Saturday, July 31, 2010

The Worldly Christian























HOMILY
18th Sunday in Ordinary Time – C – 1 August 2010

Readings: Ecc 1:2, 2:21-23; Ps 90:3-4,5-6,12-13,14,17; Col 3:1-5.9-11; Lk 12:13-21


The readings this Sunday talk about the ephemeral nature of things. Ephemeral is what comes to mind when the psalmist uses the image of the changing grass “which at dawn springs up anew, but by evening wilts and fades” (Ps 90,6,

Friday, July 30, 2010

Is God Great? - Christopher Hitchens vs John Lennox



Christopher Hitchens, author of God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, debates Christian apologist and Oxford Professor John Lennox on idea of a creator and positive and negative aspects of religion.

Related to: Can Atheism Save Europe? - Christopher Hitchens vs John Lennox

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The Dogma of Christ - Eric Fromm



"Fromm's The Dogma of Christ will perhaps be a title ignored by the anti-religious psychologist and social theorist, but it is the message hidden behind its title that provides some of the sharpest critical insights into how the contemporary world of human destructiveness and violence can no longer separate religion, psychology and politics. Erich Fromm today is a prophetic voice crying in the wilderness of neo-liberal ideology." -- Jeremy Carrette, University of Stirling

A little known collection which deserves a much wider readership, this reissue of The Dogma of Christ will enhance an already great man's reputation. In the title essay, Erich Fromm uses the tools of psychoanalysis to examine the development of the dogma of Christ in the context of social history. The remaining essays examine psychological and cultural problems with keen insight and humanistic sympathies. Amazon

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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Church of England Prepares For Massive Exodus

(Catholic Online) - The recent action by the Church of England to introduce a resolution for consecration of women bishops has all but guaranteed that the largest exodus from the mother church of Anglicanism is about to take place. For many, the destination will be Rome

At a recent meeting in York, the General Synod voted to move forward on the new policy, which provides no real protection for those who oppose the practice. Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury and honorary head of the Anglicanism was powerless in his efforts to provide compromise...

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THE CATHOLIC KNIGHT: The Church of England is about to learn a painful lesson. It's a lesson learned by The Episcopal Church USA some thirty years ago. The only sad thing about this lesson is that once it's learned, there is no turning back. A little over thirty years ago The Episcopal Church USA began ordaining women priests and modified it's prayerbook to accommodate newer and more innovative means of worship. Of the 3.5 million Episcopalians in the United States, about 1 million saw the writing on the wall. Some of them immediately split from the national province, creating for themselves various traditional provinces. These came to be known as part of the greater Anglican Continuum. Many Episcopal priests converted to Rome, and brought many lay faithful with them. Some Episcopal priests and laymen converted to Eastern Orthodoxy (where it was available to them). Some left for other Protestant churches. Within just ten years The Episcopal Church USA lost nearly a third of it's membership! The denomination has yet to recover.

Now the Church of England is about to learn the same lesson. Sadly, however, as learned by The Episcopal Church USA, once you go down this road there is no turning back. You see, the people most likely to leave are the conservatives and traditionalists. Thus the only people left behind are the liberal modernists. Once the denomination has been "liberated" from the conservatives and traditionalists "holding it back" it is free to explore further liberal innovation, and so it does, eventually driving out the moderates too, until all that remains are the most liberal of the bunch. With the loss of traditional Anglo-Catholics, and conservative Evangelicals, the Church of England will soon become a left-wing liberal laboratory, fit for nothing but to implement the next wave of experimental innovation. Today it's women bishops. Tomorrow it's gay and lesbian bishops, along with gay marriages, and who knows what next! That was the pattern of The Episcopal Church USA, so it is now the pattern of the Church of England.

For all the talk on this blog about traditional Anglo-Catholics going to Rome, we often overlook the conservative Evangelicals in the Church of England. This is also a sizable bunch, which is one more reason why the decision to elect women to the episcopacy (without provision for those who object) is especially tragic for the Church of England. These Evangelicals are likely to wander away from the C of E as well. In time, many of them will find their way into non-affiliated Evangelical churches, while others are likely to start their own "continuing" Anglican divisions, apart from Canterbury, but perhaps aligned with some African metropolitan willing to oversee them.

In the 20th century we saw the demise of the British Empire. In the early days of the 21st century we are now seeing the fall of the Church of England and the broader Anglican Communion. Perhaps this has some prophetic implications. Only time will tell. What is certain now is that the Catholic Church and the Evangelical world will both have a lot to gain from the British Isles over the next decade. For Catholics there is a lesson to be learned. This is what happens when you compromise with liberal modernists. You give an inch, they take a mile, and they absolutely will not stop - EVER - until they have destroyed everything the Church once was. When we Catholics look upon the Anglican Communion, we must understand that there is a reflection of ourselves without orthodoxy. Were it not for the stubbornness of the pope, and those faithful bishops in union with him, we too would find ourselves in the same pickle.

Anglican Catholic Church of Canada Votes Overwhelmingly To Accept Pope's Ordinariate Offer




2017 - Collapse of the American Empire

(InfoWars.Com) - When Rome began her empire, Rome’s currency consisted of gold and silver coinage. Rome was well organized with efficient institutions and the ability to supply troops in the field so that campaigns could continue indefinitely, a monopoly in the world of Rome’s time.

When hubris sent America in pursuit of overseas empire, the venture coincided with the offshoring of American manufacturing, industrial, and professional service jobs and the corresponding erosion of the government’s tax base, with the advent of massive budget and trade deficits, with the erosion of the fiat paper currency’s value, and with America’s dependence on foreign creditors and puppet rulers.

The Roman Empire lasted for centuries. The American one collapsed overnight.

Rome’s corruption became the strength of her enemies, and the Western Empire was overrun.

America’s collapse occurred when government ceased to represent the people and became the instrument of a private oligarchy. Decisions were made in behalf of short-term profits for the few at the expense of unmanageable liabilities for the many.

Overwhelmed by liabilities, the government collapsed.

Globalism had run its course. Life reformed on a local basis....

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THE CATHOLIC KNIGHT: The fictional narrative above is from the Alex Jones website InfoWars.Com. It's a good read, but in my opinion it's a bit too dramatic.  It nevertheless recognizes some key historical trends currently unfolding. I don't think things will get quite as dramatic as the narrative above suggests, but I do think the picture I included does represent a very realistic possibility of what North America MIGHT look like before the end of the decade.

I think InfoWars is probably accurate about the eventual demise of the United States, barring a 180 degree turn around of the American people, it is inevitable. Right now, America's best hope lies in the TEA Party movement, coupled with a nationwide grassroots religious push to bring morality back to America's public streets. The TEA Parties are underway, unfortunately, I haven't seen the religious push yet. Without it, the TEA Parties will fail. Mark my words, without a nationwide religious revival there is no political movement that can save this nation.

The dire predictions on InfoWars and the Alex Jones Show will likely become reality only in the large urban, and heavily populated, regions of the United States.  This is particularly true for the West Coast, which is morally bankrupt and culturally amalgamated. Borders, language and culture are what define a civilization. California has none of the above. It's complete collapse is eminent. We will likely see similar unrest in various parts of New England, and in a smattering of large urban areas across the United States. Small cities, towns and rural areas will be the ideal location for what's left of America to survive, and it will be in these regions that the nation(s) is/are rebuilt. I write in plural because once the collapse occurs, we can expect a dictatorship government to arise for a short time in a vain attempt to hold the United States together. Again, barring a nationwide religious revival, it will not work, and it will not last. The federal government in Washington DC will likely collapse under it's own weight. That's when things start to get interesting.

Once the federal government collapses, it will refocus it's military, and what remains of his bureaucracy, toward maintaining control of whatever regions it is capable of reaching at a minimal cost, and can easily subdue with minimal effort.  First on Washington's list will be the banking sector of New England, as well as what remains of the industrialized (i.e. unionized) rust belt around the Great Lakes.  These areas will be most easily controlled.  Anything beyond that is icing on the cake, and Washington will be lucky to get it.

The most problematic areas for Washington DC will be those regions where secession movements have deep roots and are likely to become mainstream once the federal government is defunct.  The two regions where secession is likely to occur rather quickly are in Texas and the old Confederacy.  Once allied during America's Civil War (1861-1865), it is likely these two regions will seek separate destinies in the coming American meltdown.  Texas has it's own unique identity, it's own national pride, and it's own ideas of how things should be done.  Having been members of three larger unions in the past (Mexico, USA and CSA), it is likely the lone star state will do what it can to establish itself as a free and independent nation this time, perhaps taking a couple neighboring states with it that already closely identify with Texas.  As for the old Confederacy, it has been said for one-hundred-fifty years now "The South will rise again!"  Modern secession movements have been well established in the Southeast states for decades, and Southern Americans have always held to a different take on history concerning their first secession attempt in 1860-1861.  The ONLY thing that has kept the South in check since the end of the Civil War has been a strong federal government.  Remove the strength of the fed, and you will see those old secessionist viewpoints return to the mainstream popular opinion rather quickly.  It should be pointed out that technically speaking, the Confederate States of America never did surrender at the end of the Civil War.  Sure, General Lee surrendered the Army of Virginia, but President Jefferson Davis refused to surrender the Confederacy.  He was eventually captured by the North, held on grounds of treason, never formally charged, and eventually released after it became apparent the federal government would never win a prosecution against him.  The South was defeated, occupied and humiliated, but never surrendered.  That's important to remember from a historical standpoint, because when the time comes, these facts will resurface with a vengeance, in a way unimaginable as of the date of this writing (July, 2010).

There are other secession movements, smaller but just as determined.  Both Vermont and New Hampshire have demonstrated strong interest in forming Libertarian Republics, completely independent from the United States.  In Vermont this has captured nearly 20% of popular opinion.  Eco-Marxists on the West Coast have long expressed a desire to create a new western republic called "Cascadia" from Northern California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.  In contrast, neoconservative Alaska has long had it's own secession movement, and secession party, of which Sarah Palin's husband was a member, and Sarah Palin herself addressed while governor of the state.  Hawaii on the other hand, has long had it's own secession movement which is growing in popularity.  Meanwhile the American Southwest (Southern California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas) is increasingly coming under the influence of the Aztlan Movement, an attempt by Mexico to retake the Southwest United States through non-violent demographic warfare.  So far the plan is working marvelously well.  The point here is that while chaos is just around the corner, (barring a national religious revival), it is likely to be short-lived.  Many social and political movements are already poised to fill the vacuum once the collapse of the fed occurs, and we still have the state legislatures.  While some of them (like California's for example) will likely implode, the majority of them will remain intact.  They can take over the duties of the federal government in the event of an emergency, including raising a state guard and securing the peace.  Yes, chaos is coming (barring a miracle) but reorganization is just around the corner.  Historically speaking, entire continents don't plunge into darkness all at once.  There are respites of reorganization and order - some lasting a lifetime.  With the structures and movements already in place, this is more likely to be the case.  We might expect some skirmishes between them, but in the end, everything will settle into it's own place - at least for a while.  Americans will survive and our families will flourish, albeit a little poorer, and perhaps with different national identities.  Yes, the end of our empire is upon us, but that doesn't mean we should panic.  There is good reason to believe that God has good things in store for those who trust him and live by his laws.

What now?  While the Titanic USA is sinking, it's time to get into the life boats.  Granted, there may not appear to be enough, but if you're involved in a Church and following God's laws, you're already sitting in one.  The primary and most important thing any family can do is to get involved in a church and start practicing religion in the home.  This is the social glue that will hold your family and community together.  The next thing to work on in the years ahead is personal independence.  By that I mean consolidating your resources to get out of debt, provide for yourself as much as possible, and network with other Christians to help each other in time of need.  Now is the time for small home prayer groups to augment the larger parishes and congregations.  Priests and pastors, that's your cue to start organizing!  For Catholics I would recommend organizing small home groups around the weekly recitation of Evening Prayer from the Liturgy of the Hours or else the Holy Rosary.  This in conjunction with home group weekly pot lucks and activities for children should do much toward strengthening parish life and creating strong social networks.  Beyond that there really is nothing more we can do - other than pray for our nation and peacefully petition our government for a redress of grievances.   So in the final analysis we must stay calm.  Nations rise and fall, it's the ebb and flow of history.  Our ancestors survived and flourished in the wake of previous collapses.  So will we.  Keep that in mind.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Atheist Comedy - Family Values

8: The Mormon Proposition (2010)



"Homosexuality is an ugly sin. Repugnant, like adultery and incest and beastiality, they carry the death penalty under mosaic law." -- Spencer W. Kimball, Mormon Prophet

8: The Mormon Proposition is a perfect example of "we are still living in the Dark Ages today". This simple, yet powerful documentary is not just centering on supporting same-sex marriage, but beautifully and clearly exposes that how religious bigotry along with dirty politics can be used against some minority of society and human rights. What's in the list? For starters, the Mormon teens are driven to suicide, for anti-gay campaigns, lobbying activities and teachings, the Mormon families are forced to donate thousands of dollars to the church, and don't forget the brutal treatment methods! Due to the disturbing content and brave filming 8: The Mormon Proposition has become my instant favorite. Don't miss this, and spread it out!

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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Experts: Health Hazards in Gulf Warrant Evacuations

Truthout
22 July 2010


George Barisich has been a fisherman in New Orleans for over 40 years. Some experts are concerned that toxic chemicals being used to help clean up the oil spill in the Gulf are seriously endangering the health of those living near the water.

When Louisiana residents ask marine toxicologist and community activist Riki Ott what she would do if she lived in the Gulf with children, she tells them she would leave immediately. "It's that bad. We need to start talking about who's going to pay for evacuations."

In 1989, Ott, who lives in Cordova, Alaska, experienced firsthand the devastating effects of the Exxon Valdex oil disaster. For the past two months, she's been traveling back and forth between Louisiana and Florida to gather information about what's really happening and share the lessons she learned about long-term illnesses and deaths of cleanup workers and residents. In late May, she began meeting people in the Gulf with symptoms like headaches, dizziness, sore throats, burning eyes, rashes and blisters that are so deep, they're leaving scars. People are asking, "What's happening to me?"

She says the culprit is almost two million gallons of Corexit, the dispersant BP is using to break up and hide the oil below the ocean's surface. "It's an industrial solvent. It's a degreaser. It's chewing up boat engines off-shore. It's chewing up dive gear on-shore. Of course it's chewing up people's skin. The doctors are saying the solvents are making the oil worse."

In a widely watched YouTube video, from Project Gulf Impact, a project that aims to give Gulf residents a voice, Chris Pincetich, a marine biologist and campaigner with the Sea Turtle Restoration Project, said Coast Guard planes are flying overhead at night spraying Corexit on the water and on land.



Ott says people who are experiencing discomfort of any kind, especially children, pregnant women, cancer survivors, asthma sufferers and African-Americans because they're prone to sickle cell anemia, should wear a respirator and see a doctor that specializes in chemical poisoning immediately. She also recommends contacting the detox specialists at The Environmental Health Center in Dallas, Texas. "People don't have the information to know that the burning sore throat is actually chemical poisoning," she said. "And this isn't getting any attention, but it's very important. There are no vaccinations for chemical poisoning. None."

Because she's gotten to know the locals and has done a number of national media interviews, she's now receiving a barrage of daily phone calls and emails from people who are concerned and don't know where else to turn. She recommends they read this Sciencecorps resource about potential health hazards.


In the video above, author and journalist Summer Burke talks about her experience being sprayed with the toxic dispersant Corexit.

Ott shared these stories on a recent trip to the Bay Area with Diane Wilson, former Texas shrimper turned rabble-rousing activist. Ott was coughing and constantly clearing her throat during our two-hour conversation. "I can still smell the oil," she said.

Media outlets have been reporting on public health concerns and taking water quality samples, but Ott says they've only scratched the surface. "If I were in charge of the media, I would be talking be about public safety and public health every day. They should also be exposing the truth about how our federal standards are outdated and no longer protective of public health or worker safety. We knew in 1989 that OSHA had a loophole in it that's big enough to drive every single sick worker through. It exempts the reporting of colds and flus. That loophole has not been closed since Exxon Valdez."

Ott expressed her concerns during a May meeting with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Lisa Jackson. "I was sitting across from her. She said, quote, 'I am walking a fine line between truth and hysteria. We don't want to create a panic.' This shows you how much our government is beholden to oil and cannot imagine a future without oil. We the people have got to imagine this. We have to. This is way worse than people think."

On Tuesday, Mother Jones' Kate Sheppard reported that Hugh Kaufman, a whistleblower who works as a senior policy analyst in the EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, is accusing the agency of deliberately downplaying public health threats and its own role in regulating the chemicals being dumped into the Gulf "to protect itself from liability and keep the public from getting too alarmed."

The cause for alarm can't be more apparent. In addition to the health problems people are already experiencing, WKRG News 5 reporter Jessica Taloney recently collected samples of water and sand from five Alabama beaches and took them to a local lab to be tested.

Bob Naman, a chemist with nearly 30 years of experience, told Taloney that he wouldn't expect to see more than five parts per million of oil and petroleum in the water. The sample of the water taken in Gulf Shores beach, where adults and kids were swimming and playing, showed 66 parts per million. The sand had 211 parts per million. When Naman began to test the sample collected from Dauphin Island Marina, it exploded. "We think that it mostly likely happened due to the presence of methanol or methane gas or the presence of the dispersant, Corexit."

"What's going on in the Gulf is the same cover-up that was going with the 9/11 environmental issue," the EPA's Kaufman told Sheppard. "The Bush White House ordered EPA to lie about the environmental and public health situation at the World Trade Center because of economic ramifications. So they did."



On Democracy Now!, Kaufman accused the EPA of being "sock puppets for BP in this cover-up."

I called Kaufman to find out if he agrees with Ott's decision to sound the alarm about evacuations. The short answer? Yes. "If you're getting sick, it's because you're being poisoned," he said. "Those chemicals can cause cancer 20 years down the line and that's why Riki Ott is saying some areas have to be evacuated. That's true. We don't know how bad it is because the EPA is not doing adequate air testing. They're taking some measurements so they can tell the public that everything is safe [when in fact the public has] an increased risk of getting cancer and dying early. They're pawns in a money game."

Kaufman and Ott both say the media need to follow the money. The reason why the EPA is covering this up, they say, is because the cost to BP would be astronomical. "The dispersants hide the oil," said Ott. "If you put dispersants in the water, you don't know how much oil was really spilled. Oil fines are based on how much oil was spilled, so it's all about money."

If a group listed as a terrorist organization had caused the oil disaster, Kaufman says their assets would be seized immediately and their members would be arrested. So, why hasn't the US government seized BP's assets? Kaufman points to an April Vanity Fair article about Larry Fink, one of the most powerful men on Wall Street. Fink's BlackRock money-management firm controls or monitors more than $12 trillion worldwide, including a billion shares of BP. According to the article, BlackRock "has effectively become the leading manager of Washington's bailout of Wall Street," thanks to Fink's close relationship with former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.


The “psychologically astute” Larry Fink, photographed at BlackRock headquarters in February.

"It's all about money," says Kaufman. "Follow the money."

So, where does this leave the people whose lives have been destroyed by this disaster? Where does this leave the people who will face long-term health problems? Where does this leave our oceans, wildlife and environment? What's next?

"The more the public knows, the more the media cover it, the more the people tell officials to help, the better it is," says Kaufman. "It's a game of momentum."

Ott says she plans to stay in the area to assist where she can (getting respirators for workers is near the top of her list), get the truth out and continue the conversations and community meetings she's having with self-described Tea Partiers, evangelicals and fifth and sixth generation fisherman. "Here's something positive for you," she said. "I'm starting to hear, 'We all live on one planet and there really is a climate crisis here. This can't continue.' I'm having conversations with the Christian Right. I'm staying in an oilman's camper. Oilmen are starting to see that we need alternatives. I'm having tea party people come up to me and say, 'How can I help?' Corporations want to divide the nation into red and blue, Democrat and Republican. I'm seeing that crashing down. The frames are dissolving. The South is rising. I'm talking about the Deep South. This is the most hopeful sign I'm seeing."

Former shrimper Diane Wilson hopes to see more direct action. "This is a crisis. If this oil gusher does not move people to force a change in Washington, then it will never happen. We are seeing the end of the United States as we know it. If people hold their planet dear, they better be out there. Folks are too well behaved. We need to be unreasonable."

Monday, July 26, 2010

Catholics - Support America's TEA Parties!



THE CATHOLIC KNIGHT: Long time readers of this blog know The Catholic Knight is a TEA Party supporter. I support the TEA Parties because they are safe family-friendly events that are the embodiment of our First Amendment right to peacefully assemble and demand a redress for grievances.  Mark my words, if ever a day comes when the TEA Parties are no longer allowed to exist, then America is OVER - period.


In recent days the TEA Parties have come under considerable attack from the extreme radical Left wing in this country.  When I say "Left wing," I am referring to the Marxist element of American politics.  Yes, the same Marxist element Our Lady of Fatima warned us about nearly 100 years ago. The most recent pawn of the Left, the NAACP, has just accused the TEA Parties of being racist.  (Funny how everything always breaks down to race for the Left.)  Of course the accusation is pure poppycock, as there are many people of various ethnic groups who participate in the TEA Parties.  Some of the nations biggest advocates of the TEA Parties are Black and Hispanic.   It's ridiculous of course, bat that's how the Left works.  That's how Marxists have always worked for the last 100 years.

Blacks Frequently Help Lead TEA Parties
Let me tell you what the TEA Parties are primarily about.  More than anything, they're not any kind of partisan protest against any one candidate or political party.  The first TEA Parties were organized under the Bush administration believe it or not, in protest of the Bush financial bailout of 2008.  As Obama and the Democrats swept into office, the TEA Parties began to focus on them, and mark my words, should future Republicans fail to heed the message of the TEA Parties, they too will find themselves the target of protest.  That's because the TEA Parties are not about partisan politics.  In many ways, they are a protest of the two-party political system that has led this country to ruin over the last fifty years.  Yet so far, the TEA Party is not a political party in itself.  It fields no candidates, and has no defined platform.

So what are the TEA Parties, and what are they about?  Socially, they are a protest of big government and the elite ruling class of politicians who think themselves above the law.  They are a protest of the nanny state mentality, in which is found the notion that government is God, government knows best and government should be involved in every aspect of our personal lives.  They are a protest of reckless government spending, which increases the national debt, produces inflation, robs the little people of their meager earnings, and enslaves us all to the welfare programs of the almighty government.  Politically, the TEA Parties are about local control, bringing the government back home, state's rights, decentralization, and shrinking the size and power of the federal government.  To put it in Catholic terms - SUBSIDIARITY.
Socialization also presents dangers. Excessive intervention by the state can threaten personal freedom and initiative. The teaching of the Church has elaborated the principle of subsidiarity, according to which "a community of a higher order should not interfere in the internal life of a community of a lower order, depriving the latter of its functions, but rather should support it in case of need and help to co- ordinate its activity with the activities of the rest of society, always with a view to the common good."
- Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1883
Subsidiarity in American terms is called "Federalism" or in the more pure sense "Antifederalism."  The Founding Fathers of the United States were divided primarily into two political camps - the Federalists and the Antifederalists.  Both camps believed in a centralized national government.  They just disagreed on how much power it should have.  The Federalists proposed a strong centralized government that the states would delegate more power to, so as to make it stronger than the states.  Their dream was realized in the ratification of the Constitution of the United States.  The Antifederalists opposed the ratification of the Constitution, and preferred instead to keep the United States under the Articles of Confederation.  This earlier form of American government embodied the Antifederalist view that the power of the central government should be the same (or weaker) than that of the states.  In other words, the Antifederalists believed in keeping power closer to home, to the states, where it could be kept in better check by the people.  In their rebuttal to the Constitution proposal, the Antifederalists wrote blistering warnings (called the Antifederalist Papers) of the dire consequences associated with making the central government a more powerful Federalist system.  Sadly, every single one of their warnings has come true with near prophetic accuracy.

Now the TEA Parties cannot be accurately characterized as Antifederalist.  In fact, I would say most TEA Party supporters are Federalists at heart, and most of them are staunch supporters of the U.S. Constitution.  However, in their demonstrations we see the recognition of the warnings given by the Antifederalists, and a growing desire among the American people to return to a smaller and simpler form of national government.  Some have characterized the TEA Parties as the "Second American Revolution" and indeed they very well may be.

As Catholics, we need to stay focused.  Probably the best way to characterize our political struggle in a religious sense is the threefold battle cry of: LIFE, FAMILY & SUBSIDIARITY!  However, that being our struggle, I believe we have finally reached a convergence with American politics.  As we've seen in recent decades, the local state governments have done far more to protect and honor these principles than the centralized federal government.  In fact, many of our state governments have valiantly fought against the federal government on these issues, only to lose to federal judicial fiat or congressional legislation.  So in that sense, the TEA Party struggle is our struggle.  It is one in the same, because only in returning power to the states can we ever hope to undo the damage of legalized abortion, gay marriage and Secularism.

The TEA Parties are precisely the same kind of demonstrations Pope John Paul II endorsed during the Solidarity Movement in Poland.  They are peaceful, law-abiding and clean.  Not a single window is broken.  There are no riots, no violence, and if any trouble-makers come in, the TEA Party leaders distance themselves immediately from them and request that security have them removed.  They are protests by an oppressed people under the thumb of a government that everyday becomes increasingly tyrannical.  It's the closest thing to Solidarity the American people will ever come to.  This is it!  If we don't take a stand now, there will be NO SECOND CHANCE.  This is our LAST STAND as a free and peaceful people.  If this fails, America will undoubtedly fall into chaos.  God help us.

For this reason, The Catholic Knight, now encourages every single Catholic American reading this blog to get involved in the TEA Party movement.  You can start by showing up to the TEA Parties, bringing your rosaries and start praying for this country publicly.  That's something we need to see a bit more of at these TEA Parties - public prayer. Then if you're not registered to vote, get registered post-haste, and find the candidates that best represent our Catholic values of LIFE, FAMILY & SUBSIDIARITY!
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
-- 2nd Chronicles 7:14
Joining a TEA Party is as easy as showing up to one, but if you would like to keep informed as to when and where they will be organized, that's easy enough too. Just visit THIS WEBSITE, bookmark it, and sign up for regular email updates.

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Saturday, July 24, 2010

The Power of Prayer


HOMILY
17th Sunday in Ordinary Time – C- 25 July 2010

Readings: Gen 18:20-32; Ps 138:1-2, 2-3, 6-7, 7-8; Col 2:12-24; Lk 11:1-13


The words of Jesus in our Gospel passage this Sunday are prompted by a disciple asking: “Lord teach us how to pray.”

During Jesus’ time, it was the custom for a Jewish rabbi or teacher to teach his followers a simple prayer they could regularly use, and which has

Friday, July 23, 2010

Gay Priests Are The Problem


THE CATHOLIC KNIGHT: Well it's about freaking time! I see the mainstream (i.e. lamestream) news media is finally, after ten years, starting to break the REAL story. Of course, they're trying to spin it as if it were something new, but by breaking the story at all, they've just let the cat out of the bag, and it's what I (and others) have been saying for a very long time.

Ever since Michael Rose's book "Goodbye, Good Men" the truth has been out there, readily available for anyone to learn who was willing to do the reading. Now it's being televised for the whole world to see.

The Catholic Church does not have a pedophilia problem. It never did. The Catholic Church has a GAY problem!!!! And I can prove it. The mainstream news media has done a real number on public perception. The term "pedophile priest" was invented by the mainstream media to briefly describe the kind of sexual abuse perpetrated by some priests. The only problem is that the term is inaccurate. Pedophilia only involved a small fraction of the cases. The overwhelming vast majority (80%) of all sex-abuse cases in the Catholic Church involved male victims between the ages of 11 and 17. This is not pedophilia! The American Psychiatric Association defines pedophilia as sexual urges or behaviors toward a prepubescent child (roughly age 10 or younger) by someone who is over age 16. While this sort of thing did happen in the Catholic Church (as with every other organization on the planet) it was extremely rare. What did happen overwhelmingly was post-pubescent molestation. So what we have in the Catholic Church was an overwhelming case of predatory homosexual behavior of vulnerable adolescent boys starting to become young men. Make no mistake about it. This was a homosexual problem.

Of course there are those who will immediately object to this candid assessment and point to endless studies suggesting that homosexual men are no more likely to molest children then heterosexual men. That may be true, but we're not talking about child molestation here are we. Pedophilia is not the topic. I think I just established that above. We're talking about the sexual abuse of adolescent boys. That's different. So the "studies" on pedophile homosexuals are irrelevant. It seems to me there is a focused effort by some to distort the facts and muddy the waters when it comes to WHO actually was doing the overwhelming vast majority of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. This particular cover-up doesn't come from within the Catholic Church. It comes from the outside, specifically from the mainstream news media and homosexual advocacy groups. I wonder why? One would think they would be even more interested in rooting out the problem. Instead they cite irrelevant statistics to cover the identity (and orientation) of the real perpetrators.

Again, a few may object, saying there is no evidence that homosexuals abuse adolescent boys anymore than heterosexuals do. I would observe that as not only an unsupported claim, but a laughable one at that, once you stop and think about what the objectors are really saying here. Heterosexual men molest teenage BOYS just as much as homosexual men? Come on!  That doesn't even make sense! One would think heterosexual male abusers would be more interested in teenage GIRLS.

So the mainstream-lamestream news media has inadvertently blown the lid off the Catholic sex abuse scandal, and simultaneously undercut their own propaganda campaign against the Catholic Church. Way to go! I suppose if I were a homosexual activist I'd be a little angry at CNN right now. I suppose I would be hoping the lamestream news media never starts connecting the dots - at least not publicly.

Now the lamestream news media did make a good point. In their attempt to scandalize the pope by pointing out this sort of thing goes on in the Vatican, they have actually set the stage for the implementation of the next Inquisition, and that my friends, is EXACTLY the sort of thing the Catholic Church has needed for a very long time.

The pope has made it clear that active homosexuals (or homosexual advocates) are not permitted to serve as priests - period. Homosexuals are no longer permitted in the seminaries. (Sadly they once were but against the advice of the Vatican.) Now the Vatican has cracked down on the seminaries. In order for a homosexual to get in, he has to LIE, and then LIVE A LIE for the remainder of his vocation. Furthermore, any homosexual priest who is not celibate, and is currently serving as a priest, is LIVING A LIE. He is a disgrace to the Church, his vocation, his parishioners, his bishop and himself! The honorable thing to do would be to get out - that is if he is an honorable man. Sadly, it would appear that many of these men are not, and some of them are sexual predators of teenage boys.

The next Inquisition is coming. Thanks to the lamestream news media, the pope has been backed into a corner now. He has no choice but to use every faculty at his disposal to enforce the law of the Church. Therefore, the days of gay priests are coming to a close. I imagine much of this will be done quietly, behind closed doors.

However, some will argue this is unfair. Why should all gay priests pay the price for the sins of a few? In answer I can only say that not all gay priests will pay. Those who honorably remain celibate have nothing to worry about. However, those who break their vows of celibacy, and commit the SIN of homosexual sex, have effectively put themselves on notice. They will be outed - eventually - and they will be fired as a result, probably even laicized (defrocked). Having sex with minors is no longer the issue. (Those who do will obviously be prosecuted for it.) Now however, the pope is backed into a corner, and ALL active homosexual priests will have to be eliminated, regardless if they are a threat to minors or not.

As I said, the honorable thing for an active homosexual priest to do is resign and find another career. However, I'm sure there are some who (for whatever reason) feel they are "called" to the priesthood regardless of their active homosexuality. Of course there are religious organizations that accommodate such things. The largest is probably the Anglican Communion, which not only permits homosexuality among their clergy, but in many places actually celebrates it. I imagine while Rome publicly receives straight Anglican clergy into the Catholic Church, there will now simultaneously be a silent exodus of gay Catholic clergy into the Anglican Communion. The alternative for these men is to either resign the priesthood or live a lie. 
- After an Italian media report exposed sexual activity by gay priests in Rome, the Vicariate of Rome responded quickly by calling on all priests who are leading such "double lives" to come out and leave the priesthood for the good of the Church community....

read full story here 
In this age when so much public praise is given to those "coming out of the closet," one would think gay priests in the Catholic Church might grow a little weary of hiding in one.  The Catholic Knight echoes the admonition of the Vicar of Rome.  It's time for gay priests to "come out and get out!"  Stop being cowards!  If you're an active homosexual priest in the Catholic Church, then it's time to be a man for once in your life!  Come out of the closet, admit your sin, and leave the Catholic priesthood at once.  Turn in your resignation and ask to be laicized.  If however, for some reason you don't believe your homosexual behavior is a sin, and you still want to function as a "priest" then at least have the courage to do it within an organization where you can be open and honest about it.  Go to the Anglican Communion, or some other ecclesiastical body, that celebrates homosexuality.  There you'll find a community that embraces your sin, rewards it, and if nothing else, at least the pay is better.

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God - Carl Sagan



Sagan, writing from beyond the grave (actually his new book, The Varieties of Scientific Experience, is an edited version of his 1985 Gifford Lectures), asks why, if God created the universe, he left the evidence so scant. He might have embedded Maxwell’s equations in Egyptian hieroglyphs. The Ten Commandments might have been engraved on the moon. "Or why not a hundred- kilometer crucifix in Earth orbit?… Why should God be so clear in the Bible and so obscure in the world?" He laments what he calls a "retreat from Copernicus," a loss of nerve, an emotional regression to the idea that humanity must occupy center stage. Scientific American

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Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex



In this recent lecture Matt Ridley explains how humans bring together their brains and enable their ideas to combine and recombine, to meet and to mate.

Related to: Genome by Matt Ridley

P.S Subtitles made by me.

File size: 201 MB

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Thursday, July 22, 2010

What Evolution Is - Ernst Mayr



"What Evolution Is will be an ideal text in a course on evolution for non-biologists. Palaeontologists and anthropologists will welcome this book because of its emphasis on concepts and explanations. Ernst's lucid writing makes the subject of evolution accessible to any educated layperson."
Jared Diamond

At age 97, Ernst Mayr is one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century, and here he delivers yet another valuable addition to the field of evolutionary theory. Mayr, who was also a curator at the American Museum of Natural History for two decades, guides lay readers through evolutionary thought from the book of Genesis and creationist theory through Darwin's theories and "soft" evolution and on to more contemporary, inclusive concepts. He takes readers on a whirlwind voyage from the scala naturae (the Great Chain of Being, in which everything in the world was accorded a position in a developmental hierarchy) to Mayr's own work, which builds on Darwinian theory and environmental factors. No one but Mayr could explain evolution so well, and though the text is peppered with many scientific terms, overall the author is triumphant in his goal to teach "first and foremost... biologist or not, [anyone] who simply wants to know more about evolution." Publishers Weekly

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Welcome to This World



Prepare your children to face the truth!

The Genius of Charles Darwin: The Uncut Interviews



I released the 3-DVD set which contains 26 uncut interviews from The Genius of Charles Darwin. Total length is 1,103 minutes.

Here is the list of the participants:

Philosopher Daniel Dennett
Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey
Bishop Bonifes Adoyo
Gay Activist Wayne Besen
Primatologist Frans de Waal
Biologist Craig Venter
Psychologist Steven Pinker
Archbishop Rowan Williams
Creationist John Mackay
Philosopher Peter Singer
Biologist Randolph Nesse
Religious Advisor Sean Casey
Creationist Wendy Wright
The Sperm Bank Women
Creationist Nick Cowan
Author Randal Keynes
Father George Coyne
Microbiologist Larry Gelmon
Biologist Jonathan Kingdon
Biologist Steven Rose
Economist Eric Beinhocker
The Science Class
The Science Teachers
The Sperm Bank Manager
The Charity Worker
Paleontologist Richard Hulbert


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Richard Dawkins Interviews Richard Hulbert



Richard Dawkins goes to a fossil site in the North America to meet paleontologist Richard Hulbert. They discuss the extinct animals of the Paleocene suchs as giant armadillos.

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Duration : 15mn 7s



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Richard Dawkins Interviews The Charity Worker



Dawkins meets a charity worker who helps homeless people at the 999 club in London.

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File size : 60.9 MiB
Duration : 7mn 56s



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Richard Dawkins Interviews The Sperm Bank Manager



Richard Dawkins gives us a chance to look inside of a sperm bank. A bright, neat and sterile place. He discusses sperm donation procedures and storage methods, regulations and selection preferences with Claus Rodgaard, the manager. Dawkins also cites that according to Darwinian perspective, donors must pay money because they pass their genes on without any trouble.

Related to: Richard Dawkins Interviews Sperm Bank Women

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Duration : 45mn 32s



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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

After 18 Months, Here Is My Assessment...


THE CATHOLIC KNIGHT: What can I say? If I wasn't laughing, I'd be crying. He is a complete disaster of such epic proportions I don't even know where to begin.

Having said that I would like to call your attention to a little prediction I made on election day almost 2 years ago.  Hate to say "I told ya so!"  What I really hate to say is the worst is still yet to come.