Houston, Texas, Mar 2, 2010 / 06:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Monday evening, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver delivered a talk at Houston Baptist University, in which he criticized President John F. Kennedy’s historic campaign speech on his faith impacting his possible presidency as “sincere, compelling, articulate – and wrong.” The archbishop called on his audience to get involved in the Christian “vocation” of being engaged in public service, at a time when religion is being increasingly ignored in the political sphere
This one almost slipped by unnoticed, but thanks to a friend I came acrossthis recent public chastisment of Nancy Pelosi by Archbishop George Niederauer of San Francisco after comments she made last month about her disagreements with Church teaching. Ms. Pelsoi, as only Ms. Pelosi can do, managed once again to completely misrepresent the faith she claims she so avidly follows.
Anyway, the news here is not Pelosi’s heretical ramblings. Those have been well documented before. The news here is that another bishop has risen to publically correct those ramblings – to make sure that the liberals no longer go unchecked when they pretend to evenagelize in the media.
The St. Michael Society is happy to report on the courage and leadership that is being shown by many of our American bishops since the Obama-Notre Dame scandal. This time, Archbishop Niederauer gets the props. If you have a moment, send him your thanks, support and prayers. (you can contact him at info@sfarchdiocese.org)
Georgetown has once again found itself treading in controversial waters.
St. Michael Society editors have learned of the University’s administrative ties to the largest abortion provider in the United States: a current nursing adjunct instructor and former vice president, both of whom served in the upper echelon of Planned Parenthood for at least a decade each.
The first comes from the University’s own paper of record, The Georgetown Voice. According to the publication’s blog “Vox Populli,” a current adjunct instructor at Georgetown’s School of Nursing and Health Studies previously worked for Planned Parenthood – as President and CEO of local Ohio and Maryland chapters and for at least 10 years.
According to her curriculum vitae (download it here), Geidner-Antoniotti was President and CEO of the Mahoning Valley Planned Parenthood from 1990 to 1997, where she increased increased donor loyalty and giving and patient numbers. She held the same job from 1998 to 2000 with Planned Parenthood’s Maryland branch and was an acting project manager with Planned Parenthood Federation of America in the interim.
More recently, she was the CFO of the Whitman-Walker Clinic and has won a host of public awards. At Georgetown, Geidner-Antoniotti is involved with strategic planning and execution
Dr. Gary Lewis Filerman, who chaired the Department of Health Systems Administration at Georgetown University until 2008, is a former Planned Parenthood vice president, according to the university’s web site. Dr. Filerman, who began to teach at Georgetown in 2000, served as the Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s vice president for international development from 1993 to 1996, as president of Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington from 1990 to 1991, and as a member of the board of directors of Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington from 1986 to 1992.
For both Geidner-Antonoitti and Filerman, that’s at least a decade each working within the upper ranks of Planned Parenthood’s management. Not exactly something Georgetown could claim to ignore as they evaluated their resumes.
It’s a chilling discovery at any time of year, but perhaps even more disturbing as we’re reminded of what Planned Parenthood has done to desecrate Christmas in their annual “Choice on Earth” campaign. More on that by Jill Stanek here, complete with fundraising email from their 2009 campaign.
This discovery also comes just months after Georgetown complied with the White House request to “cover up all signs and symbols on the wall of the state behind where the President spoke” during his April 14th address at the University. Read that story reported by CNS News online here .
Pray that St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle and help Georgetown reclaim its Catholic identity.
Human Events has posted Pat Buchanan’s latest artcle which gives a great summary of the many reasons for conservative Catholics to have much hope. Over the past several months (beginning mainly with the Notre Dame fiasco) it has been really encouraging to see so many bishops stepping up to be a strong voice for orthodoxy and to ensure that heretics are not dictating what is or what is not acceptable for Catholics to believe.
SMS highly recommends that you kick back with a glass of wine and a leftover turkey leg while you read Buchanan’s pieceover at Human Events.
With their vote last night D.C. Council members are forcing Catholics in DC to abandon their faith teachings. Supported by a hostile anti-Church media, the facts concerning the legislation are muddled. The city is saying in order to operate in DC, institutions need to be secular.
BREAKING: The pro-life movement, if they hasn’t already, is really kicking into high gear over healthcare reform and the doctors aren’t going down without a fight . Check out Dr. Sandy Christiansen and Dr. Ali Tsai, both OB-GYNs who say they will be forced to leave their profession if strong conscience protections are not put into healthcare legislation. Conscience protections were voted down in the Senate (see here) and the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has a good explanation of why this is really bad for both doctors and patients here.
The short video also makes the great point that thousands of doctors will be forced to quit if comprehensive conscience protections aren’t in healthcare legislation and then what happens when millions of new patients flood the system and there aren’t a sufficient number of doctors to care for them?
Abortion industry lobbyists and their allies in Congress are about to ram through mandated government funding of abortion in health care reform legislation possibly later THIS WEEK in the U.S. House of Representatives.
To respond swiftly to this crisis, the pro-life movement is unifying TONIGHT at 9pm ET/6pm PT on a huge nationwide webcast — and your attendance is crucial:To register, go here:http://stoptheabortionmandate.com/webcast/#register
Simply stated, if this abortion mandate is not stopped, it will result in the largest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade.
Stop the Abortion Mandatecoalition is holding the urgent webcast to educate and call to action pro-life leaders and activists nationwide regarding abortion funding in healthcare legislation.
During the live webcast, you’ll hear the latest breaking news from nationally respected leaders. Invited presenters include:
* REP. CHRIS SMITH, U.S. House of Representatives
* MARJORIE DANNENFELSER, Susan B. Anthony List
* CHARMAINE YOEST, Americans United for Life
* KRISTAN HAWKINS, Students for Life of America
* DAVID BEREIT, 40 Days for Life
* KELLYANNE CONWAY, The Polling Company
* WENDY WRIGHT, Concerned Women for America
* DOUGLAS JOHNSON, National Right to Life Committee
* KRISTEN DAY, Democrats for Life
* DR. DAVID STEVENS, Christian Medical & Dental
Associations
During the event, you will:
* Hear the LATEST UPDATES and news straight from our nation’s capital
* Learn exactly how abortion IS mandated in the proposed health care reform bills
* Discover what YOU can do about it!
Congress is preparing to debate health care reform legislation. The Catholic bishops of the United States strongly support genuine health care reform that protects the life and dignity of all, from the moment of conception until natural death. However, all current bills are seriously deficient on abortion and conscience rights, and do not yet provide adequate access to health care for immigrants and the poor.
With this link, you’ll find a special flier from the US Bishops Conference that you can share with others asking us to please contact your Representative and Senators immediately and urge them to fix these bills with pro-life amendments.
That Congress will act to ensure that needed health care reform will truly protect the life, dignity and health care of all and that we will raise our voices to protect the unborn and the most vulnerable and to preserve our freedom of conscience. We pray to the Lord.
Not holding back, that’s for sure. If any of the current healthcare bills pass as proposed, it will be the largest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade, according to National Right to Life Committee.
Many pro-life groups have put the rest of their agendas on hold to focus solely on healthcare. Several organizations formed the Stop the Abortion Mandate coalition in the summer, which held a historical webcast with 19 pro-life leaders and over 36,000 activists. The Family Research Council built on that success and had another webcast a week later with over 70,000 participants.
CatholicVote’s action center CatholicAction parodied a Hollywood video/PSA that had celebrities endorsing current healthcare reform proposals. We just love the spirit of CatholicVote ads and the creative genius behind their work.
The Susan B. Anthony List created a great video to show that politicians are just hiding behind the Hyde Amendment when they say that abortion isn’t included in healthcare legislation. In reality, the Hyde Amendment, which has to be renewed every year, doesn’t even apply to healthcare funds, only Medicaid.
Americans United for Life president Charmaine Yoest has a great column in today’s Wall Street Journal entitled “Tax Dollars Shouldn’t Fund Abortion.” She talks about how current legislation would be breaking over 30 years worth of the government not funding elective abortion. Healthcare reform, as it stands, is a radical departure from the status quo.
AUL also released a fantastic short video calling out elected officials, including President Obama, for deceiving Americans on whether or not abortion is included in healthcare.
And Freedom2Care, the coalition of groups that want conscience protections for doctors who decline to perform or refer for abortions, are focusing on the point of view of healthcare professionals. Results from an online survey reveal startling news: 95% of faith-based physicians agreed, “I would rather stop practicing medicine altogether than be forced to violate my conscience.”
While current healthcare proposals would flood the already overloaded healthcare system in America with millions more patients, all the while forcing doctors to choose between their morals or their profession, how can President Obama possibly expect Americans to receive quality and timely care if his policies will force many doctors to quit?
Several pro-life leaders all got on their webcams recently to show a united front against abortion coverage in healthcare reform. At such a crucial time in the history of our nation and in the fight to protect the unborn, these leaders are showing that we all must get involved and do it now.
What can you do? Contact your Member of Congress and tell you don’t want government dollars paying for abortions. Tell them abortion is not healthcare. And tell them you don’t want your doctor forced out of the practice of medicine.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USSCB) made it crystal clear today that current healthcare legislation does NOT mean their concerns of: 1) making sure government funds do not pay for abortions and 2) that conscience rights are protected.
It gets better.
The bishops say in this new letter that they will continue to work with Congress but -
“If final legislation does not meet our principles, we will have no choice but to oppose the bill.”
The USSCB has always advocated for some type of healthcare reform since Catholic moral teachings say that physical health is a gift entrusted to us by God. Here’s what the Catechism says:
2288: We must take reasonable care of [life and physical health], taking into account the needs of others and the common good. Concern for the health of its citizens requires that society help in the attainment of living-conditions that allow them to grow and reach maturity: food and clothing, housing, health care, basic education, employment, and social assistance. [emphasis mine]
But the killing of the unborn come above anything else, as it should. Abortion is a grave moral evil and making healthcare out to be a moral right, which many have done, should never include the government funding of such an act.
The Bishops aren’t fooled by the clever rhetoricof the Obama Administration and the phony compromisesput forth by pro-abortion Members of Congress.
St. Michael Society continues with our petition drive urging the resignation of Obama's faith based initiatives advisor Harry Knox for his attacks on Pope Benedict XVI.
Houston, Texas, Mar 2, 2010 / 06:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Monday evening, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver delivered a talk at Houston Baptist University, in which he criticized President John F. Kennedy’s historic campaign speech on his faith impacting his possible presidency as “sincere, compelling, articulate – and wrong.” The archbishop called on his audience to get involved in the Christian “vocation” of being engaged in public service, at a time when religion is being increasingly ignored in the political sphere
This one almost slipped by unnoticed, but thanks to a friend I came across
Georgetown has once again found itself treading in controversial waters.
The second was reported today by 
Human Events has posted Pat Buchanan’s latest artcle 
Abortion industry lobbyists and their allies in Congress are about to ram through mandated government funding of abortion in health care reform legislation possibly later THIS WEEK in the U.S. House of Representatives. 
forced to violate my conscience.”
The USSCB has always advocated for some type of healthcare reform since Catholic moral teachings say that physical health is a gift entrusted to us by God. Here’s what the Catechism says:
