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No Ordinary Funeral
On Saturday, May 3, a funeral is schedule in Michigan. Bishop John Quinn of Detroit will offer the Mass for twenty-five babies who were murdered in nearby abortion mills, and their burial will follow. The bodies of these babies were retrieved in February and March from the garbage dumpsters behind "Woman Care" abortion mills, owned and operated by abortionist Alberto Hodari. Citizens for a Pro-life Society, headed up by my friend Monica Miller, oversaw the proper retrieval and care for the babies' bodies and organized the funeral.
This is no ordinary funeral. There are still too many of our fellow citizens who don't even acknowledge that the people who will be buried this Saturday are people at all. To mourn their deaths publicly, therefore, is not just to honor them, but to sound a wake-up call to our nation that we are living amidst the biggest holocaust of all time. That is why I have called upon my brother priests nationwide to bring to the attention of their congregations this weekend that children are being buried who were brutally, legally killed, and that the killing has to end. Providentially, the Church observes the Feast of the Ascension this weekend. Jesus, in ascending into heaven forty days after his resurrection, takes our human nature to the heights of heaven. That is the hope we present to humanity. We will sit on the throne with Christ (see Rev. 3:21). It is impossible, therefore, for us to ignore the fact that those who share that same human nature are being thrown in the garbage. Abortion has become too abstract. The word has lost its meaning. The conceptual knowledge that children are being killed is no longer enough to awaken many people to action. We need the funerals, we need to see the bodies, we need to hear the disgusting details of the abortions in order to be roused out of our moral slumber and end this killing once and for all. Abortionist Hodari, when he disposed of these babies, also threw into the dumpster the patient records. Sadly, that is the only issue on which he may get into trouble. Of course, carelessness with patient records should be punished. But when society will punish a man for the pieces of paper he threw in the garbage but excuse him for throwing babies into that same garbage, we have become guilty of straining the gnat and swallowing the camel. We have become far worse than the Pharisees of Jesus' day. Two weeks after this funeral, the pro-life community of Dallas will pray at another grave, for the 25th year in a row, to honor aborted babies who are buried there...1300 of them! As my friend Monica said, "This tomb will be a place of refuge especially for grieving mothers and dads who regret that they made the decision to abort their children - a place of reconciliation." Indeed, let the healing begin; but that can happen only when we first mourn the dead. See details and photos of the babies at www.priestsforlife.org/images and www.ProLifeSociety.org ***
This column can be found online at Fr. Frank's columns can be heard via podcast. See www.priestsforlife.org/podcast for more details. Fr.. Frank's columns can be listened to in MP3 format at www.priestsforlife.org/columns/columns2008/index.htm |
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Praise for our Work! Fr. Frank: You recent message about the You Tube - "Is this what you mean?" campaign must have been the prompting of the Holy Spirit. It is brilliant. Several of the deacons in this diocese are meeting this Saturday to explore ways to really promote the project. Thanks for the tools! May God continue to bless you and your associates in His service and in the service of human life! -- Deacon Pete, Vermont
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Other updates from Fr. Frank On other matters, 1. Please check out my You Tube page. We continue to get a lot of views on the two videos about the abortion procedure, and I've begun to post videos responding to some of the comments we've gotten. Remember, these videos are connected to an entire project we're doing to challenge pro-abortion politicians to admit what abortion is. See the details at www.priestsforlife.org. 2. We've posted a new question on our monthly online poll at www.priestsforlife.org . As always, we appreciate hearing your opinion! 3. Finally, let me give you a preview of some of our upcoming media. Fr. Frank Pavone will be a guest on The Abundant Life with Johnnette S. Benkovic on EWTN, Monday, May 5th at 10pm, Tuesday, May 6th at 4am, Wednesday, May 7th at 2pm and Friday, May 9 at 10am. Listen live on EWTN at www.ewtn.com.
Defending Life: Watch on EWTN every Friday at 10pm ET and Saturday at 2:30am ET. Listen on EWTN radio every Friday at 1am ET, Saturday at 6:30pm ET and Sunday at 5am ET.
May 9-11: Good Counsel Homes May 10-11: Policy 385. Fr. Pavone is joined by Associate Director Janet Morana to talk with Mark Crutcher, President of Life Dynamics, about the new directive from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, bullying Doctors into supporting abortion. Hear us on EWTN radio on Catholic Connection with Teresa Tomeo. I am her guest every Wednesday at 9:30am ET and Janet Morana is her guest every Friday at 9:10am ET. For radio station information and to listen to the live show on the internet, go to www.avemariaradio.net |
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Below is the Spanish Translation of the column sent out on April 14 - Hace tiempo que los que defendemos la vida estamos hartos de los " servidores públicos" que parecieran no poder entender la diferencia entre servir al público y matar al público. Disfrazan la violencia del aborto bajo el manto de la elección" y rehusan proteger a las victimas. Encontramos estos políticos en ambos partidos, algunos ocupan cargos públicos y otros son candidatos. Algunos líderes de la Iglesia se han mostrado dubitativos cuando se trata de disciplinar a estos individuos, aun cuando algunos de ellos proclamen practicar su fe. Estos políticos que apoyan el aborto son impunes en su acciones debido mayormente a que rehusan discutir de que se trata la " elección." Tratan de evitar la palabra " aborto" , pero aún cuando la usan, la palabra ha perdido prácticamente todo su contenido. Los votantes escuchan la palabra, pero apenas se dan cuenta, si es que se dan cuenta, del horror indescriptible que representa. Es tiempo de que eso cambie durante esta temporada de elecciones. No importa lo que los políticos, los votantes o los dirigentes de la Iglesia hagan o dejen de hacer, es hora de que los que sabemos lo que es el aborto pongamos un límite y desafiemos a los candidatos y a los funcionarios de la siguiente forma: Si va a tomar una posición sobre el aborto, entonces tendrá que ser claro sobre ella . No vamos a permitir que siga oscureciendo o banalizando la cuestión. Ya sea que la gente está de acuerdo con Ud. o no, es su obligación con el público ser honesto sobre aquello de lo que está hablando. Por lo tanto hacemos un simple llamado a la honestidad: Le describiremos el aborto y Ud. nos dice si está hablando de esto. Así de simple, liso y llano. No es un debate ni una amenaza. Es un llamado a la claridad, un pedido de honestidad. No es partidista ni irrazonable; no es fanático ni inadecuado bajo ningún punto de vista. No se trata de religión ni moralidad. Simplemente queremos asegurarnos que estamos oyendo lo que dice. Cuando dice aborto queremos estar seguros de que hablamos de la misma cosa. Hace poco coloqué dos videos en You Tube en los que describo y demuestro las dos técnicas más comunes del aborto, utilizando instrumentos reales que se utilizan para abortar junto con palabras que se encuentran en libros médicos y testimonios judiciales. Visite www.priestsforlife.org y verá los enlaces a esos videos y algunas citas de los mismos aborteros que podrá utilizar en sus argumentaciones. Por ejemplo, la Dra. Carolyn Westhoff testificó: " en el desmembramiento D&E... es necesario insertar los fórceps... y luego aplastar la cabeza." (National Abortion Federation vs. Ashcroft, Abril 2004, US District Court, Southern District of New York) Después simplemente pregúntele a los políticos " pro-elección" (" pro-choice" ) (ya sea que son candidatos o servidores públicos) si esto es lo que quieren decir cuando hablan del " aborto." Sí o no. Pregunteles públicamente. Pregúnteles repetidamente. Pregúntelo en las reuniones públicas (townhall meetings), los blogs, los editoriales. Aquellos cuyo voto desean tienen derecho a saber. Enlances de You Tube a los procedimientos para abortar www.youtube.com/watch?v=us_y9GP_-DA www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBOAPleF1t0
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