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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Why the Pro-Life Movement is Ineffective


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Why is the pro-life movement ineffective?
by Denise Michelle

In this article I am discussing the pro-life movement not being effective in general: as a whole.  This is no means is meant to knock the work by individuals that has been affective.  I would not want to discourage any one from trying to save a baby.  My whole point is don't compromise your own Catholic Faith in the process. My other point is that no matter how horrific abortion is, it never compares to the evil of rejecting God by offending the First Commandment.  How can the murder of a person ever compare to t
he denial and rejection of God?

We must save the babies but we must not dethrone God at the same time.

As well, I am mostly addressing here traditional Catholics who have joined novus ordo or protestant pro-life groups or supposedly secular pro-life groups that involve interfaith prayer meetings into their agenda.  Catholics should have their own pro-life organizations and work together to keep in accord with the Faith.  I realize many traditional chapels already do this and I applaud them in their work.
  • The pro-life movement is cursed by too much politics.
  • The pro-life movement is mainly based upon interfaith false Ecumenism condemned by the First Commandment.
  • The pro-life movement is riddled with people's own feeble efforts instead of animated by Christ living through them.

Many traditional Catholics who have been enlightened by the current apostasy known as modernism, conciliarism or the novus ordo religion have come to these above conclusions. How can they be involved in a movement (pro-life) that wraps itself up into another movement (false ecumenism) without it being a danger to their faith?  In the majority of pro-life groups the protestants and pagans are mixed up with the Catholics in interfaith prayer meetings.

Should protestants and pagans stop working to save the unborn? Of course not.  But, should Catholics join them in their efforts?  No, it should be the other way around.  Catholics need to be the leaders and by non-Catholics joining them it can be a tool for their conversion.  Catholics are forbidden to join in the prayers of false religions.

Should Catholics continue to try to help the unborn? Of course.  But, they should not do so in a manner where they are combining their work in the worship of God with false religions.

The pro-life movement has actually become an excuse for Catholics to involve themselves in worshipping with false religions under the guise of helping the helpless.  At many of their pro-life meetings they hold interfaith prayer vigils.  This is mainly what I am talking about that Catholics need to avoid.

How can Catholics expect God to bless their work with the unborn if they are committing sin against the First Commandment in interfaith worship?

Secondly and related, how can modern Catholics expect God to bless their work with the unborn if they continue to commit sacrilege and apostasy by participating in the false religion of the novus  ordo?

Of course many of them do not even realize that their local churches are now not even Catholic.  They have been deceived or choose to stay blissfully ignorant.

As for politics, many of these pro-life organizations stand around giving grand speeches and holding signs but truly does that help the unborn?  They picket.  They lobby.  They make a lot of noise.  But, does it move souls?  Does it spring mothers into action to not kill their babies?

Abortion is a symptom of a deeper problem in society: the lack of the true Faith.

Restore the Faith and abortion will cease.  What is needed is not lobbying, not politics, not picketing, but CONVERSION.  (So, yes, keep praying your rosaries!)

What mother, animated by the love of God would kill her child?  Of course not!  Abortion has swept across our nation because the Tabernacle of Christ has been removed!  Because the true Faith has been replaced by an apostate religion!  Because the Sacred Heart has been removed from homes.  Because mothers have left the hearth!  Because true prayer and worship has ceased!

Roe Vs Wade made the landmark decision to allow a mother to abort her child on January 22, 1973 just four years after the full placement of the novus ordo missae in the local parishes.  But, it was first argued in court on December 9, 1971 just two years after the placement of the novus ordo sacrilege.  Remove Christ and the devil moves in where He once lived.  

For those who believe the false religion was instituted just after the death of Pius XII with a false Pope then we can say it only took a little more then a decade for this great evil to plague our country.

Do you honestly believe that fifteen years before as Catholics frequented the true Sacraments on a mass scale in almost every town in the United States that abortion on such a grande scale
 could be possible?  Of course not!

I have friends who tell me that this was a nation devoid of Catholic traditions.  Really?  I have traveled 47 of our 50 United States.  I have seen with my own eyes Catholic Church after Catholic Church built prior to Vatican II in almost every state of the Union!  Catholic traditions from Spain, Mexico, France, Poland, Germany, Italy and Ireland being some of the main ones brought here by our ancestors in the Faith.  Churches built with their money and sweat so Christ could be a light in our beautiful nation of America and when I say beautiful I mean the gorgeous landscape that God has given us in these United States that I can truly say I have been blessed to see!

Priests such as Fr. De Smet, Apostle of the Rockies converted a majority of the Indians to the true Faith before they were murdered by our government in war.

Prior to Vatican II, worldwide Catholics were a leader in the major religions.  Now, we can honestly say that true Catholics are truly a minority; barely whispering in this pagan world.

And another thought.  Think of the power of the Bishops.  One traditional priest said to me that the Catholic Bishops could have stood up in the early 1970's and put a total stop to the legalization of abortion.  Why? Because there were so many.  I think he said to me 300 in the United States alone.  All they had to do was direct Catholics to do the right thing.  But, he says they remained for the most part silent.  

Why?  They had already sold their souls to the new apostate religion which blinded the
m against any constructive action.

Consider this story:

St. Matthew 12
43 And when an unclean spirit is gone out of a man he walketh through dry places seeking rest, and findeth none. 44 Then he saith: I will return into my house from whence I came out. And coming he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. 45 Then he goeth, and taketh with him seven
 other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is made worse than the first. So shall it be also to this wicked generation.

Unless we fill ourselves up with the Lord through the true Sacraments and true Faith, our souls are vessels where the evil one can come and set up house.  That is why the pro-life movement is ineffective as it is it consists of a home full of spirits of false religions instead of being totally animated by the true Faith.
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Consider these other words of Our Lord:

St. John 154 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unle
ss it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me.

St. John 15 5 I am the vine: you the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.

St. John 6 48 I am the bread of life.

St. John 6 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven.

St. John 8 12 Again therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying: I am the light of the world: he that followeth me, walketh not in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

St. John 9 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

Do you hear that pro-life message?  
Christ is food!  Christ is life!  Christ is light! Christ is the vine!  

If we are not connected to Him through His church, through His blessings, then we are nothing. We are cut off dead branches and our work does not bear fruit.

We are thus dead like the babe murdered in the womb!

Consider this parable demonstrating the truth of the Catholic Faith showing that belief in the Eucharist is necessary for our salvation:

St. John 6
47Amen, amen I say unto you: He that believeth in me, hath everlasting life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your fathers did eat manna in the desert, and are dead. 50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven; that if any man eat of it, he may not die.

51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven. 52 If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever; and the bread that I will give, is my flesh, for the life of the world. 53 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying: How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 54Then Jesu

s said to them: Amen, amen I say unto you: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. 55 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up in the last day.

56 For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed. 57 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him. 58 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father; so he that eateth me, the same also shall live by me. 59 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead. He that eateth this bread, shall live for ever. 60 These things he said, teaching in the synagogue, in Capharnaum.

61 Many therefore of his disciples, hearing it, said: This saying is hard, and who can hear it?62 But Jesus, knowing in himself, that his disciples murmured at this, said to them: Doth this scandalize you? 63 If then you shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? 64 It is the spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I have spoken to you, are spirit and life65 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning, who they were that did not believe, and who he was, that would betray him.

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One day with my fellow traditional Catholics we were visiting with a traditional Catholic priest and a woman asked him if she would help the unborn more if she continued picketing in front of an abortion mill and talking to mothers or entering the convent.  She said she found herself torn between the two.  She imagined if she became a nun that she would be abandoning the unborn.

The priest I remember looked right into her eyes and said, you can do more for the unborn by your prayers and sacrifices in the convent praying for the conversion of poor sinners more then you could ever do for them carrying a sign.

Are we saying then that people should not picket abortion mills or pray the rosary in front of them?  No, but we are saying let us keep all in perspective.  It is not OUR EFFORTS that save the unborn but it is Christ animated through us or Christ who saves because of our prayers and sacrifices as we are hidden from the world.

Here is another story to ponder.  When I was first attending the Latin Mass my husband brought home from the library a very unsavory book about Bishop McKenna's work in trying to rid a family of some demons through exorcisms.  I say unsavory because truly reading about that evil is very hard to swallow.  Bishop McKenna must have a great grace to be upheld in such work dealing with the devil.  The good Bishop tried three times to exercise the demon but to no avail.

One day I had a chance to discuss the issue with the Bishop.  We both concluded that the demon would not leave because the family had not embraced the true Faith.  They were animated by the false religion of the novus ordo.  For each time the demon was exorcised he had every reason to return as the family still had not made Christ the throne of their hearts!

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So, how can the pro-life movement become effective?

  • Catholics need to practice their Faith.
  • Protestants and Pagans need to convert to the one true Faith.
  • Novus Ordo modernists need to convert to true Catholicism.
  • Parents need to keep their children away from bad companions, home school them or send them to a traditional Catholic school.
  • Education should continue about avoiding bad books, immoral movies etc.
  • Sex Education should be taught in the home in a personal individual and private general (not explicit as the Pope condemns) manner by parents to their children as taught by the Church.
  • Catholics need to participate in the pro-life movement in prayer, Mass, through personal relationships in helping women avoid abortion; any politics or rescuing women should be by keeping in the bounds of ones Faith by not joining in any interfaith worship or interfaith organization.  In other words Catholics should have their own pro-life work individually or in groups separate from other religions.
  • If non-Catholics want to join Catholics in their pro-life work giving credence to the Catholic Faith, then great.. it will serve as a tool for their conversion.  But, it cannot be the other way around.  Catholics cannot join under the auspices of false religions in their work; that is a sin against the First Commandment.
  • If people wish to combine people from various backgrounds in the work for the unborn it should be done then on a secular level without involving religion that compromises a Catholic's Faith.  But, will this be as effective as animating the movement fully by one's Catholic Faith?  No.
  • Catholics need to Enthrone the Sacred Heart in their homes and their hearts and let their devotions to Our Lady in the rosary and other prayers and in Christ help animate them with the breathe of God in all they do.
  • Catholics need to think of the simplicity of the Gospels in how Our Lord converted and touched hearts on a one by one basis through friendships; not by big political meetings.  I think about speeches that are made on television and the radio.  How many women who are contemplating abortion are truly watching such things?  Probably not many.
  • Catholics need to learn to recognize the signs of young people in crises and respond accordingly before they commit such horrible acts of sin.
Tell me your thoughts.

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3 comments:

  1. Very nice! The devil hides many bad things in worse things as in Ecumenism in Abortion, or good things in bad things as in Modesty in Islam. Although, in my opinion Ecumenism is worse than abortion since one kills the soul while the other kills the body. Anyway, I like the article, Denise!

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  2. Well said Denise. I wish people like David Bereit and Fr. Frank Pavone would heed your message. Please pray with me for my non-Catholic friends and family.

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  3. Denise, you have done it again! A much needed website in the Wasteland of the internet! I like the link to the only pregnant martyr as well ;)

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