It is truly baffling who much the truth and irony of the reactions to the witness to the horrors of abortion can be. In the United Kingdom, because the 1967 legislation for the legalization of abortion, upwards of 200,000+ innocent children are being executed per year. When two courageous and truth loving souls, Andy Stephenson and Kathryn Sloane (both Christians needless to say) were bearing witness to this ongoing atrocity and used a poster of an aborted child to shock people and confront the public with what their government and society allows, they were arrested under the Public Order Act for pubic offense. What gives ? So the depiction of horror and brutality of the innocence is an arrestable offense but the actual act of brutality is not ? Robert Mendick's report of the incident can be read in the Daily Telegraph here. These events show that truth is one of the first casualties of a society in free-fall. In many ways Britain has become a post-anglican hedonistic mess.
In other news, national public radio announced that there was new legislation in South Dakota which will go into effect July 1st which states that pregnant mothers have to take a 72 hour space of time in which they need to get counseling about executing their unborn children. The public radio seemed to express their disappointment about the law and lamented how only one doctor is allowed into the state from outside to perform this "valuable service". The mind boggles ....and the soul trembles.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Successful Pro Life Vigil at Allston's Planned Parenthood
This morning, Saturday March 12th 2011 at 8:45 am saw members of several Catholic Parishes of Greater Boston participate in a prayer vigil outside the "clinic" of Planned Panenthood in Allston, MA. Fifteen decades of prayers encompassing the sacred mysteries of the passion, cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ of the Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary were prayed along with many hymns and prayers. There were several other pro-life demonstrators holding signs of various real depictions of pre-natal children in the womb at 8 weeks.
I call this prayer vigil a success because at least two mothers who were intent on availing of the "services" of the business outside whose premises we were praying, saw our signs and prayers, and turned around in some distress. We don't know whether it was the circumstances these women found themselves in, the combination of abortion promotion and sexualizing of our youth, or whether it was the toxin of moral relativism of a society in free-fall which drove these women to this place to seek this horrible and deplorable "service". Neither do we condemn them, nor their peers, nor even the operators of these abortion clinics. We are doing battle here with the very principalities and powers of darkness. And because those two women turned away from this darkness, despite what economic, personal and psychological difficulties arise, at least those women have their lives, and at least their children will have been given a start in life, a fighting chance.
The vigil and demonstration certainly had its fair share of what I would describe as distant hecklers. A cyclist rode by extending his middle finger and directed a stream of vulgarity towards the group, two persons across the road yelled something inaudible and probably incomprehensible. This is to be expected, when you are part of body who holds to an unchanging truth about mans place in the world and an unwavering objective moral standard, detractors and angry opposition is to be expected. It is vital and challenging to be a part of this group - a trembling presence of the outworking of the Catholic Church doctrines, ancient and true. Whether it's a papal bull. condemning slavery (Sicut Dudum written in 1435) or an encyclical (Pope Leo XIII's rerum novarum) warning against the evils of communism, the Church has been and always will be, at least by tenets of faith and moral doctrines, that massive "undigested lead ball in the pit of the worlds stomach" (adapted from Peter Kreeft). Like the solid metal heart in Wilde's The Happy Prince, which could not be alloyed, sintered or liquefied into the mainstream flow of secular society.
Please join the prayer vigil on the first Saturday of every month in Allston, MA.
I call this prayer vigil a success because at least two mothers who were intent on availing of the "services" of the business outside whose premises we were praying, saw our signs and prayers, and turned around in some distress. We don't know whether it was the circumstances these women found themselves in, the combination of abortion promotion and sexualizing of our youth, or whether it was the toxin of moral relativism of a society in free-fall which drove these women to this place to seek this horrible and deplorable "service". Neither do we condemn them, nor their peers, nor even the operators of these abortion clinics. We are doing battle here with the very principalities and powers of darkness. And because those two women turned away from this darkness, despite what economic, personal and psychological difficulties arise, at least those women have their lives, and at least their children will have been given a start in life, a fighting chance.
The vigil and demonstration certainly had its fair share of what I would describe as distant hecklers. A cyclist rode by extending his middle finger and directed a stream of vulgarity towards the group, two persons across the road yelled something inaudible and probably incomprehensible. This is to be expected, when you are part of body who holds to an unchanging truth about mans place in the world and an unwavering objective moral standard, detractors and angry opposition is to be expected. It is vital and challenging to be a part of this group - a trembling presence of the outworking of the Catholic Church doctrines, ancient and true. Whether it's a papal bull. condemning slavery (Sicut Dudum written in 1435) or an encyclical (Pope Leo XIII's rerum novarum) warning against the evils of communism, the Church has been and always will be, at least by tenets of faith and moral doctrines, that massive "undigested lead ball in the pit of the worlds stomach" (adapted from Peter Kreeft). Like the solid metal heart in Wilde's The Happy Prince, which could not be alloyed, sintered or liquefied into the mainstream flow of secular society.
Please join the prayer vigil on the first Saturday of every month in Allston, MA.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Ireland's Labour Party , clandestine abortion policies and terrible superbutchers
It came to light recently, during the run-up to the very recent national elections in Ireland that there is a real threat to the nation's historical and heroic opposition to abortion on demand. The threat to the unborn was not immediately detectable as it was buried in page 79 of the Labour Party's 92 page manifesto in a statement so clandestine in it's language, you'd be convinced that they were deliberately trying to cloud their policy description in the darkness of murky language that does not even mention abortion. This threat came to light when Irish Daily Mail corespondent Mary Ellen Synon's article in the Irish edition of the Daily Mail recently. The deceptive and shadowy means by which they are attempting to
gain a foot in the door of opening Ireland up to the scourge of abortion were in line with the grim and insidious nature of the operation itself. The set of words used did not even use the term abortion (itself a linguistic trick), for it reads "Labour in government will legislate in accordance with the Supreme Court judgment in the X Case, and the recent ruling by the European Court of Human Rights". The X case is a special ruling in Ireland that allowed a woman to procure an abortion if she had been raped (confirmed by three doctors) and that the failure to procure such an abortion will result in her death. To allow Europe to pressurize Ireland to expand on this legislation would open a doorway to the hellish reality that abortion brings. And an abortuary really is hell on earth. I'm reminded of Clive Barkers' novella/film of Hellraiser wherein a man who is obsessed with the pain and pleasures of a demon box is literally torn to pieces by it's powers instantiated by a series of hooks. The demons who show up to re-assemble the pieces of flesh in order to identify the face of the victim, like some grim crime scene post-mortem are the "magnificent superbutchers" of Barkers imagination. That may sound absolutely horrible, but it's horror is dampened by the fact that it is only fiction. Well, after an abortion, the doctor has to re-assemble the limbs and sections of an aborted baby in order to ensure no part has been trapped inside the would-have-been mother's womb. That's way more gruesome because it's truly happens and otherwise rational, clear thinking human beings allow it.
gain a foot in the door of opening Ireland up to the scourge of abortion were in line with the grim and insidious nature of the operation itself. The set of words used did not even use the term abortion (itself a linguistic trick), for it reads "Labour in government will legislate in accordance with the Supreme Court judgment in the X Case, and the recent ruling by the European Court of Human Rights". The X case is a special ruling in Ireland that allowed a woman to procure an abortion if she had been raped (confirmed by three doctors) and that the failure to procure such an abortion will result in her death. To allow Europe to pressurize Ireland to expand on this legislation would open a doorway to the hellish reality that abortion brings. And an abortuary really is hell on earth. I'm reminded of Clive Barkers' novella/film of Hellraiser wherein a man who is obsessed with the pain and pleasures of a demon box is literally torn to pieces by it's powers instantiated by a series of hooks. The demons who show up to re-assemble the pieces of flesh in order to identify the face of the victim, like some grim crime scene post-mortem are the "magnificent superbutchers" of Barkers imagination. That may sound absolutely horrible, but it's horror is dampened by the fact that it is only fiction. Well, after an abortion, the doctor has to re-assemble the limbs and sections of an aborted baby in order to ensure no part has been trapped inside the would-have-been mother's womb. That's way more gruesome because it's truly happens and otherwise rational, clear thinking human beings allow it.
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