Justin demands pro-life Liberals put their souls on the line; what does that say about those who do?
I say I believe it but what I mean is that I know it to be true, ethically, medically and spiritually.
We never really knew how Stephen Harper felt on the subject
personally. He never proclaimed anything the way I just did. But as a man of principle, he realized that abortion is a matter of conscience. Stephen Harper understood that for many people, people like me, being pro-life is a matter of our very salvation.
Asking us to be pro-choice is like asking us to literally sell our soul. So when the issue of opening up a debate about when life begins arose, Stephen Harper did not whip the vote. How could he ask anyone to put their soul on the line for the party? But that’s what Justin Trudeau is doing. He insisted all of his MPs be pro-choice. Trudeau made being pro-choice a condition
for being given the green light to run as a Liberal party candidate. He really did. I'm not a theologian but I am a lifelong Catholic.
Trudeau's position is a strange one for a man who presents himself as publicly Catholic and moreover it's totalitarian. How could anyone demand that a person of faith choose the Liberal party over their own moral convictions?
We know that some pro-lifers exist in the Liberal party. At their
2012 convention, 90% of the Liberal party membership reaffirmed their pro-choice stance. That’s a lot but it's far from unanimous.
What about those pro-lifers who'd fold up their morality cards in the hopes that they'd be given a shot to sit in the green chairs in the House of Commons? What does that say about the kind of ethics of those people? Itsays they believe in the right to life up until it interferes with their personal desires to hold power.
That bothers me. This is the Christmas season. It’s a holy time for people like me when an unplanned child came to offer salvation for mankind. And for the non religious, an unplanned child gave you a secular holiday to exchange gifts with loved ones.
See the value in the unexpected.
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584 bothered to VOTE out of 3200 attendees and 92% voted in favor and 8% voted against..
Some info on the tilma of Our Lady of Guadalupe...
'There is no explanation offered by NASA scientists on how the image was imprinted on the Tilma.
There are no brush strokes, or sketch marks on it. The image also seems to increase in size and change colors owing to an unknown property of the surface and substance of which it is made. The colors actually float above the surface of the Tilma at a distance of 3/10th of a millimeter (1/100th of an inch), without touching it. When examined less than 10 inches of the image, one can only see the maguey cloth; the colors totally disappear.
In 1936, biochemist Richard Kuhn, a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, analyzed a sample of the fabric and ascertained that the pigments used were from no known source; whether natural, animal, mineral, or vegetable.
On May 7, 1979, Americans Dr. Philip Serna Callahan, a biophysicist at the University of Florida and an expert in infrared photography, and Jody B. Smith, a professor of aesthetics and philosophy at the College Pensacola, who are both specializing in painting and members of NASA, photographed the image under infrared light and scanned at very high resolutions.
After filtering and processing the digitized images to eliminate "noise" and enhance them, they discovered that portions of the face, hands, robe, and mantle had been painted in one step, with no sketches, or corrections, and no visible brush strokes or sizing used to render the surface smooth, no protective varnish covering the image to protect its surface.
The Image changes in color slightly according to the angle of viewing, a phenomenon known as "Iridescence", a technique that cannot be reproduced with human hands. Scientists were unable to find any trace of paint residue or dye of any sort on the Image and yet the the colors maintain their luminosity and brilliance.
What produced the colors on Juan Diego's cloak or how they were applied remains a total mystery of science. The quality of the pigments used for the pink dress, the blue veil, the face and the hands, or the permanence of the colors, or the vividness of the colors after several centuries, during which they ordinarily should have deteriorated, defy all scientific reasoning.
The Image still retains its original colors, despite being unprotected by any covering during the first 100 years of exposure.
The bluish-green color of Our Lady's mantle is unique. It seems to be made of an unearthly shade that as yet no artist has been able exactly to duplicate.
Moreover, scientists argued that a painter would be incredibly foolish to choose an Indian's tilma to work on and even more to paint right over the center seam of the cloak. And had the Virgin not turned ever so slightly to the right, the stitch would have divided her face. Just as astonishing is the fact that only the seam still holds the Tilma together.
The law of gravity does not allow a single flimsy cotton thread to bind two heavier materials of cloth for more than ten years, much less four hundred and fifty. In addition, the coarse weave of the Tilma was utilized in such a precise manner as to give depth to the face of the Image.
According to the specialists of Kodak Corporation in Mexico, the Image is smooth and bears more resemblance to a color photograph than anything else. The Image has consistently defied exact reproduction, whether by brush or camera.
All who have scientifically examined the image of Our Lady over the centuries confess that its properties are absolutely unique and so inexplicable in human terms that the image can only be supernatural:
Our Lady's height in the Image measures four feet eight inches tall, from head to toe, and is represented as a young woman of 18 to 20 year old. The face is that of a "mestiza" - a mixture of Spanish and Indians race brought about by intermarriage.
Callahan and Smith further discovered that the Tilma maintains a constant temperature of 36.6º to 37º, (98.6 Fahrenheit) the same as the body of a living person.
Carlos Fernandez del Castillo, a gynecologist, examined the image and has determined that the gynecological measurements of Our Lady's physical dimensions indicated a woman who is pregnant entirely consistent with the stage of pregnancy on December 9th for Jesus birth to occur on Christmas day.
A stethoscope was placed below the black band at the waist of Our Lady (a sign that she is pregnant) and heard rhythmic repeating heartbeats at 115 beats per minute, the same as that of a baby in the maternal womb.
On December 22, 1981, at the Observatory Laplace Mexico City, Father Mario Rojas and Dr. Juan Hernández Illescas, a medical doctor and amateur astronomer, performed an astronomical study of the Image and analyzed the stellar arrangement that appear in the Mantle of Our Lady.
They surprisingly discovered that the stars stunningly and accurately map out the various constellations of the Mexican sky.
Even more remarkable is the "star map" on the mantle is in the reverse (the cardinal axis rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise): providing a view of the constellations from beyond them, as would be seen looking through them towards the earth.
The constellations are consistent with what astronomers believe was in the sky above Mexico City on the day the apparition occurred - in the winter-morning solstice of December 12, 1531, Saturday, at 10:26AM.
Our Lady's cloak has 46 stars: 22 on her right side, and 24 on her left side. These 46 stars are the most brilliant stars that surround the horizon of the Mexican Valley which have been identified.
The main constellations of the Northern sky can be seen on the right of the mantle. On the left, the Southern ones which can be seen from the Tepeyac in winter at dawn. The East is situated in the upper part and the West in the lower part. The Mantle is opened and there are other groups of stars which are not marked in the Image, but they are present in the sky.
The Boreal Crown is located above the Virgin's head; Virgo is on her chest, in the region of her hands. Leo on Her womb, precisely above the sign of Nahui Ollin, with his main star Regulo, the small king. Gemini, the twins, is found in the region of the knees and Orion is located where the Angel is.
It has also been found that by imposing a topographical map of central Mexico on the Our Lady's dress, the mountains, rivers, and principal lakes coincide with the decoration on the dress.'~
I came into my seven-year-old son’s room and discovered his dangerous approach to reaching something on a high shelf. He had placed a stool next to a taller wobbly stool to build a ladder to reach an item that caught his eye. When I came in, I asked what he was trying to get and he pointed to a baby blue photo album.
He said, “Mom, what is that?” I pulled the oversized book down. For years I dreamt of how this conversation would go and what it would be like to share what is in that photo album with him. I wasn’t sure when he would be at the right age, so it has sat on that shelf for many years. Now was as good a time as any. He was curious.
Priceless. I never could have imagined when I first started those letters that this would be his response. It was a moment to remember.
Rewind to before I was married. I came up with an idea that I hoped, if used with my own children, would leave no doubt that they were loved every minute of their lives and also see the incredible beauty that lies within the womb, the beauty that is human life. Before I even had children, I was thinking of strategies to help them have a deep-rooted respect and appreciation for human life at all stages.
We went to Maui for our honeymoon and brought back the greatest gift, a newly conceived child. My husband Doug always shares with people that he never knew his wife as solely a wife, but always a mother too, right from the start. Upon finding out we were expecting, I began to put the wheels in motion for how I would demonstrate and teach my children about the dignity of life. The photo album would become the vehicle by which I would do this. I took pictures all the way through my pregnancy detailing the growth of my belly. I also kept all the ultrasound images and placed the photos and ultrasound images in the album my son had found. Many women do that, but this book contains something extra special. My husband and I took turns writing our children a letter every month they were in the womb, which accompanied the pictures.
In month one, we wrote two letters addressed, “Dear Baby.” The first one I wrote shared the details of the excitement we felt when we found out I was pregnant. I ended the letter by writing to my unborn child, “We are getting ready for bed and we are still excited, yet nervous and a little scared of what’s ahead, but we trust in the Lord.”
My husband wrote the next letter, where he told our son about all the people we let know about our exciting news and their beautiful responses. One friend said, referencing the fact that we were pregnant after being married a few weeks, “God must have a lot of trust in you both.” These were words that comforted us in our new-found parenthood. I had forgotten he said that until I read the letters again recently.
Every month we detailed the way I felt as our baby grew, along with how he was being formed; like when we heard his heart beat for the first time, and when I felt his first kick, or experienced his first hiccups. We included Scripture verses from Genesis and Psalm 139: “God is forming you in his image and likeness. He is knitting you in my womb and wonderfully and fearfully making you.” We poured our love on those handwritten pages. When I pulled the photo album down off the shelf, my son and I opened it. He requested I read each letter, but we had somewhere to be, so I told him we would have to do it later. Time passed and we forgot to look at the album again, so it sat on his floor.
The next day, I sent him to his room to discipline him for something. He found his album and looked through the pictures during his quiet time in there. When he came back out of his room, he brought the album and showed his dad and excitedly asked Doug to read the letters.
I was in the other room attending to Ella and nearly stopped them from going through book since I wanted to be a part of this special moment. Instead, I heard Doug begin to read the words written on those pages and I decided this could just be a special moment between father and son.
Time had passed, and I was in another room and my mind was on something else. Brady, my son, came to find me. He had this endearing smile on his face and threw himself at me and hugged me big.
He said, “You’re the best mom ever.” Because my mind was on to something else, I had to stop and think why he was saying this. The last encounter I had with him was sending him to his room, so I had to think hard, asking myself, “What inspired him to be so kind?” Then I remembered his father reading him the letters. I said, “Did you like the album we made for you?” He replied with the most heartfelt statement of joy and belief: “You loved me before I was born.” He smiled from ear to ear. I replied holding back tears, “Oh yes son, you were loved every second of your life from the moment of your conception.”
We hugged again. Priceless. I never could have imagined when I first started those letters that this would be his response. It was a moment to remember. Now that he has the book, it will always be a reminder to him about how special he was from the moment he was conceived and every month thereafter.
It will also be a personal book we use to show him the evidence of the humanity of the unborn using his own ultrasounds and 4D ultrasound imaging. We hope this will sit deep in his heart and that he will also become a defender of the unborn and he too will fight for the dignity all children deserve.
I share this in hopes it will give new parents a powerful idea for how to one day help their own children discover and value life at all stages through their child’s own personal encounter with their life story
Bloggers note: The WEST's 40 years abortion Policy (began with PapaTrudeau) made all this possible .... here is one explanation ....
There is NO escape we will pay dearly for our ac-qui-es-cence ...4
million of our children were REJECTS and killed by abortion ..and now
NOW BabyTrudeau want to see that continue...
MR Trudeau will oversee 50 Thousand abortion (on his watch)before the May 12,2016www.MarchForLife.ca ..and 400,000 refugees ( he already REJECTS)from their mother womb in his 4 year mandate .....WILL HE CHANGE .. I PRAY
As authorities sift through the rubble and bodies in Paris, many
questions which need to be asked directly involving the attacks are
being asked. But some questions are not being asked.
For example, is there something wrong with the thinking and actions,
the attitudes ,on the part of western societies that might have
contributed to this horror?
This is not a "blame us"
examination which the progressive elitist crowd always seems to trot out
— you know, the "It's our fault in the West because we have done such
horrible things in the Middle East and should feel guilty" mindset, the
logic there being: "We did it to ourselves because of our greed" — the
same stuff that came flying out of the mouths of crazy liberals in
America in the aftermath of 9-11, and like the idiotic liberal
publication Salon did over the weekend.
Typical. No. This report is definitely not of that variety. But
something does seriously have to be looked at regarding how Western
societies live. Many of these types of killers come into Western
nations, cross the borders, as part of a kind of open-door policy
because Western nations need to shore up their flagging numbers.
Their
numbers are flagging because of low birth rates due to the widespread
acceptance of contraception and abortion.
The same thing is happening here in the United States and still happens today. Sixty million Americans are not here
today because the culture approved of their murders in the womb — many
of them because the contraception failed.
Who knows how many more tens
of millions are not here because the contraception worked? A shrinking
population — as is the case with various nations in Europe — actual
declining numbers, as in, for example, next year there will be fewer
Italians on the planet born in Italy then this year. Same in Greece and
France and Spain and Portugal and Germany.
Shrinking populations like that mean governments have to step in and
do something before the economic chaos sets in. Many of them
have. Various European countries, led by Germany, are growing more
desperate about the soon-to-be-felt fallout from their aging and
shrinking native populations.
So they have instituted a variety of laws
actually paying for women and/or families to have children in the form
of cash payouts, tax rebates and so forth. Part of their bag of tricks
has also been to open up the borders and liberalize their immigration
policies in an effort to stem the demographic winter so closely
approaching.
France, for example, now boasts the largest Muslim population in all
of Europe, and 20 percent of immigrants to the country each year come
from countries with predominant Muslim populations. Germany, too, sees
indications that pockets of Muslim immigrants — or the sons of Muslim
immigrants, who, like in France, have not assimilated — also pose a
threat to peace and security.
Regardless of the reasons of these increased numbers of violent
scenes in London, Madrid, Paris, Germany and threats in Rome,
immigration policies cannot be discounted as a precipitating factor. And
the immigration policies were put in place because the Pill had become
accepted.
In the rush to have no restrictions on sexual license and no
consequence for unintended pregnancies, Western societies forgot that
there are consequences for unbridled sexual liaisons, particularly on
such a huge scale as the cultures accepted and practiced it.
A wise old seminary professor once said something I've never
forgotten. Monsignor William Smith — God rest his soul — of St. Joseph's
Seminary in New York once said, "God is forgiving, but nature
isn't." The West happily accepted and advanced contraception and child
murder as standard and has become awash, drowning in sexual
immorality.
This has resulted in a precipitous decline of the population
and a now-dire threat to economic stability. To shore themselves up and
avert such a demographic and economic disaster, these nations have
thrown open their borders and invited in immigrants, some of whom are
rightfully disgusted and repulsed by the sexual liberty that rules the
day.
Many of these immigrants directly or indirectly — and as we see, it
doesn't take many — feel perfectly fine about killing at will and
creating mayhem in a culture they have no intention of assimilating into
— quite the opposite; they are spurred on by terrorists in their ranks
who inspire them to remain outside the culture of the Great Satan and
overrun from within, by whatever means works the best — including mass
homicide.
Anyone who thinks this kind of evil is going to lessen doesn't understand the world situation. Christ will reign on the earth, either by His presence shown forth by His peace, or by
His absence shown forth in chaos. Until the world comes to embrace God
and bow under His mighty and loving hand and live by His decrees, men
will continue to think that they have all the answers and can solve every problem — and the folly of man will be clear for all to see.
Let us pray for not only the souls of the dead in Paris, but most
especially for the souls of nations and peoples everywhere. There is no
peace without God — and God cannot co-exist with sin enshrined as law.
It is God's law or man's law. Just as in eternity there is no middle
ground, so in the lead-up to eternity on this earth, there is no middle
ground.
Archbishop Henryk Hoser's address to the Synod: Abortion and
contraception are the greatest causes of the destruction of the family
His Grace, Archbishop Henryk Hoser of Warszawa-Praga
The Catholic bishops of Poland have been distinguishing themselves at the Synod of the Family. Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki's address was a doctrinal rebuttal of those in favour of giving Holy Communion to the divorced and civily "remarried" - to adulterers. Archbishop Henryk Hoser's addressgiven on Saturday October 10th, 2015 in the Synod aula focused on life issues: on abortion, contraception and the failure of the Instrumentum Laboris to adequately address theses issues, and to appreciate and use the magisterial teachings of Bl. Paul VI's Humanae Vitae.
(Toronto Catholic Witness provides a full translation of his address. If you re-publish, you must credit us)
Holy Father, Your Eminences, Your Excellencies,
One very important issue is only briefly mentioned in the Synod's Instrument Laboris,
yet the issue of fertility within marriage is a very complex reality
that is associated with human sexuality since the creation of the world.
Rightly the document underscored the need to "discover the message of
Humanae Vitae of Pope Paul VI" and "its wealth and wisdom", however, in
reality, there was no development of this subject. Published in 1968, it
was badly received, rejected and relativized by the clergy, and then
consequently by the faithful. This truly prophetic encyclical began the
post-conciliar crisis, which resulted in a systematic questioning of the
teaching Magisterium of the Church.
Yet
the encyclical came from an integral vision of the human person, the
person's spiritual and physical dimensions. It predicted the
consequences of the separation of sexuality and human fertility, which
today has become even more more radical, as a consequence of the
increasingly widespread use of contraception. We read: "the adoption of
measures and methods of artificial birth control to limit [...] open
wide the way for marital infidelity and a general lowering of moral
standards. [...] Another effect that gives cause for alarm is that a
man who grows accustomed to the use of contraceptive methods may forget
the reverence due to a woman, and, disregarding her physical and
emotional equilibrium, reduce her to being a mere instrument for the
satisfaction of his own desires, no longer considering her as his
partner whom he should surround with care and affection. Finally,
careful consideration should be given to the danger of this power
passing into the hands of those public authorities who care little for
the precepts of the moral law. [...] It would allow state authorities to
intervene in the most personal and intimate responsibility of the
spouses" (Humanae Vitae, 17). These predictions, unfortunately, in most cases came true.
Contraception
and the related issue of abortion have not been given sufficient
attention and highlighted enough. Meanwhile, it is one of the greatest
problems that destabilizes the unity of marriage and the family. Human
fertility - that gives reality to the person - is systematically abused
and destroyed, leading eventually to the breakdown of marriages. The
proper and important alternative is knowledge of fertility (fertility
awareness) and the ability to use it in accordance with the requirements
of responsible parenthood. The so-called international community spends
$ 8.1 billion USD on contraceptive programs in 69 of the least
developed nations. Yet in return, very few organizations promote the
so-called natural methods of discerning the fertility cycle. The African Federation of Family Action (Fédération Africaine de l'Action Familiale), the European Institute of Family Education (Institut
Europeen d'Education Familial) - survive thanks to the drops of
financial aid from a few benefactors who understand the matter, such as Aid to the Church in Need.
Pope
John Paul II left us pervading and true analysis of anthropological
differences, as well as the moral differences that exist between
contraception and the use of the fertility method. "In the light of the
experience of many couples and of the data provided by the different
human sciences, theological reflection is able to perceive and is called
to study further the difference, both anthropological and moral,
between contraception and recourse to the rhythm of the cycle: it is a
difference which is much wider and deeper than is usually thought, one
which involves in the final analysis two irreconcilable concepts of the
human person and of human sexuality. The choice of the natural rhythms
involves accepting the cycle of the person, that is the woman, and
thereby accepting dialogue, reciprocal respect, shared responsibility
and self- control. To accept the cycle and to enter into dialogue means
to recognize both the spiritual and corporal character of conjugal
communion and to live personal love with its requirement of fidelity. In
this context the couple comes to experience how conjugal communion is
enriched with those values of tenderness and affection which constitute
the inner soul of human sexuality, in its physical dimension also. In
this way sexuality is respected and promoted in its truly and fully
human dimension, and is never "used" as an "object" that, by breaking
the personal unity of soul and body, strikes at God's creation itself at
the level of the deepest interaction of nature and person". (Familiaris Consortio 32).
This
is a magisterial presentation that people of good will must seek to
understand. May wisdom accompany us always and everywhere!
Family of murdered pregnant woman from Windsor, ON joins call for protection for pre-born human rights.
As
politicians campaign for votes, a group of young Canadians is
travelling the country attempting to build support for legal protections
for children in the womb. And they are attracting support from
Canadians across the political spectrum. With over twenty events from Halifax to Vancouver, lifeTOUR seeks to ensure that Canada’s leaders face the injustice committed against 100,000 Canadians every single year.
Michelle Lemire, a pro-choice spokesperson for the Molly Matters
campaign spoke at a press conference with LifeTOUR this morning in
Ottawa. Her best friend, Cassandra Kaake, was seven months pregnant with
her daughter Molly when she was brutally murdered in Windsor Ontario,
last December.
“On December 11th, 2014 my life changed forever. I received a phone
call informing me that my best friend of 26 years, Cassie Kaake, had
died. I was paralyzed with emotion,” said Ms. Lemire. “Windsor and the surrounding area have been deeply affected by this
tragedy.
A permanent scar has been left on her place of work, community
and her family and friends,” continued Lemire.
This is not the first time there have been calls for a pre-born
victims of crime law. In 2007 Edmonton MP Ken Epp introduced Bill C-484.
The bill was called the Unborn Victims of Crime Act.
Mr. Epp’s
bill passed Second Reading in Parliament but it failed to become law
because an election was called in the fall of 2008. Lemire concluded her remarks by saying, “Allow me to be very clear.
Abortion is legal in Canada throughout the entire nine months of
pregnancy for any reason. A pre-born victim’s law does nothing to change
this.
A pre-born victim’s bill modeled after Bill C-484 would not
criminalize abortion and could not be interpreted as Parliament
restricting a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion.” Mike Schouten of WeNeedaLAW.ca also spoke at the press conference.
“Canada desperately needs a late-term abortion law which would prohibit
abortion in the latter stages of pregnancy, and after the point in which
the pre-born child can survive outside of the womb," Schouten said.
The issue of sex-selective abortion is also being raised at each lifeTOUR presentation.
“The reality that Canada is one of only a handful of countries that
allows such violent discrimination against pre-born females – simply
because they are girls – is deplorable,” Schouten said. “A new
government needs to take immediate steps to address this serious
injustice.”
