Bless all those in our government for foiling a terror plot attempted by the Iranians. Factions of the Iranian government had planned a terrorist attack on the Israeli and Saudi Arabian embassies in Washington and planned to assassinate the Saudi ambassador. This certainly takes chutzpa on the part of the Iranian government. But, what do you expect when we have a president who is willing to compromise with our enemies? Do you think that this terrorist attempt is an act of war? My question is what options do we have to hold Iran accountable for their actions? Attorney General Holder said that the U.S. is going to hold Iran accountable for its actions. How? Okay... Just heard they've decided to try more sanctions. That's about par for this administration - continuing with their failed policies. If we retaliated with military action would this fall under the Just War Doctrine?
What is your opinion of the "Occupy Wall Street" protesters? Over at Teresamerica I posed this question: Are They Astroturf Useful Idiots Who Represent the Bums of America?
Apparently a Catholic participant named Tom Beaudoin has proposed that Catholics follow this model and apply it to the grievances they have with the Church. Look at this paragraph from Tom's article:
What would be the last straw that would make you join such a movement? Would it be the episcopal malfeasance and coverup known as the sexual abuse crisis, would it be the steady disaffiliation, deconversion, and detachment of your family members or friends from the faith as church structures, teachings, and practices become steadily more incredible in contemporary society, or would it be the failure of the church to practice in its internal affairs the justice it preaches to the world -- or something else?"
From this paragraph do you get the gist that Tom and other occupiers want to "transform" the Church into something its not in order to fit into secular society's cesspool of moral relativism? I'm sure Tom wants to abandon Tradition. No Thanks! The Church's teachings are infallible and indefectible.
Archbishop Gomez encourages Catholics to boldly defend life. He said, “This issue is deeply related to who we are as Catholics, to our identity as disciples of Jesus Christ.”
“This issue is deeply related to who we are as Catholics, to our identity as disciples of Jesus Christ.”
He is calling the faithful to pray together as a Church during the month of October for an end to “every offense against the sanctity and dignity of the human person”.
Archbishop Gomez continued “Our religion, in a beautiful and mysterious way, is deeply identified with human life,” he said. “What other world religion remembers the time when its founder was in his mother’s womb?”
“Biblical religion is a religion in which family and children, and the promise of children, plays a big role,” he said. “Think of God’s words to the prophet Jeremiah: ‘Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.’”
“An unborn child was the first to bear witness to Jesus! God loved us so much that he entered into this world as each one of us did — through the womb of a mother.”
“Jesus Christ took our human nature and spent nine months in the womb!” he underscored. “Why would he do this? To show us that human life is sacred. To show us that every life is precious to God.
To show us that each of us is a child of God who is loved in a special way by our Father in heaven.”
He went onto explain that Christians have been defending the right to life “from the very beginnings of the Church” and “why we defend for the right of every child to be born.”
Archbishop Gomez continued saying this, “This is why we defend the rights of the old and the sick to be cared for with love and compassion until their natural death.This is why we strive to preserve the mystery of marriage as the union of man and woman in the plan of God. And this is why we strive for justice for the immigrant and the worker; for the imprisoned, the hungry and the homeless. This is who we are as Catholics. We are a people of life and for life.”
