"Saul in the Family" - Alinsky and the Archdiocese of Portland

“Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history... the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.”          Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals

There is a spiritual cancer in the Archdiocese of Portland that, being left unchecked by faithful laity, threatens to ruin many souls.  It is called Metropolitan Alliance for the Common Good (MACG).

MACG is given life by Oregon Catholic churches that will not allow true Catholic teachings as the main focal point, but welcomes evil as truth.  The affiliations are anti-Catholic, pro-homosexual and an occasion of mortal sin for all involved.

Saul Alinsky is their pope.  Benedict the XVI is obsolete.

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MACG began as Fair Share Research and Education Fund (FSRE) a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in 1981 as a supporting organization of Oregon Fair Share. When Oregon Fair Share closed in 1997 and morphed into being part of Fair Share Alliance.  FSRE affiliated with Fair Share Research and Education Fund does business as the Oregon Action Fund, a name that more explicitly demonstrates the link between the Oregon Action Fund/Fair Share Research and Education Fund

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Oregon Action, supports its work, which carries on the tradition of chapter-based, multi-issue grassroots organizing in Oregon.
Oregon Action has received tens of thousands of dollars throughout the years from Oregon Catholics through Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD)
Oregon Action affiliations:

Oregon Action is a member of...

• Affordable Housing Coalition
• America Votes
• APANO
• Coalition for a Livable Future
• Jobs with Justice
• National Campaign for Jobs and Income Support
• Northwest Federation of Community Organizations
• Oregon Campaign for Economic Justice
• Oregonians for Health Security
• USAction

Oregon Action Works with:

• ACORN
• American Civil Liberties Union - Oregon
• AFL-CIO - Oregon
• Basic Rights Oregon
• CAUSA
• Center for Intercultural Organizing
• Community Development Network
• Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon
• Eugene-Springfield Solidarity Network
• Fair and Clean Energy Coalition
• MoveOn.org
• Oregon Food Bank
• Oregon Human Rights Campaign
• Oregon Revenue Coalition
• Oregon Rural Action
• OSPIRG
• PCUN
• Rural Organizing Project
• SEIU Local 503
• Sisters of the Road
• The Tree Institute
• VOZ

Oregon Action is assisted by...             

• Alliance For Justice
• Applied Research Center
• Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
• Center for Community Change
• Center for Third World Organizing
• Data Center
• Families USA
• Food Research and Action Center
• Midwest Academy
• Money In Politics Research Action Project
• National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights
• National Voice
• Oregon Center for Progressive Policy
• SPIN Project
• TACS
• Western States Center

These are mostly 501 C-3 Organizations that receive tax money from us too.  We still fund many of these organizations and have for years through CCHD and our Sunday collections.
 
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Portland Organizing Project (POP) was next in line - Given $60,000 from Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) to this Alinsky-based organization using the Church as a cash cow.

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Metropolitan Broad Base came after POP

Catholic Sentinel Praising Saul

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MACG was founded on May 23, 2002 came after Metropolitan Broad Base. (Info in link above)

MACG - who we are.  Bringing IAF into Oregon Catholic Churches.

Saul Alinksy's Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) was the foundation for 80+ groups that were funded by the Catholic church.
"The leaders and organizers of the Industrial Areas Foundation build organizations whose primary purpose is power - the ability to act - and whose chief product is equitable social change. The IAF is non-ideological and strictly non-partisan, but proudly, publicly, and persistently political. Through local affiliates, the IAF builds a political base among voluntary institutions that includes religious congregations, labor locals, homeowner groups, recovery groups, parents associations, non-profits, immigrant societies, schools, seminaries, orders of men and women religious, and others. "

Among the most vital tenets of Alinsky’s method were the following:

• “Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more live up to their own rules than the Christian Church can live up to Christianity.”[75]
• “No organization, including organized religion, can live up to the letter of its own book. You can club them to death with their ‘book’ of rules and regulations.”[76]

Monsignor Jack Egan helped establish the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, which funded ACORN, Gamaliel (President Barack Obama trained as a community organizer with Gamaliel in the 1980′s), and the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), established by Alinsky. Egan sat on the IAF board and Call to Action's.

  "Make up your mind, Jack," Alinsky said, "whether you want to be a priest or a bishop. All other decisions will flow from that one."


One common denominator of this great evil is "Chicago".  Many of the staff of the Archdiocese of Portland are from Chicago and know Alinsky quite well and seem to have chosen Al over the Pope. 

Pope Benedict XVI - "we don't listen to God because it would disturb us and so we remain indifferent to evil". ..

(A year later) Unanswered letter to Mary Jo Tully re: "Father Roy Bourgeois evening, an Archdpdx problem."

This year old letter put lots of pieces together regarding the disobedience to Church teaching we have in the Archdiocese of Portland.  Things haven't changed, the bankruptcy means nothing to the Archdiocese of Portland it seems.  Their lifestyle is still the same and the Catholics who love the Pope and the Church are not treated with the same respect as dissidents. 

When we write to get clarification or help, we are ignored...treated as orphans...but we know Truth  from fiction...and more is coming into the Light.  One year later, still no reply or courtesy.  This seems to be the way things work for so many of us.


Dear Mary Jo,                                                       April 6, 2010
 
Below you will find a meeting advertised for Fr. Roy again.  Last year he was in Portland at a Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon Church too.  This Call To Action meeting will also have Toni Tortorilla and Sandra De Master two self professed "women priests". 

This is bad publicity for the Archdiocese of Portland and the reputation of the Archbishop.  Please note that there are people getting alerted to this scandal who are not happy.

I will also CC this to the Archbishop.

Do you see this as a problem?

Carolyn Wendell
from VOCAL
torjohnson@archdpdx.org,  (Archbishop's Secretary)
mjtully@archdpdx.org (Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Portland)
date Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 4:24 PM


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Why the Fuss?
 

2006 Vatican affirms bishop's excommunication of Call to Action members
By S.L. Hansen
12/8/2006
LINCOLN, Neb. (CNS) – The Vatican has upheld Bishop Fabian W. Bruskewitz's decision 10 years ago that membership in Call to Action "is totally incompatible with the Catholic faith" and results in automatic excommunication.
"The judgment of the Holy See is that the activities of Call to Action in the course of these years are in contrast with the Catholic faith due to views and positions held which are unacceptable from a doctrinal and disciplinary standpoint

2008 In August 2008, Fr. Bourgeois   participated in and delivered the homily at the ordinationWomenpriests, at a Unitarian Universalist church in Lexington, Kentucky.^[4] Fr. Bourgeois received a 30 days' notice as of October 21, 2008 regarding possible excommunication for this action. He was later latae sententiae excommunicated.^[4] On March 18, 2011, Fr. Bourgeois was given a letter from the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers notifying him that he had 15 days to recant his support for women's ordination or he would face expulsion from the order. (VOCAL - He still will not recant.)

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Ad for "Father Roy" from 2010 Call to Action email.

The local Catholic Call to Action chapter that meets monthly at Central Lutheran is sponsoring an evening with Fr. Roy Bourgeois here on Friday, April 9th at 7:00 PM.  We would like to cordially invite anyone from your worshipping community to join us for this event.

Fr. Bourgeois is known for his lifetime of work on behalf of peace and justice. He founded the School of the Americas Watch which demonstrates at Ft.Benning, GA each year, and is a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize.

He has taken a very courageous public position in favor of the ordination of women to the Catholic priesthood.  Our event is part of a national tour to bring attention to the injustice of the ban on women in the priesthood.

Presenting along with him will be three local women church leaders, Laurie Larson Caesar, the Lutheran pastor from Mission of the Atonement in Beaverton,
(VOCAL -This connects Call to Action with Mission of the Atonement that Bishop Steiner is involved in.) and two Roman Catholic Women priests. 

This is a wonderful opportunity to hear about how people are called to a prophetic role by following their conscience!  There is no fee for this presentation but we are suggesting a $10 free will offering if you are able.

We hope you will invite your friends and neighbors and join us for an inspiring evening!  For more information call 503-238-1942 or email ndbdpdx@comcast.net

Central Lutheran Church  (VOCAL - Belongs to Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon)

1820 NE 21st Ave

Portland, OR  97212

503-284-2331

office@centralportland.org

Post-Traditional Service 10:15AM


Divine Truth

The fact that the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God and Mother of the 

Church,received neither the mission proper to the apostles nor the 

ministerial priesthood clearly shows that the non admission of women 

to priestly ordination cannot mean that as a discrimination against them,

the Pope wrote:

  "Rather, it is to be seen as the faithful observance of a plan to be 
ascribed to the Wisdom of the  Lord of the Universe."

Where's the Catholic Lobbyist? Running away from pro-life bills?

At the Life Lobby Ladies Day, Roger Martin, Catholic lobbyist for Oregon Catholics walked the other way (literally) before the press conference on HB3512,  for unborn pain prevention, in the Capitol basement.

He could have supported the bill without wearing a "Unborn Children Feel Pain  like you and me" sticker.However, I don't think he would be caught dead with one, even a "precious feet" pin.  Roger voted to legalize abortion in Oregon as a legislator in 1968, it passed and he hasn't yet recanted.  He was part of establishing abortion, which  shows his values or lack of Catholic ones.  Knowing this the Archdiocese of Portland kept him and hired him three more times.

At the Life Lobby Day, women from many congregations were there.  This was an ecumenical moment that passed by.  I suppose it's true that Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon and their progressive attitudes on abortion and homosexuality are more important as lobbyists for the Catholic church instead of Roger Martin,  What's he there for?

The press conference, friendships, legislature visits and opportunity to educates our personal legislators that the unborn after 20 weeks, probably earlier, feel pain and it's barbaric to allow this.

The pro-life testimony versus that of Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America showed the difference in the value system of both sides.

Oregon Pro-life Bills this session. from Oregon Right to Life, the only one lobbying for these

 

The insanity of wanting to ignore the pain of an unborn child joins the minds of those who don't want any health regulations where they kill these children.  The clinic regulation bill is coming up:

Senate Bill (SB) 901 Safe Clinic Act. 

Bill Summary:

Revises definition of ambulatory surgical center to include medical facility operated substantially for purpose of performing abortions. Specifies criteria.  Currently medical facilities that perform abortions are not regulated by the Oregon Health Department.

The third bill would permit an opt-out from paying for abortions with federal money:

House Bill (HB) 3600 Federal Funding of Abortion Opt-out
Bill Summary:
The Federal Funding of Abortion Opt-out bill would prohibit insurance plans subsidized in the health insurance exchange mandated for Oregon in the 2010 federal health care law from offering abortion coverage unless the patient seeking coverage paid for their abortion with a separate rider.

It's interesting how pro-aborts claim that those who want to protect unborn life are considered  pushing morals down their throats.  Reality Check.  How about them pushing their "religion" of abortion on us?

"It almost seems to hint that women would choose abortion even if they knew their child satisfied their requirements of personality.

G. K. Chesterton has humorously pointed out the danger in this: "Let all the babies be born. Then let us drown those we do not like."

The anxious mother need not worry; if she decides that mothering is not right for her, she may simply dispose of the unwanted baggage.

Then we would all applaud her right to choose and murmur that only when morality is placed in the hands of the individual can progress occur" 

The bill would prohibit insurance plans subsidized in the health insurance exchange mandated for Oregon in the 2010 federal health care law from offering abortion coverage unless the patient seeking coverage paid for their abortion with a separate rider.

Revises definition of ambulatory surgical center to include medical facility operated substantially for purpose of performing abortions. Specifies criteria.  Currently medical facilities that perform abortions are not regulated by the Oregon Health Department.

Ladies Lobby Day - Abby Johnson in Oregon - 40 Days for Life

Here are three great things going on in April.  Join each and spread the word.
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Catholic women and all women have the opportunity Wednesday, April 6th at the Capitol for Ladies Lobby Day this is sponsored by Oregon Right to Life . There are many pro-life bills before the Legislature.  Come and talk to your representative regarding this bill during the day and learn about the other ways to save the unborn. 
House Bill (HB) - 35121 - Unborn Infant Pain Relief Prevention  - Sponsored  by Rep. Jim Freeman
Unborn children, when they are operated on in mom's that want them are given anesthetic.  When their mom's don't want them, their limbs are torn off their bodies up to birth.  This bill would stop those abortions that cause horrible pain to these children.

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Oregon Right to Life Conference,  Saturday, April 16, 2011 at 8:45 AM to 5:00 PM

Abby Johnson a past director of Planned Parenthood who is now a champion for life will be the main speaker along with many others.  The conference is in Portland at the Holiday Inn by the airport at 8439 NE Columbia Boulevard, Portland, OR 97220, Conference Information and Registration   Those of you working with Precious Children of Portland will receive a discount.  You will only have to pay $25.00 instead of $40.00.  The fee does include a great lunch. (Thanks to Bill Diss Precious Children of Portland)

 

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40 Days for Life (through April 17th)

40 Days for Life in Oregon (scroll down for your location_

"Dancing with the Devil?" aka Situational Ethics for Sin in the Archdiocese of Portland?

Satan before the Lord of Creation

Today there was a very interesting article courtesy of the Catholic Sentinel from Archbishop Vlazny that gives much food for thought.  With all due respect, the "dancers" are dangerously too close.  See the entire article by clicking Dancing with the Devil?

........ "Here in the archdiocese, for example, member agencies of Catholic Charities refrain from participating in fund raising efforts that benefit agencies like Planned Parenthood, which actually does provide abortions.  On the other hand, when they don’t provide abortions, participation has occurred.  It was considered to be sufficiently remote material cooperation."

This seems to mean that the Archdiocese has us in the position of  remote material cooperation with abortion, Situational Ethics.  We don't want our money spent on any type of cooperation with evil.

Christ will come again.  This "dance with the devil" may destroy our Eternal Dance with the Lord.

Christ says,  "The day will come when your enemies will lay a trench around your walls, and hem you in on every side. They will hurl you to the dust and your children with you, and will not leave one stone standing upon another, all this because you failed to recognize the appointed time when God himself moved among you" 


St. Paul says, "Give no foothold to the devil."

Rome - SOS (updated Sept. 2015)

Here's a little something some of you've been asking for.  Hope it helps 

VATICAN

Vatican website

His Holiness Pope Francis

00120 Via del Pellegrino
Citta del Vaticano

Advisor to the Pope.

For reporting moral, political Catholic issues abuses:

• Dominique Cardinal Mamberti (8 Nov 2014 -

Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature

Palazzo della Cancelleria,
00186 Roma,
Piazza della Cancelleria, 1

If your bishop isn't doing his job, contact:

Cardinal Marc Ouellet, P.S.S.

Prefect, Congregation For Bishops    

00120 Vatican City State

Europe 

In case of liturgical abuse, contact:

• Robert Cardinal Sarah (2014-)

Prefect, Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
Piazza Pio XII, 10
00193 Vatican City, Italy, Europe


In case of bad catechesis, contact:

• Beniamino Cardinal Stella (since 2013)

Prefect, Congregation for the Clergy
Piazza Pio XII, 3
Palazzo delle Congregazioni
00193 Roma, Italia, Europa
Phone: 06.69.88.41.51 
 

For problems with Catholic schools, universities, and seminaries, contact:

Giuseppe Cardinal Versaldi (2015–present)
Prefect, Congregation for Catholic Education and Seminaries
Piazza Pio XII, 3
00193 Vatican City, Italy, Europe
Phone: (011) 39-6-6988-4156 

For the Ecclesia Dei Commission, contact:
William Cardinal Levada
Prefect, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
Plazza del S. Uffizio 11,
00120 Vatican City, Italy, Europe 


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Directory of US Bishops and Dioceses
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ARCHDIOCESE OF PORTLAND - WESTERN OREGON
http://www.archdpdx.org/

Most Reverend Alexander King Sample

838 E. Burnside St.Portland, OR 97214-1895

rjohnson@archdpdx.org  (his secretary)

Mary Jo Tully - Chancellor

mjtully@archdpdx.org

503-234-5334 Fax 503-234-2545

http://www.archdpdx.org/

The Archdiocesan Pastoral Council (western Oregon)

This is one place to have your voice heard. The hierarchy very rarely listens since they have their own agenda. But get to know your Vicarate Representative and tell them your concerns. They exist to show that the laity is involved and prevent clericalism.
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DIOCESE OF BAKER - Eastern Oregon

http://www.dioceseofbaker.org/

Most Reverend Liam Cary

PO Box 5999
Bend, OR 97708

Phone 541-388-4004 

"In accord with the knowledge, competence and preeminence which they possess, they (laity) have the right and even at times a duty to manifest to the sacred pastors their opinion on matters which pertain to the good of the Church, and they have a right to make their opinion known to the other Christian faithful, with due regard for the integrity of faith and morals and reverence toward their pastors, and with consideration for the common good and the dignity of persons." (Canon 212)

AB Vlazny - "Failure Is Not An Option" Regarding Capital Campaign

Free will and pastoral care are not in the phrase : "FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION"  quoting the Archbishop. The Time is Now...Failure of not an option. This sounds more like running a firm instead of a family.  

As the 5-year, $50.000.000 Capital Campaign continues, things are morphing.  The 
Archbishop's Catholic Appeal (ACA) was initially IN the Capital Campaign, then OUT, then crept IN again.   Now we've apparently already paid the $3,500,000 to the ACA through the Capital  Campaign. 

"Failure Is Not An Option!"

The Archbishop said he has pledged $35,000 to the campaign himself.  His investments and salary put him way above what a struggling family earns.  Archbishop's Pledge

He has said that next year we'll have the ACA (in conjunction with the Capital Campaign money we owe) when the new Archbishop has arrived.  "And if we still haven't earned enough money, there will be initiatives." (whatever that means)


Lent is a Holy Season of Charity to the poor, we don't need anymore administrators of C-3 organizations supposedly keeping ACA monies separate from Capital Campaign pledges.
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"IN" - Original Campaign Manual 
Sharing our faith, shaping our future Campaign Manual

II. Annual Archbishop Catholic Appeal

· The Archbishop’s Catholic Appeal (ACA) will be conducted during the
campaign. Ministries and programs remain in need of the funds generated by
the ACA.
· The ACA and the capital campaign may fund similar needs. Extensive
communications and marketing is planned to clearly explain the need for
such levels of funding.--

lll·........... The proposed sharing of raised funds will begin with the first dollar raised.The archdiocesan portion of the financial target does not need to be met
before the parish portion is funded. 

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"OUT"

Faith and Future - Ab. Vlazny 

"We’ve made a decision in mid-course to suspend next year’s annual Catholic Appeal in order to give our full attention to this campaign. The annual appeal raises funds that we need every year for operating expenses.  Because that campaign is being suspended I have decided that I shall increase my pledge.  I also remind you that 25 percent of funds raised in the campaign will go to the local parishes of the contributors. "
 

Archbishop Vlazny's Campaign Article  (to enlarge press CRTL and + sign)

"....so far they have raised $3.5 million.  I have suspended the 2011 ACA (VOCAL What you just said No ACA this year and it's already "cream" for ACA) so that parishes can address their most immediate needs and help us raise the funds we so desperately need to help our seminarians." 

......As part of my pledge to maintain clear and transparent communication....

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"IN and collected"  - Double talk about the Archbishops Catholic Appeal.

We decided to eliminate the annual appeal this year and use the first dollars collected in the capital campaign to provide the funds that would ordinarily be collected in the annual appeal for our 2011-12 fiscal year. (VOCAL - We thought it was NOT collected, now the first monies are used for the ACA -so we're IN?)

The annual appeal will be back next year.(VOCAL - What? We already paid for this year with Capital Campaign money)  The other concern was protection of funds with the assurance that they would be distributed appropriately.  A separate 501(c)(3) nonprofit religious corporation has been established.  A board of lay leaders and clergy from the archdiocese is overseeing the collection and distribution of the funds, operating independently from archdiocesan office.

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• The Real Reason? Filling Scandal Coffers?

Archbishop Vlazny's Catholic Sentinel Article on Capital Campaign  

"We’re doing it because the need is now and, frankly, I don’t have much time left. I certainly want my successor to be able to come in here and actively challenge all of us to work together to evangelize all the people of western Oregon, beginning with ourselves.  It will take a new bishop time to get to know all of you and I hope and pray that he will be able to focus on our number one priority, namely, growing in holiness.  During my tenure, the needs have been more mundane and our resources required for mission were diminished and need to be replenished." 

Christ says:

"When you give...do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men" Matthew 6:2

Bishop Vasa in Santa Rosa: They're in great hands.

 Next Santa Rosa bishop brings 'orthodox' view of Catholicism

By GUY KOVNER
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
Published: Saturday, March 5, 2011 at 3:00 a.m.


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Incoming Bishop Wants to Help You Get to Heaven

They're in great hands.

Interview with Bishop Vasa in Santa Rosa

Pro-Life Oregon Legislative Bills for 2011...Why no lobby day for us?

Dear Advocates for Life,

The last Catholic Lobbyist Day was in 2005. The Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon has their Lobbying Day on Monday, March 14th, at St. Mark Lutheran Church, 790 Marion St, NE Salem, Oregon. Since we are part of their team, they are speaking for us even though we are supposed to be separate at the Capitol.  They differ on abortion which we turn a blind eye to.. our fault.

Let's pray that the Archdiocese of Portland puts some money towards all this legislation.  Remember, their pro-life budget...is less than $2,000 a year.  Father Taaffe's homes for unwed mothers was not afforded any funds, now they are part of Catholic Community Services which is hopefully better.  He was very unhappy when he was alive because he was on his own.  Oregon Right to Life has not been afforded any funds.  Precious Children is not given any money.  Our Oregon Catholic unborn are not a priority.

If the Archdpdx worked as hard as they are on this "Capitol Campaign/Archdiocese Appeal" would there be any assisted suicide in Oregon?  Would Planned Parenthood have a new killing facility on Martin Luther King Blvd.

They are trying to make hay while the sun shines in the pews and now knocking on our doors for money.  Pitiful.

 Unborn Infant Pain Relief Act

Bill Summary:Recent scientific studies have shown that unborn children can feel pain five months into a pregnancy.  The Unborn Infant Pain Relief Act prohibits any doctor’s attempt to perform a late term abortion when it has been determined that the probable post fertilization age of the unborn child is 5 months or older except to save the mother’s life.

To apply current health and safety standards to abortion clinics

Bill Summary:Revises definition of ambulatory surgical center to include medical facility operated substantially for purpose of performing abortions. Specifies criteria.  Currently medical facilities that perform abortions are not regulated by the Oregon Health Department.
Third one releases Oregon Funds from the Federal Health Care Legislation

There is a third bill in Oregon waiting for a working title.  It has to do with no taxpayer funding for abortion.  Let's hope it's on lobbyist Roger Martin's radar screen.


“In the absence of faith, we govern by tenderness, and tenderness leads to the gas chamber.” – Flannery O’Connor, novelist and short story writer

Great Blessing for Men from Cardinal Burke and Bishop Vasa / "Bad Mass = Weak Faith"

Cardinal Raymond Burke

Newspaper Article on Success of Conference.

Cardinal Burke article - "Bad Mass = Weak Faith"


Thanks to Cardinal Raymond Burke and Bishop Robert Vasa for taking their time to be touchstones of sanity in the age-old abuse of the true teachings of the Church.  Five hundred men were so blessed by this conference.



Bishop Robert F. Vasa



God Bless and protect them both.



"Capital Campaign" Coercion in the Pews.

"Coercion (pronounced /koʊˈɜrʃən/) is the practice of forcing another party to behave in an involuntary manner (whether through action or inaction) by use of threats,or rewards intimidation or some other form of pressure or force. Such actions are used as leverage, to force the victim to act in the desired way. Coercion may involve the actual infliction of physical pain/injury or psychological harm in order to enhance the credibility of a threat. The threat of further harm may lead to the cooperation or obedience of the person being coerced." Wikipedia

Dear Advocates for Life,

Now, the $50,000,000.00 five-year Archdiocese of Portland Capital Campaign...in addition as well as 10% our regular Sunday collection and all the other ways we give during mass including the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) .

The coercion:

1.  Changing the Liturgy of the Mass to raise funds through prayers and spiels during Mass, which is against the General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM)

2.  Using psychological pressure to force funding this Campaign.

3.  Secular value on human beings according to the amount they give to the Archdiocese Capital Campaign.

4.  Invasion of privacy.

5.  What could be seen as "veiled threat" regarding campaign visit to every Catholic household to assure giving.

6.  Threat of penalizing priests who don't produce 120% above regular funds from their pews.

7.  Hiring people to do this for approximately 10% of the total of $50,000,000. or $5,000,000.

8.  Using parishioners collection plate to refill the coffers from the Sex scandal where the homosexual "climate" continues.

The Real Reason? Bottom Line.
Archbishop Vlazny's Catholic Sentinel Article on Capital Campaign 
"We’re doing it because the need is now and, frankly, I don’t have much time left. I certainly want my successor to be able to come in here and actively challenge all of us to work together to evangelize all the people of western Oregon, beginning with ourselves.  It will take a new bishop time to get to know all of you and I hope and pray that he will be able to focus on our number one priority, namely, growing in holiness.  During my tenure, the needs have been more mundane and our resources required for mission were diminished and need to be replenished."

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Click on "Sharing Our Faith" - Manual on Capital Campaign   (Sixty pages so takes a while to download.) 


Page 2
 "The aim of the campaign is to further educate the parishioners
to the concept of giving back—of sharing with the Lord the gifts He has provided—and to
incorporate this philosophy of giving in the archdiocese. In addition, the campaign will
address archdiocesan and individual parish needs"

Page 3 "The Archdiocese of Portland retained the services of the Steier Group, a Catholic fund raising and development firm, to help manage the campaign." 
Steier Group says:  "We assign a team of professionals to each client. Your campaign manager will be dedicated to your project – and only your project – throughout the effort and will handle the day-to-day campaign activities. Your campaign manager will be directly supervised by a campaign services director, as well as our CEO, Jim Steier. Your campaign manager will be supported by a staff of public relations and media specialists, full-time graphic designers, full-time grant writers and experts in planned giving, direct mail appeals, online fundraising, stewardship programs, major gift solicitations and event planning."

Page 4
"120% of collections are goal or parish will be penalized without a good reason.
+75% collected to Archdiocese and 25% for parish
Parishes will be asked to make every effort to achieve their goal. A parish
seeking to adjust its target must provide the archdiocese with justification
for the adjustment in order to be approved by the Archbishop.
     Plans to raise funds for new construction or renovation must be approved by
the Archbishop in writing........"
"If a parish follows the recommended campaign procedures, the parish will not be assessed any financial penalty if it does not reach its campaign target."  Any Funds Over Targeted Amount are Divided 50/50 Archdiocese and parish.
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Apparently removed....

Page 4.  Annual Archbishop Catholic Appeal   The Archbishop’s Catholic Appeal (ACA) will be conducted during the Capital Campaign. Ministries and programs remain in need of the funds generated by
the ACA. The ACA and the capital campaign may fund similar needs.
Extensive communications and marketing is planned to clearly explain the need for
such levels of funding."

VOCAL - Maybe the "extensive communications and marketing cannot be clearly explained.

Remember:

The Archbishop's Annual Appeal spends almost $400,000 to oversee the yearly $3,600,000.00 (that includes one million dollars from Oregon Catholic Press as a grant.
We can only imagine what it costs for $50,000,000.00 overseen for five years.  It will assure those involved a hefty salary for five years. Funded by us.
Who's on this payroll and committees from the Archdiocese and laity?
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Parishioners are judged on giving abilities.  Large Donors are "courted".
VI. Donor Evaluation
· All parishioners will be evaluated and assigned to a specific campaign phase
and section based on their gift request for the five-year campaign.
· Whereas the evaluation needs to include local knowledge regarding the
donors’ ability to give, each family’s current annual adult envelope giving will
provide a starting point for the evaluation.
· To assist in the evaluation of donors, the following matrix will be employed at
the parish-level (and the Steier Group will train parish administrative
assistants and secretaries in the use of the matrix):
INDIVIDUAL
ANNUAL OFFERTORY
CAMPAIGN CODING
GIFT REQUEST AMOUNT
(per year/total five-year pledge)

May the new Archbishop care for all of us equally without judging us on how much we give financially.

You of little faith! 31 “Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’ 32 “For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Matthew 6:31-33

Bishop Skylstad replaces Bishop Vasa in Diocese of Baker, OR

Bishop William Skylstad will replace Bishop Robert Vasa.  He will serve as the Apostolic Administor.  Bishop William Skylstad

From Wiki : "Apostolic administrators of stable administrations are equivalent in canon law with diocesan bishops, meaning they have essentially the same authority as a diocesan bishop. This type of apostolic administrator is usually the bishop of a titular see.

Administrators sede vacante or sede plena only serve in their role until a newly chosen diocesan bishop takes possession of the diocese. They are restricted by canon law in what they can do to the diocese they temporarily administer. For example, such an administrator may not sell real estate owned by the diocese. This type of administrator is commonly an auxiliary bishop of the diocese, a priest serving as the vicar general of the diocese, or the ordinary of a neighboring diocese.

Normally when a diocese falls vacant a vicar capitular/diocesan administrator is chosen locally, but the Pope, having full governmental power, can preempt this choice and name an apostolic administrator instead. Sometimes a retiring bishop is designated to be apostolic administrator until his successor takes office."

Bishop Vasa will have his last mass and a reception on Sunday, February 27, 2011 at the Youth Retreat Center, Powell Butte .

'And we know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints.'
Douay-Rheims Bible

Archdpdx Lobbyist Voting to LEGALIZE ABORTION Hired Again / New Pro-life Bills

This email is quite like the first "Archdpdx Lobbyist Voted to LEGALIZE ABORTION....".  The years have changed but the main problems have remained......(see former post for articles)

     During the 2007 Legislative Session VOCAL reported that Roger Martin, the replacement lobbyist for long time Oregon Catholic Conference's Bob Castagna, voted to legalize abortion when he was a legislator in 1969. Abortion became legal in Oregon after that vote.

In 1970, Martin sponsored a bill to bar husbands or parents from being informed when an abortion was to be performed on the wife/child. That bill failed, but how responsible is he for the fact that we now have NO parental notification? There has been no confirmation from the Archdiocese or fellow lobbyists that he has changed his views. The Archdiocese of Portland still has   hope for a "conversion".

The "Respect Life Office" has now been swallowed by the Office of Respect Life, Justice and Peace and their "seamless garment" view of Life. Only the name has changed there's still no budget for a solely unborn protection focus.  This seems to protect the Archdpdx from being embarrassed on how little the babies are valued.  Matt Cato is head of this office, but is lacking education in this area.

There is now a $50 million Archdiocese Capitol Campaign that puts the $3.5 Archbishop's Catholic Appeal (ACA) on hold for now.  Are we replacing depleted coffers due to the scandals?

It cost around $350,000 or 10% of the ACA to raise the money.  How much will it cost to raise $50,000,000 for the Archdiocese Capital Campaign, $5,000,000?  Is there a plea to help the unborn in this?

Eleven to twelve babies are killed through abortion each day in Oregon. How many Catholic babies are in these numbers? How many babies and their mothers would even a drop of money save? Catholics want to pay for Catholic, Christ-centered values
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There are three bills now being drafted sponsored by Oregon Right to Life for this legislative session. They don't have the title wording or bill number yet but they are for:

1. Putting an opt-out clause for the funding of abortion in President Obama's health care plan.
2. Having abortion "clinics" included in current clinic health regulations.  They have always been exempt.
3. Eliminating abortions at 20 weeks due to infant pain at that time.

We thank Archbishop Vlazny for the Roe v. Wade pro-life speech at the Oregon Right to Life rally in January 2011.  He has given the pro-life honor of speaking for many, many years.  With the lack of funds for the most vulnerable over these years, it seems like there are more words than action and they are just something to say for better PR. 

"Poor human reason, when it trusts itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts."

St. John Chrysostom, Doctor of the Church

Articles Regarding Roger Martin 2007-2009

Archdpx Appeal Money Promotes Embryonic Stem Cell Research at Capitol

Mar 06, 2009

Before I write to the Archbishop and Mary Jo Tully, who hired Roger Martin, our Oregon Catholic Conference lobbyist, I need to let you know what happened this week at the Capitol. Both people recruited by Roger Martin to speak against ...

Immediate Action Requested - "John Stephen" Cut Out of Womb Needs ...

Jun 11, 2009

Roger Martin, the lobbyist for the Catholic Church, although he's not pro-life needs to get on this. It is frustrating for us who pay his wage and are for protecting innocent life to have him in such a position, but the Archdpdx hired ...

Archdpdx Lobbyist voted to LEGALIZE ABORTION / Sample Letter to ...

Feb 12, 2009

During the 2007 Legislative Session VOCAL reported that Roger Martin, the replacement lobbyist for long time Oregon Catholic Confererence's Bob Castagna, voted to legalize abortion when he was a legislator in 1969. ...

Beaverton Babies & 40 Days for Life/Oprah/Divine Mercy/Action Item

Apr 09, 2009

Wonders never cease...now we have Oprah..our new pro-life lobbyist, she must have heard about our trouble with Roger Martin. Here's the link. Dr. Oz is explaining stems cells with Michael J. Fox, who was recently elated with Obama's tax ...

The Shepherd Has Landed - Will the Archdpdx Hear and Heed His Voice

Apr 20, 2008

Our 2007 lobbyist, Roger Martin, as you remember voted to legalize abortion in 1969 when he was a legislator, so this shouldn't surprise us. This liberal religious push shows we need to have answers: More problems with not hearing the ...

Looking back and Pressing Forward for Christ

Jan 09, 2008

how at the 2007 Session of the legislature Catholic values were not as well represented as they should have been by Roger Martin the lobbyist for Oregon Catholic Conference who had voted to legalize abortion as a legislator in 1969 and ...

Lawsuit to Restore Marriage Between One Man & One Woman‏

Dec 05, 2007

The Oregon Catholic Conference, led by Roger Martin our lobbyist who voted for legalizing abortion when he was a legislator, embarrassed thousands of Oregon Catholics by his lack of defense of marriage and family values. ...

"The Encounter"

The Presentation of the Lord is on February 2nd.

The feast was first observed in the Eastern Church as "The Encounter." In the sixth century, it began to be observed in the West: in Rome with a more penitential character and in Gaul (France) with solemn blessings and processions of candles, popularly known as "Candlemas."

The Presentation of the Lord concludes the celebration of the Nativity and with the offerings of the Virgin Mother and the prophecy of Simeon, the events now point toward Easter.

Here are readings from the "two lungs" of the Church.

Today's reading from the USCCB website.

"All-powerful Father, Christ your Son became man for us and was presented in the temple. May he free our hearts from sin and bring us into your presence. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen."

Eastern Catholic Rite Readings.
"Rejoice, thou who art full of grace, Mother of God and Virgin, for from thee arose the Sun of Righteousness, Christ our God, to give light to those in darkness. Rejoice thou also, righteous elder, who didst take in thy arms the Redeemer of our souls who also gives us the grace of resurrection.

Thou Who didst sanctify the Virgin's womb by Thy birth and bless Simeon's hands as was fitting, hast now come to us and saved us, O Christ our God. But grant peace in the midst of wars to Thy community, and strengthen the Church which Thou hast loved, O only Lover of mankind."

The Presentation and The Encounter with thanks.

"And after the days of her purification, according to the law of Moses, were accomplished, they carried him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord."

Luke 2:22 Douay-Rheims Bible
The Fourth Joyful Mystery

Bishop Vasa's Remarks About USCCB and CCHD / "Justice in Pieces" CD's for you.

Dear Advocates for Life,

Bishop Vasa - Look Forward and Upward  is a wonderful question and answer article to lift our hearts to the Lord.  I wanted to pass it on just in case you hadn't seen this.)

Remember, he's leaving on March 4th.  Men, be at Pendleton's the 2011 Northwest Catholic Men's Conference with Cardinal Raymond Burke and the dear Bishop on his last free weekend.  It won't happen again in Oregon.

Available - "Justice in Pieces" presentations by Stephanie Block from New Mexico and a member of the Catholic Media Coalition.  She is the editor of  Los Pequenos de Cristo and an expert on the Catholic Campaign for Human Development.  In Bend, we met with Bishop Vasa and she explained to him about the anti-Catholic "community organizing" who uses the Catholic church against Her teachings.

If you would like a CD of the "Justice in Pieces" presentation by Stephanie Block, please let me know.  There is a handout (which was the power point presentation) for you to follow along.

There are eight Respect Life notebooks filled with information on how to get a pro-life group started.  They were first purchased from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles but from the 1980's so they're safe and not about the seamless garment trap that doesn't prioritize the unborn.  I'll be happy to send them to you as a gift.  They are in three ring binders and easy to use.

We pray to Santa Rosa (Saint Rose of Lima) for the protection, strength, courage and faith for a most beloved bishop.                   

"If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights! No one would complain about his cross or about troubles that may happen to him, if he would come to know the scales on which they are weighed when they are distributed to men."   Santa Rosa           

Bishop Vasa moving to Santa Rosa, California soon.

Dear Advocates for Life,

Just announced is that Bishop Robert F. Vasa of Baker is being moved to Santa Rosa as an "Coadjutor Bishop".  They already put his information on their website. Santa Rosa Diocesan Website

"In the Roman Catholic Church, a coadjutor bishop[1] is an immediate collaborator of the diocesan bishop, similar to an auxiliary bishop.[2] Unlike auxiliary bishops, coadjutors are given the automatic right of succession to the episcopal see, meaning that when the diocesan bishop dies, retires, resigns, or is reassigned, the coadjutor automatically becomes the next bishop of the local Church (diocese). Until then, the diocesan bishop appoints the coadjutor to act as vicar general.
In modern church practice, the appointment of a coadjutor is usually done in cases where a diocesan bishop feels that he will not be able to continue much longer for health reasons or because he is nearing retirement age. In these cases the Pope will sometimes assign a coadjutor in order to give him time to become familiar with the diocese that he will eventually take over.
At times, the appointment of a coadjutor is used to discreetly remove a diocesan bishop who has become involved in scandal or other problems and replace him with another man. An example of this occurred in the Archdiocese of Dubuque in the 1940s, when then Archbishop Francis Beckman involved the archdiocese in what turned out to be a dubious mining scheme. When the scheme fell apart and the man behind the scam was arrested, the fallout resulted in serious financial problems for Archbishop Beckman and the archdiocese. Because of all of Beckman's problems, Bishop Henry Rohlman of Davenport, Iowa, was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Dubuque. While Beckman was allowed to retain the office of Archbishop, it was made clear to him by the Holy See that the actual power rested with Rohlman. Beckman soon retired and left Dubuque. Another example would be that of Cardinal Pedro Segura y Sáenz, whose responsibilities as Archbishop of Seville were given to his Coadjutor Archbishop José Bueno y Monreal.[3]
Now, no coadjutor is appointed without the concomitant right of succession."

So Bishop Vasa will be the Bishop of Santa Rosa for sure.  At least he's on the west coast and in driving distance.  We wish him God Speed and many blessings as he brings the Truth of Faith to California.

May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face.
And rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of His hand.

Cardinal Raymond Burke on Oregon Soil February 25 and 26th -Pendleton

2011 NW Catholic Men's Conference presenters

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  Cardinal Raymond Burke Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura in Rome, Italy

  Since his appointment to the office of Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura in June of 2008, Cardinal Burke is the first non-European named to the head of the tribunal in the Roman Curia. Cardinal Burke is a true champion of the Catholic Church, standing up, speaking out and challenging those who oppose Christ's teachings.
• Cardinal Burke Regects "Catholics in Name Only" College 
 

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  Bishop Robert Vasa Diocese of Baker, OR.

  Bishop Robert Vasa of the Diocese of Baker has been on the front lines educating and defending Christ's Church. Bishop Vasa has worked hard on transforming the central and eastern side of Oregon into holy ground. His thought provoking talks encourage and promote Christ, challenging all to put Christ into their daily life

Bishop Vasa says hospital can no longer call itself Catholic.

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  Doug Barry Catholic Evangelist

  Doug Barry is the founder and director of the Catholic apostolate RADIX, as well as a husband and father.   Since 1992 he has traveled throughout the United States along with journeying to several other countries, spreading and defending the Catholic faith. He is well known for his one-man performance of the Passion of the Christ as well as co-hosting EWTN's Life on the Rock.
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  Hosting Pastor and Presenter - St. Mary, Pendleton

  Fr. Bailey Clemens. Pastor St. Mary's Catholic Parish Pendleton, OR.
  Fr. Bailey Clemens grew up in Eastern Oregon. He worked as a disc jockey, a sporting goods retail manager and telecommunications sales associate.  He later went to Africa to work with his aunt a missionary nun. It was there he found his priestly vocation. Upon his return he finished his undergraduate at Saint Edwards University Austin, Texas. He joined the Diocese of Peoria and began his seminary training at Mount Saint Mary's in Emmittsburg, Maryland. After some years in Illinois, he heard the call from God, go west. He returned to his home Diocese of Baker and is Pastor at St Mary's in Pendleton.

                              Click on:  Go West Catholic Men's Conference Info

Remember the Little Rascals and their clubhouse that said "No Girls Allowed"?  Well, ladies maybe next time. But get the men in your life to experience this maybe once in a lifetime event with Cardinal Burke and Bishop Vasa together; good shepherds who protect us with the Truth.
The other speakers are stellar and worth the trip.

Jesus says:
"Go into the whole world and proclaim the good news to all creation.  The man who believes it and accepts baptism will be saved; the man who refuses to believe will be condemned."

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Christ Will Come Again

"....Christ Will Come Again

Do we really live as if He's coming back to us?  Does clergy uphold the realization?

"For yourselves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord shall so come, as a thief in the night"
1 Thessalonians 5:2 Douay-Rheim's Version of the Bible.

From the first translation from Latin to English.  Why Catholics Should Cling to This Biblical Version