Adrienne's Corner

Thursday

Weigel: Pro-Obama Catholics are wandering in "a wilderness of impossibilities" full article

Adoro is off to Cincinnati today - have fun!

Tom in Vegas has gotten Critter registered to vote "early and often"

Terry is busy at Abbey Roads making art.

Gem of the Ocean: "But this highly questionable pimping for the socialist "border free America" is a wishy washy weasel way for liberal democrat catholics to pretend that "compassion" for illegal aliens makes up for a pro-abortion stance." full article

Father Dwight Longenecker on Obama's abortion stance.

Kit at By the Brook has a cold. Wish her well...or better yet say a few prayers.

How Will History Judge Catholics in the 2008 Election?
Deal W. Hudson

****"If Barack Obama is elected president on November 4 with substantial help from Catholic voters, the historical record will show precisely that. As Justin Cardinal Rigali has argued, Catholics will have voted to remove all legal restrictions to abortion, as well as taxpayer funding of abortion both here and abroad. Why? Because Barack Obama has promised, as his first presidential act, to sign the Freedom of Choice Act." ** full article

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Feast Day of St. John Capistrano

As St. Capistran fought for the Church of Christ, so must every Christian fight for his soul. Christ Himself has said: "I came not to send peace but the sword" (Matt 10:34). With the sword of Christ, that is, with His doctrine and His means of grace, as well as with His merits and His promises, we must do battle against the world and not let it attract us with its allurements.

PRAYER OF THE CHURCH

O God, who didst marvelously exalt Thy Church through the merits and teachings of St. John, and through him didst lead the faithful to triumph over the faithless tyrants by the power of the most holy name of Jesus; grant, we beseech Thee, that through his intercession, we may obtain the victory over our enemies here upon earth, and merit to receive with him the reward in heaven. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Franciscan Book of Saints, ed. by Marion Habig, ofm., © 1959 Franciscan Herald Press