IRS asked pro-life group about 'the content of their prayers'

The IRS Reinstates the Inquisition

Didn't think I'd actually see this in my lifetime, but whoa!  It's here!  Already!  The thought police are in full swing.  While the liberals jump up and down with their eyes shut tight screaming at conservatives calling us "the Taliban" - they are the ones exemplifying the Taliban.  While liberals decry mormons and Catholics for upholding traditional marriage falsely accusing us of trying to force our beliefs down their throats - they are the ones guilty of what they accuse.  They accuse us of such extreme measures because only the liberal can come up with such bizarre and scary enforcement of ideas.  They are the ones who think this way.  Now we hear that the IRS was in the process of trying to chill and intimidate pro lifers and get into their souls as if they were the Inquisition itself.  My how the tables have turned.  

What liberals falsely think of as the Inquisition, they themselves practice.  While liberals use the guttural phrase "get your laws off my body", they themselves as IRS employees, heavily impose their IRS laws on even our most intimate thoughts and prayers.  While liberals use the disarming phrase of "get out of our bedrooms" they themselves as IRS employees, get into our minds and demand what words we are using to speak to our Creator.  They hypocrisy is astonishing.  But will probably, as with everything else, get swept under the rug by the politically correct system in order to protect their favorite radical agenda.

The Examiner reported the following exchange with video (HERE):

During a House Ways and Means Committee hearing today, Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Ill., grilled outgoing IRS commissioner Steven Miller about the IRS targeting a pro-life group in Iowa.
“Their question, specifically asked from the IRS to the Coalition for Life of Iowa: ‘Please detail the content of the members of your organization’s prayers,’" Schock declared.
“Would that be an inappropriate question to a 501 c3 applicant?” asked Schock. “The content of one’s prayers?”
“It pains me to say I can’t speak to that one either,” Miller replied.
After Schock pressed him further, Miller explained that although he couldn't comment on the specific case, it would "surprise him" if that question was asked.
The report comes from the Thomas More Society, a national public interest law firm for religious liberty.

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Second Case of Grisly Murders from Another Abortion Doc

Of course this kind of primitive barbarism is happening - it just needs to come to the light for the world to see the horrors of what abortion really does - kill children.  What happens when they are just a little smaller and within the legal catch size and bag limits of the abortion "regs"?  Nothing changes, it is still a child, just a little smaller, but still just as mutilated as Gosnell and Karpen's victims.  

It took the UK Mail Online to report this story (HERE) where it revealed:

A second 'house of horrors' abortion clinic is being investigated in Texas, just days after Dr Kermit Gosnell was found guilty of murdering newborns at his Philadelphia termination center.

Houston doctor Douglas Karpen is accused by four former employees of delivering live fetuses during third-trimester abortions and killing them by either snipping their spinal cord, stabbing a surgical instrument into their heads or 'twisting their heads off their necks with his own bare hands'.

America needs to stop sugar-coating what abortion is.  It is gruesome and primitive.  This type of thing outside the womb is exactly the type of thing that happens inside the womb.  Just because the child is one step removed from being the "legal catch size" doesn't make the crime any less when abortions are performed inside the womb of the mother.  Abortion isn't a "choice"; it isn't "women's reproductive health"; it IS the direct and barbaric murder of an innocent child.  The child isn't getting a massage in there.  

The mother doesn't go to an abortion clinic for the doctor to wave a magic wand over the child and "terminate the pregnancy" with pixie dust.  No, the doctor has to physically roll his sleeves up, take weapons into his hands and go to war against a baby.  All for the cause of "choice".  Like slavery, this is a crime that cries out to God for vengeance.  Where slavery was the crime of the 19th century, abortion is the crime of the 20th and 21st.  The crime of the century is hidden under the wraps of smooth and consoling words to bamboozle us into thinking it is a clean, magical, "termination of a pregnancy" - when this story and the Gosnell story proves otherwise to show us exactly what we all must realize abortion is: a cowardly attack on an innocent helpless child resulting in its painful and brutal mutilation.

Abortion Doctor Gosnell Given Life Instead of Death

Will He Now Become a Pro-Life Advocate?

The Associated Press reports today that:

A Philadelphia abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies who were born alive in his grimy clinic agreed Tuesday to give up his right to an appeal and faces life in prison but will be spared a death sentence. 

Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder in the deaths of the babies who were delivered alive and killed with scissors.

His gruesome acts include the following atrocities:

he delivered babies who were still moving, whimpering or breathing, and that he and his assistants dispatched the newborns by "snipping" their spines, as he referred to it.
Authorities raiding Gosnell's clinic for drugs instead found bags and bottles of fetuses, including jars of severed feet, along with bloodstained furniture, dirty medical instruments and cats roaming the premises. 

Prosecution experts said one of the babies was nearly 30 weeks along when the abortion took place, and was so big that Gosnell allegedly joked the baby could "walk to the bus." A second baby was said to be alive for about 20 minutes before a clinic worker snipped the neck. A third was born in a toilet and was moving before another clinic employee severed the spinal cord, according to testimony. 

A fourth baby let out a whimper before Gosnell cut the neck, prosecutors alleged. Gosnell was acquitted in that baby's death, the only one of the four in which no one testified to seeing the baby killed.

One account added that the baby in the toilet was trying to get out using a swimming motion.

The story added:

Gosnell was also convicted of infanticide, racketeering and more than 200 counts of violating Pennsylvania's abortion laws by performing third-term abortions or failing to counsel women 24 hours in advance.

And now the media will drop this story like a hot potato and focus on the Ohio kidnapping ad nauseam.  The question remains: how many other doctors out there are performing these same acts?  How many have not been investigated?  The more important answer to the question "what is abortion" should be answered in this story, if the media would actually give it adequate coverage so that the uninformed American reader can ponder the answer "so this is abortion."  Abortion is barbaric.  Legal, illegal, inside, outside, abortion is gruesome, barbaric, and belongs to a thing of the ancient past, not in an advanced culture where we praise the life saving of 3 kidnapped women while simultaneously give our societal blessing on the life-depriving of innocent unborn children.

So will abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell be able to reflect on his actions and ponder being spared the death penalty and turn into a pro-life advocate from prison?  Let's pray for this.  But in the meantime, while America hails "choice" as "progressive women's health", this story reveals what abortion truly is:

A gruesome, barbaric, attack on innocent unborn children at the hands of society.  May America come to its senses like they did with slavery, that the victims of abortions, the innocent, vulnerable, and helpless of society must be recognized for the freedoms they deserve.  The most fundamental of freedoms: the right to merely exist.

America hails itself for abolishing slavery and allowing women to vote as the great turning points in making our nation a noble country; but since 1973, abortion promoters turned back the clock to barbarian times by legalizing abortion.  Abortion must be overturned if we are to look at our nation as a noble, just, and freedom loving country that it could become.

Obama Wants to Turn Back the Clock to the 350s

Haughty Obama Belittles Pro-Lifers and Mocks the Value of Life Like a Barbarian of Old

Obama today vowed to join Planned Parenthood in perpetuating infanticide like a 4th century barbarian. He did it in a way as if he was campaigning: by smearing his opposition instead of just declaring a position. The perpetual smearer in chief, while attempting to belittle the Pro-Life movement to sway low information citizens to hate Pro-Lifers leaves out one important detail: What does Planned Parenthood promote? It promotes abortion (Planned Parenthood performs 300,000 abortions a year). What is abortion? The direct killing of an innocent unborn child. What old fashioned society also practiced infanticide? The Barbarians of 350 A.D.  Historians note that:

In the Roman Empire and among some Barbarian tribes, infanticide was accepted practice. A newborn would be placed before its father; if he picked the child up, it would be considered a member of the family and its life would begin. However, if the family was on the edge of starvation, if the child was deformed, or if the father had any other reasons not to accept it, the infant would be abandoned to die of exposure, with rescue a real, if not always likely, possibility. 

Gies, Frances, and Gies, Joseph, Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages (Harper & Row, 1987), pp. 34-35.

On Friday Obama told a Planned Parenthood conference:

"The fact is, after decades of progress, there's still those who want to turn back the clock to policies more suited to the 1950s than the 21st century. And they've been involved in an orchestrated and historic effort to roll back basic rights when it comes to women's health."

No, Obama.  The fact is, after centuries of progress there's still those barbarian-minded like yourself who want to turn back the clock to polices more suited to the 350's than the 21st century.  And you've been involved together with Planned Parenthood in an orchestrated and historic effort to roll back basic human rights when it comes to the most fundamental rights of the human person: the right to merely exist.

It was Christianity that finally turned the ancient societies from this barbaric practice by recognizing the intrinsic value of a human being created by a loving God.  It wasn't until Obama's types in 1973 that swooped in and introduced infanticide once again as an accepted practice not seen in societies since 350 A.D.

NEW! May 7, 2013: Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles CD - Pre-order NOW!

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De Montfort Music released The Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles CD: Advent At Ephesus back in December 2012.  Advent at Ephesus stayed at No. 1 on Billboard's Classical Music Chart for 3 straight weeks.  They were featured in USA Today, Vatican Radio, NPR, EWTN, the Washington Times, and beyond.

Their next CD, Angels and Saints At Ephesus will be available next month, May 7, 2013!  Pre-order from their website.

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Only good fruit being born from nuns in traditional habits.

From Maximus Newsroom:

The community of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, was founded in 1995, originally called the Oblates of Mary, Queen of Apostles. In 2006, the community was established as a Public Association of the Faithful with the new name Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles.

The Benedictines of Mary offer their lives in prayer and sacrifice for priests. The work of their hands is devoted primarily to the making of priestly vestments. They also take care of gardens, an orchard and a small farm.

The community follows the monastic horarium as laid out in the rule of St. Benedict. They partake of the Extraordinary Form of the Mass and also chant the Divine Office in Latin according to the 1962 Breviarium Monasticum.

The Priory of Our Lady of Ephesus is named for an ancient city in Turkey. According to tradition, St. John the Apostle made a home there following the martyrdom of St. James the Apostle. Tradition further acknowledges that, on the Cross, Jesus entrusted His mother to the care of St. John, while at the same time entrusting the whole world to her in the person of St. John. He brought her to Ephesus, where he built her a small home. Her presence there is confirmed by the fact that at the time of the Council of Ephesus, churches were named after saints who had lived or died in the locale. Today, the ruins of basilicas to Holy Mary and St. John still stand in Ephesus. 

Sisters Filmed While Pope was Elected

Cute reaction from the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist at the election of a new pope

Their debut recording is coming this summer 2013 from De Montfort Music.

Only good fruits being born from traditional nuns in habits.  

Get a load of the Dominican Sisters' chapel at Easter Triduum HERE.  

About the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist

Canonically established in 1997 by John Cardinal O'Connor of New York, The Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist are a young, vibrant community of consecrated women. Their pattern of life is inextricably bound up with the monastic observance given to them by their Dominican tradition. They espouse the common life, cloister, times and places of silence, the choral Divine Office and daily Mass. They participate in an active charism of education and formation of the young, administering, teaching and preaching in small, private Catholic schools, each named Spiritus Sanctus Academy. The founding of the Dominican Sisters of Mary was and remains an all-embracing "yes" in response to the Church's need for laborers to enter the vineyard to plant, water and yield souls for Christ. Through the witness of their vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, and a life of prayer and of apostolic service, the Dominican Sisters of Mary seek to transform the world for the good of souls.

St. John Vianney - Example of Virtue

Excerpt from the book The Cure' of Ars, by Fr. Bartholomew J. O'Brien (Tan Books):

"Jesus Himself had His enemies; and he who tried so earnestly to walk in the footsteps of Jesus could not expect to walk in those footsteps without enemies trailing him in his pathway. As late as 1830, an occasional ember of resentment on the part of some families was still smoldering. This hurt the Cure', especially when the resentment burst forth again into flame, and seven parishioners petitioned him to get out of the parish. The petition failed; and as a whole, the parish at Ars was gradually dawning into a new day. Peace, which only God can give, was beginning to spread its radiance throughout the village and the surrounding countryside.

. . . The devil," according to Father Tanquerey, "jealous of God's influence . . . strives to exercise his own dominion, or rather his tyranny, over men.

. . . Soon the Cure' feared to remain alone at night. He invited a husky young man of the village, Andrew Verchere, to stay at the rectory with him. He lasted only one night. At one o'clock, the handle and lock of the front door were violently shaken. Then the blows, like those of a club, pounded against the door. At the same time, the racket of the rumbling of many carts seemed to fill the rectory. "My poor Verchere," the Cure' told later, "was shaking with fear. Though he was holding his gun in his hand he no longer knew he had a gun.

. . . For about 35 years (1824-1858), the devil tried in vain to discourage the Cure' in his work for souls. But the devil fought a losing battle. As the wind fans the flame to burn more brightly, so those diabolical manifestations, far from snuffing out the Cure's efforts for souls, served rather to enkindle his zeal."