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Some things are more important than high gas prices or a faltering economy.
They are life, marriage and freedom.
This November, Catholics must stand up and protect their sacred rights and duties.
jueves, 28 de junio de 2012
Hitler economic policies are embraced by governments all around the world.
Hitler's Economics
The Glenview State Bank of Chicago, for example, recently praised Hitler's economics in its monthly newsletter. In doing so, the bank discovered the hazards of praising Keynesian policies in the wrong context.
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It was the major ambition of Hitler's economic program to expand the borders of Germany to make autarky viable, which meant building huge protectionist barriers to imports. The goal was to make Germany a self-sufficient producer so that it did not have to risk foreign influence and would not have the fate of its economy bound up with the goings-on in other countries. It was a classic case of economically counterproductive xenophobia.
Read more: http://mises.org
miércoles, 27 de junio de 2012
Catholics will have ‘something great to offer’ by living their faith in public
Carl Anderson
Threats to Religious Liberty Bring Opportunity
for Authentic Catholic Witness
The Knights of Columbus strongly supports the Fortnight for Freedom, a two-week period during which the U.S. bishops have called for prayer, fasting, education and public action. What do you hope the outcome will be?
For the Knights of Columbus, it has certainly energized us. It’s a call to action and to rededicate ourselves to the great tradition we have as Americans and as Catholics for the free exercise of religion and also demonstrate that to our fellow citizens and to continue to reach out in works of charity and other ways to make lives better in our parishes and communities. For us, it is something which we talk about as a fortnight and we hope will lead to a platform in which action will develop way beyond the fortnight.
The Knights has had a long history of defending religious liberty.
The Knights of Columbus was founded in 1882 by the sons of Irish citizens, and, really, the organization developed from a whole era of anti-Catholic prejudice and bigotry of the Know Nothings. So religious liberty was always very important to the Knights.
Then we move into the 20th century, and the Knights are standing up against the Ku Klux Klan, which as a part of a national strategy wanted to close down all the Catholic schools in America. We fought them on that. We then were very much involved in trying to help our brother and sister Catholics in Mexico when the Church was being persecuted there in the 1920s and ’30s. Then in the ’50s, (with) the question of communism and the Iron Curtain and the churches there, we were trying to work for them and their freedom. And that pretty much brings us up to today, the HHS mandate and other issues.
Read more: www.ncregister.com
How most wisely to approach the question of contraception in the midst of the fight for religious freedom
The HHS Mandate
A Question of Religious Freedom or the Life Issues?
The Approach of the Bishops: Praise and A Question
Stating What the Fight Is and Is Not About
It is wonderful to see the unity, work and leadership of the Bishops in the fight for Religious freedom.
We should both thank God for and join with them in their focused attention on the wrongheaded general principles they list as built into the Mandate:
(1) an unwarranted government definition of religion;
(2) a mandate to act against our teachings; and
(3) a violation of personal civil rights.
We act, not as sectarians, but as free citizens
Social Justice Priorities
Life and Religious Liberty
People don’t want to join societies like they used to...
The Queens English No More
- On the last day of June a sad event in the long and noble history of the English language is scheduled to take place: the Queen’s English Society will formally be wound up.
- Forty years of trying to raise the awareness of fellow Englishmen about the misuse of apostrophes and semicolons, the overuse of the exclamation mark and the insidious effect of American spell checks — to say nothing of texting and twittering — have seen the ranks of active supporters thin to vanishing point.
- Only 22 members came to the recent annual meeting, and ten of those were committee members.
Buddhist thought sees as illusory all distinction between beings
The Dalai Lama, The Pope, and Creation
- The Dalai Lama has been awarded this year’s Templeton Prize, an annual honor given by the Templeton Foundation to a figure who, according to the foundation’s website, “has made an exceptional contribution to affirming life’s spiritual dimension.”
- In practice, the Prize has gone frequently to thinkers who have investigated the interaction between science and religion. The Dalai Lama, as spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, has also concerned himself with this topic, and has released just this year his newest book, The Universe in a Single Atom, which investigates, in light of each other, Buddhist thought and modern science.
- While Catholics can certainly laud the Dalai Lama for his affirmation that the materialistic view of things falls short, they should also look at his Buddhist philosophy with some serious reservations. If the Dalai Lama is right in affirming a dimension to reality beyond that known by science, just what that dimension is remains a serious question.
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