I did not until today. Go visit toomanyaborted.com to find out about Dr. Jefferson, the first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School who died last October. Here is a beautiful quote from Dr. Jefferson:
"I became a physician in order to help save lives. I am at once a physician, a citizen, and a woman, and I am not willing to stand aside and allow the concept of expendable human lives to turn this great land of ours into just another exclusive reservation where only the perfect, the privileged, and the planned have the right to live.” –Mildred Jefferson, M.D. (2003, American Feminist magazine)
Thank you for your courage Dr. Jefferson. May God inspire us to speak up for women and their unborn children in the face of the culture of death.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
What March?
This is too funny, and really true.
From Matthew Archbold at Creative Minority Report:
Gov't Looking into Pro-Life Stealth Technology
The U.S. military is reportedly looking into state of the art stealth technology employed by pro-lifers at least once a year.
Said one Pentagon official: "Once a year on the same day they announce the time and the date they're going to have thousands of people march into Washington D.C. but every year they come and go without anyone even noticing them. It's quite amazing."
This is especially worrisome since the Department of Homeland Security previously labeled "opponents of abortion" as likely to engage in acts of terror.
This startling stealth capability is best shown by comparing the media's coverage of the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert rally that included live break-ins and extensive coverage by the media but there was hardly any mention at all of a pro-life rally attended by thousands more.
The Pentagon is reportedly looking into how these pro-lifers essentially invade a city without anyone noticing. Their hope is to employ such capability to update their own stealth ground attack maneuvers.
This pro-life operating capability has oddly become more effective the larger the crowds have become. In 1974, 20,000 people marched in the March for Life and were hardly noticed but in the past few years hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers have managed to enter the capitol of the United States of America without hardly any notice.
This invisibility seems to be effective on about 60% of the population, especially on the coasts.
An Ivy League researcher published a study of "Method of Anti-Choice Invisibility in the Physical Theory of Diffraction." The researcher attempted to interview pro-lifers for the paper but failed to locate even one, indicating that their stealth capabilities work exceedingly well on the coasts and on college campuses.
Oddly, liberal activists tend to have an exact opposite capability in that even if only a dozen anti-war or liberal activists show up anywhere with signs, it seems to attract the notice of all media organizations and the culture at large.
White House administration officials speaking on condition of anonymity said they're hoping that pro-lifers stealth capability proves so effective that perhaps pro-lifers might disappear the other 364 days a year.
From Matthew Archbold at Creative Minority Report:
Gov't Looking into Pro-Life Stealth Technology
The U.S. military is reportedly looking into state of the art stealth technology employed by pro-lifers at least once a year.
Said one Pentagon official: "Once a year on the same day they announce the time and the date they're going to have thousands of people march into Washington D.C. but every year they come and go without anyone even noticing them. It's quite amazing."
This is especially worrisome since the Department of Homeland Security previously labeled "opponents of abortion" as likely to engage in acts of terror.
This startling stealth capability is best shown by comparing the media's coverage of the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert rally that included live break-ins and extensive coverage by the media but there was hardly any mention at all of a pro-life rally attended by thousands more.
The Pentagon is reportedly looking into how these pro-lifers essentially invade a city without anyone noticing. Their hope is to employ such capability to update their own stealth ground attack maneuvers.
This pro-life operating capability has oddly become more effective the larger the crowds have become. In 1974, 20,000 people marched in the March for Life and were hardly noticed but in the past few years hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers have managed to enter the capitol of the United States of America without hardly any notice.
This invisibility seems to be effective on about 60% of the population, especially on the coasts.
An Ivy League researcher published a study of "Method of Anti-Choice Invisibility in the Physical Theory of Diffraction." The researcher attempted to interview pro-lifers for the paper but failed to locate even one, indicating that their stealth capabilities work exceedingly well on the coasts and on college campuses.
Oddly, liberal activists tend to have an exact opposite capability in that even if only a dozen anti-war or liberal activists show up anywhere with signs, it seems to attract the notice of all media organizations and the culture at large.
White House administration officials speaking on condition of anonymity said they're hoping that pro-lifers stealth capability proves so effective that perhaps pro-lifers might disappear the other 364 days a year.
Friday, January 21, 2011
It's Not About Abortion? Really?
Truthfully, I cannot hardly even read the news reports about the horrific occurrences at the abortion clinic in Philadelphia. There are even reports of people who are "pro-choice" saying that this is not about abortion. Actually, it is about abortion. In fact, what strikes me the most is that we are all so horrified by what has happened there, but in reality, this is what happens at clinics all over the world every day. There is no doubt that what Gosnell has done for decades now is beyond our worst nightmares, but somehow, does taking a baby and discarding it and cleaning up and keeping the conditions sanitary and "safe" make it any better? No, it does not, this is abortion.
Oh God, My God, have Mercy on us. St. Joseph, pray for us. Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us. Sacred Heart of Jesus, have Mercy on us.
Oh God, My God, have Mercy on us. St. Joseph, pray for us. Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us. Sacred Heart of Jesus, have Mercy on us.
Friday, January 14, 2011
Archbishop Chaput on Judge John Roll
In the Denver Catholic Register, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput writes a tribute to Judge John Roll:
Judge John Roll: A life of authentic Catholic witness
In January 2008, at the invitation of Bishop Thomas Olmsted, I gave a homily at the annual Red Mass for attorneys, judges and public officials in Phoenix. The theme wasn’t new; I’ve said it a hundred times. So has Bishop Olmsted. So have many other bishops. But over the past weekend I dug it out and reread the homily’s last few lines:
“We’re citizens of heaven first. Our time here is limited. This life passes. Eternity is forever. We need to act in this world accordingly, with lives of Christian service to the poor and afflicted—including the unborn child, the immigrant, the homeless and the elderly. The more authentically Catholic we are in our lives, our choices, our actions and our convictions, the more truly we will contribute to the moral and political life of our nation.”
Sitting in the congregation that day was a woman named Maureen, an active and very committed Catholic, and a veteran of crisis pregnancy counseling with Tucson’s Catholic Charities. After the liturgy she moved on to the other tasks of her day, as I did mine. Except that Maureen apparently talked about the Red Mass with her spouse. And 10 months later, after the 2008 election, I got the first of several extraordinary letters from her husband—John Roll, chief judge of the federal District of Arizona; the same John Roll who died in the terrible Jan. 8 shootings in Tucson.
It’s impossible to fully know a man from correspondence alone. But each of John Roll’s letters had the same four clear marks: generosity; intelligence, largeness of spirit and a sincere love for his Catholic faith. Two days after Roll’s murder, his law clerk, attorney Aaron Martin, described to me the kind of man he was.
Roll was devoted to St. Thomas More and kept a biography of the saint on a table near his desk. He liked mentoring young Christian attorneys because he believed their faith gave them a better moral foundation for the vocation of law. For Martin and for Judge Roll’s other clerks, “he was more of a father figure than a boss. He knew our families, and he always wanted to hear the news about them.” He had the habit of reading a range of Catholic publications every Sunday morning before Mass to learn more about his faith. He swam nearly every morning at the local YMCA to stay in shape, and he made daily Mass as often as he could. He liked to joke about a federal marshal who was once assigned to him as round the clock security for a month when he was facing threats. The marshal said, “Judge, I’m a Catholic, but I’ve been to Mass more in the last 30 days than in the past 10 years.”
John Roll would have turned 64 on Feb. 8. He had three sons and five grandchildren. Maureen and John Roll had known each other, according to Aaron Martin, since they were 14 or 15. They were, throughout their life together, each other’s best friends. They would have celebrated their 41st wedding anniversary later this month.
John Roll was, finally, a man of unusual personal graciousness. Despite their political differences, Judge Roll and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, a Democrat, had a cordial relationship of mutual respect. Giffords sought more resources for the court system, and Judge Roll was grateful. Precisely because of their differences, Roll tried to greet Giffords at her local appearances whenever he could. On the morning of his death, Roll went to Mass, and at 9:55 a.m., according to Martin, left his house to just “drop in” on Giffords’ public gathering as a courtesy, to say hello. He never came home.
This life passes. Eternity is forever. We need to act in this world accordingly, with lives of Christian service. Maureen and John Roll shared a life of quiet, powerful, authentic Catholic witness. Please keep them both, and the entire Roll family, in your prayers.
H/T Matthew Archbold at CreativeMinorityReport
Judge John Roll: A life of authentic Catholic witness
In January 2008, at the invitation of Bishop Thomas Olmsted, I gave a homily at the annual Red Mass for attorneys, judges and public officials in Phoenix. The theme wasn’t new; I’ve said it a hundred times. So has Bishop Olmsted. So have many other bishops. But over the past weekend I dug it out and reread the homily’s last few lines:
“We’re citizens of heaven first. Our time here is limited. This life passes. Eternity is forever. We need to act in this world accordingly, with lives of Christian service to the poor and afflicted—including the unborn child, the immigrant, the homeless and the elderly. The more authentically Catholic we are in our lives, our choices, our actions and our convictions, the more truly we will contribute to the moral and political life of our nation.”
Sitting in the congregation that day was a woman named Maureen, an active and very committed Catholic, and a veteran of crisis pregnancy counseling with Tucson’s Catholic Charities. After the liturgy she moved on to the other tasks of her day, as I did mine. Except that Maureen apparently talked about the Red Mass with her spouse. And 10 months later, after the 2008 election, I got the first of several extraordinary letters from her husband—John Roll, chief judge of the federal District of Arizona; the same John Roll who died in the terrible Jan. 8 shootings in Tucson.
It’s impossible to fully know a man from correspondence alone. But each of John Roll’s letters had the same four clear marks: generosity; intelligence, largeness of spirit and a sincere love for his Catholic faith. Two days after Roll’s murder, his law clerk, attorney Aaron Martin, described to me the kind of man he was.
Roll was devoted to St. Thomas More and kept a biography of the saint on a table near his desk. He liked mentoring young Christian attorneys because he believed their faith gave them a better moral foundation for the vocation of law. For Martin and for Judge Roll’s other clerks, “he was more of a father figure than a boss. He knew our families, and he always wanted to hear the news about them.” He had the habit of reading a range of Catholic publications every Sunday morning before Mass to learn more about his faith. He swam nearly every morning at the local YMCA to stay in shape, and he made daily Mass as often as he could. He liked to joke about a federal marshal who was once assigned to him as round the clock security for a month when he was facing threats. The marshal said, “Judge, I’m a Catholic, but I’ve been to Mass more in the last 30 days than in the past 10 years.”
John Roll would have turned 64 on Feb. 8. He had three sons and five grandchildren. Maureen and John Roll had known each other, according to Aaron Martin, since they were 14 or 15. They were, throughout their life together, each other’s best friends. They would have celebrated their 41st wedding anniversary later this month.
John Roll was, finally, a man of unusual personal graciousness. Despite their political differences, Judge Roll and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, a Democrat, had a cordial relationship of mutual respect. Giffords sought more resources for the court system, and Judge Roll was grateful. Precisely because of their differences, Roll tried to greet Giffords at her local appearances whenever he could. On the morning of his death, Roll went to Mass, and at 9:55 a.m., according to Martin, left his house to just “drop in” on Giffords’ public gathering as a courtesy, to say hello. He never came home.
This life passes. Eternity is forever. We need to act in this world accordingly, with lives of Christian service. Maureen and John Roll shared a life of quiet, powerful, authentic Catholic witness. Please keep them both, and the entire Roll family, in your prayers.
H/T Matthew Archbold at CreativeMinorityReport
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Unplanned by Abby Johnson
Yesterday, Unplanned by Abby Johnson was released. I downloaded the Kindle version last night and was up until after 2am reading it. I COULD NOT put it down!! Abby's courage and inner beauty shine through in this honest account of her work first as a Planned Parenthood volunteer and then as the Director of the Bryan/College Station Planned Parenthood.
Always having compassion and an inner drive to help women in crisis, Abby became involved with Planned Parenthood with this goal in her heart and with a desire to truly make abortion rare. She truly has a viewpoint that shows how we have more in common with people on the opposite side of the pro-life debate than we think. It is through unceasing prayer, compassion, and standing for Truth by prayer vigil volunteers that helped her begin to recognize the lies of the abortion industry and how abortion truly hurts women. God moved Abby's heart and gave her courage to step on the other side of the fence one day when she had to assist in an abortion performed using ultrasound. In God's great Mercy, He completely lifted the scales from her eyes and showed her the Truth. Her journey to this point and beyond is absolutely one of the most inspiring, and heartbreaking, accounts I have ever read or heard. Abby's pure heart is so evident as she honestly tells us her story and that of countless women around us. God is speaking to us as a nation and as a world through Abby and the 40 Days for Life campaign. Read her book and become inspired and filled with hope!!
If you have never been involved in a prayer vigil to end abortion, go visit 40 Days for Life and get involved! I promise it will change your heart and the hearts of those around you, even the most ardent supporters of legalized abortion. Here is Abby speaking just months after leaving Planned Parenthood:
Thank you Abby!!
We praise You and thank You God for Your Faithfulness. Thank You for Your beloved daughter Abby and for giving her courage to stand for Truth. Thank You for all the volunteers that help make 40 Days for Life happen and for Your inspiration to stand for Truth and especially for the leaders of the 40 Days for Life movement, particularly David Bereit and Shawn Carney. Thank You for choosing such amazing people to do Your work of Love and compassion. Inspire us to stand for Truth in our own communities and lives. Make us faithful servants. In Your Holy Name, Amen.
Always having compassion and an inner drive to help women in crisis, Abby became involved with Planned Parenthood with this goal in her heart and with a desire to truly make abortion rare. She truly has a viewpoint that shows how we have more in common with people on the opposite side of the pro-life debate than we think. It is through unceasing prayer, compassion, and standing for Truth by prayer vigil volunteers that helped her begin to recognize the lies of the abortion industry and how abortion truly hurts women. God moved Abby's heart and gave her courage to step on the other side of the fence one day when she had to assist in an abortion performed using ultrasound. In God's great Mercy, He completely lifted the scales from her eyes and showed her the Truth. Her journey to this point and beyond is absolutely one of the most inspiring, and heartbreaking, accounts I have ever read or heard. Abby's pure heart is so evident as she honestly tells us her story and that of countless women around us. God is speaking to us as a nation and as a world through Abby and the 40 Days for Life campaign. Read her book and become inspired and filled with hope!!
If you have never been involved in a prayer vigil to end abortion, go visit 40 Days for Life and get involved! I promise it will change your heart and the hearts of those around you, even the most ardent supporters of legalized abortion. Here is Abby speaking just months after leaving Planned Parenthood:
Thank you Abby!!
We praise You and thank You God for Your Faithfulness. Thank You for Your beloved daughter Abby and for giving her courage to stand for Truth. Thank You for all the volunteers that help make 40 Days for Life happen and for Your inspiration to stand for Truth and especially for the leaders of the 40 Days for Life movement, particularly David Bereit and Shawn Carney. Thank You for choosing such amazing people to do Your work of Love and compassion. Inspire us to stand for Truth in our own communities and lives. Make us faithful servants. In Your Holy Name, Amen.
Monday, January 10, 2011
A Small Sign of Hope
Thank You God for this small sign of hope in a world so distraught and torn by violence and hatred. Thank You God for the Muslims in Egypt that stood by their Coptic Christian brethren by attending Christmas Eve Mass. Thank You for giving Yourself to us in this broken world in Holy Mass. In Your Holy Name, Amen.
From Yasmine El-Rashidi at ahramonline:
Egypt’s majority Muslim population stuck to its word Thursday night. What had been a promise of solidarity to the weary Coptic community, was honoured, when thousands of Muslims showed up at Coptic Christmas eve mass services in churches around the country and at candle light vigils held outside.
From Yasmine El-Rashidi at ahramonline:
Egypt’s majority Muslim population stuck to its word Thursday night. What had been a promise of solidarity to the weary Coptic community, was honoured, when thousands of Muslims showed up at Coptic Christmas eve mass services in churches around the country and at candle light vigils held outside.
From the well-known to the unknown, Muslims had offered their bodies as “human shields” for last night’s mass, making a pledge to collectively fight the threat of Islamic militants and towards an Egypt free from sectarian strife.
“We either live together, or we die together,” was the sloganeering genius of Mohamed El-Sawy, a Muslim arts tycoon whose cultural centre distributed flyers at churches in Cairo Thursday night, and who has been credited with first floating the “human shield” idea.
Among those shields were movie stars Adel Imam and Yousra, popular Muslim televangelist and preacher Amr Khaled, the two sons of President Hosni Mubarak, and thousands of citizens who have said they consider the attack one on Egypt as a whole.
“This is not about us and them,” said Dalia Mustafa, a student who attended mass at Virgin Mary Church on Maraashly Street. “We are one. This was an attack on Egypt as a whole, and I am standing with the Copts because the only way things will change in this country is if we come together.”
The Coptic Orthodox Church celebrates Christmas on January 7th. Coptic Christmas Eve services were last Thursday, January 6th.
H/T Patrick Archbold at Creative Minority Report
Sunday, January 9, 2011
God Doesn't Bring You to a Point in Order to Abandon You
J. Hanson at Catholic Phoenix has posted a great article about Judge John Roll, one of the victims of the Arizona shooting this past Saturday. He had recently attended a talk by Judge John Roll and had written down this quote from Judge Roll:
Thank you for sharing those very wise words with us Judge Roll, and thank you for passing it on to all of us J. Hanson.
Thanks also to Matt Bowman at CatholicVote for sharing your memories of Judge Roll with us as well.
For all the victims of the shooting, Eternal rest grant to them O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them, may they rest in peace.
H/T Fr. Leo and GNW_Paul at Plurk
God doesn't bring you to a point in order to abandon you.
Thank you for sharing those very wise words with us Judge Roll, and thank you for passing it on to all of us J. Hanson.
Thanks also to Matt Bowman at CatholicVote for sharing your memories of Judge Roll with us as well.
For all the victims of the shooting, Eternal rest grant to them O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them, may they rest in peace.
H/T Fr. Leo and GNW_Paul at Plurk
Friday, January 7, 2011
At His Feet
"The Anointing" by Stephen St. Claire
Melanie at Homestead Bread posted this at her blog as her inspiration for 2011. I have often felt like this in prayer the past year, but this image brought to my heart how His hand is always on me as well.
Lord Have Mercy on Us
For Planned Parenthood to say that they are not happy about the numbers is a complete and total lie, meant to cover for their real agenda. I pray that people are becoming wise enough to see that. The mantra of making abortion "safe and rare" is nothing but a total lie. May our Lord have mercy on us and on the whole world.
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