The FBI’s recent flurry of activity against pro-life activists follows a little-noticed action by the Justice Department in July, creating a task force to defend abortion.
The DOJ’s Reproductive Rights Task Force was announced on July 12 with the stated goal of “protect[ing] access to reproductive health care,” which means abortion.
Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta, a former ACLU lawyer, heads the task force, which, according to the DOJ, includes representatives of the “Department’s Civil Division, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Attorney community, Office of the Solicitor General,” and other offices at the DOJ. Justice also assigned dedicated staff to this task force.
Along with lobbying Congress to create a federal right to abortion, the task force’s work included centralizing “information about the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act,” the federal law used to prosecute at least a dozen pro-life activists in recent weeks.
Mark Houck was arrested in September for a 2021 scuffle with a pro-abortion activist in Philadelphia. The activist had brought charges against Houck in state and municipal court in 2021, but those charges were reportedly dropped.
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Doug Brignole, former Mr America and Mr Universe winner, author of “The Physics of Resistance Exercise,” lecturer, educator and coach offered his life as a test case for whether the COVID vaccines are safe or dangerous.
The clear conclusion: the vaccines are unsafe. I was right.
Please let’s not have any more challenges like this.
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According to Doug, those who have been saying the “vaccines are safe and effective” should now admit that they were misled, tell the world who misled you, so that other people can benefit by ignoring those fear mongers.
See the tweet below:
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The fruits of the Church of dialogue, accompaniment, mercy, welcome, synodality…
This is my church on Sunday at 11 AM before September 21 when the deadly thunderclap of Traditionis custodes fell with full force on my archdiocese:
This is my church at 11 am on Sunday now:
Thank you, Pope Francis, for bringing the success of your pontificate to my parish.
October 13, 2022
By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK
The USCCB is rightly concerned about racism, as they should be about any sin. In the statement Open Wide Our Hearts, they affirm the dignity of every human person: “But racism still profoundly affects our culture, and it has no place in the Christian heart. This evil causes great harm to its victims, and it corrupts the souls of those who harbor racist or prejudicial thoughts. The persistence of the evil of racism is why we are writing this letter now.”
The fight against racism in the Church, however, overlaps with an abuse of concerns about racial interrelations in society by means of malevolent political movements such as BLM. The color politics that do not promote equality and justice, but serve only to fan the flames of the injustices they claim to oppose, roil the Church and society as a distraction from, and an obstacle to, faith. For we of faith nothing replaces the Gospel.
Thank the Lord many people today are, as they should be, colorblind. Is it possible that some may harbor tendencies to discriminate based on appearances? Most likely more people than we may ever know struggle daily to overcome their unjust reactions to race, creed, sex, or other factors that make others different from themselves.
The reason for discrimination of any kind, however, is sin. Yes, racism is a sin. Discrimination of any kind is unjust because a violation of the dignity that belongs to every human person, simply because they are human and thus bear God’s image and likeness. It is a faith-informed truth that charity excludes no creature from its Godly embrace. To get to the root of racism or any form of discrimination we have to go to the source, which is sin. Politics cannot help us. Politics too often uses racism to increase division. Only God’s love has the power to combat injustices.
Faith is the practice of God’s love. The conversion to the ways of faith is the means of rooting out any and all injustice or discrimination. Pastors who focus on God’s love first, seeking first the Kingdom, can effectively combat all forms of injustice to include racism.
Why do some pastors and religious leaders focus on racism, however? Why do they headline it with banners on church grounds and regular comments about it in homilies and writings? And when they do, why don’t we hear any disparaging comments about the fact that it is inappropriate to focus continuously on one sin, potentially making any group which is being addressed feel, perhaps unfairly, that they are being unjustly accused? If it were any other moral issue I believe that would be the reaction as experience has shown.
Read the rest: https://thewandererpress.com/catholic/news/our-catholic-faith/color-politics-an-impediment-to-faith/
