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The Month of May

The beautiful month of May reflects the bountiful love of our mothers who gave us life and the Immaculate Virgin Mary, our heavenly mother. Two of our eleven children will be graduating this month to embark on a new journey with our Lord Jesus Christ. Many people ask me why we homeschooled our eleven children instead of sending them to Catholic Schools. In reply: The purpose of Catholic education, whether through homeschooling or parochial Catholic schools, is to teach our children their vocation (marriage, holy orders, consecrated single) not job or career and to teach them how to serve (not compete) while imparting to them the eternal truths of our Catholic faith. Whenever you ask young men or women what they want to do after they graduate, rarely do you hear them say they want to be a good father or mother or religious. They usually give you a litany of their career options. It is your vocation which will ultimately define your happiness on earth and your eternal salvation.

Our life is a quest for holiness and a quest for truth. Without truth, no human being could ever attain to holiness. The richness of all truth lies in the eternal and Incarnate Word and is deposited in the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. Parents are and always will be the primary educators of their children and God has entrusted them with the grace to penetrate into the innermost character of their children’s souls to cultivate the blossoming of their talents and virtues. Our Lord, through the instrument of their parents, will mold His children like clay or chisel them like marble. God has entrusted and blessed us with eleven immortal souls, and we have been privileged to be able to spend most of the formative years with these precious gifts. I only desired to teach my children one thing. Their greatest treasure, their greatest love, their greatest aspiration is present every day at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in the eternal sacrifice of love, and we are to unite ourselves in union with Christ at this Sacrifice. From there, “To Dream the Impossible Dream…!”

Richard Mahoney

Calumny and Detraction

“Neither was guile found in his mouth, who when he was reviled, did not revile; when he suffered, he threatened not.” This current media blitz about the pedophile scandal caused by Judases within the Church is not about actual sin or crime but is a direct attack on God and the Holy Roman Catholic Church. The Pope and Holy Bishops may not respond to these tabloid accusations, but we the holy faithful will not allow Christ and His Church to be discredited by these piranhas in the media. For once, let us shame the devil and tell the truth. I do not know who is better at fabrication, calumny and detraction: lawyers, politicians, journalists or newscasters? My article in the Advocate in 2005, “Pedophile Is a Crime,” correctly portrayed the scope and magnitude of the pedophile crime and cover-up. To their shame, many journalists and newscasters are deliberately covering up the true nature and scope of these crimes. Msgr. Eugene McCarthy was the first to correctly state the problem and cause of these crimes. He was immediately silenced to protect the real perpetrators of perverse sexual immorality. Msgr. McCarthy stated that these crimes were the result of allowing homosexuals in the seminaries for the last 50 years on the suggestion of psychiatrists that you could be a truly chaste homosexual in priestly ministry. (That is as insane as saying that an alcoholic would make a good bartender!)

Notwithstanding the enormous physiological, psychological and spiritual damage that sodomy has inflicted on humanity, the homosexual agenda to legitimize this perverse behavior has not once been addressed in the media's coverage of the Church sex scandal. Nearly all perpetrators were homosexual men who sodomized sixteen, seventeen and eighteen year old adolescents. Not once did the media portray it as a homosexual scandal, but a pedophile scandal. While locally the police, child-protection agency and abortion lobbies have covered up the real pedophile sex scandal. Over 800 times last year Planned Parenthood was caught on tape offering abortion to a 13-year old to cover up rape. The Delta Clinic of Baton Rouge was caught falsifying reports to the DHH for over seven years, and covering up the rape of minors by not reporting their pregnancy to the sex crimes lab or child protection agency.

The truths of our Faith have been blurred by this scandal and betrayal, but have not prevailed over the magnificent lives of the millions of saints who have been loving witnesses of the power of Christ and His Church.

DHH Letter to Editor March 2010

The article in Friday's Advocate (Baton Rouge) reporting on Delta Abortion Clinic was interesting, mostly because of what it didn't say. I applaud DHH Secretary Levine for his courage in stating his pro-life stance, but am puzzled by his assertion that he has no authority to take action against Delta.

After a WAFB investigation in 1999-2000, changes in the law brought abortion clinics under the same operating guidelines of other medical facilities, yet injuries and injustices committed against women at Delta continue to be ignored.

A violation glossed over in the article is the reporting of incest and rape of minors which Delta consistently fails to report to the authorities. Delta claims a “handful” of minors. I believe the number to be in the hundreds. I personally spoke with one young woman yesterday who was forced into an abortion at the age of 14 after being raped by her mother's boyfriend. Another woman I spoke with obtained an abortion at the same age against her parent's wishes. Both women, years later, still suffer nightmares over the experience.

Unreported in the article is that Kevin Work, a Delta physician, is involved in a lawsuit by Christine K., charged with permanently crippling her hand after the improper administration of Phenergan. His partner, Adrian Coleman, was sued and judgment pronounced for his injury of Laura W., also for the improper administration of Phenergan during an abortion at Delta.

One of the most flagrant violations involves the DHH Report of Induced Termination of Pregnancy which is to be filed with DHH. On this form, “Reason for Abortion” and “Possible Complications” is pre-checked “Unknown,” pre-signed and copies are submitted to DHH. Are we to believe that out of thousands of clients there was not one reason given for an abortion or one complication? That in seven years of this practice not one eyebrow was raised at DHH? The truth is that after the money is collected and any number of complications occurs, these victims are refused treatment at Delta.

Other unreported and unpunished offenses include thousands of violations of HIPPA laws which protect clients' privacy and confidentiality and the administration of RU486, the dangerous abortion drug as required by law.

The public is entitled to a truthful and complete rendering of all the facts involving Delta Abortion Clinic and to swift, meaningful and equitable enforcement of the laws regarding Delta and other clinics in our State. Abortion clinics have flown under the radar long enough. The Advocate, WAFB and WBRZ need to interview attorney Mike Johnson and reveal the facts about the crimes currently being committed at Delta and those committed over the past 24 years.

Health Care Bill

Now that the smoke has cleared and the dust has settled, what will be the consequences of this health-care bill?

Father Corapi has often said, “God has put a limit on man's intelligence, but no limit on his stupidity.”

No truer words could be said of those who passed this health care bill signed by President Obama. This bill is not only morally degenerate but also fiscally irresponsible in a nation drowning in debt.

Health care services comprise 18 to 30 percent of the Gross Domestic Product, depending on what is categorized as direct vs. indirect services. These are high paying jobs which generate most of the tax base in this country. Since we have moved most of our manufacturing jobs to China, and our engineering jobs to India and other Asian countries, America desperately needs health care services to stay in the private sector to provide an economic tax base.

The percentage of the GDP for health care services is supposed to double over the next 20 years. Governmental health care, Medicare and Social Security are already bankrupt, and our nation is $13 trillion in debt. The government borrowed money to bail out the automotive and banking industries from the most repressive communist regime known in history (China). Who does Obama think is going to bail out America?

The only governmental options to solve this crisis are to be morally and fiscally responsible, or confiscate the remaining wealth left in America. Obama has signed over America to a socialist dictatorship where your money, your health, and ultimately your death will be controlled by the government.

This nation, which has aborted fifty million babies (and has stolen ten billion taxpayer dollars to give Planned Parenthood to do it), now has only two employed workers for every retired person, and does not have enough economic stability to take care of the elderly, now wants the government to pay the health care costs for fifteen million illegal immigrants and for those who do not currently have health insurance. It does not take an M.B.A. to realize that this is impossible.

The Democrats had better stay out of the E.R. The organ procurement agency might pronounce them brain dead and steal their organs!

The Evils of Nationalism

My father was one of ten children, the son of an Irish immigrant. I was born in New York City, the melting pot of America, and educated at the University of Miami, an international university. These credentials have given me a better understanding and knowledge of the cultural diversity that exists in our world.

Individually, the Irish were good people, pious and God-fearing, raising their large families in the love and fear of God. Yet, collectively, they lost their souls in the 1960s for economic and political gain. The accumulation of this great apostasy was the veneration of the first Irish Catholic president, John F. Kennedy, who denigrated his faith to some obscure pious ritualism (worse yet, Ted Kennedy's re-election for nearly a half century in Irish Boston even after being a suspected drunkard involved in the death of a young woman)!

Having slept with the Democrats throughout the 1950s and 1960s, who promised the poor Irish Catholics prosperity and a mutual cooperation in governmental money for Catholic hospitals and schools, they bought the Catholic vote. The price of this fornication was the abandonment of religious vocations, the breakdown of the family, the Land o' Lakes declaration of independence, and the Obama-nation of Notre Dame. Individually, most people of all races and cultures are men of good will. However, collectively, most become abominable when they become nationalistic instead of universal (Latin: catholic). Sadly to say, the people of African descent have gone down the same path as the Irish for the past 50 years, making the same mistake and selling their souls to the Democratic Party. More recently, those of Catholic Mexican descent are falling into the same pit. We can be color-blind but let us not be blind to the reality of the universal racism that has existed, and will continue to exist, until all are universally bound in the truth of Christ!

On the topic of universal health care, let us cut to the chase. Only a madman would want our government, which is $11 trillion in debt, and the most irresponsible business in America, to take over health care. They have already given over $1 trillion taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood, the # 1 baby-killers in America, and have spent trillions on AIDS and STDs, all the while peddling irresponsible and perverse behavior (sodomy and fornication). With a little morality, we could probably erase the national debt!

Super Bowl

In the 1981 Academy Award winning film Chariots of Fire, Eric Liddell refuses to violate the Lord's commandment to keep the Lord's Day holy, and refuses to run on Sunday in the 1924 Olympics. In 1958 Brigham Young's baseball team turned down an invitation to the College World Series because they refused to play baseball on Sunday. Recently, two all-American football players turned down $25 million NFL contracts to take $25,000 a year teaching jobs because they refused to play on Sunday. These men are honored not only in this life but will be truly honored by our Lord for all eternity. "He that honors me, I will honor."

Until 1983, stores in Louisiana could not be open on Sunday. And, interestingly enough, Joseph Stalin ordered his generals to move the Russian sporting games to Sunday, relying on taking the youth and then taking the country. This Sunday, nearly 100,000 people will cram into the Super Bowl in Miami, Florida, with the rest of the country riveted to the game by TV or computer. Nearly a billion dollars will be spent on tickets, TV ads, hotels, etc. How is this giving glory to God? His commandment is "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.... Thou shalt do no work...."

I startled a fellow parishioner of mine by telling him that next week the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass will be offered at the SuperDome. We would be stuck in traffic for hours, and when we got there we would have to pay $1,000 to get in. When the Mass is finished, it will take us several hours to get back home. But, nothing to fret about, because we love our Lord so much that just the excitement of being there is worth all the sacrifice. He got the point. Where your heart is, there your treasure is. You can not worship God and Super Bowl!

Rich Mahoney

24 Years of Endangering the Public Health!

Delta Women's Clinic has a well documented history of noncompliance with both federal and state laws dating back to 1986. Numerous violations have been reported to the DHH, DEA, federal, state and local authorities by Delta employees and private citizens.

Due to the injury of several women, an investigation by WAFB revealed extensive violations of the sanitary code and medical malpractice which led Governor Foster to declare an emergency executive order for DHH to go in and inspect the clinic. This led to the suspension of Delta physicians James Whitmore and Eileen White O'Neill and the drafting of several new laws by the Louisiana Legislature. The most significant of these laws brought abortion clinics under the same guidelines as ambulatory surgical units, medical clinics and doctor's offices.

Since the passage of these laws, the violations committed by Delta physicians and workers at the Delta Clinic have led to continued injury and medical malpractice to the women of Louisiana going there. A concerned citizen recently reported 7 criminal violations being committed by the Delta Clinic to the DHH, which led DHH to do an internal investigation at Delta. DHH found the same violations in their investigation yet have not to date closed the Delta Clinic or impose punitive fines for these violations.

Twenty-four years of endangering the public health is enough! Call Governor Jindal and the DHH and demand that Leroy T. Brinkley and the Delta Clinic never to be allowed in the State of Louisiana again and that those affiliated with this clinic will be brought to justice for their crimes.

PLEASE CONTACT THE FOLLOWING:

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal: 225-342-7015

Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Compliance Section: 225-342-0132

Roe v Wade

January 20, 2010

"One dark day in January of 1973, SATAN donned judicial robes! Robes flowing, gavel in hand,

he swept onto the floor of the United States Supreme Court. He presided over the most

atrocious travesty of justice that ever took place, and he declared - we now have the 'right' to

murder the most innocent, in what should be the safest place in the universe for them! And

since then, tens of millions of babes have been assassinated in their own mothers' wombs!

The darkness indeed grows deeper."

--Fr. John Corapi, S.O.L.T.

On Jaunary 22, 2010, I will join hundreds of thousands of youth at the 37th Annual March For

Life in Washington, D.C. to let President Obama know that we are a “people of life” and to warn

him that a nation that kills its own children is a nation without hope.

In several months, I will be deployed either to Iraq or Afghanistan to fight the “War on Terror.”

We will fight insurgents who have no respect for human life and use indiscriminate force to get

what they want. Blessed Mother Teresa told President Clinton at the National Prayer Breakfast, “

How can we expect people not to use violence to get what they want when we allow them to

murder their own children.”

Our success in the “war on terror” will ultimately be linked to our own country's respect for the

dignity of human life and ability to stop “the terror in the womb!”

Pope John Paul II often said, “If you want peace, work for justice.” Where is the justice for the

over 50 million babies murdered by abortion?

John Michael

Enlisted Soldier

Anno Domini

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men of good will.

In the naïveté of youth, erroneous opinions are formulated in the cauldron of inexperience. When I arrived home from my freshman year of college, I told my grandmother that I didn't see anything wrong with communism since our Lord Jesus Christ forewarned us of the evils of greed and wanted us to share our goods with the poor.

In the Acts of the Apostles it states, “And they shared all things in common.” My grandmother nearly had a heart attack and rattled off a litany of the evils that our great grandparents had suffered under such an evil totalitarian regime! Age and experience have showed me the errors of my thought.

In the Acts of the Apostles it also states, “There was no needy person among them, for those who had property would sell them and bring the proceeds and lay them at the feet of the Apostles who distributed to each according to his needs.” In Christianity, proper economics is done through charity and justice. In communism, evil people and regimes confiscate other people's wealth and distribute the stolen money according to political expediency, not justice. The right to private ownership is a fundamental God-given right and our Lord Jesus Christ foretold, “The poor you will always have with you and you can help them” through charity, not forced confiscation.

Many ignorant politicians and even some pastors have embraced the heresies of liberation theology and communism. A classic example is to allow open borders so that people can illegally enter this country. I had to gently reprimand several Christian pastors for their misguided compassion. I told them I would gladly help anyone to the best of my ability who had been forced into exile and was in need, however, I would take them into my house and take care of them. I would not expect my fellow industrious worker and taxpayer to pay for my charity. Anyone who wants to give any marginalized person help or give exiles amnesty should open their rectories and homes to feed, clothe and educate them and not allow the government to be a thief and steal from those who work hard to take care of their families. Blessed Mother Teresa owned nothing which allowed her to take care of the poor for the love of Christ. She didn't steal from others to take care of them. They gave through charity, not confiscation.

Communism, nazism, fascism, modernism, freudism, and even capitalism are the product of man's futility. There is only one truth, and you can find Him in a manger. Give to God what is God's, and to Caesar the light of truth, the King of Glory. Glory to God in the highest!

Richard Mahoney

Hate Speech?

October 27, 2009

Mr. Moore, hate speech? On the contrary! Who would not be moved to pity at seeing a drunkard lying in the gutter vomiting all over himself? Would it be called hate speech to condemn drunkenness? Yet, when we see millions of people destroy themselves physically and spiritually by the sin of sodomy, should we not condemn the perverse act which has given tens of millions of people one of the worst plagues in history? The average lifetime cost to treat each AIDS patient is $618,900 (Journal of Bio-Medicine). The average life expectancy of sexually active homosexuals is about 20 years less than for heterosexual men. The cost to the American taxpayer for sexually transmitted diseases, children born out of wedlock, and broken families, is staggering.

The Immaculate Virgin Mary appeared to Bernadette Soubirous in 1858 and asked her to pray for poor sinners. A French physician asked her, "Who are these sinners we are to pray for?" She replied, "Those who love sin!" To be tempted by sin, or even fall through human weakness, is not the same thing as the vile person who condones the sin he commits and tries to lead others into its bondage.

If Mr. Moore thinks that a moral Christian lifestyle will not "resolve the health care crisis," and that I am so ignorant that I should be beamed back to the medieval era, I challenge him to a televised debate on the health care crisis over a cup of V-8 juice.

Richard Mahoney

Restoration of the Christian Family and True Health Care

September 15, 2009

Having worked nearly 30 years in the intensive care unit setting, and having seen the evolution of this monstrous health care crisis, which germinated nearly a century ago with the contraceptive revolution, I will attempt to simply solve the crisis with an ounce of prevention rather than a trillion dollars of cure.

It will begin with holy sacramental marriages, and mothers migrating back to the home to take care of their children and the household. It will begin with children taking care of their elderly parents in the twilight of their lives. It will begin with the fostering of true religious vocations where holy nuns take care of the sick and elderly without cost, as Mother Teresa of Calcutta's nuns do. It will begin with cardinals, bishops, and priests who, like St. John the Baptist, condemn the errors of the Herods of this world, and not crucify little babies in the womb by honoring the Obamas and Kennedys of this world with honorary degrees and pomp-and-ceremony funerals. It will end with the restoration of the Christian family (not civil unions or perverse sodomite unions).

Hastening a human being's death is not assistance to suffering humanity but an abandonment. No treatment, or the withholding of treatment, should be the etiological cause of one's death, but only the direct result of the pathology, trauma, or disease. Murdering those with a poor quality of life or those with mild or severe cerebral anomalies by euphemisms such as "death with dignity," "quality of life," "brain death," "persistent vegetative state," "comatose," etc., will not lessen the gravity of the sin. No one is obligated to undergo extraordinary means to extend one's life, as long as these treatments will not ultimately bring about a reasonable probability of cure. However, hydration and nutrition, and any medicinal or therapeutic procedure that will facilitate health must be instituted.

While it is our duty to alleviate that pain which can be alleviated, death with dignity is not dying with sufficient opiates or quietly on a feather pillow, but having one's family and friends praying at your bedside while you are on your twelfth station of the Cross.

Richard Mahoney

Respiratory Therapist (225) 925-1599

The soul of Catholic Universities

April 20, 2009

The battle over the soul of the Catholic universities began in 1967 with the Land O'Lakes "Declaration of Independence" and it will end at Notre Dame on May 17, 2009. The 1967 Land O'Lakes statement signaled mutiny by most of the Catholic universities of America. It was a declaration of liberation and independence from the Pope and Magisterium of the Church.

To date, 44 bishops, thousands of priests, and over 350,000 faithful have contacted President Jenkins of Notre Dame and asked him to rescind his invitation to pro-abortion President Obama. He was asked to give the commencement address and receive an honorary degree on May 17, 2009 during Notre Dame's graduation ceremonies. The USCCB (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops) has made it clear in its directives that no "pro-abortion politician" may be invited to speak at or receive an honorary degree at any Catholic college or university.

Cardinal Ratzinger's commentary Ad Tuendam Fidem, and Pope John Paul II's Apostolic Constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae, state that members of faculty at Catholic colleges and universities must make a public profession of faith (Nicene-Constantinople Creed) and take the Oath of Fidelity to the ordinary of their diocese or his representative. It begins:

I, N., in assuming the office of __________, promise that in my words and in my actions I shall always preserve communion with the Catholic Church.

With great care and fidelity I shall carry out the duties incumbent on me toward the Church, both universal and particular, in which, according to the provisions of the law, I have been called to exercise my service.

In fulfilling the charge entrusted to me in the name of the Church, I shall hold fast to the deposit of faith in its entirety; I shall faithfully hand it on and explain it, and I shall avoid any teachings contrary to it.

I shall follow and foster the common discipline of the entire Church and I shall maintain the observance of all ecclesiastical laws, especially those contained in the Code of Canon Law.

If Notre Dame disobeys the Church on these matters, it must change its name and become a secular university and stop pretending to be a Catholic center of higher education. Pope John Paul II tells us: "Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is the sin committed by the person who claims to have a right to persist in evil, and who thus rejects redemption." How prophetic a warning to this generation which insists it has the right to kill babies in the womb and wallow in the perverse sin of sodomy!

The Winds of Change

Sunday, April 19, 2009

The winds of change are surely blowing across America. As Americans are fixated on the economic instability sweeping across our land, immoral agendas are corroding the foundations of our society. "Fair is foul and foul is fair/Hover through the fog and filthy air." (McBeth - Act I scene i. line 10)

I travel extensively across the South with missionary and pro-life work and have held Respiratory Licenses in numerous states so that when I travel, I can work in Respiratory or Cardiopulmonary in these various states. Last week, I was called into the Arkansas State Board of Medical Examiners. This meeting had nothing to do with the practice of Respiratory Therapy or Cardiopulmonary technology or my practice of these disciplines over the last 28 years. The sole purpose of this meeting was over the "A" word.

Before they would give me my license in Arkansas, they wanted to be sure I would not let my staunch defense of life interfere with their agenda. This would seem to be to silence pro-lifers even in Catholic hospitals. After a barrage of questions introduced to label me as a pro-life fanatic unfit to work in any hospital in Arkansas, a member of the Board jumped up and said, "Would you try to talk anyone out of an abortion? We've actually had a few doctors who had the nerve to try to talk their patients out of an abortion." In answer to their questions, I simply replied, "I only work in Catholic hospitals which do not allow or perform abortions, so this is not an issue." In response, they said I will be seeing patients who weren't Catholic and those who had obtained an abortion and they didn't want me talking to them about the "A" word. So much for freedom of speech and freedom of religion in Catholic Hospitals.

It would constitute medical malpractice not to inform any patient of the adverse, harmful or deleterious effects of any medical procedure. This is called Informed Consent. It would be totally illogical not to inform a patient of the harm done to body and soul by this procedure except that surgical or chemical abortion is nothing other than the murdering of an innocent baby in his mother's womb; it wouldn't constitute a medical procedure so on these grounds no pre-op would be legally necessary.

A wise friend advised me to practice fortitude and be prudent like St. Thomas Moore when answering the Arkansas State Board's questions. I told him afterward that St. John the Baptist shouted from the rooftops while St. Thomas Moore practiced fortitude and prudence. Yet they both lost their heads. Precluding freedom of speech and freedom of conscience have never been a prerequisite for obtaining a Respiratory Therapy license in the past.

The winds of change are surely blowing and Obama is the windbag.

Richard Mahoney

Revolution

Sat, Nov 8, 2008

Nearly all evil regimes and pernicious tyrants have been born on the heals of economic collapse. They draw like maggots the dependent and those ignorant of the blessings wrought from virtue. They want revolutionary change for the sake of novelty or false security. The greatness of the Reagan era is that he inspired in Americans pride, honor and nobility, and that in life (like in the movies), good always prevails over evil. Virtue and the American way would bring about prosperity and not "our father who art in Washington." It was "God Our Father" Who would lead us to victory, by keeping His Commandments and not by our own strength. The Bush - Clinton - Bush era saw the slow selling of America to foreign anti-American regimes. Economic collapse and panic have ensued and along comes the charismatic revolutionary Obama promising hope to the fearful masses. A groundless hope based on empty promises, Obama is about change but not a change for good but an evil sinister revolution of socialism; another Animal Farm.

Richard Mahoney

Respiratory Therapist

225-926-8920

Betrayal

Sat, Nov 8, 2008

Truth has been betrayed by the majority of the clergy in America, who should have defended it. Most of the media and clergy told their dubious listeners that there are no absolute truths or intrinsic evils and that one in good conscience could vote for those supporting abortion and sodomy. In the gubernatorial election of 1992, in response to Buddy Roemer's unpopular gubernatorial policies, Buddy Roemer was ousted by Edwin Edwards and David Duke in the governor's race. Duke was defeated by Edwards due to the media's clamoring of his unsavory ties to the KKK. The media responsibly told the facts and would not let his past fade into obscurity. The media's deafening silence to Obama's ties to racist groups shows their repugnant hypocrisy. Obama was the media's poster child and puppet of the National Abortion Federation, gay nation, NAACP and Islamic fascists. The stark difference between the David Duke's campaign and Obama's was that Duke ran on a pro-life, pro-family platform while Obama ran on a pro-abortion, pro-sodomite platform.

Being the first Black President of the United States, Obama's election was touted as a milestone in America's history. It would have been a milestone if an honest and noble man was elected. (The NAACP and media would have been up in arms if it was David Duke who was elected president.) Alan Keyes has run three times for the presidency, yet in the 2008 presidential debates, he was not even allowed to participate in the debates. He must not meet the NAACP's and the hypocritical media's criteria for membership in their political establishment.

2008 was indeed a milestone in American history. We now know that the civil rights leaders in America were not about civil rights but their own rights. Whatever happened to civil rights for babies in the womb? I truly believe that the American people weren't voting for Obama but for themselves. They saw it as, "Our father, who art in Washington, give us this day our daily bread. Amen."

Richard Mahoney

Respiratory Therapist

225-715-3870

Publicans vs. Demoncrats

Wed, Aug 6, 2008

I can not contemplate any greater evil, it is the father of despair, the greatest enemy of honor and virtue, and the greatest taunt of hell, than the temptation that all our good works are for naught and that ultimately evil prevails. This has led many good men to throw in the towel, wave the white flag, and flee from the battle. This lethargy has even entered the political realm. Many Christians proclaim that there is no difference between the Republicans and the Democrats, so that they will not vote for anyone. This cynicism and apathy frightens me more than all the forces of the enemies of Christendom.

How any Christian would not fulfill his civic duties and cop out by not taking a stance against the evils of our time and renege on their duty to vote and be part of the political process is beyond me. Some call them the "dream team," others the "mod squad," and still others the "odd couple." Who do I say that they are? They are the litmus tests of how morally decadent America will become during the next eight years if Obama or Hillary is elected to office. In past times, politicians at least feigned to espouse God, marriage, and morality. If they didn't, they could not be elected in the Bible Belt. It is inconceivable that a party that espouses sodomy, abortion, and ACLU-sponsored pornography would even get a voice in this November's election. I asked a Russian neighbor of mine what she thought about living through the horrors of atheistic communism. She became defensive and exclaimed, "What do you mean? There is really no difference between the Communist Party and the Democrats in your country" (no truer words were ever spoken).

The Publicans had better wake up and smell the stench, stand up for what is Godly, and not cower before what is "politically correct." Pope Benedict XVI iterated that, "A Catholic can not profess his faith at church and then promote political business, business, or medical practices, contrary to those beliefs." He said, "In a world without truth, freedom loses its foundation and a democracy without values loses its very soul." Christians, and others of good will, had better stand united and get involved in the political process, or the collapse of America is inevitable.

Rich Mahoney

Apocalyptic

A task force of medical doctors, Homeland Security, Centers for Disease Control, and DHH recently set up guidelines for hospitals to use when widespread health care disasters from pandemics, epidemics, natural disasters, or war occur. While admitting that, "There are some real concerns here," the rules exclude care for the elderly, those with chronic diseases, and those whose wounds are severe or life-threatening, as to be too time-intensive. The government has allotted money to hospitals to buy portable disposable ventilators to prepare for a national emergency or mass casualties. Homeland Security has admitted that it is not a question of if, but of when, it happens. Having worked 27 years in intensive care, operating ventilators for critically ill patients, I recognize that no hospital in America is prepared for an influx of hundreds of critically ill patients, and that triage will be necessary to determine who will be given treatment and who will not.

However, I am more alarmed about the lack of concern for the causes of this dilemma, than for its consequences. Many are preparing for apocalyptic fallout, but nearly no one is preparing for conversion and repentance. Are our priests ready to give the sacraments to the dying under such horrific circumstances; to hear confessions and snatch from Satan's jaws those deep in sin, or will they just erroneously pronounce, "God forgives you," and run from the horror, leaving many in a state of despair. On that day, there will be only heroes (saints) and cowards (judases).

In our society, which prides itself on its advances in scientific technology and the progress it perceives as the result of an advanced evolutionary stage, and mocks the idea of an immortal soul made in God's image and likeness, my response to Phil Beavers' editorial is: Man reduces himself to "psychological slavery" when he attempts to reduce his existence to natural selection and negates his immortal soul!

Pope Benedict's Visit

On the eve of our Holy Father Benedict XVI's trip to the United States, many people in the media have been making derogatory comments about him. Last week, a friend of mine from Mississippi joined in with their barrage. I turned to him and asked him how many children did he have, knowing full well the answer. He replied, "I have three children." I asked him if any of them were living their Christian faith, or at least living exemplary lives. He shamefully admitted that none of his children were living a good exemplary Christian life. I told him that if he couldn't even keep three children in line, he had no right to criticize the pope who has over one billion children to teach, govern, and lovingly rule. The popes call themselves "servants of the servants of God."

Sadly to say, many of these children are ignorant, confused, wounded, and rebellious, either by scandal or ignorance of the loving teachings of Christ through His Church. We have been blessed by our Lord Jesus Christ that He has given His Church such saintly popes during the past century to lead us through these apocalyptic times. These modernists tout the heresy of individualism, the American icon, and clamor about individual rights, yet never fulfill their duties to God or neighbor. They are devoid of humility, honor, or courage.

The truths of our faith have often been blurred by heresy, apostasy, scandal, and betrayal, but have prevailed and shined magnificently and miraculously through the millions of saints who have been loving witnesses to the power of Christ's love, truth, and "miraculous and mysterious beauty of his creation!"

God bless you!

Rich Mahoney

Survivor - by Maria Mahoney

Like Anne Frank, I too have a story. A story of hardship, sorrow,

long-suffering, and death. Yet through all the darkness the light of

truth, though eclipsed, has not been extinguished. This is my story:

I am a survivor of the most deadly war in human history, which has

claimed over 50 million American lives and over two billion lives

worldwide over the past 35 years. One-third of my peers have been

exterminated in the abortion concentration camps. Neither I nor

anyone born in 1973 or after have had any legal right to life! None of

us could have escaped the whim of another's choice! More sadly still,

it is to think that the perpetrators of such an abomination were not

some evil Nazi or communist dictator or tyrant, but of our own mothers!

What should be the safest and most peaceful moments of our lives

where we were rocked to sleep with the lullabye and harmonic symphony

of the loving heartbeat of our mother has become the deadliest battleground

in history! More tragic still is the memorial wall of the billions of babies

slaughtered is not written on some marble or granite wall but on the hearts

of these mothers! "You can rip a baby from its mother's womb, but not from

its mother's heart." Abortion has pitted a mother against her own baby.

In human history there has never been known any greater love or bond than

that of a mother and her baby. How tragic the slogan, "Abortion: One dead,

one wounded." You will always remember the child you never knew.

My prayer for January 22, 2008, is that no more names will be written on the

American Holocaust wall, and that once again the most loving place to be

in America is in our mothers' wombs. Yes, we, those born after 1973, have a story!

Maria Mahoney

doctorate student

4829 Bennington Ave.

Baton Rouge, LA

(225) 926-8920

Christmas 2007

While checking out my groceries at a local market, the cashier wished

me, "Happy Holiday." I retorted, "May you have a holy and blessed

Christmas, and may our Lord Jesus Christ give you His Peace." All

history and time is marked and centered around the birth of our Lord

Jesus Christ (Anno Domini). Yet the greatest day in human history is

the Incarnation of our Lord. "And the Word was made flesh and dwelt

among us," (John 1:14) begotten of the Father and conceived by the

Holy Spirit in time.

When announced, the baby John the Baptist lept in the womb for joy

(Baby, not embryo or fetus). (Luke 39: 40) The world is anticipating the

birth of our Lord with joy amidst the constant backdrop of death.

On this joyful Advent Season, I'm reminded of a little old Haitian lady

who used to rock on the front porch of her shack in Miami Florida. She

was always full of joy and a comforting word. Her neighbor was a grumpy

old man who constantly complained of all that was wrong with the world

without doing a thing to change it. She quietly and calmly only spoke of

the goodness of God to him. He retorted one day, "You would probably

have something good to say even about the devil." She thought for a

moment, and exclaimed, "Yeah, he sure aint lazy!"

Have a holy and blessed Christmas and follow the words of Mother Teresa,

"It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."

And the Light shineth in the darkness, and the darkness did

not comprehend it. That was the true light, which enlighteneth

every man that cometh into this world.

John 1:4 - 1:9.

God bless.

Richard Mahoney

Respiratory Therapist

225-926-8920

Choose who you will serve

Last month President Bush toured the scourged, ravaged State of California and told the citizens of that state, "Better days are coming." I am extremely pessimistic about "better times are coming" when, over the last several years, military chaplains have been threatened and court-martialed over professing the Lord Jesus Christ to soldiers instead of proselytizing the god of nature or the generic god of all religions.

It seems as if the ACLU-driven politicians want to use God only to make men feel more comfortable about killing for their nation. Also, it is very sobering to note that many more young men have died in the streets of our cities over the last several years than in the war in Iraq. It is actually safer to be in Iraq than in many American cities. While our nation has mobilized to fight wars against religious zealots, we fund the tyranny of abortion, sodomy, pornography, and atheistic communism in China that is killing billions worldwide.

"Our father who art in Washington" promises to save us Publicans with the conservative gospel of prosperity and the Demoncrats mobilizing their clientele with the fear of things to come. The major difference between the parties is that the Demoncrats have solidified their evil agenda and promote it in their platform. That is why the Publicans are not the solution. Yet the Demoncrats are not an option. If the Publicans will not fight for the truth, then the Constitution Party may be the only option for the Christian vote.

Elijah told the idolatrous children of Israel, "Choose who you will serve." Christians must decide this coming year whom they choose to serve. When the light of divine revelation is extinguished, all that is left for humanity is the pursuit of pleasure. All that is beautiful and sublime slowly degenerates into futility or existentialism. The cure is plain to see, but the medicine is so distasteful that most Christians will not take their teaspoonful. If that is so, in 2008 we will sell our birthright to Hitlery and the Demoncratic Party.

God bless you!

Rich Mahoney

Global Warming and Faith

July 4, 2007

While constantly fighting to persuade people to stop polluting God's planet, of which we have been made stewards, I have a healthy skepticism when I hear people like Al Gore scream that global warming is the result of modern technology. I do not jump at the scream of every tree-hugger, especially when they are running around the world in Lear jets. I take Mother Teresa of Calcutta seriously. She spoke about the plight of the poor while she lived and suffered with them. It is actually amazing what power these environmentalists wield. TSU stopped building eleven powerplants at their beckoning. It is my understanding that volcanos, lightning, and fires emit much more greenhouse gas than all of our modern technological innovations. While we should treat God's footstool with reverence, our main concern should be how we treat God's children.

My grandfather lived through the industrial revolution. My father the technological revolution. We are living through the genetic revolution, whose consequences will be far more reaching. Genetic engineering is an adventure "to where there is no return!" The great strides of nanotechnology will either enable humanity to fight certain diseases or eradicate the whole human race. It has the far reaching potential to program each and every individual as if he were a computer or a robot. The new generation of computers will be DNA computers, using DNA bases adenine-thymine and cytosine-guanine, switched on and off with photons replacing the current binary code (0-1) data signals processed by microprocessors, transistor switches that pass or stop pulses of current.

With the completion of the genome project and the explosion of the scientific knowledge of genetics man, not space, has become the new frontier. A frontier from which mankind may never return. His choice will be the Son of God and life, or the son of perdition and death!

Richard Mahoney

Respiratory Therapist

4829 Bennington Ave.

Baton Rouge, LA 70808

(225) 926-8920

Partial Birth Abortion

Some discourses are so incredulous only the intelligentia can understand them. This can be applied to the dissenters of the Supreme Court decision to ban Partial Birth Abortion. I challenge those Justices who dissented from the ban to explain to me how inducing a breech delivery on a woman (which would be life threatening in and of itself) and sucking the brains out of a baby who has already been delivered and whose cavarian is sitting in the cervical os can save the life of a mother?

The abortionists, by manipulating a breech delivery, is the villianist character who is not only killing a baby ¾ out the birth canal but is putting the mother in a life threatening position by a breech delivery. Conversely, defunct abortionist James Whitmore III, MD wrote in his lawsuit to keep partial birth abortion legal that “the ban would encompass D & E procedures.” Whitmore also declares that “during the D & E procedure, a part of the fetus protrudes from or is pulled through the cervical os before the fetus is fully removed. It is possible that the fetus (baby) is living when part of the fetus is within the uterus and part is outside, because it is extremely difficult to know precisely when fetal demise occurs. Thus, all D & E procedures could be considered partial birth abortion.”

To get to the crux of the matter, show an ultrasound to any child and ask them to tell you what they see. They will tell you, “A baby.” If it is a baby, then abortion is murder. “Blessed is the fruit of thy womb!” Satan and abortion have cursed the womb and have brought upon fathers and mothers the curse of Cain.

Richard Mahoney

Cardiopulmonary Tech.

(225) 926 - 8920

April 26, 2007

www.cpforlife.org/memorial

Easter Resurrection

With the preparation for Lent on Shrove Tuesday and the walk with our Lord Jesus Christ in the desert for forty days and nights to fast and pray, Christian have begun their ascent to Calvary and a new life on the glorious Easter Resurrection.

The severity of God's justice and the infinite depths of His mercy are simultaneously wrought on the Cross of Christ. Christ has warned us of the Pharisee and the publican. The publican sinner fears that he will never be forgiven by God or presumptuously sins with what he imagines is impunity, while the just Pharisee fears that he will become like the vile sinner he abhors. Let us become like the Immaculate Virgin Mary who, though redeemed by Christ, "never added to His sufferings by any sins or omissions." Though singularly preserved in grace, and Immaculately Conceived, the humble "handmaid of the Lord" responded to grace and "heard the word of God and kept it." She is the glory of the human race, queen of angels and men, and "all generations shall call her blessed." Let us follow the Blessed Virgin Mary's example and come to the foot of the Cross, so that the rays of Divine Mercy which shone forth for souls from the blood and water that gushed from His sacred side, will make us a new creation in Christ, a resurrection of love and life.

There is a divine limit imposed on evil: Divine Mercy. The sacramental sign of His Body given up and His Blood poured out! Now is the time for mercy, justice will follow!

God bless you!

Rich Mahoney

Moral Indifference

As the clock ticks down to my 50th birthday, 2007 will be a big milestone in my pilgrimage to eternity. While walking down memory lane, I realized that I have been very blessed to have been able to administer to, and talk with, over 100,000 patients during the past 26 years. Some have lived more than 100 years. A few were actually born at the end of the nineteenth century, lived through the twentieth century, and have awakened to glimpse the twenty-first century.

When asking one lady who was more than 100 years old what she thought about the changes she experienced over the century, I was struck by her candid response. She thought modern conveniences, comforts and technology were the greatest things, and that she wouldn't want to go back to the “good old days” when one had to work hard merely to survive. Sadly, she lamented the sinfulness and degenerative perversity that has plagued America over the past 50 years and the luxury and convenience that cajoled this hedonistic lifestyle. Yet, when pinned down to what she would choose if presented with a life of pleasure and comfort or a life of penitential purity, she begrudgingly chose the life of ease, even though it meant having to deadbolt her door even in the daytime, and have a security system.

In my naivete, I was certain that she would have chosen a life of prayer and hard work. How we live in a plane of moral indifference. Batter's up, and the hardball game of money vs. morality. In this truly American world series, money has a 2-0 advantage in the bottom of the ninth inning. Will Christians hit a home run with the bases loaded, or strike out to the curveball of comfort!

Richard Mahoney

On Modesty

"Once upon a time, in the good old days," Catholics outdid themselves

bathing and putting on their Sunday best to enter into the Holy of Holies

of the Great King, our Lord Jesus Christ. Modesty and temperance were

the norm, and the Marian Code of Dress was adhered to by all faithful Catholics.

Then, in the 1960s, Catholic women abandoned the veil and started donning

their peacock hats so they could follow the fashion of Jacqueline Kennedy.

Satan then entered the very sanctuary of the Church and now churchgoers

are trying to outdo each other in undressing. Immodesty and godless fashions

prevail even in the Holy of Holies. Even pagans dress more appropriately for

their pagan banquets than those attending the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass,

the Mystery of Faith.

The silence of pastors is leading the flock into a life of moderate apostasy.

Those who do not strive for heroic virtue will eventually lose any natural virtue

they may have possessed. St. Padre Pio would not give Holy Communion

or absolution to anyone who was immodestly dressed, nor should any holy

priest. Let's stand up and be counted!

Richard Mahoney

Letter: ‘EC’ pill has postfertilization effect

Story originally published in The Advocate [Baton Rouge]

http://www.2theadvocate.com/opinion/3811386.html

Published: Sep 2, 2006

I would like to respond to the common inaccuracies found in articles

regarding “emergency contraception” (EC), such as that in “FDA OKs

nonprescription sales of morning-after pill,” by Associated Press writer

Andrew Bridges published on your front page Aug. 25.

Proponents of EC often state that it does not cause abortions. However,

the best models of EC efficacy estimate that much of the time this method

acts to end a pregnancy after fertilization has already occurred.

Fertilization, the fusion of a sperm and egg, is the beginning of life for each

unique human being. It occurs in the fallopian tube. It takes approximately

5 to 9 days for this newly conceived human being to travel through the tube

to the uterus (womb) where it implants.

EC can act after fertilization by interfering with the further development of

the embryo, inhibiting its transport through the tube or interfering with

implantation in the uterus.

Even the makers of Plan B, the method approved for over-the-counter use

by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, admit to this postfertilization

effect in their prescribing information. For those women, physicians and

pharmacists who believe that life begins at fertilization, a postfertilization

effect causes an early abortion.

Women should be told about this in the interests of informed consent and

to prevent emotional harm from realizing this after the fact. When proponents

of EC say that it does not cause abortions, they are relying on an arbitrary

definition of pregnancy which states that it begins with implantation of the

embryo in the uterus.

This new definition was first promoted in the late ’60s and early ’70s by

the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists when it was

realized that oral contraceptives had a postfertilization effect.

Claims are also made that over-the-counter use of EC will decrease

unwanted pregnancies. In fact, the only studies that exist of easy access

to EC in the United States and in Europe show that it has no effect on

pregnancy rates.

The packaging insert for Plan B admits to an increased rate of potentially

fatal ectopic pregnancy. Severe nausea is also a frequent side effect.

The hormone dose in EC is 20 times that in oral contraceptives.

EC does not decrease the rate of unwanted pregnancy, is potentially

dangerous and causes early abortions. Despite these facts, proponents

of EC such as Planned Parenthood (who will make a bundle dispensing

it at more than $40 per pack) have already vowed to lobby for easy

access for adolescent girls.

How long before they introduce legislation mandating coverage for EC

by governmental agencies and private insurance companies and employers?

Robert Chasuk, M.D.

family physician

Baton Rouge

Jihad is Condemned

Jihad Is Condemned

In the Christian west insults, contempt and blasphemy are constantly

hurled against our Almighty God and His Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus

Christ, under the guise of art and entertainment. No outrage is broadcast,

no repercussion is felt. How little we love God and our Lord Jesus Christ!

Conversely, devout Muslims pray openly six times a day and will fight and

die if anyone insults Islam. Muslim zealousness, prayerfulness, and love

of Allah should be emulated by all devout Christians towards Christ our

Lord! Christianity has always viewed Islam as heresy and a threat to the

Christian world due to jihad and its treatment of non-Islamic "infidels."

The Crusades were a response to Islamic jihad overrunning Christian

Europe in the Middle Ages. Nearly a thousand years of conflict between

the Christian west and Islamic east was replaced during the nineteenth

and twentieth centuries by a new threat of fascism, nazism and communism.

Now that communism has been mostly eradicated, except in China and

Cuba, the threat of the Islamic world against the now non-Christian pagan

secular humanist west is very real. Yet this time the love of God and our

Lord Jesus Christ will not save the west, due to the fact that secular

humanists cannot and will not stand up for anything except the right to

be immoral. They view democracy, not as a means for freedom of worship

and the right to life, but as a panacea for immorality, sodomy and abortion.

Christians had better see the handwriting on the wall or pack their bags for

another exile into Babylon.

Pope Benedict XVI has called for reciprocity in the Christian Muslim

relationships calling on all Muslim nations to honor the religious freedoms

of all faiths and denominations, as is done in the Western democracies.

His condemnation of Islamic Jihad and prohibition of Christianity in many

Muslim nations is not unfounded. Christianity is outlawed in Egypt; nearly

1.5 million Christians have been murdered since the 1983 institution of Islamic

Shariah in Sudan. Hezbollah is touting the militant Shariah law in Lebanon.

Let us shame the devil and tell the truth for once. The media's hypocritical

coverage of the Pope's speech on Islam, dialogue with Muslim countries and

terrorism has reached new heights in the United States. These news anchors

need to focus on the lack of religious tolerance and the promotion of terrorism

in Islamic countries and not condemn the Pope for pointing them out.

Richard Mahoney

Choose God's Plan

As the morality of our country plummets to a new low with the legalization

of the “morning after pill” (Plan B), the twin towers of love and life are

crumbling before our eyes. August 24, 2006 is one of the worst days in

the history of our nation. Fornication and murder are now sold next to the

chewing gum in our grocery stores and pharmacies. In God's Plan, Plan A

is marriage and Plan B is children.

Whoever enters into married life

Enters into a life of sharing and caring

Giving and forgiving, loving and being loved

If each lover sees through the other's eyes

Always trusting and believing

And thanking God for one another

Their souls will blossom together

For a love that is shared is a heavenly thing

By its melody it brings new life to the soul

Walking hand in hand

Sharing each other in body and soul

Comes a child

Flesh of our flesh

Soul of light divine

Children are our source of light and warmth

A symbol of our life and love together.

In this godless country, Plan A is fornication and Plan B is murdering

the child of conception. The FDA recently declared that the morning

after pill works by preventing ovulation or implantation of the newly

formed baby. Statistically nearly 25 - 50% of women taking the pill

would have already ovulated. So in 25 - 50% of women taking the pill,

the “morning after pill” would act as an abortifacient, preventing the

implantation of the newly formed baby.

Pope Benedict XVI said: “We are not some casual or meaningless

product of conception or evolution. Each of us is the result of the

thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved and each

of us is necessary!”

“Truly you have formed my inmost being; you knit me in my mother's

womb. I give you thanks, Almighty God, that I am fearfully, wonderfully

made; wonderful are your works.” (Psalm 139)

Richard Mahoney

Victory over Death

Exhilaration and praise resounded from the lips of devout Christians in Ann Arbor,

Michigan recently when the Women's Choice Center run by abortionist Robert

Alexander closed down. Edmund Miller and Alicia Wong had prayed and counseled

outside this murder mill for years and had watched as thousands of innocent babies

were led into the holocaust chamber to be executed by their own fathers and mothers.

On entering the death camp, she entered the rooms where tens of thousands of innocent

babies were brutally tortured and murdered. She gazed at the table where the mothers'

laid to abort their children and this is what she saw:

I saw despair lying there; lying there in the faces of women who could not accept

love really exists and if it did, it would never exist for them!

I saw anger lying there; life was seen as a loveless, joyless proposition, whereas

murder was even better!

I saw helplessness lying there; helpless women herded toward abortion by family

or friends who believed their duty was to allow nothing outside their own pleasure to live!

I saw laughter lying there; the laughter of women who thought life was a joke!

Abortion clinics are the modern day concentration camps where women are driven by the

tide of their own sins, anger, fears and despair. You can rip a baby from its mother's womb

but not from its mother's heart. How many tears do mothers have to shed over the blood of

their murdered children before America and the world repents of this senseless and brutal

debasement of mothers.

America needs to come to grips with the stark reality that they have perpetuated a holocaust

against innocent babies in the womb and begin repentance by erecting a tomb for the unknown

baby and a American Holocaust Wall in Washington D.C. Former abortion clinics need to be

turned into American Holocaust Memorials so that we NEVER FORGET!

Richard Mahoney

Da Vinci Blasphemy

May 19, 2006 will be a day of infamy across America in the Holy Roman Catholic Church.

Christians should don sackcloth and ashes and weep over the blasphemous movie, The Da Vinci Code to be released on that day. The Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ have fled to safer ground allowing our Lord to be crucified anew. They have concluded that it is better to proclaim the truth than to condemn the error and blasphemy. (Yet only a few weeks earlier they encouraged Christians to take to the streets, break the law and skip work to fight for the illegal immigrants.) The only difference between Judas’ betrayal and that of apostate Christians who bought the Da Vinci Code and now are going to see the movie is that Judas received 30 pieces of silver in payment to betray Christ and now the enemies of truth are paying for the opportunity to betray our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Son of God..

Pastors have been asked if it is a sin to go and pay to watch the Da Vinci Code. Many have been told that it is up to their conscience. I reply with the words of our Lord Jesus Christ: “Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.”(Mt. 12) Proclaiming that our Lord Jesus was just a man and not the Son of God who has been raised from the dead is a lie and a blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. And to imply that he had fornicated with Mary Magdelene is a vile perversity. It is sad our separated brethren in Christ have not spoken out against these blasphemous lies. Sadly to say, it is that many of them have only one thing in common theologically; they do not consider that the Holy Roman Catholic Church is the Church of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Even though this film blasphemes Christ, it is a direct affront to the Roman Catholic Church and this has brought about their silence! Satan, the father of lies, has again possessed the children of men to believe his lies and drink the cup of sorrow. Many will weep when the Spirit of Truth convicts them of following him in rebellion! God convert America!

Richard Mahoney

(Rev 12:1) "And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; she was with child." Our century has seen the great battle between the dragon and his antichrists (the Red Army), and our Lord Jesus and the Blessed Virgin Mary's Blue Army of Christian Soldiers. Now the final battle has begun. Satan and his cohorts have promised again to the children of Adam, "You can be like God." Yet this time, the old serpent not only promises man knowledge but "the keys of life and death." As the battle rages over the right to life versus the right to kill an innocent baby in the womb, NARAL, NOW, Planned Barrenhood (Planned Parenthood) use the language of lies and seduction. Our Lord's language is love and charity. We must distinguish the language of lies and seduction from the language of truth and love.

The communists' secret police, the KGB, told Christians, "Preach Christ, but do not denounce or condemn communism." Today that same warning is given to Christians in Communist China. Millions are still being tortured and murdered in communist and Islamic countries for the sake of the Gospel of Christ. What these tyrants do by force, America does by media manipulation. Preach Christ, but do not condemn immodesty, impurity, pornography, contraceptives, abortion, sodomy, genetic engineering, etc. It is tragic that Christians fight so timidly for the truth while apostates and merchants of impurity and death fight with all their souls on the side of evil.. America is slowly falling by the love of money and pleasure, and the fear of future evils. We do not repent. I will echo Abraham Lincoln's response to hypocrisy like ours. "If it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty." The evil in our country is starkly apparent. If we are to free the world from tyranny we must work to rid America of the culture of death. President Bush must be courageous and sign a Human Life Amendment which like the Emancipation Proclamation led to the abolition of slavery. The Human Life Amendment will protect all human beings from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death.

God bless!

Rich Mahoney

The cliche, "If you cannot be a shining example to your children,

then you will at least be a great warning to them," can be applied

to our baby-booming narcisstic generation. We have passed on

the torch of death to Generation X, the "Death-Roe" generation.

No one in America born after January 22, 1973 was entitled to

"life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." As with the condemned

at Auschwitz, their life or death was at the whim of another.

Yet this time, instead of the Gestapo, one's own mother was

the executioner. Margaret Sanger (Nazgul) and Planned Barrenhood

(alias Planned Parenthood) have unleashed a worldwide culture of

death in peddling impurity, contraception, abortion, and genocide.

It is sad that God, love and life do not unite people as much as

do licentiousness, hatred and revenge.

With impurity, licentiousness and murder firmly rooted, Satan,

Sauron and Sodomy (SSS) are now beginning their final assault

on mankind. The destruction of the family! Our ode to God, love

and life, and the destruction of the Ring (our rebellious will) will

bring the SSS to its death.

Ode:

Whoever enters into married life

Enters into a life of sharing and caring

Giving and forgiving, loving and being loved

If each lover sees through the other's eyes

Always trusting and believing

And thanking God for one another

Their souls will blossom together

For a love that is shared is a heavenly thing

By its melody it brings new life to the soul

Walking hand in hand

Sharing each other in body and soul

Comes a child

Flesh of our flesh

Soul of light divine

Children are our source of light and warmth

A symbol of our life and love together.

Then will the Age of Man and the Kingship

of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ begin!

God bless!

Rich Mahoney

"Never Again!"

With heartfelt sorrow I was deeply moved by the article written in the Catholic Commentator of David Faber's horrific witness of the Nazi Holocaust. The horror of witnessing his family and relatives tortured and brutally murdered by the Nazi soldiers led him to plead with the Catholic High School students: "Never let this happen again!"

Several blocks from where he was pleading "Never Again!", we watched as 14 boxes of murdered babies were loaded into a truck in front of Delta Women's Clinic on 756 Colonial Dr. Baton Rouge to be driven to the crematorium. These innocent babies in the womb were tortured,dismembered, murdered and then packaged in biohazard waste bags to be piled on to trucks labeled "biohazardous waste" to be taken to the incinerator. Yet not a word was mentioned about the "American Holocaust". Abortion has claimed more casualties and deaths than all the wars in history put together and is the worlds most satanic conflict.

I pray that David Faber and all the Catholic High School students come with their priests to the American Holocaust Memorial on Bennington Ave, Baton Rouge to ask God's forgiveness for having allowed hundreds of thousands of babies in the womb to be brutally murdered and then ground up in garbage disposals or incinerated. While force can be used to subdue and restrain evil, only Love (Our Lord Jesus, The Incarnate Word made Flesh) can conquer evil. Abortion is not an aid to desperate humanity but an abandonment.

I pray that during this season of Advent that the Immaculate Virgin Mary will touch the hearts of fathers and mothers to love their babies and make room for them in their hearts and wombs so that the Baby Jesus will find in the world a place of comfort and refuge and not hear again: There is no room in the Inn!

Richard Mahoney

Hurricane Katrina

Jeremiah 20: 7 - 9 “You duped me, O LORD, and I let myself be duped; you were too strong for me and you triumphed. All the day I am an object of laughter; everyone mocks me. Whenever I speak, I must cry out, violence and outrage is my message; the word of the LORD has brought me derision all the day.”

Was Hurricane Katrina an act of God or an act of Mother Nature? Was man created by God or a product of natural selection and evolution? Is this just drivel from a doomsday prophet or a divine warning from God that the seed of corruption has taken root and is destroying our nation? Evil had begun with a few, but has now spread throughout out nation. We won't be saved by the Publicans, yet we could be doomed by Demoncrats who espouse abortion, sodomy and ACLU protected pornography. Democracy is not a panacea for immorality.

“When God's sovereign authority and commandments are rejected, any basis for morality is undermined and rejected.” Many will take up arms to fight a hostile foe, so few will take up the Cross to conquer the real enemy: sin, satan and death! History has shown that evil does not go unpunished!

My prayer is not “God bless America,” but “God convert America.” Let us not lament the loss of property and money from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, but the loss of our souls that allowed contraception, abortion, sodomy, drinking, drugs, pornography and gambling to infest our state and country.

The death which nature, disasters and men threaten us is nothing compared with the eternal life our Lord Jesus Christ has given us both here and in eternity!

Richard Mahoney

Echoing and Paraphrasing Martin Luther King "I Have a Dream"

Ten score and ten years ago, the Declaration of Independence declared that all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. This momentous decree gave hope to all people who desired religious freedom and life, liberty and the pursuit of holiness. This momentous decree came as a great beacon of light, of hope, to the millions of people worldwide who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.

Thirty-two years later the child in the womb is still shackled by the chains of discrimination and murder. The baby in the womb is still languishing in the medical clinics and hospitals throughout the four corners of America, and finds himself an outcast and refuse in his own land.

So we come here today to dramatize an appalling condition. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men and women would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness!

Yet, "One dark day in January of 1973, SATAN donned judicial robes! Robes flowing, gavel in hand, he swept onto the floor of the United States Supreme Court. He presided over the most atrocious travesty of justice that ever took place, and he declared - we now have the 'right' to murder the most innocent babies in their mothers' wombs, in what should be the safest place in the universe for them! And since then, tens of millions of babes have been assassinated in their own mothers' wombs! The darkness indeed grows deeper."

Although every holocaust or civil rights violation ever perpetuated is an unprecedented event, the homicidal scourge of abortion has led to a perverse and homicidal philosophy which has thrust us into an era of massive attacks on human life unprecedented in history.

Although it is much easier to express outrage than to stand up bravely, those who want to win the world for Christ must have the courage to come in conflict with it. We have been coerced to believe that it is better to expose the truth than to condemn the error. Apparent peace, bought and paid for by the cowardice creates an abyss where previously there had only been a ditch. Dr. Martin Luther King declared to his adversaries who denounced him for putting his morality on other people that, "I am not here to regulate morality, but to restrain the heartless." Our country's heritage in recognizing basic human and civil rights for all is in the finest tradition of past civil rights movements.

Lincoln's words resound again today in America. On many a defeated field there was a voice louder than the thunder of a cannon. It was the voice of God crying, "Let my people go." … "Great multitudes begged and prayed that I might answer God's voice by signing the Emancipation Proclamation, and I did so believing we never should be successful in the great struggle unless the God of Battles has been on our side." Lincoln realized that the Civil War was a judgment by Almighty God over the sin of slavery. In his Second Inaugural Address, he said, "Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet if God wills it to continue, until all the wealth piled up by the bondsmen's 250 years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, until every drop of blood drawn by the lash shall be paid by another drawn by the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said that the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." As the Civil War, with God's judgment upon America for the sin of slavery, a greater judgment is on America for the sin of abortion. Today we see the horrifying work of God's hand in the signs and judgments already upon us because of the legalized murder of innocent babies in their mothers' wombs. The blood of Abel and that of all the murdered innocents cries to heaven for justice, and America will shed tears for every drop of blood shed by these innocent victims. (Gen 9:6) "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image." If we do not heed these warnings, we will read these words upon entering the abyss: "Give up all hope, all ye who enter here."

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Christian pro-lifer. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the babies in their mother's wombs are granted their full citizenship rights. The whirlwind of revolt will continue to shake the foundation of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy justice by violence or hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high planes of truth and justice. We must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with the love of Christ.

There are those asking the devotees of civil rights of the baby in the womb, "When will you be satisfied?" We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. Man has given himself over to a lie in search of an illusionary freedom apart from the truth itself. The beginning of freedom is to be free from sin.

The defense and protection of life is not the ministry of a few but the responsibility of all. We should be by grace what our Lord Jesus was by nature, a child of God, and a child of the Immaculate Virgin.

I am not unmindful that many of you have come here out of great trial and tribulation. Some from the narrow cells of prison where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Conformity to our Lord Jesus Christ enables us to achieve union with Him!

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to Louisiana, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. I still have a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day the sons of pro-lifers and the sons of former abortionists will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood and see that never again will blood be shed against the most innocent babies in the womb. I have a dream that Mississippi sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice and become the first state in our nation freed from the bonds of baby-murdering clinics. I have a dream that one day my children will live in a nation where they will not be judged by their size but by the sacredness of their humanity.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope.

This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims' pride, from every mountainside let freedom ring." And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. When we let freedom ring from every village, from every state and city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children will be free at last.

"Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, the babies are free at last."

Richard Mahoney

John Paul The Great

June 9, 2005

It has been nearly a month since John Paul II has been laid to rest and his remarkable life has been eulogized in the media throughout the world. Leaders of nearly every nation paid their last respects to the Pope and acknowledged his great achievements for the Roman Catholic Church and for people throughout the world.

Not to reiterate what has already been said, I feel that John Paul II's greatest single virtue and characteristic was that he truly loved and prayed for those who persecuted him, the church and people under tyranny. He condemned Nazism, Communism, unbridled capitalism and the culture of death, yet he assisted in the collapse of these perverse ideologies and regimes by showing man his dignity and the splendor of the truth. He told the world “man is created a little less than the angels and not a little higher than the apes.” He was created for glory as children of God the Father.

May Cardinal Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, receive a twofold portion of John Paul II's spirit and lead the church through its painful purification. Pope Benedict XVI's main apostolate will be to restore orthodox Catholicism to the seminaries, Catholic schools and universities. The new evangelization will begin with the restoration of Catholic education and health care, which will promote the dignity and sacredness of marriage, family and church.

Richard Mahoney, Founder

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Innocence Murdered

Wednesday, April 6, 2005

Once again, satan has donned judicial robes and ordered the murder of the innocent. As with abortion, Terri Schiavo war ordered executed by judicial tyrants. Once again, “silence” on the part of most of the clergy has helped the oppressor not the oppressed. We spent Good Friday in Wichita, Kansas in front of the most infamous killer in history, “Tiller the Killer’s Murder Mill.” When we heard the news that Terri Schiavo’s tube feeding was not going to be reinstated, that she was ordered to be starved to death like St. Maximillian Kolbe at Auschwitz, our hearts were pierced with a sword. Not only because Terri was being murdered by her adulterous, estranged husband, but also because the people of Florida were not rescuing her from these vicious murderers. Like the Immaculate Virgin Mary, Mary Schindler (Terri’s mother) wept at the excruciating passion of her daughter by starvation. Judgment is on America.

Our saintly Pope John Paul II has shown us how to live not only by great encyclicals but also by his life. He united his sufferings with Christ for the sake of His Body, the Church. He spent himself out of love for Christ and his flock. In March 2004, Pope John Paul II addressed an international congress of health care professionals convened in Rome to discuss the scientific advances and ethical dilemmas in comatose states. He declared unequivocally “The sick person in a comatose state still has the right to basic health care. The administration of food and water, even when provided by artificial means always represents a natural means of preserving life, not a medical act. Its use furthermore, should be considered in principle, ordinary and proportionate, and as such morally obligatory. Death by starvation or dehydration is, in fact, the only possible outcome as a result of their withdrawal. If done knowingly and willingly, it is euthanasia by omission.”

Hastening a human being’s death is not assistance to suffering human beings but abandonment. No treatment or the withholding of treatment should be the etiological cause of one’s death but only the direct result of the pathology, anomaly, disease or trauma. Murdering those with mild or severe cerebral anomalies by euphemisms, “brain dead, persistent vegetative state, comatose, etc.” will not lessen the gravity of the sin.

God save America!

Richard Mahoney, Founder

NATIONAL AMERICAN HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL

ODE TO THE DEMONCRATS

A number of people gathered together at work to watch the proceedings of the Demoncratic Convention in Boston to listen to the new leader of the 4th Reich, John Kerry. After listening to such inspirational charismatic speakers, such as Clinton, Sharpton, Jackson, Edwards and Kerry, a dedicated acolyte stood up saluted and sang an ode:

Our father who art in Washington, shallow be thy name, thy pragmatic secular humanistic, utilitarian state on all America as the demoncrats have it in Washington. Give us this day our daily welfare, food stamps, entitlements, soda and chips and pay for our STD’s, contraceptives, abortafacients, CAB’s, CVA’s and diabetes. Forgive our fellow democrats as we turn a blind eye to the holocaust and lead us into temptation (pornography, ACLU) and deliver us from the fanatic Conservative Christian Right.

If you get inspired to say “Our Father Who art in Heaven”, bite your sacrilegious tongue and know that in this great, free country of ours the ACLU says that you may only use God’s name in vain or in a curse but never to praise, worship and adore.

The demoncrats are proclaiming to all patriotic Americans, we are the way, the truth and the light and we have come to set you free. Personally, I would rather be a slave for God.

Richard Mahoney

Kerry the Killer.

I will never forget the day my oldest daughter Maria received our Lord in first Holy Communion at St. Agnes Catholic Church. Since she was receiving at an earlier age than usual, Father Spriggs drilled her vigorously on her faith and her readiness to receive Our Lord. After an hour's examination, Father concluded that Maria was ready to receive Our Lord in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. What he said next will remain with me for life: Father Spriggs told Maria that the reason he drilled her so vigorously was that it is the priest's sole responsibility to safeguard Our Lord and make sure that no one receives Him without being in the state of grace or, if they are as young as she was, to have full knowledge and holiness (after First Confession) to receive Our Lord.

I wish Father Spriggs were still alive today. He surely would have personally barred John Kerry from committing sacrilege by entering into a Catholic church and receiving Holy Communion. Would that Our Lord raise up holy and courageous cardinals and bishops who, like St. John the Baptist, condemn the sacrilege of these baptized pagans. If what was reported in the Advocate last week is true, where the Diocese of Baton Rouge commented that receiving Holy Communion is up to the person and not the priest, the Baton Rouge diocese has scandalized and perverted the teachings of Christ. Canon Law states that public sins, such as politicians voting for or promoting abortion, need to be repudiated publicly before that person may receive Holy Communion, so as not to lead the faithful to believe that one can support and promote abortion (which the Church calls an unspeakable crime and which brings de facto excommunication) and receive the sacraments.

Former State Senator Carlin of Rhode Island wrote, "Vast numbers of Catholics continue to vote, election after election, for the pro-choice Members of Congress, and many of the pro-choice politicians they vote for are themselves Catholic. It is not too much to say that the political good fortune of the abortion movement has for several decades depended on an unholy alliance between atheists and Catholics. The secularists provided the leadership, while the Catholics provided the votes and many of the politicians." The smoke of Satan has indeed entered the very Tabernacle of the Church. The abomination of desolation has reached its highest peak in the sacrilegious Holy Communions to which Our Lord is subjected while being given to those in a state of mortal sin and even to those who are demonically possessed. The Sacred Heart of Jesus which has so loved mankind and shed every drop of His Blood to ransom us from death is now being trampled underfoot. Bishops and priests, I implore you, call an assembly, put on sackcloth and ashes, fast, and atone for these crimes against Our Lord, and be ready to die rather than see Our Lord again "betrayed into the hands of sinful men."

What Mother Teresa has taught us is that success depends on love and service, and not money. The Church must sever its unholy alliances with this pagan world. If we live for our God, no man on earth would ever have to die for his country!

Richard Mahoney

REPENT NOW, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE

There are two prevailing philosophies about the nature of man and his destiny in the world today. The first is presented by Our Lord Jesus Christ in His Gospel of Life (Sacred Scripture); “Man is created a little less than the angels, made in the image and likeness of God, immortal and eternal”. The second is promulgated by satan in his culture of death; that man is created a little higher than the apes, a brute beast to be managed, neutered and disposed of. Planned Parenthood introduced this philosophy in the 1960’s with contraception. Like contraception, cloning, our latest technological innovation, separates the integral component of marriage and alienates the intimate union of husband and wife in the procreation of children. They have stripped love of its nobility, mystery and sacredness: That grace and beauty that inspire us to strive for spiritual perfection. They refuse to acknowledge any moral absolute and hold in practice that which has no principle or truth. The American Medical Association has even redefined the beginning of life to be at the moment of implantation (nidation), rather than at conception to legally allow for human embryo experimentation and contraceptive abortifacients. To our disgrace, the most infamous sins against God and nature are being performed by the manipulation of human beings through artificial conception and scientific research; even after empirical scientific evidence has proven that a unique human person is genetically complete at the first moment of conception with the intrinsic capacity to develop into an adult.

Planned Parenthood, the American Medical Association and the insurance healthcare providers are the major villains in these heinous murders. They have determined that it is more economical to assist in murder than to care for people. Physicians have turned their medical suites and hospitals into veterinary clinics; neutering, spaying, and contracepting their victims like animals. Out of the 50,000 obstetric and gynecological physicians in America less that a dozen follow the teachings of Our Lord Jesus Christ's Church. Many have bought themselves a pew in the Church Militant; however they will noticeably absent in the Church Triumphant.

There is very little to indicate that we have repented or converted from out evil ways. “We have wrapped our lethal deeds in a veil of silence. To be the light of Christ we must name the darkness! Nowhere is the shroud of darkness heavier in the contemporary world than in the sins of contraception, abortion and eugenics where we deal out death to the most innocent of all human beings. This is the most primordial darkness of our time”. The sacredness of life is the very heart of the Gospel. We possess exclusive truth, yet we have sacrificed this claim on the altar civility to the detriment and death of our children. This generation is crossing the threshold of hope, “yet hope is not a blind or naïve reading of reality, but a deep commitment to the designs of providence and it demands our cooperation with God’s will”. Repent and walk in the light of truth before the darkness of evil extinguishes the flame!

Richard Mahoney

LINCOLN'S WORDS ARE RELEVANT TODAY

Our Lord Jesus replied, “The reason why I came into the world, is to testify to the truth. Anyone committed to the truth hears My voice”. “Truth” said Pilate “What is that?” Very few echo this insolence with such perfidy as did former president, Bill Clinton. Lest we forget, his first five acts in office were to kill innocent babies in the womb; the next two were to promote and legalize homosexuality. With the condom queen, Jocelyn Elders as surgeon general, the Clintons and their cohorts wanted governmental healthcare. Their plan would have mandated abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide in every town and in every medical school, all funded by taxpayer dollars! His Outcome Based Education, sensitivity training and contraception have fostered an epidemic of infidelity, promiscuity, and murder. His worst depravity was to allow babies to be pulled out of the womb breach, their heads punctured and their brains sucked out under the title of healthcare. He didn't object to China’s population program and those who were eating their babies as a delicacy, but was outraged when they stole a few American movies for Chinese consumption. Yet how can we condemn his deeds and re-elect the doers of these atrocities. A vote for the demoncratic (Democratic) party, which espouses in its platform both abortion and sodomy, would be vile!

However, rather than expound on the fundamental inconsistencies and lies in the demoncratic (Democratic) campaign, lets focus this letter on the cowardice and depravity of the publicans (Republicans) on abortion and other moral issues. Quoting Abraham Lincoln's speech at New Haven on March 6th, 1860, I will demonstrate their erroneous position by changing the word slavery to abortion. “You say that you think slavery (abortion) is wrong, but you denounce all attempts to outlaw it. Is there anything else you think wrong and are not willing to deal with as a wrong? There is no place where you will allow slavery (abortion) to be called wrong (murder). We must not call it wrong in politics because that is bringing morality into politics, and we must not call it wrong in the pulpit because that is bringing politics into religion; we must not bring it into our clubs or other societies, because those are such unsuitable places. There is no single place, according to you, where this wrong (slavery, abortion) can be properly called wrong (murder) and treated accordingly”. Lincoln's words have great relevance today, and what is at stake is the soul of our nation.

Richard Mahoney

Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ”

“The Passion of the Christ”, which will be opening Ash Wednesday, is a prophetic meditation on the “Love of Christ”. Cardinal Hoyas hails it as “a triumph of art and faith”. The Pope declared: “It is as it was”. The Pope has declared 2004 as “the year of grace”, where mankind has an opportunity to avert justice by turning away from rebellion, and

towards Love!

As the TOWER OF BABEL continues to rise as man chooses to usurp God’s authority and set himself up as master of the destiny of others inasmuch as he arbitrarily chooses who he will allow to live and whom he will send to their death. America is allowing defenseless human beings to be killed by cloning, in vitro fertilization, cryopreservation, contraception, abortion, nuclear transfer, etc. No scientist or doctor can claim by his scientific competence to be able to decide on another human being’s origin or destiny. The Church must rise up in defense of the “Child in the Dish”. We must repent and walk in the Light of Truth before the darkness of evil extinguishes the flame. The Pope exhorts: “We cannot practice the Gospel of Life only as a private piety. It must be lived vigorously and publicly as a matter of national leadership and witness or it is not lived at all”.

The sin of sodomy also knocks as America marches toward Gomorrah. We preach freedom and democracy to the world and yet we have used these esthetics as a panacea for immorality. Our democracy will “rise or fall with the values which it embodies and promotes”.

I fear for America, for we have made an unholy alliance with the unholy trinity, “me, myself and I” in our public policies. As George Orwell put it “In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible”.

Richard Mahoney

NOW AND THEN

While traveling to Lafayette in 2002 I noticed a sign off the interstate containing 2 pictures with the captions “Then” and “Now”. “Then” showed a picture of 5 mediocre, lack luster, basketball players enjoying a game of basketball in the high school gym (a portrait of sportsmanship, team play and competition to build character). “Now” displayed a picture of a huge, savvy, basketball player slam dunking the goal while letting out a loud roar in triumph (a display of raw, defiant, in-your-face power for money, status and sponsorships). Now, winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing. That billboard took me down memory lane. I would like to expound on the “Then” and “Now”. “Then”: The stores were closed on Sunday and after church every one went to grandma’s house for supper (aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, children, grandchildren, etc.). They talked and laughed while the babies, children and grandchildren played. “Now”: Grandma is in the nursing home, everyone else is out shopping, partying, and sports worshiping on Sunday. Due to adultery and divorce the children are often thrown into 4 or 5 different families. “Then” we enjoyed shows like “Andy Griffith”, “Father Knows Best” and “Leave it to Beaver”. “Now”: Children and adults are perverted with the “Simpsons”, “Victoria’s Secret”, MTV, and movies filled with sexual perversion and murder. The most common question that I receive from people after they discover that my wife and I have 11 children is “what does your wife do, where does she work?” My reply is “She is a wife and mother”. Astonished that such an archaic lifestyle still exists, they ponder on those golden years of “IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE”. In wake of the infamous anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, we should reminisce of the good old days when our mothers would never have thought of killing us!

Richard Mahoney

SHOCK AND AWE

It was totally revolting to me to witness some of the elite entertainment industry and the liberals (composed of radical abortionists, satanic sodomites and pansy pacifists) marching around crying for peace when they are the most murderous lot in history. Daily they flood the TV, internet and radio with murder, violence and sexual perversion. They are responsible for the breakdown of family life and societal moral norms. Like the tobacco industry the entertainment industry needs to be held accountable for the damage they are inflicting on individuals and society. It is truly tragic that many of these people, who seem to show compassion for the unknown soldier at the end of a laser guided missile, have absolute contempt for the unknown baby at the end of the abortionists knife.

It is even more nauseating to see some conservative secular humanists using the “just war theory” to defend the U.S. going to war against Iraq since this same group is totally pacifistic when it comes to fighting the terrorism of abortion, sodomy and pornography. They do business with China, the most tyrannical terrorist country in the world, which enslaves its people and murders 50,000,000 babies a year by forced abortion. They have no problem with buying China’s inexpensive goods produced by slave labor. Their media coverage of this war with Iraq resembled a sporting event or video game, play-by- play commentary on laser guided missiles blowing up their target. Cold, calculated destruction with no mention or feeling for the patriotic Iraq’s who like their counterpart American soldiers fought for what they thought was God and country.

To witness the real “Shock and Awe” of the most infamous war in history, watch the The Silent Scream narrated by Bernard Nathanson which shows in fiberoptic detail a D&E abortion. Don’t get me wrong; I think we should bring all terrorists to justice (Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Planned Parenthood, NARAL, etc). If America wants to liberate the world by force, it must realize that freedom is not the right to commit murder, promote sexual perversion and exploit the world’s resources. Victory is the Truth of our Lord Jesus Christ, which our country only gives lip service to!

Richard Mahoney

Prayers for September 11th

Before the murderous communist Joseph Stalin began his rampage that left nearly 60,000,000 dead, he looked over to one of his soldiers and commented that “the death of one man is a sorrowful tragedy; the death of a million is merely a statistic”. America and most of the world has espoused this cynical philosophy most notably in war, abortion and eugenics. On September 11th there will be prayer services held across America for those who died in the terrorist attacks a year ago. It will be a truly sorrowful memorial for thousands, a patriotic eulogy for many and banal commemoration for the countless victims of human malice for most.

Mankind has always tried to impart nobility to its most sorted deeds of war and bloody carnage. Rather than humble himself to Truth and Justice, he stoically marches into the gates of hell (war). Tormented by this unseemly contradiction Voltaire commented “Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel”. For the sake of reality I could easily adopt this cynical attitude. Yet I cannot since I have witnessed in my life the transforming power of the Holy Spirit in God’s holy saints. Man was created for Glory! It is written on the faces of babies and reflected in that rare individual that surrenders himself totally to God. Though mankind has seemingly taken over the reigns of life and death usurping God’s authority, my prayer on September 11th will be “Come Lord Jesus and save us from this cruel tyrant”!

Richard Mahoney

MY MOTHER’S HEART

January 1, 2004

A journalist once asked Mother Teresa what was the greatest plight in the world. She replied, “The greatest destroyer of peace today is the crime against the innocent unborn baby”. Abortion is the destroyer of the most intimate human relationships; that of the love of a mother toward her baby and the most intimate conjugal love between husband and wife. Abortion pits a mother against her baby and women against men.

The first sound a baby hears is the heartbeat of its mother. There is no greater human bond of loving sacrifice than that of a baby in her mother’s womb. This love has been the foundation of life and what is truly beautiful in this world. Our Lord asked “Could a mother forget the child in her womb?” It has been providential that medicinal cures have been found in the teardrops of mothers and in the cells of the placenta.

I wrote this poem to my mother before she died of cancer:

My mother’s heart provides all the tender care

When all looks dark and there is none to share

All life’s trials and sorrows, scrapes and tears

My mother understands and always keeps me near

She wipes every tear, all my wounds she repairs

My mother’s the greatest, there is none to compare

Our times together are filled with smiles and caresses

While her sweet singing voice soothes as it blesses

Drifting me off to sleep in her arms

So warm and secure, so safe from all harm

My mother has the ability to answer life’s toughest questions

The purpose of being, the essence of feeling, the meaning of love

Yes, my mother is the greatest, there is no question of that

Thus I will never cease to bless the mother who gave me my life.

Pray for the end of this “Holocaust”.

A baby should hear the loving heartbeat of her mother,

not the sound of a suction machine that will tear her apart!

Richard Mahoney

Euthanasia and Terri Schiavo

October 16, 2003

While agonizing over the fate of Terri Schiavo, this murder of the infirm and cognitively impaired has become a mainstay of the American medical and legal establishment. At a Missouri medical center, I was given an information sheet entitled “Fluid Deprivation and the Terminally Ill” which stated, “…the decision not to provide hydration, IV fluids, and nutrition (feeding tubes, etc.), may be helpful. …As death approaches dehydration occurs naturally. Administering IV fluids to the terminally ill patient can increase urine output, often creating the need for a catheter or the frequent use of a bedpan. Administering tube feedings can result in nausea, vomiting or diarrhea. Additionally the administration of IV fluids by IV or by mouth can result in swelling of the feet and hands that contribute to the formation of pressure sores. Oral discomfort is noted to be the only known drawback to natural dehydration. Because foods and fluids have such powerful symbolic meaning, it is often very difficult for family members to decide in favor of natural dehydration for their terminally ill loved ones.”

In response to this policy I wrote the Administration, Board of Directors, and Ethics Committee the following:

Dehydration is a pathologic state or symptom of an anomaly or disease that is to be treated, not produced by withholding fluids and/or nutrition. Withholding hydration, nutrition, or any medical treatment should not be done unless death is imminent, (not terminal) and the removal of such hydration, nutrition or medical treatment should not be the etiological or causative factor in the death of that individual, but as a natural consequence of the disease state. This directive on removal of hydration from the terminally ill is paramount to passive euthanasia (murder)…This medical institution needs to eliminate its policy on the terminally ill since the word terminal has many definitions and it is too illusive or subjective to be used in policies affecting those patients in whom death is imminent. All policies affecting the medical treatment of patients whose death is imminent need to safeguard the patient and/or significant power of attorney, stating that if the patient's condition changes and death is not imminent, all hydration, nutrition and appropriate medical treatment will be reinstated. (“Imminent” defined as the approximate relation to death of a patient in an irreversible, persistent catabolic state or an irreversible respiratory or metabolic acidosis). In conclusion, no medical treatment or the withholding of medical treatment should be the etiological cause of a human being's death; the disease, anomaly, pathology or trauma should be its etiological cause.

By acting in this way the legal and medical establishment usurp the place of God in so much as they arbitrarily choose whom they will allow to live and whom they will send to their death. No doctor or lawyer can claim this right to decide on other peoples' origin or destiny. The purpose of their institutions is to safeguard the health, dignity and welfare of their patients and constituents-not to help them or any other persons to hasten their death!

Richard Mahoney

Sodomy is satanic

June 23, 2003

The truth written in this editorial will be viewed as intolerant, hateful and a great disrupter of peace, by the worldly person. The Roe v. Wade of satanic sodomy of America will be dated June 26, 2003, “when Satan donned judicial robes and presided again over the most atrocious travesty of justice that ever took place and declared that now we not only have the right to murder the most innocent babies in the womb, but sodomize our youth and our country”. The worldly, view peace as the absence of conflict. Instead of seeking after truth and justice they try to eliminate war by eliminating everything worth fighting for. This counterfeit kind of peace is achieved by sacrificing any need or struggle for moral virtue; a perverse passivity of self-indulgence. Our Lord Jesus’ peace is the fruit of constant battle, the battle between our will and Gods will. The worldly flee from that fight and try to satisfy all their desires. They live life to the fullest in a worldly sense, yet inevitably this always leads to frustration and futility.

Sodomy and abortion are satanic sins that go beyond human depravity. They not only go against God’s law, they go against nature. Many will argue that there is a genetic and biochemical component to these aberrations. Yet there is never a genetic or biochemical component to sin. Sin is an act of the will! Because of original sin we all struggle with vice and sin; each of us has our cross to bear. Yet Our Lord Jesus has made it perfectly clear, “My Grace is sufficient for you”. “Sin is knocking at the door, yet you can be its master”. “Be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect”.

What should our response be to those who are tormented by the temptation of sodomy or even enslaved in its perverse bondage? We must pray, fast and intercede to God for their deliverance; but never allow them to carry out this perverse act or fall into the abyss. Allowing sodomy or abortion is not an act of love or an aid to fallen humanity; it is abandonment. Let us as a nation, and individually, struggle and fight for virtue rather than capitulate to sin and vice for the sake of a false peace. The Prince of Peace came with his presence to establish peace and virtue in our soul.

Richard Mahoney

In the 30 year war against the homicidal scourge of abortion in America

June, 10 2003

In the 30 year war against the homicidal scourge of abortion in America, humanity has plunged into an abyss of death. I was very distraught over the partial birth abortion proceedings in Washington, D.C. this past week and greatly saddened that many pro-life Christians considered this a great victory over the culture of death.

That congressmen and senators would debate over how many inches a baby needs to be out of the womb before they can be protected by law; or the abortionist prosecuted for murder is absolutely ludicrous. Every abortion is an inconceivable act of violence and the killing of a baby in the womb or in this case, out of the womb. Even the abortionists in Louisiana have stated that all 2nd and 3rd trimester abortions could be labeled partial birth abortions. Dr. James Whitmore, III, Dr. James DeGuerce, Delta Women’s Clinic, Causeway Medical Suite, Bossier City Medical Suite, Hope Medical Group for Women and Women’s Health Clinic are all plaintiffs in a law suite to lift the Louisiana law banning partial birth abortions. Whitmore stated in the suit: “Sometimes during the D&E procedure part of the fetus protrudes from or is pulled through the cervical os before the fetus is fully removed. It is possible that in some of these instances, the fetus is “living”…when part of the fetus is within the uterus and part is outside…because it is extremely difficult to know precisely when fetal demise occurs”. The abortionists know full well that if partial birth abortion is made illegal, that would include all second and third trimester abortions and that is why they demonically fight for the right to kill in this most savage fashion.

Why does this madness continue in America? I hear the words of God in Wisdom 3: “For because sentence is not speedily pronounced against evil; the children of men commit evil without any fear”. As the Civil War was God’s judgment on America for the sin of slavery, a greater judgment is on America for the sin of abortion. “Today we see the horrifying work of God’s hand in the signs and judgments already upon us because of the legalized murder of innocent babies in their mother’s wombs. "Because we have not hated bloodshed, bloodshed is now pursuing us”. If we do not heed these warnings, we will read these words on entering the abyss: “Give up all hope all ye who enter here”!

Richard Mahoney

For the sake of His Sorrowful Passion, have Mercy on us and the whole world.