NETWORK lobbies for “Earth Principles”

The “Catholic” social justice political lobby known as NETWORK lobbies for “Earth Principles.”

We Googled ‘earth principles’ and the result was nauseating:  Gaia or Earth Goddess.

Stay tuned.

30 Groups Protest Ahmadinejad Interfaith Meeting

This is a follow-up to our post – Stop Ahmandinejad.

30 Groups Protest Ahmadinejad in New York

Oregon Governor will Host NARAL Gala

NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon’s announcement:

In this historic election year, NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon is pleased to announce that the

Honorable Governor Ted Kulongoski and First Lady Mary Oberst

will host

our Annual Political Gala on

Friday, October 3, 2008

at the Marriott Downtown Portland

1401 SW Naito Pkwy
Portland, OR 97201

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The event will begin at 6pm, with a 5:30 pm champagne reception exclusively for table hosts featuring the Governor and First Lady.

NOTE: Archbishop Vlazny celebrates a Pro-Life Mass at the Cathedral, downtown Portland, 2 days later!

Catholic League: Obama and Infanticide

Pro-”choice” Catholics will vote for Barack Hussein Obama.  You’ve seen the bumper stickers in church parking lots, read about them on the internet, in news reports, and heard them on the radio talk shows.

Show them this!

Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights:

Obama and Infanticide

In addition, the Catholic League has taken out a full page ad (9/22/08 Weekly), “Obama, NARAL, and Infanticide.”

“It’s quite clear what’s going on:  the radical pro-abortionists–and no one is more radical than Obama and NARAL–will even defend selective infanticide if there is one chance in a million that it will chip away at Roe v. Wade.  Incredibly, even NARAL eventually dropped its opposition to the [Born Alive Infants Protection Act] bill, somthing Obama never did.”—William Donahue

NETWORK lobby’s focus: “Material Justice”

Over at Catholic Culture there is a review of this organization and examples of NETWORK’s weakness for “material justice.”

Palin on Ahmadinejad: “He must be stopped”

Sarah Palin was scheduled to speak 9/22/08 but her appearance was cancelled.  Read her speech at Terrorism Awareness.

Sr. Simone Campbell: “Amadinejad didn’t discuss Israel”

Sr. Simone Campbell, Director, NETWORK

Sister Campbell’s talk was dull.  All Saints Catholic Church in Portland is dull.  The architecture was dull.  The tiny crucifix (on a stand) was dull.

Why the heck does the Archdiocese of Portland need a social justice speaker in the first place?  I guess the United States Bishops are hen-pecked by the Catholic Feminists.  Women can’t be ordained.  I know!  Let’s throw out the Body and Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Our Savior — because he’s a male symbol of the “patriarchy” they hate and fear — and replace it all with Social Justice blather!  That’ll fill the pews!

“LIVE YOUR SOCIAL JUSTICE!  I LIVED MY SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE PARKING LOT”—Sr. Simone

No, actually, Sister, that’s “charity.”

Stop Ahmadinejad – Official laws against women

official laws against women in Iran

Article 21 of Iran’s Constitution indicates: “The government must ensure the rights of women in all respects, in conformity with Islamic criteria…” This leaves it up to the clergymen to interpret the laws pertaining to women.

Article 83 of the Penal Code, called the Law of Hodoud, stipulates that the penalty for fornication is flogging, i.e. 100 strokes of the lash, for unmarried male and female offenders.

Article 102 of Iran’s Constitution indicates: “Women who appear on streets and in public without the prescribed ‘Islamic Hejab’ will be condemned to 74 strokes of the lash.”

Article 105 of the Civil Code “In the relationship between a man and a woman, the man is responsible as head of the family.” The Council of Guardians, has decreed, “A woman cannot leave her home without her husband’s permission, even to attend her father’s funeral”.

Article 1117 of the Civil Code states that the husband may ban his wife from any technical profession that conflicts with family life or her character.

Article 1133 of the Civil Code states: A man can divorce his wife whenever he so chooses and does not have to give her advance notice.

Article 102 of the Penal code, states that married offenders (adulterers) are liable to stoning regardless of their gender, but the method laid down for a man stipulates he be buried up to his waist, and a woman up to her neck.

Article 114 of Iran’s Civil codes states: When rajm [stoning] is being administered on a man he must be placed in a pit almost down to his waist, and when administered on a woman she must be placed in a pit almost down to her chest. Such barbaric behavior by the regime includes dictating the style, size and the administration of stoning while differentiating between male vs. female victims. Female victim up to her neck to avoid physical escape, however, even if condemned female victim is able to flee the scene, authorities are obliged to arrest her and execute her by firing squad. As for the male victims, they are buried up to their waist and if able to escape the scene no further punishment awaits them.

FACTS and FIGURES

· Tens of thousands of women have been executed in Iran since 1979, when the mullahs took power. They were executed on political grounds, for their opposition to the policies of the ruling government. Among those executed were tens of pregnant women.

· The worst kinds of torture are inflicted on woman prisoners who oppose the regime. These include repeated sexual assaults, amputation of body parts and…

· Women played a very active role in the 40,000 teachers’ demonstrations outside the Majlis on January 12, 2002. In these series of demonstrations, a number of women were arrested and imprisoned on charges of just participating in a demonstration.

Stop Ahmadinejad. Free Iran. www.925rally.org

http://www.wfafi.org/laws.pdf

Sr. Simone Campbell of NETWORK “Touched” by Ahmadinejad

NETWORK is the progressive Catholic social justice political lobby of graying Left-Wing Catholic Feminists.  Be sure to visit their website and read its laundry list of issues they lose sleep over, like the federal budget and a fair minimum wage.

Its current director, Sr. Campbell, is in Portland to speak about – what else – social justice and the 2008 Election.

Sr. Campbell is pro-abortion based on her close alliance with Call To Action.

SEPT. 22, 2008, 7:30 pm ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC CHURCH, PORTLAND OR

Sr. Simone Campbell, a gifted and

faithful witness for justice and peace
and a national and international leader
for advocacy and reconciliation, will
be this year’s speaker for the Theresa
Willett Memorial Lecture at All Saints
Church. The lecture this Monday,
Sept. 22, will begin at 7:30pm. The
topic of Sister Simone’s remarks will
be:  Faith Alive: Catholic Social Teaching,
Spirituality & the 2008 Election. The
time with Sister Simone should assist all
of us in integrating our rich Catholic
Social Teaching with the decisions we
will soon make in the November
election.

SISTER SIMONE CAMPBELL was among a group of Americans who met Iranian dranged and dangerous President Ahmadinejad at Columbia University.

MY REFLECTIONS ON THE EXPERIENCE: Simone Campbell, SSS

• I know so little about Iranian culture, and I sense that the rest of our country is the same. I was amazed at the religious/theological context for the dialogue that was presented. After conversation with others who have more experience than I, it seems that the President got elected as a populist, but now he is having to move in academic circles. Learning has been respected in the Persian culture for thousands of years. Apparently academic disputation is highly valued in Iran. He is not adept at doing this and is a bit insecure about it.

• In discussion following, I learned that the major religious leaders are the true leaders of Iran, and the President is actually quite far down on the power list. However, the U.S. administration keeps dealing with him as if he held the title in the same way as in the U.S. I understand that this is being dismissive of the religious leaders. Therefore, while they might not agree with President Ahmadinejad’s rhetoric, they are not moving to curb him

• Of his comments—I think I was most touched by his comments about poverty and how where there is absolute poverty there is a denial of someone’s human rights.

• Some of the questions asked were so culturally contained in an effort to connect at the human level, e.g. his fears, failings in Iran, etc. I don’t know how we get around this, but it seems unrealistic to expect him (or anyone from another culture) to respond to our U.S. human expectations of “bonding.”

Special thanks to Oregon Catholic  Citizens for contributing this story.

Fr. Richard Rohr coming to Portland

This lunatic Heretic will be in Portland September 12 and 13, 2008 at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral. Rohr is a Guru to members of the “peace and justice” fanatics at St. Clare’s Catholic Community and St. Andrew’s “Faith Community.”

A call to the Archdiocese, to complain that Rohr will be spreading heresies as he represents the Catholic Church, elicited this response:

“He’s a priest in good standing.  He’s a citizen of the United States coming here to speak.  He’s not speaking at a Catholic Church.  There’s nothing we can do about it.”

But he presides at gay weddings and the Archbishop has said he is against gay marriage.  Rohr is a Catholic feminist and will be spreading heresies.  St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Portland is promoting Rohr’s talk.

“Then, if that’s the case, St. Andrews would be told that they should stop promoting the talk.”

—-Bud Bunce, Public Relations, Archdiocese of Portland

Mr. Bunce declined to investigate St. Andrew’s further.

IS FR. RICHARD ROHR A NEW AGE LUNATIC?

At the March, 1997, pro-”gay” New Ways Ministry Symposium, he
described his all-male retreats, in which men remove clothing and touch each other in “wounded areas,” as he calls them.  Abp. Michael Sheehan of Santa Fe once reprimanded Fr. Rohr for presiding at a lesbian “wedding.” Also, Fr. Rohr advises Catholics to use the New Age/occult Enneagram.—-Concerned Roman Catholics of America

WHY IS HE WILDLY POPULAR with NEW AGE NUNS?

“The Maternal Face of God” – ‘Rohr attends to developments in feminine consciousness to consider images of God and their evolution in our own understanding of the Divine, who is beyond gender. He considers aspects of God that can transform the spiritual understanding of both women and men.’—-CD Audio

Visit this RICHARD ROHR DOSSIER