Dear Advocates for Life,
Attached is an open letter to the US Bishops regarding putting on hold the Catholic Campaign for Human Development collection, until it is thoroughly looking into.
The attached letter is a prudent step in making sure that our money from collection plates is used wisely and prudently.
The internet is filled with CCHD / USCCB / ACORN / SAUL ALINSKY connections that don't seem Christlike at all. Let's put a hold on things for a while. We have an IAF group, Metropolitan Alliance for the Common Good (MACG) a fixture in many parishes.
Also attached is a suggested two part mini flyer that can be used in the CCHD envelopes. It is just a suggestion for those who have asked. You can cut it in half or copy parts you feel explain your position. There is a hard copy at the bottom of the page also.
Many people are enclosing "acorns" in envelopes, or putting an explanation on the card to be sent back to the Archdiocese. Be creative...this is your money and it's been misused.
The Office of Justice and Peace has over $100,000 a year for salaries, benefits, travel for Cat Willett, and her supplies and handouts. And there is another "Inner Peace Retreat" coming just after the Tobin Lecture.
Let's get our priorities straight: there is still NO BUDGET for the Pro-Life Ministry in Oregon. Lives are being lost daily...35 Oregon children are killed by abortion each day, how many Catholic children does this include...this is a scandal that must also stop.
God Bless you and yours,
Carolyn
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
Saul Alinsky...IAF and now Metropolitan Alliance for the Common Good (MACG) Oregon
www.vocalnews.org
VOCAL
Voice of Catholics Advocating Life
PO Box 458
Sublimity, OR 97385
503-769-4767
Member of the Catholic Media Coalition "In line with the Church, on-line with the World".
WHY WE WILL NOT GIVE TO THE CATHOLIC CAMPAIGN FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
· The faithful in the pews who believe they are helping the poor actually assist groups that network with enemies of the Church using immoral tactics to force government and private organizations to embrace their questionable goals.
· Many other grant recipients follow the same model as ACORN. Which has been disfunded by National CCHD, but not in individual dioceses.
· Alinsky – type community organizations share 30-50% of the CCHD pie.
Many other grant recipients follow the same model as ACORN.
The fraud and financial mismanagement of ACORN was exposed recently
The Industrial Areas Foundation, Gamaliel, PICA, VOZ and others embrace the identical immoral philosophy that fueled the ACORN scandal.
Those goals often directly attack the family, especially its weakest members, which has a devastating impact on the poor.
What is particularly appalling is that millions of Catholic dollars were funneled directly into liberal coffers through the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD).
WE NEED TO BE GOOD STEWARDS OF OUR CATHOLIC COLLECTION PLATE MONEY
THEREFORE, WE WILL NOT PARTICIPATE…until there is a change.
· Freeze all grants pending a complete audit of beneficiaries.
· Funds go only to organizations that promote pro-life, pro-family, pro-marriage, pro-biblical morality.
· Permanently ban all funding to ACORN, IAF, and other Alinsky-style organizations that follow principles contrary to Catholic teaching.
· Permanently ban all funding of organizations that network with and advance pro-abortion, pro-homosexual policies.
· The Oregon Catholic laity is aware of who is on the decision-making team to eliminate conflict of interest.
· Realize that the Oregon Catholic laity is competent to distribute funds to help the needy and the funds used for paying salaries is really unnecessary.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008
CCHD: Collection Plate Parasite / Nov.15th. Meet CCHD National Director in PDX
Dear Advocates for Life,
The USCCB has finally stopped, for a while at least, funding ACORN with Catholic Campaign for Human Development money in the US. The attachment above (CCHD ends funding, etc will inform you. There is also a CCHD 2008 Informational flyer from Catholic Media Coalition attached above)
With these strange bedfellows, you should know some things before donating your hard-earned money starting November 23rd to CCHD. Listed at the bottom are the programs given this summer. Look them up on your own...see what they're all about then start asking questions. REMEMBER:
The CCHD is NOT a MANDATORY COLLECTION, no one is going to starve, it will only slow down the community organizing/voter registration of anti/non Catholics waiting for us to throw them some of our money.
We don't know who is on the Committee to hand out these grants of at least $5,000. Our pro-life budget is nil...where is the Justice? We aren't supposed to give money to groups that undermine our Church/why do we do it?
The grants handed out during the summer were just in time to register the homeless/minorities/low income voters to the democrat party? Very interesting timing.
Saul Alinsky groups are being given large sums of money from the National CCHD campaign. Metropolitan Alliance for the Common Good (MACG) is the offspring of Portland Organizing Project, an Alinsky Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) group, about five years old and in Oregon Catholic Churches.
When's the last time any Respect Life Committees got an Archdiocesan funded yearly Lecture series, like Justice and Peace Tobin Lectures series...NEVER, NO MONEY. Only Justice and Peace and Cat Willett (the director) can have their friends spread their message.
This has been going on for about forty years. Catholic Money to anti-Catholic groups. We cannot afford, in more ways than one, to be compliant and assume, because programs are from the USCCB or the Archdiocese that they are necessarily for the betterment of our Soul or those of others.
The Faith in Public Life/Saul Alinsky/Jim Wallis/George Soros/World Bank/Bono/ONE/Oprah/JustFaith etc., movement is set to destroy the Holy Mother Church.
******************************************
WHAT'S GOING ON....Find out who's running the show, CCHD. Ralph McCloud is the National Executive Director and he's coming to town. "While there is value in registering low-income voters, I am concerned that the whole ban on partisanship has been violated," Ralph McCloud, the new executive director for the CCHD, said Monday.
Mr. McCloud said he could not reassure Catholics that the funds donated before 2008 were not used in voter fraud.
"There is no way we can tell," he said. "All our applications go through a rigorous screening, and we ask each organization to commit to being nonpartisan. The overwhelming reality is most of the groups we fund do tremendous work." (Ask to see the statistics on success VOCAL)
The CCHD draws $9,439,000 a year in "second collections" from Catholic churches, the next one slated for Nov. 23. CCHD funds go to groups that fight poverty, interfaith associations, peace and justice groups, immigrant aid groups, environmental coalitions, cooperatives, housing coalitions and labor rights groups. (these are community organizing groups that in most cases undermine the Teachings of the Catholic Church with their connections VOCAL)
Although Bishop Morin said USCCB money was not knowingly misused, the CCHD grants were doubled from $465,000 in 2006 to the $1 million in 2007, according to the National Catholic Register, paralleling ACORN's dramatic rise in its efforts to register 1.3 million voters.
The group ended up registering about 450,000 voters, mostly among poor and minority communities in battleground states.
Charles Jackson, communications director for ACORN, said no one from the Catholic Church has contacted his group.
"We've had no communication from Catholic investigators," he said. "ACORN's board has started its own forensic audit to look into all these matters."
In June, ACORN disclosed the embezzlement of $948,607 from the organization in 1999 and 2000 by Dale Rathke, brother of ACORN founder Wade Rathke. The embezzlement was kept secret from most of ACORN's board members until a whistleblower publicized the matter, and Dale Rathke subsequently was dismissed from the national board.
He still organizes ACORN's international nonprofit arm.
The USCCB has finally dumped ACORN, for now, when the the media revealed that Wade Rathke's "SDS (Students for a Democratic Society - ACORN FOUNDER "Wade Rathke's brother in 1999-2000 embezzeled one MILLION dollars from ACORN. The Catholic's apparently hadn't picked up on it for almost ten years. (see attachment for more about this VOCAL).
November 23rd is the Oregon Catholic kick-off for the
2008 Catholic Campaign for Human Development to fund 2009.
2008 Tobin Lecture
This year's theme is "Hear the Voice of the Poor: Standing in Solidarity with the Poor in Our Community."(Get out your hankys VOCAL) We are lucky enough to have Ralph McCloud, national director of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, join us as the keynote speaker. There will also be presenters from a number of community organizations throughout the Archdiocese.
2008 Tobin Lecture Details:
When: November 15th, 9:00am-12:00pm (doors open at 8:30am)
Where: All Saints Catholic Church (3847 NE Glisan St., Portland, OR)
Admission is free and open to the public. Continental breakfast will be provided.
**********
The African American Catholic Community of Oregon will also be hosting a public reception for Ralph McCloud on Friday, November 14th, from 5:30-6:30pm. It will be held in the St. Andrew's Community Center (806 NE Alberta St., Portland, OR).
For more information on either of these events, please contact the Office of Justice and Peace at 503.233.8361 or justiceandpeace@archdpdx.org
Thank you for your support of the Tobin Lecture,
Cat Willett
Director, Office of Justice and Peace
Archdiocese of Portland
*************************************************************************************Bottom Line: Oregon Catholics have the power to dramatically slow down the culture of death in Oregon by NOT giving money to Campaign for Human Development, which is NOT a mandatory collection. We are smart enough to tithe to Culture of Life ministries on our own. The salaries needed for the management of this campaign could be put to better use..
God Bless you and yours,
Carolyn
"For Us, the Church is mater et magistra (Mother and Teacher) : for dissenters, she is a source of jobs, or Marty Haugen music, or opportunities for self-display, or political soapboxes. "
Diocenes "TAPEWORMS, or Why "loyal" dissent is impossible in the Church."
www.vocalnews.org
VOCAL
Voice of Catholics Advocating Life
PO Box 458
Sublimity, OR 97385
503-769-4767
Member of the Catholic Media Coalition "In line with the Church, on-line with the World".
The USCCB has finally stopped, for a while at least, funding ACORN with Catholic Campaign for Human Development money in the US. The attachment above (CCHD ends funding, etc will inform you. There is also a CCHD 2008 Informational flyer from Catholic Media Coalition attached above)
With these strange bedfellows, you should know some things before donating your hard-earned money starting November 23rd to CCHD. Listed at the bottom are the programs given this summer. Look them up on your own...see what they're all about then start asking questions. REMEMBER:
The CCHD is NOT a MANDATORY COLLECTION, no one is going to starve, it will only slow down the community organizing/voter registration of anti/non Catholics waiting for us to throw them some of our money.
We don't know who is on the Committee to hand out these grants of at least $5,000. Our pro-life budget is nil...where is the Justice? We aren't supposed to give money to groups that undermine our Church/why do we do it?
The grants handed out during the summer were just in time to register the homeless/minorities/low income voters to the democrat party? Very interesting timing.
Saul Alinsky groups are being given large sums of money from the National CCHD campaign. Metropolitan Alliance for the Common Good (MACG) is the offspring of Portland Organizing Project, an Alinsky Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) group, about five years old and in Oregon Catholic Churches.
When's the last time any Respect Life Committees got an Archdiocesan funded yearly Lecture series, like Justice and Peace Tobin Lectures series...NEVER, NO MONEY. Only Justice and Peace and Cat Willett (the director) can have their friends spread their message.
This has been going on for about forty years. Catholic Money to anti-Catholic groups. We cannot afford, in more ways than one, to be compliant and assume, because programs are from the USCCB or the Archdiocese that they are necessarily for the betterment of our Soul or those of others.
The Faith in Public Life/Saul Alinsky/Jim Wallis/George Soros/World Bank/Bono/ONE/Oprah/JustFaith etc., movement is set to destroy the Holy Mother Church.
******************************************
WHAT'S GOING ON....Find out who's running the show, CCHD. Ralph McCloud is the National Executive Director and he's coming to town. "While there is value in registering low-income voters, I am concerned that the whole ban on partisanship has been violated," Ralph McCloud, the new executive director for the CCHD, said Monday.
Mr. McCloud said he could not reassure Catholics that the funds donated before 2008 were not used in voter fraud.
"There is no way we can tell," he said. "All our applications go through a rigorous screening, and we ask each organization to commit to being nonpartisan. The overwhelming reality is most of the groups we fund do tremendous work." (Ask to see the statistics on success VOCAL)
The CCHD draws $9,439,000 a year in "second collections" from Catholic churches, the next one slated for Nov. 23. CCHD funds go to groups that fight poverty, interfaith associations, peace and justice groups, immigrant aid groups, environmental coalitions, cooperatives, housing coalitions and labor rights groups. (these are community organizing groups that in most cases undermine the Teachings of the Catholic Church with their connections VOCAL)
Although Bishop Morin said USCCB money was not knowingly misused, the CCHD grants were doubled from $465,000 in 2006 to the $1 million in 2007, according to the National Catholic Register, paralleling ACORN's dramatic rise in its efforts to register 1.3 million voters.
The group ended up registering about 450,000 voters, mostly among poor and minority communities in battleground states.
Charles Jackson, communications director for ACORN, said no one from the Catholic Church has contacted his group.
"We've had no communication from Catholic investigators," he said. "ACORN's board has started its own forensic audit to look into all these matters."
In June, ACORN disclosed the embezzlement of $948,607 from the organization in 1999 and 2000 by Dale Rathke, brother of ACORN founder Wade Rathke. The embezzlement was kept secret from most of ACORN's board members until a whistleblower publicized the matter, and Dale Rathke subsequently was dismissed from the national board.
He still organizes ACORN's international nonprofit arm.
The USCCB has finally dumped ACORN, for now, when the the media revealed that Wade Rathke's "SDS (Students for a Democratic Society - ACORN FOUNDER "Wade Rathke's brother in 1999-2000 embezzeled one MILLION dollars from ACORN. The Catholic's apparently hadn't picked up on it for almost ten years. (see attachment for more about this VOCAL).
November 23rd is the Oregon Catholic kick-off for the
2008 Catholic Campaign for Human Development to fund 2009.
2008 Tobin Lecture
This year's theme is "Hear the Voice of the Poor: Standing in Solidarity with the Poor in Our Community."(Get out your hankys VOCAL) We are lucky enough to have Ralph McCloud, national director of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, join us as the keynote speaker. There will also be presenters from a number of community organizations throughout the Archdiocese.
2008 Tobin Lecture Details:
When: November 15th, 9:00am-12:00pm (doors open at 8:30am)
Where: All Saints Catholic Church (3847 NE Glisan St., Portland, OR)
Admission is free and open to the public. Continental breakfast will be provided.
**********
The African American Catholic Community of Oregon will also be hosting a public reception for Ralph McCloud on Friday, November 14th, from 5:30-6:30pm. It will be held in the St. Andrew's Community Center (806 NE Alberta St., Portland, OR).
For more information on either of these events, please contact the Office of Justice and Peace at 503.233.8361 or justiceandpeace@archdpdx.org
Thank you for your support of the Tobin Lecture,
Cat Willett
Director, Office of Justice and Peace
Archdiocese of Portland
*************************************************************************************Bottom Line: Oregon Catholics have the power to dramatically slow down the culture of death in Oregon by NOT giving money to Campaign for Human Development, which is NOT a mandatory collection. We are smart enough to tithe to Culture of Life ministries on our own. The salaries needed for the management of this campaign could be put to better use..
God Bless you and yours,
Carolyn
"For Us, the Church is mater et magistra (Mother and Teacher) : for dissenters, she is a source of jobs, or Marty Haugen music, or opportunities for self-display, or political soapboxes. "
Diocenes "TAPEWORMS, or Why "loyal" dissent is impossible in the Church."
www.vocalnews.org
VOCAL
Voice of Catholics Advocating Life
PO Box 458
Sublimity, OR 97385
503-769-4767
Member of the Catholic Media Coalition "In line with the Church, on-line with the World".
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are
Just for Fun....then to work....
Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/obama_win_causes_obsessive?utm_source=EMTF_Onion
copy and paste
God Bless you and yours,
Carolyn
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting...it has been found difficult and left untried." GK Chesterton What's Wrong with the World
The Faith, gives a man back his body and his soul and his reason and his will and his very life." GK Chesterton The Thing
www.vocalnews.org
VOCAL
Voice of Catholics Advocating Life
PO Box 458
Sublimity, OR 97385
503-769-4767
Member of the Catholic Media Coalition "In line with the Church, on-line with the World".
Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/obama_win_causes_obsessive?utm_source=EMTF_Onion
copy and paste
God Bless you and yours,
Carolyn
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting...it has been found difficult and left untried." GK Chesterton What's Wrong with the World
The Faith, gives a man back his body and his soul and his reason and his will and his very life." GK Chesterton The Thing
www.vocalnews.org
VOCAL
Voice of Catholics Advocating Life
PO Box 458
Sublimity, OR 97385
503-769-4767
Member of the Catholic Media Coalition "In line with the Church, on-line with the World".
Saturday, November 1, 2008
VOCAL Voter's Guide / Where to go for "40 Days", etc./ Plenary Indulgence for Poor Souls
Dear Advocates for Life,
For those of you who have asked and for those of you who are interested, here is a "Votes Of Catholics Advocating Life" voter's guide. The suggestions are from Oregon Right to Life Voter's Guide, Oregon Family Council and Oregon Citizens for a Sound Economy PAC, with my two cents.
President - John McCain and Sarah Palin, Vice President
Why? What do They support? John McCain Barack Obama
Partial Birth Abortion ? NO YES
Parental Involvement Laws? YES NO
Taxpayer Funded Abortion? NO YES
Human Cloning? NO YES
Same-Sex Unions? NO YES
Gambling Off Reservation? NO YES
Decency in Libraries - Internet filters YES NO
Reducing Taxes? YES NO
Religion - conscience clause? YES YES
Education - YES unclear
(state licensing of private
/homeschool? teachers)
US Senator from Oregon - Gordon Smith (we need him in the US Senate)
US Representatives from Oregon by District
2 - Greg Walden
3 - Delia Lopez
5 - (I wrote in Kevin Mannix, he's the only pro-life option) Mike Erickson was NOT endorsed by ORTL
Secretary of State - Rick Dancer
State Treasurer - Allen Alley
Attorney General - no suggestions from ORTL, but John Kroger was a bi-partisan pick over the others. There was a major concern over a large contribution from special interest groups that was believed to engage in the very unethical, but currently legal practice of commingling of Political Funds that are gathered at Public expense.
(Yes on 64 to end this.)
Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries -
State Senators by District
1 - Jeff Kruse
2 - Dennis Atkinson
9 - Fred Girod
12 - Brian Boquist
14 - Lisa Michaels
17 - no one
18 - John Wight
23 - no one
25 - Dave Kim
27 - Chris Telfer not against abortion but better on marriage, PRC protection, Conscience for religion, etc.
29 - David Nelson
30 - Ted Ferrioli
State Representatives by District
1 - Wayne Krieger
2 - Tim Freeman
3 - Ron Mauer
4 - Dennis Richardson
5 - no one
6 - Sal Esquivel
7 - Bruce Hanna
9 - Al Pearn
12 -?
15 - Andy Olson
16 - no one
17 - Sherrie Sprenger
18 - Vic Gilliam
19 - Kevin Cameron
20 - no one
22 - Tom Chereck, Jr.
23 - Jim Thompson
24 - Jim Weidner
26 - Matt Wingard
27 - no one
28 - no one
29 - no one
30 - Andy Duyck
32 - Tim Bero - no response on pro-life, but yes on PRC/marriage/conscience. etc.
33 - Jim Ellison
34 - no one
35 - Tony Marino
36 - ?
37 - Scott Brunn
38 - ?
39 - Bill Kennemer
40 - no one
41 - Randy Uchytil
42 - no one
45 - no one
49 - John Nelson
50 - John Lim
51 - Linda Flores
52 - Matt Lindland
53 - Gene Whisnant
54 - Chuck Burley
56 - Bill Garrard
57 - Greg Smith
58 - no one
59 - John Huffman
60 - Cliff Bentz
County Commissioners
Benton - #3 Christopher Nusbaum
Clackamas - #4 Dave Mowry
Clatsop - #2 Patricia Roberts - questionable on abortion, supports prc/marriage/conscience/no gambling
Columbia - #1 Glenn E. Dorschler
Crook - #1 Ken Fahlen for abortion but supports prc/marriage/conscience/no gambling
Curry - #2 George Rhodes no comment on abortion question? yes on marriage/prc/conscience, etc.
Marion - #2 Sam Brentano
Gilliam - toss up/both candidates are for abortion but for traditional marriage
Jackson - Dennis CW Smith
Josephine - #3 Dwight F. Ellis
Lane - no one
Lincoln - no one
Linn - #3 Will Tucker
Multnomah - no one
Tillamook - Charles J. Hurliman
Umatilla - Democrat Glenn Youngman questionable on abortion, supports prc, traditonal marriage, conscience, Republican Dennis Doherty declined to answer OFC questionnaire
Union - no one
Wallowa - no one
Yamhill - #2 Leslie Lewis
Marion County Clerk
Randy Franke
***************************************************************************************
BALLOT MEASURES
54 - YES
55 - YES
56 - NO
57 - NO - This needs to be NO. It is from the Legislature to stop #61 and #62 which will protect us.
58 - YES - English as a second language is big business, this helps move education along and reduces waste
59 - YES
60 - YES - Children's education at taxpayers expense will improve with teacher excellence.
61 - YES
62 - YES
63 - YES
64 - YES - no Commingling of political funds with funds collected at public expense
65 - OFC Recommends NO/ PAC has no opinion
This information is great, but the prayers, fasting, vigils and processions for Life and Victory are what will make the difference.
******************************************************** 40 Days for Life
Date: Sunday, November 2.
Event: Closing prayer vigil and lunch for 40 Days for Life.
Time: Prayer vigil begins at 1:00 PM, and lunch is at 2:00.
Location: Vigil will be on MLK Blvd, at the location of the future Planned Parenthood there, and lunch will be in the Parish Hall of St. Mary Magdalene Church in Portland.
Special Note: Please bring a small snack or side dish to share.
********************************************************
Holy Rosary Catholic Church
327 NE Clackamas St.
Portland OR
EVERY DAY - Monday, October 27 through Tuesday, Election Day November 4.
11:30 AM - Rosary for Our Lady of Victory begins, followed by The Litany in Response to Abortion. (Parishioners have already signed up to lead the rosary.)
12:00 Noon - Mass
God Bless you and yours,
Carolyn
Indulgences for the Poor Souls
Current regulations in force by Pope Benedict XVI
I On All Souls' Day (Nov. 2) a plenary indulgence, applicable only to the Poor Souls, is granted to those who visit any parish church or public oratory and there recite one Our Father and one Credo.
II On all the days from November 1 though November 8 inclusive, a plenary indulgence, applicable only to the Poor Souls, is granted to those who visit a cemetery and pray even if only mentally for the departed.
Conditions for both indulgences:
1. Only one plenary indulgence can be granted per day.
2. It is necessary to be in the state of grace, at least by completion of the work.
3. Freedom from attachment to sin, even venial sin, is necessary; otherwise the indulgence is only partial. (By this is meant attachment to a particular sin, not sin in general.)
4. Holy Communion must be received each time the indulgence is sought.
5. Prayers must be recited for the intentions of the Holy Father on each day the indulgence is sought. (No particular prayers are prescribed. One Our Father and one Hail Mary suffice, or other suitable prayers.
6. A sacramental confession must he made within a week of completion of the prescribed work. (One confession made during the week, made with the intention of gaining all the indulgences, suffices.)
www.vocalnews.org
VOCAL
Voice Of Catholics Advocating Life
PO Box 458
Sublimity, OR 97385
503-769-4767
Member of the Catholic Media Coalition "In line with the Church, on-line with the World".
For those of you who have asked and for those of you who are interested, here is a "Votes Of Catholics Advocating Life" voter's guide. The suggestions are from Oregon Right to Life Voter's Guide, Oregon Family Council and Oregon Citizens for a Sound Economy PAC, with my two cents.
President - John McCain and Sarah Palin, Vice President
Why? What do They support? John McCain Barack Obama
Partial Birth Abortion ? NO YES
Parental Involvement Laws? YES NO
Taxpayer Funded Abortion? NO YES
Human Cloning? NO YES
Same-Sex Unions? NO YES
Gambling Off Reservation? NO YES
Decency in Libraries - Internet filters YES NO
Reducing Taxes? YES NO
Religion - conscience clause? YES YES
Education - YES unclear
(state licensing of private
/homeschool? teachers)
US Senator from Oregon - Gordon Smith (we need him in the US Senate)
US Representatives from Oregon by District
2 - Greg Walden
3 - Delia Lopez
5 - (I wrote in Kevin Mannix, he's the only pro-life option) Mike Erickson was NOT endorsed by ORTL
Secretary of State - Rick Dancer
State Treasurer - Allen Alley
Attorney General - no suggestions from ORTL, but John Kroger was a bi-partisan pick over the others. There was a major concern over a large contribution from special interest groups that was believed to engage in the very unethical, but currently legal practice of commingling of Political Funds that are gathered at Public expense.
(Yes on 64 to end this.)
Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries -
State Senators by District
1 - Jeff Kruse
2 - Dennis Atkinson
9 - Fred Girod
12 - Brian Boquist
14 - Lisa Michaels
17 - no one
18 - John Wight
23 - no one
25 - Dave Kim
27 - Chris Telfer not against abortion but better on marriage, PRC protection, Conscience for religion, etc.
29 - David Nelson
30 - Ted Ferrioli
State Representatives by District
1 - Wayne Krieger
2 - Tim Freeman
3 - Ron Mauer
4 - Dennis Richardson
5 - no one
6 - Sal Esquivel
7 - Bruce Hanna
9 - Al Pearn
12 -?
15 - Andy Olson
16 - no one
17 - Sherrie Sprenger
18 - Vic Gilliam
19 - Kevin Cameron
20 - no one
22 - Tom Chereck, Jr.
23 - Jim Thompson
24 - Jim Weidner
26 - Matt Wingard
27 - no one
28 - no one
29 - no one
30 - Andy Duyck
32 - Tim Bero - no response on pro-life, but yes on PRC/marriage/conscience. etc.
33 - Jim Ellison
34 - no one
35 - Tony Marino
36 - ?
37 - Scott Brunn
38 - ?
39 - Bill Kennemer
40 - no one
41 - Randy Uchytil
42 - no one
45 - no one
49 - John Nelson
50 - John Lim
51 - Linda Flores
52 - Matt Lindland
53 - Gene Whisnant
54 - Chuck Burley
56 - Bill Garrard
57 - Greg Smith
58 - no one
59 - John Huffman
60 - Cliff Bentz
County Commissioners
Benton - #3 Christopher Nusbaum
Clackamas - #4 Dave Mowry
Clatsop - #2 Patricia Roberts - questionable on abortion, supports prc/marriage/conscience/no gambling
Columbia - #1 Glenn E. Dorschler
Crook - #1 Ken Fahlen for abortion but supports prc/marriage/conscience/no gambling
Curry - #2 George Rhodes no comment on abortion question? yes on marriage/prc/conscience, etc.
Marion - #2 Sam Brentano
Gilliam - toss up/both candidates are for abortion but for traditional marriage
Jackson - Dennis CW Smith
Josephine - #3 Dwight F. Ellis
Lane - no one
Lincoln - no one
Linn - #3 Will Tucker
Multnomah - no one
Tillamook - Charles J. Hurliman
Umatilla - Democrat Glenn Youngman questionable on abortion, supports prc, traditonal marriage, conscience, Republican Dennis Doherty declined to answer OFC questionnaire
Union - no one
Wallowa - no one
Yamhill - #2 Leslie Lewis
Marion County Clerk
Randy Franke
***************************************************************************************
BALLOT MEASURES
54 - YES
55 - YES
56 - NO
57 - NO - This needs to be NO. It is from the Legislature to stop #61 and #62 which will protect us.
58 - YES - English as a second language is big business, this helps move education along and reduces waste
59 - YES
60 - YES - Children's education at taxpayers expense will improve with teacher excellence.
61 - YES
62 - YES
63 - YES
64 - YES - no Commingling of political funds with funds collected at public expense
65 - OFC Recommends NO/ PAC has no opinion
This information is great, but the prayers, fasting, vigils and processions for Life and Victory are what will make the difference.
******************************************************** 40 Days for Life
Date: Sunday, November 2.
Event: Closing prayer vigil and lunch for 40 Days for Life.
Time: Prayer vigil begins at 1:00 PM, and lunch is at 2:00.
Location: Vigil will be on MLK Blvd, at the location of the future Planned Parenthood there, and lunch will be in the Parish Hall of St. Mary Magdalene Church in Portland.
Special Note: Please bring a small snack or side dish to share.
********************************************************
Holy Rosary Catholic Church
327 NE Clackamas St.
Portland OR
EVERY DAY - Monday, October 27 through Tuesday, Election Day November 4.
11:30 AM - Rosary for Our Lady of Victory begins, followed by The Litany in Response to Abortion. (Parishioners have already signed up to lead the rosary.)
12:00 Noon - Mass
God Bless you and yours,
Carolyn
Indulgences for the Poor Souls
Current regulations in force by Pope Benedict XVI
I On All Souls' Day (Nov. 2) a plenary indulgence, applicable only to the Poor Souls, is granted to those who visit any parish church or public oratory and there recite one Our Father and one Credo.
II On all the days from November 1 though November 8 inclusive, a plenary indulgence, applicable only to the Poor Souls, is granted to those who visit a cemetery and pray even if only mentally for the departed.
Conditions for both indulgences:
1. Only one plenary indulgence can be granted per day.
2. It is necessary to be in the state of grace, at least by completion of the work.
3. Freedom from attachment to sin, even venial sin, is necessary; otherwise the indulgence is only partial. (By this is meant attachment to a particular sin, not sin in general.)
4. Holy Communion must be received each time the indulgence is sought.
5. Prayers must be recited for the intentions of the Holy Father on each day the indulgence is sought. (No particular prayers are prescribed. One Our Father and one Hail Mary suffice, or other suitable prayers.
6. A sacramental confession must he made within a week of completion of the prescribed work. (One confession made during the week, made with the intention of gaining all the indulgences, suffices.)
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