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catholics for choice

11/30/2022

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Recently, a Vermont judge and nominee testified before the US Senate that in the past she represented a Catholic who requested flyers be printed on behalf of Catholics for Choice (CFC), a pro-abortion group, and made the request to a small business owned by Catholics who refused to print the flyers.

This needs clarification. Excerpts from Wikipedia –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholics_for_Choice
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“A number of Catholic bishops and conferences of bishops have unequivocally rejected and publicly denounced CFC’s identification as a Catholic organization. For example, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops have stated that CFC is not a Catholic organization and that it promotes positions contrary to Catholic teaching.”
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“CFC is not a membership organization but an advocacy group. It relies upon paid employees and committed volunteer activists that it selectively recruits in various regions.”
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“In 2007, CFC had a budget of $3 million, increased from $2.5 million annually in the years leading up to 2003. It has been supported largely by secular foundations such as the Ford Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and the Playboy Foundation.”
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“Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz [namesake - Pope Saint Fabian, A.D. 200-250] of Lincoln, Nebraska, issued an interdict in March 1996 forbidding Catholics within his diocese from membership in 12 organizations including CFC. Bruskewitz stated that membership in any of these 12 groups ‘is always perilous to the Catholic Faith and most often is totally incompatible with the Catholic Faith.’

“Members of the diocese were given one month from the date of the interdict to remove themselves from participation in the named organizations or face automatic excommunication. Bruskewitz noted that heeding the ban on receiving the sacraments, which results from excommunication, ‘would be left to the person’s conscience.’”

Frances Kissling, CFC president at that time, said in response, “What we would advise people in that diocese to say is that ‘We consider ourselves to be Catholics in good faith, and we think you have rendered the wrong opinion,’ and to go about their lives as Catholics.”

Conclusion: The Vermont judge represented a volunteer or paid employee of Catholics for Choice, and the USCCB has made it clear that this is not a Catholic organization. The woman requested flyers be printed for a condemned group.

“We must keep in mind that the purpose of excommunication is to shock the sinner into repentance and conversion.” 
https://catholicstraightanswers.com/what-is-excommunication/
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pope is wrong

11/30/2022

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Father Gerald Murray is the canonist-expert. Notable mentions are the FSSP and Fontgombault. We pray for Francis at every Mass but say NO to servile obedience. Traditional American Catholics … resist!

For those who have never been, click here to see the Latin Mass sung at St. Madeleine Abbey, Le Barroux, France: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zswMJe2zHNo. The Epistle and Gospel are read in Latin and then French, but with a Latin/English Missal, everything is understandable, and even the sermon in French presents few difficulties for the English speaker.

Every High Mass has a master of ceremony, here the tall guy in white, because it is highly choreographed, and everyone is practiced. During consecration there are some pleasant sounds: bells, birds, and babies.

This abbey would be a great location for a novel to TV or film, 
The Abbot’s Unction. He is found dead under an olive tree, and all the monks are suspects, but finding the killer is complicated. The abbot’s hand is kissed multiple times throughout, as here at Mass. I wish we did that with each other, but I am repeating myself.

If preferred, one c
an listen to 57 monks* sing Compline (27 mins, Psalm 90 and Regina caeli): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htDZ17_pYws​​

The monastery, which is set on a hill, has a wine label and produces olive oil on its large property.

I have a young friend at St. Stephen who considered religious life but is now engaged to be married. A calling to religious life comes from God, not from a priest, or parent, or anyone else and entails loving sacrifice akin to marriage.

*Non-professionals who sing better than professionals, and now they have a music producer.
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writing lesson 1

11/30/2022

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Future lessons will be on YouTube, and my Quora space will be the place to submit your writing samples for critiquing or asking questions and getting answers. https://www.quora.com/profile/Robert-E-Dunn
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poe nevermore

11/29/2022

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A strange, wonderful historical note - 1846, Fordham University - the Jesuits befriended Poe, before they were “bewitched”, which the disastrous latter half of the 20th century revealed, but not by Poe.
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hit like (Youtube)

11/29/2022

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June 3, 1944, one day before my mother turned 18 and three days before D-Day
 The priest carries what he needs in a box, crucifix pivoted down when box is closed.
A dog is attending Mass, too.
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Pope Francis’ Heretics

11/29/2022

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​Austen Ivereigh, Mauricio Lopez Oropeza, Paul Bere, David McCallum, Ormund Rush, Peter Hunermann, Massimo Faggioli, and James Martin. Number 28 in the list of accusations – we who adhere to tradition are guilty of “freezing doctrine.”
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mauna loa

11/28/2022

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Picture

photo courtesy of the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Service
Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea are erupting together. Mauna Loa's last eruption was April 15, 1984. My sister smells sulfur. Pictures at night from the western side of the Big Island (Kona) are spectacular. These mountains are over 13,000 feet and have major telescopes atop.
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Guns/rod serling

11/28/2022

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“The idea we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be purchased is sick. Just sick,” Biden said in Massachusetts. Interesting that Pope Francis has called me “sick” for attending the Latin Mass, and now Biden has used the same word for gun owners. No. 27 - Frannie says we Catholics who adhere to tradition are guilty of indietrism, and as nearly as I can make that out, it means looking backward. Meanwhile, in China, there is countrywide rioting. “Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete.” - Rod Serling
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front porch

11/28/2022

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The Missal depicted is the one I use. The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) has only four locations in California: Sacramento, Fresno, Los Angeles, and San Diego. A link to the Mass of the Ages film is under the More tab, New Movie. The Sacramento bishop supports us, and we support him, while P. Francis has low regard for the USA. We are delivering him a hammer fist.
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downstream

11/28/2022

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​Just remember that when the next person, or animal, speaks, start a new paragraph. Indentation for a new paragraph is optional now, but for school essays, indentation might be required. Follow the teacher’s directions or ask.
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Musk dragon

11/27/2022

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Dragon’s 26th Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-26) mission to the International Space Station was dispatched on 11/26/2022 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The reusable rocket successfully landed back on Earth minutes later. View on rumble.com as it happened …
https://rumble.com/v1xb4xw-spacex-and-nasa-crs-26-launch.html?mref=6zof&mc=dgip3&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=spaceXcentric&ep=2
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eucharist

11/26/2022

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Tixtla, Buenos Aires, Lanciano. ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soCkftBBsBo
Root – Old French eucariste, from Late Latin eucharistia, from Greek eukharistia, meaning “thanksgiving, gratitude.”
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pirate

11/25/2022

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“If kids knew what they wanted to be at age eight, the world would be filled with cowboys and princesses. I wanted to be a pirate. Thank goodness nobody took me seriously and scheduled me for eye removal and peg leg surgery.”—Bill Maher
ramp (gangplank?) not needed …
Picture
photo courtesy of Mary, my neighbor across the pond
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tiktok threat

11/25/2022

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https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/us-fbi-director-says-tiktok-poses-national-security-concerns-2022-11-15/
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cliff house

11/25/2022

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The short story, "Letters", ends here.
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snl thanksgiving

11/24/2022

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One of my contributors on Quora posted a pic so funny that I decided to look around and found this to top oof your Thanksgiving. ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2zyjbH9zzA
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passion of the christ 2?

11/24/2022

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Following is a detailed article about Mel Gibson and the possibility of Part 2. If made, it is unlikely I will see it, because Jesus' face will be on screen. I would rather see the face turned or in shadow. "Jesus Wept" by James Tissot (French), which shows Christ covering His face with His hands, is what I prefer. www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/4536 Let me know if you see the film.
https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/passion-of-the-christ-2.html 
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satan club

11/24/2022

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Starting December 5, 2022, Golden Hills Elementary School in Tehachapi, north of Los Angeles, will host an After School Satan Club.

From among several reports, I chose the one from the San Francisco Chronicle because it would be viewed as unbiased.

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Quotes from the San Francisco Chronicle:

For years, the Satanic Temple, a group The Washington Post describes as a “nontheistic religious organization advocating for secularism and scientific rationalism,” has been launching these clubs in public schools where evangelical Christian groups — namely, the Good News Club — have their own meetings.

The group says that in club meetings it is “not interested in converting children to Satanism” and that sessions “will focus on free inquiry and rationalism, the scientific basis for which we know what we know about the world around us.”

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This statement from the Satanic Temple must be taken with a heavy dose of skepticism. The group describes itself as a sect that advocates for secularism. Secularism is what it is – anti-religion and, specifically, anti-Christian, and everyone knows it.

There is nothing irrational or unscientific about Catholicism, just as there is nothing irrational about Aristotle or unscientific about Copernicus or Galileo. Aquinas (A.D. 1225-1274) incorporated Aristotle into Catholic philosophy. Copernicus, a Catholic canon, and Galileo, a Catholic with daughters in religious life, influenced Francis Bacon, an Anglican and the man credited with formalizing and popularizing the scientific method.

Moreover, the Satanic Temple will never produce great art and music.
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https://www.sfgate.com/california-news/article/school-satan-club-causes-stir-17595423.php
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power of hammer fist

11/23/2022

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power of x

11/23/2022

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One could have guessed two and been right, but this solution is more like a proof demonstrating the use of the quadratic equation, root quattuor, Latin for four because there are four terms, including the zero. I have a friend whose last name is Ekk. If one saw his family approaching, one could say, “Here come the Ekks.” X
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outer limits

11/22/2022

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This is a clip from a 1963-65 sci-fi television show I liked as a youngster. The Zantis, pronounced "zanteez", are sent from a penal colony far away. Mission: establish Earth as another penal colony.
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hope

11/22/2022

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A reading of Emily Dickinson’s poem, “Hope” is the thing with feathers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2wy1DNzVlY
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catholic writers guild

11/17/2022

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​“You asked, and now I will answer. To date, monsieur, my stories have contained no foul language. Such has come out of the mouths of characters, not from the omniscient narrator. Realism has certain demands, M. Chopin. Yet, the Catholic Writers Guild has never given me their Seal of Approval. The Guild cannot distinguish the difference just elucidated. Membership, over. The rebirth of Catholic arts, their motto, will issue elsewhere. Nor was the secular publishing world a friend to me, a fairly competent fiction writer of the male sort, of a rather traditional bent like you, and not into trash and trends. It’s been fun. Maybe someday I’ll see you on Quora. Here are the directions.”
https://www.quora.com/profile/Robert-E-Dunn
Chopin by a Russian monk whose religious name is Abel and birth name is Paul de Senneville
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james v. Johnston, Jr

11/17/2022

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Jane’s arrest occurred on Nov. 1, 2020, in a church in Kansas City, Missouri. I was not able to identify which Latin Mass church in St. Mary’s, Kansas, she now attends. The online contact to this bishop is currently down. One can only write or call him.
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congressional elections

11/17/2022

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Senate: Democrats 50, Republicans 49, one run-off election in Georgia
House of Representatives: Republicans 218, Democrats 210 (That is 428, but total house seats are 435, leaving some races, seven by my count, still undetermined.)
Seems to reflect the half-half split in the country.
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