases

On November 19, NewsBusters ran a story on the MSNBC segment with Thomas Roberts on abortion. This occasioned Bill Donohue to write the following letter to MSNBC today:

Ms. Kathy Kelly-Brown
Senior Vice President, Communications
NBCUniversal News Group
MSNBC
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, New York 10112

Dear Ms. Kelly-Brown:

If MSNBC wants to invite someone from Catholics for Choice to discuss abortion, that’s fine. But truth in advertising standards demand that the spokesperson not be identified as representing the position of the Catholic Church. That is exactly what happened on November 19 when Thomas Roberts introduced Sara Hutchinson, a spokesperson for Catholics for Choice. After MSNBC contributor and abortion-rights advocate Irin Carmon expressed her position on the Albuquerque, New Mexico proposed law banning abortions after 20 weeks, Roberts said, “Okay, so let’s talk to the Church side.”

There is nothing “Catholic” about Catholics for Choice, and everyone knows it. Would MSNBC allow someone from Jews for Jesus to speak for Jews? If you want to present two pro-abortion sides as part of your discussion, that is your business. But please refrain from lying to your viewers about “the Church side.”

Contact: [email protected]

Voting in Albuquerque today to ban abortions after 20 weeks

Let's pray for the ban.

Anthony Levantino. This former abortionist worked in upstate NY and now lives in New Mexico. Here's his story.

 

Catholic Bishops Conference unanimous: will not comply with Obamacare abortion mandate

Two articles with excerpts below each:

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops today issued a “Special Message” at the conclusion of their fall General Assembly, November 13, in Baltimore. They unanimously passed the special message, which can only be issued as such meetings and strongly condemned the HHS mandate.

They said that, with its “coercive mandate,” the Obama administration “is refusing to uphold its obligation to respect the rights of religious believers.”

“Beginning in March 2012, in United for Religious Freedom, we identified three basic problems with the HHS mandate: it establishes a false architecture of religious liberty that excludes our ministries and so reduces freedom of religion to freedom of worship; it compels our ministries to participate in providing employees with abortifacient drugs and devices, sterilization, and contraception, which violates our deeply-held beliefs; and it compels our faithful people in business to act against our teachings, failing to provide them any exemption at all,” they said.

“Despite our repeated efforts to work and dialogue toward a solution, those problems remain. Not only does the mandate undermine our ministries’ ability to witness to our faith, which is their core mission, but the penalties it imposes also lay a great burden on those ministries, threatening their very ability to survive and to serve the many who rely on their care,” the bishops added.

They continued: “The current impasse is all the more frustrating because the Catholic Church has long been a leading provider of, and advocate for, accessible, life-affirming health care. We would have preferred to spend these recent past years working toward this shared goal instead of resisting this intrusion into our religious liberty. We have been forced to devote time and resources to a conflict we did not start nor seek.”

And this:

Given a choice of paying millions of dollars in fines or complying with a government mandate he thinks is morally wrong, Bishop David Zubik testified on Tuesday in Pittsburgh federal court that he'll choose the fines for the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh.

“I would not be able to live with myself knowing that we're contradicting what we believe,” he said during a hearing before U.S. District Judge Arthur Schwab.

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Religious employers such as the diocese are exempt from providing coverage for those services, but their nonprofits — such as Catholic Charities of Pittsburgh — are required to provide coverage or certify that they morally object so that an insurance company can do so.

Under the law's penalties, Catholic Charities would be subject to a daily fine of $100 per employee if Zubik doesn't sign, said Susan Rauscher, the nonprofit's executive director. That would total $2 million to $4 million a year for an organization with a $10 million operating budget, she said.

The Pittsburgh and Erie diocese are suing the government, claiming that the requirement violates their rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. They're asking Schwab to temporarily block enforcement of the mandate on their nonprofits while the dioceses pursue the lawsuits.

Bishop Lawrence Persico, head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Erie, testified that signing the document would cause the church to cooperate in the provision of “immoral” services.

“I don't see how we could do it,” he said.

 

Wrap-up on Forty Days for Life - two lives saved in Rockland County

Here is correspondence from Rockland, and below the picture is a link to article on the national campaign.

We know there were two saves-

 

1st, woman who was three months having abortion, now we are helping her with the new baby

 

2nd, girl in Good Counsel home in Spring Valley who was going to abort chemically at Spring Valley PP

 

these two signs saved a baby's LIFE!

 

 

 NATIONALLY:

 

476 Babies Saved From Abortion During 40 Days for Life, 8,012 in All Campaigns

 

One of the stories: this from Cherry Hill, NJ.

A young woman was brought to the abortion center by her mother, father and sister. She had three children under the age of 6 and was pregnant again. The children had different fathers. One is in jail. One had simply vanished.

One of the volunteers handed some literature to the woman’s mom, and begged her to get that information to her daughter, who had already gone inside. The woman’s sister then came out, and the same volunteer pleaded with her to just get her pregnant sister out of that place. So she went back in.

Other vigil participants continued to pray. A bit later, the young woman and her sister came out crying. “You saved a life today!”

“The entire family is joyful this baby will be born,” Claire said. “This story illustrates the sad fact that the abortion mentality is deeply ingrained in our society. None of the family members really wanted to have it done, but felt it was the ‘responsible choice.’ Please keep this woman, her family and our country in your prayers.”

Voter Guides! Vote November 5th!

The Westchester-Putnam Right to Life PAC and the Right to Life Party are helping you vote and get out the vote by sharing their candidate picks with you and through you to others prior to the election on Tuesday, November 5th.

From Liz Costanzo and Ed Riely: A great and in-depth list of candidates at their RTL website at http://www.righttolife-9jd.com/. No computer access? Call Ed or Liz with questions at 914.478-1189.

From Alan Mehldau:

"I have been asked by several people to let them know which candidates are pro-life.  The Westchester & Putnam Right to Life PAC has endorsed the following candidates for next Tuesday's election! These candidates are pro-life (or is some cases at least more pro-life than their opponents)  I have attached a copy of our voter guide card for your use.  I recommend them to you!  God bless!  Alan"

  Here's that voter guide:    

                                           9^th Judicial District Supreme Court Justice

Mark Dillon                                             (vote for Five)

Daniel Angiolillo          John Sweeny, Jr.

Christie Derrico            Daniel Castricone

 

Westchester County 

 

County Executive      Rob Astorino

 

County Court Judge   Montgomery Delaney

 

Westchester County Legislature

 

District 1           John Testa

District 2           Andrea Rendo *

District 3           Michael Smith

District 4           Gregory Kane

District 5           Miriam Levitt Flisser*

District 6           David Gelfarb*

District 7           John Verni*

District 8           None

District 9           Peter Tripodi 

District 10         Sheila Marcotte

District 11         James Maisano*

District 12         None

District 13         None

District 14         Bernice Spreckman*

District 15         Gordon Burrows

District 16         None

District 17         Virginia Perez*

 

Putnam County 

Sheriff                    Donald Smith

Legislature

District 5                 Carl Albano

District 9                 Kevin Wright

 

Yonkers City Council

President         Liam Mclaughlin

District 4           Dennis Shepherd

District 6           John Larkin

 * “pro-choice” but supports some “pro-life” positions!  More pro-life than opponents!

 

Candidates not listed have not been endorsed by W&PRTL PAC!