{Click to enlarge} I’ve said pretty much all that needs to be said in four posts and a Novena to Saint John Vianney. There isn’t very much more to say except this: The Church is not a democracy. Some years ago I read a commentary by the brilliant Dr. Janet Smith about how the media [...]
Archive for September, 2011
Bishop Zurek’s Clarification on Father Pavone
Posted in Priests on September 30, 2011 | 56 Comments »
Saint John Vianney Novena for Father Pavone and Bishop Zurek: Day 8
Posted in Priests on September 30, 2011 |
Day 8 “Three things are wanted to preserve purity – the presence of God, prayer and the Sacraments.”- St. Jean Vianney O Holy Priest of Ars, a witness of your life made this magnificent praise of you: ‘We would have taken him for an angel in a mortal body.” You so edified others: the modesty [...]
Saint John Vianney Novena for Father Pavone and Bishop Zurek: Day 7
Posted in Uncategorized on September 29, 2011 |
Day 7 “See, my children, if we really wish to be saved, we must determine, once and for all, to labor in earnest for our salvation; our soul is like a garden in which the weeds are ever ready to choke the good plants and flowers that have been sown in it.”- St. Jean Vianney [...]
Saint John Vianney Novena for Father Pavone and Bishop Zurek: Day 6
Posted in Priests on September 28, 2011 |
Day 6 “In Heaven, faith and hope will exist no more for the mist which obscures our reason will be dispelled…But love; oh we shall be inebriated with it! we shall be drowned, lost in that ocen of divine love, annihilated in that immense charity of the Heart of Jesus! so that charity is a [...]
Saint John Vianney Novena for Father Pavone and Bishop Zurek: Day 5
Posted in Priests on September 27, 2011 |
Day 5 When we have just received communion, if we were asked what are we taking away to our homes, we might answer, “I am taking away Heaven!” – St. Jean Vianney O Holy Priest of Ars, whose only comfort in this world was the real presence of Jesus in the tabernacle, was it not [...]
The Stigma of the Abortionist
Posted in Biomedical Ethics on September 27, 2011 | 11 Comments »
Jill Stanek carries the following quote from the rabidly proabort website, RH Reality Check, on her blog. Below is the quote and my response left at Jill’s. Professional obstacles cited by physicians [who perform abortions] included workplaces with an anti-abortion climate; the surprisingly widespread “no-abortion policies” that quietly exist in many private practices, HMOs, and [...]
Saint John Vianney Novena for Father Pavone and Bishop Zurek: Day 4
Posted in Priests on September 26, 2011 |
Day 4 It is a beautiful thought, my children, that we have a sacrament that heals the wounds of our souls! – St. Jean Vianney O Holy Priest of Ars, you knew how important was a good confession for the Christian life. It was to procure the happy fruits of millions of souls that you [...]
Saint John Vianney Novena for Father Pavone and Bishop Zurek: Day 3
Posted in Priests on September 25, 2011 |
Day 3 How good is the Good God! The angels sin, and are cast into hell. Man sins, and God promises him a Deliverer. What have we done to deserve this favor? – St. Jean Vianney Saint John Mary Baptist Vianney, you were so adamant against sin, yet so sympathetic and so ready to welcome [...]
Father Pavone, The Alamo, and Pyrrhic Victories
Posted in Priests, tagged Father Pavone, Priests for Life, The Alamo on September 25, 2011 | 59 Comments »
I said I wouldn’t comment again until a resolution had been reached, but this weekend’s developments cannot go unanswered. Some of Father Pavone’s supporters in the pro-life movement have descended on Amarillo, Texas, with tactics normally reserved for the enemies of life. Banners being towed by planes showing aborted babies, and trucks sporting images of [...]
Saint John Vianney Novena for Father Pavone and Bishop Zurek: Day 2
Posted in Priests, tagged Bishop Zurek, Father Pavone, Saint John Vianney on September 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Today is Day 2 of our novena. Day 1 here. Day 2 When we pray with attention, with humility of mind and of heart, we quit the earth, we rise to Heaven, we penetrate the Bosom of God, we go and converse with the angels and the saints. – St. Jean Vianney Saint John Marie [...]
Saint John Vianney Novena for Father Pavone and Bishop Zurek: Day 1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bishop Zurek, Father Pavone, Saint John Vianney Novena on September 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Today we begin the novena to Saint John Vianney for the intentions of Father Pavone and Bishop Zurek. We begin on the feast of another priest who was recalled for a time, Saint Padre Pio. Day 1 “We have not deserved to pray – but God, in his goodness, has permitted us to speak with [...]
WANTED: Pro-life Medical Students, Resident Physicians, and Attending Physicians
Posted in Uncategorized on September 22, 2011 | 5 Comments »
As the new National Director for Medical Students for Life of America, I have as my first priority the goal of establishing a chapter of MSFLA in every medical school in the United States. Our outgoing coordinator, Dominique Monlezun has gotten us off to a great start by helping to start fifteen chapters last year. [...]
Update on Elise
Posted in Family on September 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Good News! Today is Elise’s 16th birthday, and she is celebrating it with some slight but significant movements in her hip flexors and right thigh. She is also celebrating it in one of the premier spinal cord rehabs in the nation, Magee, in Philadelphia. After initially balking at Magee, Elise’s insurance company did the right [...]
Father Pavone and Authentic Freedom
Posted in Priests on September 20, 2011 | 60 Comments »
In my first posting on the plight of Father Frank Pavone, I drew the analogy, which gained little traction with fellow pro-lifers, between the Apostle John’s deference to Peter on the first Easter Morning, and the relationship between the pro-life movement and the bishops. Then, I wrote in response to some ugly, ugly letters and [...]
Reverend Pat Robertson: Trade in Your Alzheimer’s Wife for a New Model
Posted in Biomedical Ethics, tagged Alzheimer's, Rev. Pat Robertson on September 17, 2011 | 11 Comments »
In Arthur Miller’s 1949 play, Death of a Salesman, protagonist Willy Loman famously declares: “You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away — a man is not a piece of fruit.” Perhaps Christian Broadcasting Network’s Rev. Pat Robertson should carefully consider those words in light of his recent advice that a man whose [...]
