You liberal bishops have helped create this culture of death directly, by the work of your own hands. Don’t think that the blood of those babies, of those souls that fall into Hell because of their evil sexual practices will not weigh in the scales against you on your judgment day….

You have supported a political system which has brought morality in this country to its knees and made a virtuous life the butt of jokes. Yes, you! Do you think you will escape responsibility for your deeds and their consequences – your sins of omission and commission – what you have done and what you have failed to do?

… You have compromised with evil – you covered up the rape of children and plead ignorance afterwards.

You have allowed hordes of homosexual men to become priests and then promoted them after ordination to influential positions on the Church where they could reign down their spiritual terror on the unsuspecting faithful.

You have not just allowed but encouraged a spirit of radical feminism to run wild in the Church, in your own ranks and in the pews, universities, parishes, seminaries, houses of formation and so forth.

You have sat atop a near total destruction of the faith unprecedented in the history of the Church that it would have made Nero blush.

You have coddled murderers and sodomites and evil men of every sort. You have rolled out the red carpet for them in your cathedrals. You have delivered Holy Communion to them as surely as Judas handed over Our Blessed Lord.

In all the sincerity it is possible to muster, with the deepest charity for your souls, you need to repent publicly.

You need to say much more than ‘I switched parties’.

~ Catholic apologist Michael Voris, excoriating American liberal Catholic bishops for their role in supporting the Democrat Party (of Death) in light of Rhode Island Bishop Tobin’s announcement of switching from registered Democrat to registered Republican, Church Militant.TV, August 23

I’ve done “blog light” the past 2-1/2 weeks, away from my desk quite a bit in lieu of family time – visiting  Andy and Daena in DC and camping (Starved Rock for Illinoisans) with the grandsons, Rich and my parents.

If you’ve been wondering where I was, that’s where. Tomorrow I’ll be back.

Thanks to Kelli, Carla, Susie, LauraLoo, Hans, Carder, and the other mods for holding down the fort. Missed ya’ll!

by Hans Johnson

It was a beautiful Sunday to attend a Milwaukee Brewers / Washington Nationals ballgame. With Sarah Kooiman and her husband were their young sons Isaiah, Micah, and Thomas. The boys’ boisterous behavior could well have bothered the young man seated in front of them with his girlfriend. Many men would yell out, “Hey lady! How about controlling your kids?” But that wasn’t the case this time.

Instead he took it all in good humor, chatting back and forth, racing Isaiah down to the dugout in the middle of innings hoping for a ball to be tossed their way. He promised him a ball, and before they left he dug one out of his pocket and presented it to the excited boy.

The mother was so grateful and moved by this generosity that she wrote a blog post the next day addressed to “The Mystery Man of Miller Park.”

It can be so easy to forget sometimes how small acts of kindness can have such a huge impact on our fellow humans.  Holding open a door, offering a seat on a bus or subway, paying for a stranger’s coffee. All teeny little choices that can become a bright spot in an otherwise difficult day.

But you did more than that, sir.  You made my boy feel like a rockstar. You didn’t have to. You chose to. And I am sincerely grateful to you for it.  When my wiped-out children were tucked into bed last night, I took a few minutes to thank God for you. I asked that He bless you and draw near to you wherever you were. I prayed that the Lord would encourage you and honor your kindness by bringing joy to your heart.

Within hours the story went viral and it was learned that the young man was 22-year-old  Chad McLoughlin.

Here is a report from TMJ4:

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[HT: TheBlaze]

by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli

We welcome your suggestions for additions to our Top Blogs (see tab on right side of home page)! Email Susie@jillstanek.com.

• Stand for Life features a video about unsung hero, John Barros. His faithfulness to the cause of life has saved at least 1,000 children from death by abortion. This man is an angel in the flesh:

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• Secular Pro-Life invites your participation in a Tweetfest, happening today, to counter a Feminist Majority Foundation’s effort to “encourage wider education on the procedure” and “normalize the conversation.” No doubt, as SPL comments, the FMF “blog carnival” would really just be a way to “spread pro-abortion propaganda.”
• Christina at Real Choice is ready for today’s Tweetfest with some great tweet ideas and graphics ready for your use.
• Right to Life of Michigan reports a happy ending to a lawsuit brought by an Ann Arbor pro-lifer who was harassed and ticketed for displaying pro-life signs in his vehicle, which was parked outside a Planned Parenthood. Kudos to the pro-lifer who stood up for his free speech rights. The City of Ann Arbor settled the suit for $7,000.

• John Smeaton applauds Obianuju (“Uju”) Ekeocha (pictured left), founder and president of Culture of Life Africa, for her “bold defence of Africa against the imposition of contraception by Western agencies….” Smeaton quotes Ekeocha:
  

  [W]hat Africa needs at this time is not a sexual revolution (which has not worked well in the Western world), rather what we need is authentic and sustainable development within the social and cultural frame work of our faith and family-oriented values.

• Wesley J. Smith points out how the Baby Boomer generation will long be remembered for ushering in abortion and possibly assisted suicide:
  

  And now, according to Time, we are supposedly going to change “how we die.”…

  Boomers are not a great generation. To the contrary, we did shamefully little considering how much we were given. Too busy patting ourselves on the back, perhaps, and breaking the china. Frankly, I think we are going to leave quite a mess. And if we do open the spigots to assisted suicide, it will be to our everlasting shame.

• Reflections of a Paralytic says a story she once shared about a young man with Down syndrome has been nominated for a Regional Emmy:

Giving The H from Tom Martin on Vimeo.

[Photo via gadel.info]

by LauraLoo

In an interview with CNN this week, Prince William proves he’s just like other parents – only too happy to show off his new son, George.

I felt this part of the interview (full transcript) was his best commentary: 

“I think the last few weeks for me have been just a very different emotional experience. Something I never thought I would feel myself. And I find, again it’s only been a short period, but a lot of things affect me differently now.

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[Being pregnant] is an awesome thing….

It definitely has its moments where you’re like, ‘Oh my gosh this is crazy,’ but it’s been beautiful.

~ Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, People, August 22

Hewitt, 34, is engaged to her Client List co-star, Brian Hallisay.

by Hans Johnson

A&E’s Duck Dynasty is one of the hottest shows on televison. It started out successfully enough, but has since skyrocketed to the point that last week’s fourth season debut was the highest-rated non-scripted cable show ever, drawing 11.8 million viewers.

The family the show follows is well-known for their deep Christian faith, ending each show with a prayer. A video clip with patriarch Phil Robertson commenting on the abortion culture and right to life has recently gone viral. It is from his appearance as a guest speaker at the 2010″Wild Game Supper” at Berean Bible Church in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.

Referring to the Declaration’s “right to life” clause, written in nearby Philadelphia:

Listen, from the time you started inside your mother’s womb -  Thomas Jefferson had it right.  You have the God-given right to life for crying out loud…

And we debate whether it’s a — some woman has the right to tear you out of there a piece at a time? C’mon! You have a God-given right to live! And of all places, inside your mother?! What in the world happened to us?

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[HT: The Drudge Report & CNSNEWS]

The decision to have her first child was one of the major change’s in 24-year-old [Lauryn] Hill’s life. Many in the music industry advised her to have an abortion, but Hill resisted the pressure. It was a choice she never regretted, and a quandary she details in the song To Zion (video below).

It was a godsend all the way round – 360 degrees of that whole situation were nothing but a blessing. And I’m so happy that I made the choice that I did.”

~ Simon Witter, The Guardian, August 21

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[HT: Andy Moore; photo via Flickr]