The World's Toughest Catholic Quiz

Here is an article written by Karl Keating in the February 1993 "This Rock" magazine. I thought it was pretty fun so I will link the quiz for you to take. I got 14 correct, how will you do on "The World's Toughest Catholic Quiz?"

Here it is:

http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/1993/9302fea1.asp

Scared Liberals

Wow, the liberals are wiggin’ out all over the place after hearing about the retirement of Sandra Day O’Conner. There was an article about the next nominee for the Supreme Court on “The Drudge Report” and quoted a democrat saying “we are at war” and mocking the filibuster agreement from earlier this year.

Let me tell you, this is gonna be a tuff one. The liberals are going to fight this tooth and nail, because the courts and activist judges are all they have left to push their leftist agenda that, quite frankly, the rest of America is fed up with. If anything, when you look at the President Bush’s low approval rating right now, this should prove the election was about values. There isn’t much that has changed since his re-election, if anything things have actually gotten better. So, the liberal media is either attempting to undermine President Bush’s ability to get the job done or, the people who voted for him actually voted for the person that held the same beliefs and core values that most of this country shares. They are tired of the garbage being shoved down their throats by these extreme liberals that hide behind a biased press that sugar coats a horribly corrupt agenda that continues to threaten the very beliefs that this great county was founded upon.

This is where my anxiety kicks in a little. I have a fear that the constant barrage that the republicans take in the media may be taking its toll. I don’t see the same fight in their eyes that the liberals have been showing. I feel they may sway somewhat from the core moral values that got most of them elected, in favor for some kind words in the press. Let’s hope and pray that this isn’t the case. A little written or verbal nudging may not hurt either! So, get ready to contact your local, state and national representatives to respectively remind them of what they need to do to represent the morals of the mainstream Americans that have been too quiet for too long.

I am attaching a website that should be able to link you to all of the government contacts needed.

Link here.

God Bless and keep on prayin'.

Justice For A Justice

So, the Supreme Court has decided that is o.k. for the government to come in and take the land of one private owner and give it to another, if there is a tax base or economic benefit. Well, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander, right? A private developer is using the new eminent domain law to (I love this!) take the land owned by Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, who voted in favor of the new law.

The development will be called, “The Lost Liberty Hotel” featuring the “Just Desserts Café” plus much more.

This is supposed to be real and not a joke, so get the full story here:

http://www.freestarmedia.com/hotellostliberty2.html

On A Lighter Note

Here is an e-mail joke I thought I would share:


One Sunday morning, the pastor noticed little Alex was staring up at the large plaque that hung in the foyer of the church. It was covered with names, and small American flags were mounted on either side of it.

The seven year-old had been staring at the plaque for some time, so then pastor walked up, stood beside the little boy, and said quietly, "Good morning, Alex." "Good morning, Pastor," replied the young man, still focused on the plaque.

"Pastor, what is this?" "Well, son, it's a memorial to all the young men and women who died in the service."

Soberly, they stood together, staring at the large plaque. Little Alex's voice was barely audible, trembling with fear, when he asked, "Which service? Morning or afternoon?"


C'mon, it's a little funny, right?

That Was Sex... This Is Now

Madonna evidently regrets her “sexual” history now that she is a mother and currently writing children’s books. Here is an opportunity to show the young people today how, even with her millions, Madonna cannot undo the past. The children today are facing daily moral decisions that are imaginable. It’s a tuff world out there for teenagers and the ongoing sexual revolution. Maybe this will help some of them to notice you can’t “undo” some things in life, and an “everybody is doing it” decision today may have to be explained to little eyes that will view you as the perfect person tomorrow. I know a lot of parents try and explain that to their kids now but, who do you think you are? Madonna!

Madonna regrets sexy past
June 13, 2005 8:19 AM EDT

Pop superstar MADONNA regrets letting her ego get the better of her during the 1980s and early 1990s - because she now wishes she hadn't been so raunchy. The MATERIAL GIRL became famous for pushing the boundaries of what was sexually acceptable behaviour in a mainstream pop star. But the 46-year-old, who now has two children and is married to film-maker GUY RICHIE, admits she was courting publicity for all the wrong reasons. She says, "Sometimes I was being overtly sexual for the sake of showing off when I didn't need to be. I think I hurt myself. "Ultimately none of us wants to be judged, or approved of, or loved because of the way we look, or how sexy we are. "One minute I was saying believe in yourself and the next minute I was saying just be sexually provocative for the sake of being sexually provocative. "I was letting it pump my ego, thinking aren't I great, they're writing about me, my picture's on the cover of every magazine, I'm so fabulous." (GES/WNTMA/CM)

Let Us Give Thanks

I just read Karl Keating’s e-letter and he has put some letters people have written conveying their displeasure in our new Holy Father. One of these letters complains that this pope will not allow women priests, and that is comparable to telling Catholic women to “go to hell.”

Here it is:

Michaeleen Swanson of Lakeville, Minnesota:
"The morning headlines may as well have read instead: 'Cardinals to Catholic Women: Go to Hell.' We Catholic women have been told for so many years, just hang in there, we are only one death away from change. Well, some of us have hung in there, but every day the handhold is slipping."

Has anyone taken a close look at the consecrated women in our Church lately? Just because sisters and nuns cannot perform the sacraments does not diminish their importance in our daily lives. Furthermore, do even devout Catholics realize that these outstanding women are actually praying for you/us/me every day? This is something that a parish priest cannot do, obviously not diminishing the respect and love of our priests, but they simply cannot devote that kind of time to prayer, with their duties needed to run a parish. Every person in our Church has a role. The role of priest is handled by men, but, that in no way diminishes the value or importance the role women have in our Church, especially if you believe in the power of prayer.

The consecrated women of our Church, need to be respected and honored for the service that they provide to Catholics and the rest of the world, be it sisters out helping others by being hands on, or cloistered nuns that devote their entire lives to Jesus Christ through prayer, or the lay women that perform above and beyond the call of duty, keeping our parishes, schools etc. running smoothly. WE NEED THESE WOMEN!

So, for the unhappy people out there, who try and “equalize” everything and do not understand that the roles men and women have in life may actually be different from one another, please stop degrading the women in our Church by using the priest issue as a feminist platform and actually celebrate the wonderful work Catholic women do so extremely well. Whether consecrated or the laity.

Ladies, the Catholic Church needs you, admires you, respects you, relies on you, honors you, and loves you. Please do not listen to the disrespectful people in the media, who obviously have a hidden agenda, and continue to be inspirations to us all by showing us, first hand, the beauty in Christ.

Where would we be without them?

God Bless.

Catholic Hatred

Be on the lookout for protests going on this weekend at Catholic Churches across the country. The following is from the Catholic League website:

GAYS TO PROTEST AT MASS
On May 15, Pentecost Sunday, a group of radical gay activists plan to enter various Catholic churches across the nation during Mass to stage a protest. The group, Rainbow Sash, has done this in the past and is planning to do so again this Sunday.

They have instructed their members to put the rainbow sash over their left shoulder and pin it to their right hip while the priest is processing to the altar. They are then told to go to Holy Communion and, if refused, to return to their seats in the pew and stand while everyone else is kneeling. The sash, they readily admit, is worn as a symbol of protest against the teachings of the Catholic Church on sexuality.

Catholic League president William Donohue commented as follows:

“Last year, Cardinal McCarrick of Washington, D.C. and Cardinal George of Chicago banned Rainbow Sash members from receiving the Eucharist. Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles, Archbishop Flynn of St. Paul and Minneapolis and Bishop Clark of Rochester, New York did not ban them. This year Archbishop Flynn has told Rainbow Sash that they will be banned. He explicitly said that ‘the Vatican has communicated to me that it does indeed consider the wearing of the Rainbow Sash during reception of Communion to be unacceptable, a directive I believe all Bishops will adhere to.’

“This year, Rainbow Sash has upped the ante. In its May 2 press release, it said that the purpose of their presence is to ‘counter the lies that Pope Benedict XVI is promoting about our community’; it also said that to many gays and lesbians the new pope is an ‘aggressive homophobe.’

“By calling the pope a liar and a homophobe, Rainbow Sash has finally taken off its mask. We look for them to get what they want—to be denied Communion. We also hope the cops are standing by. To exploit the Mass for political purposes is obscene, but it is what we have come to expect from the likes of Rainbow Sash.”

Pray for these people and have a good Mass.

God Bless.