Politickles

Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier:

WITNESS FOR THE PERSECUTION
“Can I get a tattoo, Dad?” said she.
“It can be quite expensive,” said he.
“Why not wait and emboss
On your forearm a cross?
Let the government do it for free.”

From the archive:

IN HOC SIGNO VINCES
Raise high the holy cross
And show them Who is boss:
Fight the merchants of death
With every breath
And never count the cost.
(2012)

SCHADENFREUDE
Why do liberals like to besmirch
Institutions confirmed by research
As conducive to wealth,
Happiness, and health –
Such as marriage, the family, and church?
(1998)

Last week’s limerick:

CINO* EVIL
With a logic at best acrobatic
And morality most problematic,
You help peddlers of porn,
You help kill the unborn,
All you Catholics who vote Democratic.

*Catholic in Name Only

“In a country where Christians can be sacked for manifesting their faith, are vilified by State bodies, are in fear of reprisal or even arrest for expressing their views on sexual ethics, something is very wrong.” – Lord Carey

All you sentimental, brainwashed airheads who can’t understand why anyone would oppose same-sex marriage, be patient. You’ll understand soon enough. In the meantime, thank you for making the coming persecution possible. If only you’d been less stupid, it might have been avoided.

This latest erosion of our first freedom should make all Americans pause. When the government tampers with a freedom so fundamental to the life of our nation, one shudders to think what lies ahead. – Timothy Dolan

We need to stand up and say confidently and resolutely to Kathleen Sebelius, her thugs at HHS, and her puppet-master in the White House: Your view is false and untrue; it radically violates human good and is destructive of communal integrity. Forcing persons wrongfully to cooperate in actions they judge to be evil is evil. And no president, king, or emperor rightly demands others to do what is evil. We won’t do it. – Christian Brugger

What if we all said no?

[I]t is imperative that the entire Catholic community in the United States come to realize the grave threats to the Church’s public moral witness presented by a radical secularism which finds increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres. The seriousness of these threats needs to be clearly appreciated at every level of ecclesial life. Of particular concern are certain attempts being made to limit that most cherished of American freedoms, the freedom of religion. – Benedict XVI

In August 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services issued an interim final rule that will require most health insurance plans to cover preventive services for women including recommended contraceptive services without charging a co-pay, co-insurance or a deductible. . . . Today the department is announcing that the final rule on preventive health services will ensure that women with health insurance coverage will have access to the full range of the Institute of Medicine’s recommended preventive services, including all FDA-approved forms of contraception. – Kathleen Sebelius

This is going to be a long year.

Over the next several decades, Christianity will become a faith that can speak in the public square less and less freely. A society where faith is prevented from vigorous public expression is a society that has fashioned the state into an idol. And when the state becomes an idol, men and women become the sacrificial offering. – Charles Chaput

Coming to America

When a priest sees himself as nothing more than a “social agent,” he runs the risk of betraying the priesthood itself, says Benedict XVI. – Zenit

Fortunately, the desacralized priests and nuns of the hippie generation are on their way out. May God have mercy on their souls for all the damage they did.

A six-year-old girl in the state of Orissa, India, identified a parliamentarian as the killer of her father, just one victim of the 2008 anti-Christian massacres perpetrated by Hindu extremists. – Zenit

The Coming Persecution

Witness for the Persecution

Propaganda Masquerading as News

The Mission

More Walls to Tear Down