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While the undersigned earnestly petition for the withdrawal of the Winnipeg Statement, we assure you, our bishops, of our constant prayers. Although our obedience and fidelity are assured, our pleas for retraction will continue year after year, if necessary, until the Bishops of Canada retract this Statement.While the undersigned earnestly petition for the withdrawal of the Winnipeg Statement,... more
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It was the year of the bad war, of complex innocence that sanctified the shedding of blood. English historian Paul Johnson dubs 1968 as the year of “America’s Suicide Attempt.” It included the Tet offensive in Vietnam with its tsunami-like effects in American life and politics, the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee; the tumult in American cities on Palm Sunday weekend; and the June assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy in southern California. It was also the year in which Pope Paul VI issued his encyclical letter on transmitting human life, Humanae Vitae (HV). He met immediate, premeditated, and unprecedented opposition from some American theologians and pastors. By any measure 1968 was a bitter cup.It was the year of the bad war, of complex innocence that sanctified the shedding of... more
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In our present world where the embracing of intrinisic evils, which are the compromises with the devil, are becoming more and more mainstream and even mandated, a courageous voice spoke out in 1968.In our present world where the embracing of intrinisic evils, which are the... more
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In the hard-hitting program, CBC interviewer Evan Solomon delved into some of the more controversial personal details of Morgentaler's life, particularly his relationships with women.In the hard-hitting program, CBC interviewer Evan Solomon delved into some of the more... more
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The affirmation of marriage and the family has long been a concern of the Church. Having steadfastly defended the indissolubility of the marriage bond through the centuries, whether imperiled from flawed secular or religious beliefs, the Church continued her defense of marriage and the family in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.The affirmation of marriage and the family has long been a concern of the Church.... more
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...the love of Morgentaler's long life (he is now 85), is simply the taking of the life of an unborn, innocent child....the love of Morgentaler's long life (he is now 85), is simply the taking of... more
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A random telephone poll of Canadian households with 13,324 respondents conducted between July 17-21, 2008 has revealed that 55.8% of Canadians oppose the awarding of the Order of Canada to abortionist Henry Morgentaler.
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Well, what does awarding Morgentaler the Order of Canada say about Canada?
It says that the new Canada -- the Canada of Michaelle Jean, and Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin (who chaired the selection committee) and the mummers who sat on the committee are as like the old Canada as, in Hamlet's words, "am I to Hercules."Well, what does awarding Morgentaler the Order of Canada say about Canada?
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Morgentaler’s appointment to the Order of Canada is a national disgrace. As Professor Douglas Farrow was quoted in the National Post on Canada day, “Morgentaler’s Canada is not my Canada”. We agree.Morgentaler’s appointment to the Order of Canada is a national disgrace. As... more
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July 25, 2008 will be the 40th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical letter Humanae Vitae. Beginning on July 25 of 2007, Priests for Life will call attention to this special anniversary, and to the wisdom and insight of this important document. Respect for human life is the basis of civilization, and respect for life demands respect for the sources of life.July 25, 2008 will be the 40th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical letter... more
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Humanae vitae, the papal encyclical "on the transmission of life," stands as a solid bulwark against the constant degradation of marriage and family in our modern age. Like Jesus, this teaching is indeed a "sign of contradiction" and even a reproach to those who wish to give human selfishness unbridled permission to wreak havoc on these divine institutions.Humanae vitae, the papal encyclical "on the transmission of life," stands as... more
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Couples who use contraception “ ‘manipulate’ and degrade human sexuality—and with it themselves and their married partner—by altering its value of ‘total’ self-giving. Thus the innate language that expresses the total reciprocal self-giving of husband and wife is overlaid, through contraception, by an objectively contradictory language, namely, that of not giving oneself totally to the other.” (John Paul II, The Role of the Christian Family in the Modern World, no. 32.)Couples who use contraception “ ‘manipulate’ and degrade human... more
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The summer of “love”. 1968. The hippy movement. Flower power. Free love. Anti-war protest. Love without responsibility. These were the vacuous slogans and “movements” that gave pseudo-mystical, pseudo-intellectual cover for a culture wide hedonistic holiday from reality. It would be at least another decade before we would come to know the full cost of this holiday, which racked up a considerable cultural, civilizational, moral, political, psychological, religious, and spiritual tab we are still paying to this day.The summer of “love”. 1968. The hippy movement. Flower power. Free love.... more
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The moral center of humanity slowly asserts itself. Only the most powerful are too afraid to join.
You may have missed the news: At the end of May, 111 nations, including, at the last minute, Great Britain, showing the world the power of an unleashed conscience, agreed to an international ban on cluster bombs, surely one of the cruelest and, given the nature of war today, most unnecessary weapons in modern arsenals.
Among those not endorsing the treaty and MIA at the conference in Dublin where it was debated were Russia, China, Israel and, to the surprise of no one, the United States of George Bush, that increasingly isolated moral rump state of which so many are so ashamed. Indeed, the treaty is widely seen as a “diplomatic defeat” for the U.S., so identified is the Bush administration with the sanctity of its WMD.
The official U.S. stance on cluster bombs is that they have “demonstrated military utility,” which trumps “the humanitarian concerns of those in Dublin,” which the U.S. nonetheless shares with such passion that, as Defense Secretary Robert Gates explained in a recent policy memo, “by 2018 the military will no longer use cluster weapons with a failure rate greater than 1 percent. In the interim period the U.S. will deplete its existing stockpiles of cluster munitions with a greater than 1 percent dud rate by exporting them to foreign governments that agree not to use them starting in 2018.”
Certainly there is a hellish ingenuity to the cluster bomb, which was designed for use on an open field of battle. A “mother canister,” as it is called, opens in mid-air and releases hundreds of grenade-size bombs that “spew deadly shrapnel over very large swathes of land” when they hit the ground, as explained recently in the Salt Lake Tribune by former munitions researcher Dick Devlin.
And Canadian journalist Gwynne Dyer adds: “If they exploded high enough to let the bomblets scatter properly, a few well-placed cluster bombs or shells could destroy dozens of soft-skinned military vehicles and blunt the attack of an entire mechanized infantry battalion. A few hundred could stop an army corps.”
Of course, we don’t use cluster bombs to disable massing infantries. We haven’t fought that kind of war in over 50 years. We use them now in counterinsurgency warfare, against primarily civilian populations, in such places as Kosovo (U.S.), Afghanistan (U.S., Russia), Lebanon (Israel) and, of course, Iraq (U.S.). We use them, in other words, to shred innocent bystanders.
Stigmatizing war
by Robert C. Koehler
July 18, 2008
Read complete article: http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/13/2008/3162
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While many Catholics still find Humanae vitae’s condemnation of contraception difficult to understand and accept, it should be more than evident by now that the Catholic vision of life and love enunciated by Pope Paul VI is one of the great keys to reviving our dying culture.While many Catholics still find Humanae vitae’s condemnation of contraception... more
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THE AMOUNT OF hostility directed at Humanae Vitae has been so great that most people are astonished when they first learn that contraception has not been a hotly debated issue since the very beginnings of the church. All Christian churches were united in their opposition to contraception until as recently as the early decades of this century.THE AMOUNT OF hostility directed at Humanae Vitae has been so great that most people... more
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To [Christian married couples] the Lord entrusts the task of making visible to men the holiness and sweetness of the law which unites the mutual love of husband and wife with their cooperation with the love of God the author of human life. [Pope Paul VI, Humanae vitae, ¶25].
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This July 25th marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most controversial papal documents in history: Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vita which reaffirmed the traditional Christian teaching on the immorality of contraception.This July 25th marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most controversial papal... more
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That Humanae Vitae and related Catholic teachings about sexual morality are laughingstocks in all the best places is not exactly news. Even in the benighted precincts of believers, where information from the outside world is known to travel exceedingly slowly, everybody grasps that this is one doctrine the world loves to hate.That Humanae Vitae and related Catholic teachings about sexual morality are... more
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"Steven Pinker talks about his personal philosophy and what reason means to him.""Steven Pinker talks about his personal philosophy and what reason means to... more
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