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Men of Honor: Masculinity and the Faith

Fr Angelo — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 13:59:18 +0000

Have you ever noticed the relative proportion of men to women in most Catholic Church congregations, societies, and apostolic movements? Men are not only outnumbered by women, but their relative absence is quite remarkable. There are any number of reasons suggested by social scientists, and Catholic thinkers for this fact. But the one that speaks to the real differences between men and women is that so much of what is available on the Catholic menu is contemplative and charismatic, and so little of it is missionary, evangelical and directly involved in Catholic action.

When will Catholic men, as a body, put prayer first and then translate that prayer into a program of action to reclaim society for Christ?

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Video – Fr. Angelo – Standing Fast #12: Imitating Christ the King

apostolate — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 22:44:14 +0000

Standing Fast #12 – Fr. Angelo on Christ the King and a man’s duty to put on his crown and follow Him (9min) >>> Play

Ave Maria!

In this episode of Standing Fast Fr. Angelo explains the need for men to imitate Christ the King by making use of the graces given at baptism to be Priests, Prophets and Kings. He says both men and women get these graces but men especially have the duty to be good, saintly kings in their families and society. So all you men out there, put down the Bud and the potato chips, grab your scepter and crown, and listen-up!

Ave Maria!

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Video – Roving Reporter #21: Walk for Life West Coast

apostolate — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:49:58 +0000

+++ Roving Reporter #21 – Eva Muntean on the Walk for Life West Coast (10min) >>> Play

Ave Maria! Back in June at the Catholic Family Conference in Anaheim, CA we ran into Eva Muntean from Ignatius Press and she gave us an interview about the Walk for Life West Coast of which she is Co-chair. This is the San Francisco version of the Washington, DC March for Life, but is more interesting because San Francisco is a much more left-wing town and so the pro-abort counter protesters are far more numerous, vociferous and . . . obscene than in DC. Despite all this, the Pro-lifers keep their dignified calm and the numbers keep growing into the tens of thousands. In this video we included many clips from past Walks for Life. See if you can tell the difference between the pro-life protesters and the pro-abortion counter protesters along the side. (Even after we cut out all their obscene gestures it is still easy to tell.) The 2008 DC March for Life will be on Tuesday, Jan 22, the San Francisco Walk for Life was held just last Saturday, Jan 19. Ave Maria!

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Video – Roving Reporter #28 – Joe Scheidler: The Father of Pro-Life Activism

apostolate — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:51:08 +0000

Roving Reporter #28 – Joe Scheidler – The Father of Pro-Life Activism ( 10min) >>> Play

Ave Maria! Fra Roderic recently caught up with Joe Scheidler in Chicago, the National Director of the Pro-Life Action League. In this interview, Joe speaks about his heroic fight against Planned Parenthood and the RICO laws. Ave Maria!

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Video – Roving Reporter #30: Chelsea Rankin, iFIC

apostolate — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:45:01 +0000

Roving Reporter #30 – Chelsea Rankin – an extraordinary young lady. ( 08min) >>> Play

Ave Maria!

Dare, Defy, Do! – The Family Institute of CT’s motto for the new youth wing.

Dare to make a stand; Defy low cultural expectations; Do the hard stuff!

Chelsea Rankin throws out this challenge to youth during her speech at the Pro-Family Rally at the CT State House, held on Thursday April 3rd, 2008, with the unveiling of the new youth wing of the Family Institute of CT – iFIC

Chelsea is an extraordinary young lady and you’ll definitely be hearing more of her in the future – and remember, you saw her first on AirMaria.com

Ave Maria!

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Video – Roving Reporter #36: Involuntary Organ Donation

apostolate — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:01:06 +0000

*Roving Reporter #36 – Dr Paul Byrne and ‘Presumed Intent’, involuntary organ donation ( 10min) >>> Play*

Ave Maria!

In this Roving Reporter, Dr Paul Byrne alerts us on the laws being passed by states nation wide called ‘Presumed Intent‘, which states that all persons are perspective organ donors (… or involuntary organ donors) unless the individual declares otherwise, under the guise of ‘brain death’.

For status of the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act

Ave Maria!

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Franciscan Archbishop Speaks-out … Again

apostolate — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:54:24 +0000

Archbishop Charles Chaput, OFM Cap., Denver

Excerpts from Archbishop Chaput’s Address to ENDOW
(Educating on the Nature and Dignity of Women) on October 17:

“Professor Kmiec argues that there are defensible motives to support Senator Obama. Speaking for myself, I do not know any proportionate reason that could outweigh more than 40 million unborn children killed by abortion and the many millions of women deeply wounded by the loss and regret abortion creates.”

“To suggest – as some Catholics do – that Senator Obama is this year’s ”real” prolife candidate requires a peculiar kind of self-hypnosis, or moral confusion, or worse. To portray the 2008 Democratic Party presidential ticket as the preferred ”prolife” option is to subvert what the word ”prolife” means.”

“And here’s the irony. None of the Catholic arguments advanced in favor of Senator Obama are new. They’ve been around, in one form or another, for more than 25 years. All of them seek to ”get beyond” abortion, or economically reduce the number of abortions, or create a better society where abortion won’t be necessary. All of them involve a misuse of the seamless garment imagery in Catholic social teaching. And all of them, in practice, seek to contextualize, demote and then counterbalance the evil of abortion with other important but less foundational social issues.”

“Meanwhile, the basic human rights violation at the heart of abortion – the intentional destruction of an innocent, developing human life – is wordsmithed away as a terrible crime that just can’t be fixed by the law. I don’t believe that. I think that argument is a fraud. And I don’t think any serious believer can accept that argument without damaging his or her credibility. We still have more than a million abortions a year, and we can’t blame them all on Republican social policies. After all, it was a Democratic president, not a Republican, who vetoed the partial birth abortion ban – twice.”

The truth is that for some Catholics, the abortion issue has never been a comfortable cause. It’s embarrassing. It’s not the kind of social justice they like to talk about. It interferes with their natural political alliances. And because the homicides involved in abortion are ”little murders” – the kind of private, legally protected murders that kill conveniently unseen lives – it’s easy to look the other way.”

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News – 2008 a Year of Contradiction

apostolate — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:23:46 +0000

Ave Maria!

For a clear and concise overview of the state of Catholicism in the light of the 2008 elections and the history of moral relativism in the US the Mindszenty Report for December 2008 is a must read, all in just three pages! Oh, and Happy 50th anniversary to the Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation!

Ave Maria!

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Video – Roving Reporter: Lila Rose – Pro-Life Activist Extraordinaire

apostolate — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:05:26 +0000

Roving Reporter #57 – CAUTION GRAPHIC MATERIAL ( 07min) >>> Play

Ave Maria!

Our Roving Reporter caught up with the amazingly successful Pro-Life Activist, Lila Rose, at the Liaison Hotel in Downtown DC last week. In fact, Lila is so successful as a Pro-Life activist she has gained national media coverage, some of her videos exposing malpractices by Planned Parenthood have been withdrawn from YouTube, and her picture is even being displayed in some Planned Parenthood facilities warning staff about her undercover activities – all this and she is only 20 years old – wow! And to top all this off – she is currently part of an RCIA program and will soon be received into the Holy Catholic Church.

Ave Maria!

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News – Rally and Debate on Religious Liberty at State Capitol

apostolate — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:59:01 +0000

Ave Maria!

We live streamed the Religious Liberty Rally and Debate at the State Capitol of Connecticut in Hartford today. It was a rally that was announced by FIC on short notice due to the unprecedented onslaught of anti-family legislation introduced by the Judicial Committee in the last few weeks, so the crowds were low, but even still there were over 125 people on this cold, cloudy, spring weekday. The talks were very inspirational with Peter Wolfgang of FIC, Sen Michael McLachlan, Rep. Bruce Morris, and Rev. Eric Thompson. After the rally there was a well attended debate held by the Federalist Society between Prof. Susan Schmeiser/UConn Law and Prof. Robin Wilson/Washington & Lee Law at the Capitol Building. Although the debate was not very stimulating since both debaters were largely in agreement, they did discuss the very timely issues of how to apply the Kerrigan Supreme Court Case that gave CT same-sex marriage. A very informative Day.

Listen to Peter Wolfgang of the Family Institute of CT give his synopsis of today’s events. (We are still working on improving the quality of the recording while doing live streaming, so bear with us. The audio suffered some bad distortion at first but it gets a bit better latter in the video.)

We will post some links to the other videos soon.

Ave Maria!

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