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Ave Maria! Organizer Nellie Gray told the press that the numbers of marchers this year far exceeded last year, which was estimated at well over 300,000. That sentiment was echoed by many long-time March for Life participants. LifeSiteNews.com Ave Maria! +++ |
Ave Maria Meditations
A community that gets rid of someone—a community that is allowed to, and can, and wants to get rid of someone when he no longer is able to run around as the same attractive or useful member—has thoroughly misunderstood itself.
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Ave Maria Meditations
But the souls of the just are in the hand of God and no torment
shall touch them. They seemed, in the view of the foolish, to be
dead and their going forth from us, utter destruction. But they
are in peace…chastised a little, they shall be greatly blessed
because God tried them and found them worthy of Himself.
(Wisdom, chapter 3)
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Ave Maria! Father Angelo reflects on religious liberty after participating with the Aussies at a pro-life prayer vigil. Ave Maria! |
Ave Maria! Maggie Gallagher, Founder / President Maggie is a nationally syndicated columnist, the author of three books on marriage (including most recently with University of Chicago Prof Linda Waite “The Case for Marriage: Why Married People Are Happier, Healthier, and Better-Off Financially”), and a leading voice of the new marriage movement. National Journal named her to the 2004 list of the most influential people in the same-sex marriage debate. She appears frequently on major TV and radio and is frequently asked to lecture at colleges, universities and law schools. She has testified as an expert witness on marriage before the U.S. Senate and in various state legislatures. Her writings on marriage have appeared in The New York Times, The Weekly Standard, and the Wall Street Journal, as well as scholarly journals such as the Louisiana Law Review, and the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy. Maggie is a graduate of Yale (class of ‘82). Ave Maria! |
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A worthy encore:
Blessed Teresa of Sf. Augustine and Companions (1794) Blessed Teresa and fifteen other Carmelite nuns were guillotined during the “Reign of Terror” of the French Revolution. Two years earlier they had made an Act of Consecration by which they offered themselves as a holocaust to bring peace to the Church and the country. When they were arrested Sister Henriette exclaimed, “Let us rejoice in the joy of the Lord, that we shall die for our Holy Religion.” As each Sister ascended the guillotine, her companions sang the Veni Creator Spiritus. The normally noisy crowd was strangely silent, and a witness remarked, “They looked as if they were going to their wedding.” Within ten days of their death, the Reign of Terror ended. |
Ave Maria! We went to the Connecticut State Capitol yesterday to get the scoop on the efforts to protect religious freedom in the face of the impending vote on the same-sex ‘marriage’ bill and Peter Wolfgang of the Family Institute of CT (FIC) generously gave the Roving Reporter and interview. As predicted, the bill passed the Senate and the House but not before having some important amendments attached that at least partially protect foundational liberties thanks to the action of FIC, the Knights of Columbus, the National Organization for Marriage and the 20,000 Connecticut citizens who called their legislators. The Hartford Currant has a full story of some of the secular points but as Peter Wolfgang points out in one of the FIC’s emails:
Well, most of the points that FIC and friends pushed for were added to the amendment which had been rejected by the Judiciary Committee a few weeks earlier. A good day for liberty. Deo Gratias! Ave Maria! |
Ave Maria! We will be doing a live broadcast Tuesday, tomorrow, from the State Capitol in Hartford for the Religious Liberty Rally at 10am and the meetings to follow in room 1C of the Legislative Office Building. There we will see everyday people of faith preparing to go see their State Legislators to ask them to uphold the traditional family. We also hope to cover the debate at the State Capital on religious liberty, but are not sure if we will be able to live broadcast. Information on the Debate: Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Emerging Conflicts, What Resolutions? Tuesday, April 7 2009 12:00 PM Description: This Event Takes Place At: |
Ave Maria! Well, it was a busy day! At about 7am we found out that the Judiciary Committee headed by McDonald and Lawlor (who pushed the anti-Catholic bill sb1098 a couple of weeks ago) had another surprise hearing at 12 noon today. We were not the only ones who were surprised. Even Senators and Representatives in the same committee were surprised. This time it was to be the vote on SB899 which is the legislative codification of the Kerrigan Supreme Court of CT case that brought in same-sex ‘marriage’. We rushed to put together our live streaming equipment that was in total disarray from our live streaming of the Youth Pro-life Conference on Saturday. We threw everything into the car, including ourselves and headed off to Hartford, an hour away, only to find out that we had to wait another hour while the committee went into private caucus sessions until 1pm. Although we were caught off guard it seemed that the other side, in favor of the bill, was there in force. We are never out numbered at these events. Seems they got the word and we did not. Funny that! It was the beginning of a difficult, often nauseating day listening to Senators and Representatives squashing every single effort to protect religious liberties (except one) by pummeling those that were proposing very reasonable amendments with thousands of inane questions. The result is that we have about the same protections of our rights to conscientious objections as did Massachusetts where Catholic Charities had to cease their child adoption efforts because the state was forcing them to place kids with same sex couples. Listen to Peter Wolfgang of the Family Institute of CT summarize this disastrous day and how you can help: At least the live streaming worked well, over 1500 viewers. Ave Maria! |
The Family Institute of Connecticut is calling upon the citizens of this state and all concerned Catholics to join them in their effort to remove State Rep. Lawlor and Sen. McDonald from their Chairmanships of the Judicial Committee after their outrageous affront to the Catholic Church and religious liberty last week with Bill SB 1098 and their unrepentant and unrelenting onslaught of anti-family, anti-life bills this week. From CTFamily.org:
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Ding-Dong the suicide bill is dead. Seems Sen. McDonald and Rep. Lawlor are having their difficulties since they tried to destroy the Catholic Church in Connecticut last week. Their pet bill, SB 1138 for assisted suicide, was pulled yesterday after a huge outcry from the citizens of CT. Given this bill was probably one of their key moves in their seemingly relentless crusade for the culture of death, it shows how badly their political health has been damaged. From Senator Michael McLachlan’s blog:
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Ave Maria! Connecticut Judiciary Committee can’t seem to take a hint. Now they’ve introduced Bill 1138 for Euthanasia!! Have they totally lost their minds in Hartford??!!! Let me guess … Lawlor and McDonald. They’re the only ones with the gall to do this. If I read their site correctly, the hearing will be on Friday, March 20th 10am in LOB Room 2D. Hat tip Fr. Z |
Broadcast ended Ave Maria! See post above for more. |
[This is a re-post of an earlier video from April 2007 which has Rep. Michael Lawlor grilling Brian Brown, then Executive Director of CT Family Institute (it starts at 4:22). Lawlor, along with Andrew McDonald, is the one who recently introduced Bill #1098 that directly and brazenly attacks the authority of Catholic bishops and pastors in the state of Connecticut. In this video they debate the Same Sex Marriage bill also introduced by Lawlor and McDonald. It gives a good look at the persistent drive of Lawlor (a self-proclaimed homosexual) in trying to pin the "bigotry" label on Brian and the Catholic Church merely for opposing gay marriage. The bill died in committee so there is good reason to believe that Bishop Lori has it right when he says this bill is "a thinly-veiled attempt to silence the Catholic Church" in regard to opposing things like same sex marriage. See our post below. Brian Brown has since moved on to the the National Organization for Marriage where he spearheaded Proposition 8 against Gay Marriage in California.] Original Post: Ave Maria! This is a special AIRMARIA report on the status of religious liberty in America, relative to the ongoing push on the part of the homosexual lobby for full same-sex marriage in Connecticut. (more…) |
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