I don't check my Junk folder often enough. This came last week, and I just discovered it this morning. Thought it was worth posting.
Rebecca

February 27, 2008

Obama Crushes Audacity of Hope for Disabled Americans and their Families

In a presidential debate last night, Sen. Barack Obama, (D-Ill), said, for the second time this year, that he regretted supporting federal legislation aimed at saving the life of Terri Schiavo. He even suggested the legal efforts to stop Terri's death by dehydration and starvation constituted a "costly" action.

"We welcome the opportunity that Senator Obama has given us to once again strive for clarity regarding the death of our beloved Terri," her father Robert Schindler said. "However, we are very saddened by his remarks. Everyone with a disability, or who knows someone with a disability, should be outraged that a potential US president would so callously reject his own action taken in favor of life over death."

Terri's Foundation wishes to remind all Americans that the Senate gave unanimous consent to the effort to save Terri's life and that the vote was strongly bipartisan in the House. "As a country, we should all be distressed that doing the right thing suddenly becomes a 'mistake' when one poll later showed it to be unpopular," Schindler said. "That isn't leadership; it's pandering to popular prejudices."

"Is it so incredulous that a family had the audacity of hope to believe its government would care about one profoundly disabled woman?" Schindler asked. "It is a shame that Senator Obama, who claims to embody 'hope,' is crushing it for the families of people with profound disabilities."

Terri was neither terminally ill, nor comatose. She was not on life support and only needed food and water to live. Persons with disabilities, no matter how serious, are persons with the Constitutional right to life.

"Highly visible public figures, especially those who may one day speak on behalf of all citizens, should not imply that some citizens are less worthy than others," added Schindler. "As President, would Barack Obama stand for all of us or just some of us?"

Contact: Suzanne Vitadamo at Terri's Foundation
727-490-7603 · info@terrisfight.org



The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation, Inc., (TSSF) is a non-profit group dedicated to ensuring the rights of disabled, elderly and vulnerable citizens against care rationing, euthanasia and medical killing. Incorporated in 2001 to fight for the life of Terri Schindler Schiavo, the clear focus of TSSF now and in the future is to help others avoid future tragedies that reflect what Terri endured.

When role of Catholic priests becomes a bundle of cliches

I was web surfing, and came across this very old article about the priesthood. It's from 2005, remember when all we heard about was that Catholic priests should all be married?

A mentor used to impress upon me a simple axiom: Whatever the armies of the night claim to clash over is not the real reason for their fight. Thus, whenever I got exercised over some issue, he would caution me to take a deep breath and try to figure out the real issue behind the issue, before I charged ahead.

One such storm has been the status of Roman Catholic clergy. Should priests be married or celibate? Female as well as male? Homosexual as well as heterosexual? On these issues, it has made sense for me to take several deep breaths.

Click on the text and follow the link. It's still worth reading.

Well it's time to update my profile. When I created this blog three years ago I said I was a :

stay-at-home, rosary-making, Girl Scout troop leading, Catholic Mom of one very active little girl.

V. is still active, however she's not in scouts anymore. It was nice while it lasted, but I just couldn't keep doing the leader thing. I had never been a scout myself, so I really didn't know what I was doing. I still make rosaries, you can see them at www.rebeccasrosaries.com and I'm still Catholic. That, at least will never change. I still don't get paid for anything except the rosaries I sell, so I'm still considered a SAHM, although I'm never home anymore.

About 6 months ago I took over the Art and Environment Committee.
Here's a pic of our newest altar cloth:

Right now I'm avoiding thinking about Lent. Just kidding, almost everything is done, I just have to make sure everyone is going to show up to get it changed from Ordinary time. Other things have changed too, but I'll save those for another post.

It's still here!

Wow, I really thought this blog was probably gone due to inactivity. I was amazed when I discovered it was still here. Wow. It took a while to get back onto my "dashboard" because I couldn't remember my user name. With a little persistence, I made it back on! Woo hoo!

Yes, it's been too long, but I saw this and had to get it up.....

Ignatius stops sale of Charlotte Church works after singer's TV pilot

By Simon Caldwell
7/24/2006

Catholic News Service

LONDON - The U.S. publishing company Ignatius Press has refused to sell any works by Welsh singer Charlotte Church after she called German-born Pope Benedict XVI a Nazi and mocked the Catholic Church.

BRITISH SINGER CHARLOTTE CHURCH – Ignatius Press, one of the largest Catholic publishers in the United States, has refused to sell any works by singer Charlotte Church after she called Pope Benedict XVI a Nazi and mocked the church. In this Aug. 27, 2005, photo, the singer is seen arriving for a gala dinner at a resort in Newport, Wales. (CNS/Reuters)

The directors of Ignatius Press said they were offended when the Welsh singer mocked the Catholic Church in the pilot of a proposed eight-part television chat show.

Church, dubbed the "Voice of an Angel" before she turned her talents to popular music, also dressed up as a nun and pretended to hallucinate while eating "communion" wafers imprinted with smiling faces signifying the drug Ecstasy.

She smashed open a statue of the Virgin Mary to reveal a can of hard cider inside, said she worshipped "St. Fortified Wine," and stuck chewing gum on a statue of the child Jesus.

Ignatius Press announced that Church's products have been withdrawn from its Web site and catalogue.

"It is with regret that we do this," the company said in a statement to its customers on its Web site, www.ignatius.com.

"Miss Church possesses a great gift from God, and in the past she has used her talent often to offer praise and glory to Our Lord," the statement said.

"We cannot stand by a young woman who uses her stature in the media to mock the Eucharist, slander the Holy Father, and denigrate the vows of religious women," it continued.

"Therefore, our catalogues and Web site will immediately withdraw all compact discs, cassette tapes, DVDs and VHS tapes that feature Miss Church. Please join us in praying for this troubled young woman," the statement added.

Church declined to comment.

Church, 20, was raised a Catholic and sang for Pope John Paul II at the Vatican at the age of 12.

The pilot for "The All New Charlotte Church Show" was filmed before a live studio audience July 12.

Ignatius Press was founded by Father Joseph Fessio, a California Jesuit who studied under the future Pope Benedict at the University of Regensburg in Germany in the 1970s and who continues to be a close friend.

Pope Benedict, the son of a German policeman opposed to Nazism, was forced into the Hitler Youth movement as a child, and during World War II he served briefly in an anti-aircraft battalion.

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Copyright (c) 2006 Catholic News Service/U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

More Catholic Humor, or, Yes, I have been gone a long time!

I'll catch up later, but I wanted to post this:

Little David, who was Jewish, was failing math. His parents tried everything: Tutors, mentors, flash cards, special learning centers...and nothing helped.

As a last resort, someone told them to try a Catholic school. "Those nuns are tough," they said.

David was soon enrolled at St. Mary's. After school on the very first day, David ran through the door and straight to his room, without even kissing his mother hello. He started studying furiously...books and papers spread out over his room. Right after dinner, he ran upstairs, without mentioning TV, and hit the books harder than ever before. His parents were amazed!

This behavior continued for weeks....until report card day arrived. David quietly laid the envelope on the table, and went to his room.

With great trepidation, his mother opened the report. David had gotten an A in math! She ran up to his room; threw her arms around him;and asked, "David honey, how did this happen? Was it the nuns?"

"No!",said David. "On the first day of school, when I saw that guy nailed to the plus sign, I knew they weren't fooling around."

What up?

Well, not much on this blog, but plenty here at home. Since my last post, we've moved to a new house (new to us), ripped out the yard (complete with two bronze fountains, and a free-standing four-car garage), and now we're in the middle of re-construction on the inside of the house. I've been busy. I'm feeling a little overwhelmed right now, but I still think of things to vent about on the blog. So, no, I haven't abandoned it, I'm just putting a lot of things on the back burner right now. Here's a pic of the front of the house before:

Here's what it looks like now:

Just wait 'till I show you the work on the back yard!!!

Dual Parenting Action or Mariage part III

Great article on CatholicCulture.org:

There are a lot of social reasons why well-constructed families are important to our society. Research shows that poverty rates and criminal behavior among children in families with unmarried parents are likely to grow astronomically. However, in the United States federal and state governments are so fixated on treating the symptoms of this disease through problematic welfare and social service systems that it is left to a vanguard of Christian organizations to carry the banner for traditional marriage.

Catholic humor

I love good Catholic jokes....

The Franciscans, Dominicans, and Jesuits were having a big meeting that went well into the middle of the night. Suddenly all the lights went out in the meeting room. The Franciscans immediately took out their guitars and sang songs, and the Dominicans lept upon the tables and began preaching. The Jesuits went to the basement, found the fuse box and reset the breaker.

If you know anymore, post them below.

Feast of St. Matthew or Invite Your Accountant to Mass Day!

These are both from CatholicExchange.com:

First this:

Matthew 9:9
As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax office; and he said to him, "Follow me." And he rose and followed him.
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Not many children greet the day saying, "When I grow up, I want to do accounting!" Seldom do we, in our deepest dreams and hopes of youth, say, "If only I could spend my life in an office!" And when we lay on our deathbeds, we will not look back and say, "If only I had done more bookkeeping!" Matthew must have felt the same way, judging from the way he nearly tipped his tableful of shekels over in his hurry to bolt from his cubicled existence to follow Jesus when he said, "Follow me." Matthew wanted life, not security (or securities). And he got it. He learned his lesson the hard way that money is cold comfort. When the fire of God's love was kindled, he felt it and drew near instantly.


Here's more on St. Matthew:

St. Matthew the Evangelist

For ideas on celebrating the Feast of St. Matthew, visit

CatholicCulture.com

Death by coffee

It would take 126.98 cups of Brewed Coffee to kill me. I've only had one this morning, I guess I'm pretty safe.

Find out how much of your favorite drink it takes to kill you HERE

After you find out how much coffee will kill you, visit Death by Penguin Mints and check out how many of your favorite mints, chocolate bars, and/or other goodies it would take.