LAUDATO SI (PLEASE BE...)--THE POPE'S PERSONAL OPINION

The pope's new encyclical,which is giving the leftist,progressive,communist media political orgasms, gives the pope's personal opinion on the issue of man made environmental hazards. It is not an "ex cathedra" Catholic church teaching. It deserves every Catholic's respectful reading and analysis like any other authoritative book or treatise  by any other world leader.

    Since it is the popes personal opinion it must stand on the merits of his facts and logical presentation When the pope states that the calamitous environmental destruction is caused mainly by man and will do irreparable harm to the earth--upon what facts and information is he basing this on.(I hope his scientific authorities are not cheap imitations of AL Gore or RI's Sen Sheldon Inhouse with European accents) For all his scientific authorities and consensuses you can get just as many and just as eminent scientific authorities with opposing views on this subject. The anthropological theory of man made environmental disasters is a theory just like the theory of evolution--it remains to be proven.

    His proposals for more centralized bureaucratic government (national and international) to control  his theoretical  man-made calamitous environmental disasters would themselves be disasters for man's freedom.

    As to the pope's plea for greater care by all of us of our environment --good. I am a big conservationist.

I think man wastes too much--water and all material things. There should be a greater free will equitable distribution of the worlds goods and resources. This should be a mission of the churches to promote this.

  

  I agree with the pope in his condemnation of multi-national corporations. Their power should be reduced. They are the enemy of the poor and the average citizen of every country. The policy of "free trade" has been detrimental to our country. They have only one aim--increase the bottom line at any cost. They have used their power to build up other countries while tearing down our country. They have recently used their  power to blackmail states and countries to promote and accept abortion and sodomy marriage.

COMMON SENSE IN THE VATICAN?????????????

How can the Catholic Church be against sodomy and then the pope appoints a high level cleric in Germany

who approves of sodomy marriage. This doesn't  pass the smell test or the common sense test!!!!!!!!!!

                                                                      Bernard L  Lefoley

Could it be that there are still ephebophiliacs(homosexuals) in the clergy especially in the hierarchy???????

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Pope Francis appoints new archbishop of Berlin who defends gay unions

catholic , heiner koch , homosexuality , pope francis

NEWS ANALYSIS

BERLIN, June 9, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) -- On Monday, June 8, Pope Francis appointed Bishop Heiner Koch of Dresden-Meißen to be the new Archbishop of Berlin, a diocese that constitutes an important position within the Catholic Church in Germany. Bishop Koch had previously been selected as one of the three delegates of the German Bishops' Conference to participate in the upcoming October 2015 Synod of Bishops on the Family. Koch is President of the German Bishops' Conference's Commission for Marriage and the Family.
He had also been a participant at the recent May 25 private Rome conference at the Gregorian University that caused controversy over its heterodox contents and its intentional lack of transparency. As earlier reported, one of the other participants of this private Meeting, Professor Eberhard Schockenhoff, has just recently also publicly defended practicing homosexuals.
Bishop Koch is already known for his liberalizing tendencies and sympathies toward homosexual couples, as well as toward “remarried” divorcees. As the German Catholic newspaper, Die Tagespost, reported June 8, for example, Bishop Koch recently said the following: “Any bond that strengthens and holds people is in my eyes good; that applies also to same-sex relationships.”

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In February 2015, Koch made comments to the German newspaper Nordwest-Zeitung (Oldenburg) that reveal more deeply his own views.  He claimed that the Church needed a new language when dealing with homosexuals. “To present homosexuality as sin is wounding,” Koch said. And he continued: “I know homosexual pairs that live values such as reliability and responsibility in an exemplary way.”
Concerning “remarried” divorcees, Bishop Koch told the Nordwest-Zeitung: “The question is whether we can – under certain conditions – admit to the Eucharist divorced and remarried faithful who have a deep piety.” And he continued: “This could, for example, take place after a long conversation with the confessor.”
This appointment of Bishop Koch by Pope Francis comes shortly after Cardinal Walter Kasper – the main promoter of the liberalizing agenda at the last Synod of Bishops on the Family –  had somewhat stammeringly withdrawn his previously made explicit statements that Pope Francis had himself supported his reform proposal. In an interview with EWTN News Director Raymond Arroyo, host of the The World Over, on June 4 while visiting the United States, Cardinal Kasper said ambiguously and hesitatingly: “The Pope wanted that I put the question [forward], and, afterwards, in a general way, before all the cardinals, he expressed his satisfaction with my talk. But not the end, not in the .… I wouldn’t say he approved the proposal, no, no, no.”
For an insufficiently informed observer, such equivocation only adds to the confusion about the pope's actual intentions and encouragements – as well as about his procedural methods and approved episcopal appointments, such as Archbishop Heiner Koch now.

IRELAND VOTES FOR SODOMY MARRIAGE

THIS ARTICLE IS A REPORT THAT WAS POSTED IN THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC
REGISTER  .IS THIS AMERICA'S FUTURE????????

BY ELIZABETH ADAMS
DUBLIN — The
Republic of Ireland has become the first country in the world
to vote for
homosexual “marriage.” Once a beacon of hope for other
countries fighting a
rising tide of aggressive secularism, Ireland, through
this decision, has moved
into the vanguard of that very same secular
revolution and now counts itself as
one of a minority of European countries
that will allow two men or two women to
“marry.”

But the situation in Ireland may be worse than in other countries.
Sixty-two
percent of voters in last Friday’s referendum agreed to insert
the
following amendment into Article 41 of the Irish Constitution:
“Marriage
may be contracted in accordance with law by two persons without
distinction
as to their sex.” The institution of marriage has a rather exalted
status
in the Irish Constitution. Article 41 also declares, “The state
pledges
itself to guard with special care the institution of marriage, on which
the
family is founded, and to protect it against attack.” 

In essence,
therefore, the Irish state is bound by its constitution to guard
homosexual
“marriage” from attack.

This follows the passage two months ago of the Child
and Family
Relationships Act that made it legal for homosexual couples to
adopt, thus
deliberately depriving the child in such a context of either a
mother or a
father. It also extended rights to donor-assisted human
reproduction to
homosexuals and single people. Homosexual adoption is deeply
controversial
around the world. Yet this piece of legislation passed through
the Dáil
(Parliament) without the need for a vote, and with only two votes
against it
in the Seanad (Senate).

This is worth repeating — there are 226
politicians in both houses of the
Irish Parliament. Only two politicians (Sens.
Rónán Mullen and Jim Walsh)
voted against this radical
legislation.

 

U.S. Money

How did the radical homosexual agenda advance
so rapidly in Ireland?

The first place to look is not Ireland itself, but the
U.S.-based Atlantic
Philanthropies organization founded by Irish-American Chuck
Feeney. Atlantic
Philanthropies has provided funding to many good causes. But
large grants
have also been made to so-called “progressive” causes, especially
in
Ireland. This includes approximately $17 million donated to the main
groups
who were part of the Yes Equality campaign group.

This money was
instrumental in getting homosexual “marriage” onto the
political agenda in the
first place. For example, between 2005 and 2011,
Atlantic donated $4.7 million
to the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network (GLEN)
and subsequently boasted that
the grant enabled GLEN to build a
“full-time, highly professional lobbying
machine” to work “inside the
machinery of government” in Ireland, seeking to
“embed long-lasting
social change.” 

Atlantic Philanthropies money can be
found all over the Yes side of this
campaign. A variety of nongovernmental
organizations that have nothing to do
with homosexuality (including migrants’
rights groups and children’s
charities) added their support to the call for a
Yes vote. One thing that
linked these groups was the common denominator of
funding from Atlantic
Philanthropies. This single foundation has enabled the
creation of a
well-funded network of liberal activist NGOs that seem to have
exerted
considerable influence behind the scenes and within the political
parties
and media outlets to win over the doubtful and pacify opposition,
as
Atlantic Philanthropies has phrased it.   

 

Opponents Had Limited
Resources 

As for the campaign itself, the groups on the No side did the best
they
could with limited resources and personnel. The No campaign was led by
the
Iona Institute and by Mothers and Fathers Matter. The main theme of the
No
campaign was that, by changing Article 41 of the constitution,
the
government was attempting to redefine not just marriage but also the
family
itself — and that with the right to marry would come the right to
beget
children. This could necessitate the provision of surrogacy services
to
homosexual male couples and would result in children being
deliberately
denied the benefit of having a mother in their lives.

In the
end, it was impossible to overturn the large lead that the Yes
campaign had
built in the polls — less than six months ago, one poll
suggested that only 17%
would vote No. For five years, Irish citizens were
subjected to a highly
emotional propaganda campaign aimed at redefining
marriage. This long campaign
was built around personal stories from same-sex
couples and facilitated by an
entirely biased media.

Indeed, all of “Official Ireland” backed the Yes
campaign — every
political party and media outlet was supportive, and global
technology
companies like Twitter and Google also interfered in the vote.
Groups
representing American multinational businesses also went as far
as
threatening that Ireland could lose investment and jobs if there wasn’t
a
Yes vote.

Each day of the campaign saw different celebrities appeal for
Yes votes, and
this was especially influential with younger voters, who turned
out in
record numbers to back the change due to a successful social-media
campaign
to get them to the polling stations. Most of these young people are
the
products of Ireland’s Catholic school system. Homosexual activist
groups
have been speaking in Catholic schools for years under the laudable
pretext
of stamping out “homophobic bullying.” But the overwhelming support
for
redefining marriage among young people is surely due, in part, to
the
efforts of these campaigners to normalize homosexuality.

 

Yes Side’s
Intolerance and the Role of the Church

One notable feature of same-sex
“marriage” around the world is the
intolerance it brings in its wake. Dissent
from the new pro-same-sex
“marriage” consensus seems to be no longer
permissible. There are
numerous cases of bakers and florists and other
businesses that have been
prosecuted because they declined to facilitate
homosexual wedding
ceremonies.

The same intolerance of dissenting views was
on full display in this
referendum. About half of the posters erected for the
No side were removed
or vandalized, often in broad daylight (warning: bad
language), and with the
perpetrators often boasting (warning: bad language) on
social media about
their criminal acts. This intolerance bodes ill for the
future. The Irish
government explicitly refused to provide legal opt-outs to
protect
businesspeople with conscientious objections. Legal action against
those who
do not embrace the new prevailing orthodoxy seems all but
inevitable.

No analysis of the referendum would be complete without
considering the role
of the Church. It would be impossible to overestimate the
damage that the
child-abuse scandal and cover-up have done to the standing of
the Catholic
Church in Ireland. They have eroded much of the moral authority of
the
hierarchy, and as a result, the Irish bishops refused to tell Catholics
that
they should vote No in the referendum.

The main message of the
hierarchy was that marriage is important and that
voters should reflect before
they change it. Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of
Dublin was quite emphatic that he
wouldn’t tell people how to vote. Given
the complex history of Church-state
relations in Ireland, this was not
necessarily a bad strategic position — Irish
people do not take well to
being “told how to vote” by bishops. Considerably
less helpful, however,
was Bishop Donal McKeown of Derry’s suggestion that
Catholics could vote
in favor of same-sex “marriage” in good
conscience.

 

Is Legal Abortion Next?

So where to next for Ireland? The
progressive elite already have their next
target in sight — the repeal of the
eighth amendment to the Constitution,
which guarantees the right to life of the
unborn. While the effectiveness of
this amendment is compromised due to the
1992 Supreme Court decision in the
“X case,” it is still the only thing that
stands in the way of
European-style abortion on demand in Ireland. Groups like
the Pro Life
Campaign are now preparing for a fresh assault from the
pro-abortion
movement on the right to life, even within the next 12
months.

Irish Catholics stood alone to fight against homosexual “marriage”
in
the face of overwhelming U.S. funding for their opposition. Will the
same
happen when the next abortion referendum comes around?

Elizabeth Adams
writes from
Ireland.

Faith Crines in America

Faith Crimes: Christian Persecution in Obama’s America‏

28 May 2015

Barack Obama, Christianity

by Joseph R. John

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In a nation uniquely founded upon the Judeo/Christian ethic and “Freedom of Religion”, Americans have been witnessing committed Christians being persecuted in their own country. Over the last six-plus years, there have been rapidly expanding attempts to marginalize, demonize, and criminalize the free practice of the Christian faith in the US Armed Forces and in the United States in general. Why? Since the 1930s, the Christian religion has been viewed by the far left and Communists as the enemy that must be destroyed, and they are finally making progress toward their joint goal. It actually started in the early nineteenth century when the far left, atheists, and Communists declared “moral authority dead”, and worked diligently to sabotage the family unit (the nation’s founding principles were supported by millions of religious family units), eliminate traditional marriage, and demonize core Christian religious beliefs. In the 1960s, the far left gained the support of birth control advocates, the proponents of the sexual revolution, and the support of radical gay rights advocates to help them marginalize Christian religious teachings that were providing the faith upon which family values rested. Despite the aggressiveness of the far left to sabotage family values and religious faith during a five decade period, Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George WH Bush, Bill Clinton, and George H. Bush used the moral authority of the US Presidency to beat back the attempt to break up the family unit, eliminate traditional marriages, and denigrate Christian religious teachings.

Unfortunately, the current occupant of the Oval Office has taken an opposite approach. He has empowered the far left, atheists, and Communists to the extent that they have finally achieved their 80-year goal of destabilizing, marginalizing, demonizing, and legally attacking their greatest enemy, the free exercise of the Christian faith by Americans. The far left, atheists, and Communists have been supported in their sabotage of the family unit and Christian values by not only the Obama administration, but also by the activist homosexual movement, representing less than 2 % of the population.
Now that activist judges are increasingly overturning laws passed by super-majorities of voters, the legal definition of marriage is rapidly changing in a number of states, and the floodgates have been opened, allowing the demonization of core Christian religious beliefs. Christians who don’t believe in what the 2% gay population in the nation believe in, are called bigots by the left-of-center liberal media establishment and by radical gay rights activists. The attempt to fundamentally transform the American family, as well as Christian beliefs, has taken on new speed and new dimensions, with the strong but stealthy support of the occupant in the Oval Office.
Assaults on Christian religious beliefs have been met with weak-kneed responses by religious leaders in the Protestant, Episcopalian, and Catholic denominations, and by the majority of members of Congress who have remained silent for over six years while the assault on Christian beliefs has gained momentum.
Obama, by forcing the US military to become the first major military force in the world to become openly homosexual, has negatively affected the morale, unit cohesiveness, and the “Combat Effectiveness” of the US Armed Forces. In just one year, 11,000 straight male members of the US military have been sexually assaulted by openly gay men who are now being recruited to join the US Armed Forces.
Christians who, because of their core religious beliefs, do not believe in or support same sex marriage or abortion have been persecuted, demonized, and aggressively intimidated by radical gay activists who make repeated false claims of bigotry. Christian business owners, for simply refusing to support same sex marriages on religious grounds, have had radical gay rights activists attempt to criminalize them for their religious beliefs, and file destructive law suits against them. Of course, we haven’t seen these same radical gay rights activists have the courage to try to force Muslim business owners to support same sex marriages. Why? They realize there would be an explosion of open hostility in response.
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The following article entitled “Faith Crimes” goes into more detail about how Christians practicing their sincerely held religious beliefs are being persecuted in Obama’s America.
[Listen to this interview with the foregoing article’s author on The Joe Miller Show]

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FAITH CRIMES: How courageous Christians practicing their religion are being persecuted in Obama’s America
By WND. The rising persecution of Christians worldwide is, of course, one of today’s most heart-wrenching and consequential trends, with daily reports of Christian believers being murdered, tortured, kidnapped, raped or sold into slavery.
But there is another story of growing Christian persecution, which – if not as terrible in scale and severity – is even more inexplicable. That is the rapidly expanding marginalization, demonization and criminalization of the free practice of the Christian faith in the United States of America – a nation uniquely founded upon religious liberty. . .
While Christian persecution around the world is perpetrated primarily by Muslims and communists, in America the persecution is driven by a seemingly odd and improbable source: homosexuality, and the influential activist movement that has grown up around it.
Today, that movement has become the spear-tip with which the far left is finally achieving its longtime goal of attacking, intimidating – indeed, legally prohibiting – the free exercise of religion in America.
Legislation currently sweeping the country outlaws counseling help for minors who want to overcome unwanted same-sex attractions; decrees that boys and young men must be allowed to use girls’ restrooms and locker rooms if they claim to identify with the opposite sex (and vice versa); mandates pro-homosexual indoctrination of children as young as five; requires the integration of open homosexuals into the military; forces same-sex marriage on the nation; and, perhaps most disturbingly, criminalizes Christian businesspeople for simply opposing homosexuality or same-sex marriage on moral and religious grounds. Should the Supreme Court mandate homosexual marriage throughout the nation, say experts, the persecution will increase exponentially.
“Many thought same-sex marriage would be the crowning achievement of the gay rights juggernaut,” says Whistleblower Editor David Kupelian. “But then, suddenly, the focus shifted to ‘transgender rights,’ with Time magazine’s ‘Transgender Tipping Point’ issue announcing ‘America’s next civil rights frontier’ and Vice President Joe Biden declaring transgender discrimination ‘the civil rights issue of our time.'”
Adds Kupelian: “The secret of this never-ending, always-expanding revolutionary movement is that it has the full support of the far left. Not because the left particularly loves people who are homosexual, bisexual and transgender for themselves, but because finally the left has found its weapon, with which – as it has dreamed of doing for decades – it can effectively attack, marginalize, demonize and criminalize its greatest enemy: the Christian religion.” (Read more about Christian persecution in America HERE)
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JUNE 3rd--ST. CHARLES LWANGA-MARTYR

On Wednesday,June 3rd,The Catholic Church celebrates the feast day of St. Charles Lwanga who was mytyrd by his homosexual king.Charlie and his friends  refused to participate in the homosexual orgies of

his king in Africa. Is this what the future holds for us in the Americas.Only time will tell.
Also Ireland has passed a national sodomy marriage law. If they have the same media and school system as we do --so what else is new??? The children have been propagandized into thinking that sodomy(thats what homosexuality is-- the practice of sodomy)is good. Sodomy marriage laws just legalize sodomy.
            The ST Charles Lwanga Story

 CATACOMB  CATHOLICS
  The bishops of the catholic church have not protected the morals and faith of the catholic children in the public schools. The parents have neglected their children in the same way.They have let the schools do what ever they wantedThe bishops should have shouted from the housetops concerning sodomybeing promoted in the schools. The same goes for the parent who is the primary educator of their children plus the fact that they pay the taxes that pay for the schools.The catholic church in America has become a self imposed catacomb church. They go to Mass on Sunday and then retreat to their catacomb homes and leave the public square to everyone else.Instead of the church evangelizing the culture,the culture is evangelizing the
the church.In this respect Vatican II was a dismal failure.

    THE WAR BETWEEN THE HOMOSEXUALS AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

     
A New York times reporter  reported that a multi- millionaire pro homosexual stated that they will fight to have the Catholic church remove sodomy/homosexuality from their mortal sin list.This is the fight that is coming.They have the resources and the media control to carry on this battle.
What people forget(with the aid of the media) that they did the same thing with the American Psychiatric Association. They BULLIED the APA to remove sodomy/homosexuality from their disorder list and  won because the APA delegates caved to their demands and folded up.
    Will the Catholic church fold up in this coming battle? They caved in on the recent battle over sodomy marriage in Mass. and RI. Especially the Knights of Columbus here in RI and Mass. The KoC went AWOL.Will the they go awol on the national battle over sodomy marriage?? Will the catholics and the KoC go awol on  the coming battle to remove sodomy/homosexuality from the Catholic churches mortal sin list??  We will see!!!!!!!!!!!

 

RED INFLUENCE IN THE VATICAN?????

May 27, 2015

Catholic group exposes Red influence in the Vatican

By Cliff Kincaid

Doing the research and investigative work that the major U.S. media have all but abandoned, an organization called the American Life League (ALL) has uncovered dramatic evidence of links between the highest levels of the Roman Catholic Church and an international communist group known as the World Social Forum. The evidence suggests overt Marxist influence on the climate change movement that Pope Francis and his top advisers are now embracing.

The ALL report, a 76-page PowerPoint presentation complete with original source material and numerous photographs, documents how Caritas Internationalis, the Vatican's top social justice organization, is actually "providing leadership" to the communist group.

The report's author, Michael Hichborn, stated, "This is a very serious problem. Given how intimately connected the World Social Forum (WSF) has been with the promotion of communism, abortion, and homosexuality since the very beginning, it's impossible to see how any Catholic can participate in it, or even speak positively about it, let alone have any involvement in its governance. But Caritas Internationalis does!"

These allegations can't be dismissed as anti-Catholic bigotry, since the American Life League is itself a Catholic organization that has been working for years to expose Catholic funds and organizations that promote causes at variance with official Catholic teaching.

However, Hichborn tells Accuracy in Media that except for specialized publications such as Lifesitenews, the media have ignored the report.

The ALL report on the WSF includes eye-opening photographs from the group's events, featuring open displays of communist flags and banners as well as images of such personalities as Lenin, Castro, and Mao.

Most of our media, of course, reported on the "death" of communism after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

But the ALL report notes that "There can be no mistaking the materialist and revolutionary (Communist) nature of the forum itself, which sets it in opposition to the Catholic Church."

Hichborn told AIM that he delivered a copy of the report to the Vatican office known as Cor Unum, but that nothing came of it, and that one Vatican official concerned about the issue was relieved of his duties.

ALL identifies the other Catholic groups involved in the activities of the WSF as Pax Christi, Center of Concern, Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, Catholic Relief Services, and CIDSE, an international alliance of Catholic development agencies.

An independent review of the ALL report confirms the research into the links between Caritas Internationalis and the WSF. In fact, a document on the Caritas website still affirms that "Caritas has been involved in the WSF since its beginnings. Caritas believes it's an opportunity to exchange ideas and to build the momentum towards real change."

After the ALL report was released, a conference at the Vatican was sponsored by Caritas Internationalis that featured Jeffrey Sachs, the Columbia University professor and Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, and Gustavo Gutierrez, the father of Marxist-oriented Liberation Theology.

As Accuracy in Media reported, Sachs wrote an article for the Jesuit publication America attacking the "American idea" of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as narrow and selfish. He suggests that America's founding document is outmoded and incompatible with his idea of Catholic teaching about social justice.

Sachs is an advocate of global taxes to extract hundreds of billions of dollars from the American people in order to finance some form of world government. The climate change movement, based on dubious science, is the most popular current vehicle that Sachs and others are using to bring this about.

Seizing on Sachs' extraordinary remarks in a major Catholic publication, the well-known writer Edward Cline comments on the Family Security Matters website that "It would take a village – or, at least, the 'global' one – to subjugate and sack America. That is what is being proposed by Jeffrey Sachs."

The Cline piece carries the title "The 'Sach-ing' of America," and he concludes that "In its essentials, Sachs' plan for the future sacking of America differs little from Islam's."

In short, the American way of life is at risk, this time from a Vatican alliance with America's academic elites and the U.N.

The World Social Forum itself just held another international conference focusing on one aspect of the Sachs agenda: global taxes. The WSF announced the launch of the Global Alliance for Tax Justice, including a statement that "Our vision entails progressive redistributive taxation polices that fund the vital public services, end inequality and poverty, address climate change and lead to sustainable development."

The topic fits nicely with the expected papal encyclical on climate change.

At the Caritas conference, Pope Francis adviser Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga said that critics of the proposed papal document are advocates of an "ideology" that he concludes "is too tied to a capitalism that doesn't want to stop ruining the environment because they don't want to give up their profits."

Critics are concerned because of the pope's several statements indicating hostility to the system of capitalism and free markets that has brought prosperity to hundreds of millions of people.

This kind of Marxist rhetoric from a top Vatican adviser makes it appear as if the pope has aligned himself with an ideology that, despite the "collapse" of communism, is still very much alive, and which the Black Book of Communism says has already claimed 100 million lives.

The recent cordial Francis visit with Cuban dictator Raul Castro only adds to the growing concern.

"Pope Francis will give us his encyclical letter on ecology," said Maradiaga, anticipating its impact. "This year is a unique opportunity to take responsibility for the future of our world and the lives of future generations."

The title of the Caritas conference was "One Human Family, Caring for Creation." But it appears that the "caring" part lies in replacing capitalism with structures of "global governance" that involve a massive transfer of political and economic power to international organizations like the United Nations.

After Maradiaga stepped down, he was replaced by Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila, Philippines, as the new president of Caritas Internationalis. But Maradiaga continues as the coordinator of a group of nine cardinals that serves as Francis's Council of Cardinals.

© Cliff Kincaid

MEMORIAL DAY 2015

    Memorial Day is celebrated on a Monday to give workers a three day weekend. Monday should be called B & B Day(Barbecue and Beach Day.)

     We should  remember on this day the sacrifices of our armed forces in past wars.

  THE VIETNAM WAR WAS A GOOD WAR
.The Vietnam War was mentioned very prominently in the media and given the usual media spin.Contrary to the media spin. The Vietnam War was a good war and fought for good reasons.We were trying to help the South Vietnamese to

retain their freedom and control of their government.

       When Vietnam was divided in half-- the north was controlled by the Communists and the South by those who wanted to be free. Three million people in the north voted with their feet and went south.Then the communist north  began to try to gain control of the south by guerrilla warfare.The US and other countries went to the aid of South Vietnam and so the war was on.

       (Sen Reed and McCain are going to Vietnam for business reasons.Are they going to fight for the religious freedom and other freedoms lost under the communist regime????They are going to bailout the communist  dictatorship in Vietnam,just like Potus Obama is trying to do in communist Cuba.)

   PLEDGE AND PRAY
 On this day we should meditate on our pledge:
                    "I pledge allegiance to the flag,AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS,one nation,UNDER GOD,with liberty and justice for all."

 We should recite Lincoln's prayer he said at Gettysburg,Pa. November 19.1863:
                       "...that this nation,UNDER GOD,shall not perish from the face of this earth."  AMEN