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14 Pro-lifers Arrested Outside Giuliani's Headquarters Anti-Abortion Legend, Joan Andrews Bell and Companions Refuse to Pay Fine; Jailed for 5 Days "There should be 1,000 pro-lifers sitting in at Giuliani's offices nationwide; he is like Joseph Stalin when it comes to killing the innocent." -- Joan Andrews-Bell MANCHESTER, New Hampshire, Dec. 21 /Christian Newswire/ -- 14 arrested outside Rudy Giuliani's headquarters in Manchester. Among them were dedicated anti-Abortion leaders, Randall Terry (founder of Operation Rescue), Joan Andrews-Bell (who has served multiple years in prison and is the Author of "You Reject Them, You Reject Me.") and her son Emiliano (whom suffers from "frozen joint disease" and was adopted after being rescued from a dumpster after being born with no legs.) 11 anti-abortion protestors led by Randall Terry were arrested on Tuesday for blocking the entrance to Guiliani's headquarters and charged for criminal trespassin...

So there is a "possible link between the Giuliani campaign and Fox News CEO Roger Ailes." If Hillary were a Republican, FOX would be pushing her on the "pro-life" Hannity show. Fred "In the fall, a story broke regarding a possible link between the Giuliani campaign and Fox News CEO Roger Ailes which was meant to bolster the former New York Mayor's popularity." RFFM.org Commentary Daniel T. Zanoza, National Director Dan@rffm.org December 16, 2007 As Huckabee Soars, Attacks Soar, Too: Especially From FOX News? by Daniel T. Zanoza I haven't decided who I will support among the gaggle of Republicans seeking their party's presidential nomination. Well, there's one candidate who I will never support and that's former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. However, like many, I have been astounded by the meteoric rise in the polls of former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. Recent polling indicates Huckabee has a double-digit lead in Iowa and he is...

The Iraq Debate: Russell Shaw's Closing Statement by Russell Shaw 12/14/07 Display Full Article/Printer Friendly | Send to a Friend Five quick comments: 1. My thanks to Bob Reilly for making my point: UN weapons inspectors were back in Iraq months before the U.S.-led invasion. That Saddam Hussein wasn't happy is neither surprising nor relevant. 2. Even I, no expert in such matters, can see something slightly, shall we say, fishy about anti-Saddam revelations by a defecting brother-in-law. In any case, this inventory of Saddam's WMD arsenal goes back eight years before the war. I share Reilly's wonderment at the disappearance of such a formidable force -- supposing it ever existed, that is. 3. It's beside the point that President Clinton in 1998 signed a measure declaring it American policy to "support efforts" to overturn Saddam Hussein. Lending unspecified support to others -- in this case, presumably, disaffected Iraqis -- and launching a war of...

The Iraq Debate: Robert R. Reilly's Closing Statement by Robert R. Reilly 12/14/07 Display Full Article/Printer Friendly | Send to a Friend It simply will not do to demote the importance of enforcing treaties at the end of wars to some kind of adolescent "need to save face." After World War I, the Allies failed to enforce the provision of the Versailles Treaty that forbade German forces from remilitarizing the Rhineland. The cost of that failure was not simply "humiliation," but World War II. To not enforce the 1991 cease-fire agreement with Iraq would have been to abandon the political goals for which the war had been fought. Russell Shaw does not bother to address the potential costs of such a defeat, probably because he thinks Saddam was "a pipsqueak tyrant," who offered no real threat. Hitler was a pipsqueak in 1936, until he faced down the Allies, whose military forces were at that time far superior to the German. In the former Yugoslavia...

http://www.unitypublishing.com/Newsletter/Confession.html EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE BEFORE CONFESSION 1. Have I ever failed to confess a serious sin, disguised it or justified it? 2. Have I been guilty of irreverence for this sacrament by failing to examine my conscience carefully? 3. Have I failed to perform the penance given me by the confessor or disobeyed any of his directions? 4. Have I neglected the Easter duty of receiving Holy Communion or failed to confess my sins within a year? 5. Have I any HABITS of serious sin to confess first (impurity, drunkenness, gossip, anger, sloth, vanity, neglect of duties, etc.)? FIRST THREE COMMANDMENTS Love God with your whole heart, mind and soul FIRST COMMANDMENT Am I ignorant of my catechism (Act of Contrition, Apostle's Creed, Ten Commandments, Seven Sacraments, the Our Father)? Have I willfully doubted or denied any of the teachings of the Church (heresy)? Have I taken active part in any non-Catholic worship? Am I a member of any anti-C...

Romney vs. JFK BY The Editors December 16-22, 2007 Issue | Posted 12/11/07 at 1:47 PM There are reasons a Catholic might wince when Mitt Romney, a Mormon and the former governor of Massachusetts, gives a speech about religious tolerance. We found plenty. But we also found reasons to applaud. The first reason to wince is the anti-Catholic nature of his religion. Mormons believe that Christ failed in his project to found a church, and that the history of Christendom is the story of “The Great Apostate,” the Catholic Church. More than 1,800 years would pass before the true church was founded: the Church of Latter-Day Saints. The second reason to wince is the political legacy of Mitt Romney. It was on Romney’s watch that the Supreme Court of Massachusetts demanded that the state’s Legislature legalize homosexual “marriage” — among the most damaging usurpations of legislative power by a judicial body in American history. America is a democracy. Here, citizens and their representatives make ...

DrFrank@abortiontruths.net writes: http://www.catholic.org/ COMMENTARY: Huckabee and Catholics By Deacon Keith Fournier 12/13/2007 Catholic Online The last Republican primary debate before Iowa is over. The emergence of former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee to front runner status is the story of the hour. Catholics are starting to look seriously at this new former Governor from Hope named Huckabee. Many like what they see. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (Catholic Online) - The big news in the fast paced presidential race is the emergence of former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee from the back of the pack, even to the lead, in many polls. The 2008 primary campaign has become a real horse race for Republican candidates. The untold story is the apparent fear that such a turn of events is producing in his opponents, both Democrat and Republican. The Democratic Party has put out its talking points, apparently intended to stem the growing Huckabee surge. These points found their way into every pos...

British Clergy Say Blair Must Renounce Anti-Life, Anti-Family Views Before Becoming Catholic If only the American Clergy did the same with Giuliani. Fred British Clergy Say Blair Must Renounce Anti-Life, Anti-Family Views Before Becoming Catholic Former PM reveals he was afraid of being seen as "nutter" for stating religious aspirations By Hilary White LONDON, November 29, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a recent interview, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair revealed that the reason he was reticent about making public his religious aspirations was his fear that politicians with overt religious beliefs are seen as "nutters" in Britain. It is Britain's pervading secularist mentality, not any official disapproval of Catholicism in this officially Protestant country that held him back he said. In contrast to the US, he said, "You talk about it in our system and frankly, people do think you're a nutter." But Rumours that Blair, nominally an adherent ...

Catholic Church closes cathedral indefinitely after protesters storm building during Mass International Herald Tribune http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/20/america/LA-GEN-Mexico-Leftist-Protest.php Mexico City's cathedral was closed Monday after leftist protesters stormed into the world-renowned religious landmark, and church officials said it would not reopen until city authorities can guarantee security. Dozens of supporters of former leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador entered the building bordering the capital's Zocalo square on Sunday, scuffling with faithful and overturning pews. The conflict reignited tensions between the church and some members of Mexico's leftist Democratic Revolution Party who accuse Cardinal Norberto Rivera of overstepping Mexican law by intervening in politics, including supporting President Felipe Calderon's election campaign last year. Archdiocese of Mexico spokesman Hugo Valdemar Romero said there have been 2...

Only the secular teachers in the Godless schools can sex abuse children and get away with it. Is the gay mafia which controls the media trying to tell us something? Fred Teachers Vs. Priests Unequal Treatment In the Media? BY WAYNE LAUGESEN REGISTER CORRESPONDENT December 2-8, 2007 Issue | Posted 11/27/07 at 3:03 PM NEW YORK — When the Associated Press set out to investigate an apparent problem with sexual assault of children in public schools, the organization spared no expense. A congressionally mandated study by Hofstra University had already found school-based sexual abuse to be a big problem. “It was one of our priorities for the year,” said John Affleck, editor of the AP’s national reporting team. The result was a three-part series, available to editors throughout the country beginning Oct. 20, that revealed widespread and routine sexual assault of public school students throughout the country. The first story summarized: “Students in America’s schools are groped. They’re raped....

What Not to Hope In BY The Editors December 9-15, 2007 Issue | Posted 12/4/07 at 1:48 PM Pope Benedict XVI’s new encyclical is Spe Salvi (On Christian Hope). It has a lot to say about what hope is, what the highest hope is, and how we can grow in the virtue of hope. But it also includes, along the way, a list of things that we should not put our hopes in. Listing what we shouldn’t hope in is a helpful exercise, especially for Americans. Our standard of living can easily lead to a false hope in this world. Technology has made our lives more comfortable than kings and queens in ages past. We can travel great distances quickly. We can buy tomatoes, oranges, apples and avocados from around the world year-round in our corner store. We can get in touch with almost anyone almost anywhere at almost any time — and we can fill our every waking moment with sophisticated entertainments. Pope Benedict’s prophetic message is that much of what we hope in will fail us. Don’t hope in progress, says the...

Atheist Hitchens "Suggests that the Atheist Soviet Tyranny was itself a form of Religion" Hitchens vs Hitchens By PETER HITCHENS Am I my brother’s reviewer? A word of explanation is needed here. Some of you may know that I have a brother, Christopher, who disagrees with me about almost everything... But now, in God Is Not Great, he has written about religion itself, attacking it as a stupid delusion... He even suggests that the atheist Soviet tyranny was itself a form of religion. You can’t win against this sort of circular absolutism... Christopher is an atheist. I am a believer. He once said in public: "The real difference between Peter and myself is the belief in the supernatural. "I’m a materialist and he attributes his presence here to a divine plan. I can’t stand anyone who believes in God, who invokes the divinity or who is a person of faith." I don’t feel the same way. I like atheists and enjoy their company, because they agree with me that religion is ...

The principal Saudi export is Islamic jihad ideology and our oil money bankrolls its spread. We promote democracies throughout the world, and that is good but it often fails because without a good constitution that guarantees individual rights and the common good, democracy can be just an immoral or religious majority rule. I would rather have a king like in Jordan with freedom of religion and human rights, than a Theocratic Democracy. Europe Is Dying Richard Salbato 12-05-2007 I just returned from a week in Florence and Rome. Trying to keep up with my daughter and grandchildren was a chore for this old man but it was great to take them to the tomb of Peter and teach them the history of the tomb and the Basilica. The reason for the trip was to register my granddaughter into an art school in Florence and to show them the great art of Europe. In this we probably saw all the originals of Michelangelo, who she wants to be like: the pieta and dome at St. Peter’s, the Sistine Chapel, and...