Jivin J’s Life Links 8-28-09
by JivinJ
Kennedy’s family legacy, his impregnable position in MA (he won more than 60% of the vote the year after Chappaquiddick) and his national prominence rendered him immune from the pressures other politicians had to face. He could always choose his own path. Had he chosen to remain economically liberal but culturally conservative, he would have prevented the Democratic Party from embracing the orthodoxy of the unlimited abortion license. Had he remained pro-life the Democratic Party would have had to make place for other pro-life politicians. Had he remained pro-life many others –
Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jesse Jackson – would not have abandoned their pro-life positions as the price to be paid for national ambition.
But in a prepared statement Thursday, Geron said the hold resulted from the discovery of cysts in some animals given the cells. Although the cysts had appeared in some earlier animal studies, they appeared with “a higher frequency” in more recent animals tests, the company said.
Despite the finding, however, Geron said the cysts were “non-proliferative, confined to the injury site and had no adverse effects on the animals.”
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
I just don’t get why we’re so obsessed with the culture of death that we’re still embracing embryonic stem cell research. It’s so nonsensical!
Gah, it makes me crazy!–well, crazier!
As for the piece on Ted Kennedy, well, I’m a skeptic. I think that it’s quite possible that we would have found ourselves in a similar situation… perhaps a few years later, perhaps not as far into the lie, I don’t know… but I do believe that with abortion being the cash cow it is, well, we would quite possibly be fighting the industry of abortion today regardless.
Though it’s likely that many politicians would feel less pressure to convert to the culture of death…
Ted Kennedy had much for which to atone, and I hope that he made peace with Christ and all those little innocent babies before he died. That said, I think it’s a bit much to place the whole of the abortion industry squarely on his shoulders. There are plenty of others who are quite culpable for many, many deaths, and it would be unjust to rob them of that responsibility.
Hmm… a family priest at his bedside at his death… I wonder if perhaps he repented, and confessed?
Oh, I realize the chances are slim… still, I like the possibility…
Father Raymond! He’s the chaplain at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. He’s a great guy!
For all my Catholic friends out there. (And friends who are not Catholic for that matter.) I think you might be interested in this. It opens Oct. 13 hopefully at a theater near you.
The 13th Day The True Story of Fatima
http://www.ignatius.com/the-13th-day/
Become a fan on Facebook and maybe we can get wider distribution.
Ted Kennedy was pro-choice when it came to aborting pretty young campaign aides.
The Priest at his funeral is confident he’ll go to heaven.
Hmmm. I didn’t think Catholics were allowed to remarry.
“I didn’t think Catholics were allowed to remarry.”
Indeed.
turns out his first marriage was “annulled.” What a sham,by the church and all of its members who wink at such gymnastics.
“turns out his first marriage was “annulled.” What a sham,by the church and all of its members who wink at such gymnastics. ”
An annulment says that there was never a valid marriage top begin with. In other words, there was an obstruction to marriage from the beginning and hence the marriage was invalid. Pretty straightforward.
You approve of an annulment of a 23 year marriage (three kids) due to “an obstruction?”
Yes. An annulment has NOTHING to do with ANYTHING that happened AFTER the marriage. It’s all about the DAY of the wedding.
I’m sure you see stuff like this in law all the time. For example, some states have minimum age requirements to get married, right? Well, suppose someone wasn’t paying attention and a man and woman were married when the man was 18 and the wife 17 in a state where you had to be 18 to be married. Fast forward 50 years and 10 kids later- that doesn’t change the fact that they were never married in the first place. If someone were to look carefully into the marriage records, they would find that they were actually never married. An annulment is the word to describe the fact that it is official that that has been discovered.
That is an obvious case, but this is the idea; it’s things like that that determine if a marriage was valid to begin with. In the Catholic Church, you can not be validly married if you can not give full consent. If it can somehow be shown that you were drunk out of your mind the day you were married, that would also warrant an annulment because you didn’t have full use of your facilities. Being horribly inebriated, you weren’t able to give full consent at the time you were “married.” Examples like this can be multiplied. So that’s the idea.
Now I will say that I think annulments are too easily granted these days, but that is an abuse of the system; the concept is a good concept.
Actually, let me answer your specific question, Hal. I don’t know. I don’t know anything about their wedding or anything like that, but what I DO know is that the 3 kids and 23 years of marriage is irrelevant to the question of whether a marriage can be annulled or not. I hope I’m making this distinction OK…
Thanks Bobby, it makes sense in theory. Seems like the church winks at the theory and has a different standard in practice.
Hal,
More like, there are too many priests who wink at theory and hold a different standard in practice.
But the teaching is quite clear.
Too many priests, bishops and popes who spit at valid marriages and suck up to adulterers, rather!
From a former catholic who left the church after he defended, successfully, his marriage against its “official” case, in Rome, only to watch the church, openly and “unofficially” embrace and encourage adultery now for almost twenty years. It is a sham and a scam. Anyone who gets married is a fool for believing the crap that the catholic church supports marriage. It is a damned, by God, lie; an utter falsehood. I am not attacking marriage, I am witnessing to personal experience.
Karl,
You sound like you’ve been through a lot and are in quite a bit of pain. I’m sorry for you, and I pray for Christ’s healing in your life.