Mrs. Clinton Meets Our Lady of Guadalupe
March 27, 2009 by Patrick Madrid
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This is a picture of Mrs. Hillary Clinton, the new U.S. Secretary of State, during her visit to Mexico City, being “introduced” to the miraculous image of Our Lady of Guadalupe by Msgr. Diego Monroy Ponce, the rector of the Basilica.
Caption time! And to make it more interesting for all of you, I will send a free, personally inscribed copy of my book 150 Bible Verses Every Catholic Should Know to the person who posts in the comments section of this post on this blog my favorite caption for this picture.
This contest will end on Monday, March 30th at 5:00 p.m. ET. I will notify the winner via e-mail and arrange to send the book to him or her straight away, and I will announce and post the winning caption for posterity, as well as the runners up. Please note that I will have the final, unappealable word on who wins.
Have fun, everyone. Happy captioning.
How the Catholic Church Can LOSE the Culture War
March 27, 2009 by Patrick Madrid
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An explosive set of new directives issued from Low Command (a.k.a. Hell) was recently intercepted behind enemy lines by an ace Envoy operative, whom we can identify only as “Peter Kreeft.” Our operative was able to spirit these devilish marching orders back to HQ, and we reproduce them here for you verbatim, so you can know what to expect from those on the other side of the gates of hell.
As an addendum, our agent “Kreeft” has drawn up a list of important countermeasures to be implemented immediately by all agents of the King. Needless to say, High Command (a.k.a. Heaven) has authorized these directives. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to ensure that this dossier is delivered intact to all friends, family, co-workers, acquaintances, and total strangers within your network. This Envoy article will not self-destruct in five seconds. So, pass it around. Okay?
— Patrick Madrid, Director of the Envoy Institute of Belmont Abbey College
Click the image to download the free special report (PDF format)
Here’s How Margaret Sanger Became a "Crusader" For Birth Control
March 26, 2009 by Patrick Madrid
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Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) was the Mother of all murderers, the foundress of Planned Parenthood, and an indefatigable proponent of racist eugenics policies that sought to use contraception, sterilization, and abortion as the means of depopulating those non-white ethnic groups she deemed to be “human weeds.” She has the blood of millions of unborn victims of abortion on her hands. May God have mercy on her soul.
Chances are, you’ve heard about this wretched woman any number of times before, but most likely, you’ve never heard her explain, as she does in this vintage 1957 television interview with Mike Wallace, why she did what she did and how she became, as Wallace inaptly termed it, a “crusader” for birth control and abortion. By the way, note that she is absolutely in error (intentionally or not, I can’t say) when she claims that, when she was getting started on her contraception-abortion jihad, there was no oppsition from “the Church,” by which she means the Catholic Church, “or any church.” This is false. The Catholic Church had, just 27 years earlier reminded couples yet again that contraception is wrong and that the Church continured to firmly reject it (c.f., Pope Pius XI, Casti Connubii 53-62).
Watch the shadow cross her face and how she fidgets uncomfortably when Wallace asks her if it’s true that her mother was born a Catholic and she admits it. The interview speaks for itself.
(Tangentially, and unrelated to Sanger’s comments, a quick word about Mike Wallace’s testimonial commercial for Philip Morris cigarettes — bizarre by today’s sensibilities about smoking. Oddly, his clipped cadence, his facial expressions, such as the odd quick flashes of a phoney grin, here and there, reminded me less of the young Mike Wallace and more of Phil Hartman’s SNL impression of Mike Wallace with a little 1976 Chevy Chase Weekend-Update thrown in around the edges.)
Here's How Margaret Sanger Became a "Crusader" For Birth Control
March 26, 2009 by Patrick Madrid
Filed under Patrick's Blog
Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) was the Mother of all murderers, the foundress of Planned Parenthood, and an indefatigable proponent of racist eugenics policies that sought to use contraception, sterilization, and abortion as the means of depopulating those non-white ethnic groups she deemed to be “human weeds.” She has the blood of millions of unborn victims of abortion on her hands. May God have mercy on her soul.
Chances are, you’ve heard about this wretched woman any number of times before, but most likely, you’ve never heard her explain, as she does in this vintage 1957 television interview with Mike Wallace, why she did what she did and how she became, as Wallace inaptly termed it, a “crusader” for birth control and abortion. By the way, note that she is absolutely in error (intentionally or not, I can’t say) when she claims that, when she was getting started on her contraception-abortion jihad, there was no oppsition from “the Church,” by which she means the Catholic Church, “or any church.” This is false. The Catholic Church had, just 27 years earlier reminded couples yet again that contraception is wrong and that the Church continured to firmly reject it (c.f., Pope Pius XI, Casti Connubii 53-62).
Watch the shadow cross her face and how she fidgets uncomfortably when Wallace asks her if it’s true that her mother was born a Catholic and she admits it. The interview speaks for itself.
(Tangentially, and unrelated to Sanger’s comments, a quick word about Mike Wallace’s testimonial commercial for Philip Morris cigarettes — bizarre by today’s sensibilities about smoking. Oddly, his clipped cadence, his facial expressions, such as the odd quick flashes of a phoney grin, here and there, reminded me less of the young Mike Wallace and more of Phil Hartman’s SNL impression of Mike Wallace with a little 1976 Chevy Chase Weekend-Update thrown in around the edges.)
The Notre Dame Debacle: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
March 26, 2009 by Patrick Madrid
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House Adopts Plan for Mandatory "Volunteer" Corps
March 26, 2009 by Patrick Madrid
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By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a plan to set up a new “volunteer corps” and consider whether “a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people” should be developed.
The legislation also refers to “uniforms” that would be worn by the “volunteers” and the “need” for a “public service academy, a 4-year institution” to “focus on training” future “public sector leaders.” The training, apparently, would occur at “campuses.”
The vote yesterday came on H.R. 1388, which reauthorizes through 2014 the National and Community Service Act of 1990 and the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973, acts that originally, among other programs, funded the AmeriCorps and the National Senior Service Corps.
It not only reauthorizes the programs, but also includes “new programs and studies” and is expected to be funded with an allocation of $6 billion over the next five years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Many, however, are raising concerns that the program, which is intended to include 250,000 “volunteers,” is the beginning of what President Obama called his “National Civilian Security Force” in a a speech last year in which he urged creating an organization as big and well-funded as the U.S. military. He has declined since then to elaborate.
WND reported when a copy of the speech provided online apparently was edited to exclude Obama’s specific references to the new force.
The video of his statements is posted [below]:
The new bill specifically references the possibilities “if all individuals in the United States were expected to perform national service or were required to perform a certain amount of national service.”
Such new requirements perhaps, the legislation notes, “would strengthen the social fabric of the Nation and overcome civic challenges by bringing together people from diverse economic, ethnic, and educational backgrounds.”
No one, apparently with the exception of infants, would be excluded . . . (continue reading)
I’ve Got to Hand it to the Mormons
March 26, 2009 by Patrick Madrid
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They really do have a nack for producing creative, technically excellent media spots, such as this TV commercial. Only recently have Catholics (e.g., www.virtuemedia.org, www.catholicscomehome.org) started producing commercials at this high level. We can learn a lot from them in this particular area.
I've Got to Hand it to the Mormons
March 26, 2009 by Patrick Madrid
Filed under Patrick's Blog
They really do have a nack for producing creative, technically excellent media spots, such as this TV commercial. Only recently have Catholics (e.g., www.virtuemedia.org, www.catholicscomehome.org) started producing commercials at this high level. We can learn a lot from them in this particular area.
The Flood Waters Are Rising, And This Guy May Be the Helicopter
March 24, 2009 by Patrick Madrid
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You know the old story about the guy who’s caught in a flood. As all his neighbors are evacuating, he is determined to stay put in his house, and no amount of their entreaties can persuade him to join them in escaping the rising waters. He tells them that God will save him and, as they scram, he prays earnestly for divine deliverance.
The flood waters rise and flood his house. And he keeps on praying. Soon, rescue workers in a pontoon boat float by and urge him to jump in. He declines, saying that he is certain that God will answer his prayers and save him. Soon, he’s forced to climb up onto the roof, and another boat sails over to rescue him, but he declines. He is waiting for God to act and save him. A short time later, another boat passes by, its occupants pleading with him to climb on board and head with them to safety. He refuses, determined to wait for God’s response.
He is now standing on his tiptoes on the highest gable of his roof, and the flood waters are swirling around his neck. It looks like the end is near, when a rescue helicopter, seeing him in his last extremity, swoops down with a rope ladder lowered to him. The pilot calls out to him over the loudspeaker to grab the ladder and be carried to safety. But he won’t budge.
“I believe that God will help me out of this danger!” He shouts back, his words lost in the din of the rotors. The helicopter pilot shakes his head in saddened disbelief and flies off.
A few minutes later, the flood waters rise over the man’s head and he drowns.
Now, he’s standing at the pearly gates and asks St. Peter in hurt astonishment, “How come God didn’t save me? I prayed and prayed and nothing happened!”
St. Peter leans down toward the fellow and says, “The Good Lord sent you three rescue boats and a helicopter. What more did you want?”
That venerable adage contains a lot of truth. And while it doesn’t make for an exact parallel with this video you’re about to watch, I think there is enough of a connection that we should keep it in mind as we think about what things we should do to prepare for turbulent times ahead, trusting in the Lord’s gracious providence while at the same time using our common sense and being prudent. Think about that when you watch this video clip of Gerald Celente’s latest warning about the coming economic collapse.
I’ve brought you commentary by Gerald Celente on this blog before. Some of you have sent me notes to say that, as grim and frightening as his economic forecasts have been (and he has shown an amazing track record of bang-on-the-bullseye accuracy with his predictions), listening to his message has helped clarify your own thinking about what moves you need to be making now to be less vulnerable when the guacamole hits the fan.
Scoff if you like, but I seriously doubt you’ll be scoffing in a year or so.
The Flood Waters Are Rising, And This Guy May Be the Helicopter
March 24, 2009 by Patrick Madrid
Filed under Patrick's Blog
You know the old story about the guy who’s caught in a flood. As all his neighbors are evacuating, he is determined to stay put in his house, and no amount of their entreaties can persuade him to join them in escaping the rising waters. He tells them that God will save him and, as they scram, he prays earnestly for divine deliverance.
The flood waters rise and flood his house. And he keeps on praying. Soon, rescue workers in a pontoon boat float by and urge him to jump in. He declines, saying that he is certain that God will answer his prayers and save him. Soon, he’s forced to climb up onto the roof, and another boat sails over to rescue him, but he declines. He is waiting for God to act and save him. A short time later, another boat passes by, its occupants pleading with him to climb on board and head with them to safety. He refuses, determined to wait for God’s response.
He is now standing on his tiptoes on the highest gable of his roof, and the flood waters are swirling around his neck. It looks like the end is near, when a rescue helicopter, seeing him in his last extremity, swoops down with a rope ladder lowered to him. The pilot calls out to him over the loudspeaker to grab the ladder and be carried to safety. But he won’t budge.
“I believe that God will help me out of this danger!” He shouts back, his words lost in the din of the rotors. The helicopter pilot shakes his head in saddened disbelief and flies off.
A few minutes later, the flood waters rise over the man’s head and he drowns.
Now, he’s standing at the pearly gates and asks St. Peter in hurt astonishment, “How come God didn’t save me? I prayed and prayed and nothing happened!”
St. Peter leans down toward the fellow and says, “The Good Lord sent you three rescue boats and a helicopter. What more did you want?”
That venerable adage contains a lot of truth. And while it doesn’t make for an exact parallel with this video you’re about to watch, I think there is enough of a connection that we should keep it in mind as we think about what things we should do to prepare for turbulent times ahead, trusting in the Lord’s gracious providence while at the same time using our common sense and being prudent. Think about that when you watch this video clip of Gerald Celente’s latest warning about the coming economic collapse.
I’ve brought you commentary by Gerald Celente on this blog before. Some of you have sent me notes to say that, as grim and frightening as his economic forecasts have been (and he has shown an amazing track record of bang-on-the-bullseye accuracy with his predictions), listening to his message has helped clarify your own thinking about what moves yo
u need to be making now to be less vulnerable when the guacamole hits the fan.
u need to be making now to be less vulnerable when the guacamole hits the fan.
Scoff if you like, but I seriously doubt you’ll be scoffing in a year or so.
