INTRODUCTION:  THE  abortion issue has always been successfully and brilliantly marketed by the feminist movement as a Catholic religious issue...as a private matter that Catholics are trying to force on everybody and that Catholics are ruled by the Pope...(leading Catholic politicians have often been accused of this.) This tactic has stymied Catholics..kept us on the back foot with no power. It has portrayed the matter to the public as being a private thing, and everybody has the right to a personal opinion and thus entitled to abortion if desired.

IT  IS  TIME to correct this portrayal by having a network that is proudly and boldly  CATHOLIC  and so we intend to take up the challenge.   
                                       
           ...  TURNING  THE  TIDE  ON  INFANTICIDE  ...

M E T H O D: 

• SETTING UP this website to counter the aspirations of the movement described above.

• GATHER fellow-Catholics to register.

• AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME - say, when an election is pending, to put out a public announcement in newspapers that we will be voting 'informal' as a bloc to register our protest against abortion and...

• TO REINSTATE LAWS protecting and defending the human rights of innocent unborn babies.

• TO REMOVE the so-called 'right' of a woman to kill her unborn child.

• TO URGE pro-life politicians to follow through;  to act on their conscience votes by using every means at their disposal to reverse legislation allowing the slaughter of unborn babies.

• TO STOP the infanticide of abortion-survivors  click here  and  here

• TO PROMOTE our own Catholic candidates, known as such, to stand for Parliament.

• TO SUPPORT non-Catholic candidates holding these principles to stand for Parliament.

• TO LINK up with other Catholic websites.

                                                 

MARY, MEDIATRIX OF ALL GRACES

Pray  for  us

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"I am the Queen of Heaven, Mother of earth, and Mediatrix of all graces. I will stand here through the turmoil that lies ahead within the holy House of God.” - Our Lady of the Roses, October 6, 1972

 

Short film just posted on YouTube

       

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                            A   RICH   MAN        
                      

The Overthrow of Moral Authority and the Search for a Substitute

".......In an attempt to find a foundation other than God, we have turned to science. Yet science tells us that we are incapable of relating to one another, face to face, as transcendent beings, because we are merely contingent outgrowths of biological and cultural causation. If a person claims publicly to know transcendent truth, he is viewed as guilty of using language to disguise his self-interest for the purpose of dominating or controlling others...."

"........Psychological understanding has its place. But when we attempt to replace morality with psychology, the result is psychological manipulation. Not only is such manipulation deceptive — i.e., immoral — it is ultimately ineffective. Often there is no legitimate substitute for a direct appeal to moral authority....."

These are excerpts taken from an excellent article by Ralph Loomis writing in THE  NEW  OXFORD  REVIEW  March 2011... Full article

          Also from the same edition of NOR is:    
      The Creation Story for Atheists 
         By Anne Barbeau Gardiner ...Full article

The Law according to Thomas More

(Robert Bolt’s biography of Thomas More gets it remarkably right where a man cannot be arrested unless he breaks the law - otherwise he would be making himself out to be God.)

........ More, then the Lord Chancellor, argues with family members who are urging him to arrest Richard Rich, the man who was later to betray him. More’s daughter, Margaret, says, “Father, that man’s bad.”    More answers, “There is no law against that.”    His son-in-law, William Roper: “There is! God’s law!”
More: “Then God can arrest him. . . . The law, Roper, the law. I know what’s legal, not what’s right. And I’ll stick to what’s legal. . . . I’m not God. The currents and eddies of right and wrong, which you find such plain sailing, I can’t navigate. I’m no voyager. But in the thickets of the law, oh, there I’m a forester.”

(When assailed by his son-in-law More replied that he would give even the devil the benefit of law:)


More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the devil?

Roper: I’d cut down every law in England to do that!

More: Oh? . . . And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you — where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? . . . This country’s planted thick with laws from coast to coast — man’s laws, not God’s — and if you cut them down . . . d’you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? . . . Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake......full story here           

            CATHOLIC   SOCIAL   TEACHING

                 
182. The rule of law is the necessary condition for the establishment of an authentic democracy. For democracy to develop, there is a need for civic education and the promotion of public order and peace. In effect, there is no authentic and stable democracy without social justice. Thus the Church needs to pay greater attention to the formation of consciences, which will prepare the leaders of society for public life at all levels, promote civic education, respect for law and for human rights, and inspire greater efforts in the ethical train ing of political leaders.(Ecclesia in America, n. 56)

183. But authority is not to be thought of as a force lacking all control. Indeed, since it is the power to command according to right reason, authority must derive its obligatory force from the moral order, which in turn has God for its first source and final end. Wherefore our Predecessor of happy memory, Pius XII, said: The absolute order of living beings and man's very destiny (We are speaking of man who is free, bound by obligations and endowed with inalienable rights, and at once the basis of society and the purpose for which it exists) also includes the state as a necessary society invested with the authority without which it could not come into being or live.... And since this absolute order, as we learn from sound reason, and especially from the Christian faith, can have no origin save in God Who is our Creator, it follows that the dignity of the State's authority is due to its sharing to some extent in the authority of God Himself (Pius XII, Christmas Eve Radio Message, 1944).(Pacem in Terris,n. 47)

184. It is urgently necessary at this moment of history to strengthen juridical instruments capable of promoting freedom of conscience in the areas of political and social life. The gradual and constant development of an internationally recognized legal order could well provide one of the surest bases for the peace and orderly progress of the human family. It is likewise essential that comparable efforts be undertaken nationally and regionally to ensure that all individuals, wherever they live, enjoy the protection of internationally recognized legal norms.(World Day of Peace Message, 1991, n. 6)

185. Since the right to command is required by the moral order and has its source in God, it follows that, if civil authorities pass laws or command anything opposed to the moral order and, consequently, contrary to the will of God, neither the laws made nor the authorizations granted can be binding on the consciences of the citizens, since God has more right to be obeyed than men. Otherwise, authority breaks down completely and results in shameful abuse. As St. Tho mas Aquinas teaches: Human law has the true nature of law only in so far as it corresponds to right reason, and in this respect it is evident that it is derived from the eternal law. In so far as it falls short of right reason, a law is said to be a wicked law; and so, lacking the true nature of law, it is rather a kind of violence (Aquinas, STh, I II, 93,3, ad 2).(Pacem in Terris,n. 51)


186. Pope Leo XIII was aware of the need for a sound theory of the State in order to ensure the normal development of man's spiritual and temporal activities, both of which are indispensable. For this reason, in one passage of Rerum Novarum he presents the organization of society according to the three powers legislative, executive and judicial something which at the time represented a novelty in Church teaching. Such an ordering reflects a realistic vision of man's social nature, which calls for legislation capable of protecting the freedom of all. To that end, it is preferable that each power be balanced by other powers and by other spheres of responsibility which keep it within proper bounds. This is the principle of the `rule of law,' in which the law is sovereign, and not the arbitrary will of individuals.(Centesimus Annus,n. 44)

187. It must also be restated that no social group, for example, a political party, has the right to usurp the role of sole leader, since this brings about the destruction of the true subjectivity of society and of the individual citizens, as happens in every form of totalitarianism.(Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, n. 15).....more