Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon : "Uncertain" About Promoting "Priests for Life", is PFL too Catholic?

Recently someone asked me about the scrutiny that Matt Cato, latest director of the Office of "Respect Life", Justice and Peace in the Archdiocese of Portland had stated regarding the uncertain status of Father Frank Pavone and Priests for Life.

Ihe emails to and from Matt below the history are, in my opinion, a beginning to the censorship of a wide Catholic political  and educational base to a very narrow view "allowed" and controlled by the Archdiocese of Portland and beyond.

HISTORY

In 2002 the Archdiocese hadn't even heard of Priests for Life, so Oregon Right to Life (ORTL) had me put together an eleven day Oregon tour from Grants Pass to Portland.  (I just retired from ORTL after thirteen years for health reasons.)

Priest for Life, Father Walter Quinn brought out the best and the worst in Oregon Catholics.  He was no nonsense with his Church teaching and strong Philadelphia delivery. Churches and schools gave him a standing ovation or were outraged at what he said. (They can't forget him). This was strange Catholic teaching many, mostly students, hadn't heard before.

I bring this up because Priests for Life was a conduit for the true teaching of the Church on political views through their brochures and handouts in the 2004 and 2008 elections. Remember well how Voter's Guides from PFL and ORTL were censored from the backs of churches in many cases?

Priests for Life - Accurate Election Information

The Archdiocese siding again with Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon and sponsoring their "Interfaith Advocacy Days" at the Capitol thus adding their names to EMO issues.

CALL TO FAMILY, COMMUNITY AND PARTICIPATION: ADVOCACY
Monday March 14: Interfaith Advocacy Day. 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. First Congregational Church UCC, at 700 Marion St. NE, Salem. Advocate for your community--Oregon--on Hunger, Homelessness, Ill and Disabled. Click here for flyer. Co-sponsored by the Archdiocese of Portland.

Interestingly,there was no mention by the Catholic Church in western Oregon regarding the three pro-life bills introduced to the Legislature.. Not even a letter of support was written and put on record.  Roger Martin, our pro-abortion lobbyist, did nothing!

These questions regarding PFL have everything to do with the election of 2012 and keeping the progressive, liberal agenda alive and well-financed by Catholics.

For too long, Christ as the answer to life's problems is not promoted, taught or even mentioned.

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  "Is Priests for Life a Catholic Organization?"

The letters below were initiated by Mary Ann Kreitzer, president of Catholic Media Coalition. This is something questioned in case the Catholic hierarchy throughout the United States was collectively starting to censor Priests for Life because of the 2012 election and their handouts. 

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From: Mary Ann Kreitzer [mailto:kreitzr1@shentel.net]
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 1:54 PM
To: Bunce, Bud
Subject: Has the diocese banned Priests for life?

A friend in Oregon told me the diocese has banned Priests for Life from speaking in Oregon at any diocesan venue. Is this true? If so, can you please tell me the reason?

Mary Ann Kreitzer

From: Bunce, Bud
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 1:54 PM
To: Cato, Matt
Subject: FW: Has the diocese banned Priests for life?

Matt,

Would you please respond to this email.  Thanks

Bud Bunce

Director of Communications

Archdiocese of Portland

503-233-8373

http://www.archdpdx.org/

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From: Cato, Matt

To: kreitzr1@shentel.net

Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 5:44 PM

Subject: FW: Has the diocese banned Priests for life?

Hello Mary Ann,

Thank you for your e-mail and ascertaining the validity of the information that you had received. Rest assured that diocese has not banned Priests for Life from speaking in Oregon at any diocesan venue.

Let me explain: Priests for Life is not an officially recognized Catholic organization. As a result I cannot promote Priests for Life, specifically in the “Beginning of Life” brochure from my office, where I first understood the difference between a recognized Catholic organization and an organization led by Catholics.

Please let me know if you have any additional questions.

Thank you Mary Ann.

Peace,

Matt Cato
Office of Life, Justice and Peace
Campaign for Human Development
Archdiocese of Portland503.233.8361
mcato@archdpdx.org
http://www.archdpdx.org/jprespect/

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May 4, 2011 to Matt Cato, Archdiocese of Portland.

Priests for Life Questions

Matt,

Happy Easter.

Could you please let me know about the status of Priests for Life in the Archdiocese of Portland?

Are you going to allow Priests for Life information in your newsletter?  Can a representative of Priests for Life still be allowed in the Archdiocese?

Please clarify and thanks alot.

God Bless,
Carolyn Wendell
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Hi Carolyn,

First, it was a pleasure meeting you and your husband at the conference.

Now, as far as I know, a representative of Priests for Life is allowed in the Archdiocese. No one has ever said anything to the contrary to me.

I need to get clarification on promoting P for L in my newsletter or brochures. There is some language and information with which I am unfamiliar and I am a bit unsure.

Feel free to call me if you'd like next week.

I hope this helps.

Thank you Carolyn.

Peace,

Matt Cato
Office of Life, Justice and Peace
Campaign for Human Development
Archdiocese of Portland
503.233.8361
mcato@archdpdx.org
http://www.archdpdx.org/jprespect/

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What About?

• The articles Matt is constantly promoting that are non-Catholic and always "green" from EMO?
• Mother Teresa's attached letter highly praising Priests for Life to all priests
• Rachel's Vineyard is part of Priests for Life.  It is one of the small pro-life activities in the Archdiocese.  Or is this necessary for fundraising if no effort for pro-life political protection seems important on its own?

With the election coming up it seems that we're going to be censored again and have stress in churches where we got to meet Our Lord, the Source and Summit of our Faith, IF we don't speak up.

 

"Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter."

Isaiah 5:20            739 B.C. - Song of the Vineyard - Woe to the Wicked

Christ - We Owe Him Divine Justice

He Will Come Again hoping all mankind would believe in Him for His Great Sacrifice.

He Has Overcome Death to save us.

He took on our just punishment for disobedience from our First Parents

Adam and Eve Expelled from the Garden

Bishop Vasa, No Compromise on Heresy

Bishop Vasa is not only kind, approachable, wise and courageous, he lives to bring others to Christ.  Sometimes there's kicking and screaming from those where Truth is hard, but he's uncompromising.  Straight talk from our Church is usually lacking and his words bring healing, no matter how foreign.


"In our 'compromising age' we are loath to name something too strongly. If we do, we are accused of harshness, judgmentalism, perhaps arrogance, certainly intolerance and possibly pharisaism.

While it is always necessary to speak the truth with love, the Church also believes and teaches that it is also necessary to speak the truth with strength.

It is necessary to defend truth and not be too quick to rationalize, justify or excuse misleading teachings or teachers . There is a point at which passive "tolerance" allows misleading teachings to be spread and propagated, thus confusing or even misleading the faithful about the truths of the Church.

There is a very strong word, which still exists in our Church, which most of us are too "gentle" to use. The word is "heresy."

We perhaps think that heresy is a thing of the past . We think perhaps of the Arian heresy or the Pelagian heresy or the Manichean heresy. We might even maintain that there are no longer any heretics because that conjures up images of inquisitions and burnings at the stake.

 I do not , in any way, seek to validate or justify any kind of "vigilante" theology , but we do need strong words to combat erroneous and fallacious teaching.”

"Martyrdom is not an exception reserved to a few.....live the Gospel without compromise.” Pope Benedict XVI

"Capital Campaign" Confusion or Collusion?

With all due respect to the Archbishop, the "Sharing our Faith, Shaping Our Future" Capital Campaign regarding where the money goes is confusion or collusion.  Your guess is as good as mine.

When this Capital Campaign began in 2010, the Archbishop's Catholic Appeal which garners around $3.65 million was to happen at the same time.  Different "campaigns" at the same time.

There were two problems with this for Oregon Catholic priests and laity, some of the categories would be the same with monies combined, but we were told they would have oversight, so not to worry.

Well, worry they did and it was changed to cancelling the Archbishop's Annual Appeal, sort of.

• Archbishop Used First Funds from Capital Campaign to pay for Appeal He Cancelled from February 16, 2011 
  
  
  "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." The annual appeal will be back next year.(VOCAL - What? We already paid $3.65 million for the appeal 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." (VOCAL this slight of hand with our money is confusion that shows their incompetence, or collusion to dupe us.)

Here is the latest.

• The Archbishop's new article in the Catholic Sentinel is entitled May 3, 2011 Article in Full  and is directly in opposition to the information the Archdiocese has sent previously.
  

• "Capital Campaign Postscript:.......

"The Capital Campaign chugs along building momentum throughout the spring. Now that you have a better picture of some of the challenges we face in providing for the education of our future priests, I hope you will make a pledge this month, if you have not done so already. In recent years we have funded priestly formation through the annual appeal and funds that were restricted for seminary education. Without an appeal this year and with only enough funds left in the restricted account for the education of four or five of our men, I am obviously counting on your willingness to pledge and make payments as soon as possible. We are all responsible for “sharing our faith and shaping our future.” But we truly need well trained priests to take the lead. Please help me send good pastors into the fertile fields of western Oregon!"

From the same article.....

• "Interestingly, I recently received word that one of our parishes reports a disinterest in supporting the goals of the campaign and as a result parish leadership is opposed to the idea of participating in the campaign.  Clearly there has been some misunderstanding and maybe some of you yourselves need an update about the challenge of providing priestly “gifts of the spirit” in the years to come."

No, I think they're using their discernment on this one, there's no misunderstanding.  Please don't update us anymore.  How courageous of them being good stewards of The Lord's finances.

With this under sight we need transparency before we give to campaigns conducted by staff that thinks we are a means to an end.  The Archdiocesan hierarchy does not mean spiritual anarchy.

"My little children, let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed, and in truth."
1 John 3:18

Religion in the "Modern World" aka Archdiocese of Portland's Curriculum

 

This is an excellent article, It shows the progression from Neitzsche to Jung to Freud and to many more "modern" "teachers".  Zanzig Catholic Curriculum is part of this "thought".  We are teaching "the Earth Charter" in our Catholic schools and have for many years which is against our beliefs.

Nietzche went permanently insane and Freud's autobiography says he heard voices and had insane writings.

It is shows how this leads to mental confusion, breakdown and the use of our young to victims of sexual abuse and moral demise.

 Nietzsche and the Church Scandals click

   "The methods are based on "the group therapy technique" first developed in America in the 1970's by two psychologists, Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow. They described how emotional conditioning should be carried out by a group "facilitator". The facilitator does not impart knowledge like the old fashioned teacher. Instead he/she initiates discussions encouraging children to reveal their personal views and feelings. The facilitator's approach is "value free". There is no right or wrong answer to any religious or moral question. Each person discloses what is right or wrong for them. All choices are equally valid even if they are opposites. Everything depends on feelings or emotions. Reason and conscience are discouraged. If anyone attempts objective evaluation, they are to be treated as an "outsider" and there will be a strong emotional reaction against such "judgemental intolerance"."

Saving Souls One Child At a Time - Without Bureaucracy

"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.