Friday, 1 February 2013
Do not believe any of the press releases on changes to Obamacare
Lies are in the press concerning the health care bill. There is going to be only a small group which will qualify for the changes, as I see it. Read and be careful. The administration is spinning this to confuse people.
Statement of Michael P. Warsaw, President and Chief Executive Officer of EWTN Global Catholic Network in response to Notice of Proposed Rulemaking by the US Government on the HHS Contraceptive Services Mandate Issued Friday, February 1, 2013:
From EWTN
"This morning the US Department of Health and Human Services issued a notice of proposed rulemaking on the government mandate that employee health plans must provide contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs as part of their coverage. On February 9, 2012, EWTN was the first organization to file a lawsuit challenging this mandate shortly after the original rules were promulgated by the government. That lawsuit is still pending in the US District Court in Birmingham, Alabama.
We have analyzed today's notice with our legal team from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and the initial conclusions are not promising. First, this is simply a notice of a proposed rule; it is not an actual rule that changes anything. Second, while the proposed rules might expand the mandate's religious exemption for some organizations affiliated directly with the Church, it does not appear that EWTN will qualify for this exemption. Third, the proposed rules have not dealt with the concerns of self-insured health plans like EWTN's. Today's notice from the government simply kicks this can further down the road.
Sadly, throughout this proposed rule, the government continues to make the erroneous assertion that contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs are health care. They are not.
We will continue to study this notice with our attorneys, but are highly doubtful it will provide EWTN with any relief from this immoral mandate. EWTN remains firmly committed to pressing forward with our case in the Federal Courts and will take all steps necessary to challenge this unjust mandate."
Statement of Michael P. Warsaw, President and Chief Executive Officer of EWTN Global Catholic Network in response to Notice of Proposed Rulemaking by the US Government on the HHS Contraceptive Services Mandate Issued Friday, February 1, 2013:
From EWTN
"This morning the US Department of Health and Human Services issued a notice of proposed rulemaking on the government mandate that employee health plans must provide contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs as part of their coverage. On February 9, 2012, EWTN was the first organization to file a lawsuit challenging this mandate shortly after the original rules were promulgated by the government. That lawsuit is still pending in the US District Court in Birmingham, Alabama.
We have analyzed today's notice with our legal team from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and the initial conclusions are not promising. First, this is simply a notice of a proposed rule; it is not an actual rule that changes anything. Second, while the proposed rules might expand the mandate's religious exemption for some organizations affiliated directly with the Church, it does not appear that EWTN will qualify for this exemption. Third, the proposed rules have not dealt with the concerns of self-insured health plans like EWTN's. Today's notice from the government simply kicks this can further down the road.
Sadly, throughout this proposed rule, the government continues to make the erroneous assertion that contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs are health care. They are not.
We will continue to study this notice with our attorneys, but are highly doubtful it will provide EWTN with any relief from this immoral mandate. EWTN remains firmly committed to pressing forward with our case in the Federal Courts and will take all steps necessary to challenge this unjust mandate."
Last reference to The Dialogues and other writings of St. Catherine of Siena
In some translations of her treatises and Dialogue, the sins referred by Christ regarding His priests point to the fact that if these men said the Mass properly, not mumbling, they knew that they would be creating a sacrilege.
Some things have not changed, but we should be so scandalized....
"The fruits of this death-giving tree, are as diverse as sins are diverse. See that some of these fruits are the food of beasts who live impurely, using their body and their mind like a swine who wallows in mud, for in the same way they wallow in the mire of sensuality.
"Oh, ugly soul, where have you left your dignity? You were made sister to the angels, and now you are become a brute beast. To such misery come sinners, notwithstanding that they are sustained by Me, who am Supreme Purity, notwithstanding that the very devils, whose friends and servants they have become, cannot endure the sight of such filthy actions.
"Neither does any sin, abominable as it may be, take away the light of the intellect from man, so much as does this one. This the philosophers knew, not by the light of grace, because they had it not, but because nature gave them the light to know that this sin obscured the intellect, and for that reason they preserved themselves in continence the better to study.
"Thus also they flung away their riches in order that the thought of them should not occupy their heart. Not so does the ignorant and false Christian, who has lost grace by sin."
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"What I say of the universal body and the mystical body of the Holy Church (that is to say the Christian religion) I also say of My ministers, who stand and feed at the breasts of Holy Church; and, not only should they feed themselves, but it is also their duty to feed and hold to those breasts the universal body of Christian people, and also any other people who should wish to leave the darkness of their infidelity, and bind themselves as members to My Church.
"See then with what ignorance and darkness, and ingratitude, are administered, and with what filthy hands are handled this glorious milk and blood of My spouse, and with what presumption and irreverence they are received. Wherefore, that which really gives life, often gives, through the defects of those who receive it, death; that is to say, the precious Blood of My only-begotten Son, which destroyed death and darkness, and gave life and truth, and confounded falsehood.
"For I give this Blood and use It for salvation and perfection in the case of that man who disposes himself properly to receive it, for It gives life and adorns the soul with every grace, in proportion to the disposition and affection of him who receives It; similarly It gives death to him who receives It unworthily, living in iniquity and in the darkness of mortal sin; to him, I say, It gives death and not life; not through defect of the Blood, nor through defect of the minister, though there might be great evil in him, because his evil would not spoil nor defile the Blood nor diminish Its grace and virtue, nor does an evil minister do harm to him to whom he gives the Blood, but to himself he does the harm of guilt, which will be followed by punishment, unless he correct himself with contrition and repentance.
And one of her letters to the Pope Gregory XI in Avignon: http://www.britannica.com/women/article-9404147
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Third selection of message to St. Catherine Siena from Christ
"I have shown to the eye of your intellect a very small part of what happens, and so
small is what I have shown you with regard to what it really is, to the suffering, that
is, of the one, and the happiness of the other, that it is but a trifle. See how great is
the blindness of man, and in particular of these ministers, for the more they have
received of Me, and the more they are enlightened by the Holy Scripture, the greater
are their obligations and more intolerable confusion do they receive for not
fulfilling them; the more they knew of Holy Scripture during their life, the better do
they know at their death the great sins they have committed, and their torments are
greater than those of others, just as good men are placed in a higher degree of
excellence. Theirs is the fate of the false Christian, who is placed in Hell in greater
torment than a pagan, because he had the light of faith and renounced it, while the
pagan never had it.
"So these wretches will be punished more than other Christians for the same sin, on
account of the ministry which I entrusted to them, appointing them to administer
the sun of the holy Sacrament, and because they had the light of science, in order to
discern the truth both for themselves and others had they wished to; wherefore they
justly receive the greater pains. But the wretches do not know this, for did they
consider their state at all, they would not come to such misery, but would be that
which they ought to be and are not. For the whole world has thus become corrupt,
they being much more guilty than seculars, according to their state; for with their
stench they defile the face of their soul, and corrupt their subjects, and suck the
blood from My spouse, that is, the holy Church, wherefore through these sins they
make her grow pale, because they divert to themselves the love and charity which
they should have to this divine spouse, and think of nothing but stripping her for
their own advantage, seizing prelacies, and great properties, when they ought to be
seeking souls. Wherefore through their evil life, seculars become irreverent and
disobedient to the holy Church, not that they ought on that account to do so, or that
their sins are excused through the sins of My ministers." Diallogues
Second selection from St. Catherine of Siena on bad priests
Because of the news from Los Angeles...
So, were the prelate, or any other lord having
subjects, on seeing one putrefying from the corruption of mortal sin, to apply to him
the ointment of soft words of encouragement alone, without reproof, he would
never cure him, but the putrefaction would rather spread to the other members,
who, with him, form one body under the same pastor. But if he were a physician,
good and true to those souls, as were those glorious pastors of old, he would not
give salving ointment without the fire of reproof. And, were the member still to
remain obstinate in his evil doing, he would cut him off from the congregation in
order that he corrupt not the other members with the putrefaction of mortal sin.
But they act not so today, but, in cases of evil doing, they even pretend not to see.
And do you know why? The root of self-love is alive in them, wherefore they bear
perverted and servile fear. Because they fear to lose their position or their temporal
goods, or their prelacy, they do not correct, but act like blind ones, in that they see
not the real way by which their position is to be kept. If they would only see that it is
by holy justice they would be able to maintain it; but they do not, because they are
deprived of light. But, thinking to preserve their position with injustice, they do not
reprove the faults of those under them; and they are deluded by their own sensitive
self-love, or by their desire for lordship and prelacy, and they correct not the faults
they should correct in others, because the same or greater ones are their own. They
feel themselves comprehended in the guilt, and they therefore lose all ardor and
security, and, fettered by servile fear, they make believe not to see. And, moreover, if
they do see they do not correct, but allow themselves to be bound over with
flattering words and with many presents, and they themselves find the excuse for
the guilty ones not to be punished. In such as these are fulfilled the words spoken by
My Truth, saying: 'These are blind and leaders of the blind, and if the blind lead the
blind, they both fall into the ditch.'
For those who do not have the time...........Obamacare bits
Effective August 1, 2012
- All new plans must cover certain preventive services such as mammograms and colonoscopies without charging a deductible, co-pay or coinsurance. Women's Preventive Services – including: well-woman visits; gestational diabetes screening; human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA testing for women age 30 and older; sexually transmitted infection counseling; human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) screening and counseling; FDA-approved contraceptive methods and contraceptive counseling; breastfeeding support, supplies and counseling; and domestic violence screening and counseling - will be covered without cost sharing.[87] This is also known as the contraceptive mandate.[64][88][89]
Obamacare already in effect....off the link in the last post here. And coming persecutions.........
Effective by August 1, 2013
- Religious organizations that were given an extra year to implement the contraceptive mandate are no longer exempt. Certain non-exempt, non-grandfathered group health plans established and maintained by non-profit organizations with religious objections to covering contraceptive services may take advantage of a one-year enforcement safe harbor (i.e., until the first plan year beginning on or after August 1, 2013) by timely satisfying certain requirements set forth by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.[99]
Try again, stages four and five of persecution
I have written this post before..
Stages four and five of persecution are clear. We are in stage four in the States and entering into it in Great Britain.
Stage Four is criminalization. I tried to explain this to my seminarian students right before Obamacare was passed in the House and Senate-- and Stupek caved in, December 24th, 2009. America changed that day. If one wants a dummy view of what will come--check out this plan of action and fill in the spaces.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act
Fines for disobeying state laws, such as in the Reformation, will be common.
Obamacare. SSM
Fines for teaching the truth will be imposed.
Bishop Henry of Calgary was fined years ago for teaching against homosexuality and civil marriage.
Being put out of business. Loss of status.
Catholic pharmacists in Illinois with consciences had to leave their jobs rather than pass out abortifactients and birth control pills. Catholic medical students have to leave certain courses at certain universities which are required-abortion classes which do the real thing--and move to other universities. I know this.
Adoption agencies in England and in the US, which will not allow same-sex couples to adopt, and rightly so.
33% of the hospitals in the States are Catholic. They will go out of business or go under secular control.
Imprisonment for hate speech, loss of status and jobs, (which some in academia have already experienced for standing up for Catholic truths in Catholic institutions-I have many examples).
And so, on
Why are people in denial about this?
Stage five is out and out murder.
It will be worse in America as the government is more organized and the populace more stupid and naive.
America will see organized imprisonment and death. Europe will fall into scape-goating and kill when things fall apart out of spite.
All we need is a crisis and one which can be manipulated. Hitler used inflation and unemployment to stir up the simmering hatred of the Jews. All we need is one stupid, orchestrated event.........
All this has happened before....Two out of three Jews in Europe were killed in the Holocaust. The population of the Jews now would be three times greater had there been no Holocaust.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090422121852.htm
.http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/jewpop.html
Trying to be patient............the missing articles rewritten on persecution.-stages four and five
I am presenting these in a backward looking manner. Stages one, two and three are long gone. I shall show stages one and two after four and five.
Step three is in the last post, but I shall recreate one, two, four and five today. I think we are entering into stage four. Here is my link for three on my blog. I wrote that one in January, 2012
http://supertradmum-etheldredasplace.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/beginning-of-gulag-in-america.html
Stage Four includes the outlawing of certain activities and the targeting of a group in jobs and positions. I am indebted to several sites for this information, noted at the end of the quotations.
What you have to understand is that the Holocaust did not just happen. Years and years of propaganda and hatred, plus the loss of critical thinking among the German people under Bismarck's changes in education, created a compliant people. Here are a few highlights of article for Stage Four.
In 1933, new German laws forced Jews out of their civil service jobs, university and law court positions, and other areas of public life. In April 1933, laws proclaimed at Nuremberg made Jews second-class citizens. These Nuremberg Laws defined Jews, not by their religion or by how they wanted to identify themselves, but by the religious affiliation of their grandparents. Between 1937 and 1939, new anti-Jewish regulations segregated Jews further and made daily life very difficult for them. Jews could not attend public schools; go to theaters, cinema, or vacation resorts; or reside or even walk in certain sections of German cities.
Also between 1937 and 1939, Jews increasingly were forced from Germany's economic life. The Nazis either seized Jewish businesses and properties outright or forced Jews to sell them at bargain prices. In November 1938, the Nazis organized a riot (pogrom), known as Kristallnacht (the "Night of Broken Glass"). This attack against German and Austrian Jews included the physical destruction of synagogues and Jewish-owned stores, the arrest of Jewish men, the vandalization of homes, and the murder of individuals.
And from a great site, from talks in 1998 on the stages of persecution of the Jews.
This would be the beginning of stage five.
There were other stories that, despite containing quite chilling information, were treated in a rather perfunctory fashion. For example, in the summer of 1944 the New York Times carried a story concerning the deportation of Jews form Hungary. Significant details were available by this time. The short article, which was appended to another article concerning the evacuation of Hungarian children from Budapest because of bombing campaigns, reported that Jews had been deported from various areas in Hungary and “will arrive in Auschwitz and Birkenau by this weekend” where, if previous schedules are adhered to, they will go “directly to the gassing halls...to expedite matters.” The most striking about this article is, of course, that it is in the future tense. This had not yet happened. It was about to happen.
Let me close by citing yet another story from the New York Times. It is, despite its brevity, one of the most powerful I confronted in my research. It was one of the few articles to appear on the front page of this paper. It appeared on April 22, 1943 -- which, we might note, happened to be during the middle days of the Passover festival. It was placed at the top of the page. The headline read: “SECRET POLISH RADIO ASKS AID, CUT OFF.”
Stockholm, Sweden April 21: The secret Polish radio appealed for help tonight in a broadcast from Poland and then suddenly the station went dead. The broadcast, as heard here said, the last thirty five thousand Jews in the ghetto at Warsaw have been condemned to execution. Warsaw again is echoing to musketry volleys. The people are murdered. Women and children defend themselves with their naked arms. Save us...”
Let me close by citing yet another story from the New York Times. It is, despite its brevity, one of the most powerful I confronted in my research. It was one of the few articles to appear on the front page of this paper. It appeared on April 22, 1943 -- which, we might note, happened to be during the middle days of the Passover festival. It was placed at the top of the page. The headline read: “SECRET POLISH RADIO ASKS AID, CUT OFF.”
Stockholm, Sweden April 21: The secret Polish radio appealed for help tonight in a broadcast from Poland and then suddenly the station went dead. The broadcast, as heard here said, the last thirty five thousand Jews in the ghetto at Warsaw have been condemned to execution. Warsaw again is echoing to musketry volleys. The people are murdered. Women and children defend themselves with their naked arms. Save us...”
http://www.ushmm.org/genocide/analysis/details.php?content=1998-12-10-01
After that was chaos and one of the greatest evils witnessed by humankind--the massacre of six million Jews.
To be continued...
An old combination of evils
A long time ago, a good TLM priest told me to look at the connection between liturgical abuse and sexual abuse. I did and I do.
I shall write more on this tomorrow. I knew about this years ago, as my diocese was one of the worst areas for both sexual and liturgical abuses.
To be continued...series on St. Catherine's writings regarding bad priests.............
http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/there-is-no-excuse-in-la-defcon-5.html
http://www.realclearreligion.org/articles/2013/01/25/cardinal_mahonys_la_cosa_nostra.html
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/01/archbishop-takes-action-on-mahony-curry-over-abuse-scandal.html
I shall write more on this tomorrow. I knew about this years ago, as my diocese was one of the worst areas for both sexual and liturgical abuses.
To be continued...series on St. Catherine's writings regarding bad priests.............
http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/there-is-no-excuse-in-la-defcon-5.html
http://www.realclearreligion.org/articles/2013/01/25/cardinal_mahonys_la_cosa_nostra.html
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/01/archbishop-takes-action-on-mahony-curry-over-abuse-scandal.html
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Long gone is stage two of persecution
Stage Two is the vilification of Catholics.
Again, this happened years ago in America, with the Ku klux Klan and Masons printing anti-Catholic material, as well as other Protestant groups, such as the old "Chick" cartoon anti-Christ literature which was being passed around as late at the 1980s on college campuses.
Vilification is not subtle. It is obvious, but the ostriches want to keep denying these cultural movements.
Sadly, with the ending of the studies of Western Civilization and even American History in US high schools, and the ending of Western Civilization in high schools in GB, this vilification became worse and worse without the context of history.
I strongly disagreed with Bl. John Paul II's apologies concerning some things in our Catholic past, as these merely added to the vilification and did not end such weak thinking.
If one grew up as I did in the Lutheran Midwest, vilification included out and out prejudice and hatred of the Pope as the Anti-Christ. Not new, long gone on to the next stages.
The fact that the Pope's effigy is still burned in Lewes every year is yet another indication of this hatred which has allowed to fester in England. Why is it that such things still happen on Guy Fawke's Day? Vilification. And, a very old custom allowed to go on and on...............
Catholics who are weak-minded have allowed these types of pre-persecution ideas to simmer in the culture.
So too, Bismarck and others took advantage of simmering anti-Semitism.
To be continued................
Stages one, two and three in persecution--stage one-long gone
As I am the one who has to rewrite my own ideas, I am trying to be patient with myself.
Stages one, two and three in the United States and Europe are long gone. The beginnings of stage one are in the educational systems of government led and controlled education. This is one reason I home schooled, to avoid propaganda in the schools forming my son's character and soul. Again, see my link for stage three on my blog.
Bismarck knew what he was doing. Create an unthinking populace and feed the prejudices which are already there. Put steroids into ancient hatreds. The stage is the stereotyping stage. We Catholics have ALWAYS been stereotyped in the US and in GB and since Humanae Vitae, even more so. We are the pro-life loonies, the insensitive one who do not care about women's reproductive rights, or the rights of gays. We are homophobic, etc.
This type of criticism, nay, hatred is old, very old.
There are some errors of history on one link I gave you, labelled 1933-1939. The author there does not go back far enough into German history to show the strength and persistence of anti-Semitism which led to the Holocaust.
The book, Hitler's Willing Executioners, which I read ages ago, needs to be reread by this generation. If you have not read this, do so.
I do not want to get into an argument about this book, but to read it is to understand a longer and larger process. The author's research is superb.
The problem with stage one is that it is subtle. Changing text books, reducing classical education, using coloring books in schools to make a political point
I knew a woman in Indiana, the first woman representative in that states' legislature, who single-handedly stopped homosexual propaganda in colouring books from going into the public schools as early as 1981.
Margaret Sanger had a two-page spread in high school public school history books as early as 2000, while one paragraph sufficed to cover General Robert E. Lee. I have studied these trends in education myself. I had such books in my hand in 2000.
Not new and parents were asleep.
No excuses. If I could find out this information as early as 1981, all persons could, and I was single and in university, years away from marriage and child-bearing.
Marx, Engles, Dewey, Bismarck. etc.
Read my stuff on Gramsci (and there will be more from him this weekend on the blog).
Here is the biography, or rather, autobiography of that author.
On Persecution...and lost posts
Last Spring, I wrote about Fr. Esper's presentation on television from his book on persecution. These were the steps he outlined. Sadly, I lost some posts in an error on the blog, so the original article is gone. He was on the EWTN series, Women of Grace.
Now, sadly, some of the weird websites into false revelations and hysteria have picked his ideas up. Please avoid those websites. The original research goes back to psychologists studying the holocaust after WWII and coming up with five steps for persecution.
I also looked at this author. Obviously, he is on amazon.com
I repeat some of the information here. These are various ways to say the same thing.
(1) Stereotyping the targeted group;
(2) Vilifying the targeted group for alleged crimes or misconduct;
(3) Marginalizing the targeted group’s role in society;
(4)Criminalizing the targeted group or its works;
(5) Persecuting the targeted group outright.
I think we are in stage four.
Catholics who refuse to face the reality of new laws in GB and the USA should be directed to the myriad posts I have on persecution. Just type in that tag in search.
Here are only a few of my articles: read and think, please.
http://supertradmum-etheldredasplace.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/kristallnacht-and-lukewarm-war.html
http://supertradmum-etheldredasplace.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/switch-in-attitude.html
http://supertradmum-etheldredasplace.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/beginning-of-gulag-in-america.html
Now, sadly, some of the weird websites into false revelations and hysteria have picked his ideas up. Please avoid those websites. The original research goes back to psychologists studying the holocaust after WWII and coming up with five steps for persecution.
I also looked at this author. Obviously, he is on amazon.com
I repeat some of the information here. These are various ways to say the same thing.
(1) Stereotyping the targeted group;
(2) Vilifying the targeted group for alleged crimes or misconduct;
(3) Marginalizing the targeted group’s role in society;
(4)Criminalizing the targeted group or its works;
(5) Persecuting the targeted group outright.
I think we are in stage four.
Catholics who refuse to face the reality of new laws in GB and the USA should be directed to the myriad posts I have on persecution. Just type in that tag in search.
Here are only a few of my articles: read and think, please.
http://supertradmum-etheldredasplace.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/kristallnacht-and-lukewarm-war.html
http://supertradmum-etheldredasplace.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/switch-in-attitude.html
http://supertradmum-etheldredasplace.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/beginning-of-gulag-in-america.html
Boycott Facebook
Please adults and students and teens, get off facebook. I am not putting on a link, because it is soft-porn but just go to the Daily Beast and read about the new app for sex.
I am sorry, but it is time for Christians and Catholics to pull the plug on facebook. It is not necessary. We can use other means of communication.
I am asking seminarians, priests and nuns to consider boycotting facebook. The evil outweighs the good.
I am sorry, but it is time for Christians and Catholics to pull the plug on facebook. It is not necessary. We can use other means of communication.
I am asking seminarians, priests and nuns to consider boycotting facebook. The evil outweighs the good.
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“It not being My will that they should be in this state, you should pray for them, and not judge them, leaving their judgment to Me. And I, moved by your prayers, will do them mercy if they will only receive it, but if they do not correct their life, their dignity will be the cause of their ruin. For if they do not accept the breadth of My mercy, I, the Supreme Judge, shall terribly condemn them at their last extremity, and they will be sent to the eternal fire.”