(Hat tip: Creative Minority Report)
For more on this movie, go to the official website.
Labels: Anti-Catholicism, History, Mexico, Military, Our Lord Jesus Christ, Priests, Religious Persecution, Saints and Martyrs
posted by Pro Ecclesia 10:27 AM
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Labels: History, Mexico, Texas Our Texas
posted by Pro Ecclesia 9:33 AM
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This guy sounds like a frickin' genius:
The author of Arizona’s controversial immigration law is considering a new proposal that would block the children of illegal immigrants from becoming citizens if they are born in the United States. [ED.: Block them from "becoming" citizens? They already ARE citizens by virtue of being born here. See below.](emphasis and editorial commentary added)
[...]
Pearce contended that the bill would not violate the 14th Amendment, saying only that “we would write it right.”
Labels: Constitutional Jurisprudence, Immigration, Law, Mexico
posted by Pro Ecclesia 1:57 PM
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"Ver are your paperz? Ve must zee your paperz!"
Labels: Bishops, Catholic Social Teaching, Conservatism, Immigration, McCain, Mexico, Social Justice, Voting Your Values
posted by Pro Ecclesia 10:57 AM
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Over at The American Catholic, Darwin reports some awesome news for Los Angeles (but sad news for my favorite city, San Antonio):
Whispers in the Loggia and New Advent have exciting breaking news for the church in the US:Pope Benedict will name Jose Gomez, 58, archbishop of San Antonio since February 2005, as coadjutor-archbishop of Los Angeles.[More]
Labels: Bishops, Catholic Identity, Mexico, Reform of the Reform, Texas Our Texas
posted by Pro Ecclesia 9:33 AM
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See also:
"The Irish Soldiers of Mexico" at InsideCatholic
"Irish Catholics in Mexican army in war of 1846-1848" at Musings of a Pertinacious Papist
The Chieftains And Ry Cooder Tell 'San Patricio' History at NPR
"The rebels of the Rio Grande" at The Irish Times
Labels: America, Anti-Catholicism, Catholic Identity, History, Ireland, Mexico, Military, Music, Religious Persecution
posted by Pro Ecclesia 12:01 AM
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From Catholic News Agency:
Washington D.C., Apr 2, 2009 / 01:25 pm (CNA).- In an impassionate address to the House of Representatives on Tuesday, Congressmen Chris Smith (R-NJ,) argued that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the speech delivered immediately after, in Houston, Texas, during Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger Award were completely inexcusable.
Smith said that Clinton’s visit to the Catholic Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, where she presented a bouquet of flowers on behalf of the American people, was “a very nice gesture.”
But the gesture was at odds with her speech while receiving the Margaret Sanger Award.
“In her remarks, Secretary Clinton said she was ‘in awe’ --I repeat, ‘in awe’-- of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood.”
“To our distinguished Secretary of State, I respectfully ask: Are you kidding? In ‘awe’ of Margaret Sanger, who said in 1921, ‘Eugenics…is the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political, and social problems’ and who also said in 1922, ‘The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it’?” asked Congressman Smith.
He went on to say that Secretary Clinton in her speech said that Margaret Sanger's “life and leadership” was “one of the most transformational in the entire history of the human race.”
“Mr. Speaker, transformational, yes. But not for the better if one happens to be poor, disenfranchised, weak, a person of color, vulnerable, or among the many so-called undesirables who Sanger would exclude and exterminate from the human race.”
According to the New Jersey Representative, “the juxtaposition of last week's two very public events in Mexico City and in Houston bring into sharp focus two huge and irreconcilable world views.”
“On the one hand, the miracle of Our Lady of Guadalupe has for five centuries brought a message of hope, faith, peace, reconciliation and protection for the weakest, most vulnerable among us. On the other hand, each year, Margaret Sanger's Planned Parenthood kills approximately 300,000 unborn baby girls and boys in their abortion clinics scattered throughout the United States,” he added.
After briefly narrating the story of the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Smith continued: “last Thursday, Hillary Clinton visited the shrine. On Friday, she paid homage to Planned Parenthood and to Margaret Sanger. Margaret Sanger is the founder of Planned Parenthood. She was a self-described pro-abortionist eugenist and a racist who considered charity care for impoverished, disenfranchised women, including women of color, especially pregnant women, to be ‘cruel’.”
Smith extensively quoted little known, terrifying passages of Sanger’s writings, loaded with racism and contempt for the poor.
“The most serious charge that can be brought against modern benevolence is that it encourages, and I say this again, the perpetuation of defectives, delinquents, and dependents,” was one of Sanger’s statement quoted by the NJ representative.
“Which begs the question, Mr. Speaker. Is our Secretary of State unaware of Margaret Sanger’s inhumane beliefs? Was she not briefed on Margaret Sanger’s cruel and reckless disregard for poor, pregnant women? Respectfully, Secretary Clinton should at a minimum return the Sanger award.”
“More importantly,” continued Smith “Congress and the White House must at long last take a long, hard, second look at the multimillion, almost billion, dollar corporation called Planned Parenthood – Child Abuse Incorporated.”
“There is nothing whatsoever compassionate, benevolent, ennobling, benign, or empowering about abortion. It is a violation of a child's fundamental human rights.”
“I strongly urge my colleagues to take that second look at Planned Parenthood. It is time to respect the value and the dignity of all human life,” he concluded.
Labels: Culture of Death, Hilliary, Mexico, Our Blessed Lady, Pro-Life, Racism
posted by Pro Ecclesia 8:38 AM
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This one goes out to a certain person of Flemish extraction:
Labels: History, Manly Men, Mexico, Military, Music, Texas Our Texas
posted by Pro Ecclesia 9:48 PM
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It wasn't that long ago that "human rights" organization ShAmnesty International reversed its long-standing "neutrality" on abortion and decided to come out in favor of abortion as an "international human right". Now, ShAmnesty International has decided that it is in the business of demanding that countries ignore the consciences of pro-life doctors and force those physicians to perform abortions.
Labels: Conscience, Culture of Death, Health Care, Mexico, Social Justice
posted by Pro Ecclesia 1:06 PM
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Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Also known as Holy Mary of Guadalupe; Virgin of Guadalupe; Maria de Guadalupe
This feast is known to the Aztecs as Tecoataxope or de Guadalupe in Spanish. This translates to "she will crush the serpent of the stone."
Themes and Motives: Rememberance of the Marian visitation of 1531 to Juan Diego; God's grace reaching out to the marginalized; conversion of the Americas
Commemorated December 12
Our Lady of Guadalupe was declared Patron Saint of the Americas by Pope Pius XII.
Our Lady of Guadalupe - Guadalupe, Mexico (1531)
http://members.aol.com/bjw1106/marian5.htm
The opening of the New World brought with it both fortune-seekers and religous preachers desiring to convert the native populations to the Christian faith. One of the converts was a poor Aztec indian named Juan Diego. On one of his trips to the chapel, Juan was walking through the Tepayac hill country in central Mexico. Near Tepayac Hill he encountered a beautiful woman surrounded by a ball of light as bright as the sun. Speaking in his native tongue, the beautiful lady identified herself:
"My dear little son, I love you. I desire you to know who I am. I am the ever-virgin Mary, Mother of the true God who gives life and maintains its existence. He created all things. He is in all places. He is Lord of Heaven and Earth. I desire a church in this place where your people may experience my compassion. All those who sincerely ask my help in their work and in their sorrows will know my Mother's Heart in this place. Here I will see their tears; I will console them and they will be at peace. So run now to Tenochtitlan and tell the Bishop all that you have seen and heard."
Juan, age 57, and who had never been to Tenochtitlan, nonetheless immediately responded to Mary's request. He went to the palace of the Bishop-elect Fray Juan de Zumarraga and requested to meet immediatly with the bishop. The bishop's servants, who were suspicious of the rural peasant, kept him waiting for hours. The bishop-elect told Juan that he would consider the request of the Lady and told him he could visit him again if he so desired. Juan was disappointed by the bishop's response and felt himself unworthy to persuade someone as important as a bishop. He returned to the hill where he had first met Mary and found her there waiting for him. Imploring her to send someone else, she responded:
"My little son, there are many I could send. But you are the one I have chosen."
She then told him to return the next day to the bishop and repeat the request. On Sunday, after again waiting for hours, Juan met with the bishop who, on re-hearing his story, asked him to ask the Lady to provide a sign as a proof of who she was. Juan dutifully returned to the hill and told Mary, who was again waiting for him there, of the bishop's request. Mary responded:
"My little son, am I not your Mother? Do not fear. The Bishop shall have his sign. Come back to this place tomorrow. Only peace, my little son."
Unfortunately, Juan was not able to return to the hill the next day.
His uncle had become mortally ill and Juan stayed with him to care for him. After two days, with his uncle near death, Juan left his side to find a priest. Juan had to pass Tepayac Hill to get to the priest. As he was passing, he found Mary waiting for him. She spoke:
"Do not be distressed, my littlest son. Am I not here with you who am your Mother? Are you not under myshadow and protection? Your uncle will not die at this time. There is no reason for you to engage a priest, for his health is restored at this moment. He is quite well. Go to the top of the hill and cut the flowers that are growing there. Bring them then to me."
While it was freezing on the hillside, Juan obeyed Mary's instructions and went to the top of the hill where he found a full bloom of Castilian roses. Removing his tilma, a poncho-like cape made of cactus fiber, he cut the roses and carried them back to Mary. She rearranged the roses and told him:
"My little son, this is the sign I am sending to the Bishop. Tell him that with this sign I request his greatest efforts to complete the church I desire in this place. Show these flowers to no one else but the Bishop. You are my trusted ambassador. This time the Bishop will believe all you tell him."
At the palace, Juan once again came before the bishop and several of his advisors. He told the bishop his story and opened the tilma letting the flowers fall out. But it wasn't the beautiful roses that caused the bishop and his advisors to fall to their knees; for there, on the tilma, was a picture of the Blessed Virgin Mary precisely as Juan had described her. The next day, after showing the Tilma at the Cathedral, Juan took the bishop to the spot where he first met Mary. He then returned to his village where he met his uncle who was completely cured. His uncle told him he had met a young woman, surrounded by a soft light, who told him that she had just sent his nephew to Tenochtitlan with a picture of herself. She told his uncle:
"Call me and call my image Santa Maria de Guadalupe".
It's believed that the word Guadalupe was actually a Spanish mis-translation of the local Aztec dialect. The word that Mary probably used was Coatlallope which means "one who treads on snakes"! Within six years of this apparition, six million Aztecs had converted to Catholicism. The tilma shows Mary as the God-bearer - she is pregnant with her Divine Son. Since the time the tilma was first impressed with a picture of the Mother of God, it has been subject to a variety of environmental hazards including smoke from fires and candles, water from floods and torrential downpours and, in 1921, a bomb which was planted by anti-clerical forces on an altar under it. There was also a cast-iron cross next to the tilma and when the bomb exploded, the cross was twisted out of shape, the marble altar rail was heavily damaged and the tilma was...untouched! Indeed, no one was injured in the Church despite the damage that occurred to a large part of the altar structure.
In 1977, the tilma was examined using infrared photography and digital enhancement techniques. Unlike any painting, the tilma shows no sketching or any sign of outline drawn to permit an artist to produce a painting. Further, the very method used to create the image is still unknown. The image is inexplicable in its longevity and method of production. It can be seen today in a large cathedral built to house up to ten thousand worshipers. It is, by far, the most popular religious pilgrimage site in the Western Hemisphere.
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More on Our Lady of Guadalupe at:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07043a.htm
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/blyons/blguadalupe1.html
http://www.sancta.org/
http://www.shjolg.com/
http://www.traditioninaction.org/SOD/j158sd_OLofGuadalupe_12-12.shtml
See also:
Guadalupe, La Pelicula (Guadalupe, the Film)
Lady of Guadalupe by Tomie de Paola
Labels: America, Mexico, Our Blessed Lady, Traditional Feast Days
posted by Pro Ecclesia 11:18 AM
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Elisa Najera Gualito, daughter of the Supreme Director from Mexico, Javier Najera Cabrales, attended this year’s meeting with a star quality about her. The 21-year-old won the Miss Mexico competition last October and a month ago placed fifth (fourth runner-up) in the Miss Universe pageant.(emphasis added)
“I love the Knights of Columbus because of their great support for family values,” she said. “I am very proud of my father also, that he is a representative from Mexico. I have always enjoyed coming to the annual meeting.”
Her mother, Maria Gualito de Najera, said she was proud of her daughter’s answer during the Miss Universe pageant, when she was asked what makes a woman happy. “I said, to live a balanced life of family, work and service to the community,” Elisa recalled.
[More]
Labels: Faith and Family, Knights of Columbus, Mexico
posted by Pro Ecclesia 9:36 PM
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... Benedict has calibrated his immigration stance with care, stating the need to protect family unity and immigrants’ human rights, but pointedly avoiding any specifics of the American immigration debate, like the issue of whether to grant legal status to illegal immigrants. Yet last week his visit quickly stirred the crosscurrents of the debate.(emphasis added to highlight anti-Catholic idiocy)
His comments drew a rebuke from Representative Tom Tancredo, a Republican from Colorado who has been a leading opponent of illegal immigration.
Accusing the pope of “faith-based marketing,” Mr. Tancredo said Benedict’s comments welcoming immigrants “may have less to do with spreading the Gospel than they do about recruiting new members of the Church.” Mr. Tancredo, a former Catholic who now attends an evangelical Christian church, said it was not in the pope’s “job description to engage in American politics.”
Well this sets off Tancredo on what is one of the most ridiculous and misconstrued political attacks I've ever seen. To think this guy wanted to be President is a little scary.Exactly. Like I said: Tancredo has shown himself to be a bigoted, anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant, Know-Nothing nutjob of the highest order.
I guess by issuing this release he wanted to make sure that he could never ever and I mean never again run for nationwide political office.“I would like to know what part of our lax immigration policy is considered violent,” Tancredo said. “I fail to see how accepting more refugees than any other nation –and providing free health care, education, housing and social service benefits to millions of illegal aliens is in any way ‘violent’ or ‘degrading.’”So much of what he says is completely wrong. The Pope isn't talking politics. He's imploring us to be sensitive and caring to all, including illegal immigrants -which to me is something we would do well to remember.
Pope Benedict XVI has made amnesty a key issue in his papacy. He met with President Bush, reportedly adding his voice to the open-border lobby by encouraging Bush to provide blanket amnesty to all illegal immigrants in the United States.
At the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, the Pope said, “I want to encourage you and your communities to continue to welcome the immigrants who join your ranks today, to share their joys and hopes, to support them in their sorrows and trials and to help them flourish in their new home.”
“I am not taking issue with the Pope’s moral authority and respect his views on the threat of radical Islam,” Tancredo said. “However, it is not in his job description to engage in American politics.”
Tancredo also cited a recent report indicating that the “Catholic Church…has been losing members rapidly -- as much as a third of the native-born Catholic population. Meanwhile, it has gained members among foreign-born (mostly Hispanic) residents.”
“I suspect the Pope’s immigration comments may have less to do with spreading the gospel than they do about recruiting new members of the church," said Tancredo. "This isn’t preaching it is ‘faith-based’ marketing.”
But when Tancredo impugns the Pope's motives then we swerve into crazyland. Here's the thing - Tancredo thought he could ride the national consensus to secure the border into a referendum for his candidacy. And when it didn't happen his rhetoric became increasingly offensive and anti-immigrant thus leading to his being ostracized from the mainstream.
Labels: Anti-Catholicism, Immigration, Mexico, Pope, Racism, Republicans
posted by Pro Ecclesia 10:02 AM
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After yesterday's blistering attack at The Washington Post from National Catholic Reporter's left-leaning political correspondent, Joe Feuerherd, you'd think the U.S. Bishops deserved a break.
Labels: Anti-Catholicism, Bishops, Mexico
posted by Pro Ecclesia 12:08 PM
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Deal Hudson writes at InsideCatholic:
In the heat of the South Carolina primary battle, Mike Huckabee has forgotten he is the candidate of "compassionate conservatism" by signing a pledge to send all illegal aliens home. This is the kind of thing that proves that Huckabee is not the "most Catholic" of the candidates, as some people have claimed. I don't have any other nominees for the "most Catholic" crown, but Huckabee, by signing this pledge, has lost the compassionate patina that first made him so attractive. He has moved away from the Catholic principles that inform of the issue of immigration and refugees.(emphasis added)
Romney made this move weeks ago.
I do not agree with much of the the USCCB's rationale for their immigration policy, but I agree with much of the policy itself and many of the core principles behind it. (I do not agree that the economic need of immgrants trumps the right of country to keep secure borders!)
Labels: Compassionate Conservatism, Elections, Mexico, Republicans, The Catholic Vote, Voting Your Values
posted by Pro Ecclesia 11:24 AM
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posted by Pro Ecclesia 11:15 PM
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Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Also known as Holy Mary of Guadalupe; Virgin of Guadalupe; Maria de Guadalupe
This feast is known to the Aztecs as Tecoataxope or de Guadalupe in Spanish. This translates to "she will crush the serpent of the stone."
Themes and Motives: Rememberance of the Marian visitation of 1531 to Juan Diego; God's grace reaching out to the marginalized; conversion of the Americas
Commemorated December 12
Our Lady of Guadalupe was declared Patron Saint of the Americas by Pope Pius XII.
Our Lady of Guadalupe - Guadalupe, Mexico (1531)
http://members.aol.com/bjw1106/marian5.htm
The opening of the New World brought with it both fortune-seekers and religous preachers desiring to convert the native populations to the Christian faith. One of the converts was a poor Aztec indian named Juan Diego. On one of his trips to the chapel, Juan was walking through the Tepayac hill country in central Mexico. Near Tepayac Hill he encountered a beautiful woman surrounded by a ball of light as bright as the sun. Speaking in his native tongue, the beautiful lady identified herself:
"My dear little son, I love you. I desire you to know who I am. I am the ever-virgin Mary, Mother of the true God who gives life and maintains its existence. He created all things. He is in all places. He is Lord of Heaven and Earth. I desire a church in this place where your people may experience my compassion. All those who sincerely ask my help in their work and in their sorrows will know my Mother's Heart in this place. Here I will see their tears; I will console them and they will be at peace. So run now to Tenochtitlan and tell the Bishop all that you have seen and heard."
Juan, age 57, and who had never been to Tenochtitlan, nonetheless immediately responded to Mary's request. He went to the palace of the Bishop-elect Fray Juan de Zumarraga and requested to meet immediatly with the bishop. The bishop's servants, who were suspicious of the rural peasant, kept him waiting for hours. The bishop-elect told Juan that he would consider the request of the Lady and told him he could visit him again if he so desired. Juan was disappointed by the bishop's response and felt himself unworthy to persuade someone as important as a bishop. He returned to the hill where he had first met Mary and found her there waiting for him. Imploring her to send someone else, she responded:
"My little son, there are many I could send. But you are the one I have chosen."
She then told him to return the next day to the bishop and repeat the request. On Sunday, after again waiting for hours, Juan met with the bishop who, on re-hearing his story, asked him to ask the Lady to provide a sign as a proof of who she was. Juan dutifully returned to the hill and told Mary, who was again waiting for him there, of the bishop's request. Mary responded:
"My little son, am I not your Mother? Do not fear. The Bishop shall have his sign. Come back to this place tomorrow. Only peace, my little son."
Unfortunately, Juan was not able to return to the hill the next day.
His uncle had become mortally ill and Juan stayed with him to care for him. After two days, with his uncle near death, Juan left his side to find a priest. Juan had to pass Tepayac Hill to get to the priest. As he was passing, he found Mary waiting for him. She spoke:
"Do not be distressed, my littlest son. Am I not here with you who am your Mother? Are you not under myshadow and protection? Your uncle will not die at this time. There is no reason for you to engage a priest, for his health is restored at this moment. He is quite well. Go to the top of the hill and cut the flowers that are growing there. Bring them then to me."
While it was freezing on the hillside, Juan obeyed Mary's instructions and went to the top of the hill where he found a full bloom of Castilian roses. Removing his tilma, a poncho-like cape made of cactus fiber, he cut the roses and carried them back to Mary. She rearranged the roses and told him:
"My little son, this is the sign I am sending to the Bishop. Tell him that with this sign I request his greatest efforts to complete the church I desire in this place. Show these flowers to no one else but the Bishop. You are my trusted ambassador. This time the Bishop will believe all you tell him."
At the palace, Juan once again came before the bishop and several of his advisors. He told the bishop his story and opened the tilma letting the flowers fall out. But it wasn't the beautiful roses that caused the bishop and his advisors to fall to their knees; for there, on the tilma, was a picture of the Blessed Virgin Mary precisely as Juan had described her. The next day, after showing the Tilma at the Cathedral, Juan took the bishop to the spot where he first met Mary. He then returned to his village where he met his uncle who was completely cured. His uncle told him he had met a young woman, surrounded by a soft light, who told him that she had just sent his nephew to Tenochtitlan with a picture of herself. She told his uncle:
"Call me and call my image Santa Maria de Guadalupe".
It's believed that the word Guadalupe was actually a Spanish mis-translation of the local Aztec dialect. The word that Mary probably used was Coatlallope which means "one who treads on snakes"! Within six years of this apparition, six million Aztecs had converted to Catholicism. The tilma shows Mary as the God-bearer - she is pregnant with her Divine Son. Since the time the tilma was first impressed with a picture of the Mother of God, it has been subject to a variety of environmental hazards including smoke from fires and candles, water from floods and torrential downpours and, in 1921, a bomb which was planted by anti-clerical forces on an altar under it. There was also a cast-iron cross next to the tilma and when the bomb exploded, the cross was twisted out of shape, the marble altar rail was heavily damaged and the tilma was...untouched! Indeed, no one was injured in the Church despite the damage that occurred to a large part of the altar structure.
In 1977, the tilma was examined using infrared photography and digital enhancement techniques. Unlike any painting, the tilma shows no sketching or any sign of outline drawn to permit an artist to produce a painting. Further, the very method used to create the image is still unknown. The image is inexplicable in its longevity and method of production. It can be seen today in a large cathedral built to house up to ten thousand worshipers. It is, by far, the most popular religious pilgrimage site in the Western Hemisphere.
--------------------------
More on Our Lady of Guadalupe at:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07043a.htm
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/blyons/blguadalupe1.html
http://www.sancta.org/
http://www.shjolg.com/
http://www.traditioninaction.org/SOD/j158sd_OLofGuadalupe_12-12.shtml
See also:
Guadalupe, La Pelicula (Guadalupe, the Film)
Lady of Guadalupe by Tomie de Paola
Labels: Mexico, Our Blessed Lady, Traditional Feast Days
posted by Pro Ecclesia 11:13 PM
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From Reuters:
MEXICO CITY, Nov 24 (Reuters) - The Mexican capital's cathedral, a 400-year-old Roman Catholic bastion, reopened on Saturday under police surveillance almost a week after it shut its doors following a rowdy leftist protest during a Mass.My Comments:
A mob angry at the church bells tolling during a rally outside burst into the cathedral last Sunday, tearing down railings and overturning pews.
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It was the first time the cathedral had shut since the start of the "Cristero" war in the 1920s, in which Catholics fought federal authorities over an anti-clerical campaign by the government after the Mexican Revolution.
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Tensions have risen between Church leaders and the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD, since the party narrowly lost last year's presidential election to the conservative National Action Party, which is seen as close to the Catholic Church.
The Church also has sparred with the PRD over recent laws in Mexico City to legalize abortion and gay civil unions. Mexico's top churchman, Cardinal Norberto Rivera, said last month he had received death threats from members of the party.
(emphasis added)
Labels: Anti-Catholicism, Communists, Mexico, Religious Persecution
posted by Pro Ecclesia 11:00 AM
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One of my favorite All Souls Day customs/traditions is the celebration of Dia de Los Muertos in the Mexican culture.
Labels: Catholic Identity, Culture, Mexico, Traditional Feast Days
posted by Pro Ecclesia 12:00 AM
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Christopher Blosser reports over at Catholics in the Public Square that Mike Huckabee recently embarassed himself in a debate by his lack of knowledge of one of (if not THE) key policy in President Ronald Reagan's pro-life agenda:
Bill Clinton knows about the Mexico City Policy. Immediately upon taking office as President, on behalf of his virulently pro-abortion base of support, Clinton rescinded Ronald Reagan's prohibition on U.S. taxpayer funding of abortions overseas.My Comments:
George W. Bush knows about the Mexico City Policy. When he became our country's Chief Executive, one of his first acts was to restore the policy's protections afforded to the innocent unborn around the world, and to American taxpayers.
But in last Monday's Values Voter debate in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, candidate Mike Huckabee proved that he doesn't have a clue about this landmark pro-life foreign policy.
Here's the relevant portion of the debate:JANET FOLGER: The Mexico City Policy states that as a condition for a foreign organization to receive federal funds, they will neither, quote, "perform nor actively promote abortion." Would you work to apply this Mexico City Policy to organizations within the United States, as well as abroad?READ THE REST.
MIKE HUCKABEE: I just want to clarify, and I'm not trying to be difficult, but I want to make sure we're not being asked to apply a Mexican law to United States law. Is it the principle you're after, or the law itself?
FOLGER: It's the principle of not giving our tax dollars to organizations within our country that actively promote or provide abortions.
HUCKABEE: OK. I just want to make sure that we were not in essence agreeing to abide by a Mexican law.
FOLGER: No. It's an American law.
HUCKABEE: OK. All right.
Labels: Arkansas Sux, Elections, Gipper, Law, Mexico, Pro-Life, Republicans, Voting Your Values, What the ****?
posted by Pro Ecclesia 7:42 AM
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Credit: Me Monk. Me Meander.
Labels: Culture of Death, History, Mexico
posted by Pro Ecclesia 12:25 PM
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St. Thomas More,
Pray For Us
Patron of Statesmen, Politicians, Judges and Lawyers, your life of prayer and penance and your zeal for justice, integrity and firm principle in public and family life led you to the path of martyrdom and sainthood. Intercede for our Statesmen, Politicians, Judges and Lawyers, that they may be courageous and effective in their defense and promotion of the sanctity of human life - the foundation of all other human rights. We ask this through Christ our Lord. AMEN.
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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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St. Thomas More,
A Man for All Seasons
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"I die the king's good servant, and God's first."
~ On the scaffold, July 6, 1535 ~
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Give me, good Lord, a full faith and a fervent charity, a love of you, good Lord, incomparable above the love of myself; and that I love nothing to your displeasure but everything in an order to you.
Take from me, good Lord, this lukewarm fashion, or rather cold manner of meditation and this dullness in praying to you. And give me warmth, delight and life in thinking about you.
And give me your grace to long for your holy sacraments and specially to rejoice in the presence of your blessed body, sweet Saviour Christ, in the holy sacrament of the altar, and duly to thank you for your gracious coming. AMEN.
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Pro Ecclesia * Pro Familia * Pro Civitate
"The future of the world and the Church passes through the family" (Familiaris Consortio, #79).
"It is necessary to go back to seeing the family as the sanctuary of life... In the face of the so-called culture of death, the family is the heart of the culture of life" (Centesimus Annus, #39).
- Pope John Paul II
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Our Lady of Walsingham
Pray For Us!
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