(CNSNews.com) – A coalition of pro-life advocates and religious leaders plan to gather in Houston on Jan. 18 to oppose what is expected to be the largest abortion clinic in the country.
Pro-life activists and religious leaders plan a rally near a six-story building that formerly housed a bank. The cash-register-shaped building is being renovated into an abortion facility by Planned Parenthood. (Photo courtesy of The Call to Conscience.)
Planned Parenthood is renovating a former bank, turning it into a 78,000 square foot facility that will include a surgical wing equipped to provide late-term abortions.
“It’s an abortion super center,” Lou Engle, founder of the pro-life group The Call to Conscience, which is organizing the rally, told CNSNews.com.
Joining Engle at the “prayer march” will be Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, and Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. Religious leaders expected to attend include Bishop Harry Jackson, senior pastor of Hope Christian Church; Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention; Star Parker, president of the Coalition for Urban Renewal and Education; and Abby Johnson, the former director of a Planned Parenthood clinic.
Engle compared the fight for the rights of the unborn to another critical movement in America. “As Martin Luther King, Jr. said, ‘It is time to subpoena the conscience of America,’” he said.
Engle said he believes the clinic was strategically located in a part of Houston that is surrounded by black and Hispanic neighborhoods.
“We want to say that it’s not right to have an abortion super center that targets the minority community,” Engle said. He says Planned Parenthood actively markets its services, including abortion, to low-income, minority women.
Last month, Houston elected the first lesbian, Annise Parker, to hold the mayoral office in a major U.S. city. Until her inauguration this week, the director of Health and Environmental Policy for the mayor’s office was Elena Marks, chairwoman of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Attempts to reach Marks for comment on the clinic and the planned rally were unsuccessful.
So, Ms. Lesbian Anise Parker is the mayor of Houston now. No wonder that the first thing on her mind is poking scissors into the brain of a sweet creation of God, a little baby who has not even seen his Mother, or, the light of the day, ...... and depriving him of these two beautiful sights. Poor tiny baby! How can Ms Parker call him a clump of cells.....his curly little hair may be red or blonde.....but, Ms. Parker doesn't understand all this. She is a lesbian and only likes her own pleasure...what else could it be? Blinded by God because of serious grievous matter, yet going right ahead with the mortal sin, she will be condemned to the worst circle of hell without prayers.
I've seen many babies born. Each one brought tears to my eyes because it was so beautiful. The first little cry, the first breath.....oh what a miracle.
Pray for all those whose hearts have been hardened into marble by political corectness speech and errors spoken by those in charge of souls. _________________ I have dipt my wings in Truths' emerald spray....
The March for Life is coming to Washington Jan 22. Bus trips are organizing all over the place.
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. James 1:22
In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. James 2:17
This is a high tech factory dedicated to the murder of innocent human beings. It is erected in broad daylight, in plain site, with the blessing of our government. Thousands of people will walk by it everyday drinking their coffee while babies are being murdered inside. There garbage disposals are full of human remains. Here are some questions to ponder:
What can be done to stop this?
How seriously does the hierarchy of the Church take this?
How seriously do we take this?
Considering that the Nazis were rightfully tried at Nuremburg, should the people responsible for this atrocity eventually face earthly justice? _________________ What don't kill you will make you more strong!
My wife and I spent many years in the pro-life movement, and we never did nearly enough. Our life changed and we were forced to spend more time making a living, so I do feel a sense of guilt for not doing enough, other than financial.
At the same time, sadly, we saw the response from the Church in the 70's, 80's, 90's and now into the first decade of this century... and it was and is marginal at best. The people followed their leaders: not many of them were interested enough to say or do anything. In the 80's there was an abortion clinic two blocks away from a giant Catholic church with 3,000 parishoners. Organizers couldn't get 20 people to march in front of the clinic on a Saturday morning.
On another story on this site, the president of Priests For Life predicts global economic and political collapse as a result of 50 millions unborn slaughtered, while at the same time people turned their back on God worldwide. There is no doubt in my mind that he is exactly right.
My wife and I spent many years in the pro-life movement, and we never did nearly enough. Our life changed and we were forced to spend more time making a living, so I do feel a sense of guilt for not doing enough, other than financial.
At the same time, sadly, we saw the response from the Church in the 70's, 80's, 90's and now into the first decade of this century... and it was and is marginal at best. The people followed their leaders: not many of them were interested enough to say or do anything. In the 80's there was an abortion clinic two blocks away from a giant Catholic church with 3,000 parishoners. Organizers couldn't get 20 people to march in front of the clinic on a Saturday morning.
On another story on this site, the president of Priests For Life predicts global economic and political collapse as a result of 50 millions unborn slaughtered, while at the same time people turned their back on God worldwide. There is no doubt in my mind that he is exactly right.
Bucket, you've said way more in your phrase and pictures than you may realize. Incredibly astute observation.
After seeing the movie Apocalytpo, after seeing what that huge stairway is for, I cannot look at that ancient pyramidal structure without a sick feeling of dread.
The new abortion edifice is without a doubt a temple to the serpent quetzalcoatl.
I heard a report in my area that a year or so ago Fr. Euteneuer flew in to perform an exorcism. Apparently the woman got possessed from contact with the local abortion mill. She was a pro life protester, and according to the report, the devil revealed during the exorcism that it got into her through some personal weakness of hers, but the contact point was the abortion clinic.
Now I've been to that abortion temple a few times to protest, and there is a man that stands outside, who has a palpably demonic aura about him. If I recall him he wears sunglasses and a suit. He's thin and modern and slick looking. And then there are the ubiquitous liberal she-witches of all ages, who have a uniformity of perverse evil smeared over their countenances. Oh the deceit! for they think they are doing some kind of social service!
If abortion is a satanic sacrament, and I'm convinced it is, then just as in a Catholic Church there is the real Presence of Almighty God, dwelling within, so in a vile human slaughterhouse there is a concentration of demonic activity.
In every American city there is an outrageous stench rising to God in mockery and derision, while in all the once-Catholic parishes they offer Him only an equally malodorous smoke. We are under an iron yoke, for we long ago cast the love of God and neighbor behind our backs. Woe to us.
The demonic aztec temple comparison is very apt and tragic.
I also couldn't help note the reference in the original article to the fact that the building had been designed to look like a cash register. The quote in Blood Money from planned parenthood sources that for profit reasons Planned Parenthood wanted every girl to have 3 to 5 abortions should be put up on a billboard across the street along with reference to the building being designed to look like a cash register.
As far as abortion mills being cursed places, I agree.
I'm privileged to offer prayer with a group that seeks conversions at abortion mills. I firmly believe abortion mills are cursed places. Just as a for instance, I'm used to dealing with harsh zone 3 (that interior northern michigan area thats a zone colder than the shoreline areas) winter conditions at my cabin, so I don't wilt at a bit of cold and I know how to dress for it. The mill I pray at is in zone 5 (Detroit area). I have never encountered anything like it. It is horrifyingly cold and the wind is incredible. I can't express how incredibly cold it is -- it makes what I deal with in an area two zones colder seem like nothing. I really hate sounding like a nut or something, but it just seems unnaturally harsh. It's so draining and cold and I only do it once a week, which is nothing compared to the up to five or six days a week some others put in.
The demonic aztec temple comparison is very apt and tragic.
I also couldn't help note the reference in the original article to the fact that the building had been designed to look like a cash register. The quote in Blood Money from planned parenthood sources that for profit reasons Planned Parenthood wanted every girl to have 3 to 5 abortions should be put up on a billboard across the street along with reference to the building being designed to look like a cash register.
As far as abortion mills being cursed places, I agree.
I'm privileged to offer prayer with a group that seeks conversions at abortion mills. I firmly believe abortion mills are cursed places. Just as a for instance, I'm used to dealing with harsh zone 3 (that interior northern michigan area thats a zone colder than the shoreline areas) winter conditions at my cabin, so I don't wilt at a bit of cold and I know how to dress for it. The mill I pray at is in zone 5 (Detroit area). I have never encountered anything like it. It is horrifyingly cold and the wind is incredible. I can't express how incredibly cold it is -- it makes what I deal with in an area two zones colder seem like nothing. I really hate sounding like a nut or something, but it just seems unnaturally harsh. It's so draining and cold and I only do it once a week, which is nothing compared to the up to five or six days a week some others put in.
Very interesting indeed. When I lived in Brooklyn during the late 1990's I prayed at the abortion clinic where Msgr. Reilly had his Helpers of God's Precious Infants. It was on a corner, and the wind and the desolation and the weather there were also strangely ferocious. But I must say that it was also a place of spiritual sweetness, thanks to the people praying.
I cannot say the same about the clinic I described in my above post. It is the most horrible stretch of sidewalk I've ever come across.
After seeing the movie Apocalytpo, after seeing what that huge stairway is for, I cannot look at that ancient pyramidal structure without a sick feeling of dread.
If that movie really reflected what life was for those poor people, no wonder the advent of christianity became so acceptable. In a strange kind of a way the movie reminds me of what's happening in society today!!!
After seeing the movie Apocalytpo, after seeing what that huge stairway is for, I cannot look at that ancient pyramidal structure without a sick feeling of dread.
If that movie really reflected what life was for those poor people, no wonder the advent of christianity became so acceptable. In a strange kind of a way the movie reminds me of what's happening in society today!!!
Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 12:19 pm Post subject: Re: Abortion "Super Center" to Open in Houston
penitent99 wrote:
Joining Engle at the “prayer march” will be Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, and Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. Religious leaders expected to attend include Bishop Harry Jackson, senior pastor of Hope Christian Church; Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention; Star Parker, president of the Coalition for Urban Renewal and Education; and Abby Johnson, the former director of a Planned Parenthood clinic.
I missed Cardinal DiNardo's name in the "religious leaders" list. Surely it was an oversight....
I'm privileged to offer prayer with a group that seeks conversions at abortion mills. It's so draining and cold and I only do it once a week, which is nothing compared to the up to five or six days a week some others put in.
I can't tell you how much I respect and admire the courage and conviction of people like you. God bless you. _________________ Adrian, how did everything that was so good get so bad?
Oh you were there in the beginning of Msgr. Reilly's work then. And you've dealt with the NY situation -- which I understand can be very rough. God bless you. Though working with Msgr Reilly had to have been something of a blessing in itself, I swear he is a saint in the making.
You've done a better job articulating the differences in the environmental characteristics of the abortion mills, which is helpful to me in explaining my experience more clearly. So here goes.
The place effectively feels at least 20 degrees colder than what it feels like in my own yard on the same day. The wind is always fierce. The wind reminds me of that really fierce wind you can get in Chicago, only we don't get that kind of wind anywhere else I know of in Michigan. And it always seems to get colder about noon. Which according to nature does not make sense, but I can't help think of Calvary especially given Msgr. Reilly always encouraging using Our Blessed Mother's presence at Calvary as a model for our presence at abortion mills. And I'm also able to compare the cold to our cabin in northern Michigan, where it is much colder than my downstate place and yet the abortion mill feels much colder, and I have to wear far heavier gear than I've ever worn up north. I look like a dumpling!
As far as the feeling of draining, I believe it's a spiritual exhaustion combined with natural physical reactions. I've never felt anything like fear, only intense sadness, praying for the poor lost souls and the babies. And like you I feel just blessed by the people I work with, I'm just in awe of them. I've never encountered a group of people the radiated such holiness and love -- they absolutely do make the horrible place feel loving.
St. Elmo,
That is very kind of you, thank you, and God bless you. But, those like Cantate who deal with the things that go on in New York (we don't get that sort of vileness here) and people like Msgr. Reilly who has had half his face carved off due to skin cancer and still goes out into the sun every day and our blessed 85 year old lady here with severe osteoporosis who also comes out every day are the real heroes. Prayers for them and their work would be so very kind of you.
SPIRITUAL LOBBYISTS
Religious leaders push immigration reform
By SUSAN CARROLL
Jan. 11, 2010, 10:14PM
Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, right, United Methodist Bishop Janice Riggle Huie, Episcopal Bishop C. Andrew Doyle and 300 other clergy leaders met at Saint Paul's Methodist Church on Monday to push for immigration reform.
A coalition of top religious leaders, including Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, on Monday urged the heads of local congregations and synagogues to help persuade their faithful to support a push for comprehensive immigration reform.
The more than 400 Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist and Jewish leaders who attended the interfaith service and conference at Houston's St. Paul United Methodist Church seemed receptive to the call to overhaul the nation's immigration system and legalize the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S.
Though DiNardo warned that congregations will not be so united, he said they are not “nasty because they misunderstand, or are fearful, or are opposed” to immigration reform. DiNardo encouraged leaders to respect the views of their congregants, while still expressing an urgent need for reform.
Some religious leaders questioned how to best share a pro-reform message with their congregations, particularly in the midst of a recession. One Methodist pastor with a suburban, Republican congregation called the immigration issue a potential “powder keg.”
The local push for reform, organized by Houston's non-partisan The Metropolitan Organization, comes just a week after the leadership of the Catholic Church renewed pressure on the Obama administration to help pass an immigration bill. Ali Noorani, the president of the pro-immigrant organization the National Immigration Forum, said more than 100 events in support of reform were scheduled across the country this week.
DiNardo called the immigration issue “massively important for our time, critical for our communities and for our nation, and also critical and crucial for us as churches, as synagogues, as believing communities.”
But anti-illegal immigration advocates are pushing back against the religious lobby, charging there is a large disconnect between the pulpit and parishioners on the immigration issue — a contention that local religious leaders denied.
51% NO, 46% YES
A Zogby International survey released in December by the Center for Immigration Studies, an organization that supports stricter border controls, reported that 46 percent of Catholics, Protestants and Jews who responded to the survey would support a legalization program for illegal immigrants, provided they pay a fine, learn English and pass a background check. Fifty-one percent would oppose it, and the remainder said they were unsure, according to the survey.
“The research is clear that ordinary members of churches and synagogues don't agree with the leadership's almost universal support for amnesty and increased immigration,” said Mark Krikorian, CIS's executive director. “In fact, the reason they have to do these kinds of events is because the people in the pews aren't responding to earlier calls for activism.”
But those survey results have been hotly contested. Organizations including Public Religion Research have questioned the Zogby survey's methodology since it was based on an opt-in online panel survey, not a scientific random sample of respondents.
Another Zogby poll conducted in the fall of 2008 for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops showed more than two-thirds of the 1,000 Catholics polled supported a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, provided they register with the government.
‘I need some help'
Some leaders of congregations with largely Hispanic membership said they have encountered little if any resistance to their support for immigration reform, while other leaders with more conservative populations have reported stronger resistance.
Rev. Andy Noel, pastor of Atascocita United Methodist Church, questioned how to best take the reform message back to his congregation, which he described as being located in a largely conservative, suburban, Republican area.
“I need some help on that,” Noel said. “We already know this thing is going to be a powder keg, and we're not going to get consensus. You're going to have some people who will take a variety of positions on it.”
Noel said he plans to broach the immigration reform issue, possibly through sermons and Sunday School classes, though he said he was trying to find a way that would be effective and productive without polarizing the congregation.
“They're great people,” he said of the members of his congregation. “But I think there is a lot of fear in regard to this question.”
“We're in a difficult economy with people who are under-employed and unemployed. And they fear the cost of change, and they fear the impact of change,” he said.
Cardnial Daniel DiNardo to Become Head of Catholic Bishop's Pro-Life Office
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
November 17, 2009
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, the Archbishop of Galveston-Houston and the first Cardinal elevated from the Southern United States, is slated to become the next head of the pro-life committee at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The position has seen an increased importance in the abortion-health care debate.
The Catholic bishops were instrumental in getting the House to approve the Stupak amendment to its health care bill to strongly restrict abortion funding in it.
Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia, the current head of the pro-life committee at the USCCB, wrote several letters to members of Congress in advance of the votes.
And USCCB officials, under his direction, went as far as meeting with Speaker Nancy Pelosi in her office hours before the vote to guarantee that lawmakers would have a chance to vote to stop virtually all of the abortion funding.
Now, as the nation's bishops hold their annual meeting in Baltimore, Cardinal DiNardo is set to become the new pro-life leader once they conclude their meeting on Thursday.
The timing couldn't be more apropos as the Senate is expected to cast its first vote that day, or on Friday or Saturday, for its version of the health care bill that is expected to include massive abortion funding.
Dierdre McQuade, the spokeswoman for the pro-life office, told LifeNews.com today she is delighted about Cardinal DiNardo coming on board and was happy with Cardinal Rigali's leadership.
"The Pro-Life Secretariat is grateful to Cardinal Rigali for his sage leadership these last three years -- along with the bishop members of the Committee for Pro-Life Activities," she said.
She added: "We now look forward to Cardinal DiNardo's guidance as we help the bishops to implement their visionary Pastoral Plan for Pro-Life Activities and build a 'great campaign in support of life.'"
Father Frank Pavone, the director of Priests for Life, also talked with LifeNews.com about Cardinal DiNardo's leading the bishops' pro-life efforts.
“Priests for Life congratulates Cardinal Daniel DiNardo as he assumes his new position," Pavone said. "We likewise thank Cardinal Justin Rigali for his three years of service in this position."
“While each bishop leads the Church’s pro-life activities in his own diocese, Cardinal DiNardo’s role will be an important one, especially at moments when the President and Congress need to hear the voice of the bishops on crucial public policy decisions," Pavone continued.
"Each parish, pro-life activist and organization should publicize the statements that the Cardinal and other bishops continue to issue about the dignity of human life," he added.
The socialists, DiNardo and Fiorenza, don't have a catholic bone in their bodies.
Quote:
January Mass to Honor Martin Luther King, Jr.
MLKThe Archdiocese will host the 25th annual MLK Mass of Remembrance on Jan. 17 at 3 p.m. at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, 1111 St. Joseph Parkway.
Daniel Cardinal DiNardo will be the main celebrant, with Archbishop Joseph A. Fiorenza as the homilist.
Please join in this celebration honoring the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
As far as the unborn and DiNardo's new appointment as Chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB) Committee on Pro-Life Activities, he's about as hard to find as the other guy in red, Waldo:
Where's DiNardo?
_________________ TRADIDI QUOD ET ACCEPI
MLKThe Archdiocese will host the 25th annual MLK Mass of Remembrance on Jan. 17 at 3 p.m. at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, 1111 St. Joseph Parkway.
Daniel Cardinal DiNardo will be the main celebrant, with Archbishop Joseph A. Fiorenza as the homilist.
Please join in this celebration honoring the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A reception will follow the Mass.
For more information, call 713-652-4406.
Note to the Houston socialist "celebrants": Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a great advocate of women's reproductive rights, and for this he was awarded Planned Parenthood's Margaret Sanger Award on May 5th, 1966. _________________ TRADIDI QUOD ET ACCEPI
The Archdiocese will host the 25th annual MLK Mass of Remembrance on Jan. 17 at 3 p.m. at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, 1111 St. Joseph Parkway.
That would mean the first MLK Mass of Remebrance was "celebrated" in 1985.
Guess who had just become bishop of the Archdiocese:
Bishop of Galveston-Houston: [ Joseph A. Fiorenza]
Dec. 18, 1984: Named Bishop of Galveston-Houston by Pope John Paul II
Feb. 18, 1985: Installed as Bishop of Galveston-Houston by Archbishop Patrick Flores in the presence of Archbishop Pio Laghi, Apostolic Pro-Nuncio _________________ TRADIDI QUOD ET ACCEPI
I heard his office told someone they are aware of the protest taking place but would say no more. I would ask this: is there anywhere more important to be as a Catholic Cardinal in Houston than protesting the opening of the biggest abortuary in the US in your city?
I wonder if Fiorenza even brings it up in the homily.
The true irony here is that black pastors will be out there protesting that this mill is racist for targeting minority women for abortions. So while the Catholic leaders are honoring MLK the black Christian leaders will be out trying to save babies.
Nope, Neither Fiorenza nor Rizzoto nor DiNardo will be there....
(Hey, that sounds like a new Italian dish from the Olive Garden. "I'll have the Chicken DiNardo with a side of fresh Rizzoto. Oh, and bring us all a bottle of Cabernet Fiorenza, 2001.)
Fiorenza is too busy telling folks after last year's Red Mass that he is in favor of the public option in health care (gulp), that we should work toward immigration reform and throw in one more thing...guess what that was?...drum roll....the spirit of Bernadin came back in calling for an end to the death penalty! Now we're talkin' some Catholic doctrine, baby!
(Oh, and for dessert I'll have the Cheesecake Bernadini.)
Why can't they see that the ultimate death penalty is abortion. Do any of these Blue Plate Specials ever read the Catechism of the Council of Trent?
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