Remove the Cause

"I think they begin at the wrong end. They should have commenced the measure of redress to Ireland at the cottage instead of the park and the mansion. To have gone first to the higher orders of Catholics, to have sought to make them judges, peers, and commoners, I do not know that such a proceeding, had it taken place, would not rather have served to aggrevate discontent, as it might have been construed into a design to divide the interests of the Catholics. Sure I am that without a view to serve or to conciliate the Catholic population, I mean the poor, the peasantry, its effect would be nothing. It would be like dressing or decorating the topmasts of a ship when there were ten feet of water in the hold, or putting a laced hat on a man who had not a shoe to his foot. The place to set out to in Ireland for the relief of the people is the cottage. . . .If you want the attachment of the Irish, begin by giving them some reason to love you. You ask Ireland for bravery and take away the motives for it; for loyalty, and deprive them of the benefits of the Constitution. By the hapless Bill proposed but defeated, at least a Catholic officer might have been enabled to make a career, and need no longer rise to his own degradation. Charles the First asked Selden what was the best way to put down rebellion; to which Selden answered, "Remove the cause." Remove the cause of disaffection in Ireland, and disaffection will end."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Woman Draws Pro-Life Shock by Live Blogging Abortion on Twitter, YouTube

Woman Draws Pro-Life Shock by Live Blogging Abortion on Twitter, YouTube
Wow, this woman has all the warmth and intelligence I would expect from someone who has an abortion. If she hates breeding so much, she might avoid sex for a starter.

Psalm 42

Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause from the nation that is not holy; deliver me from the unjust and decietful man. For thou art God my strength: why hast thou cast me off? and why do I go sorrowful while the enemy afflicteth me? Send forth thy light and thy truth: they have conducted me, and brought me unto thy holy hill, and into thy tabernacles. And I will go in to the altar of God: to God who giveth joy to my youth. To thee, O God my God, I will give praise upon the harp: why art thou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou disquiet me? Hope in God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of my countenance, and my God.

The Catholic Key Blog: Main Problem for CCHD - Community Organizing Involves Lying

The Catholic Key Blog: Main Problem for CCHD - Community Organizing Involves Lying
What is wrong here is what is wrong with Catholic Social Teaching and the so-called Consistent Life Ethic in general, namely, the fact that this stuff is just socialism by another name.