Sep 06 – Homily – Fr Bonaventure: God’s Providential Care
Monday, September 6th, 2010
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Audio (MP3)Video – Face of Pro-Life #99: Carolyn’s Place
Monday, June 14th, 2010
Ave Maria! Ginny Baudinet and Ellen Cavallo gives us a view of Carolyn’s Place a pregnancy care center in Waterbury which started in 1992 after a baby was left on doorsteps of their parish. Since 2007 they have there own place which provides many services:
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Video – Face of Pro-Life #97: Sustinet: Connecticut Health Care
Sunday, April 4th, 2010
Susan Boyce discusses Sustinet, a new Connecticut State Health care Plan, an apparently good-looking plan which is in fact very problematic, being a means of control, an expansion of bureaucracy. Due to the signing of the National Health Care Bill the vote on this will be accelerated to the end of May, 2010, this law will be pushed to a vote at the state legislature. But nobody knows about it and therefore it would be a mere ceremony in making it the law. Susan shows how Sustinet goes beyond the National Health Care plan. The Yankee Institute of Public Policy is a nonpartisan think tank at Trinity College. They have published the only professional rebuttal of SustiNet’s claims. Here is a link: http://www.yankeeinstitute.org/2010/03/obamacare-for-ct-to-bust-budget/ and http://www.yankeeinstitute.org/docs/20100302.pdf Ave Maria! +++ The Yankee Institute of Public Policy is a nonpartisan think tank at Trinity College. They have published the only professional rebuttal of SustiNet's claims. Here is a link: http://www.yankeeinstitute.org/2010/03/obamacare-for-ct-to-bust-budget/ and http://www.yankeeinstitute.org/docs/20100302.pdf |
Video – Face of Pro-Life #88: Susan Boyce on Health Care in CT Pt 1
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Ave Maria! Susan Boyce outlines with Corinn Dahm the health care plan for Connecticut that is very similar to the enormously unpopular plan proposed by President Obama that failed on a federal level. The mass media is not talking about this but it is already passed by the state congress who even overrode a veto by Governor Rell. Listen as Susan itemizes the many problems of the plan including, Obesity Task Forces, more bureaucracy, more taxes, less privacy and freedom, automatic enrollment at least once a year and usually more often. And the plan does not do any of the needed improvements like law suit reform that would truly reduce medical costs. All of these extra costs are being proposed when the state budget in has record deficits. Ave Maria! +++ |
Video – Face of Pro-Life #89: Susan Boyce Federal Health Care Not Dead Yet
Sunday, February 14th, 2010
Ave Maria! Susan Boyce explains how the federal health care plan which seems to have been defeated when Scott Brown won the late Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat in Massachusetts is not at all defeated and still needs to be vigorously opposed. There is a real danger of stealth efforts to bypass normal rules by sneaking it into reconciliation without bringing it past the new senator. She further outlines the many problems that still exist in the plan, including half a trillion of new spending that will increase costs and taxes on employers reducing the number of jobs, unelected boards with unprecedented powers to dictate what gets funded, who gets health care or not. There are many indications that this rationing will be based on how ‘useful’ you are to society, similar to the Nazis. It would also be a blow to religious freedoms due to the lack of conscience clauses in regard to abortion and abortifacients, mandated home visits, government oversight of marriage counseling. And, of course, abortion funding is still in the plan. Ave Maria! +++ |
Video – Face of Pro-Life #82: Leticia Velasquez K.I.D.S.
Sunday, January 10th, 2010
Ave Maria! Leticia Velasquez tells her plight on the difficulties of finding health care for her child Christa who has Down Syndrome. In her effort to look out for her child and help others in the same situation she started an organization called K.I.D.S. for Keep Infants with Down Syndrome. The group especially tries to encourage expectant mothers who have a pre-born child diagnosed with Down to keep their child in the face of tremendous pressure from their medical community, family and friends to have an abortion. She focuses on the joys of having one of these special children and how they go down to Washington DC each year for the March for Life. You can read her blog: and Facebook:  Last year’s K.I.D.S. trip to March for Life in DC! Ave Maria! +++ |
Video – Face Pro-Life #81: Susan Boyce – Health Care and Catholic Principles
Friday, January 8th, 2010
Ave Maria! Susan Boyce discusses how the proposed Health Care is against the Catholic social principle of Subsidiarity. Bishops are doing good by fighting for the Stupac Amendment but ignore the fact that it is against the Catholic principle of subsidiarity where the smallest organization should take care of any given issue and only go to a state or national organization if this is needed. She mentions how the bill saddles us with too high of a tax burden, and bureaucratic institutions that are too large. As such, once it passes it will be hard to get rid of. She praises two bishops in Kansas City who are are advocating opposition of the bill because it does not achieve the Catholic balance of not being too individualistic nor too socialistic. Sources referenced in the talk: The Kansas City Bishops’ Pastoral Letter: Solidarity vs. Subsidiarity: Raymond Arroyo’s Seen & Unseen: Msgr Barreiro’s Commentary from HLI Politico’s article: Ave Maria! |
