Black Pres. of S.T.A.N.D. at National Press Club: "time for black community to come out of the Dem. party"

Fr. Z. comments:

"If only our own bishops would speak with this clarity and righteous anger.

"Watch and learn.

"Note his explanation of how insulting to black people it is to claim that denial of the 'right' for homosexuals to “marry” is like the 20th century racial civil rights movement."

Lt. Col. T. Schaffer: Obama watched the Benghazi attack happen

Madeleine Morgenstern, "Retired Lt. Col.: My Sources Say Obama Was in the Room Watching Benghazi Attack Happen" (Blaze, Oct. 28, 2012).

Obama: first Nobel Peace Prize winner with a kill list

Ironies abound. [Hat tip to Michael Liccione.]

Benghazi-gate coverup concerns escalate on eve of US Presidential election

Obama avoids question on whether Americans in Libya were denied requests for help (FoxNews.com, October 27, 2012):

President Obama declined to answer directly whether a CIA annex was denied urgent requests for military assistance during the deadly attacks last month on U.S. outposts in Libya.

The president did not give a yes-or-no answer Friday when asked pointedly whether the Americans under attack in Benghazi, Libya, were denied requests for help during the attack.

Fox News has also learned that a request from the CIA annex for backup was later denied.

“The election has nothing to do with the four brave Americans getting killed and us wanting to find out exactly what happened,” the president said in TV interview with an NBC affiliate in Colorado.

For Auld Lang Syne

Remembering our many friends who voted -- God knows why -- for Mr. Obama in the 2008 election:

Extraordinary Community News

"I will go in unto the Altar of God
To God, Who giveth joy to my youth"
Tridentine Community News (October 28, 2012):

Sacra Liturgia Conference

It is typical for Latin Mass-oriented conferences to be announced a few months before they are held. Often times speakers are not announced until a few weeks before the event. This is reasonable considering most such conferences are run by volunteers and are not as well-organized as the typical commercial trade show.

For the first time in memory, a liturgical conference was announced a full nine months before it will be held. More significantly, a speaker’s list has been published which includes the largest single gathering of top names in today’s worldwide Latin Mass scene, including Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, Raymond Cardinal Burke, Archbishop Augustine Di Noia, OP, Bishop Dominique Rey, Fr. Uwe-Michael Lang, Fr. Nicola Bux, Dr. Alcuin Reid, and Jeffrey Tucker. The conference in question is Sacra Liturgia 2013, to be held June 25-28, 2013 at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.

This conference is not exclusively for the Extraordinary Form. Scheduled Masses will be held in both the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms. Attendees will also participate in the Papal Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica for the Feast of Ss. Peter & Paul. Complete details are available at www.sacraliturgia2013.com

Possible Group Tour or Pilgrimage

Fr. John Johnson will be attending the Sacra Liturgia Conference and has asked if there might be others interested in going. Expect the cost for airfare, hotel, and conference registration to be in the neighborhood of $2,000, with an additional few hundred dollars if the trip is extended to visit some additional sites. If you are interested, kindly e-mail the address at the bottom of this page, and we will keep you informed. If there are only a few inquiries, we can travel as an informal group. If there are many, we can arrange a more structured pilgrimage with a bus tour.

Indulgences During the Month of November

The month of November is enriched with several opportunities to gain a Plenary Indulgence, the complete remission of temporal punishment due to sin. The first two are applicable only to the Souls in Purgatory, whereas most others may be applied to oneself instead of to the Souls in Purgatory.

On November 2, the Feast of All Souls, a Plenary Indulgence applicable only to the Souls in Purgatory may be gained by visiting a church and praying an Our Father and the Creed. Attendance at Mass is not required.

Each day from November 1-8, a Plenary Indulgence applicable only to the Souls in Purgatory may be gained by devoutly visiting a cemetery and praying for the dead. On any other day of the year, the Indulgence gained will be Partial.

On November 9, the Feast of the Dedication of the Archbasilica of Our Savior, a Plenary Indulgence may be gained by visiting the Cathedral church of a diocese and there reciting an Our Father and the Creed.

Of course the everyday opportunities to gain Plenary Indulgences are always available. Two of the simplest are reciting the Rosary in a church (publicly or privately), and spending at least a half an hour in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament.

The usual conditions to gain any Plenary Indulgence apply to all of these opportunities: Reception of Holy Communion, Prayer for the Holy Father’s Intentions, Confession within 20 days, and freedom from attachment to sin. If any one of these conditions is not met, the Indulgenced earned will instead be Partial.

A Partial Indulgence applicable only to the Souls in Purgatory may be gained on any day of the year by praying this simple prayer for the dead. For the benefit of the Poor Souls, please take a few seconds and pray it now:

Réquiem aetérnam dona eis, Dómine, et lux perpétua lúceat eis. Requiéscant in pace. Amen.

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.

Tridentine Masses This Coming Week

• Mon. 10/29 7:00 PM: Low Mass at St. Josaphat (Feria) [Celebrant may choose a Votive Mass]
• Mon. 10/30 7:00 PM: Low Mass at Assumption-Windsor (Feria) [Celebrant may choose a Votive Mass]
• Thu. 11/01 7:00 PM: High Mass at St. Josaphat (All Saints)
• Fri. 11/02 6:00 PM: Two Low Masses at Assumption-Windsor (All Souls)
• Fri. 11/02 7:00 PM: Solemn High Mass at Assumption-Windsor (All Souls)
• Fri. 11/02 7:00 PM: High Mass at St. Josaphat (All Souls)

[Comments? Please e-mail tridnews@detroitlatinmass.org. Previous columns are available at http://www.detroitlatinmass.org. This edition of Tridentine Community News, with minor editions, is from the St. Josaphat (Detroit) and Assumption (Windsor) bulletin inserts for October 28, 2012. Hat tip to A.B., author of the column.]

Lies, lies, and damned lies!

Where to begin? It's been a virtual avalanche. And the fact checkers have been your mainstream ABC, Washington Post, and Reuters variety.


As with some of you, probably, there has been so much about the mere possibility of Mr. Obama's re-election that I have found increasingly disturbing over the last year. What does it say about our electorate that it would elect such a man president? Impressionable? That goes without saying. Gullible? You bet. There are so many things wrong with this picture that it defies description.

I remember when Francis A. Schaeffer used to lament, saying that he found it hard to believe that he could witness the country "go down the drain" within a single generation. That was back in the 1980s! ... BEFORE the election of a president who (1) single-handedly pushed for the abolition of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, a brazen option for infanticide that even Hilary Clinton refused to support; (2) turned his back on the Defense of Marriage Act, signed into law by President Clinton, and (3) declared his presidential support of same-sex "marriage" in an ABC interview with Robin Roberts, and yesterday (10/26/12) endorsed ballot initiatives to legitimize gay "marriage" in three states; (4) has denied freedom of conscience clauses for religious institutions opposed to certain medical procedures in the HHS Mandate of his Affordable Care Act, and repeatedly denied that has done so; (5) has run up the national credit card to heights unimaginable until a year or two ago ("... brought to you by the letter 'O' and the number 16 Trillion") in support of social programs with a proven record of failure since President Lyndon B. Johnson, (6) so that the government is now spending $11 for every $7 of revenue it takes in; (7) allowed the Federal Reserve to devalue the U.S. Dollar through (so far) three episodes of "quantitative easing," turning our pay checks into funny money; (8) done nothing to help American Blacks living below the poverty line (the numbers are higher today than when he took office), (9) increased the number of people on welfare by 32% in four years, such that this program alone now costs $1,030,000,000,000; (10) jobless claims are today higher than they have been in four months; (11) cover-ups with Fast & Furious and Benghazi that rival or surpass the Watergate scandal during the Nixon administration (senators are now demanding that the White House declassify the Libya video); and (12) has been repeatedly declared an out-of-control, incompetent amateur by those who have vetted his administration, like Bob Woodward in The Price of Politics (see NYT analysis HERE), and Edward Klein in The Amateur (see PJTV interview HERE, which quotes former President Clinton as calling Obama an "amateur"), and Lou Dobbs, who offers a detailed report on the President's unbelievable work schedule, which devotes more time to golf, fund raising, and campaigning than to meetings and briefings on the economy (which comprise a total of 4% of his working hours), and numerous mainstream editorials, some of which, like this, reported last month that Obama has just held his first cabinet meeting since January, 2012!

And there are are people even considering that they could vote for this guy?! And what's the latest? Report (I am not kidding): Vanloads of Somalians driven to polls in Ohio! Not to worry: I'm sure the international US election observers will see to it that their voting rights are not violated.

'Jane Roe' of Roe v. Wade airs anti-Obama ad in Florida

The transcript:

“I’m Norma McCorvey, the former Jane Roe of the Roe vs. Wade decision that brought ‘legal’ child killing to America.

“I was persuaded by feminist attorneys to lie; to say that I was raped, and needed an abortion. It was all a lie.

“Since then, over 50 million babies have been murdered. I will take this burden to my grave.

“Please, don’t follow in my mistakes. DO NOT vote for Barack Obama. He murders babies.”

The video:
Go to: LifesiteNews.com (October 24, 2012)

Before ...................................................................................................................... and after

Undone by the “Permanent Workshop” (a review)

by Philip Blosser

A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes.Edited, with a new Introduction, by Alcuin Reid. Ignatius Press. 124 pages. $11.95.

Most readers acquainted with English novelist Evelyn Waugh know him for his magisterial Brideshead Revisited(1945). Many know that he became a Catholic in 1930. Few, however, are familiar with his great love for the Traditional Latin Mass and how painfully he was afflicted by the liturgical changes throughout the last decade of his life.

A Bitter Trial is a collection of the personal correspondence between Waugh and John Carmel Heenan, the archbishop of Westminster, along with some of their other writings, during the tumultuous 1960s. It is significant, not chiefly because of what it adds to our understanding of the Second Vatican Council or its aftermath, but for the light it sheds on the raw and conflicting emotions felt by so many of the Catholic faithful and their spiritual shepherds during those years. First published in 1996, an expanded edition was released in 2011 with a foreword by Joseph Pearce and a new introduction by its editor, Dom Alcuin Reid.

Both Pearce and Reid contribute substantial insights to the volume. Traditionalists, however, would reject as premature Pearce’s judgment that, “with the wisdom of hindsight, we can now see the election of John Paul II as the date at which the high tide of the modernist encroachment within the Church began to turn.” Some would even question whether the tide has yet begun to turn. Others might also think that Reid lets Heenan off the hook rather too easily for going back on his earlier assurances that the liturgical changes would be negligible, assurances Waugh later described as “double-faced.” Reid states that Heenan, like so many clergy of his generation, found himself in an “almost-impossible situation.”

Waugh was only in his late twenties when he was received into the Church. “I was drawn, not by splendid ceremonies but by the spectacle of the priest as a craftsman,” he writes, using a simile suggested by G.K. Chesterton. “He had an important job to do which none but he was qualified for. He and his apprentice stumped up to the altar with their tools and set to work without a glance to those behind them, still less with any intention to make a personal impression on them.”

It is easy to forget that the Church in the decades preceding Vatican II, whatever her problems, experienced what Pearce calls a “burgeoning Catholic revival” and a nearly unprecedented heyday of notable conversions. A few weeks after Waugh’s conversion, the British weekly magazine Bystander observed that “the brilliant young author [was but] the latest man of letters to be received into the Catholic Church. Other well-known literary people who have gone over to Rome include Sheila Kaye-Smith, Comp­ton MacKenzie, Alfred Noyes, Fr. Ronald Knox, and G.K. Chesterton.” The list might also have included J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Dawson, Hugh Ross Williamson, Sir Alec Guin­ness, as well as many others — not to mention giants like John Hen­ry Cardinal Newman, Fr. Fred­erick William Faber, and Gerard Man­ley Hopkins not much earlier. Mean­while, a wave of literary converts rivaling England’s was sweeping the Continent, and included François Mauriac, Léon Bloy, Jacques Maritain, Charles Péguy, Hen­ri Ghéon, Giovanni Papini, Ger­trud von le Fort, and Sigrid Undset. “It is a singularly intriguing fact,” Pearce writes, “that the preconciliar Church was so effective in evangelizing modern culture, whereas the number of converts to the faith seemed to diminish in the sixties and seventies in direct proportion to the presence of the much-vaunted aggiorna­mento, the muddle-headed belief that the Church needed to be brought ‘up-to-date.’”

The perfectly sensible rationale behind Catholic opposition to contraception

Just thought I'd take the opportunity to post this outstanding presentation by Dr. Janet Smith explicitly for anyone you may know (especially Catholics!) who has no clue why the Catholic Church opposes contraception. To most people, even most Catholics, it remains a deep and incomprehensible mystery, if not a bad joke. So here it is, the best presentation I know of, by my esteemed colleague:

"Social Justice," Catholics, and Obama

Too true. I remember when asked by our DRE in my previous life to take the subject of Church moral teaching for an RCIA class, and she nearly turned purple when I handed out copies of Dr. Janet Smith's talk, "Contraception, Why Not?"

Something you might not quite expect ...

Obama-Loving Letterman Questions Obama’s Integrity Concerning Auto-Bailout (Bert Atkinson Jr., Independent Journal Review, October 24, 2012)


... out of the mouths of babes and idiots ...

It's not the economy, stupid: it's all about Moloch!

For people who think Snopes is the last word on everything

FYI - Interesting FACTS on Snopes - from a reader at TIA, who writes:

Check this out. I often do try to check out things with Snope so I don't pass on untrue things. This certainly scares you with George Soros heavily financing it. As they inspect `truth', not hard to imagine which things they might weight more heavily. 

I guess like so much on the Internet even the Urban Legends site is flawed.

Many of the emails that I have sent or forwarded that had any anti-Obama in it were negated by Snopes. I thought that was odd. Check this out. ...

Snopes is heavily financed by George Soros; a big time supporter of Obama!

In our Search for the truth department, we find what I have suspected on many occasions.

I went to Snopes to check something about the dockets of the Supreme Court Justice, Elena Kagan who Obama appointed and Snopes said the email was false and there were no such dockets.

So, I googled the Supreme Court, typed in Obama-Kagan, and guess what? Yep, you got it; Snopes lied! Everyone of those dockets is there. So, here is what I wrote to Snopes:

Referencing the article about Elena Kagan and Barack Obama dockets:

The information you have posted stating that there were no such cases as claimed and the examples you gave are blatantly false. I went directly to the Supreme Courts website, typed in Obama Kagan and immediately came up with all of the dockets that the article made reference to.

I have long suspected that you really slant things but this was really shocking.Thank you, I hope you will be much more truthful in the future, but I doubt it.

That being said, I’ll bet you didn't know this: Kagan was representing Obama in all the petitions to prove his citizenship. Now she may help rule on them.

Folks, this is really ugly. Chicago politics; and the beat goes on and on and on. Once again the U.S. Senate sold us out! Now we know why Obama nominated Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court.

Pull up the Supreme Courts website, go to the docket and search for Obama. She was the Solicitor General for all the suits against him filed with the Supreme Court to show proof of natural born citizenship. He owed her big time. All of the requests were denied of course. They were never heard. It just keeps getting deeper and deeper, doesn't it?

The American people mean nothing any longer. It's all about payback time for those who compromised themselves to elect someone who really has no true right to even be there.

Here are some websites of the Supreme Court Docket: You can look up some of these hearings and guess what? Elena Kagan is the attorney representing Obama!

Check out these examples here, here & here.

If you are not interested in justice or in truth, simply delete. However, if you hold sacred the freedoms granted to you by the U.S. Constitution; by all means, PASS it ON!

There truly is tyranny afoot.

      W.M.F.  Posted October 18, 2012
 

Just sayin' . . .

Related:

I made inquiry about this post to my son, Christopher, in NYC, who wrote back with links to entries my own Snopes searches failed to turn up, in which the interpretation given to the items on the Supreme Court Docket here are disputed.  I leave it to anyone interested to examine Richard Barrett's comment posted to this post, in which he offers a similar link.  The material claims made by W.M.F., apart from the allegation that Snopes lied about the Docket, of course continue to be a matter of debate in the culture at large. -- PP

"Two Bishops, Two EF Masses, Two Assumption Churches"

That was the October 17, 2012, headline of New Liturgical Movement's post by Shawn Tribe about Bishop Alexander Sample's Pontifical Mass at Assumption Grotto in Detroit and Bishop La Rocque's Pontifical Confirmation Mass at Assumption Church in Windsor, Canada, for some 43 Confirmandi. The photos are great. "The Mass that will not die."