Terri's final moments

Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life tells of the final day of Terri Schindler-Schiavo.

Please read all of An Eywitness Account . Here is something you will not hear from the MSM.

I told Terri she has many people around the country and around the world who lover her and are praying for her. She looked at me attentively. I said, "Terri now we are going to pray together, I want to give you a blessing, let's say some prayers." So I laid my hand on her head. She closed her eyes. I said the prayer. She opened her eyes again at the end of the prayer. Her dad leaned over to her and said, "OK Terri now here comes the tickle," because he has a mustache. She would laugh and smile and after he kissed her I saw her return the kiss. Her mom asked her a question at a certain point and I heard her voice. She was trying to respond. She was making sounds in response to her mother's question, not just at odd times and meaningless moments. I heard her trying to say something but she was not, because of her disability, able to articulate the words. So she was responsive.

Read it all. (Ed...you said that up above.) I know I said it up above...you really should read it!

Breakthrough Bible passage from Luke found

This is awesome how technology can assist in finding the accurate rendering of scripture.
You will have to go Here to read it.

Update:
Stealing from President Aristotle

How the NY Times would have covered Jesus: "CAESAREA PHILIPPI (20 Kislev) Yesterday's surprise announcement that doctrinal hardliner Jesus of Nazareth had been anointed "Messiah" provoked mixed reactions in the diverse and sometimes fractious Israelite community, ranging from cautious disappointment to frank despair.
"I see it as a missed opportunity," said Herodias Schneidkopf, a Galilaean incest rights activist. "Many of us were hoping for someone more open to leadership roles for women and more appreciative of our experience. I don't feel valued."

The Benedict bashing has started

And why should I be surpised......
As romanchatholicblog said here:

If I had a dollar for every time I heard the words "polarizing," "divisive," "strict," "ultraconservative," etc. on CNN today, I'd have enough money...to buy CNN!

I was flipping through the channels myself tonight and MSNBC, and CNN both pushed the Nazi connection (handled here) and the neocon/ultracon/and.any.other.CON that came to mind.

theanchoress says:

Basically the press seems to be saying, “Oh, no! They elected a CATHOLIC! Liberals are doomed! DOOMED!” ....Pray for Benedict XVI. It is no easy thing to have so much hatred and malice being directed toward you. He will need our prayers.

The Dictatorship of Relativism

Michael Novaks article on "The Dictatorship of Relativism" that was mentioned in the Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's sermon just before the conclave.

I was going to print an excerpt but .......
Read the whole thing... Culture in Crisis

Bishop backs Planned Parenthood

The Anchoress has an not so suprising article that starts out like this:

Planned Parenthood should target “people of faith” to promote abortion rights and comprehensive sex education, the Episcopal Church’s first openly homosexual bishop told a gathering in the District yesterday.

The more I analyze this...it just makes me sick. What were they thinking (they weren't..Ed) when they made this guy a bishop. If Anglican Church continues to accept this, I sure hope the African Anglican church follows through and splits. Then at least they will retain some credibility.

Pope John Paul the Great

I stayed away from posting since the death of John Paul II (JPII) because I did not know what to write. How do I summerize a man who has touched millions of peoples lives in a positive way. I will keep it brief and simple and look at an area that affected me..... and I hope that his influence will show in future udates.

The following are two quotes by and referencing Pope John Paul II.

" 'Life' is one of the most beautiful titles which the Bible attributes to God"
Pope John Paul message to the Pontifical Acadamy of Sciences, 1996

George Weigel starts off one recent column with this:

For all its diversity of accomplishment and complexity of thought, the pontificate of Pope John Paul II was a series of variations on one great theme: Jesus Christ is the answer to the question that is every human life.

JPII was a Pope that pointed to Life. He pointed to The Life ... as in John 14:6 ....Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me....
He was Christocentic in his message.

JPII Promoted "Culture of Life" and coined the phrase "Culture of Death" to accurately discribe the hedonistic abortion-one-demand and euthanasia (spelled getridoftheuselessbreathers) supporters. I can not think of a single person that promoted all stages of life more than JPII with the exception of the Jesus the Christ.
His encyclical the Gospel of Life , that reflects on the Value and Inviolability of Human Life, has increased my understanding of life at ALL stages to a whole new level. I suggest everyone read it (including non-Catholics), you will be challenged on life issues. JPII lived this to his last hour and is an example to all of us.

He has many other encyclicals that I still want to read. I am in the middle of Splendor of Truth which I am ready to recommend to all....again :-)


UPDATE on the Life issues thing :
TheAnchoress has about mass euthanasia in Britian.

Pope Paul VI was eerily prescient when he wrote Humanae Vitae - he drew the link from birth control to abortion to infanticide to euthanasia. I didn’t believe it for a long time. When I was a teenager, I remember thinking of it as mere Italian prudishness. But only forty years later, we have seen the establishment of the Culture of Death, and we can trace the tread. How quickly it unspooled!

Even in countries which are only recently embracing birth control, as in Ireland, we are seeing the immediate change of priorities, from family and stability, to materialism and worldliness.

And of course, some of this has been helped along by both the exorbitant cost of medical care in long-term facilities (let’s take out Grandma before our inheritance is eaten up by these fees), and on the other side by socialized medicine that has discouraged the best and the brightest from entering medicine. Socialism breeds mediocrity in everything it touches - it does not encourage excellence.

Read the whole thing.