Monthly Archives: August 2013

POPE FRANCIS’ AIRPLANE INTERVIEW

Posted on August 6, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! August 5, 2013, Monday — The Pope’s press conference, Commentary A week ago, on July 28, on the airplane returning to Rome from Brazil following the week-long visit to celebrate World Youth Day, Pope Francis gave the first press … Continue reading →

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CATHOLICS MUST WITNESS TO THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION THAT HUMAN RIGHTS ARE OF NATURAL LAW

Posted on August 5, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! Catholics Must Face Squarely the Dire Threat to Religious Liberty by Rev. George W. Rutler http://www.crisismagazine.com/2012/catholics-must-face-squarely-the-dire-threat-to-religious-liberty November, 2012   This reminded me of the line about the morally tranquilizing effects of  “intolerable music” in  Solzhenitsyn’s  1978 Harvard Class Day … Continue reading →

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LIKE LAVA FLOWING DOWN FROM A VOLCANO, THE ADVOCATES OF PASSIVE EUTHANASIA RELENTLESSLY ADVANCE

Posted on August 2, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! Photograph by J.D. Griggs on March 28, 1984 Lava pours down a well-developed lava channel near a series of erupting vents on the northeast rift zone of Mauna Loa Volcano. The eruption started from fissures in the volcano’s summit … Continue reading →

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GOD LOVES US FIRST, SEEKS US OUT, AWAITS US FIRST

Posted on August 2, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! Primerea: The Spanish Slang at the Heart of Pope Francis’s Theology By Andrew M. Greenwell, Esq. 8/3/2013 Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) God, Pope Francis says, “nos primerea.”  The expression “nos primerea” is in Lunfardo Porteño, or Buenos Aires street slang.  … Continue reading →

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FATHER ANGELO REPLIES TO JULIE GRIMSTAD

Posted on August 2, 2013 by abyssum

!!!!                               Revision of Critiques about Palliative Care and Approval of Hospice Care In the original post on this Blog of my article, “If I had to choose between Hospice Care and Palliative Care, I would choose Hospice … Continue reading →

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CATHOLICS SUPPORTING THE DENIAL OF NUTRITION AND HYDRATION ARE NOT IN COMMUNION WITH THE CHURCH

Posted on August 1, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! Barbara Kralis May 4, 2005 Catholics supporting the denial of ‘nutrition and hydration’ are not in communion with the Church By Barbara Kralis http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/kralis/050504 Updated June 3, 2005 It is a rare person who has not heard of the … Continue reading →

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SITIO, I THIRST! WORD OF JESUS CHRIST ON THE CROSS!

Posted on August 1, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! Symptoms of Dehydration http://www.life.org.nz/euthanasia/abouteuthanasia/methods-of-euthanasia1 As a person dies from lack of food and fluids, his or her Mouth dries out and become caked or coated with thick material Lips become parched and cracked Tongue swells, and might crack Eyes … Continue reading →

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DEATH WITHOUT DIGNITY: STARVATION AND DEHYDRATION

Posted on August 1, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! Death Without Dignity: Starvation and Dehydration by Robert C. Cetrulo http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=7386 Featured eBookDocument Information Description: Robert C. Cetrulo, J.D., addresses three often overlooked issues involved in removing food and water from patients unable to care for themselves, namely the … Continue reading →

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LIES, LIES AND MORE LIES! DEATH BY STARVATION AND DEHYDRATION IS TORTURE

Posted on August 1, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! A “Painless” Death? WESLEY J. SMITH http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/medical_ethics/me0074.html Many who support Terri Schiavo’s threatened dehydration assert that removing a feeding tube from a profoundly cognitively disabled person results in a painless and gentle ending. But is this really true? After … Continue reading →

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THE TRAGIC PASSIVE EUTHANASIA CASE OF TERRI SCHIAVO

Posted on August 1, 2013 by abyssum

!!!! Terri Schindler Schiavo       http://thrownback.blogspot.com/2005_03_20_thrownback_archive.html#111166347875247679 Thursday, March 24, 2005 Neurologists Say: Recording of Terri Shows She’s Not PVSYou’ll recall the audio recordings of Terri and her father which were posted at the Matt Drudge and the Family … Continue reading →

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