tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53186542011-08-16T23:06:17.752-04:00A Catholic perspective on the world by Carrie Tomko...Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07464076577415616807noreply@blogger.comBlogger48681100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5318654.post-21390553280476791602009-04-06T19:59:00.004-04:002009-04-06T20:42:06.613-04:00

CARRIE'S LAST POST It is with heavy hearts that my father, Aunt Carol and I write this. Over the last several days, Carrie's health had been declining. Yesterday (Sunday), Carrie's family surrounded her; she was aware of their presence and they were able to say goodbye and to her tell her it was OK to let go. Today (Monday), Carrie was resting peacefully and at about 2:20 pm, God called her

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Carrie continues to rest at home with the help of hospice, a home health aid, her sister-inlaw (Carol) and her husband (me). She continues to slide toward a final resting and will be deeply missed. She has received the sacraments of Holy Communion and Anointing of the Sick on multiple occasions over the last few weeks.We wish to thank you for your prayers and support and request that these

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CANCER JOURNAL UPDATE Carrie is coming home from the hospital late tomorrow morning. My dad has been reading your posts to her in the hospital and says she really perks up when he does so. Someone asked about how to send well wishes/cards. If possible, I think electronic cards are best. Several sites will do it for free such as Smilebox (but that requires a download). You can send cards/

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CANCER JOURNAL UPDATE Thank you all for your kind words and prayers, I know it will brighten her day to hear how much you care for her!Carrie is to be released from the hospital on Thursday or Friday. They are trying to get her pain back under control first.

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CANCER JOURNAL UPDATE This is Carrie's daughter. She is no longer able to put up posts herself but wanted to update everyone on her situation.Since my mom's last post everyday tasks have become more and more challenging. On the 9th, she was walking while hanging onto her bed when she blacked out and fell. Thankfully she didn't break anything! Shortly afterwards, she decided to enroll in a

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CANCER JOURNAL - UpdateI was in the hospital four days and am now at home and going for radiation treatments on my brain every day...a brain that does not function normally yet, making blogging nearly impossible. My feet still will not go where I try to put them, so I can't do much. Hopefully by the end of the treatments that will change. I'm halfway through them.Hubby's aunt was supposed to

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THINGS GET A LITTLE MORE COMPLICATEDWe learned that my husband's 96-year-old aunt was taken by ambulence to the hospital around 10:30 p.m. last night. She has pneumonia and doesn't sound good on the phone.

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CANCER JOURNAL - The Caregiver's RoleA couple of years ago my husband underwent back surgery which included spinal fusion, and rods and screws in his back in order to treat spinal stenosis and keep him on his feet. During that time I was his chief caregiver and had continued to be up until the present crisis. He needed help with anything that required bending over. He no longer has my help and

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CANCER JOURNAL - The Communion of SaintsEvery time we recite the creed, we say that we believe in the "Communion of Saints", but what is that?Since I suspect that most of us haven't thought much about it, I thought I'd write some of the insights I've learned recently in the midst of this battle.Cancer inevitably makes one address death directly. I am surrounded by people I love who love me, and

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CANCER JOURNAL - Home from the HospitalIt seems I've gotten one more reprieve. I came home around noon. When I left for the hospital last Friday, I took a look around the house and didn't expect to see it again.This latest episode began when I went in for a radiation treatment on my right hip. I walked into a wall in the long hallway from the waiting room back to the treatment room with a

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CANCER JOURNAL-unexpected developments Carrie's in the hospital, please say a prayer for her. The cancer situation has worsened.

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PUTTING THE BLOG TO SLEEP TEMPORARILYWhat with daily trips to the hospital for radiation and some other activities in the real world, I'm getting too far behind, so it's time to take a break. I'm going to stop blogging until the end of the month.

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TIMELINE OF THE AUTHENTIC TRADITIONby Jonathan SellersVienna. 1782Moses Dobruschka (now Franz Thomas von Schoenfeld) moved to Vienna. He was one of the founders of the "Asiatische Brüeder," a masonic lodge with predominantly Jewish members, and formulated its doctrines. -- Encyclopaedia Judaica, Vol. 6, cols. 143-4. This is the same person who was appointed by Jacob Frank as his successor. This

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MAKING OUR KIDS PAY FOR OUR MISTAKESThe idea has reached a new low. LifeSite reports:January 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Hundreds of millions of the nearly $1 trillion price tag on President Obama's economic stimulus bill is expected to go to contraception and the abortion industry.Last week, during consideration of the congressional Democrats’ spending bill by the House Energy & Commerce

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POLISH NATIONAL CHURCH MAY BUY TWO CLOSED CATHOLIC CHURCHESMore than a century ago, Catholic communities of Polish-Americans around the country, including Buffalo, broke with the Roman Catholic Church in disputes over property and lay governance.Now, two recently closed Roman Catholic churches are being considered for use as worship sites by the Polish National Catholic Church, a denomination

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TIMELINE OF THE AUTHENTIC TRADITIONby Jonathan SellersFrom the year 1769:In Conjugial Love, Swedenborg's experience seemed to merge Yogic with Kabbalistic practice.Also in Conjugial Love, Swedenborg described a secret mystical society, in which "spirits from Asia" teach inititiates how to meditate on emblems of love"works of art and some small images as though cast in silver" that represent "the

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STUDY OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS ANNOUNCEDThe Vatican has begun a first-ever comprehensive study of women's religious orders in the United States, four decades into a steep decline in the number of Roman Catholic sisters and nuns in the country.The study, ordered by a Vatican congregation in December and announced Friday in Washington, will examine "the quality of the life" of 59,000 members in more than

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THE HOLOCAUSE DENIAL HOT POTATO IS GETTING HOTTERFrom the Washington Post:Fifty Catholic members of Congress have written Pope Benedict XVI, asking him to directly reject the views of British-born Bishop Richard Williamson, who has denied the scale of the Holocaust. Benedict last week reinstated Williamson and three other bishops who have rejected the church's teachings from the second Vatican

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TIMELINE OF THE AUTHENTIC TRADITIONby Jonathan SellersUnder the year 1766 there is an interesting passage that might explain how Catharism came to the Languedoc:It is worth mentioning here, that the story concerning the Qadosh Fathers, or the Thebaid Solitaries, or the Knights of the Morning Star, came from Tschoudy's L'Etoile Flamboyante. -- that in the time of Solomon's Temple, the Qadosh

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CONSTANCE CUMBEY'S RADIO PROGRAM IS SLATED TO PRESENT AN INTERESTING GUEST ON TUESDAYCheck out her summary and then click the link to read what Tom Fife has to say on the subject of Barak Obama. Then, before you dismiss everything he tells as alarmist, remember Saul Alinsky.

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OH BOY! NOW THERE ARE TWO!In news link posted at NOR:Fr. Floriano AbrahamowiczIn the wake of a global furor triggered by Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to lift the excommunication of four traditionalist Catholic bishops, including one who cast doubt on the Holocaust, another leader in the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X has questioned whether the Nazis used gas chambers for anything other

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ANGLICAN SCHISM TO BE HEALED ?From The Record:History may be in the making. It appears Rome is on the brink of welcoming close to half a million members of the Traditional Anglican Communion into membership of the Roman Catholic Church, writes Anthony Barich. Such a move would be the most historic development in Anglican-Catholic relations in the last 500 years. But it may also be a prelude to a

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TIMELINE OF THE AUTHENTIC TRADITIONFrom the year 1740:Podolia. In Poland, Kabbalah broke out with renewed energy; fresh Zadikkim and Ba'al Shems arose, the most noted of these being Israel of Podolia, known as Ba'al Shem Tov, or by the initial letters of his name, Besht, who founded his sect of Hasidim at this time. Besht, whilst opposing bigoted Rabbinism and claiming the Zohar as his

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FROM JONATHAN SELLERS TIMELINE OF THE AUTHENTIC TRADITIONThe year is 1738 and the first Catholic condemnation of Freemasonry has been issued by Pope Clement XII:Pope Clement XII issued a papal bull condemning and excommunicating all Freemasons, whom he pronounced, "Enemies of the Roman Church." It has never been altogether clear why they should have been regarded as such -- especially as many of

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CHIEF RABBINATE OF JERUSALEM RESPONDS TO WILLIAMSON REINSTATEMENTThe Chief Rabbinate of Israel says it has suspended ties with the Vatican following the pope's decision to lift the excommunication of a Holocaust denier.Chief Rabbinate Director-General Oded Weiner wrote in a letter to Vatican officials that because of Pope Benedict's decision to reinstate Britain's Bishop Richard Williamson "

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NOT A GOOD DAYWe have enough snow here to bring the area to a halt, and it's still falling. The Radiation Department at Summa Health Systems has been shut down. There has not been a car down my street for more than an hour. I think I've had enough of winter!

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METROPOLITAN KIRILL ELECTED NEW RUSSIAN PATRIARCHThe Russian Orthodox Church has selected 62-year-old Metropolitan Kirill as its new patriarch, an outspoken figure who analysts say could prove a headache for the Kremlin.A seasoned operator after long service as head of the church's foreign relations section, Kirill was elected on Tuesday by an overwhelming majority in a ballot of church leaders

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VATICAN REJECTS WILLIAMSON'S CLAIMSVATICAN CITY - The Vatican said yesterday that comments by a recently rehabilitated bishop that no Jews were gassed during the Holocaust were "unacceptable" and violate church teaching.The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano reaffirmed in a front-page article that Pope Benedict XVI deplored all forms of anti-Semitism and that all Roman Catholics must do the

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TIMELINE OF THE AUTHENTIC TRADITIONJonathan Sellers has composed an extensive timeline of what he calls the "Authentic Tradition" and posted it online. Such a database can only be constructed by someone who has access to Masonic Lodge records because much of the information is contained only there. In addition he has used a number of familiar sources, some of which may be considered dubious,

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ICELANDIt was covered in the noon news on CNN complete with on-site reporter showing the riots, but in the evening news it was nowhere to be seen. Iceland's government collapsed yesterday over the world financial crisis:Global Financial Crisis Claims IcelandBy Jonas Moody / Reykjavik Monday, Jan. 26, 2009Iceland is getting used to this. Over the past six months its currency has collapsed, its

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FROM THE EMAILBOXSpirit & Life® "The words I spoke to you are spirit and life." (Jn 6:63)Human Life International e-NewsletterVolume 04, Number 05 | Friday, January 23, 2009 ..................................................................................www.hli.org President Obama Unleashes the Abortion Demon on the World's Poor Dear Friends of Life,Millions of death warrants have just been

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YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORKFr. Euteneuer has issued a press release on President Obama's rescinding the Mexico City Policy:FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Stephen Phelan, 540-551-2547January 23, 2009 SPhelan@hli.orgHLI President criticizes Obama’sRescinding of Mexico City PolicyFRONT

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WHAT CAN IT MEAN ?Three articles linked at New Oxford Review have me wondering if they are somehow all related in some way besides the obvious.The first is headlined, "Pope to lift excommunications of four 'Lefebvre' bishops".The second is headlined, "Pope could welcome Holocaust denier back into the fold".And the third is headlined, "Church furor over 'racist' religious group"

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NOT QUITE THE SAME APPROACHThis article from the Times was sent in by a reader:Accusing Pope Benedict XVI of "putting the clock back fifty years" a leading Italian rabbi has said Italian Jewish leaders will boycott joint Christian-Jewish prayers due to be held on Saturday in an annual celebration of Judaism by the Vatican. Elia Enrico Richetti, the chief rabbi of Venice, said in a hard hitting

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NOTE ON MEDJUGORJEfrom the back cover of the current Culture Wars" magazine:The year 2008 wasn't a good year for Medjugorje. In May 2008, his excellency Andrea Gemma, bishop emeritus of the diocese if Isernia-Venafro northeast of Rome and one of Italy's best known exorcists, announced in the Italian Catholic internet newsletter Petrus that the Catholic Church had officially stated that the

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CANCER JOURNAL - Radiation for Pain ControlSpent the entire day in and out of the radiologist's office starting at 8:15 and not getting home until nearly dinner time. Bottom line, they are going to try to reduce the pain by radiation. One 25% occurring side effect is a potential blood clot in my leg. Hope I can skip that one. The rest don't sound significant provided the choice is to target a

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THIS IS JUST WRONGAnd disgusingly so. Obama isn't God, after all. Though I think he's gonna need all the help he can get from Our Lady of Perpetual Help and any other saint he has the humility to invoke (I'm not holding my breath) to pull this presidency off. He had better change his position on FOCA if he thinks help is going to be forthcoming from that quarter! Here is the magazine homepage

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NO CLAMPDOWN ON APPARITIONSNow comes the National Catholic Register in an article linked at Spirit Daily, to say there will not be any effort to reign in false apparitions. This is getting disgusting enough for me to turn away from all and every apparition apart from Fatima. We don't need them to have the fullness of the faith. It is not required they be believed. The waffling is unbearable.

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FACEBOOK CARDINAL - YOUTUBE POPELast week Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe reached the limit of 5,000 friends on Facebook when his account was opened.Now the Pope is negotiating with Google to get a YouTube slot. This Rotweiler is constantly learning new tricks to promote the faith. Ya gotta look at his white hair and give him a thumbs up on this one! I've said a prayer that it will be successful. If

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ALEX REYNOLDS WANTS YOU TO SIN THE RIGHT WAYAlex has written a column for College News that promotes the first-time sexual encounter of college students--girls, I presume given that Alex is a boy. He has a preferene for Catholic virgins and lists 4 arguments in favor of his preference.Sounds incedibly like a contemporary version of Sabbatai Zevi's and Jacob Frank's holy sinning. Of course Zevi

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IT'S JUST FRUSTRATINGIt's very cold and snowey here today. I've been having trouble with bone pain that shifts around from this bone to that one and makes me somewhat unsteady on my feet. Cold makes it worse. It was a day for a shut-in Mass. Checking the schedule for EWTN included a 12:00 Mass, so I arranged my activities around it. Turned it on at 11:58. There was a program opposing

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FROM THE EMAILBOX Spirit & Life® "The words I spoke to you are spirit and life." (Jn 6:63)Human Life International e-NewsletterVolume 04, Number 03 | Friday, January 16, 2009 .................................................................................. www.hli.org Obama v. Life Dear Friends of Life,As tens of thousands prepare to gather for the 36th annual March for Life in Washington, DC,

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THE HIT COUNTER HAS MYSTERIOUSLY REAPPEARED

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CATHOLIC MASTER MASONMatt Abbott has an interesting column today. Right up top is a link to a Catholic Master Mason who is a Nevada Assemblyman, and apparently proud of his Masonic connections because he lists them in his biography, including Master Mason of Lodge No. 32, member of a Scottish Rite lodge, and a Shriner temple president.Catholic members of Masonic Lodges are in a state of sin and

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THAT SMALL PASSAGE IN THE MIDDLEBuried in the midst of an AP press release titled "Vatican Gay 'behavior' in seminaries declines" is this interesting claim:In a report U.S. bishops released this week, the Vatican agency noted past "difficulties in the area of morality" within seminaries that "usually but not exclusively" involved "homosexual behavior." The evaluators said the appointment of

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CREATE AMERICAN GLOBALIST UNION AT CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONWorld Net Daily's Bob Unruh comments at a link provided by Apirit Daily:Globalists are "salivating" over the possibility of a Constitutional Convention at which issues such as the 2nd Amendment could handily be dismissed, according to a leader who warns Virginia likely is the next target for the drive."There is no question in my mind

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IS IT PAYBACK TIME FOR PROP. 8?is being asked by Jack Smith at "The Catholic Key" blog:The San Francisco Chronicle ran a story today on San Francisco City Assessor Phil Ting's attempt to squeeze millions from the Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco in the form of Real Estate Transfer Tax. The unprecedented action is looking a lot like payback against the archdiocese for its support of

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TURNING CHRISTIAN SPEECH ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY INTO "HATE SPEECH":Government bid to kill free speech protectionThursday, 15 January 2009The Government is planning to overturn the crucial free speech protection added last year to the controversial ‘gay hate’ law.The free speech protection was added to the new offence of ‘incitement to homophobic hatred’ after a late night victory in the House of

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GETTING TOUGH ON APPARITIONSThe Globe and Mail reports: The Pope is declaring a 'holy war' against people who claim falsely that the Virgin Mary is appearing to them.He will attempt to snuff out an explosion of bogus heavenly apparitions with new guidelines to help bishops root out frauds.Benedict XVI plans to publish criteria to help them distinguish between true and false claims of visions of

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DOROTHY DAY AT GRAILVILLEAccording to Taylor (GREEN SISTERS, p. 28):After attending a two-week intensive course at Grailville in 1943, Catholic Worker Movement cofounder Dorothy Day (1897-1980) gave a report that sounds as if she had made a retreat at Crystal Spring, Michaela Farm, or the Green Mountain Monastery. Day chronicled: "We have learned to meditate and bake bread, pray and extract

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GLOBAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATES (GEA)In a comments box below Mathew in Fairfax asks:Do you mind if I ask about the comments of yours the author refers to on page 263? I found only one comment you made pertaining to MacGillis in January 2005, here:http://carrietomko.blogspot.com/...- prominent.htmlAre those the comments the author is referring to?They might be, but I've written on GEA a few times in

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THE PAPAL YEARNewsMax.com predicts the events likely to shape 2009 for Benedict, among them trips to Africa and the Holy Land, and a meeting with Obama in July. There is something else of note in the article--a picture of Benedict carrying his shepherd's staff, or rather his papal cross. It isn't the bent cross of John Paul II which he he carried earlier in his papacy and which Piers Compton

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CARRIE TOMKO'S "ILK"The passage before that quote down below sheds a bit of light on the nature of the word:As with other mainline religious "greening" movements, green sisters are grappling with the fact that the terms of the current debate over the "greening of faith" are firmly set against them. This quite successfully forces green reformers like the sisters into a defensive posture. Within

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I'VE BEEN CITEDin a book by Sarah McFarland Taylor titled GREEN SISTERS: A SPIRITUAL ECOLOGY. Taylor is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at Northwestern University. The book was published by Harvard University Press.She did an in depth study of the ecology movement within the Catholic women religious communities. An Episcopal woman, it is not surprising that we come at

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PAYING FOR HEALTHCAREI woke up this morning thinking about the fact that while wages and prices seem to be falling, the cost of healthcare is escalating, and I don't hear any noises about Obama plans to address the thousands who don't have insurance.Logic tells me that we are not going to be able to afford to keep sick people around much longer; and since I'm one of the sick people, it's a

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FROM THE EMAILBOX Spirit & Life® "The words I spoke to you are spirit and life." (Jn 6:63)Human Life International e-NewsletterVolume 04, Number 02 | Friday, January 09, 2009 ..................................................................................www.hli.org Dignitas Personae and the Right to Life Part IIBrian Clowes, PhDNOTE: this is the second installment of a two-part series on the

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BRRRRRRRR.....We're shivering in a foot of global warming here in northeast Ohio. Guess I'd better look up the schedule for Mass on EWTN. Keeping the roads clear hasn't been a high priority on the weekends. Nor the side streets during the week either for that matter. We need some chains on them thar tires!

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I SEE THE HIT COUNTER HAS GONE DOWN AGAINThe last count I have is 7147 on the 8th. Looks like the new one isn't going to be any better than the old one was. Must be my bubbly personality...No? Maybe I have B.O. Can you have B.O. on the web?

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WHEN SEX AND VIOLENCE BECOME PASSE, ENTER THE OCCULTSeems to be a little further down the slippery movie slope...Catholic News Service reviews "The Unborn", a story of an unborn child haunting the living, complete with dybbuks, Kabbalah, and the goofy notion that the unborn can harm you. It's rated PG-13. The Catholic rating is A-III (adult). Think I'll skip this one!

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FR. RICHARD JOHN NEUHAUS HAS DIEDNEW YORK (AP) — The Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, a leading intellectual of the Christian right who helped build an influential coalition of conservative Protestants and Roman Catholics and informally advised President George W. Bush, died Thursday. He was 72.Neuhaus died from the side effects of treatment for cancer, said Joseph Bottum, editor of First Things, the

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SATANIC WORSHIP IN ROMEIf this article is to be believed, Rome is more than the capital of Catholicism, it is also the capital of satanic worship. I first saw the article linked at Spirit Daily, but it has been elsewhere on the web as well. The video contained in the article recaps what the story tells, but was a bit slow to bring up. It seems that the Vatican is fully aware of this problem

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CANCER JOURNAL - ZometaI'm not sure whether it's supposed to kill metastisized breast cancer in the bone or not, but strongly suspect one of the side effects is that it can kill the patient. Of course they don't tell you about that. The doctor and the infusion nurses make such light of it. "Oh, most people don't have any reaction to it at all. A few people get some flu-like symptoms, but they

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FLU BUGEither something not nice is making the rounds, or I have some new problem as yet undiagnosed. I've been feeling lousy for about a month, but the last few days have been an all time low!

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FROM THE EMAILBOXSpirit & Life® "The words I spoke to you are spirit and life." (Jn 6:63)Human Life International e-NewsletterVolume 04, Number 01 | Friday, January 02, 2009 ..................................................................................www.hli.org Dignitas Personae and the Right to Life Brian Clowes, PhDNOTE: this is the first of a two-part series on the new instruction from

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NEW YEAR'S EVEI have this memory of the gaiety of New Year's Eve from the days when I was young. Is that just fanciful remembering? There was no gaiety in the air last night.What happened to the parties at every restaurant, party center and hotel--reservations only--to ring in the New Year? Even bowling alleys used to have their joyous celebration by reservation only. I know because I

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CHRISTIANITY OR CHAOS ?An anonymous commenter at Constance Cumbey's blog has posted a link to this story from Interfax:Moscow, December 29, Interfax – The Russian Orthodox Church predicts, in case the West finally refuses its Christian heritage, it will face “war of all against all.”“When the West tries to expel, to erase every reminder of Christ from public space, it’s pathology of fighting

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ANOTHER OF FR. RICHARD ROHR'S ENDEAVORSThe Emerging Church.I wonder if nudity will be a feature of this conference?

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WHAT WAS YOUR CHRISTMAS MASS LIKE ?We are back to church shopping again now that my favorite African priest has returned to his homeland. A recent Mass at St. Anthony of Padua, across from St. Thomas Hospital downtown was a plus. The church is beautiful. Marble walls. Imagine that! The priest is still Catholic and gave a Catholic homily to a standing room only congregation. I was one of the

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ENNEAGRAM AND KABBALAHRabbi Howard A. Addison has written a book by that title, described at the website as: "A newly updated and expanded examination into the groundbreaking exploration and connection of two of the most powerful mystical traditions". Gurdjieff meets Judaism and finds compatibility. Not to be outdone in syncretism, Catholic priest Richard Rohr has praises for the book: “

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FROM CHAOS TO HARMONY: THE SOLUTION TO THE GLOBAL CRISIS ACCORDING TO THE WISDOM OF KABBALAHAccording to the website of Kabbalist Michael Laitman, he and Club of Budapest founder Ervin Laszlo have co-authored a book by that title which is being offered in a pdf file for downloading free of charge and also for purchase in the print version.

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ST. VINCENT DEPAUL - UPDATEI've been trying to find some indication of what may be prompting the St. V envelopes to be removed from the contribution packet in a local parish (see my first blog of the day down below). Haven't found much, but this story did turn up. It's a death notice for Baltimore's Leonard Whitehouse which describes his accomplishments. One in particular is a complete

Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07464076577415616807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5318654.post-46166955044311504422008-12-26T10:01:00.002-05:002008-12-26T10:17:53.809-05:00

CRECHE BOWS TO POLITICAL CORRECTNESS - ENTER THE CRIB MOSQUENew assaults on the Christian faith appear every day, and one has to put up new emotional walls of defense against the onslaught, because there is no indication that it is waning. The hardest assault to overcome is the one taking place within Catholic churches, aided and abetted by once-trusted pastors...the near-blasphemous Masses that

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NOW THE ST. VINCENT DePAUL SOCIETY ?Notice in the bulletin that I picked up at Mass yesterday:Please Note: Because of some difficulties at the national and the Diocesan level of the St. Vincent DePaul Society, we are, as of January 2009, discontinuing the St. Vincent DePaul envelopes in the mailed set. All monies previously donated to our St. Vincent DePaul Society will continue to be used for

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You are cordially invited toA BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION!!!Guest of Honor: Jesus ChristDate: Every day. Traditionally, December 25but He's always around, so the date is flexible...Time: Whenever you're ready.(Please don't be late, though, or you'll miss out on all the fun!)Place: In your heart.... He'll meet you there.(You'll hear Him knock.)Attire: Come as you are... grubbies are okay.He'll be washing

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CANCER JOURNAL - Bone Biopsy ResultsI know some of you are wondering... I got the results this morning. Yes, it is in my bones, so I will have to start another IV drug that is taken once a month and has the potential to cause blood clots. This one produces flu-like symptoms, but they don't last very long. It also carries the warning that a woman must not take it if there is a risk of

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A CURIOUS STORY ABOUT OCCULTISM IN ENGLANDSusanna has turned up the story of King Edward VIII who was seeing a mystic at the time he was considering whether to abdicate the throne in order to marry Wallis Simpson. The marriage was opposed by politicians of the day and would have caused a constitutional crisis if he had remained on the throne. The story is available at BBC News and is dated

Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07464076577415616807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5318654.post-87164463931613523082008-12-22T10:21:00.003-05:002008-12-22T10:22:54.902-05:00

MARITAIN AND LIBERATION THEOLOGYAccording to the Oxford University Press review of WESTERN EUROPEAN LIBERATION THEOLOGY, Jacques Maritain was an instrumental figure in introducing this concept to the Roman Catholic Church.

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FROM THE EMAILBOX Spirit & Life® "The words I spoke to you are spirit and life." (Jn 6:63)Human Life International e-NewsletterVolume 03, Number 45 | Friday, December 19, 2008 .................................................................................. www.hli.org A New Vaccine Research Initiative That Needs the Support of the Whole Pro-Life CommunityDear Friends,It is not ironic that in

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CHASING AFTER APPARITIONSA reader sent in a link to a Catholic Culture webpage on which has been posted Fr. Peter Joseph's explanation of the orthodox Catholic position on apparitions. The reader thought this was the best description of the process of discernment that he had seen, and I tend to agree. It's simple to read and apply. There is no new doctrine presented. It's merely a concise

Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07464076577415616807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5318654.post-35673440859012479432008-12-16T17:46:00.002-05:002008-12-16T18:19:12.751-05:00

CANCER JOURNAL - Bone BiopsyTo hear the test described is enough to send shivers down Mrs. Butterworth's bottle, but the reality was a heck of a lot easier than the anticipation. All I could feel was the first pinch of the Lidocaine. I didn't have to see any of the instruments used which were all kept behind me. It must be that I have healthy bones because getting the needle into my bone took

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TOMORROWI have a bone biopsy scheduled at 10 tomorrow and have to be at the hospital at 8, which means no blogging in the morning. Depending upon whether I can sit at a computer screen or not afterward, I'll try to get to the blog in the afternoon.In the meantime, here is a list of the books Amazon offers by Piers Compton. THE BROKEN CROSS was his last book. He died three years after

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FROM THE EMAILBOXSpirit & Life® "The words I spoke to you are spirit and life." (Jn 6:63)Human Life International e-NewsletterVolume 03, Number 44 | Friday, December 12, 2008 ..................................................................................www.hli.org Election III - Assault on Conscience and RealityNovember 4th was not just a historic date in history because of the election of

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TIME CRUNCHThe "to do" list is long and the time is short. I'm going to take today off and address the "musts" in the real world.

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SECRETS--MORE SECRETS--UPDATEYesterday I blogged an article titled "Church wants Vosen book destroyed". It concerned a priest who no longer has the authority to say public or private masses, and his trial for sexual abuse that allegedly took place several years ago. The allegations were made in 2003, and the trial was placed under "Pontifical secret", whatever that is.Brent M. King, the

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CARDINAL ARINZE SPEAKS ON APPARITIONSIn a YouTube presentation he defines some of the criteria for judging whether they are true or false, and says that we must rely on the decisions of the Church in these matters. He says that the devil can create them. See it here.

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SECRETS--MORE SECRETSA story at WiscNews.com, linked by New Oxford Review, has me wondering just what might be in this book given that bishops have been known to cover up information that they think would damage the Church:Members of the Catholic faithful who have copies of the book by suspended local priest Father Gerald Vosen should destroy or return them because a chapter describes proceedings

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WILL OBAMA DECLARE WAR ON THE CHURCH ?If he does, it just might be the catalyst that reunites the church.New York Post columnist Ray Kerrison comments: The bishops have had it. They're moving into the trenches, which is most uncharacteristic of them. Said Catholic commentator, Christopher Manion: "The Baltimore meeting could be historic. We saw the rumblings of the giant stirring from his slumber

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JOHN J. REILLY REVIEWS MARK SEDGWICK'S BOOKFor those of you who are failiar with the commentary of John J. Reilly, you might like to read his review of Mark Sedgwick's AGAINST THE MODERN WORLD: TRADITIONALISM AND THE SECRET INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Among the historical figures he mentions are Julius Evola, Rene Guenon, Frithjof Schuon, and Ananda Coomaraswamy. The following

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THE INFLUENCE OF JACQUES MARITAIN, AND THE SOURCE THAT INFLUENCED HIMFrom Wikipedia:Jacques Maritain (18 November 1882–28 April 1973) was a French Catholic philosopher. He was a convert to Catholicism and the author of more than 60 books. He is responsible for reviving St. Thomas Aquinas for modern times and is a prominent drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Pope Paul VI

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THE PRIEST AND THE POP STARPink News reports:Veteran pop star Sir Cliff Richard has described his sex life as an enigma.Sir Cliff, 68, is one of the UK's best-known Christians, has been the victim of persistent rumours and innuendo about his sexuality.In his autobiography My Life, My Way, published in September, the singer revealed that he has shared his life with a former Roman Catholic priest,

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EYE WITNESS ACCOUNT OF MUBAIAt Catholic Exchange there is an interesting account of survival given by an international banker living in Mubai who was dining at the Taj Hotel when the gunfire began

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FROM THE EMAILBOXSpirit & Life® "The words I spoke to you are spirit and life." (Jn 6:63)Human Life International e-NewsletterVolume 03, Number 43 | Friday, November 21, 2008 ..................................................................................www.hli.org The Great Event of AdventOne of the less appealing characteristics of American culture is that it doesn't seriously prepare for

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INTERESTING COMMENTSSusanna has just posted some informative comments about Rama Coomaraswamy in a previous thread entitled "The Dangers of the Far Right".

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RUSSIAN PATRIARCH DEADThe leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexi II died yesterday: Moscow - Alexi II, the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, died at his home Friday at the age of 79, reported the church.Alexi II was the head of the church in Russia since 1990. Born Alexei Ruediger, he had ethnic ties to Germany and the Baltic region.While Alexi II had backed incremental

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MORE ON RAMA COOMARASWAMYThere is a war of sorts going on with the Traditionalists and their opponent, Lucio Mascarenhas, a man who attempts to defend the Catholic faith against Traditionalism. He has an essay online here in which he sets out what he calls the heresy of Rene Guenon and places Coomaraswamy among the followers of this heresy. He writes: Yet, Dr. Coomaraswamy, a married man,

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THE DANGERS OF THE FAR RIGHTSome of you may have read the book, THE PROBLEMS WITH THE NEW MASS. It was published in 1990, and set out a list of arguments against the changes that resulted from Vatican II. I found this book greatly disturbing when I read it shortly after publication and before the advent of flat-rate access to the web which happened in the early months of 1997. The book is

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A MESSAGE FROM THE MAILBOXMessage from John MallonJohn Mallon is trying to assemble an email list of Blogs in the English speaking world, especially in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines. He is currently working as Contributing Editor for Inside the Vatican magazine, doing media relations for Human Life International, and assisting at the Envoy Institute in a promotional capacity.

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VATICAN AND U.N. DISAGREE OVER GAYSGay.com reports:As the United Nations prepares to receive a resolution urging more than 75 member nations to decriminalize homosexuality, the Vatican rears its well-coiffed head against the plan. The Vatican's permanent observer to the UN told Reuters that the Holy See will oppose the resolution, which France is set to propose this month on behalf of and by

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THE HISTORY OF THE ADVENT WREATHcan be found here. It's not as old as you might think, and it wasn't a Catholic custom at its beginning. There are a variety of traditions associated with its various components, including the use of blue candles and the Christ candle. In the Orthodox Church it has six candles instead of four.At Mass last Sunday I noticed that the Advent wreath has three blue

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CATHOLIC ? SCHOOLSIn a link from New Oxford Review, the Telegraph reports on the new desire for accommodation of other religions in Catholic schools:A document issued by the Catholic Education Service said facilities for other faiths should be made available in all primary and secondary schools if possible.Catholic schools in England and Wales should also consider adapting toilet facilities to

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