The Future of the United States of America.

Both same-sex marriage and same-sex civil unions enable homosexual acts.

 

Its another argument over source material...he said she said, I give the Pope the benefit of the doubt !

Dialogue with Islam needed now more than ever, Vatican says
By Andrea Gagliarducci
Vatican City, Apr 22, 2015 / 01:55 pm (EWTN News/CNA)
http://www.ewtnnews.com/catholic-news/Vatican.php?id=11988
By offering an Olive branch to the muslum world by recocognizing Palestine as a state and hopefully reduce the persecution of our brothers and sisters in many muslum nations. Im all for it! its not a doctrinal issue its a diplomatic one,The Vatican is a nation state after all.
No stones in my hands

 

I remember being younger when I thought being right was the most important part of a debate, discussion, argument... Trust me when I say being right all the time leads down a lonely path full of self righteousness. I'd like to throw out a great caution on the matter.

If you are doing an examination of conscience every night, if you are trying to stay in communion with God throughout the day, if you are taking your state in life seriously, if you are dutifully trying to inform your conscience through study, if you are trying to root out habitual sins, if you are trying to evangelize the people God brings into you life (not proving them wrong, but teaching them the truth), amoungst some many other holy and good acts you should be striving to incorporate into your day....How on earth do you find the time to spend on other's faults and imperfections? If someone says evil is good or good is evil, point out the error, pray for the person, and let the Holy Spirit do the rest.

With all that is gong on right now, is our time really best spent pointing out things that are wrong in the church? I bet we could all agree that conversation would go on infinitum. We are on the precipice of an evil so great... Get your house in order.

If you were to criticize anyone to another that other person should be walking away saying...yea he didn't agree with that person, but MAN did he sure love him.

Pax

 

Wow! What a great post!

 

Hey, Little Me - want to trade brothers? In fact, just for you, and just for today, I'm running a 2 for 1 special!

 

Amen to that, Tiny Me! So many people are caught up and distracted by evil and are criticizing each other and looking backwards and giving "what ifs" and spending time on needless worry when God needs us all rowing the boat forward with eyes fixed on Jesus and Mary and doing His work!

 

I'm gonna let God (and the Pope) drive the bus....and I'm gonna just get in the back where I belong....in the meantime, I will stay close to the sacraments, the word, the rosary, the saints and my marriage commitment. I will stay busy caring for others in need....that should keep me with enough on my plate to not be looking at others because God knows I could tear them apart in a heartbeat and that would be of no value to my or their life.... I'm just another Bozo in the back of the bus....God is driving

 

So after reading some of the past posts...I can't see how this helps anyone. It only seems to cause confusion and disunity. Sounds like the "created one"to me. What are you trying to discern...

How Pope Francis leads you to God?

Or

How Pope Francis leads you to the "created one"?

That's what discernment is. Some of us need to ask the question...

Are we posting to lead people away from God/Church?

Or

Are we posting to have more souls find God through Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Holy Mother Church.

This is a Catholic Forum not a Protestant one. If a individual wants to lead...then follow your will and become a Protestant. But discernment of a Holy Father that has not said or done anything against the Catholic Church or His Priestly ministries is against the Will of God.

May Gods Will be Done

 

Beautiful! Such things makes the devil wail!

 

Catholics and Jews must unite against the storm of secularism, religious leaders insist
http://www.ewtnnews.com/catholic-news/US.php?id=12115

Washington D.C., May 22, 2015 / 01:08 am (EWTN News/CNA).- A 50 year-old declaration of the Second Vatican Council established a new era in Christian-Jewish relations and enabled members of both religions to unite against present-day secularism, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York reflected on Wednesday

 

May members of both religions unite against homosexual acts, whether in same-sex "marriages" or same-sex civil unions.

 

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DC Court Tells Catholic Groups: Submit to HHS Mandate or Pay Massive Fines
PETER JESSERER SMITH 05/22/2015

The Archdiocese of Washington and Priests for Life suffered a legal setback at the D.C. Court of Appeals that puts their case on a path to the U.S. Supreme Court.



Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/#ixzz3attkxBkZ

 

I contribute monthly to Priests for Life, http://www.priestsforlife.org/donate/index.aspx , due to the courage of Fr. Frank Pavone.

 

Very Good news !!!!

Denver's Archbishop Aquila restores sacraments to original order
Denver, Colo., May 23, 2015 / 05:01 pm (EWTN News/CNA)


In an unprecedented change for an archdiocese, Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila of Denver announced that the Sacraments of Initiation – Baptism, Confirmation and First Communion – will be restored to their original order.

“In an increasingly secular world, the reality is this: the souls of our children are the battleground. As the shepherd of the Archdiocese of Denver, I must do everything I can to help those who form children win that battle,” he explained in his pastoral letter “Saints Among Us” released May 23.

“The world needs saints. Even as our society becomes more distant from faith and more forgetful of God, it still hungers for joyful witnesses who have been transformed by Christ,” he explained. “At the same time, new generations of Catholics need grace to sustain them in a non-Christian environment.”

In response to those needs, Archbishop Aquila said he’s chosen to restore the sacraments to the original order.

While the majority of dioceses and archdioceses have children baptized in infancy, receive the First Communion in first or second grade and Confirmation sometime in middle or high school, the original order placed Confirmation and First Communion in the same ceremony.

“This will make available every sacramental grace the Church has to offer to children who have reached the age of reason,” he explained
http://www.ewtnnews.com/catholic-news/US.php?id=12122

 

"The Chosen Child in Chicago" received their final message. One day we will know for sure if this person was truly hearing from God. He or she was right on their repeated messages starting in 2012 about the warning of "race riots" in our country.

"The Chosen Child in Chicago" heard too about a good man becoming president of the U.S. I was wondering, have there been any other messages saying this? These three maybe...

+ + +

from Our Lady, in Locutions to the World:

10. Deeper Into the Darkness
Oct 8th, 2013

Mary

....Suddenly, a solution will be worked out, just as I have said, through the behind-the-scenes efforts of those whose hearts I own. Anyone with faith will see that only heaven saved America.


11. An Extraordinary Promise
October 9, 2013

Mary

....Very serious changes must be made as quickly as possible. So, I will make you an extraordinary promise. If you call upon heaven, not from time to time but every day, I will begin to topple the selfish leaders. This will begin soon and continue for three years. I will give America another chance, purging her of those who would destroy her by unsustainable debt. A new opportunity will arise. This will be America’s final chance to put its house in order. Call out to me and heaven will not abandon you. Even with all your sins, no country has replaced you in my heart.


7. A Presidential Candidate
Oct 16th, 2013

Mary

There is a great divide in America, wider than the Grand Canyon. The forces of division are greater than the forces of unity. So it will be, until I save America through one whom I love deeply.

This is what I said in the beginning and I repeat it now. No human power can solve these divisions, but I will spare America for now. I have allowed this economic ground to shake and to tremble beneath your feet and I will rescue America by one whom I love dearly. I will offer him as a candidate for the presidency. If America accepts him, I will bless this land.

 

The Decline of Christian America
Tuesday - May 26, 2015 at 12:22 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan

“This is a Christian nation,” said the Supreme Court in 1892.

“America was born a Christian nation,” echoed Woodrow Wilson. Harry Truman affirmed it: “This is a Christian nation.”

But in 2009, Barack Hussein Obama begged to differ: “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.”

Comes now a Pew Research Center survey that reveals the United States is de-Christianizing at an accelerated rate.

Whereas 86 percent of Americans in 1990 identified as Christians, by 2007, that was down to 78 percent. Today only 7 in 10 say they are Christians. But the percentage of those describing themselves as atheists, agnostics or nonbelievers has risen to 23. That exceeds the Catholic population and is only slightly below evangelicals.

Those in the mainline Protestant churches — Presbyterians, Lutherans, Methodists, Episcopalians — have plummeted from 50 percent of the U.S. population in 1958 to 14 percent today. By accommodating the social revolution of the 1960s to stay relevant, mainline churches appear to have made themselves irrelevant to America’s young.

The decline in Christian identity is greatest among the young. While 85 percent of Americans born before 1945 still call themselves Christians, only 57 percent of those born after 1980 do.

If we want to see our future, we should probably look to Europe, where Catholic Ireland just voted in a landslide to legalize same-sex marriage and where cathedrals and churches are being turned into tourist attractions and museums and even bars and restaurants.

What are the causes of a de-Christianized America?

High among them is the Supreme Court, which, since the Earl Warren era began, purged Christianity from all public schools and the public square — and has been met with a puzzling lack of resistance from Middle America to the secularist revolution being imposed upon it.

Second, an anti-Christian elite captured the cultural heights — the arts, elite universities, popular culture, the media — and began, through movies, books and magazines, an assault on Christian beliefs and morality.

Third was the social revolution of the 1960s, which began with the arrival of the baby boomers on campus in 1964. Five years on, Woodstock Nation was wallowing in the mud, listening to Country Joe & the Fish.

The counterculture of the ’60s would be used as a foil to build 49-state landslides for Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, but then the ’60s views and values were embraced by the elites and came to dominate the culture in the time of Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Given his baggage, “Slick Willy” of Yoknapatawpha County would have been a comic figure in the 1950s. Today he is the Democratic Party’s beau ideal of a statesman.

Many churches came out to meet the cultural revolution halfway. The results were irrelevance and scandal — too many Elmer Gantrys in televangelist pulpits and too many predators in priestly cassocks.

What are the consequences of a de-Christianized America and West? Si monumentum requiris, circumspice. (If you would seek its monuments, look around you.)

Half of marriages end in divorce. Fewer children are being born, and of these, over 40 percent are out of wedlock. Record drug use rates and dropout rates and soaring crime rates that have declined only because we have an incarceration rate that rivals South Africa’s.

Despite astonishing advances in medicine, we have far more and far more varied and deadly STDs.

As Christianity dies, individualism, materialism and hedonism replace it. “Selfies” could be the name for the generation for whom Easter Sunday long ago took a back seat to Super Bowl Sunday. More than a million abortions a year, assisted suicide and euthanasia are seen as the milestones of social progress in the new America.

“Panem et circenses,” bread and circuses, were what the late Roman Empire was all about. With us, it is sex, drugs and rock, with variations on all three.

Historically, as the faith dies, the culture and civilization to which it gave birth die, and then the people die. And a new tribe with its own gods comes to occupy the emptying land.

On the old and new continents, it is the native-born of European ancestry who are de-Christianizing, aging and dying. And the nations they created are the ones depopulating.

To occupy Rome, the barbarians came from the east and north. To occupy the West, they are coming from the south. And like the Romans of the fourth century, we seem paralyzed and powerless to stop them.

Christianity was the founding faith of the West. That faith and the moral code and culture it produced once united this disparate and diverse nation and civilization.

As Christianity fades away and the moral code and culture it generated recede into irrelevance, what will hold us together?

Economically, we are dependent on foreigners for the necessities of our national life. Our politics are poisonous. Our racial divisions, once ameliorated by shared belief in the same God and Bible, are rawer than they were in the 1950s.

As for equality, diversity and global democracy, who will march and die for that?

Historian Arnold Toynbee said it well: “Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.”

 

Pat Buchanan & I have diverged some over the past 20 years but he is quite correct here!!

GOD SAVE CHRISTENDOM!!

 

DC Cardinal: Christ didn't change his words, and neither should the Church
By Matt Hadro
Washington D.C., May 27, 2015 / 03:08 am (EWTN News/CNA
http://www.ewtnnews.com/catholic-news/US.php?id=12137

It is not discrimination for a Catholic to publicly profess his faith, Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington insisted Sunday in a pastoral letter on “Being Catholic Today.”

“It has become increasingly acceptable,” he stated, “to disparage as bigoted and mean-spirited anyone who seeks to uphold fundamental truths about the human person that have been recognized throughout history.”

Church teaching is rooted in an “authentic humanism,” he added, and “it is neither discrimination nor an undue imposition on the freedom of others to promote that belief and live by it.”

The letter, published May 24, outlined various challenges facing Catholics in the U.S. who want to practice their faith publicly. The faith must be lived in action because the “missionary activity of the Church is essential to her identity,” he said. This is practiced through Catholic ministries to the poor, immigrants, and children.

These ministries must never be severed from the teachings of Christ, he added. “The Church is not a business, a club, or a special-interest group. Her origins are found in the will and actions of Christ.”

Yet threats loom to the practice of the faith because some wish to impose a secular morality on everyone, including Catholics, he explained. This would include a forced “tolerance” for acts such as abortion or sexual activity that contradicts Church teaching.