The fight over the HHS Mandate is about to come to a boil. In June the Bishops are going to have this document inserted in Mass bulletins throughout the nation which mentions the necessity of disobeying immoral laws in certain situations.
Some unjust laws impose such injustices on individuals and organizations that disobeying the laws may be justified. Every effort must be made to repeal them. When fundamental human goods, such as the right of conscience, are at stake, we may need witness to the truth by resisting the law and incurring its penalties.
I am almost thankful to President Obama. Due to his blind hubris, his willingness to ride roughshod over American liberties for cheap perceived political advantage, he has awakened the Church in this country from her slumber, and reminded Catholics that they are part of the Church Militant here on Earth.
Beginning for two weeks, up to Independence Day, the Bishops are having a Fortnight For Freedom:
We here at The American Catholic will be participating in the Fortnight For Freedom with special blog posts on each day. As I have noted many times on this blog, 2012 is no longer merely an election year for Catholics. This is an Elijah on Mount Carmel year. A time for choosing is upon us, something our Bishops understand.
Donald,
“I am almost thankful to President Obama.”
I have thought the same thing many times, God’s timing is not our timing, his presidency was a much needed wake-up call for many lukewarm people. But OH! I’d vote for a ham sandwich before I’d vote for Obama.
And I love how you tip-toe’d around your point in the next sentence — NOT! 😀
Fortnight4freedom.org
Uplifting and renewing as Easter season closes and Ordinary Time returns.
Your ‘Elijah on Mount Carmel Year’ has to be reality, after the Rip Van Winkle one.
“God’s timing is not our timing”
Or in the words of Richard Hovey, greatest poet of Illinois,( sorry Mr. Sandburgh!):
Unmanifest Destiny
To what new fates, my country, far
And unforeseen of foe or friend,
Beneath what unexpected star
Compelled to what unchosen end.
Across the sea that knows no beach,
The Admiral of Nations guides
Thy blind obedient keels to reach
The harbor where thy future rides!
The guns that spoke at Lexington
Knew not that God was planning then
The trumpet word of Jefferson
To bugle forth the rights of men.
To them that wept and cursed Bull Run,
What was it but despair and shame?
Who saw behind the cloud the sun?
Who knew that God was in the flame?
Had not defeat upon defeat,
Disaster on disaster come,
The slave’s emancipated feet
Had never marched behind the drum.
There is a Hand that bends our deeds
To mightier issues than we planned;
Each son that triumphs, each that bleeds,
My country, serves It’s dark command.
I do not know beneath what sky
Nor on what seas shall be thy fate;
I only know it shall he high,
I only know it shall be great.
Richard Hovey
What is the response of that pseudo-group, Catholics United? Will their liberal members have the hubris to balk about balking?
A THING IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN THAT HAS NOT HAPPENED SINCE THE ELDER DAYS…
…THE ENTS ARE GOING TO WAKE UP, AND FIND THAT THEY ARE STRONG.
Religious freedom has been under attack for some time, though the attackers claim that this is not their aim.
People need to wake up and speak out about what is going on. I hope everyone will get the courage to speak out, through blog posts or Facebook shares, every day up to and including July Fourth.
It appears as though the liberal agenda, in the name of evolving society, is attempting to slide their Europeanizing mindset into place under the many smokescreen guises, all the while abolishing our GREAT CONSTITUTION
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