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MEDIA RELEASE http://www.all.org/article.php?id=12894 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 09 July 2010 CONTACT: Katie Walker 540.659.4942| kwalker@all.org CONTRARY TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD MANTRA, CDC REPORTS MOST TEENS ARE VIRGINS Washington, DC (09 July 2010) – The Center for Disease Control and Prevention released a new study last month showing that most teens are virgins - contrary to propaganda disseminated by sex-education giant Planned Parenthood. "This study has huge significance for our nation's public and even private schools - many of whom have been regurgitating Planned Parenthood's dangerously inaccurate sex-education curriculum," said Judie Brown, president of American Life League. In the 2006-2008 period, 58 percent of never-married teen girls and 57 percent of never-married teen boys between the ages of 15 and 19 reported that they had never had sexual intercourse. The numbers did not substantially change since a similar report was released in 2002. The reason most oft...

Responds to Criticisms of President Chávez ROME, JULY 9, 2010 (Zenit.org).- The archbishop of Caracas, Venezuela, is denouncing the government's attempts to install a Marxist Socialist regime through "unconstitutional" and "illegal" methods violating the rights and will of the people. Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino underlined the need to speak publicly, to voice "my conscience as a Venezuelan and as archbishop of Caracas, given the reality that we are experiencing." He wrote a statement, issued Wednesday, denouncing "the danger that is threatening our beloved homeland." "Going beyond the national constitution," the cardinal wrote, President Hugo Chávez "and his government want to lead the country on the path of Marxist Socialism, which monopolizes all spaces, is totalitarian, and leads to a dictatorship, not even of the proletariat, but of the leadership that governs." "Going against the popular will, which on Dec. 2, 20...

Benedict XVI Calls for Silence to Hear God Affirms the Lord Is Always Close, Always Good to Us SULMONA, Italy, JULY 4, 2010 (Zenit.org).- Silence might be a fearful thing to modern man, but Benedict XVI is encouraging an acceptance of interior and exterior silence, so as to be able to hear God's voice, and the voices of our neighbors. The Pope said this today during his one-day trip to Italy's Abruzzi region, devastated in 2009 by an earthquake. His trip marked the 800th anniversary of the birth of Celestine V, the only Pope in history to abdicate Peter's Throne. During a very warm open-air Mass with some 25,000 faithful, the Holy Father reflected on the life of his 13th-century predecessor, not focusing on his five months of papacy, but rather on his holiness of life. It is his holiness that keeps Celestine V in history some 800 years after his birth, Benedict XVI said. "Holiness, in fact, never loses its own power of attraction, it is not forgotten, it never goes out...

This month I would like to consider the issue of the electronic media that saturates and dominates our lives more and more. In many ways it has marginalized traditional culture, and sometimes displaces it altogether. Yet the Church calls us to use the new media to evangelize, by bringing the presence of truth and beauty into the mainstream of contemporary society. As Anton Casta of St. Max Media once wrote, the Roman empire was often brutal and had many victims, yet the Apostles walked far along the roads built by the Romans in order to bring the Gospel to the known world. Where are our new Roman roads? Are they not the vehicle of internet and film and the spreading of traditional culture such as music and the visual arts through new e-media? While there remain unresolved questions regarding the sheer volume of material being poured into our lives, and its power to reshape consciousness in unhealthy ways, there is a clear call to regain this territory for Christ. I would like to draw y...

Katie and her big media colleagues made sexual refenece to human feces, masturbation, Ann Coulter having male sexual parts, etc.... As David Kupelian said they are "so far away from modesty and common decency that they revel in the kind of depraved behavior I'm describing." This is why they hate common people of virtue like Sarah Palin who won't have an abortion or support their beloved depraved behavior. We no longer have a free press, but a perverse press. Fred "This bizarre mindset infects more than just a few cable news personalities. A rare look at a normally hidden face of the “mainstream press” was afforded by the 2008 celebrity roast of NBC’s “Today” co-anchor Matt Lauer in New York City. With cameras and recording devices banned from the proceedings, news icons ranging from Lauer and “Today” colleagues Al Roker and Meredith Vieira to CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric to NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams to NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker competed w...

Obama Prevaricates about Jobs June 11, 2010 by Phyllis Schlafly The spectacular loss of American jobs is devastating to more Americans than the oil spill in the Gulf, but Barack Obama still doesn't get it. This month he bragged to an audience of truckers in Hyattsville, Maryland, that our economy is "getting stronger by the day." The U.S. Labor Department reports a very different picture. The number of long-term unemployed, defined as Americans out of work for 27 or more weeks, is at its highest level since the Labor Department began collecting such data in the 1940s. More bad news comes from the Labor Department. In May, 431,000 jobs were added, but nine-tenths of them were government jobs. Unemployment of young men is the highest in 61 years of record-keeping, according to the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. The numbers for minority teenagers are tragic. Obama's $787 billion federal stimulus program was packaged in mental images...

October 13 marks the anniversary of the final apparition of Our Lady at Fatima, when the sun swirled in the sky, a phenomenon witnessed by thousands of people. The three children-- Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta-- saw Our Lady appear as the joyful Virgin Mother, the Sorrowful Mother, and finally as Our Glorious Lady of Mount Carmel. They also saw St. Joseph in the sky, holding the Child Jesus. In his book entitled St. Joseph, Fatima, and Fatherhood, Monsignor Joseph A. Cirrincione offers some thought-provoking reflections. The role of the priest in relation to Christ is strikingly analogous to the role of St. Joseph in relation to God the Father. Just as the Eternal Father willed to share His Fatherhood with St. Joseph...so Jesus willed to share His Fatherhood with the priest.... (p.28) Likewise, "the sun stands out in a special way as a symbol and figure of God, and also of His Church...." Monsignor goes on to say that at Fatima "the 'miracle of the sun' represen...

From: "Robert Ritchie - America Needs Fatima" Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:02:59 -0600 Legion - a new movie of despair and blasphemy that contradicts Our Lady's Fatima message of hope January 19, 2010 Dear Erlinda Carino, On January 22, Sony will release the f a n t a s y Apocalypse thriller Legion in theaters nationwide. A f i l m that Mocks the Faith and Leads to Despair And it challenges God in these 5 important points: 1) Everything is upside down: St. Michael the Archangel is the rebel angel 2) God has lost faith in men! The world is lost! 3) Blasphemous absurdity: St. Michael/Rebel Angel/S a t a n comes to save a waitress pregnant with the ... "Messias" 4) Insult to Our Lady's purity: actress says Virgin Mary is not a virgin 5) Religion is "crazy." The most fundamental truths of our Faith, such as God's justice, mercy, his infinite perfection and the Incarnation of the Word are shown in a crazy light. For a list of the dangers and erro...

Obama Finance Bill Will Allow Seizure of Companies Friday, 21 May 2010 02:38 PM Article Font Size By: Dick Morris & Eileen McGann President Barack Obama has taken the United States one more giant step towards socialism by ramming through the Senate his financial regulation bill. The bill authorizes the secretary of the Treasury — a political appointee — to seize any financial company (bank or nonbank) simply because, in his opinion, it is too big to fail and in danger of insolvency. This power can be used for political retribution, pressure for campaign funding, or any other abuse bureaucratic whim or partisan politics can conceive. It is a power Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez would love to have! The legislation also requires that any business that extends credit, in any form, to clear the loan instrument in advance with the new consumer protection agency. The backlog of pending applications will strangle consumer credit. And the bill fails to do the one thing it must do — regulat...

Dear Friends, This month, my new book Harry Potter and the Paganization of Culture has been published by Fides et Traditio publishers. To read more about the book and to obtain information for ordering it, please visit the studiobrien website home page, and click on the "Read More" link beneath the book cover illustration. The public discussion about the phenomenal development of neopagan fantasy for young readers and film-goers has been curiously one-sided, lacking the tools of discernment that Christians normally employ when considering cultural material for their families. It is my hope that Harry Potter and the Paganization of Culture will broaden the parameters of the debate, as we examine in greater depth the right use and and the misuse of symbols, stories, and the life of the imagination. The corruption of Christian civilization’s symbols is a centuries-old phenomenon, yet until the modern age the mutations and inversions, along with the making of new diabolic sym...

http://www.speroforum.com/a/32243/How-Conservatives-Should-Handle-Immigration By Dick Morris and Eileen McGann In their desperation, President Obama and senators with large Latino populations in their states (like Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.) are seeking to polarize Hispanic and Anglo sentiment over the issue of illegal immigration. In his frequent messages calling for a higher Latino and black turnout and his condemnation of the Arizona immigration law, Obama is trying to recapture over immigration the voter approval he lost over health care. Arizona acted as it did because of a lack of federal enforcement of federal law barring undocumented immigrants. With a porous border, they felt that they were left no choice but to pass a law allowing potentially intrusive searches to ferret out illegal immigrants. Because this law could subject American citizens of Hispanic origin to undue scrutiny and perhaps to needless trips to the police station, the Arizona law antagonizes the jump ball in th...

From: Jckm449@aol.com ... The Rosary - Simply Amazing! ... Jim Castle was tired when he boarded his plane in Cincinnati, Ohio, that night in 1981. The 45-year-old management consultant had put on a week long series of business meetings and seminars, and now he sank gratefully into his seat ready for the flight home to Kansas City, Kansas. As more passengers entered, the place hummed with conversation, mixed with the sound of bags being stowed. Then, suddenly, people fell silent. The quiet moved slowly up the aisle like an invisible wake behind a boat. Jim craned his head to see what was happening, and his mouth dropped open. Walking up the aisle were two nuns clad in simple white habits bordered in blue. He recognized the familiar face of one at once, the wrinkled skin, and the eyes warmly intent. This was a face he'd seen in newscasts and on the cover of TIME. The two nuns halted, and Jim realized that his seat companion was going to be Mother Teresa! As the last few p...

By Fred Martinez Professor Allan Bloom, a philosopher who wrote "The Closing of the American Mind," thought that Friedrich Nietzsche was the father of modern America. He said, "Words such as 'charisma,' 'lifestyle,' 'commitment,' 'identity,' and many others, all of which can easily be traced to Nietzsche ... are now practically American slang." But the most important Nietzschean slang word is "values." "Values" are the death of Christian morality because values simply mean opinions. If opinion is how things are decided, then might makes right. One must remember that whenever someone talks about values in modern America – family values or religious values or place-the-blank-in-front-of values – they are saying there is no real or objective right or wrong – only opinions of the self and its will to power. Nietzsche's philosophy is summed up by Bloom as Commitment values the values and makes them valuable. Not l...