Category: Observations

What I perceive in the current world

What are these things?

What are these things?
Yellow and white
They make light glimmer
Bring out the bright
Of what is in sight

There are metals
Of all sorts
But in comparison
To this group
It is no sport

Others don’t have that shine
Others can’t bring the time
That makes the good
Sweet as the finest Wine
rings
A special night
A gift at dinner
A pearl wrapped
In any will be a winner

A painting
Of the finest sort
Is that much greater
When it’s framed
In the precious drawn from ore

Glory of God
The world wants to extol
It’s got to be Silver
Platinum or Gold

From the ancient world
To modern times
These illustrious metals
Bring out the rhymes

The precious coins of
Rome, Egypt and Greece
Empires of Spain
And Great Britain
Not the least
Tell the stories of Love and War
Sometimes peace
All wrapped up in the Golden Fleece

The rapper wears
A rather large one
Round his neck
A sister prays a golden rosary
At a sick man’s
Death bed

Many more uses
You can see
But the most precious
That shines like the sun
Eternally done
Is the one that makes
You and me, we

The precious metal
Pulled, Shaped
And twisting
Going round a finger
Always existing

But the tragedy lies
In that Humans
Do not see
The greatest Gift of all
Is actually free

Love is the thing
We should all be expounding
If we all share the gold
The world would be astounding

As happiness would reign from shore to shore
The precious metals
Hence be a symbol of Love
Like a rose petal
A seed of friendship forevermore

©Guillermo Perez 2010

 

 

Does the Devil Exist?

Fr. Rutler’s Weekly Column
November 4, 2018
   Nostalgia is a selective editing of the past. For instance, there are those who wish we had today some of the architects of thirteenth-century cathedrals, but who avoid mentioning thirteenth-century dentists. In recent times, the general conceit has been the opposite of nostalgia. The philosopher Owen Barfield spoke of “chronological snobbery,” defined as the belief that “intellectually, humanity languished for countless generations in the most childish errors on all sorts of crucial subjects, until it was redeemed by some scientific dictum of the last century.”   

   That snobbery had its heyday in the past generation, which defined itself as mankind finally “come of age.” Were that true, we should now be in the stage of incipient senility. Catholics are suffering from that period’s destructive arrogance. Just look at the circular churches and ugly music that replaced venerable shrines and chants. Characteristic of that polyester period was the underestimation of evil, which Pope Benedict XVI noticed even in some assertions of the Second Vatican Council. Without explanation, the Prayer to Saint Michael was dropped from the liturgical books in 1964. But “Satan and all the evil spirits” have not politely gone away.

   That prayer was promulgated by Pope Leo XIII in 1884. Accounts variously claim that he was inspired by a vision of horrors to come in the twentieth century. Its use remained a private option after recitation of the prayer was dropped from the end of Mass, but in 1994 Pope Saint John Paul II, from his experience of travails in his native Poland, was not inclined to underestimate the power of the wickedness and snares of the devil: “I invite everyone not to forget it, but to recite it to obtain help in the battle against the forces of darkness and against the spirit of this world.”

   Far from having “come of age,” chronological snobs have learned the hard way that theirs has been a prolonged adolescence. In our present cultural chaos, faced with moral decadence all around, the pope and bishops have asked that the Prayer to Saint Michael be restored at the conclusion of each Mass. In our parish we have not had to reinstate it because we never ceased to offer that prayer after Mass, sometimes to the consternation of a few who thought it retrograde. When the Barque of Peter is tossed by storms, it is time to bring the life jackets out of the storage where some liturgists hid them.

   Our church is providentially dedicated to Saint Michael, and a month ago the Catholic News Service published a photograph of our own statue of him, based on the famous painting by Guido Reni. Generations ago, the people of “Hell’s Kitchen” knew that Michael and his sword would be a better defense in battle than liturgical dancers and the balloons of chronological snobs. They also knew, as Baudelaire said, that “The devil’s greatest trick is to persuade us that he does not exist.”

The Book is Finally out

Dear Friends,

I know I have been missing in action. I apologize for that but hopefully, I can now progress to blogging once again. Most importantly the book I was writing is completed. Below is the cover. If you click on it you can read more about it on Amazon.Guillermo_Perez_1

The Democrats Abandon Catholics

The Democrats Abandon Catholics

If you value religious education or life’s sanctity, you’re not welcome in the party.

By Cardinal Timothy Dolan

A couple of events over the past few weeks brought to mind two towering people who had a tremendous effect on the Archdiocese of New York and the U.S. more broadly. Their witness is worth remembering, especially in this political moment.

Last Saturday’s feast of St. Patrick, the patron saint of our cathedral and archdiocese, reminded me of Archbishop John Hughes. As the first archbishop of New York (1842-64), “Dagger John” displayed dramatic reverence for the dignity of Irish immigrants. Thousands arrived daily in New York—penniless, starving and sometimes ill—only to be met with hostility, bigotry and injustice.

Portrait of Archbishop John Hughes, c. 1840s.
Portrait of Archbishop John Hughes, c. 1840s.PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES
An immigrant himself, Hughes prophetically and vigorously defended their dignity. Because the schools at the time were hostile to these immigrants, he initiated Catholic schools to provide children with a good education sensitive to their religion and to prepare them as responsible, patriotic citizens. The schools worked. Many remain open to this day, their mission unchanged.

The second event was the recent funeral of a great African-American woman, Dolores Grier. A convert to Catholicism, she was named vice chancellor of the archdiocese three decades ago by Cardinal John O’Connor; she was the first layperson and first woman to hold the prestigious position. Grier was passionate about civil rights, especially the right to life of babies in the womb. She never missed an opportunity to defend, lovingly but forcefully, their right to life.

Grier attributed her pro-life sensitivity to the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who preached that abortion was an act of genocide against minorities. No wonder, she often observed, abortuaries were clustered in poor black and brown neighborhoods. The statistics today confirm her observation: In 2013 there were more black babies aborted in New York City (29,007) than were born here (24,758), according to a report from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

The values Archbishop Hughes and Dolores Grier cherished—the dignity and sanctity of human life, the importance of Catholic schools, the defense of a baby’s civil rights—were, and still are, widely embraced by Catholics. This often led Catholics to become loyal Democrats. I remember my own grandmother whispering to me, “We Catholics don’t trust those Republicans.”

Such is no longer the case, a cause of sadness to many Catholics, me included. The two causes so vigorously promoted by Hughes and Grier—the needs of poor and middle-class children in Catholic schools, and the right to life of the baby in the womb—largely have been rejected by the party of our youth. An esteemed pro-life Democrat in Illinois, Rep. Dan Lipinski, effectively was blacklisted by his own party. Last year, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez insisted that pro-life candidates have no place in the modern Democratic Party.

It is particularly chilly for us here in the state Hughes and Grier proudly called their earthly home. In recent years, some Democrats in the New York state Assembly repeatedly blocked education tax credit legislation, which would have helped middle-class and low-income families make the choice to select Catholic or other nonpublic schools for their children. Opposing the bill reduces the ability of fine Catholic schools across the state to continue their mission of serving the poor, many of them immigrants.

More sobering, what is already the most radical abortion license in the country may soon be even more morbidly expanded. For instance, under the proposed Reproductive Health Act, doctors would not be required to care for a baby who survives an abortion. The newborn simply would be allowed to die without any legal implications. And abortions would be legal up to the moment of birth.

The “big tent” of the Democratic Party now seems a pup tent. Annafi Wahed, a former staffer to Hillary Clinton, recently wrote in this newspaper about her experience attending the Conservative Political Action Conference. She complimented the conservative attendees, pointing out that most made her feel welcome at their meeting. They listened attentively to her views—a courtesy, she had to admit, that would not be given to them at a meeting of political liberals.

I’m a pastor, not a politician, and I’ve certainly had spats and disappointments with politicians from both of America’s leading parties. But it saddens me, and weakens the democracy millions of Americans cherish, when the party that once embraced Catholics now slams the door on us.

To Archbishop Hughes, Dolores Grier, and Grandma Dolan, I’m sorry to have to write this. But not as sad as you are to know it is true.

Cardinal Dolan is archbishop of New York.

Appeared in the March 23, 2018, print edition.

Rocket Man -The Song

(Sung to Elton John’s Rocket Man)

We packed the missiles tonight

Zero hour nine AM

And I’m gonna be out of my mind by then

I miss my bro’ I crushed his life

It’s lonely in this place

I’m such a timeless plight

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And I think it’s gonna be a short short time

‘Till my intel brings me round again to find

I’m not the man that will hold the phone

Oh no no no I’m a rocket man

Rocket man waiting to light the fuse and burn your homes

 

Pyongyang ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids

In fact, my hearts cold as hell

And cross me once, I’ll execute them all anyway if you did

And all this nonsense I don’t understand

It’s just my job seven days a week

A rocket man, a rocket man

 

And I think it’s gonna be a short short time

‘Till my intel brings me round again to find

I’m not the man that will hold the phone

Oh no no no I’m a rocket man

Rocket man waiting to light the fuse and burn your homes

 

And I think it’s gonna be a short short time

And I think it’s gonna be a short short time

And I think it’s gonna be a short short time

And I think it’s gonna be a short short time

One Issue Voter

Recently a friend of mine who I consider to be intelligent, though he is quite closed-minded and marches to the party drum, said to me “you can’t be a one policy voter”.  He, of course, must be ignorant of what abortion actually is and has not looked into all the facts. Why is this? Because people, in general, are always so quick to go along with what the majority who agrees with their own mindset think. Even to the point of participating in heinous crimes.

Automatically people will reject this notion. But history proves it out again and again. All for what is some sort of economic reform that will benefit the masses they murder people in the tens of millions.  Just look at the deaths of the millions in Nazi Germany where 20 million people predominately Jewish followed by practicing Catholics, Protestants, other minorities were terminated. Or look to the Soviet Union where under Stalin over 20 million were murdered. In China, under Mao Zedong, over 40 million were exterminated because they did not tow the party line. How did they achieve this?

The achieving it was simple. All the leaders had to do was to get everyone to believe something that is not true. Sadly, if you repeat a lie long and loud enough many undiscerning people accept it as truth. The goal is to make the soldier or citizen believe they are not killing a human being who has the same rights as they do. But to make them believe they are killing something else. Some type of vermin. The Jews were targeted as an inferior race and something other than human beings. The Nazis called the Jews “rats”.

Now Stalin called them traitors. No trial was set to see if this were true. No just reasoning imposed to protect the masses. The Soviet Government were the only ones who determined who were Human beings with the right to live. There were no just laws that the west and formerly Russia inherited from Christian moral teachings. All moral norms were thrown out and murders became a normal day to day event justified as the execution of traitors.

Mao Zedong set himself apart and considered himself as a prophet of sorts. Any who did not follow his lead were “enemies of the people”. It was easy to convince the populist that anyone who opposed his teaching was out to hurt the “people”. Without any justice, a cleansing of the society for the good of only a certain group of people was justified. I don’t know about you but if a regime kills 40 million of its own people I would say they are the enemy of the people.

But Evil does not change but constantly plays the same ploy all over the world. In 1994 Rwanda experience a racial genocide not unlike that of the Jews but it was quicker and more vicious. The Hutus blamed the competing peoples of their land the Tutsis for the murder of their leaders. Without trial or proof of any kind, they waged an organized genocide killing 800,000 Tutsi people in four short months. The propaganda encouraging the murder of the innocents was simply prosecuted by calling them something other than humans, they called them “cockroaches”.

Lies no matter how small are evil. But some lies are worse than others. The most heinous and the one swallowed by the globalist because they want to laud their power over all peoples is the denial of human rights. The denial of human rights comes in many stages but the cruelest of all is the destruction of innocent life. But our global society is doing just that. Even worse, the targeted groups are the weakest among us, the minorities, poor and ignorant.

Under the guise of social justice, which is a lie, abortion has been termed a reproductive right. The term itself is a lie because abortion is only about ending human reproduction. The Illuminati like it because it is one way to reduce the poverty problem. Just kill the children before they are born is their solution.

The primary lie told by those that promote abortion is that the child inside the womb is nothing but a clump of cells. Sadly, people are ready to believe whatever they are told when it lets them off from their responsibility to care for a human life, if they deem themselves unprepared. There is even a professor who believes that a parent should be allowed to kill a born infant. I like his position. Why do I like his position? At the least, he is honest. He knows there is no difference between killing the child in the womb or out of the womb. In either case, you are killing a human being.

us-constitution-page-1-torn-edgesSome people argue about when life begins. Well, it’s obvious it begins when a sperm and embryo form a unique DNA at conception. But others will say that it is not human yet. Of course, this is ridiculous. If I plant a seed for corn, yes it is not fully corn yet, but it is corn nonetheless. The seed meets water in a fertile environment corn begins to grow. That is corn. Hence the same is true with a human. The baby begins at conception. But just like corn may fail so too may a human fail after conception. That does not take away that it was human. Just like the corn we should do everything within possibility to ensure its growth. We want a good crop of corn just like we want the birth of human babies.

Abortion is argued as a woman’s right because the baby resides in her body. The truth of the matter is the responsibility falls on both male and female that engaged in the sexual act to own up to their responsibility to bring this life into the world. Sadly, it has become the contraception of last resort, and babies are killed because of irresponsible sexual encounters.

One of the consequences of the abortion rights is the enabling of human trafficking and forced prostitution. The abortion industry allows women to be treated as cattle. Once pregnant their offspring are easily disposed of under the norms enabling cruel traffickers and pimps to maintain control of women.

I have to get back to my real point. Babies are being allowed to be murdered when they are called a fetus. They are even being allowed to be aborted when they are called babies under late term abortion. Simply because if we can’t see the horror, we are led to believe it is not horrible.

Planned Parenthood and Mary Stokes take public money for the slaughter of innocents. They sell the body parts of late-term infants for big money. This is a horror that less than 100 years ago would have shocked and scared any sane human being. But the lie that is it’s not human life has become widespread. I challenge all believers in abortion rights to watch videos of the procedure at every stage.

This is like the murder of innocents in the revolutions and wars. Until the truth comes out people will just go along with the propaganda. If we continue down this path, governments will be the arbiters of Human Life. They will do away with the primary and most important point that an individual’s rights outweigh the rights of the masses.

Mobs are easily formed whipped up into chaos and criminality as history attests. An individual’s right to life should be protected at all stages and governments should not legalize the intentional destruction of human life. Because when murder is legalized there is no end to the destruction of life and liberty of the individual in the name of the so-called “leaders of the people”.

My final statement, I could write a book about this topic, is simple. I cannot and will not ever vote for a politician that is pro-abortion. Pro-abortion is the first step to the end of the individual’s rights and liberty. Because there is nothing more precious in this world than a human life and when human life is reduced to a commodity as many of our society’s leaders so wish to do then we all become easily expendable without due process.

This is the reason I am a one issue voter. I can be swayed on positions of economic or political systems but not on the issue of the right to life.

Addendum: The media and powers don’t want this known. Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election because of the pro-life vote.

The Decline of Honor and True Love

Woman deserve honor and respect. This post discuss the sad state of modern society’s treatment of women.

I grew up in a time that some often call the sexual revolution. It was a time of anything goes experimentation with sexual encounters. There was a new disregard for any respect for the other person. The goal of the revolution in my mind was nothing unique or new. Why it is called a revolution is beyond me.

The new, so called revolution was not about freedom of expression. It was not about the liberation of inhibitions. It was not about “love”. The truth the new mentality was nothing but the absolute success of the aggressor to be a selfish as possible. It is about persons entering into an arrangement that is devoid of responsibility or regard for the other person. It is about pure and utter selfishness and uniquely grotesque behavior.

The cause of this selfishness derives plainly as the nose on my face from the advent of contraception. This mentality believes in no responsibility in the sexual act of intercourse. They view the act as a form of pleasure seeking. However it is obvious from the simple fact that in the act of intercourse, that is natural, a woman may become pregnant with a living human child. It is not simply for pleasure. But our modern society discounts human life as the Romans had. We have not progressed we have declined to a barbarity not seen in centuries.

The modern mentality now sees human life as a commodity. It does not respect the gift of offspring if not planned. It wants intelligent human beings to believe that the child now living in a woman’s womb is something other than human life. This is absurd and an insult to an intelligent person.
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The selfishness of our society wants to do away with human life as we would an unwanted pest. We want to kill that which we cannot see. Since it is out of sight it is out of mind. We can lie to ourselves but we know it is no other than murder. The ultimate in selfishness is to kill for one’s own pleasure. The destruction of one life for our own goals is clearly the way criminal organizations work.

But this revolution used the guise of Women’s Liberation. Women can now work unencumbered by the male of her species! Interestingly the effect has been the opposite. Men have been liberated from the responsibility of a relationship with the female. He can easily disappear while the woman is now left alone to raise a child or even worse he will use all his evil guile to pressure a woman to kill her child.

Oh, there are woman out there that claim this is liberating and they are proud of having had a child aborted. Yet the truth speaks louder that the evil lies these women profess. There are armies of women who have survived this horror to realize they have wronged their unborn child and their own bodies. Sadly in many cases woman have also died in the process, making it two deaths in the fell swoop of the abortionists propaganda and pressure.

Contraception if looked on rightly is not a successful form of birth control. It often fails and puts men and women in a position they never expected to be in. Even worse is that it is a lie. It is not pleasurable simply because it is an empty act devoid of meaning. It has no love behind it. There is no commitment to one or the other. It is simply put the act of mutual masturbation. It lacks love because the real product of an honest human love is the willingness to receive each others inner being in an act of joining together to create a unique life.

This way of thinking our society has seen it keen to turn our woman into tramps. Our woman young and old are constantly being told they have to sell themselves to the opposite sex to have value. All you have to do is go to any newsstand and read the covers of the woman’s magazines. It is the utmost degradation of the female of our society and one that is now sadly ingrained.

Recently I was speaking to a young man of my acquaintance whom had told me of recent trip he took to Boston with a lady friend. I am no fool and I know that they were of course sharing the same bed. Later the same week he told me he wanted to meet a friend of his. I asked whom would that be? He gave me the name of the same young woman he had traveled to Boston. I was confused, I said “Oh, your girlfriend”. But he denied that she was his girlfriend to the point that it was obvious he did not even value her as a friend, only as a valueless acquaintance. She was simply a tool for his pleasure even though they shared the most intimate of acts. She was his prostitute though she may not realize it. He is simply put, using her to fulfill his sexual needs.

A friend would risk his life for you. A friend would have concern for your well-being. A friend makes sacrifices for the other in any relationship. I have friends both male and female and I care for them all and where ever possible I will go out of my way for them. Most of all I would never deny the relationship I have with any kindred spirit.

I sadly believe woman have been fooled to believe they are better now than their ancestors. The truth is exactly the opposite. Women were held in high regard and with respect. Woman held high and powerful positions. Women and men together raised a society based on real intimate love for one another. They shared their pains and sorrows and came out the other side. Men adored them whether wife, mother, sister or Queen. Mostly men would lay down their lives for their women in the past.

Sadly, now men run from women. They don’t want commitment to a woman and even worse they have no respect. They may smile and make a woman laugh but when he takes her to his bed he is not saying I love you. He is saying thanks for relieving me.

I only wish to end this rant to say I despise our recent history in regards to the human sexual relations and most of all the times I grew up in. I was misled and lied to and in the process it made my life very difficult. If possible I would go back and correct the actions of my youth. Without the ability to do that all I pray is that real women take the lead and put selfish men back in their place. They must change society so that a woman is respected for her mind and skills. So that the males may come to once again respect woman’s honor and his own place again beside a good strong woman.

It Certainly Can be a Wonderful Life

This past Saturday evening we watched the movie, “It’s a Wonderful Life” produced and directed by Frank Capra, in its entirety. I had not watched it since I was a child. I always remembered it was truly a beautiful film but I did not comprehend at the time the message and meaning of the film.

its_a_wonderful_life_movie_posterThis movie is a social commentary on the both the positive and negative of capitalism. On the one hand we have the Bailey’s who run a for profit business that supports the community and cares for its people. On the other we have Mr. Potter the contemptible corrupt character of the movie whose sole purpose is profit and does not care a moment for those less unfortunate than he.

The difference between the two men is clear. No, it is not the economic environment they are working. In fact it is obvious that from the movie the capitalist system when put to good, works for the people of Bedford Falls. Bailey Building and Loan is in the forefront of the success and better way of living for many of the residents such as Mr. Martini an Italian immigrant. Mr. Martini successfully works his way out of the slums, owned and operated by Potter, with the support of the Building and Loan, which is intimated by Mr. and Mrs. Bailey helping him move to his new home.

Mr. Potter on the flipside is envious of every positive event that favors the Building and Loan. Not because they are successful but because they are generous. It is their kindness and charity which he abhors. He looks for every possibility to put them out of business even offering George Bailey a hefty salary and world travel to entice him to leave the organization. But he didn’t take the bait. It wouldn’t be until Potter’s opportunistic theft of a deposit that belonged to the Bailey Bank and Loan that he almost succeeds. This theft almost drove the business into bankruptcy.

But here is the interesting part. Just when George Bailey is about to commit suicide so his family can collect on his life insurance policy the Good Lord speaks to him through an angel. Clarence pointed out to George through his special gifts where real beauty and riches lay. George repents of his foolishness and runs home realizing he was hundreds of times wealthier for the love of his family. Then his patrons and friends from throughout the years come out to support him and beat the evil Mr. Potter’s scheme.

All the time George had been in a fight as we all are. He was in a fight with the Devil personified by Potter. A crueler self-centered and evil demon cannot walk the earth. And when failing to destroy from without he turns his guile towards the private temptation of George Bailey. He tempts him by offering him his wishes and dreams as if there would be no consequence. But George who is a sound moral Christian man sees the offer for what it is; eternal damnation. For surely his soul and his whole being would have been destroyed under the yoke of the evil that is Potter.

This is certainly one of the most beautiful movies ever made for the Christmas season. It speaks of the most important commandment that the baby Jesus arrived on this earth to share with us. “‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind.’ This is the greatest and the first commandment. And the second is like it, ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.’ On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.” (Matthew 22:35-40)

The fictional character George Bailey was set before us a Christ like character for our times. He sacrificed his whole life for others, losing his hearing on saving his brother’s life, being beaten when standing up to the error of his superior, and sacrificing his dreams to run the business that he knew the community needed. He did not know all the people but they came to know and love him. This is because when asking Christ in his heart who is my neighbor, he knew the answer and always answered the call for help just like the Good Samaritan.

Any system will not work when it is run by immoral and malevolent men. This means if we are to ever live in peace on this earth we must instill charity and love in the hearts of all people. Only in this way will there ever be equity among all people for the fruits of their labor.

For this movie alone I pray that Mr. Frank Capra is enjoying the riches of heaven. I pray more that people in this world open their minds to the teachings of this film which in the end are derived from the words and teachings our Lord Jesus Christ that will lead to love and peace that can be shared on this earth.

Merry Christmas!

Tough election but I am with Dr. Watson-Vote Trump

WHY I AM VOTING FOR DONALD TRUMP

AND URGING OTHER PRO-LIFE AMERICANS TO DO THE SAME.

 

It has not been an easy decision. Many whose opinion I deeply respect have recommended strongly against my doing so.  Not least among these are several members of my immediate family.  My own children think that voting for Mr. Trump is, well, “deplorable.”  Certainly, there are many reasons not to vote for Mr. Trump.  I only wish that the man would not make a point of adding to them on an almost daily basis.

The option of either not voting at all or voting for a write-in or for a third-party candidate is a tempting alternative.  Voting for a third party candidate or for any candidate that you truly respect is never “throwing your vote away.”  It is a moral victory of one!

However, I have finally decided to vote for Mr. Trump on behalf of a special, undocumented American.  She has not been in this country long enough to be allowed to vote.  So I have decided to cast my ballot in her place.

Mr. Trump is, at his best, a very successful businessman and he certainly knows how to motivate a crowd.  At his worst, he is huckster, a carnival sideshow barker. Hardly the ideal presidential candidate – P.T. Barnum goes to Washington.

While Mr. Trump’s candidacy is dubious, Ms. Clinton’s presidency will be an unmitigated disaster.  We have to choose between a clown and a cobra.  As one pundit put it, “My trouble with Trump is that I do not know what he will do.  The trouble with Clinton is that I know exactly what she will do!”

 

Trump’s campaign consists largely of theoretical constructs.  What he will actually do in Washington remains to be seen.  Much of his rhetoric could be dismissed as bombast and vacuous campaign promises.  On the other hand, there is nothing theoretical about the Clinton threat.  The bloody reality of today is that 1.2 million abortions are now being performed in America every year.  Ms. Clinton celebrates this reality and pledges to expand it to a spectacular extent.  She envisions a single, federally-mandated healthcare system in which tax-funded abortion-on-demand will be freely provided universally.  She has little patience with those in the healthcare system who have grave moral reservations.  Physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals – we, too, will have a right to choose – either choose to conform or choose another line of work!

Beyond the transformation of our country into a power house of abortion-on-demand, Clinton envisions worldwide dominance of the abortion culture.  Through the UN and through multiple US overseas programs, Ms. Clinton will ensure that abortion-on-demand is forcefully promoted and funded throughout the world.  The rights of Catholic nations will be trampled just as surely as the rights of Catholics in the US will be disregarded.  No one will long stand in the path of the Clinton’s pro-abortion juggernaut.

Ms. Clinton declares that “deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs, and structural biases have to be changed.”

The evil that President Clinton will achieve, even in four years, let alone in eight, will endure – certainly past my lifetime. The appointment of pro-abortion judges to the Supreme Court will insure that not even our Constitution will stand in the way.

The situation, with respect to the vice-presidential candidate, is even starker from a Catholic standpoint.  Mr. Pence is, by all measures, a soundly pro-life Christian.  Mr. Kaine is the worst of all possibilities.  He is a proudly self-declared Catholic and, at the same time, a 100% pro-abortion advocate.  He states that he is personally opposed to abortion. (However, it is not clear why he would be opposed “personally” to the exercise of an act that he believes to be a basic human right – one which he now actively promotes as a US senator.) More sadly still, Senator Kaine came into office as a pro-life Democrat, but has since converted to the dark side. Planned Parenthood endorses his candidacy enthusiastically; he now has a 100% pro-abortion voting record!

Senator Kaine was brought up as a Catholic and trained by Jesuits. He spent time working in a mission in Honduras.  He took time out from that mission, in order to make a difficult pilgrimage to neighboring Nicaragua, where he met with a self-declared Marxist priest, who was serving there as chaplain to a band of communist guerillas.  Whatever inspiration Senator Kaine received from this Marxist guru, in terms of “liberation theology,” evidently did not extend to liberating from oppression the weakest and most defenseless of our little brothers and sisters – those unborn children who are depending on us for protection in the wombs their mothers.  It is bad enough to have an anti-Catholic, such as Hillary Clinton, running for president.  But to have a man, who claims to be a Catholic, teaming with her to turn America into an abortion powerhouse is truly deplorable. We have the possibility (albeit small) that Ms. Clinton would become the first president to be convicted of a felony. In any event, Vice President Kaine will be, for the next four years or more, one heartbeat away from becoming Commander-in-Chief. We would face the specter of a President who is, in this world, the most powerful Catholic on earth and, at the same time, the proud champion of the wholesale, murderous expansion of abortion-on-demand across America and throughout the entire world. Then we would face the possibility (albeit also very unlikely) of his becoming the first president ever to be excommunicated from the Catholic Church.  Were that to happen, you could be sure that liberal Democrats and the media would lionize him for his courage – the Patron Saint of Planned Parenthood. The Clinton/Kaine duo will truly mark our nation with the Sign of Kaine.

So there you have it.  What a disaster for democracy this election seems to be!  Two candidates for President of the United States in a mad race to the bottom!  The goal for each of them seems to be, not so much to get their supporters to vote for them, as to convince supporters of their opponent to either stay home and not vote at all or to vote for a third candidate.  The alternative is to “hold your nose” and vote for the less bad candidate.  In ancient times, there was what was called the “War of Roses.”  This election might be called the “War of Noses.”

Well, I am not holding my nose.  Rather, I am holding my breath in suspense and gasping at the thought of an America in which the Clinton presidency would cement and celebrate federally funded abortion-on-demand, worldwide, for the foreseeable future – for the rest of my life and beyond. Whatever issues ‘The Donald’ has going against him, the issue of protecting all human life takes precedence. I guess you could say that it ‘trumps’ all other issues!

So I am casting my vote for Mr. Trump – for the sake of all America – but especially for that undocumented American that I mentioned at the outset.  Yes, as you have probably guessed, the undocumented young lady, on whose behalf I am voting, is a little unborn baby girl.  Call me a radical, but I believe that dismembering her is wrong – dead wrong! Where is the ‘women’s vote’ when this little lady really needs it? I am voting to safeguard for her a world in which being unwanted or inconvenient is no longer a death sentence, neither before nor after birth.

I will be casting my vote, not only for Mr. Trump, but also for all the other pro-life candidates on the ballot. They will need support especially in this election.  I will be voting, down the line, in full support of the Republican Party’s solidly pro-life platform. Please join with me in doing the same.  Vote as if life depended on it – because it does!

Meanwhile, today and every day – PRAY! PRAY!  PRAY!

 

Richard A. Watson, M.D