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Mimi
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I spoke with a parishioner just today after Mass; was buying scrip & mentioned one of the participating stores supports Planned Parenthood (I read it on a pro-life site). She said “That’s good – isn’t it?” I said “Planned Parenthood helps women get abortions! They also promote condoms for 12 yr olds.” (Of course, I could’ve gone on and on…) I just was a bit taken aback that she didn’t know PP was in the abortion business. And she has kids in parochial school.
I think our pro-life group needs to get more information to people in the parish! I just pray our new priest will help, and not just in the way of allowing our group to be active.
Anyone who stands up for God and country these days is going to get vilified by the “state-controlled media”.
As far as Beck’s Mormonism, he said it was those ppl who accepted him, and that he was so impressed by how they lived what they believed.
If more Catholics truly lived, prayed, voted and raised their kids as serious Catholics, we would not have empty pews and schools either. Fr. Corapi is right – maybe he’s our counterpart to Beck. He’s been at it far longer & travels wider.
I think revival is coming – pray it won’t be too late!
C-span vid:
cspan.org/Watch/Media/2010/08/28/HP/A/37551/Restoring+Honor+Rally.aspx
I also think that with Beck’s interest in history and the search for Truth, he will find out the history of the Catholic Church, sooner or later. He will have to confront the history of Mormonism as many have; I pray he will be converted. Where can we send him some books on the Church Fathers??
God Bless the USA and all who seek to preserve and uphold our constitutional Republic!
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SalesianSDB
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He mentions that he is a recovering alcoholic almost daily on his program and mentions the 12 steps often. He especially mentions these two steps:
2.Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3.Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
This is a major reason why he is such a spiritual person, he found Jesus.
I earnestly believe that he admires Pope Benedict. He has stated on his show that he admires Catholic leaders, Protestant leaders, Jewish leaders, and Mormon leaders.
What to make out of his conversion to Mormonism? Well, idk, he wasn’t a practicing Catholic when he converted. His conversion story is on youtube. Here is him talking about his faith (hope I don’t get in trouble for posting pro-LDS videos.
youtube.com/watch?v=wKtAPT9KEfM
youtube.com/watch?v=k-loZrTzMXo
I think that he is just a good guy with an honest faith in Christ. If you watch his show you’ll know that he doesn’t mention Joseph Smith. i believe he’s only mentioned his Mormonism twice when I saw him and all he said about it was, “I’m a Mormon.” He’s never mentioned Joseph Smith’s name (from what I have seen of him and I watch him often). I’ve never heard him mention the BoM. He always refers to Christ and to the Bible. Never to Joseph Smith and the BoM. So I don’t think he’s driving everyone to Kolob.
I love how people use the race card. The fact that this rally has Alveda King’s approval is great for me. She knows what it is to suffer for what is right, to stand up for God and truth and she wouldn’t be speaking at this rally if she didn’t believe the message. The race card is only used when there are no other arguments to be made against him.
As Glenn Beck said, “You wanna know the secret? The secret is God.”
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SalesianSDB
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I must say that this is the one thing I love about Mormonism.
We need a Catholic revival in many ways!
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bbarrick8383
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Yes, when I heard that the BYU football team has the highest average GPA and half their players are married and half of those have children…I was very suprised.
I know they are very supportive of their members, I just cant support their beliefs.
I love the Catholic faith and what it stands for, I just didn’t feel too welcome at the local Catholic Church here. My wifes mothers Church in Florida was very friendly to me. But it will not take away from what I believe and the opinions that I’ve formed myself of the Church. I’ll find my way.
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Geowitz
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Not sure if I’m the first on this post, but I was actually there.
It was great. I’ve read most of the news articles that claim to accurately describe what went on and most of them miss the main point - that we need to turn to God to restore our great country. Freedom and liberty hinges on our reliance upon God, not man.
That really was it. Nothing he said in the right context was anything more than that. Someone said earlier that he said “pray with your door open” and jesus said close the door. That’s not the full quote. Glenn did say pray with the door open, but right after that he said “so your children can see you”. He also emphasized the importance of family as well as praying together as a family.
Anyways, I think the best thing we can do is to pray for Glenn and that he comes home to the true church. Meanwhile, God is certainly allowed to use him for his will.
Oh yeah, there were absolutely atleast 500,000 there. The crowd stretched from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument, plus the sides were packed as well as a field South of the reflecting pool. The crowd felt more like a church picnic than anything else. VERY courteous and BARELY any trash was left behind. I met people of all faiths and skin color there. Granted, most were white, true, but the goal of the rally was truly about uniting as the human race.
It was great. I’ve read most of the news articles that claim to accurately describe what went on and most of them miss the main point - that we need to turn to God to restore our great country. Freedom and liberty hinges on our reliance upon God, not man.
That really was it. Nothing he said in the right context was anything more than that. Someone said earlier that he said “pray with your door open” and jesus said close the door. That’s not the full quote. Glenn did say pray with the door open, but right after that he said “so your children can see you”. He also emphasized the importance of family as well as praying together as a family.
Anyways, I think the best thing we can do is to pray for Glenn and that he comes home to the true church. Meanwhile, God is certainly allowed to use him for his will.
Oh yeah, there were absolutely atleast 500,000 there. The crowd stretched from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument, plus the sides were packed as well as a field South of the reflecting pool. The crowd felt more like a church picnic than anything else. VERY courteous and BARELY any trash was left behind. I met people of all faiths and skin color there. Granted, most were white, true, but the goal of the rally was truly about uniting as the human race.
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bbarrick8383
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Not suprisingly, one of the first responses was something along the lines of “Wow, sure is a white crowd.”
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Catherine_D
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I’m sorry to hear that. I love my parish so I can’t relate to the alternative. I’m so glad that you are steadfast in your faith regardless of the situation at your local parish! You’re right! You will find your way!
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Catherine_D
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That’s true. It’s also true that the comment in question was based on a picture taken from the air, and that all you could see in that picture was a huge group of people and it was impossible to discern the race of anyone from that distance.
So, was there white in the picture? Sure, maybe the colors of some people’s shirts were white, and perhaps the colors of some of the buildings were white. That’s about all that could be accurately determined as “white”. Were a lot of the people that attended white? Sure, but that wasn’t evident from the picture about which the comment was made. And, just as a matter of statistics, the majority of the people in this country are white, so if a whole bunch of white people show up at something, that shouldn’t be surprising.
Hence, that comment was made not based on observable facts but on some attempt to divide and denigrate, which is unfortunate.
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estesbob
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The Left and their allies the mainstream media had already decided on the narrative of this rally before never took place. A bunch of angry white yahoo’s joined together for a hate-fest. That is why you saw comments about the whiteness of the crowd before anybody even saw the makeup of the crowd. That is why you saw Al Sharpton’s counter rally focusing on Glenn Beck trying to hijack civil rights from them when he in reality never brought it up. They sent their minions throughout the crowd looking looking for racist signs and epitaphs. Instead they found polite people and talk about God- to the left talking about God in public is almost as bad as racial slurs.
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Geowitz
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So I guess because I’m white and a lot of other people who attended were white, it makes the message of uniting around God and honor regardless of race a bad message…
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bbarrick8383
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Wait, you didn’t know that was a white supremacy gathering?
Go to Glenn’s web site and you can find the secret handshake and special decoder ring.
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Catherine_D
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The majority of the people at Al Sharpton’s rally were black. So, does that mean they’re racist because they didn’t have racially diverse attendance?
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mary_bobo
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Not at all. It was just the usual suspects who have bought into Sharpton’s drivel. He has to do something to keep in the spotlight.
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Catherine_D
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I just think it is unfortunate that if a significant percentage of Beck’s audience was white, that the assertion was that they were “racist”, but if we apply the same standard to Sharpton’s group, it’s considered preposterous.
It is preposterous to suggest that either group was intrinsically racist just based on the skin color of those in attendance. Not to mention the fact that it turns out the Beck group was not as “white” as some might have expected.
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Stjudeprayforus
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I loved that part. Pray on your knees and let your children see you humbled before God.
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gnjsdad
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The Catholic Church has members of every race and nationality under the sun. Its teaching on social justice is the only way to guarantee a restoration of authentic Christian values.
Why waste time on an intra-Protestant squabble over race? People like Beck and Sharpton should be looking to us, not the other way around.
Why waste time on an intra-Protestant squabble over race? People like Beck and Sharpton should be looking to us, not the other way around.
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bbarrick8383
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Should be, but they dont.
Too many conflicted opinions in the Catholic Church imo.
Maybe you should waste time on protestant squabbles and find out why.
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Catherine_D
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Today I looked at some of the pictures from the 8/28 rally.
There were rabbis, priests (not sure what kind, but they wore Roman collars, so I imagine at least SOME of them were Catholic!) and others all grouped/arm-linked together as if they were an assembly of religious linking up for a common goal.
There were whites as well as various minorities both within the clergy group as well as within the assembly in general. Those that said this was an “all white” assembly were just plain WRONG.
This wasn’t some sort of intra-Protestant squabble as has been suggested in an earlier post. (Actually, it didn’t appear to be a squabble of any sort at all.)
There is no record of anyone ever calling for an assembly and having this many people, and this diverse of a group, actually show up. That’s just remarkable.
I think it’s wonderful that the purpose of this rally was to restore honor and to encourage Americans to put God back where He belongs ~ in the center of their life. I can’t imagine why anyone would find fault with that.
CBS estimated the group that came to this rally as 87,000. This is clearly false, since just those on either side of the Reflecting Pool ALONE number much more. (This assessment is based on counts of earlier crowds in the same venue.) And then there are at least double their number in other places. Why would CBS make such an obvious under-estimate of the crowd? I thought they were supposed to be a NEWS organization!
There were rabbis, priests (not sure what kind, but they wore Roman collars, so I imagine at least SOME of them were Catholic!) and others all grouped/arm-linked together as if they were an assembly of religious linking up for a common goal.
There were whites as well as various minorities both within the clergy group as well as within the assembly in general. Those that said this was an “all white” assembly were just plain WRONG.
This wasn’t some sort of intra-Protestant squabble as has been suggested in an earlier post. (Actually, it didn’t appear to be a squabble of any sort at all.)
There is no record of anyone ever calling for an assembly and having this many people, and this diverse of a group, actually show up. That’s just remarkable.
I think it’s wonderful that the purpose of this rally was to restore honor and to encourage Americans to put God back where He belongs ~ in the center of their life. I can’t imagine why anyone would find fault with that.
CBS estimated the group that came to this rally as 87,000. This is clearly false, since just those on either side of the Reflecting Pool ALONE number much more. (This assessment is based on counts of earlier crowds in the same venue.) And then there are at least double their number in other places. Why would CBS make such an obvious under-estimate of the crowd? I thought they were supposed to be a NEWS organization!
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Darryl1958
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American values are worth believing in. The left, with their vote for hope and change of course disagrees.
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