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Obama met with Catholic journalists today

2009-07-02T22:34:00.000-07:00

The National Catholic Register today (Thursday) reported (click on this post's title) on what went down at a meeting at the White House today that pro-abortion Barack Hussein Obama held with Catholic journalists (including two priests) and a WaPo reporter.

Obama mostly sounded nice -- let's never be taken in by him! -- but still, as always, he was totally and unapologetically unyielding about his promotion of artificial contraception, sex miseducation and so-called rights for homosexuals. And, naturally, he never considered the possibility of making the aborting of babies illegal once again in our Republic.

Our bishops and clergy need to march in the streets...like they used to

2009-06-29T22:05:00.000-07:00

Remember, not so long ago, when Cardinal Roger Mahony marched in the streets in celebration of the inauguration of pro-abortion Los Angeles Mayor Tony Villar (Antonio Villaraigosa)?

And think about all the photos you've seen of Catholic bishops and clergy proudly marching in the streets during the civil rights movement of the 1960's and in support of lefty Cesar Chavez.

To this day, those bishops and clergy are revered for...marching in the streets.

Now, let's ask ourselves if we wouldn't like to see our Catholic bishops and clergy marching in the streets once again -- this time, to save the lives of preborn babies from abortionists.

Cardinal Mahony, the babies and moms of L.A. are waiting for help -- life-saving help. We'll follow, if you and our other bishops and the clergy will lead. Please?

California liberals now plan to tax...children!

2009-06-29T21:37:00.000-07:00

The liberals who run our state government are plotting to cut the annual $300 state tax credit per child (and other dependents) by $210, the Family Research Council reported last Friday.

Obviously, cutting $210 from a $300 tax credit per child is a huge tax increase on families.

Economists have a rule: If you want more of something, subsidize it; and if you want less of something, tax it.

Anybody who would tax little kids wants fewer of them.

Cardinal Mahony and the rest of our California bishops need to denounce this anti-child, anti-family, mammoth tax increase publicly and loudly, don't you think?

P.S. Sorry I haven't been able to post anything for the past nine days. Pressures of earning a living are the reason. Thank you for remaining loyal to onelacatholic.blogspot.com

The Year for Priests

2009-06-20T21:40:00.000-07:00

Maybe you have already read the letter that Pope Benedict XVI wrote to his brother priests to proclaim a Year for Priests. But if not, click on this post's title to see it.

The Year began on June 19, now the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and the Holy Father is calling to mind the priesthood and example of the patron saint of parish priests, St. John Vianney, the Cure d'Ars.

May you and I always pray for priests and be good to the ones we know.

May we pray for all the priests ordained this year, and for the seminarians ordained to the deaconate this year, just one year away from their ordination to the priesthood.

May we be sure to remember all priests who are now in eternity. A holy priest once told me that people always assume a priest who has died has gone straight to Heaven, so they do not pray for him as much as they should.

Dear God, we thank You from the bottom of our hearts for our priests, and we promise to support them with our prayers and with our kindness to them. Amen.

The Eucharist and the Priesthood, in the words of Pope Benedict XVI

2009-06-12T10:04:00.000-07:00

Do you receive the daily news messages from the Vatican Information Service? They are free, and you can click on this post's title to go to the VIS site and sign up for them.

Here is an excerpt from one of the VIS news features:

RENEWING FAITH IN REAL PRESENCE OF CHRIST IN EUCHARIST

VATICAN CITY, 11 JUN 2009 (VIS) - At 7 p.m. today, Solemnity of Corpus Christi, Benedict XVI celebrated Mass on the square in front of the basilica of St. John Lateran, then led a Eucharistic procession to the basilica of St. Mary Major.

In his homily, the Pope commented on the words pronounced by priests at the moment of consecration: "this is My Body, ... this is My Blood".

Addressing his remarks to priests, the Holy Father said: "Becoming the Eucharist: let this be our constant desire and commitment! So that the offer of the Body and Blood of the Lord we make upon the altar may be accompanied by the sacrifice of our own lives. Every day we draw from the Body and Blood of the Lord the free and pure love that makes us worthy ministers of Christ and witnesses to His joy. What the faithful expect from a priest is the example of authentic devotion to the Eucharist. They like to see him spend long periods of silence and adoration before Jesus, as did the saintly 'Cure of Ars' whom we will especially recall during the imminent Year for Priests"... [fromVIS 090612 (470)]

More proof that liberal Catholics do not care about preborn babies

2009-06-11T23:16:00.000-07:00

U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) has met with Barack Hussein Obama's Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor -- and the results say something about liberal Catholics. I'll explain.

Today, in a press release (click on this post's title) about his meeting with Judge Sotomayor, Senator DeMint said the following:

“When I asked [Judge Sotomayor] if an unborn child has any rights whatsoever, I was surprised that she said she had never thought about it. This is not just a question about abortion, but about the respect due to human life at all stages, and I hope this is cleared up in her hearings.

“Those who serve on the highest court in America must have an unwavering commitment to the Constitution and equal justice for all Americans. I will continue to review Judge Sotomayor’s decisions and public statements and will watch her hearings closely.”

You have heard me say here in the past that preborn babies are not on the radar screen of liberal Catholics at all. It is fair to call Sonia Sotomayor a liberal Catholic.

If taken at face value, Sonia Sotomayor's claim that she has never thought about unborn babies' rights is an admission of an astounding callousness and lack of critical thinking.

Yet many liberal Catholics have an attitude like hers: They never think of preborn babies and certainly never do anything to save them.

Our nation's Catholic bishops, Cardinal Mahony included, should publicly oppose someone as callous and unthinking as Sonia Sotomayor. So should everybody.

"The golden Dome has been transformed into a golden calf"

2009-06-09T20:37:00.000-07:00

This memorable sentence -- "The golden Dome has been transformed into a golden calf" -- is from an essay (click on this post's title) at LifeSiteNews.com by attorney Michael V. McIntire, a 1957 grad of Notre Dame and a former professor at the law school there.

You can learn a lot from Mr. McIntire's essay about Notre Dame's slide downhill in the 1960's and since then as well.

For me, ole Q, the nadir at Notre Dame was not even the invitation and the sickening welcome to the mega-abortion-pushing chief executive.

No, Notre Dame's nadir was, and is, its arresting of aged Fr. Norman Weslin and dozens of other prayerful pro-lifers -- and its refusal to drop its criminal charges against them.

You see, the Catholic liberals who just love pro-abortion politicians not only betray the preborn babies, they also persecute their fellow Catholics, even priests.

So much for the "common ground" that liberal Catholics prate about. They most emphatically do not want "common ground," they want to win -- they want pro-lifers to shut up about the little babies and to go away and stop trying to reach pro-abortion voters' consciences.

We need Cardinal Mahony and all of California's Catholic bishops to end their silence. We need them to say Notre Dame was wrong to honor a pro-abortion politician and is wrong to arrest and charge Catholic priests and others for prayerfully protesting.

"The golden Dome has been transformed into a golden calf."

P.S. By the way, the title of the piece at LifeSiteNews says, "Sic transic gloria," but that should be, "Sic transit gloria."

L.A. Times editorial defends pro-lifers (mostly)

2009-06-04T22:40:00.000-07:00

Did you see the editorial (click on this post's title) in the L.A. Times this past Tuesday?

The editorial actually defended the pro-life movement against the false and sinister accusations by the abortion lobby and its fellow travelers that it bears responsibility for acts by extremists.

The editorial correctly zeroes in on what it calls "the basic premise of the antiabortion movement" -- that "a [preborn baby] is a person."

(The editorial said "fetus," but I've corrected that here.)

The editorial is not perfect, but it's better than many another newspaper's editorials lately.

So, kudos, mostly, to the Times, and it's not often I say that.

Cardinal Bernardin himself said, "You can't vote for pro-abortion politicians!"

2009-06-01T13:47:00.000-07:00

You can't vote for pro-abortion politicians!

That is what the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago told the National Catholic Register -- and all the way back in 1988, yet.

The Register (click on this post's title), in a May 31, 2009, post on its daily blogspot, says Dr. Elizabeth Lev, daughter of Prof. Mary Ann Glendon, has found the quote from Cardinal Bernardin as it appeared on the front page of the Register of June 12, 1988.

Here is how Elizabeth Lev quoted what Cardinal Bernardin said in the Register:

"I don't see how you can subscribe to the consistent ethic and then vote for someone who feels that abortion is a 'basic right' of the individual." He went on to say, “I know that some people on the left, if I may use that label, have used the consistent ethic to give the impression that the abortion issue is not all that important anymore, that you should be against abortion in a general way but that there are more important issues, so don’t hold anybody’s feet to the fire just on abortion. That’s a misuse of the consistent ethic, and I deplore it.”

Cardinal Bernardin came up with his "seamless garment" "consistent ethic of life issues" idea in 1983. Ever since then, pro-abortion Catholic politicians have used it over and over to excuse their multiple political and legislative betrayals of preborn babies and their right to life.

Millions of Catholic voters, too, use the "consistent ethic" to excuse their voting for pro-aborts.

So do many Catholic bishops, priests and religious use the "consistent ethic of life" to excuse their being inconsistent with Catholic morality and doctrine about innocent babies' lives.

Maybe you have experienced it: It is shocking when you talk to a cleric about politicians and the little preborn babies, and he objects, "It's only one issue."

No wonder the "seamless garment" is often called the "seamy garment."

Why didn't Cardinal Bernardin drum it into Catholics' heads through the years that, as he said plainly in 1988, don't misuse the "consistent ethic" to justify voting for pro-aborts?

B. H. Obama's National Day of Prayer Proclamation for 2009: Not exactly perfect

2009-05-23T19:14:00.000-07:00

Barack H. Obama did not hold a National Day of Prayer ceremony in the White House, but he did issue a proclamation (click on this post's title).

Obama did not mention God anywhere, except in the two obligatory boilerplate paragraphs at the end:

"...I call upon Americans to pray in thanksgiving for our freedoms and blessings and to ask for God's continued guidance, grace, and protection for this land that we love.

"IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord..."

And leave it to Obama to say the following about a day of prayer:

"We celebrate their [our Armed Forces'] commitment to uphold our highest ideals, and we recognize that it is because of them that we continue to live in a Nation where people of all faiths can worship or not worship according to the dictates of their conscience."

We need to pray that more and more Americans will stop adulating the secular, statist, abortion-pushing "messiah."

Archbishop Chaput slams Fr. Jenkins for honoring pro-abortion Obama; Cardinal Mahony still silent

2009-05-19T17:05:00.000-07:00

Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver has slammed Fr. John Jenkins of Notre Dame for honoring abortion zealot Barack Hussein Obama at commencement this past Sunday.

You can read the Archbishop's essay at: http://www.archden.org/index.cfm/ID/2081

Archbishop Chaput writes:

"We also have the duty to oppose him [Obama] when he’s wrong on foundational issues like abortion, embryonic stem cell research and similar matters. And we also have the duty to avoid prostituting our Catholic identity by appeals to phony dialogue that mask an abdication of our moral witness...

"...Notre Dame ignored the U.S. bishops’ guidance in their 2004 statement, Catholics in Political Life... There was no excuse – none, except intellectual vanity – for the university to persist in its course. And Father Jenkins compounded a bad original decision with evasive and disingenuous explanations to subsequently justify it."

Local resource sites for the Latin Mass

2009-05-19T16:54:00.000-07:00

A very extensive, thorough Southern California site to visit for resources for the Latin Mass (the extraordinary form) is: http://unavocesb.org

Another very fine local site is: http://unavocela.org

Deo gratias for our Catholic brothers and sisters who compile and maintain these sites!

About Notre Dame's arrests of Catholic priests: Do we have two churches in this country, side by side?

2009-05-16T15:30:00.000-07:00

Since earlier this week, Fr. John Jenkins, C.S.C., who heads the University of Notre Dame, has been having his campus police arrest and jail his fellow Catholics who are pro-life.

Fr. Jenkins evidently does not like it that some of his fellow Catholics oppose his having abortion zealot Obama receive an honorary degree and give the commencement address tomorrow.

It's on Fox TV News and CNN: The arrests of small groups of pro-life Catholics who ventured onto the campus in small pro-life presences while praying the Rosary.

The pro-lifers whom Fr. Jenkins had arrested (for "trespassing") include at least two Catholic priests. The one whose name I know is Fr. Norman Weslin. He is 79.

I think I have the following information correct: Fr. Weslin is a widower and a retired Army Lt. Col. who became a priest and since then has been arrested at abortion businesses many times for saving babies with his prayerful presence outside the abortion centers.

Commenting today at a post I did on April 5, 2007 (see also my follow-up on April 7, 2007), Leo McSherry has given this testimony: "I served under Fr. Weslin when he was Capt. Weslin in the NY Air Defense Command. He was the finest officer I served under and one of the finest I ever met. He was very compassionate then and is deserving of our compassion now."

Pro-life Fr. Norman Weslin would be a far better honoree and commencement speaker at Notre Dame or any Catholic college or university than would any abortion zealot.

Question: We have one Catholic priest arresting and jailing another -- an aged priest, at that, and his brother in the priesthood of Jesus Christ -- for holding a pro-life prayer demonstration. Does that show we have two churches existing side by side in this country?

After all, how could Fr. Jenkins now show his face and concelebrate Holy Mass with aged Fr. Weslin, whom he has had arrested, handcuffed, hauled off in a blanket, booked and jailed?

Not very collegial of Fr. Jenkins. Not very pastoral. Not very tolerant. Not very inclusive.

Fr. Jenkins has claimed Obama's visit is for "dialogue." Arrests are not dialogue.

We have one bunch in the Church who love, vote for and abase themselves toward pro-abortion politicians and who despise pro-life activists. Some of them are right here in Los Angeles.

We have another group in the Church who love preborn babies and their moms and seek to protect and help them -- and who follow our Popes' teachings against abortion, against pro-abortion politicians, and against all excuses for supporting pro-abortion politicians.

Let us hope and pray that now that Notre Dame is setting the precedent that a Catholic institution can honor an abortion-zealot chief executive, no one else in the Church will do the same.

Cardinal Mahony, maybe you would never think of inviting Obama anywhere in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. I sincerely hope not.

But if by some chance you are thinking of that or if you already have invited him, please disinvite him. Think of aged Fr. Weslin in jail for the babies.

May 13 -- Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!

2009-05-13T10:45:00.000-07:00

Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us sinners who have recourse to Thee!

A great thing to do today on the Feast Day of Our Lady of Fatima is to visit the web site (click on this post's title) of the World Apostolate of Fatima, U.S.A. / The Blue Army of Our Lady of Fatima and soak up everything there.

If no one has ever taught you about Our Lady of Fatima and her essential message of prayer, repentance, and reparation for sins personal and worldwide, here is your chance to learn.

You can read all about the Message of Fatima and find out about the First Fridays and the First Saturdays.

And be sure to sign up for Soul magazine, a tremendous spiritual resource.

The photo above is from the WAF web site. May every Catholic child have the chance, like these children, to learn about and imitate the virtues of the holy shepherd children of Fatima.

The Mother of Christ is powerful, and we sinners need to seek refuge in her. Prayer is powerful, and we sinners need to turn to God in prayer without ceasing.

Everyone should realize that Catholics' decades of prayers and penance in response to Our Lady of Fatima's request in 1917 are the reason that the Iron Curtain fell in 1989-1991 and that hundreds of millions of Christians may now practice their faith in freedom.

The Blessed Mother is powerful. It is no accident that a Marian Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, and a lover of liberty and enemy of atheistic Communism, President Ronald Reagan, came upon the world scene at the same time and then worked together to bring down the supposedly invincible Soviet evil empire.

President Reagan even mentioned the children of Fatima, and the power of prayer, when he addressed the parliament of Portugal on May 9, 1985. You can access that historic address here:
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1985/50985b.htm

So let's you and me keep repenting, praying, doing penance, and spreading the Blessed Mother's timeless Message of Fatima.

Our tired old city of Los Angeles and the whole world desperately need holiness and prayer, and Our Lady of Fatima will help.

Catholic Lobby Day is really "Catholic Flabby Day"

2009-05-11T22:41:00.001-07:00

This week's issue of the archdiocesan newspaper The Tidings has an article (click on this post's title) about the California Catholic Conference's 11th annual Catholic Lobby Day, which was held April 28 in Sacramento.

The California Catholic Conference, as you probably know, is the California bishops' lobbying organization. On the "lobby days," Catholics buttonhole state legislators and their staffs about selected pieces of pending legislation.

Here is what the article says:

"This year a total of 650 people participated, including six bishops, 14 seminarians from St. John Seminary, deacons, priests and parishioners of all ages. The Los Angeles contingent [of 80 people] was led by Auxiliary Bishop Oscar Solis, director of the Office of Justice and Peace, and San Gabriel Region Auxiliary Bishop Gabino Zavala."

The article says they lobbied for three pending bills:

* to allow "the review of cases and resentencing of youth who have been incarcerated for more than 10 years and were sentenced to life without parole before the age of 18"

* to "expand existing law so that the newborn eligible for surrender can be up to 30 days old, rather than the current 72 hours"

* to "simplify the food stamp process by moving the frequency of reports to every six months instead of once a quarter."

You are right: There is no mention of any lobbying the state legislators on behalf of preborn babies and their right to life. Would it hurt the lobbyists to add that to their list?

As we know, the liberals always tell pro-lifers, "Oh, you can't be truly pro-life unless you adopt our liberal agenda." Well, we should point out to our Catholic Lobby Day folk, "You can't be truly pro-life unless you become actively anti-abortion."

The CCC and its Catholic lobbyists need to realize that they can lobby against legislation as well as for it -- they can lobby legislators to repeal pro-abortion laws, such as the ones that use California taxpayers' money to pay abortionists for each baby they kill.

Until the CCC's "Lobby Days" include actively lobbying to save preborn babies' lives and protect them from the abortionists, they are really only "Catholic Flabby Days."

Toledo Bishop Leonard Blair nixes sisters' "New Ways Ministry" workshop

2009-05-05T11:12:00.000-07:00

Good news!

The Toledo Blade reported (click on this post's title) on May 1 that Bishop Leonard Blair of Toledo wrote the head of the Sisters of St. Francis, Sister Jacquelyn Doepker, to tell her to cancel a New Ways Ministry three-day workshop she had scheduled to begin on May 1 at the sisters' campus in Tiffin.

The news story noted that New Ways Ministry describes itself as "a gay-positive ministry of advocacy and justice for lesbian and gay Catholics."

The news report quoted this from Bishop Blair's letter to the sisters:

"...the positions of New Ways Ministry are not at all in accord with the guidelines for pastoral care which the bishops of the United States issued in 2006 regarding 'Ministry to Persons with a Homosexual Inclination.' Nor does New Ways Ministry present the full, authentic teaching of the Catholic Church on homosexuality."

The newspaper also noted this:

"Bishop Blair recently was named by the Vatican to assess the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an organization representing 95 percent of the nation's 67,000 Catholic nuns, including the Tiffin Franciscans."

(I learned about the news story from today's New Oxford Review Daily Feed.)

Fr. McBrien tells people to "'take a vacation' from the Church" -- and The Tidings publishes that!

2009-05-04T20:27:00.000-07:00

This week's issue of our L.A. Cardinal Roger Mahony's archdiocesan newspaper, The Tidings, came out two days before Good Shepherd Sunday.

It carries a column (click on this post's title) by the arch-liberal Fr. Richard McBrien that blasts a good shepherd of souls -- and that advises people to "'take a vacation' from the Church" if he displeases them.

Fr. McBrien wrote about what he says was a message to him in which a "lay Catholic pastoral associate" complained about the new pastor of his parish. Fr. McBrien summarizes:

"The pastor has done away with all contemporary music at Mass, and has restored pre-conciliar devotions along with auricular confession. He even gives the impression that confession is the greatest of the sacraments...

"Under the pastor's control, the parish has no youth ministry, no parish council, nor any other consultative body. According to my correspondent, 'consultative is not in his vocabulary.' He also gave vocal support to the minority of U.S. Catholic bishops who proclaimed in effect that 'Catholics could burn in hell' if they voted Democratic in the recent presidential election."

Fr. McBrien also says the pastor says in his homilies "what sinners the parishioners are, and why it is so necessary for them to 'go to confession.'"

Other crimes of the shepherd: "old-fashioned church music, all the statues covered in purple as they were before Vatican II, and the usual severe words in the homily..."

Also, the pastor "had taken the parish back to a Church that she [another parishioner] knows nothing about and in a manner that showed no understanding of others' feelings."

Fr. McBrien says the "pastoral associate" asked him, "Are we expected just to get used to it?" and Fr. McBrien advised him:

"No, you are not simply to 'get used to it.' Parishioners need to go elsewhere, like the woman [the other parishioner above] who left Mass in tears" -- and "If there are no parishes or other worshipping communities in the vicinity where the pastoral leadership is healthy rather than driven by a narrow ideology, then one simply has to 'take a vacation' from the Church until the skies finally clear and we are bathed in sunlight once again."

Well, there you have it. Is not Fr. McBrien advising liberals to miss Mass?!!! And just because they can't stand their conservative pastor?!!!

Fr. McBrien and his fellow liberals should, but will not, reflect on the faithfulness of the many conservative Catholics who for the past 45 years of liberal sermons, liturgical abuse and outright hostility to pro-lifers and lovers of the Latin Mass have kept going to Mass and never "taken a vacation" from the Holy Sacrifice and the Eucharist.

Why would Cardinal Mahony publish a column in his archdiocesan newspaper in which a priest undermines "auricular Confession" and advises Catholics to "'take a vacation' from the Church?"

Commenter Mark says the Latin Mass at St. Victor was "ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!"

2009-05-02T22:42:00.000-07:00

Today I was wishing that someone would write in with a report on how the Latin Extraordinary Form Mass at St. Victor in West Hollywood yesterday (Friday) went.

And someone has! Many, many thanks to commenter Mark, who wrote early this morning:

"I just got back from St. Victor's. The Mass was ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL! The priest, deacon, and subdeacon (thank you Norbertines!) did a magnificent job offering St. Victor's first Solemn High Mass in who-knows-how-long-since-when! The choir was professional and sang ever so gloriously. Many people were there; the church was packed with old and young & avid TLM'ers and rookies.

"I would just like to say that tonight's Solemn High Mass was perhaps one of the most beautiful Mass I have ever assisted in. God truly blessed all of us there! Many people were at loss with words when trying to describe what was experienced there. I'm still feeling the graces from the Mass as I type this up! May there be MORE Solemn High Masses in L.A.!! 1:36 AM"

May the powers that be in our Archdiocese of Los Angeles open their hearts and minds to us, the people, who love the Extraordinary Form Latin Mass, and spiritually profit from it, on the currently rare occasions when we are allowed to attend it.

By the way, the "Low" Extraordinary Form Mass, the daily Mass, which has no singing, is beautiful and spiritually profitable, too, of course.

Fifity years a priest: Our golden jubilarians of 2009

2009-04-30T12:29:00.000-07:00

The April 24 issue of The Tidings has an article (click on this post's title) that profiles this year's golden jubilarians of 2009. It's good reading.

And, of course, it serves as a reminder to you and me to pray often for these wonderful priests who have selflessly spent their lives in service to God and neighbor, and to do them any kindnesses we can. We can also, of course, pray for the repose of the souls of their classmates who have entered eternal life.

Latin Mass at St. Victor Parish this Friday, May 1, 2009

2009-04-26T19:29:00.001-07:00

Thanks to commenter Mark for the news that there will be a Latin Solemn High Mass at St. Victor Church in West Hollywood this Friday, May 1, at 8 p.m., with Gregorian Chant and Sacred Polyphony.

An announcement I've seen says that the Norbertine Fathers of St. Michael's Abbey will be in charge and Fr. Darrin Merlino, C.M.F., of the Hollywood Project will be the guest homilist.

In conjunction, but I don't know at what time, the First Friday Holy Spirit in the Media group will have Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, a Rosary and the Litany of the Holy Spirit.

There will be a reception in the parish hall afterwards.

Una Voce is involved in the Mass. Also involved are Open Call, St. Charles Borromeo's Catholics in Entertainment, Catholic Underground, Bibles and Brew and Act One.

Catholics in the entertainment industry will be at the Mass, but the sponsors emphasize that the Mass is for everyone.

St. Victor Parish is at 8634 Holloway Drive, West Hollywood. (310) 652-6477.

This is the extent of my knowledge about the Mass and the overall event.

By the way, I did a post about St. Victor Parish itself on this blogspot on September 10, 2006, and quite a few people added comments.

Good news: St. Monica Parish's statue of Our Lady is all fixed

2009-04-26T19:20:00.000-07:00

This week's issue of The Tidings reports (click on this post's title) that St. Monica Parish's statue of Our Lady has been repaired.

Thanks to commenter Gigi of St. Monica Parish for telling us the same good news a few days ago.

As you might recall, someone recently attacked the statue, knocking off its head. The police in Santa Monica were investigating the attack as a hate crime. Sure hope they catch the perp.

Lila Rose and James O'Keefe, super-effective UCLA student pro-life activists

2009-04-26T18:36:00.000-07:00

Today's Los Angeles Times profiles (click on this post's title) Lila Rose, 20, and James O'Keefe, 24, the pro-life student activists at UCLA who have been using undercover videotapes to expose Planned Parenthood abortion centers' refusals to report statutory rapes to law enforcement.

Lila has been conducting highly successful sting operations at PP abortion centers in various states. She pretends to be a 13-year-old whom an adult male has impregnated; and, using a hidden video camera, she captures PP staffers telling her they won't tell, and to lie about the situation.

Asked about complaints that these sting operations employ "deception," James answers, "It's a pretty complicated ethical issue, but we believe there is a genocide and nobody cares, and you can use these tactics and it's justified."

He's 100% right.

Planned Parenthood's annual report for 2007 brags that PP abortion centers took the lives of 305,310 American babies that year.

Planned Parenthood representatives keep insisting that not reporting statutory rapes is against their "policy." Yet their abortion centers keep getting caught in these pro-life stings.

Be sure to visit Lila's and James's pro-life web site: http://liveaction.org/

Tim Rutten is in a rut -- an anti-Catholic, anti-life rut

2009-04-25T15:11:00.000-07:00

Columnist Tim Rutten of the Los Angeles Times has never been a friend of the Church or of abortion-slated babies. He shows that again in his column of today (click on this post's title).

Rutten is scared that our Catholic bishops will excommunicate Catholic pro-abortion politicians and will tell Catholics they may not vote for pro-abortion politicians.

As we know, our Church's discipline of the Sacraments is none of Rutten's business.

Rutten cites the case of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (Democrat), Barack Hussein Obama's nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services. Rutten is angry that pro-life bishops, pro-life U.S. Senators and rank and file pro-lifers keep pointing out that she is anti-life and unfit for that office or any public office.

Incredibly -- and conveniently -- Rutten writes his entire column about Mrs. Sebelius without mentioning George Tiller, the high-volume abortionist of late-term babies who has contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to help Mrs. Sebelius get in office and stay there.

Rutten also fails to mention that Mrs. Sebelius has taken all kinds of official actions as governor to protect Tiller in his baby-aborting business. She has vetoed bills that would have saved some babies' lives and would have mandated health standards for abortion businesses.

Another convenient omission by Rutten is that Mrs. Sebelius hosted a gala party for Tiller and his whole staff at the governor's mansion and was photographed beaming with him.

(Her defenders claim, without any evidence I've seen, that the party wasn't for him, it wasn't official, etc.; but pro-lifers have strong evidence to the contrary.)

Interestingly, Rutten praises our Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles for not denying Communion to the Catholic politicians who enable the abortions of millions of babies:

"...in the past, when more conservative bishops have forbidden Communion to Catholic officeholders, some cardinals -- McCarrick and Mahony in particular -- have declined to enforce the ban."

We Catholic Angelenos have every right and every reason to wonder out loud why our Cardinal remains silent as Catholic politicians boldly continue to receive Communion even as they continue to vote to protect and fund abortionists' mass slaughter of God's precious babies.

Cardinal Mahony should break his long silence, in order to protect the babies -- and to counter any impression anyone might have that he would ever favor or tolerate a Catholic politician anywhere who is pro-abortion.

About Latin Masses in the Archdiocese of L.A.

2009-04-23T17:03:00.000-07:00

A commenter kindly wrote recently to ask where Latin Masses are celebrated in Los Angeles.

The web site of the Archdiocese has a list at:
http://www.la-archdiocese.org/directories/parishes/indult.html

I suppose the list is current.

Cardinal Arinze has said that there should be at least one Latin Mass every weekend in every parish everywhere. We have a way to go to meet that goal, don't we? (I don't have the citation handy for that statement by Cardinal Arinze.)

Liberals always contradict themselves

2009-04-20T20:27:00.000-07:00

Everybody is writing about Fr. Jenkins of Notre Dame and his decision to award the abortion zealot Barack Hussein Obama an honorary law degree and to have him give the 2009 commencement address.

So Ole Q hasn't said anything. And after all, Notre Dame is not anywhere near L.A. -- except deep in the hearts of the many Angelenos who are faithful sports fans of the Fighting Irish.

But LifeSiteNews.com recently pointed out something about the scandal that calls for repeating.

It is this: Fr. Jenkins has said his invitation to Obama is about "dialogue" (as if the abortion-pushing Obama is interested in that) -- but when pro-life students at Notre Dame asked to have a dialogue with Fr. Jenkins about the invitation, he turned them down.

So much for "dialogue!" Yes, liberals contradict themselves.

By the way, maybe you've read that at last count (today), 42 U.S. bishops have publicly come out against Fr. Jenkins's invitation to B.O. One of the latest to speak out, Bishop Robert Finn, has even said Fr. Jenkins is likely to lose his job over the scandal.

When will Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles say Notre Dame should disinvite Obama? Cardinal Mahony had Slick Willie Clinton speak in St. Vibiana's, so now would be the perfect time for His Eminence to atone for that by asking Fr. Jenkins to tell B.O., "Sorry, Charlie."