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maybe kind and generous to a fault these were the germans who thought of themselves as good people as to convince themselves that their participation gassing the jews or euthanizing the elderly and the so called useless eaters did not reflect on the state of their characters or of their souls i have more respect for adolph hitler who was a lapsed catholic a very lapsed catholic but never uttered a word about how loyal he was to the church never boasted about his being a loyal catholic the church was always regarded as his enemy an enemy he would deal with when the time arrived every time someone of dubious reputation would say to me i am good person i think about what guilt sin or crime are they stowing down deep in the darkest recesses of their souls so is it with senators dick durbin illinois patrick j leahy vermont claire mccaskill missouri and barbara mikulski maryland former senators vice president joe biden and secretary of state john kerry turn a deaf ear to their church on abortion a loyal catholic these are just a few of the high profile members of congress who have faithfully and loyally supported abortion on demand and all the dictates of planned parenthood through most of their political lives yet church leaders just let them go on touting what great catholics they are what effect does their moral effrontery have on others especially catholics in the pews does not their support of abortion encourage others to either be silent about its abject evils or even support abortion on demand as well is this not the sinful scandal i was taught in high school does it not mean anything to our church leaders any more are they so much a part of our pagan culture that they only complain when our religious freedom is at risk there is at least one catholic priest who is screaming from the top of his lungs i know there are many others who have spoken out such as good friend joseph naumann the archbishop of kansas city kansas father joe always a voice for life below is a letter father frank pavone the director of priests for life has written has written to the most outrageous catholic in congress former speaker of the house nancy pelosi please read it and then if you are catholic go to your pastor with it and ask him to put it in the bulletin one can easily get a copy on line if necessary or pass it on to anybody who will listen dear mrs pelosi last thursday june 13 you were asked a question in a press briefing that you declined to answer the question was what is the moral difference between what dr gosnell did to a baby born alive at 23 weeks and aborting her moments before birth given the fact that the gosnell case has been national news for months now and that congress where you serve as house democratic leader was about to have a vote on banning abortion after 20 weeks fetal age this was a legitimate question instead of even attempting to answer the question you resorted to judgmental ad hominem attacks on the reporter who asked it saying you obviously have an agenda you re not interested in having an answer mrs pelosi the problem is that you re not interested in giving an answer your refusal to answer this question is consistent with your failure to provide an answer to a similar question from me and the members of my priests for life staff s ev eral years ago we visited your office with the diagrams of dismemberment abortion at 23 weeks an d asked the simple question when you say the word abortion is this what you mean in response nothing but silence has emanated from your offic e i n what way is this refusal to address an issue of such national importance consistent with the leadership role you are supposed to be exercising a voice in the wilderness public servants are supposed to be able to tell the difference between serving the public and killing the public apparently you can t otherwise you would have been able to explain the difference between a legal medical procedure that kills a baby inside the womb and an act of murder for which dr gosnell is now serving life sentences for killing the same baby outside the womb moreover you stated at the press briefing on june 13 as a practicing and respectful catholic this is sacred ground to me when we talk about this i don t think it should have anything to do with politics with this statement you make a mockery of the catholic faith and of the tens of millions of americans who consider themselves practicing and respectful catholics and who find the killing of children whether inside or outside the womb reprehensible you speak here of catholic faith as if it is supposed to hide us from reality instead of lead us to face reality as if it is supposed to confuse basic moral truths instead of clarify them and as if it is supposed to help us escape the hard moral questions of life rather than help us confront them whatever catholic faith you claim to respect and practice it is not the faith that the catholic church teaches and i speak for countless catholics when i say that it s time for you to stop speaking as if it were abortion is not sacred ground it is sacrilegious ground to imagine god giving the slightest approval to an act that dismembers a child he created is offensive to both faith and reason and to say that a question about the difference between a legal medical procedure and murder should not have anything to do with politics reveals a profound failure to understand your own political responsibilities which start with the duty to secure the god given right to life of every citizen mrs pelosi for decades you have gotten away with betraying and misrepresenting the catholic faith as well as the responsibilities of public office will she get the message we have had enough of it either exercise your duties as a public servant and a catholic or have the honesty to formally renounce them sincerely fr frank pavone national director priests for life posted in uncategorized tags archbishop joseph naumann bad example nancy pelosi priests for life senator dick durbin the good german a place without clocks july 8 2013 10 comments tic tock tick tock the noise can be deafening even to someone who has lost more than half his hearing ability i can feel my internal clock ticking away the seconds of my life during my whole life i seem to have been obsessed by time and its passage think of how many expressions fill our lexicon with pithy meaning about time time is running out in the nick of time it is just a matter of time time on my hands it s about time the time of your life how many working mothers speak of quality time with their children quality time time is a wasting as my dad used to say ecclesiastes 3 is largest reservoir for wise statements about time it says that there is a time for everything and a season for every activity under the heavens a time to be born and a time to die a time to plant and a time to uproot a time to kill and a time to heal a time to tear down and a time to build a time to weep and a time to laugh a time to mourn and a time to dance a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing a time to search and a time to give up a time to keep and a time to throw away a time to tear and a time to mend a time to be silent and a time to speak a time to love and a time to hate a time for war and a time for peace when i was little i always had too much time on my hands the hours could not go fast enough a rat race against time i wanted the time to fly faster so that i could be older be on my own free to marry and have a family i remember the eight years in grade school i can still see the clock on the wall the second hand seemed to be operating in slow motion it took an hour for a few minutes to pass in my childish perception i think my whole life has been ruled by time and its keepers my mother always wanted me home at a certain hour and was anxious if i was even a minute or two late even as a grandfather it upsets me to be even a minute late for a show a reservation or a doctor s appointment i am like the rabbit in alice in wonderland whose nervous refrain was i m late for a very important date i try never to be like him in fact i was and am still are several minutes early for all of the above i have spent about a third of my waking hours in offices with ten year old magazine for company waiting for others doctors and dentists or on the street corners for friends who are often 20 45 minutes late maybe that is why one of my few indulgences is watches i must have 35 watches 33 of which run on batteries i have at least seven dead watches in my drawer at any given time have a dali watch i like to rotate them so that i may wear three different watches every day maybe that is why i love baseball so much because it is one of the few games that is never over until it s over i can sit and visit with friends or just take in the action slowly and even relax i discussed baseball s timelessness with gene shalit on the nbc today show in 1974 during three of my 15 minutes of fame he brought up golf as being another sport that is theoretically without a clock and that is golf maybe that s why i hate golf i was never any good at it mostly because my lack of practice and mastery of the many different clubs or sticks as my late aunt used to call them but it was mostly because i never have had the temperament for the game there was too much waiting i remember one time being so frustrated by a foursome dallying on the green ahead of me that i muffed a 2 wood shot that i know would have landed on the green that has happened more than once no temperament for it unfortunately baseball does not have the same thrill for me any more maybe because it is t is becoming interminably slow there are too many pitching changes most pitchers run long counts they seem afraid to pitch the ball i used to thing that my presence at all nine innings of any game had some cosmic significance i felt that if i left the game early and the flow of the game changed dramatically somehow it wouldn t count i gave that idea up a long time ago baseball s heavenly quality in fact now i go to so many games i put my own clock on it or limit myself to six or seven innings and i will not stay for rain delays during night games because my relaxation and sleeping habits are so inborn that it would throw the rhythms of my life out the window when i watch games or anything on tv i can not waste my time on commercials unless i know them to be entertaining never enough of it i have worn out three remotes and two thumbs surfing the multi channels that mostly bore me that s why there is nothing like a movie that will really engage me so that i have no concept of time in fact the best moments of my life have been off the clock that is when i had no idea how late or how long i was occupied with friends family or just smelling the roses my late uncle al had the right idea about time he enjoyed his retirement more than anyone else i have known he had worked long and hard as an insurance adjuster for equitable life for many years and when he was not on the clock he did all the wonderful things he had to deny himself for many years he read many books played tennis and took vacations with his lovely wife the amazing grace as he lovingly called my aunt i will always treasure the time i got spend with him as my elderly parents declined in the early 1980s uncle al lived the full life until his time ran out grace had developed alzheimer s before she was 70 and al went a little nuts in the nursing home as his dark memories of the war in the pacific haunted him to his grave so now as i prepare for the conclusion of my 70 year my seventh decade in september on this earth i try to look past that and prepare for an eternity without clock watches or even sun dials one of the attractive features of an eternity of bliss is there is no time time implies deadlines responsibilities and self reminders that everyone s time is running out some faster than others i just saw the movie gettysburg with martin sheen as general robert e lee in one great scene sheen had to chastise one of his generals he cut him off in mid sentence several times telling him there is no time no time no time for jeb stuart i think that is what bernard shaw meant when he said that youth was wasted on the young i wonder what it may be like to just be and not have to worry about any of the above i will miss my watches but then again i will never need them again or any of my clothes or possessions that have so tied me to a present moment that i could never really enjoy this is true because i was always looking ahead sometimes in fear and trepidation for the next moment in time i know this is a very sad and even painful admission but it is part of what has made my life and the fact that i even recognize it is a purifying step in the right direction time has been the bane of my existence in many ways i blame no one but the fear within i know when i die i will shed all the ties of time and all the fears that come with it i hope to use what time i have left in preparing for a world without clocks that s what i want to do that s where i really want to be i hope and pray it will be my final destiny a place without time posted in uncategorized tags a present moment a time for war no time robert e lee the amazing grace time flies about author after graduating from holy cross bill borst earned an ma in asian history from st john s university and a ph d in american history from st louis university 1972 a former new yorker he taught for many years in the st louis area while also hosting a weekly radio show on wgnu from 1984 2006 he currently is a regular substitute for conservative phyllis schlafly on ksiv radio 1320 he is the author of two books on social history liberalism fatal consequences and the scorpion and the frog a natural conspiracy he just retired as the features editor of the mindszenty foundation monthly report in his 11 years from 2003 2013 he wrote nearly 130 essays on catholic culture and world affairs many in st louis also know him as the baseball professor because of a course that he offered at maryville college from 1973 74 it was arguably the first fully accredited baseball history course in the midwest the author of several short books on the old st louis browns he started the st louis browns historical society in 1984 in 2009 his first two plays were produced on the local stage the last memory of an ol brownie fan ran six performances at the sound stage in crestwood and a perfect choice ran for two performances at the rigali center theater in shrewsberry his third play a moment of grace ran six performances at desmet high school in january of 2011with first run theater in january of 2011 he is currently working on a 4th play a family way which is a comedy about a happy dysfunctional family he can reached at bbprof sbcglobal net search navigation home about categories a catholic blog the right 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