Monthly Archives: June 2013

“EVIL, BE THOU MY GOOD!”

Posted on June 30, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! With my parents at a performance of Gounod’s Faust at the opera some years ago, when Marguerite went mad in Act V after killing her baby, my mother let out a gasp that embarrassed me, for we were in … Continue reading →

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WHAT ARE CATHOLICS TO DO IN THIS RAPIDLY DETERIORATING SOCIAL & POLITICAL SCENE

Posted on June 30, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! The Apostle Saint James What Are Catholics To Do? May 03, 2013 We cannot make success the standard when that means cooperation with evil. James Kalb http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/2233/what_are_catholics_to_do_part_iii.aspx#.UdBMx-uE7mq Last month, I suggested that the most important thing for Catholics to … Continue reading →

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WHAT’S NEXT? POLYGAMY, POLYANDRY, INTER-SPECIES ‘MARRIAGE’, YOU NAME IT

Posted on June 29, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia JUNE 28, 2013 A bigger bed for the honeymoon BY WES PRUDEN No closet was big enough to hold Anthony Kennedy, but he came out of something dank and dark somewhere to liberate the … Continue reading →

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MAYBE IT IS TIME TO PUT THE “POOR WEE THING” THAT IS THE U.S. CONSTITUTION OUT OF ITS MISERY

Posted on June 28, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! June 28, 2013 4:30 PM The Simulacrum of Self-Government We might as well put the Constitution out of its misery. By Mark Steyn THE NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE   Wednesday, June 26, 2013 — just another day in a constitutional … Continue reading →

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SURPRISE: SENIOR OFFICIAL OF THE CATHOLIC CAMPAIGN FOR HUMAN DEVELOPEMENT HELPED ELECT STATE SENATOR WENDY DAVIS

Posted on June 28, 2013 by abyssum

!!!!   WASHINGTON, D.C., June 28, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Texas state senator has emerged as a “national hero” and “rising Democratic star,” in the words of mainstream media outlets, after she carried out an eleven-hour filibuster this week that … Continue reading →

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A WHOLE NEW CLASS OF ENTITLEMENT BENEFICIARIES HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE NATIONAL DEBT

Posted on June 28, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! New York lesbian couple’s new family life starts with Supreme Court’s DOMA decision By BETH DEFALCO, NATALIE O’NEILL Last Updated: 5:32 AM, June 27, 2013 Posted: 12:36 AM, June 27, 2013 http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/ny_pair_new_life_starts_now_NakqQ9qTyFPT2zZXL3ajgI A hardworking lesbian Marine and her public-school … Continue reading →

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SHARIA AND SAME-SEX ‘MARRIAGE’

Posted on June 28, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! More than 500 imams join unprecedented protest over gay marriage     I can take no comfort in the realization that all of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s pro-LGBT majority opinions (Sullivan, Lawrence, Doma, etc.) will mean nothing in the long … Continue reading →

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“WELL IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE,” NO IT COULD NOT, IT ONLY DELAYED THE INEVITABLE

Posted on June 28, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! MARRIAGE AND JUSTICE ARE WOUNDED, BUT NOT FATALLY June 27, 2013 Matthew J. Franck http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2013/06/marriage-and-justice-wounded-but-not-fatally You know that someone has bad news to relate when he begins by saying, “well, it could have been worse.” That is what the … Continue reading →

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IN TIME THERE WILL BE NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE DOMA AND ROE DECISIONS

Posted on June 28, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! June 27, 2013 3:44 PM Kennedy’s DOMA Deception Nationalized gay marriage is now inevitable. By Charles Krauthammer   Outside the Supreme Court. Charles Krauthammer Under the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal government does not recognize same-sex marriages even … Continue reading →

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G.K. CHESTERTON WAS PRESCIENT IN 1919

Posted on June 27, 2013 by abyssum

!!!!   THE SUREST WAY TO PERSECUTION IS TO SAY: “IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE” By Father George Rutler http://blog.newadvent.org/2013/06/the-surest-way-to-persecution-is-to-say.html Our parish is blessed with a shrine to Saint Thomas More. The young artist who painted it after Holbein was a … Continue reading →

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