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PRESS ADVISORY: John Peyton, anti-assisted suicide leader and spokesperson dies naturally of ALS in on same day as state's first death by assisted suicide. True Compassion Advocates calls Linda Fleming's death a "tragedy which heightens fear and increases misinformation about living and dying."
John Peyton dies of ALS on Thursday, May 21st.
"In stark contrast, Washington State resident and assisted suicide opponent John Peyton, who was featured in ads and on TV opposing Initiative 1000, died naturally and comfortably at home of ALS the same day Linda Fleming became the first victim of assisted suicide in Washington State," Eileen Geller, president of True Compassion Advocates, reported today. "Just days before his death, John expressed continued concern about the legalization of assisted suicide in Washington, stating he felt It victimized people with terminal illnesses and "exploited their fears," she added.
"Speaking clearly and with passion, even as his life and breath waned, John expressed solidarity with all those experiencing life-limiting illnesses and stated his single worry that people with disabilities, those in difficult financial circumstances and without adequate caregiving support would feel pressure to take a lethal drug overdose," the Hospice nurse and long-time leader of the opposition to physician assisted suicide stated.
Just before he passed away John said "I am blessed with a loving wife and family and wonderful caregivers. I worry that people who don't have the same support will feel pressure to choose assisted suicide," Ms. Geller reported, adding "John Peyton was a hero in life and in death. He showed us how to live with real dignity and die naturally and comfortably. He literally gave his last breaths to advocate for those at risk for assisted suicide. John Peyton demonstrates what I have seen in thousands of dying patients over 25 years working as a hospice nurse -- that no one needs to die in pain or uncomfortably and that people with life limiting illnesses need competent, supportive care, not lethal drugs." Read more...
Anti-abortion minister urges action by African Americans
By Gerald Korson
Voice correspondent
After having served 18 days in prison, the Rev. Walter Hoye is a free man and will remain so — as long as he doesn’t come within eight feet of anyone who is about to enter an Oakland abortion clinic.
That hasn’t stopped the 52-year-old minister from returning to the public sidewalk outside the Family Planning Specialists Medical Group building near Jack London Square, the site of his arrest last May that resulted in his incarceration at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin earlier this year.
Hoye, executive elder of the Progressive Missionary Baptist Church in south Berkeley, is on a mission not only to save unborn children and offer abortion alternatives to women, but also to inspire religious leaders — particularly African-American pastors like himself — to take up the pro-life mantle within their congregations and local communities. Read more... and even more...
May 29, 2009
"Natural intelligence is turned to evil whenever it is filled with pride and unnecessary curiosity about worldly affairs and human vanities, or when it selfishly covets worldly dignities, riches, empty pleasures, or flattery."
Cloud of Unknowing (Ch 8)
Fr. Ed White
May 20, 2009
Catholic Washington State Governor Calls NARAL Director "An icon in this state"
By Thaddeus M. Baklinski
SEATTLE, May 19, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - At a luncheon yesterday at the Seattle Sheraton hotel in honor of National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) Washington director Karen Cooper, state governor Christine Gregoire said to Cooper, "We are blessed to have had you as our great leader."
"She is obviously an icon in this state" Gregoire later added.
Outside, pro-life demonstrators led by Rev. Philip Bloom, pastor of Holy Family Parish in West Seattle, carried signs proclaiming "Adoption is a Living Option" and "Abortion is Homicide."
"We want to be a witness for the dignity of human life," Fr. Bloom told reporters. Read more...
Bishop Finn Interviewed on Notre Dame Commencement
Dialogue was the big theme of the Notre Dame commencement. Is it possible for the Church to dialogue on abortion?
There are many associated elements that have to do with taking care of women in distress, offering alternatives to abortion. We have to work together, discuss and study how best we can provide for the needs of women and families. How can we reduce the number of abortions? These are elements for dialogue. But the rightness or wrongness of abortion – this is an intrinsic evil. The direct taking of an innocent life can never be negotiated.
Dialogue is a means to an end. The purpose of dialogue has to be a change of heart. If I listen well and we each speak the truth, then the dialogue may have a chance of being productive. But I have to have some authentic principled goal in mind. Read more...
Archbishop Chaput on Notre Dame and the issues that remain
"I have found that even among those who did not go to Notre Dame, even among those who do not share the Catholic faith, there is a special expectation, a special hope, for what Notre Dame can accomplish in the world."
~ Reverend John Jenkins, C.S.C., May 17, 2009
Most graduation speeches are a mix of piety and optimism designed to ease students smoothly into real life. The best have humor. Some genuinely inspire. But only a rare few manage to be pious, optimistic, evasive, sad and damaging all at the same time. Father John Jenkins, C.S.C., Notre Dame’s president, is a man of substantial intellect and ability. This makes his introductory comments to President Obama’s Notre Dame commencement speech on May 17 all the more embarrassing.
Let’s remember that the debate over President Obama’s appearance at Notre Dame was never about whether he is a good or bad man. The president is clearly a sincere and able man. By his own words, religion has had a major influence in his life. We owe him the respect Scripture calls us to show all public officials. We have a duty to pray for his wisdom and for the success of his service to the common good -- insofar as it is guided by right moral reasoning.
We also have the duty to oppose him when he’s wrong on foundational issues like abortion, embryonic stem cell research and similar matters. And we also have the duty to avoid prostituting our Catholic identity by appeals to phony dialogue that mask an abdication of our moral witness. Notre Dame did not merely invite the president to speak at its commencement. It also conferred an unnecessary and unearned honorary law degree on a man committed to upholding one of the worst Supreme Court decisions in our nation’s history: Roe v. Wade. Read more...
May 19, 2009
Young adults take stand against abortion
Graphic photos help group show the realities of abortion
OLYMPIA
BY JEAN PARIETTI
A group of pro-life teens and young adults were yelled at and subjected to obscene gestures while peacefully protesting at abortion clinics and college campuses around the state last month.
But the 22 young people, on a five-day tour with Olympia-based Show the Truth Washington, also received honks and waves of encouragement, had non-confrontational interactions with the public and even helped save an unborn child (see Saving a life is the ‘best birthday present’).
“It’s definitely been challenging,” said Matthew Straub, a 17-year-old from Portland, Ore., making his first trip with the group, which included six adults. “Just being this close to Planned Parenthood is scary, to know they’re actually killing people here,” he said while standing outside the clinic in Olympia. “That this is actually allowed is incredible.” Read more...
May 15, 2009
Austin Ruse of C-FAM recently shared, "...the UN and International Planned Parenthood Federation are in the final planning stages of a conference in Berlin that will "celebrate" the 15th anniversary of the Cairo Conference on Population and Development. At this meeting, there will be a formal session on how to counter and undermine religious opposition to the UN abortion agenda. Will pro-life Christians be allowed in this meeting to defend themselves? NO! The UN and Planned Parenthood are deliberately blocking them.
No surprise, these anti-Catholic and anti-Christian efforts are being led by archenemy of the Church, Catholics for Choice, the anti-Catholic pro-abortion group much loved in the halls of the UN. This meeting in Berlin will be a hate-fest against the unborn child and against religious believers who seek to protect her from the abortionist's knife. Recall that the original Cairo Conference way back in 1994 was where Pope John Paul the Great beat back attempts by the UN to create an international right to abortion. This was where the UN pro-life movement was born. On issues like abortion the Church is almost totally isolated at the UN."
May 14, 2009
Olympia Maintains Abortion Funding in Budget, Despite Desperate Need for Budget Cuts
They decided to continue spending $7 million a year in subsidies to the abortion industry. Read more...
May 5, 2009
'We are at war' - Bishop Finn's Gospel of Life Convention Keynote
Key Note Address for the 2009 Gospel of Life Convention
April 18, 2009 – St. Thomas Aquinas High School
Most Reverend Robert W. Finn
Bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph
...as I speak a word of encouragement today I also want to tell you soberly, dear friends, “We are at war!”
We are at war.
Harsh as this may sound it is true – but it is not new. This war to which I refer did not begin in just the last several months, although new battles are underway – and they bring an intensity and urgency to our efforts that may rival any time in the past.
But it is correct to acknowledge that you and I are warriors - members of the Church on earth – often called the Church Militant. Those who have gone ahead of us have already completed their earthly battles. Some make up the Church Triumphant – Saints in heaven who surround and support us still – tremendous allies in the battle for our eternal salvation; and the Church Suffering (souls in purgatory who depend on our prayers and meritorious works and suffrages).
But we are the Church on Earth – The Church Militant. We are engaged in a constant warfare with Satan, with the glamour of evil, and the lure of false truths and empty promises. If we fail to realize how constantly these forces work against us, we are more likely to fall, and even chance forfeiting God’s gift of eternal life.
The ultimate promise of the Gospel.
Before I go any further I must proclaim a most important truth – a truth that we have just been celebrating throughout the last week: Jesus Christ, in His life, death, and Resurrection, has already won the war: definitively and once for all. He has conquered sin and death and has won the prize of life on high in heaven forever. We know the final outcome, but the battle for eternal life is now played out in each human heart with a free will to love or not, to be faithful or to walk away from the life which has been offered as God’s most wonderful gift.
Every day the choice is before us: right or wrong; good or bad; the blessing or the curse; life or death. Our whole life must be oriented toward choosing right, the good, the blessing; choosing life. Read more...
May 4, 2009
