August 31, 2013 By Robert Moynihan, PhD.
New Vatican Secretary of State Named Today the speculations turned out to be true. Pope Francis appointed Archbishop Pietro Parolin, 58, to be his Vatican Secretary of State, making Parolin the #2 man in the Vatican after the Pope himself. The appointment, announced this morning in Rome, will take effect on October 15
Read more here: http://themoynihanletters.com/pope-francis/letter-82-the-peacemaker
The Role of God’s Mother: the Flame of Love
Our Blessed Mother:
“The Flame of Love full of blessings springing from My Immaculate Heart…must go from heart to heart. It will be the Great Miracle of light blinding Satan. It is the fire of love and peace among men; and we will suppress fire with fire: the fire of heat with the fire of Love, so that many souls can be saved from eternal damnation. I am asserting that there has never been before such a similar outpouring. It is the greatest miracle I am doing. I obtained this grace on your behalf from the Eternal Father by virtue of the five Blessed wounds of my Divine Son.”
Our Lord:
“I could compare this torrential flood of Grace to the first Pentecost. It will submerge the earth by the power of the Holy Spirit. All mankind will take heed at the time of this great miracle. The torrential flow of the Flame of Love of My Most Holy Mother is coming. The world which is darkened already by a lack of Faith will undergo formidable tremors and then people will believe!…This renewing of the earth tested by suffering will take place through the power and imploring force of the Blessed Virgin!
Word of our Lord and our Lady to Elizabeth Kindelmann (fully approved with the marks of faithfulness by the Church). We would urge you to go www.flameoflove.us for a free Book with the nihil obstat and imprimatur on this extraordinary grace and to understand and experience this grace of protection for your Faith. Family prayer groups are urged.
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- Belgian docs looking to euthanize, harvest organs from disabled patients
- Kansas radio station to hawk abortion ads
- Police threaten pro-life sidewalk chalkers
- The transgender culture wars
- Judicial activism in action
- ‘To defend marriage, the truth is enchanting enough’
- Iowa Board Votes to Bar Abortion Pill System
 Belgian docs looking to euthanize, harvest organs from disabled patients Posted: 31 Aug 2013 08:22 AM PDT “I can think of nothing more dangerous than making mentally ill and despairing disabled people believe their deaths have greater value than their lives. Well one thing, perhaps: Having a society accept the idea that it can benefit at the expense of people in desperate need of care–and whose care is very expensive.”
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 Kansas radio station to hawk abortion ads Posted: 31 Aug 2013 08:21 AM PDT Ads for an abortion facility will soon fill Kansas airwaves, after a Clear Channel radio station has changed its policy, according to a pro-life group.
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 Police threaten pro-life sidewalk chalkers Posted: 31 Aug 2013 08:19 AM PDT On Thursday night, the Stand True Missionaries went sidewalk chalking at 3:30 in the morning, covering the streets and sidewalks of Troy with pro-life messages for the Gentlemen of the Road, Mumford and Sons Festival.
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 The transgender culture wars Posted: 31 Aug 2013 08:16 AM PDT A few weeks ago, readers of the New York Post were confronted with a story whose sensational title was characteristic of the tabloid: “I’m a Guy Again! ABC newsman who switched genders wants to switch back.”
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 Judicial activism in action Posted: 31 Aug 2013 08:14 AM PDT Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will become the first Supreme Court member to conduct a same-sex marriage ceremony Saturday when she officiates at the Washington “wedding” of Kennedy Center President Michael M. Kaiser.
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 ‘To defend marriage, the truth is enchanting enough’ Posted: 31 Aug 2013 07:45 AM PDT I do not claim to know why Bottum—the former editor of First Things, a longtime ally of people on the front lines in the battle to defend marriage—wrote this astonishing essay. But I do know how the publication of that Commonweal piece will change his life, in ways that he could and should have expected.
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 Iowa Board Votes to Bar Abortion Pill System Posted: 30 Aug 2013 12:35 PM PDT The Iowa Board of Medicine voted Friday to end a unique system in which doctors use the Internet to distribute abortion-inducing pills remotely to patients at clinics across the state.
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Our Lady prays for Holiness in Families and for Youth
August 30, 2013 A.D.
As summer begins to yield to fall, tonight the air was chilly yet refreshing at the Blue Cross on Apparition Mountain where Our Lady appeared to Ivan just before 10:00 p.m. By 7:00 p.m., many pilgrims had already staked out the spots that would be closest to the Blue Cross where Our Lady would appear, and a few thousand pilgrims began to sprinkle in to the area surround the Blue Cross over the next 3 hours. Ivan’s prayer group led the crowd in a rosary in preparation for the apparition. The apparition began with silence but was quickly interrupted by the screaming of a demonic, which however lasted for only a minute. The apparition lasted approximately 9 minutes. After the apparition to Ivan on August 30, 2013 on Apparition Mountain, which took place just before 10:00 p.m., Ivan said:
“I would like to especially set out what is the most important from tonight’s meeting together with Our Lady. Also tonight Our Lady came to us joyful and happy and at the beginning, She greeted all of us with Her Motherly greeting, ‘Praised be Jesus, my dear children.’ Then She extended Her hands over all of us and for a longer time prayed over all of us here. She especially prayed over you sick present here and over the priests.
“Then Our Lady blessed all of us with Her Motherly blessing, and She also blessed everything you brought to be blessed. After that, Our Lady for a longer time especially prayed for holiness in families and for the youth.
“I then recommended all of you, all your needs, your intentions, your families and in a special way, all of the sick present. After that, Our Lady continued to especially pray for the families and then left in an illuminated Sign of the Cross with a greeting, ‘Go in peace my dear children.’
Pictures from the Apparition in Medjugorje August 30, 2013
A young woman, tucked away from the crowds who gathered for tonight’s apparition at the Blue Cross, reads and prays by the light of a lantern as she prepares for Our Lady. These moments of prayer are critical for every single person as it is in our prayer that we plant the seeds of Our Lady’s words into each of our hearts. If we stood in a large dark room, the darkness could be penetrated by a single lighted candle. Our Lady has come to bring light into our darkness, or as Ivan recently said, to wake us up from our spiritual comas:
“In these years, Our Lady is waking us up from spiritual coma that this world is in. And She would like to strengthen us in our faith and in our prayer. I pray that each one of us will answer Our Lady’s invitation, that we will accept Her messages, and that all together we will become co-creators of a better and more beautiful world, a world that is worthy of the children of God. These days when you are here I pray that you will plant a good seed and I hope that that seed will fall to the fertile soil and it will bear a good fruit, a beautiful flower. The time we live in is the time of responsibility. We need to be responsible. Our Lady is inviting us to responsibility, that we may accept the word of Christ in a responsible way, that we may accept Her message, the Good News, and to carry that Good News into the world so that we will actively participate in prayer, in the evangelization of this world, in families. Let us decide for peace. Let us decide for God. Only in God do we have our true and genuine peace. Dear friends, may it be so.”
Medjugorje visionary Ivan to pilgrims on June 6, 2013 in Medjugorje
Tonight’s sunset casted brilliant shades of color over Medjugorje to warm the soul, but gradually those colors faded, as the light faded, into darkness and into night. God speaks to us through His creation, with every sunrise and sunset. Our Lady said:
September 25, 1998
“… Little children, you seek signs and messages and do not see that, with every morning sunrise, God calls you to convert and to return to the way of truth and salvation…”
A Friend of Medjugorje wrote recently the following:
“Our Lady said on June 25, 1993
“…these times are particular…”
Our Lady’s phase for us in this particular time is bringing us out of the gray zone, with a call to all children of the world, a clear illumination of how to imitate Her Son. Our Lady wants us to see, again, that where black and white meet, there is a distinct line, not moveable. No more of living the light and dark together. Purify ourselves from all darkness. When you are asleep or half awake you cannot identify the darkness in you, that even as a Christian, you have aspects of unbelief. As we fast, pray, do penance and live peace, we can see that grayness is no longer acceptable and rapidly—very rapidly, is disappearing. People must decide for a future with the light or without the light.”
A Friend of Medjugorje from his writing: “ What Colors Mixed Make Gray?”
It’s a fast day, even for little children, in Medjugorje. A little boy holds a chunk of bread while playing with a flashlight, oblivious to the purpose of why he has been brought to the Blue Cross on Apparition Mountain tonight. It may be years before he understands how blessed he was to be in Our Lady’s presence on August 30, 2013, at tonight’s apparition in Medjugorje. Yet, even though he lacks understanding, his parents are raising him in living Our Lady’s messages—which includes building in him the love of bread on Wednesdays and Fridays. In the Caritas Community, it is by the witness of the adults that the children also participate on fast days. If a child sees that fasting is a positive experience for the adults around him, he will naturally go towards wanting to be a part of that experience. On the other hand, if fasting is done with complaining and negative feelings, a child will learn not to want to fast. All of our children regularly see bread being made in their own kitchens, love smelling it while its baking, and with hands outstretched are ready to receive a warm chunk of bread as readily as if it were a piece of candy. Fasting for our children has always been “a way of life”—built into the fabric of their lives from the very beginning. How much easier it will be for them to embrace fasting when they become adults, then for us who had to “discipline” ourselves, after our conversion, to build fasting into our lives.
P.S. There is still time to call in to Caritas to sign up for the 9-day bread and water fast beginning on September 26. You can call Caritas in the US at 205-672-2000. More information about the 9-day bread and water fast with the fasting prayers can be found by visiting here…
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Judie Brown
August 31, 2013
The word justice is frequently thrown around, but not often understood. When will people come to realize that, through every act of abortion, a child is brutally murdered? Our selfish and “me” society teaches people that this act is acceptable, and certainly not one that should be spoken out against. We must right this wrong, and put our nation back on a path of respecting and valuing all life. Too many have suffered already.
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/brown/130831
LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report
Friday, August 30, 2013
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Current Headlines
Top Stories
• Conjoined Twins Safely Separated, Almost Became Abortion Victims
• Chicago Public Schools Mandate Sex Ed Classes for Kindergarten Students
• Iowa Medical Board Adopts Rules Banning Dangerous Webcam Abortions
• Abortion Activist: You Dont Need to be a Doctor to Rip Apart a Baby With a Vacuum
More Pro-Life News
• China: Wife Missing Who Lobbied Govt After Husbands Forced Sterilization
• Bro-Choice Men Prove Abortion is the Ultimate Exploitation of Women
• Under Obama Billions in Foreign Aid Has Gone to Groups that Support Abortion
• 15 Reasons Why Love From Babies Is The Best Kind Of Love
• More Pro-Life Laws Successfully Saving Babies From Abortion in Cases of Rape
• Pro-Life Advocates Threatened With Arrest for Chalk Messages Against Abortion
• Abortion Video Game a Total Disservice to Women
• Doctors in Belgium to Prey on Disabled, Euthanize Them to Harvest Their Organs
• Fascinating Research Demonstrates Unborn Children Can Learn
• Abortion Doc Shortage Has Activists Pushing Nurses to Do Abortions, Hurt Women
• Ethical Stem Cells Create Human Mini-Brains to Help Patients
• Judge Dismisses Illinois Zoning Lawsuit to Stop New Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz
Conjoined Twins Safely Separated, Almost Became Abortion Victims
Emmett and Owen Ezell were born last month in Dallas, Texas but they were very much unlike most sets of twins. They were are identical twins[1] joined in utero a rare phenomenon that happens in as many as 1 in 200,000 births.
About half of such twins are stillborn, but Owen and Emmett survived not only the birthing process their mother rejected abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/30/conjoined-twins-safely-separated-almost-became-abortion-victims/
Chicago Public Schools Mandate Sex Ed Classes for Kindergarten Students
They are much, much too young to even be thinking about sex and sexual acts at their age are the worst form of pedophilia, but Chicago public schools think little boys and girls in kindergarten are ready for sex ed classes.
From a local report: Some people may think a five-year old is too young for sex education. Administrators with Chicago Public schools do not. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/30/chicago-public-schools-mandate-sex-ed-classes-for-kindergarten-students/
Iowa Medical Board Adopts Rules Banning Dangerous Webcam Abortions
The Iowa Board of Medicine voted 8-2 today to adopt a rule effectively ending webcam abortion in Iowa.
The webcam abortion practice started with the Planned Parenthood of the Heartland affiliate using it in Iowa, a rural state where the abortion business has a difficult time getting an abortion practitioner to each of its clinics. As a result, it set up a process by which the abortion practitioner only visits with the woman considering using the mifepristone abortion pill via a videoconference, as opposed to an in-person visit the FDA suggests. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/30/iowa-medical-board-adopts-rules-banning-dangerous-webcam-abortions/
Abortion Activist: You Dont Need to be a Doctor to Rip Apart a Baby With a Vacuum
Things are looking pretty bleak in the world of abortion care with [a] wave of states having been disturbingly successful at shutting down abortion providers by passing medically unnecessary restrictions on clinics, abortion rights absolutist and Daily Beast contributor Amanda Marcotte lamented at the open of her August 29 Women in the World blog post.
But alas, theres a bright ray of hope in the womb-like darkness, Marcotte found in her post tagged as a call to arms piece (see screen capture below page break): deep blue states like California working to liberalize abortion laws . http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/30/abortion-activist-you-dont-need-to-be-a-doctor-to-rip-apart-a-baby-with-a-vacuum/
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China: Wife Missing Who Lobbied Govt After Husbands Forced Sterilization
ChinaAid learned on Aug. 26, 2013 that Chinese Christian Wang Xuebai had been out of contact for several days. It is believed that Wang was detained in connection with her appeals to the government on behalf of her husband.
Wangs troubles began in 2009 when her husband, Li Defu was forced to undergo a vasectomy in the city of Shangqiu, Minquan, Henan Province. Wang appealed the court to guard her husbands rights, but was threatened and detained. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/30/china-wife-missing-after-lobbying-govt-after-husbands-forced-sterilization/
Bro-Choice Men Prove Abortion is the Ultimate Exploitation of Women
Abortion advocates like to phrase the ongoing legal battles over abortion as a war on women, but is it really?
Most women dont identify as pro-abortion. At least half of all American women, if not slightly more than half, are pro-life. Abortion is in no way an issue where all women walk in lockstep. And really, is it women who benefit most from abortion being free and legal on demand? Hardly. The people who have the most to gain from keeping abortion legal at all times are slimeball men. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/30/bro-choice-men-prove-abortion-is-the-ultimate-exploitation-of-women/
Under Obama Billions in Foreign Aid Has Gone to Groups that Support Abortion
Lawmakers in Washington are attempting to rebalance U.S. spending on foreign aid which has for years limited funding for maternal and child health and increased spending for groups promoting population reduction and abortion.
The U.S. budget for family planning and reproductive health has increased some 57% since 2006 when Democrats took control in Congress, yet funding for maternal and child health has increased just 16% overall and its funding has dropped 4% within U.S. Agency for Development (USAID). http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/30/under-obama-billions-in-foreign-aid-has-gone-to-groups-that-support-abortion/
15 Reasons Why Love From Babies Is The Best Kind Of Love
Pro-life advocates are taking to the popular social media web site Buzzfeed with their lists of fun facts and memes. Now, diaper company Pampers is getting in on the fun and has a new list titled, 15 Reasons Why Love From Babies Is The Best Kind Of Love, which is reproduced below. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/30/15-reasons-why-love-from-babies-is-the-best-kind-of-love/
More Pro-Life Laws Successfully Saving Babies From Abortion in Cases of Rape
Set aside the spin and snarkiness, and the August 27 New Republic article, Pro-lifers arent even trying to make abortion restrictions sound nice anymore, contains exciting news. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/30/more-pro-life-laws-successfully-saving-babies-from-abortion-in-cases-of-rape/
Pro-Life Advocates Threatened With Arrest for Chalk Messages Against Abortion
Last night the Stand True Missionaries went sidewalk chalking at 3:30 in the morning, covering the streets and sidewalks of Troy with pro-life messages for the Gentlemen of the Road, Mumford and Sons Festival. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/30/pro-life-advocates-threatened-with-arrest-for-chalk-messages-against-abortion/
Abortion Video Game a Total Disservice to Women
Pro-abortion activists will try anything to push their agenda. The latest effort is being promoted in the name of education and awareness.. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/30/abortion-video-game-a-total-disservice-to-women/
Doctors in Belgium to Prey on Disabled, Euthanize Them to Harvest Their Organs
Belgium is really gearing up its euthanasia followed by organ harvesting regimeand apparently the transplant medical community has no moral qualms. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/30/doctors-in-belgium-to-prey-on-disabled-euthanize-them-to-harvest-their-organs/
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Fascinating Research Demonstrates Unborn Children Can Learn
A group of scientists at the University of Helsinki has published findings in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that show that children are capable of learning and retaining information much earlier than previously believed possible before even being born. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/30/fascinating-research-demonstrates-unborn-children-can-learn/
Abortion Doc Shortage Has Activists Pushing Nurses to Do Abortions, Hurt Women
The abortion industry has a persistent complaint: They cant seem to find doctors who want to do their killing. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/30/abortion-doc-shortage-has-activists-pushing-nurses-to-do-abortions-hurt-women/
Ethical Stem Cells Create Human Mini-Brains to Help Patients
The induced pluripotent stem cell breakthrough continues to be useful in the very ways that the scientists once said only human cloning could provide. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/30/ethical-stem-cells-create-human-mini-brains-to-help-patients/
Judge Dismisses Illinois Zoning Lawsuit to Stop New Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz
Today, DuPage County Judge Paul Fullerton dismissed a zoning lawsuit against the Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Aurora, Illinois, brought by Thomas More Society attorneys on behalf of local residents and a community group, Fox Valley Families Against Planned Parenthood. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/30/judge-dismisses-illinois-zoning-lawsuit-to-stop-new-planned-parenthood-abortion-biz/
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To Lead the Charge at Home
Columbus, OH – August 30, 2013 – From Cleveland to Columbus to Cincinnati to Pittsburgh, last month our Justice Riders took the pictures of abortion victims to downtown squares, unveiled them above thousands of commuters driving to work, displayed them to a crowd funneling into an Indians baseball game, and more. Several confirmed babies were saved, minds were changed. And that was just the beginning.
Video: Watch coverage of outreach led by Justice Riders in Fort Wayne, IN
Weeks after returning home, Riders Ian & Christian led a team of students using our tools in downtown Fort Wayne, IN (see video above). Rider Sarah led a team for a week-long outreach tour on the east coast. And now as school resumes, we look to university club presidents who were on the team as they lead their own groups on campus this fall:
There is no better teacher than experience. The people who leave these rides are prepared and seasoned in defending the pro-life position.—Zach, President, Virginia Tech Students for Life
This is the most pro-active thing I can do to save babies threatened by abortion. Created Equal is inspiring youth to join the movement that will make history.—Andrea, President, Created Equal of Moody Bible Institute
Created Equal is the cutting-edge leader in pro-life advocacy techniques.—Jonathan, President, Purdue University Students for Life
As these Justice Riders return to campus, I will begin deploying my full-time staff one-by-one to cover more ground, reach more universities, and identify more leaders like Zach, Andrea, and Jonathan. As our ranks grow, more children will be saved and lives changed. Please join us.
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