A Catholic Mom climbing the Pillars

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Catholic Sunday Snippets

RAnn, host of our Catholic Sunday Snippets each Sunday at her blog, This That and the other thing, has it up and running for your perusal.

Enjoy and happy Sunday!

A question, I wish we could ask in parishes

Just wondering, the liberal and "feminists" of the world want us to believe that up to 95% of Catholic women use contraceptives.

Do you think that is true??

Just to be fair, I'll answer the question: No I don't and never have used contraceptives. I have 3 children spaced by God's plan. Wish I had more, but alas.

Monday, February 6, 2012

The Modern Day Outlaws

Talking with my sister-in-law, a maternity ward nurse, the other day about the new Health and Human Services mandate (HHS), I was curious about how things are going since she works at a Catholic hospital. She told me her hospital is totally orthodox and perform no procedures that would hurt/prevent/end life at all. There is a place across the street patients go to have their tubes tied after delivering their decidedly last child, but no pills, procedures are done in the hospital. I was happy to hear that and she also said the doctors she works for would not want to be part of the other industry. She knows fellow nurses that went over to the state hospital looking for more money and opportunities and came back saying that "they couldn't do what was required of them there." There, they do all procedures, no questions asked. They told her that women (her words "rich bitches") would come in there for abortions because the baby was the wrong sex!

I can't get that out of my mind........ Of all the reasons to murder someone! It takes me back to the stories of the wild west where hot-shot bandits and outlaws would come into town shooting up people, places, and things just to get attention and lay down their law. How these outlaws would kill a man, just to watch him die, for no other reason than vain recreation because he could and get away with it.

For a time, that is. I have always heard and it is a proven theory that if you live by violence, you'll die by violence. Just another nugget of proof of the Divine Creator.

So now we have women (and men) who come into town with unwanted people in their lives and they "shoot them down" for no other good reason than vain inconvenience, because they can and get away with it.

Is there a difference in these scenarios? Well, one is in the law books as illegal with a list of conditions and levels of punishment, the other is perfectly legal without much regulation, basically. Both leave a person with a sense of power and control over the human condition...

...for a time.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Respect for Rights of Conscience Act:(H.R. 1179, S. 1467)

January 31, 2012

Dear Friend,

On January 20 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reaffirmed a rule that under the new health care law, virtually all private health care plans must cover sterilization, abortifacients, and contraception.

The rule is set to take effect August 1, 2012. Non-profit religious employers that do not now provide such coverage, and are not exempt under the rule’s extremely narrow definition of religious employer, will be given one year to comply.

To correct the threats to religious liberty and rights of conscience posed by the new health care law, the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act has been introduced in Congress (H.R. 1179, S. 1467). This measure will ensure that those who participate in the health care system “retain the right to provide, purchase, or enroll in health coverage that is consistent with their religious beliefs and moral convictions.” It is more important than ever that Members of Congress be urged to co-sponsor and work to pass this measure.

If you have not contacted your Representative and two Senators on this matter in the last couple of days, please click on the link below to send your message.

Responding to the January 20 announcement, Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, stated: “In effect, the president is saying we have a year to figure out how to violate our consciences.” Noting that the Obama administration “has now drawn an unprecedented line in the sand,” the Cardinal-designate urged that the HHS mandate be overturned.

Thanks for all you do in support of life!

Michael Taylor
Executive Director

Click the link below to log in and send your message:

http://actions.nchla.org/link/target/nchla/BWftJEbE.aspx

Why I hate religion video

My friend, Nick, at Phat Catholic.blogspot.com has a great blog and I wanted to share his response to the video that was going around earlier this month.

http://phatcatholic.blogspot.com/2012/01/response-to-why-i-hate-religion-but.html