Didn't see this one coming.
Labels: Culture of Death, Health Care, Liars, Obama, Obama Culture of Death Update™, Pro-Life, Voting Your Values
posted by Pro Ecclesia 9:01 PM
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A convert to the Catholic Church who became Catholic because of a belief in and devotion to the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. * A graduate of Baylor University and the University of Virginia School of Law. * Former Mayor of the Town of Columbia, Virginia. * Married with four children: two boys and two girls. * Primary interests include the Catholic Church, family, Early American History, and law/politics * Primary purpose of this blog is fostering enlightened discussion about the roles played by the institutions of religion, family, and state in our daily lives. * Under the protection of St. Thomas More, martyr, and patron of lawyers, judges, civil servants, politicians, statesmen, and large families (not to mention troubled marriages).
Thomas More, counselor of law and patron of statesmen, merry martyr and most human of saints:
Pray that, for the glory of God and in the pursuit of His justice, I may be able in argument, accurate in analysis, keen in study, correct in conclusion, loyal to clients, honest with all, courteous to adversaries, trustworthy with confidences, courageous in court. Sit with me at my desk and listen with me to my clients' tales. Read with me in my library and stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul.
Pray that my family may find in me what yours found in you: friendship and courage, cheerfulness and charity, diligence in duties, counsel in adversity, patience in pain -- their good servant, and God's first. AMEN.
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Prayer to St. Thomas More for Lawyers and Judges
Dear Scholar and Martyr, it was not the King of England but you who were the true Defender of the Faith. Like Christ unjustly condemned, neither promises nor threats could make you accept a civil ruler as head of the Christian Church.
Perfect in your honesty and love of truth, grant that lawyers and judges may imitate you and achieve true justice for all people. AMEN.
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"Give me the Grace Good Lord, to set the world at naught; to set my mind fast upon Thee and not to hang upon the blast of men's mouths. To be content to be solitary. Not to long for worldly company but utterly to cast off the world and rid my mind of the business thereof."
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Litany of St. Thomas More, Martyr and Patron Saint of Statesmen, Politicians and Lawyers
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"The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest."
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"What does it avail to know that there is a God, which you not only believe by Faith, but also know by Reason: what does it avail that you know Him if you think little of Him?"
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"The things that we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labour for."
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5 Comments:
Jumped the gun on this on, eh?
Nope.
And every time one of these funding decisions is made, pro-lifers should continue to point out how abortion is funded until HHS is forced to issue other clarifications denying that abortion is funded.
The ONLY reason HHS and the states of PA and NM backtracked is because the pro-life community raised the issue.
By the way, ordinarily, I wouldn't show the time of day to someone who is obviously more interested in pointing out the deficiencies of pro-lifers who are just trying to make sure that abortion isn't funded in any of these health care plans than he or she is in pointing out the shortcomings of those who push abortion at every opportunity but who we are just supposed to "trust" when they say they are not going to fund abortion via health care reform.
All I was pointing out was that the law didn't change the status quo, and when an error was made in Pennsylvania they corrected it.
I should point out that ordinarily I give the time of day to anyone willing to have a reasoned discussion on valid issues. And don't to someone who jumps the gun and looks for every opportunity to attack the left on pro-life issues even when they have to be fabricated out of whole cloth.
Like the Bishops, I am completely uninterested in using the unborn to attack the left, but am solely concerned with ensuring that abortion is not funded by those who otherwise push abortion at every opportunity.
The partisans here are those who defend the pro-abort politicians and their policies because they are part of the political tribe. They spend more time attacking pro-lifers than they do in holding their politicians accountable for their anti-life policies. They even attack the Bishops as "partisan" or "misguided" or "ill-informed" in their efforts to defend their party first and foremost.
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