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Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference WARNED!
Zimbabwe: Mugabe Warns Catholic Bishops of 'Danger'
Immediate prayers are needed for this situation!PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has dismissed criticism from the country's Catholic bishops over his controversial rule as "nonsense" and warned that his government could start treating the clergy as political foes.
More Helpful Info on REAL ID from CNET News
Tech Politics Podcast: Real ID may be coming to U.S.
The REAL ID flow-chart to the right of this column is exceedingly informative! Use it!
The REAL ID flow-chart to the right of this column is exceedingly informative! Use it!
FINAL DAY Real ID comments - EMAIL NOW!
DHS Privacy Committee Declines to Endorse REAL ID
Homeland Security's Own Privacy Panel Declines to Endorse License Rules
We will remain prayerful and vigilant in protecting ourselves and our privacy!
Jim Harper will be testifying today before the Senate Judiciary Committee. SEE WEBCAST BLOCK (right side of press release info)The Department of Homeland Security’s Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee is filing comments on the REAL ID regulations. Comments close today (Tuesday). Instructions for commenting can be found here, and apparently, due to difficulties with the automatic comment system and with receiving faxes, DHS has opened an email address for receiving comments: mailto:oscomments@dhs.gov?subject=DHS-2006-0030. Emails must have “DHS-2006-0030” in the subject: line.
Homeland Security's Own Privacy Panel Declines to Endorse License Rules
Yes, this really does say alot! THANK GOD!While the committee's 12 final recommendations are mostly predictable (such as restricting what the ID can be used for and making sure that the machine-readable portion of any REAL ID should not be easily readable by unauthorized persons), the importance of Homeland Security's own advisory board explicitly saying it won't endorse Real ID as workable or appropriate shouldn't be underestimated.
We will remain prayerful and vigilant in protecting ourselves and our privacy!
Monday, May 07, 2007
"Will REAL ID Actually Make Us Safer? An Examination of Privacy and Civil Liberties Concerns"
From the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Jim Harper Director Information Policy Studies CATO Institute Washington, DC
Dr. James Carafano Assistant Director, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies Senior Research Fellow
Douglas and Sarah Allison
Center for Foreign Policy Studies Heritage Foundation Washington, DC
Bruce Schneier Founder and Chief Technology Officer BT Counterpane Minneapolis, MN
Janice Kephart President 9/11 Security Solutions, LLC Alexandria, VA
Hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on
Tuesday, May 8, 2007 Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 226 10:00 a.m.
Witness List
Allen Gilbert Executive Director The American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont Montpelier, VT Jim Harper Director Information Policy Studies CATO Institute Washington, DC
Dr. James Carafano Assistant Director, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies Senior Research Fellow
Douglas and Sarah Allison
Center for Foreign Policy Studies Heritage Foundation Washington, DC
Bruce Schneier Founder and Chief Technology Officer BT Counterpane Minneapolis, MN
Janice Kephart President 9/11 Security Solutions, LLC Alexandria, VA
NCReporter's John Allen-Political tightrope looms in EU/Vatican relations
A look ahead to Benedict in Brazil
"John Allen will be travelling on the papal plane, and will be posting reports on the trip to his Daily News and Updates column on NCRcafe.org."
"John Allen will be travelling on the papal plane, and will be posting reports on the trip to his Daily News and Updates column on NCRcafe.org."
Pope Benedict XVI's Trip to Brazil
Last week he asked us for prayers. He is guaranteed those prayers...prayers of protection and prayer support for all that he says and does while away from the Vatican!
And today he entrusts his trip to Brazil to Our Blessed Mother-BENEDICT XVI ENTRUSTS TO THE VIRGIN HIS TRIP TO BRAZIL in the month of May-her month!
The month of May "is for many Christian communities the Marian month par excellence. As such it has, over the course of the centuries, become one of the forms of devotion most dear to people and has always been adopted by pastors as an opportunity for preaching, catechesis and community prayer."
"Marian devotion underwent a profound renewal. And the month of May, which partly coincides with Easter time, is an appropriate moment to present the figure of Mary as the Mother who accompanied the community of disciples gathered in joint prayer while they awaited the Holy Spirit. This month, then, can be an occasion to return to the faith of the early Church and, together with Mary, to understand that today too our mission is to announce and bear witness with courage and joy to Christ, crucified and risen, the hope of humanity.
"To the Holy Virgin, Mother of the Church," the Pope added, "I wish to entrust the apostolic trip I will make to Brazil from May 9 to 14. Like my venerated predecessors Paul VI and John Paul II, I will preside at the opening of a General Conference of the Episcopate of Latin America and the Caribbean," the fifth such meeting "which will take place next Sunday at the great national shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida, in the city of that name."
This, said the Pope, "is my first pastoral visit to Latin America and I am preparing myself spiritually to meet the ... subcontinent where almost half the world's Catholics live, many of them young. For this reason it has been called 'the continent of hope:' a hope that touches not only the Church, but all America and the word entire."
Pope Benedict called upon the faithful to pray to Mary Most Holy "for this apostolic pilgrimage and, in particular, for the Fifth General Conference of the Episcopate of Latin America and the Caribbean, so that all Christians of those regions may feel themselves as disciples and missionaries of Christ, Way, Truth and Life."
"There are many different challenges facing us at the present moment, that is why it is important for Christians to be formed to become a 'ferment' of goodness and a 'light' of sanctity in our world."
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help or sought your intercession was left unaided. Inspired with with confidence, I fly to you, O virgin of virgins, my Mother. To you I come, before you I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in your mercy, hear and answer me. Amen.
And today he entrusts his trip to Brazil to Our Blessed Mother-BENEDICT XVI ENTRUSTS TO THE VIRGIN HIS TRIP TO BRAZIL in the month of May-her month!
The month of May "is for many Christian communities the Marian month par excellence. As such it has, over the course of the centuries, become one of the forms of devotion most dear to people and has always been adopted by pastors as an opportunity for preaching, catechesis and community prayer."
"Marian devotion underwent a profound renewal. And the month of May, which partly coincides with Easter time, is an appropriate moment to present the figure of Mary as the Mother who accompanied the community of disciples gathered in joint prayer while they awaited the Holy Spirit. This month, then, can be an occasion to return to the faith of the early Church and, together with Mary, to understand that today too our mission is to announce and bear witness with courage and joy to Christ, crucified and risen, the hope of humanity.
"To the Holy Virgin, Mother of the Church," the Pope added, "I wish to entrust the apostolic trip I will make to Brazil from May 9 to 14. Like my venerated predecessors Paul VI and John Paul II, I will preside at the opening of a General Conference of the Episcopate of Latin America and the Caribbean," the fifth such meeting "which will take place next Sunday at the great national shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida, in the city of that name."
This, said the Pope, "is my first pastoral visit to Latin America and I am preparing myself spiritually to meet the ... subcontinent where almost half the world's Catholics live, many of them young. For this reason it has been called 'the continent of hope:' a hope that touches not only the Church, but all America and the word entire."
Pope Benedict called upon the faithful to pray to Mary Most Holy "for this apostolic pilgrimage and, in particular, for the Fifth General Conference of the Episcopate of Latin America and the Caribbean, so that all Christians of those regions may feel themselves as disciples and missionaries of Christ, Way, Truth and Life."
"There are many different challenges facing us at the present moment, that is why it is important for Christians to be formed to become a 'ferment' of goodness and a 'light' of sanctity in our world."
Memorare
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to your protection, implored your help or sought your intercession was left unaided. Inspired with with confidence, I fly to you, O virgin of virgins, my Mother. To you I come, before you I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in your mercy, hear and answer me. Amen.
Fulltext Search Engine II Vatican Council Documents
'Veil tip' to a dear friend and reader of this blog for this informative website. Thank you.
Catholic Teachers Test Dogma and Discrimination
A Catholic school teacher fired after using in-vitro fertilization is taking her case to Wisconsin's Equal Rights Division. She joins a roster of others penalized by the Catholic school system for their reproductive activities and activism.
Friday, May 04, 2007
Reporting on the REAL ID Townhall Meeting 5-01-07
Public Comment Taken on Real ID Act
Learn more.
The National Town Hall meeting allowed some people to voice concerns and have their comments placed into the public record, which will hopefully be the beginning of a large dialogue.
[snip]
I think this is a done deal. As I listened to the meeting online, I heard a 'controlled tone' I've witnessed before at another meeting. It was a parish council meeting where an agenda was pre-planned and now the 'game'/'plan' was to get everybody to 'buy into a proposed plan'. But many at that parish council meeting after asking questions and not receiving answers, became quite angry and frustrated just as these people were at this 'only' townhall meeting. Hmmm...sounds like the 'Consensus' technique was used for this townhall meeting. Learn how to 'fight' Consensus or 'disrupt' the technique here.Ginny Lewis, director of the Nevada DMV, pointed out that the public has no idea what is going on in regards to the Real ID -- "It's not on their radar yet," she said. But with a year left until the implementation, having only one town hall meeting in the nation -- with only eight day's notice -- angered many of those attending.
Learn more.
Any time you have ...
1. a diverse group
2. dialoging to consensus
3. over social issues (crises)
4. in a facilitated meeting (controlled environment)
5. to a predetermined outcomeyou have what is known as a soviet
Mass. marriage amendment could head to voters soon
Our prayers continue...Massachusetts could be only days away from taking the next step toward overturning the state's landmark "gay marriage" law.
UW-Madison awards Catholic group fee money in discrimination case
The agreement calls for the university to award $253,273 for next school year, with the possibility of additional funds for rent and utilities.
The group has asked for the money for activities ranging from prayer gatherings to speeches and classes in theology for students. All expenditures will be subject to a legal review by the university under the deal.
Thursday, May 03, 2007
PRAYER ALERT & ACTION - Sen. Hillary Clinton to speak at Catholic Event
Pro-abortion Sen. Hillary Clinton to Speak at Chicago Catholic Charity
To politely express concerns contact:
Cardinal Francis George
Archdiocese of Chicago
155 E. Superior Street
Chicago, IL 60611
312-751-8230 Press 4
312-751-5307 - Fax
Mercy Home
Email: mhinfo@mercyhome.org
Call: (312) 738-7560
To politely express concerns contact:
Cardinal Francis George
Archdiocese of Chicago
155 E. Superior Street
Chicago, IL 60611
312-751-8230 Press 4
312-751-5307 - Fax
Mercy Home
Email: mhinfo@mercyhome.org
Call: (312) 738-7560
House Passes Expanded Hate Crime Bill
BAD NEWS-"The House voted Thursday to expand federal hate crime categories to include violent attacks against gays and people targeted because of gender, acting just hours after the White House threatened a veto."-GOOD NEWS!
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