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Rome confirms Pope meeting with Kim Davis + comments from his in-flight press conference

Of course she should have been given an accommodation for her beliefs, not sent to jail.

The video also has his commentary on conscientious objection from his in-flight press conference returning to Rome.

Carly Fiorina faces down PP supporter

Good job Carly! "You need to get your facts straight ma'am..."

Pope Francis UN speech - important right to life points

A link to the text. His main speech while he was in the United States. We've excerpted some below the link, with four highlights in blue.  If you hit the link below the picture, it takes about 10-12 minutes for a careful read.

The picture, from the Mass at Madison Square Garden.

 

"The Pope gave a powerful, wide-ranging talk"

The work of the United Nations ... can be seen as the development and promotion of the rule of law, based on the realization that justice is an essential condition for achieving the ideal of universal fraternity. In this context, it is helpful to recall that the limitation of power is an idea implicit in the concept of law itself. ... Yet today’s world presents us with many false rights and – at the same time – broad sectors which are vulnerable...

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...In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and disadvantaged, either because they are differently abled (handicapped), or because they lack adequate information and technical expertise, or are incapable of decisive political action. Economic and social exclusion is a complete denial of human fraternity and a grave offense against human rights and the environment. The poorest are those who suffer most from such offenses ... They are part of today’s widespread and quietly growing “culture of waste”.

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Our world demands of all government leaders a will which is effective, practical and constant, concrete steps and immediate measures for preserving and improving the natural environment and thus putting an end as quickly as possible to the phenomenon of social and economic exclusion, with its baneful consequences: human trafficking, the marketing of human organs and tissues, the sexual exploitation of boys and girls, slave labour, including prostitution, the drug and weapons trade, terrorism and international organized crime. Such is the magnitude of these situations and their toll in innocent lives, that we must avoid every temptation to fall into a declarationist nominalism which would assuage our consciences. We need to ensure that our institutions are truly effective in the struggle against all these scourges.

"...the marketing of human organs and tissues ..." Is Planned Parenthood listening?

Integral human development and the full exercise of human dignity cannot be imposed. They must be built up and allowed to unfold for each individual, for every family, in communion with others, and in a right relationship with all those areas in which human social life develops – friends, communities, towns and cities, schools, businesses and unions, provinces, nations, etc. This presupposes and requires the right to education – also for girls (excluded in certain places) – which is ensured first and foremost by respecting and reinforcing the primary right of the family to educate its children, as well as the right of churches and social groups to support and assist families in the education of their children.

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... An ethics and a law based on the threat of mutual destruction – and possibly the destruction of all mankind – are self-contradictory and an affront to the entire framework of the United Nations, which would end up as “nations united by fear and distrust”. There is urgent need to work for a world free of nuclear weapons, in full application of the non-proliferation Treaty, in letter and spirit, with the goal of a complete prohibition of these weapons.

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...  while regretting to have to do so, I must renew my repeated appeals regarding to the painful situation of the entire Middle East, North Africa and other African countries, where Christians, together with other cultural or ethnic groups, and even members of the majority religion who have no desire to be caught up in hatred and folly, have been forced to witness the destruction of their places of worship, their cultural and religious heritage, their houses and property, and have faced the alternative either of fleeing or of paying for their adhesion to good and to peace by their own lives, or by enslavement.

These realities should serve as a grave summons to an examination of conscience on the part of those charged with the conduct of international affairs. Not only in cases of religious or cultural persecution, but in every situation of conflict, as in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Libya, South Sudan and the Great Lakes region, real human beings take precedence over partisan interests, however legitimate the latter may be. In wars and conflicts there are individual persons, our brothers and sisters, men and women, young and old, boys and girls who weep, suffer and die. Human beings who are easily discarded when our only response is to draw up lists of problems, strategies and disagreements.

Powerful words on the disasters in the Middle East.

The common home of all men and women must continue to rise on the foundations of a right understanding of universal fraternity and respect for the sacredness of every human life, of every man and every woman, the poor, the elderly, children, the infirm, the unborn, the unemployed, the abandoned, those considered disposable because they are only considered as part of a statistic. This common home of all men and women must also be built on the understanding of a certain sacredness of created nature.

Well worth hitting the link above and reading the entire address.

2nd Annual "Families Shine" 2-Mile Walkathon takes place this Saturday

2nd Annual "Families Shine" 2-Mile Walkathon takes place this Saturday at Putnam County Veterans Memorial Park; 12noon-3:30pm.

 

Emmanuel House International's Second Annual "Families Shine" 2-Mile Walkathon takes place this Saturday, September 26th, 12noon-3:30pm, at Putnam County Veterans Memorial Park (201 Gypsy Trail Road - Upper Park, Carmel, NY). 

 

 

Take a walk through the park and in doing so help provide emergency supplies and services for moms, moms-to-be, their babies and families. 

 

 

Fun for all ages, the 2-mile walkathon will help "Families Shine" when in crisis due to unplanned pregnancies. Water and snacks provided. Groups and individuals can  RSVP  and grab  pledge forms  and info packets  through  www.EmmanuelHouseInternational.org . 

See you there!

Rita O'Brien

Founder & Executive Director, 914.393.7208

 

Rep. Mia Love (R-Utah) on defunding Planned Parenthood

Note especially last comments on Black abortion rate.

 

Carly Fiorina: 2nd debate and Planned Parenthood

One of the powerful moments from last night's Republican debate.

 

40 Days for Life resumed Sunday at Greenburgh PP

Quick video and some pictures. Almost 50 people were there to protest abortion, and support peace in the womb. A conservative estimate; about 1,400 vehicles went past the one hour vigil.

 "Every human being is called to solidarity in a world battling between life and death"- Ignacio Ellacuria, Jesuit martyr in El Salvador

Nine photos -

 

 

"Health Care Happens Here" - the great lie.

 

Reminder: Westchester/Putnam RTL PAC breakfast, Saturday, Sept. 19th

Contact Alan or Linda at 914-232-1168 -

The Westchester and Putnam Right to Life

Political Action Committee

Cordially invites you to join us for our annual

Pro-life Gala

 Autumn Harvest Breakfast

Saturday Morning, September 19^th, 2015

at

Sisqua Council of the Knights of Columbus

1 Turner Lane, Mount Kisco, NY10549

9:00 AM - 12 Noon (Registration begins 8:45 AM)

Honoring Two Wonderful Defenders of Life

 Rosemary Tirone

Of Port Chester

and

Vincenza Restiano

Of Yonkers

 

Our Distinguished Guest Speaker is Edward T. Mechmann, JD

Speaking on  "The Challenges Ahead"

 

$55.00 Per Person                                                                               ($45.00 Early Registration prior to September 11th)

Fr. Barron on Canonization of Junipero Serra

Soon to be Bishop Robert Barron. Note his point about Serra and the death penalty.

SBA invites 2,000 Dem. staffers to PP video screening

The "progressive" mind.

Pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List invited more than 2,000 Democratic congressional staffers to a screening Thursday of the Center for Medical Progress’ undercover Planned Parenthood videos, which have triggered multiple investigations and calls to defund the organization of its taxpayer dollars.

At the screening, fewer than a dozen staffers showed up, and were outnumbered by members of the media.

Watch the video to see the screening room and the response from Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List.

9th PP Video: "It's just kind of icky"

"The fetus was already in the vaginal canal."

"Heaven starts on earth. And so does Hell."

                Archbishop Fulton Sheen

March for Life defeats Obamacare abortion mandate

From the Washington Post - hit the link for the whole article.

This is a vital win, and the principle should be applied to other groups.

“It’s a case that is a little bit unique among the other cases,” Matt Bowman, senior legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), who represented March for Life, said at the time. “March for Life is not a religious organization. Their pro-life beliefs are based on science and ethics, but not faith.”

Now, a U.S. District Court has ruled that, like some like-minded religious groups, March for Life does not have to offer coverage for a service it doesn’t believe in.

“March for Life has been excised from the fold because it is not ‘religious,'” Judge Richard J. Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia wrote in his opinion. “This is nothing short of regulatory favoritism.”

He said the government had violated March for Life’s rights under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fifth Amendment, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the Administrative Procedure Act, which sets procedural standards for federal regulatory agencies.

“HHS provides no principled basis, other than the semantics of religious tolerance, for its distinction” between religious and secular objections, he wrote. “If the purpose of the religious employer exemption is, as HHS states, to respect the anti-abortifacient tenets of an employment relationship, then it makes no rational sense — indeed, no sense whatsoever — to deny March [for] Life that same respect.” (An abortifacient is a drug that causes abortion.)

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With strong language and no shortage of exclamation points, Leon laid out the case that March for Life was due the same “equal protection” offered religious groups exempt from provisions of the Affordable Care Act.

The government contends that “March for Life is not ‘similarly situated’ to the exempted [religious] organizations because it ‘is not religious and is not a church,'” he wrote. “… This not only oversimplifies the issue — it misses the point entirely!”

Just because March for Life wasn’t making a faith-based argument, Leon said, didn’t mean it didn’t need protection. The Department of Health and Human Services had sought to accommodate groups with religious objections. Why shouldn’t it accommodate secular groups with the same convictions?

“The characteristic that warrants protection — an employment relationship based in part on a shared objection to abortifacients — is altogether separate from theism,” he wrote. “Stated differently, what HHS claims to be protecting is religious beliefs, when it actually is protecting a moral philosophy about the sanctity of life.”