Showing posts with label Sam Brownback. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sam Brownback. Show all posts
Friday, April 18, 2008
Catholic News-Friday April 18, 2008 A.D.
CVSTOS FIDEI AFTERNOON EDITION
A Great Day for Catholic Higher Education - Patrick Reilly, Insd Cth
Friday of Good Shepherd Sunday - Fr. Richard Neuhaus, 1st Things
Expelled Film: Ben Stein vs. Atheists - Brent Bozell, NewsBusters
Pope Chastises Pro-Abort Politicians - John-Henry Westen, LfStNws
Pope Benedict Shames US Bishops - Damian Thompson, Holy Smoke
The Pope's Third Day in the U.S. - Sandro Magister, Chiesa
Brownback Caves in to Boxer on Pope's Bill - California Cthlc Daily
Last Three Catholic News Postings:
For Thursday Afternoon, April 17, click here.
For Thursday Morning, April 17, click here.
For Wednesday, April 16, click here.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Catholic News-Thursday, February 28, 2008 AD
CVSTOS FIDEI AFTERNOON EDITION
Tickets for U.S. Papal Masses in High Demand - Cath Nws Agncy
Chasuble Styles & Traditions - Michael Sternbeck, St. Bd Std
Reproduction & Public Discourse - Ryan Anderson, First Things
Return To Paganism - Mark P. Shea, National Catholic Register
The U.S. is Post-Denominational - Susan Thistlethwaite, WaPo
UK Christian Couple Denied Foster Child - Hilary White, LSN
Obama's Catholic Problem - Deal W. Hudson, Inside Catholic
...Obama's Planned Parenthood speech...
I Want to Vote for Sam Brownback - Jay Anderson, Pro Ecclesia
Top-10 Campaign Abuses of Religion - Mark Silva, Bltmr Sun
"Warning: Genocide Photos Ahead" - California Catholic Daily
Blog Entry: Source of the Koran: Lectionary? - Tito, Custos Fd
Secular News Item of the Day:
Walter Cronkite, Vietnam, and the Decline of Media Credibility
By Lee Cary of the American Thinker
Last Three Catholic News Postings:
For Wednesday, February 27, click here.
For Tuesday, February 26, click here.
For Monday, February 25, click here.
(Biretta Tips: Inside Catholic, National Catholic Register, & LifeSiteNews )
Monday, January 14, 2008
Mike Huckabee's Bigots
Governor Mike Huckabee seems to be gathering the 'values' voters in this presidential campaign, mostly among the evangelical Christians. Many Catholics would also like to vote for the governor but his association with anti-Catholic bigots and his Clintonesque obfuscation is making it difficult to like the governor.
This email has been sent out to the Catholic electorate in Michigan recently and it highlights the many deficiencies about Governor Huckabee. I agree with all it has to say. I'll update this posting if I find any discrepancies on the facts of this email. My emphasis in bold.
Michigan Catholic Voter Alert: What Michigan Catholics MUST Know About Mike Huckabee
FACT: Mike Huckabee has exhibited a willful blindness in associating with anti-Catholicism when it has benefited him politically.
FACT: Instead of supporting a healthy expression of religion in the public square, Mike Huckabee has used his evangelical protestant faith as a wedge to divide the Republican Party and gain support from fellow evangelicals.
FACT: While claiming to believe Catholics are fellow Christians, Mike Huckabee has kept close acquittance with evangelical leaders who have:
- Compared Catholicism to a disease requiring 'recovery' and rehabilitation;
- Said the Catholic Church collaborated with the Nazis to exterminate Jews;
- Accused the Catholic Church of pulling mankind into the 'dark ages'.
FACT: Mike Huckabee has been endorsed by anti-Catholic author Tim Lahaye , who called Catholicism a "false religion" Lahaye's Church also funded "Mission to Catholics", a virulently anti-Catholic ministry.
Read More: Catholic.org: False Profit: Money, Prejudice, and Bad Theology in Tim LaHaye's Left Behind Series and at The Catholic League: The Best-Selling Bigotry of Left Behind
FACT: Mike Huckabee has also played up anti-Mormon sentiment against Governor Mitt Romney by asking a reporter if it was the Mormon Church that taught that Jesus and the devil were half-brothers. For more information, click here .
FACT: Mike Huckabee turned a blind eye to an anti-Catholic whisper campaign waged against Catholic Senator Sam Brownback in the run up to the Iowa Straw Poll in July 2007. For more information, click here .
FACT: While Mike Huckabee has declared himself to be the authentic pro-life candidate in the 2008 Republican primary, in 2006 alone he accepted $35,000 in cash from Novo Nordisk, a company dedicated to promoting research on human life through destructive embryonic stem cell research.
Case in Point: Mike Huckabee was the guest speaker at the notoriously anti-Catholic Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, TX on December 23, 2007.
Huckabee was hosted by the Rev. John Hagee, who has written that the Catholic Church collaborated with Hitler in staying completely silent during the Holocaust. This would be a surprise to millions of Catholics who struggled against Nazism, most especially St. Maximillan Kolbe.
Here is a sampling of Pastor Hagee's writings:
John Hagee: "Most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews."John Hagee: "The Catholic Church plunged the world into the dark ages."John Hagee: " When Hitler became a global demonic monster, the Catholic Church and Pope Pius XII never, ever slightly criticized him."
What does Mike Huckabee think about John Hagee?
Huckabee said John Hagee is, "one of the greatest Christian leaders of our nation."
But the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights has a different opinion of John Hagee:
READ MORE: "John Hagee: Veteran Bigot."
What did Mike Huckabee do when presented with these vicious statements made by John Hagee about Catholics and the Catholic Church?
Nothing, but Huckabee did make this very equivocal statement: "I can't speak for (Hagee) anymore than he could speak for me. I'm sure that there're things I'll say that he disagrees with… I would certainly never characterize the Catholic Church as being pro-Nazi, never." Just imagine if a politician:
Spoke at a church/organization which denied the Holocaust ever existed; Said he did not agree with this statement of the church/organization; But then went on to call the leader of this church/organization (who made the statement denying the Holocaust) one of the finest leaders in our nation.
Imagine this scenario no longer: Mike Huckabee has put forward this ridiculous line of reasoning.
And to top it off, Huckabee accepted $10,000 from Hagee for speaking at the church!
Why did the self-anointed authentic pro-life candidate in this election—Mike Huckabee—accept $35,000 in 2006 from Novo Nordisk, a company that conducts life-destructive embryonic stem cell research?
While this story line sounds too salacious to be true, Mike Huckabee did in fact accept $35,000 from Novo Nordisk in 2006, a company that is one of the largest embryonic stem cell research firms in the world.
What was the reason for these payments? Huckabee accepted the money for 'consulting services/speaking fees'. Huckabee accepted this money nonetheless while he was the sitting Governor of Arkansas.
How can pro-lifers trust this man when he has taken so much money—for so little actual work-- from a company that profits from the destruction of human life? Simply, put, they can't. At minimum, why won't Mike Huckabee return this money?
Conclusion
Sadly, Mike Huckabee would seek to divide conservatives and Republicans along religious lines for political gain. While America needs a more robust expression of faith in the public square, it does not need a preacher politician who has shown a repeated pattern of dividing people along religious lines. The shared values of Protestants and Catholics are too important to risk endangering this important coalition by nominating Mike Huckabee, a candidate who has demonstrated a blind eye to anti-Catholicism.
Michigan Catholic Voters: Do you want a president who rubs shoulders with Anti-Catholic Bigots? On Tuesday, January 15th , you have a chance to be heard.
Vote Against Anti-Catholic Bigotry.
Vote Against Mike Huckabee.
Governor Huckabee needs to denounce John Hagee and Tim LaHaye for their bigotry in order to win over the Catholic vote.
See the email here.
Saturday, October 27, 2007
More Catholic News-Saturday (10-27-2007 AD)
CVSTOS FIDEI EVENING EDITION
Eucharistic Procession In Honolulu (vid) - Esther, ACMIH
Another 'New American Bible' Gem - Diogenes, Off The Record
Cardinal Rigali Urges Faithful To See 'Bella' - Zenit
Vocations DVD Wins Hollywood Award - CNA
Massive Pro-Life Demo In The D.R. - Matthew Hoffman, LifeSite
Latin Mass & Franciscan U.-Steubenville Drama - Fr. Z, WDTPRS
Fr. R. McBrien's 'Insight' On The Motu Proprio - Fr. Z, WDTPRS
Brownback To Sell His Soul To Rudy? - CNA
Church Beatifies 498 Spanish Civ War Martyrs - Daniel Woolls, AP
Join The Cardinal DiNardo Fan Club! - Alan Phipps, Ad Altare Dei
Sen. Casey Still Casting Pro-Abortion Votes - CitizenLink
Cath' Processions On Secular Campuses - Kimberly Jansen, NCRg
Last Three Catholic News Postings:
For Saturday Afternoon-Oct 27, click here.
For Thursday, October 25, click here.
For Wednesday, October 24, click here.
(Hat Tip: LifeSite)
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Catholic News-Thursday, October 18, 2007 A.D.
CVSTOS FIDEI EVENING EDITION
Pope May Visit Northern Ireland - Reuters
Bishops Wife Converts To Catholicism - S. Harrison, BBC News
Colbert Joins Prez Race - Jacques Steinberg, NYTimes
Brownback To Drop Out - Libby Quaid, AP
Christians May Have To Deal w/Giuliani - Tom Baldwin, Times
...Rudy's lack of faith...
Eradicating Religion In Burma - Ben Voth, AmThinker
Maine To Promote Middle School Sex - Rick Moran, AmThnkr
How The NY Times Fell Apart - Michael Malone, ABC News
...plus: the death of Network News...
Presenting Cardinal DiNardo - Tito, Custos Fidei
Bella And Beyond - National Catholic Register
Secular News Item of the Day:
An Anglosphere Future
by Christopher Hitchens
City Journal
Last Three Catholic News Postings:
For Tuesday, October 16, click here.
For Monday Evening-Oct 15, click here.
For Monday Morning-Oct 15, click here.
(Hat Tips: Lucianne & RealClearPolitics)
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Catholic News-Tuesday, October 16, 2007 A.D.
CVSTOS FIDEI EVENING EDITION
When An Orthodox Joins The Catholic Church - Zenit
Abp Niederauer Attempts Belated Damage Control - LifeSite
Iraqi Archbishop Calls For Pressure On Politicians - Zenit
Abortion Death Raises Questions - Gaile Besse, NCRegister
Psychologists: Why Gay 'Marriage' Harms Children - LifeSite
What Atheists Kant Refute - Dinesh D'Souza, Chrstn Scnc Mntr
Prescribe The 'Pill' In Middle School? - Kelly Bouchard, PPH
About Evil - Selwyn Duke, American Thinker
Bill To Condemn Genocide In Jeopardy - Anne Flaherty, AP
Brownback Charts Own Path - Pat Greenhouse, Boston Globe
Iran: Christian Couple Flogged (pics) - AINA
Anti-Catholic College Endorses Romney - Michael Phillips, WSJ
Secular News Item of the Day:
The Bush Payback Will Be Ferocious
by Jeffrey Lord
The American Spectator
Last Three Catholic News Postings:
For Monday Evening-Oct 15, click here.
For Monday Morning-Oct 15, click here.
For Sunday, October 14, click here.
(Hat Tips: Catholic Report & Lucianne)
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