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tory can we say that now look at the church teachings on life thou shalt not kill is the 5 th commandment and abortion is directly linked to the killing of innocent beings yet it can t sell its position even to its own people just look at the last election 54 of the american voters voted for barack obama the most pro abortion president in history when he was in the illinois state house he voted present many times which was the equivalent of a no vote to stop a bill that would have protected the nascent lives of abortion survivors who were often put into a waste can and sequestered in some closet to die now why is that how is it that the church has failed to sell this most blessed event to its own people are they only cultural catholic or what we may call cinos catholics in name only or is there something else going on what are the obstacles to the selling of the life of the unborn child many of them are cultural our flawed nature is clearly evident in the culture s vast saturation with sex thanks to the likes of alfred kinsey and hugh hefner sexual frequency and variety seem to be the rule instead of fidelity and quality another cultural obstacle is the narcissist nature of many of our opinion makers who stress the existential importance of making our own decisions independent of parents family church and ethics another important obstacle is the reigning mind set of many in the catholic church i am talking about church leaders themselves many of the actual pro life leaders who seem to undermine their own message i am basically talking about the principle of the seamless garmen t i call it the shroud of bernardin the metaphor of the seamless garment dates back to john s gospel 19 23 where the roman soldiers cast lots for jesus tunic which was seamless woven in one piece from the top this principle places the heinous evils of abortion and euthanasia on the same moral plane as war poverty the death penalty immigration tax cuts anti the federal deficit education health care crime and the minimum wage the seamless garment appears as a symbol of unity designed to underscore the church s deep concern f or all human life from the moment of conception to natural death cynics would say that the seamless garment had been contrived to shroud catholic politicians under a protective mantel of ecclesiastical approval charity dictates that the divisiveness of the seamless garments was just one of a host of unintended consequences that spoiled a pious attempt to recognize the sanctity of all human life whether unintentionally or maliciously the cardinal s garment has served as a shroud under which several catholic politicians have been able to hide for over twenty years the seamless garment has trivialized the church s opposition to abortion euthanasia and embryonic stem cell research by equating it with civil rights the death penalty and the minimum wage cardinal bernardin s seamless garment has produced anything but unity in the church on prolife issues his metaphor has served to undermine contradict and provide a false moral equivalency that has ruptured and seriously damaged the church s historical teachings against abortion his garment undermined pro life movement the seamless garment has been effectively used to rip and fray opposition to abortion euthanasia and embryonic stem cell research the most important threads in the seamless garments it has permitted culture of death politicians to advocate a variegated list of anti life programs that have blatantly contradicted the teachings of the church on the sanctity of innocent life it is the policy that under the rubric of pro life there are many different issues that are often summarized under the umbrella slogan of from conception to natural death is any word missing from that definition without the word innocent i believe the motto is worthless i also understand it is the mantra for father pavone the founder of priests for life who will be following me next time i interviewed him on ksiv for phyllis schlafly a few years ago and told him that i didn t see any difference between that and the seamless garments because it seems to include the same broad spectrum of life issues as does bernardin s garment that is precisely the intent of the seamless garment to obscure and literally bury the triad of real life issues and the only ones that should attract your major attention and they are abortion euthanasia and embryonic stem cell research all the others are secondary where are the bishops in all of this it is true that in a pluralistic society the church cannot impose its moral teachings on society as a whole but the bishops have an ecclesiastical responsibility of following the three verb job description of their holy office which is to teach govern and sanctify their flocks they have a moral responsibility to demand that the church s visible members reflect its teachings in the same breath that they proclaim themselves to be good catholics for the bishops to declare that pro abortion politicians cannot be in the state of grace because of their obstinacy in face of the church s teaching and their persistence in scandalizing the rest of the faithful they are not guilty of excessive vigilance they are merely performing their magisterial duty in accordance with canons 915 and 916 this reminds me of the durbin survey just before the 2004 national elections democratic senator richard durbin of illinois released a report in early june of 2004 that analyzed the votes of 24 catholic u s senators on a variety of issues of great interest to the united states conference of catholic bishops usccb during the 108 th congress 2003 2004 took unscientific poll the issues where divided into three areas domestic international and pro life there was no sliding scale each category was morally equally the death of an unborn baby carried as much value as a 50 cent raise in the minimum wage this underscores the liberal approach to societal problems and religious integrity not surprisingly senator john kerry durbin and edward kennedy all earned scores of just over 60 in accordance with the issues promulgated by the usccb republican senators peter fitzgerald and sam brownback who have consistently voted against abortion scored just over 50 santorum was about 53 another stark contrast to modern catholic politicians is the story of st thomas more who defied his king for the love of his church in the 16 th century st thomas more the patron saint of lawyers and politicians refused to approve the act of supremacy of king henry viii whereby the king declared himself to be the head of the church church came first more and henry had been lifelong friends but the king s defiance of rome because of his celebrated divorce of his first queen catherine of aragon so he could marry his pregnant mistress ann boleyn painted more into a deadly corner before his beheading in the tower of london in 1535 more modestly proclaimed i am the king s good servant but god s first how come our society has not produced men in political office of more s worth and courage where are our prelates and priests who are so dedicated to saving the lives of the unborn or are their hearts still caught within the false promises of the civil rights movement of the 1960 s that is our conundrum that is our challenge posted in uncategorized tags bruce barton cardinal bernardin dick durbin father pavone og mandino seamless garment st thomas more the best medicine october 10 2010 1 comment i just started reading marlo thomas new book growing up laughing about growing up in a home riven with jokes and good humor her late father was danny thomas and he gave me the best rule of thumb or motto about having fun and making jokes a house of laughs one should never ridicule or mock another human being doing lines on fat people short people or evenbaldpeople without their implicit permission is dead wrong danny said on his make room for daddy show one time that the only person i have the right to make fun of is myself that rule of humor and more importantly of life has been the standard that i use to laugh and have a good time i am very good at self effacing commentary my new favorite is i am an only child and i never was my parent s favorite child they liked the neighbors kids better or my dad predicted i would be a football player this is the end i figure every one else makes fun of me i had better beat them to the punch where i come from borst picking is in season 24 7 if only more people would learn the positive value of humor it has been said laugh and the world laughs with you cry and you cry alone due to our growing trend toward narcissism and victimhood this truism has been effectively turned on its head we are fast becoming a land of whiners and crybabies millions flock daily to oprah with the expectation of seeing people they can cry with or whose lives mirror their own sad existence tears reign where laughter once ruled as for myself i have always liked to laugh and make fun if i don t chuckle twenty times a day i tend to feel nervous or get headaches i need that natural endorphin rush to go about life with a smile on my face that thought is not just in my imagination the late editor of the saturday evening post norman cousins dramatically proved that laughter is the best medicine many years ago when he was diagnosed with a terminal disease determined that his time was not up cousins rented a motel room replete with a vcr laurel and hardy kept him alive he spent a week inundating himself with the side splitting antics of laurel hardy the three stooges and the marx brothers personally groucho and his siblings never did anything for me the results were astonishing cousins survived his termina l disease only to die in 1990 at the age of 75 of a different malady one more presumably resistant to the therapeutic powers of slapstick comedy never liked them myself people have always though i was funny i am aware the word has two connotations i have tried to entertain small groups in conversation ever since my grandfather s wake thirty five years ago my relentless pursuit of the evocative cheek swelling reaction to my hilarious barbs has served me well at parties and social gatherings ever since i even tried a standup comedy routine on a cruise many years ago i dutifully prepared four minutes of humor like teaching and writing the rules are that you should only do what you know best or what your audience can relate to so i did lines on each member of my immediate family my delivery was near perfect yet the three hundred and fifty people in the audience found occasion to laugh only at references to matthew my eight year old son who i said had the instincts of a terrorist i don t think anyone would laugh at that today the prior evening my wife had been commandeered from the audience to assist a magician in his act he wanted to cut off her head i used that in my monologue talking about her shortcomings and the fact that before the act was over four ladies inquired as to my availability after the show not only did no one laugh at that remark one woman scolded me for having had the nerve to say such things about my wife or perhaps she didn t like my comment about my wife as attila the honeybun the success of my humor is that it often blows back in my face i tend to be a bit wordy that s like saying mother teresa was a bit holy my wife gave me a tee shirt that read i am talking and i can t shut up i love that shirt after spending two weeks on a bus tour a new friend asked me do you breathe through your ears because i have not seen you stop talking long enough to do so i also consider myself a student of humor especially political humor this country has had a rich and proud tradition of funny people from the political satire of will rogers through the physical antics of jackie gleason steve martin and richard pryor rogers once said that when congress makes a joke it s a law i wonder if that s what president obama had in mind with his health care bill no president had a better sense of humor than ronald reagan i can t help thinking back to his debate with democratic challenger fritz mondale when reagan said that people were worried that mondale might be too young for the job chevy chase was marvelous in his 1976 satire of president gerald ford i ll never forget chase s pratfall in a breakaway voting booth that cracked three of his ribs probably cost ford the election i ll bet he cost ford a million votes as a result the comedian became addicted to pain pills requiring a period of recovery at the betty ford clinic now that s real irony our political debates have taken us down a route that even jay leno nor david letterman can t restore what passes for humor today is generally mean spirited and because of the political correct nature of so much of our discourse it is increasing more difficult to tweak individuals with group consciousness without being charged with outlandish claims of insensitivity as a result comedians have retreated into the safe harbors of their own groups for humorous exchange all this being said we should all reflect on what philosopher russell kirk wrote a sense of humor can only exist in a world of faith the thinking man s conservative it is my deep fear that our country has broken faith with its past having forfeited that wonderful gift which kirk called the trace of god s smile but it is never too late maybe a good laugh is still the best medicine for what ails us try it and let me know if it works posted in uncategorized tags betty ford clinic chevy chase danny thomas don rickles gerald ford laurel hardy marlo thomas marx brothers russell kirk saturday evening post steve martin is bill o reilly a pinhead october 4 2010 1 comment i just finished reading tv and radio host bill o reilly s latest book pinheads and patriots where you stand in the age of obama for the uninformed a regular feature on o reilly s fox news tv show is where the host categorizes news figures as pinheads or patriots the latter are the worthies who have done something that benefits society pinheads slide on a slippery slope get in with the wrong crowd get taken in by their own success or get some bad advice and all of that can lead to a residence in pinheadville a place everyone should avoid if you can like his tv show the factor with its no spin zone o reilly has an uncanny knack for irritating me to the nth degree as par for his mini golf course he vainly attempts to be fair and balanced which by my standards only guarantees that he will be wrong 50 of the time the very nature of his motto implies a certain kind of moral equivalency that is destructive to moral issues such as abortion he takes so much time in bending over backwards so as appear to be fair that he nullifies or undercuts the truth that his positions supposedly are based on oh don t get me wrong there are times when he shows his true combative mettle especially in dealing with the 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