The Hidden Axis Of Evil: The Clintons, Sex Abuse and the Aborting of America by Fred Martinez
Do You Long for an End to Abortion in America, and the Sex Scandals in the Church?
If you’re like me, your heart aches when you think of the plague of abortion that has hit America over the past 30 years. Added to this are the recent sex scandals in the Church that have shaken our confidence in the clergy and caused us to wonder how this could happen. Well, take heart. There are solutions to these problems. But first, you need to understand the root cause.
Praise for the Hidden Axis of Evil
Review by Dr Pravin Thevathasan
Introduction and sections from first chapter of book
In my new book, The Hidden Axis of Evil: The Clintons, Sex Abuse, and the Aborting of America, I lay out the three primary reasons why the sex scandals happened and the foundational reasons why abortion in America will remain unless we respond with the Christian conviction that we are all called to put forth. I also show you how the philosophy that guided the Clinton administration laid the groundwork for the loose morality that fuels abortion, sexual permissiveness, the homosexual agenda and an array of societal ills.
The Hidden Axis of Evil will take you on a fascinating review of the current crisis in America. Here’s what some of the leading social commentators have to say about Hidden Axis:
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- The founder and editor of the Conservative Monitor W. J. Rayment agrees with Hitchcock that Hidden Axis is " [s]pelling out the problems and outlining their solution."
- Moreover, Rayment along with WROL-Boston radio talk show host Chuck Morse as well as playwright and founder of Quo Vadis Theatre Cathal Gallagher say the book is "a must-read!"
- But, more importantly, the book outlines "ingenious ways of fighting the evils of abortion on several levels" according to Kelly Clark of The Lady In The Pew website
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- According to Life Dynamics’ Mark Crutcher, "the most conservative estimates [assert] about 40 percent of American women of childbearing age have had at least one abortion." Who and what can help these abortion-traumatized women become morally and emotionally healthy ?
- What philosopher brought us the term "values," influenced Hitler as well as Freud and is considered a father of modern America?
- Which artist, whose work was made into a blockbuster movie, shows us why Aristotle is needed to defeat the Clinton’s philosophy?
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Jesuit to Make St. Ignatius Proud
Father William Stout is the pastor at Agnew's Chapel, which helps the mentally retarded in Santa Clara. After mass, he is always hard to get to because people surround him. He is chatting and blessing with a natural joy in many languages. If at any time of day or night you need him -he is there with that same joy. He is a Jesuit Priest who has make St. Ignatius proud.
Q. Why did you want to be a priest?
A. I think the greatest influence was when I was 8 or 9 years old. I went to Catholic school and the German Jesuits were very kind and loving. The school was very poor. It was St. Mary’s school, which used to be at 3rd and Reed St. in San Jose. It burned down in the thirties or early forties.
Q. Why did you choose to be a Jesuit?
A. At the Jesuit High school -Bellermine- the Jesuit priests were great examples of service to God. I always connected with the Jesuit teachers. I thought teaching had a bigger impact because of the day to day contact.
The Jesuits had a long history of seeking for the best. They wanted to do more for the greater glory of God. They were men of learning, but with nobility. Ignatius was a military officer who wanted his Jesuits to be able to move. I didn’t like the Franciscans because of their vow of stability. The Jesuits were different. They were to be like the Green Berets-to be obedient to what God wanted.
Q. Why is the Church having so many problems with the Jesuits, today?
A. Some of the Jesuits have moved away from devotion to the Pope. They are, now, into being “open.” They think that is what speaks to modern man. For this reason the Jesuits are not as trusted by the Holy Father.
The Jesuits are men of learning. Sometimes the smarter you are the more difficult it is to be humble. But, we shouldn’t worry about it. Pope John the 23 would pray then say,” I’m going to bed. I trust God."
Q. You have taught some movie star’s kids. Can you tell us about them?
A. I taught at Loyola High school from 1958 to 1961 in Los Angeles. In the fifties the movie industry kids were just like any other kids. Then Governor Reagan’s son-Mike- was in my class. He was a nice kid who struggled with algebra. Governor Reagan would only speak with the principal. I saw him pick up Mike to take him to the ranch.
From 1961 to 1966, I was a teacher at Bellermine High in the Bay Area. I taught Harry Crosby - the son of Bing. He was a real gentleman and a fine musician. His mother was a nurse who had a ranch in Mexico. She used to go to Mexico to treat and care for the poor with medical problems.
Q. Why did you decide to work for the Mexican people in the Bay Area?
A. I wanted to go to the Eastside of San Jose to help the next immigrant people. In the past the Jesuits had helped the recently arrived immigrants. The Germans, the French and the Italian grandchildren were now doctors and professors.
My family was German and Irish. My brother and I were the first to graduate from college in the family. The Mexicans were the next group of immigrants we ought to help.
Q. Tell us about your work in the little Mexican seaport town of Alviso?
A. In 1961, I was asked to go to the Alviso mission church. I went to the mission because of the need to do something for the Mexican people because they were the next immigrant people. I went back to teaching at Bellermine High while saying mass on Sundays in Alviso. I got the Bellermine students to help fix up the church. An old couple Don and Dona Rembios taught me better Spanish as we fixed the Church. I helped out - off and on until 1998 in Alviso.
Q Tell us about teaching in the toughest school in San Jose - Overfelt High?
A. We had hoped to have a Catholic High school in the Eastside of San Jose. But, in 1984 since no Catholic school was build, I proposed to the Jesuit provincial that I get hired at Overfelt in math. I wanted to help the kids from Mexico with problems in English.
The Overfelt riots and bad reputation give a false representation of the kids at the school. If they like you, they like you-if they don’t like you, you are in trouble. The problem is students, now, come from broken homes with family problems and drugs. They don’t see direction or see the need to study. With the loss of the Mexican culture-they lose the politeness and kindness of Mexico. Many don’t go to church or join religious groups.
Q. Who are the heroes of many of these kids?
A. The heroes are, many times, the criminal gangs. The gangs provide for the vacuum the family used to provide. They provide approval, direction, protection and a sense of belonging. These people become their family.
The gangs are dealers in death. I told the gangs I didn’t respect them. They carved their gang letters into my car window. I left it there so everyone could see what they were about. They don’t build. They deal with death and destruction. But, so long as kids lack parents with religion or lack parents who are home for them there will be problems.
Q. With the anti-family and homosexual indoctrination in the public schools, what advise you give parents?
A. The only solution is for the family to do their job - some do. They are home for their children and give them religion. Others are far from religion; and both parents are working so their children lack parents being home. Some mothers have boyfriends!
I’m too traditional - I don’t understand. My mom was paralyzed for 10 years and my dad went out to see her everyday for 10 years. He would talk to her-you could tell she understood by her eyes looking at him. Parents must live their message! A loving couple will do more than any book. They must sacrifice their pride for each other and offer it to God.
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Good Priest and Brother of a Saint
After his noon Mass, Fr. Ray Devlin and I sat before the gigantic outdoor statue of the Blessed Mother at Our Lady of Peace church in Santa Clara. But, before and during the interview one person after another came to Father Ray for advice, a blessing or to give a gift. After speaking with Fr. Ray, each left with a smile.
Q. How and why did you become a priest?
A. My brother was a great priest, and I was imitating him. I recognized what he was doing. The key of vocation is others follow Christ, and you follow them. If you read his life then you’re going to get a great inspiration.
Your relatives, your mother and your grandparents, they all have an influence on you. Family brings vocations-that where they come from. The whole family was a religious family.
Q. Can you give us an example?
A. I don’t have one example. It was his whole life. You don’t do anything for one example. You do it for a life that’s truly dedicated. You saw that he was a happy person. That’s the key! People have vocations when they see young Jesuits and older Jesuits who are happy warriors. My brother said, "Always be a happy warrior."
As you can see I’m very docile [interviewer laughs]. But, for example, Dr. Bradley who knew my brother in Vietnam- after he came back he joined the Jesuits. He had a vocation, but he made up his mind after he saw what Fr. Joe was doing in the orient.
Q. What was your toughest experience in the priesthood?
A. That you serve God, save your soul, and help other. A priest didn’t join to become a star golf player or a great coach. He came to help people save their souls. To help people, also, go to God. That’s what my brother did. The joy of life is serving God through others. That’s the definition of a friend, too. A friend is one God gives us to show his love to us. That what He does through you. You do it through the ones you teach and coach. Show them the love of God that they will come to love God, too. That’s what a Buddhist over in Vietnam said, too. He said he came to learn Christ through Fr. Joe. And that’s what a priest is supposed to do. We come to learn Christ.
Q. Can you tell us anything that was particularly difficult for you?
A. Everything is difficult [we both laugh]! It was never easy-ever. That’s the proof of your vocation. It’s never easy whether you’re in studies, teaching or coaching. It’s always hard. That’s why Christ says take up your cross daily. To be a priest is to choice a difficult life. You’re not choosing something easy. That’s why you choose it-because it’s difficult.
You knew it would be difficult from the word go. Fr. Joe pointed out what a difficult life it would be. So, did my father. But, as my brother said that will be the proof of your vocation-to overcome all the difficulties. If you can persist and persevere that’s the proof-otherwise you quit.
One can mention some little event, but that doesn’t mean anything. That’s very insignificant. I remember a little ad that said if you want a very difficult life, and you may be killed, become a volunteer to go to Antarctica. They had a million volunteers because it would be very, very difficult.
Q. You say it’s very difficult, but you seem very happy. Can you tell us about that?
A. It’s because you’re overcoming your difficulties. It’s just like running a hurdle race. You have ten obstacles in the way. You come close to the obstacle, but by coming very close you become the best hurdler. So, you overcome the hurdles and don’t let the hurdles overcome you. That’s what the successful life is all about. Even though you trip and fall on some hurdles, you get up and keep running. You win the race because you don’t quit. That was typical of Fr. Joe.
Q. Even though there‘s suffering, the joy comes from overcoming difficulties?
A. No, the joy is helping others who are less fortunate than you. The joy is in helping others; if your going to pay attention to every little suffering you have you’re going to become a prude. I don’t take Prosac! Too many Americans are on drugs because they can’t take a little pain. Joe took a lot of pain. Don’t get tied up in little things like difficulties-those are expected. The big inspiration is the people you serve -to see how grateful they are. The ones you did help they are all very grateful. They are eternally grateful. But, a priest isn’t doing it for reputation. Fr. Joe couldn’t care less. He didn’t care if he was honored or dishonored. No matter what happens you do it. You’re not just doing it for people you’re doing it for God. You do it no matter what it is-no matter how difficult-because you’re doing it for God. That’s why we put the book together-to see the greatness of Fr. Joe. So, he can be an inspiration to others.
Q. You were born in San Francisco on October 7, 1924. Can you tell us about growing up in San Francisco?
A. I was born in a house so I could be near my mother [we both laugh]. It’s all in the book.
Q. Tell us a little bit, anyway.
A. There’s nothing to tell. I went to the same schools that Joe went to-St. Paul’s and St. Ignatius. San Francisco was a normal city in those times. No one locked their door. Everyone locks their door today. Everyone knew one another at that time. It was a family city. And people worked hard for their living.
Q. Tell us a little about coaching at Bellermine Catholic High school in San Jose from 1965 to 1975?
It’s better not to put too much of a stress on sports. If you put a stress on sport people read too much into it. I was ordained in 1955 and coached at St. Ignatius in Utah. We had a few vocations to the priesthood there. Then, I went to Bellermine where I enjoyed coaching football, basketball, cross-country and track. But, the big inspiration was going overseas and helping my brother.
Q. Tell us about Fr. Joe and the book?
A. Fr. Joe at the age of fifty-three was looking for a more difficult life. A life where he could directly help the poor because that is where he found his greatest consolation. He started helping Mexican migrants in Utah because he found out that a few had died of starvation. He went out of his way from then on to help the poor immigrants up in Utah. That started him to go up there. He would open the refrigerator in that Mexican home-no food, nothing. Then, he would go home to the rectory and have everything. So, that’s how he realized we should be helping the poor more. That was the key.
He searched around the world to find where he could help the people who were truly poor. A government official named Mr. Dan in Vietnam wrote an invitation to Fr. Joe. That’s a chapter in the book -by the way. They said come here and see what we have. We have war. We have communism trying to take over. We have the sick, the dying and the refugees. So, in Utah he got the invitation and permission to go. The Jesuits told him you pay your own way. People contributed to him from this country. And he became a tremendous success with the refugees. In doing it he suffered a lot! If he had realized how bad it was over there he probably would never have gone. But, once he realized how bad it was -and he was there- he couldn’t leave. He wouldn’t leave the people.
Finally, when he did escape from Vietnam- he escaped the day the communist took over. The communist tried to kill him a few times. That’s a chapter in the book, too. They came in a few times to assassinate him, but they were resisted by the Vietnamese soldiers. Some of them died defending him.
That part is written up by a major who was there-who lived in San Jose, by the way. The book is from Fr. Joe's letters, writings (a lot of it was published), from those who knew him and from my own experiences. I went there fourteen times and lived over there for a month. Other people wrote about Joe. They had him eating rats, but he didn’t eat rats. The food wasn’t any good. What they did have. His food was very meager to say the least. When you read the book you’ll get the inspiration. You’ll see why I’m not saying too much.
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How to End the Abortion Nightmare
Dr. Theresa Burke's latest book on post abortion therapy, Forbidden Grief: The Unspoken Pain of Abortion is endorsed by the great enemy of the feminist agenda, Dr. Laura Schessinger. Burkes concurs with Dr. Laura that the Feminist movement brought us many psychological problems and the trauma culture.
She applies psychology to cure this trauma, but says that abortion-trauma can only be completely healed if one asks for and receives God's mercy. Her work shows that if the grief of abortion is not healed then the world can become a Freddy Krueger-like nightmare.
Q. Dr. Burkes, what effect did the Feminist movement have in bringing about the trauma culture?
A. If you examine the women's movement you can see that many of the women who laid the groundwork were women traumatized by their own abortions. They believed that legalizing abortion would take away the trauma. But even offered in the most pristine and legal hospitals - abortion can only destroy.
Q. What happens to a culture when millions of men and women have the memory of an aborted baby haunting their unconscious? Can you give us one example of what can happen?
A. We can act out our trauma through play, through art, through movies and music. The college students I witnessed playing "baby soccer"were actually trying to master their trauma by belittling it through a game with decapitated baby doll parts.
This amusement and mesmerizing allure to engage in the traumatic play is a symptom of our cultures need to overcome the horror- like the baby in the blender jokes, which all surfaced coincidentally after Roe v Wade passed.
Q. The Baby Soccer"story in your book reminds me of a Stephen King novel with it's broken heads of dolls being kicked around the room, their eyes gouged out, their cheeks burned with cigarette butts and a boyfriend putting the ember of his cigarette between the doll's legs, then ripped them off, leaving only a vagina hole. Do you think abortion is connected to the horror genre in our culture?
A. Absolutely, I think that evil child movies are all around us. The child is the victimizer, the one who torments. Other movies, like Freddy Krueger, illustrate the horror of being tracked down by an "abortionist" figure who is out to kill her baby.
I've watched MTV shows with women shrieking in anger and pain, lyrics of abandonment and death. I think there is a collective unconscious anger and rage. It's acted out in the violence between sexes and the complete sterilization of our life giving capacity. I've watched MTV where baby dolls are thrown off cliffs, discarded, abused and unwanted - revealing the unconscious conflict shared by all who have rejected children or been abused themselves after having been used for sexual pleasure.
Q. You said "As the group's enthusiasm for this game demonstrated, the acting out of post-abortion trauma can be contagious...collective guilt and trauma have the capacity to disguise massive injustice. " Do you think this is why more pro-abortion candidates seem to be getting elected?
A. I believe that any system, political or entertainment that can deny the pain or attempt to desensitize us to the truth will be popular unless there is deep and tranformative healing. We all know that misery loves company - and it is that misery that seeks so desperately to normalize the act - legalize, sanitize, and protect us from facing it in truth. So politicians who fight for our right to kill can be seen as friends and co-conspirators in the unspoken pact to protect us from abortion as an act of violence and the destruction of human life.
Q. Do men have post abortion trauma (PAT)?
A. Yes, men suffer also. They might try to deny and numb their feelings through substance abuse and workaholicism. For those men who suffered the loss of their child because of an abortion they were unable to stop - they feel a sense of powerlessness - as if they have been castrated - they may also struggle with sexual difficulties or turn to fantasies and pornography as an attempt to reassure themselves of their virility.
Q. Tell us about men and women with PAT whom five to twenty years after their abortion suffered in confusion and silence?
A. The wound strikes at the heart of their spiritual life, causing feelings of guilt, shame, self-loathing and alienation from God. These symptoms can plague ones life for decades - and the secret is borne deeply in the heart and soul of those who suffer. They are frightened to expose this shame and grief for fear that others will judge them or think less of them. We had one woman come on our retreat who was 87 years old. She suffered over half a century with this secret that she had never revealed to anyone until she came to Rachel's Vineyard. She was so relieved to be with others and to finally receive God's forgiveness.
Q. You said "That's a sign of healing. When your greatest and ugliest cross becomes that which you want to share with the whole world!" Tell us how this comes about?
A. I had heard Father Mike Mannion, a Catholic priest and writer say: When a woman is giving birth to a child - the mother is the child's physical lifeline into the world. When there has been an abortion the "child" can become the mother's spiritual lifeline to God. When we are given permission to grieve this secret loss, and embrace the crucible of our suffering united to Christ - the search for healing does become a spiritual journey - and in the process of that journey- individuals find the love and mercy of God in a way they have never known.
Q. Your book says when society trivializes abortion, people suffering from it will, cry out by their actions, "I'm not OK! I'm in tremendous pain!" How can the pro-life movement help them?
A. Of course! We can validate their pain and lead them to places for healing. We can support them in love and compassion for the tremendous suffering they have endured. We can offer the Lord's mercy by not seeking to judge or condemn them, but by inviting them to thoughtfully reflect on their experience - by being the one ear that will listen, or the one heart that cries with them for the loss.
— by Fred Martinez
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Very Important Advice from Author Michael O'Brien
Dear Fred,
Thank you for your most recent message, with the copies of the correspondence with Fr X.
There is a lot of material in it, some of it factual, some of it conjecture, both intertwined with private revelation, ponderings and deep feelings. I share some of those feelings very much.
I read Ezekiel 9 frequently. Like you I grieve over the state of the household of God. I should explain my take on the current state of things. For years I've read a lot of private revelation, and found some of it to be true gold, some of it false, some a mixture of gold and personal opinion. I am a firm believer in the Fatima message (pure gold).
I am also convinced we are in the midst of the worst apostasy in the history of the Church, probably the Great Apostasy. The Spirit of Antichrist which has been present from the beginning is growing power. We may well be (though I don't know for certain) on the brink of the worst persecution in history, perhaps the final one prophesied in the Book of Revelation.
I have no inside track at the Vatican, and I'm certainly no mystic, so the untangling of the large number of conspiracy theories circulating presently (theories about about what is going on in the world and in the Vatican) is for me impossible. I believe that it's impossible for anyone to see it all for what it is, because the ultimate conspirator against mankind and against Christ's Church is Satan.
The horrible damage done to the Body of Christ by liberals, by Modernists, and even by so called "moderates" is all around us. There is no denying this. But we also have to be cautious about a kind of damage to the Bride of Christ that can be done by orthodox men of good will, who love the Church, hate what's being done to it, and are profoundly angry and frightened by what most people don't even see happening.
Anger-fear can breed many distortions of our thoughts and our spiritual life. This is the great danger for those who seek to be true disciples.
Conspiracy theory has an inbuilt auto-confirmation dynamic. Because a conspiracy by its very nature is a web of deceptions, one can accuse it of anything, find ample circumstantial evidence to prove it's true, and no amount of evidence to the contrary can convince one otherwise. One "knows"--one has the key to the evil plans of the enemy. This is intoxicating stuff both psychologically and spiritually. It is also a kind of Gnosticism in Christian form (a contradiction in terms).
The way through the mess is precisely what it has always been: the path to sainthood. We are all called to be saints. This means absolute discipleship of Christ, total conformity to Him on every level. Availing ourselves of all the graces, especially the Sacraments, Consecration to our Lady, docility to the Holy Spirit, and radical self-honesty.
The primary call of Catholics at this point in the growing darkness of our times is to be faithful to our duties according to our vocation in life (This is what our Lady of Fatima told Sr. Lucia in later years). Also to prayer, fasting, sacrifice. And obedience and trust in the Vicar of Christ. He may not solve the vast number of interior and exterior crises confronting the Church in the way you or I might. But he is Christ's anointed, Our Lady's chosen, and he sees far more than we do.Added to our faithfulness to the duties of our state in life (which means that we keep carrying these "ordinary" crosses as Catholics always have), is to offer increased prayer and fasting for the Holy Father, and for the purification and strengthening of the Church. We have to pray for her now in a way that we have not since the earliest centuries of the Church. To suffer with and for the Church is to suffer with and for the Lord Himself.
I have become extremely cautious about "orthodox" speakers who propose that the Holy Father is playing into the hands of globalists, syncretists, and the Antichrist himself. There is an unacknowledged pride in their approach (we know better than the Pope), and an unrecognized spiritual vortex beneath their feet. Having made a fundamental choice to believe a certain interpretation of an event (for example the consecration of Russia) they feed heavily upon spurious critiques of the Pope, spin many theories upon circumstantial evidence that become "facts" as they are passed along, etc, etc.
I don't think it's wrong to know about what people in these circles are saying, but we must read it with much caution and some holy water. It is precisely through a distortion of the good that Satan seduces the good people. He won't get them through grave sin or error, but he will subtly entrap them in a false concept of the structure of the world-problem and the current state of the Church. He will especially sow discouragement and lack of trust in the coming Triumph of Our lady. When one has lost confidence, there is a consequent turning inward, cyclical thinking, relying more and more on one's own strengths. A siege mentality results. This way of looking at reality becomes increasingly prone to every rumor or false accusation.
In an era dominated by an atmosphere of falsehood that seems to grow everywhere, nothing and no one will seem trustworthy, according to this state of mind. And in the end, one becomes ripe fruit for the devil.We will drive ourselves mad trying to sort it all out, get to the bottom of it, find a "solution."
Far better to cling to our Lord Jesus on the Cross, and let Him live within us and through us as we live in Him and through Him. That's the true solution.I didn't mean to write such a long response here. I hope I haven't said too much or too little. The problem with email is that it's too easy to read masses of material without really knowing a speaker's context, his heart, his soul, his mind.
But I think you know.May you be blessed and consoled, strengthened and guided by Christ our Savior always.
In the two Hearts of Jesus and Mary,
Michael O'Brien
On 17-Sep-04, at 11:11 PM, fred martinez wrote:
Dear Michael,
I have been and will continue to pray for Pope John Paul II, the next pope and the Cardinals who will elect him. You and your important work are also in my prayers. If you get a chance please read the info below on Fatima. I've only asked one other person to look at it because I only want persons who are strong in the faith to look at it and there are a lot of big names involved. Please do not share this with anyone else. Please give me your take on it. In my opinion, you are one of, if not the most important Catholic writer in our time.
Thank you,
Fred
(Posted with permission of Michael O' Brien.)
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The Florence Nightingale of the Pro-life Movement
United for Life George Carter, a white haired Irishman, on Friday mornings usually stands outside the white pillared doorway of the non-descript three story building that houses the Choice Medical Group on 1700 Pierce St, which does abortion up to twenty-four weeks.
He or other members of United for Life (UFL) are there to protect and support a woman who has saved more unborn babies from abortion than any other sidewalk counselor in San Francisco. She is successful because of her comforting nurse-like manners.
“The first time I meet Nora Dougherty I was most impressed by the calmness and the non-threatening manner in which she approached these young ladies. The first image that popped into my mind was a very reassuring, comforting nurse,” Carter said,
“And then thereafter who would I think of, as one of the greatest nurses of the last two or three hundred years, that wonderful English woman - Florence Nightingale. Quite often, I think of Nora as the Florence Nightingale of the pro-life Movement in San Francisco and the Bay Area.”
Dougherty credits her success to waking up at 6:30 AM to spend an hour in prayer and quiet time to prepare for the pro-life sidewalk counseling. She said, ”I pray for mercy to protect us out there. Also, to give me the right words to say to the young women.”
After prayer she usually drives out to meets one or two members of UFL in front of the abortion clinic. They use a few signs that aren’t graphic, which show the development of the baby in the womb at different weeks.
It is a long walk carrying the signs as Nora parks her car three blocks away because she fears that pro-abortionist might damage it.
Pro-abortionists have spit on the signs and verbally as well as physically threatened the sidewalk counselors in front of the Choice Medical Group.
Recently, a man drove up in an old truck. He jumped out cursing and “pushing around” Nora and another UFL sidewalk counselor. A week later, the man returned, but this time George Carter who is “reasonably bulky” was there.
“He jumped out again and he rushed across. Joe and I were standing there, and he was in the gutter. He was about five feet two. When you’re that small you don’t stand in the gutter below the level of someone who is six feet high,” Carter said.
”So he started doing his old stick again. I kind of looked at him and kidded around that I was going to take my wristwatch off. He jumped in his truck and drove away.”
The day that the man jumped out of the truck the second time, the counselors had decided to leave at twelve noon. But, they changed their minds about leaving because they didn’t want that man to think he had intimidated them.
So they waited until he encountered George Carter and left. Right after he left a baby was saved. Nora is hoping he returns so she can tell him the story of how he helped to save an unborn baby.
“This couple pulled up. They were discussing going in and having an abortion. She came over to me so I handed her some literature. She said she had been praying about it for weeks,” Nora says,
“She said she felt that God had sent us as angels and if we weren’t there she said she definitely would have had the abortion. But this was God’s answer the fact that we were out there. And we were only out there in the afternoon because this guy had harassed us.”
Both Nora and George said this is only one example God’s loving providence in their pro-life work. Both would thank the man if they ever see him again.
Nora got involved in pro-life work twenty years ago in Las Vegas, Nevada. Being pro-life she introduced herself to pro-life sidewalk counselors outside the local abortion clinic, she was asked to join them.
The first time she sidewalk-counseled women considering abortion she was able to save babies “right away.”
“The first success, was a couple I really didn’t want to talk to because they were a little bit scary, I thought they looked rough, but I talk to them, and I actually changed their minds,” Nora said,” So if the Lord tells you to talk to someone don’t have any fear.
After fifteen years of pro-life work in Nevada, she moved to San Francisco and started going out sidewalk counseling by herself.
Finally, she got in touch with Bea Smalley of UFL and went out with them on Saturday. Until she wasn’t able to go on that day and started her Friday morning outings at the Choice Medical Group where she came to be known as the best sidewalk counselor in San Francisco.
“Nora is the most effective sidewalk counselor I have known. I attribute this to her combination of prayer, creativity, and non-threatening approach,” Smalley said.
“She is the embodiment of John Paul II's challenge. "Be not afraid. Stand up for life."
Fred Martinez is the religion editor of the Conservative Monitor, a former columnist with NewsMax and a San Francisco Faith reporter. He has been a pro-life activist over twenty years.
Martinez’s new book The Hidden Axis of Evil: The Clinton, Sex Abuse and the Abortioning of America outlines "ingenious ways of fighting the evils of abortion on several levels" according to Kelly Clark of The Lady In The Pew website
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Kinsey, the Sex Abuse Lobby and the Bishops
Kinsey, the Sex Abuse Lobby and the Bishops
On Aug. 21, 2002 the Washington Times reported that the U.S. Catholic Bishops' sex abuse advisers are "people who have covered up ... sex between men and children." Moreover, these advisers have had close association with "experts" who "defended sex between men and children."
"The bishops recently chose Dr. Paul McHugh, former chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at John Hopkins University School of Medicine, as chief behavioral scientist for their new clergy sex crimes review board," the Reisman-Jarrard report in the Times said.
"Yet Dr. McHugh once said Johns Hopkins' Sexual Disorders Clinic, which treats molesters, was justified in concealing multiple incidents of child rape and fondling to police, despite a state law requiring staffers to report them."
McHugh's subordinate, Johns Hopkins clinic head Fred Berlin, according to the report, "admitted he had covered for the sex criminals, angering legislators, child-advocacy groups and state officials. But his actions were not surprising, because 'at least eight men have been convicted of sexually abusing Maryland children while under [Berlin's] treatment there.'"
Dr. Judith Reisman and Dennis Jarrard, who wrote the report, are experts in the field of sex abuse and obscenity. Jarrard served as an adviser to the Los Angeles County Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, while Reisman is an internationally known expert on Alfred Kinsey and sex abuse.
Reisman is president of The Institute for Media Education and has been a consultant to three U.S. Department of Justice administrations and the U.S. Department of Education, as well as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Money Is Berlin's Mentor
The Reisman-Jarrard report said Berlin has been the U.S. Catholic bishops' "chief adviser on child sexual abuse." Yet, according to Reisman, "Dr. Berlin described [pedophilia supporter] Dr. [John] Money as 'one of his most important mentors.'"
The Washington Times report said, "Dr. Money once gave an interview to PAIDIKA – the Journal of Paedophilia, an 'academic' publication that advocates adult sex with children alongside ads for the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) and other pro-pedophilia groups. He told PAIDIKA that a 'relationship' that is 'totally mutual' between a boy of 10 or 11 and an adult male 'would not [be] pathological in any way.'"
On May 30, 2002 The Wanderer, a national Catholic weekly, said that the Money-Berlin advice to the bishops began when "the founder of St. Luke's Institute, Rev. Michael R. Peterson, M.D. [who later died of AIDS], urges the Church to rely on Berlin and Money in a 1985 paper."
Money Is a Disciple of Kinsey
Reisman, quoted in The Wanderer article, said that "Dr. Berlin and John Money, Ph.D., co-founded a celebrated sexual training and treatment center, The Johns Hopkins Sexual Disorders Clinic. … Dr. Money, as it turns out, was a dedicated Kinsey disciple, the mentor for June Reinisch [the third Kinsey Institute director] and on the advisory board of the Kinsey Institute."
The Wanderer piece, titled "The Real Experts Advise Bishops: Sue your Experts," claims much of the Church's "recent difficulties" have come about because "many of the Church's key sexuality advisors are associated with" the agenda created by Dr. Alfred Kinsey and the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University.
Reisman in the article urges the U.S. Bishops to sue their Kinsey experts for malpractice:
"To me, this is a case of massive medical malpractice by those in the human sexuality field, as well as consumer fraud, as well as a broad spectrum of other things for the lawyers to sort out. ...[T] hese so-called 'human sexuality educators' have been teaching behaviors that cause dysfunction, that are anti-authority and anti-Church."
The May 20, 2002 article, by Paul Likoudis, said that "Kinsey and his colleagues were the driving force behind the legalization of fornication, adultery, bestiality, pedophilia and other immoral, harmful behaviors."
Fraudulent Scientific Data Eliminates Penalties for Sexual Offenses
Kinsey, because of the worldwide influence of his fraudulent scientific data, has been called the father of the homosexual movement by homosexuals, and the father of the sexual revolution as well as the pornography industry and, some say, the sex abuse lobby.
James H. Jones, an Indiana University scholar and Kinsey Institute insider, in an exposé biography titled "Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life," shows the motivation behind the Kinseyan "pan-sexualism" agenda.
In the document "How Junk Sex Science Created a Paradigm Shift in Society, Legislation and the Judiciary," Reisman said:
"Jones' data confirms other reports that Kinsey was a sexist, racist and atheist who excluded women, Jews, blacks, and moral traditionalists from his staff and hired only homosexuals and bisexuals (with one short-term exception). Kinsey only hired sexual deviants on whom he could rely to keep his secrets – including his [scientific] fraud, his 'uncommon desires,' and the child molesters he used to conduct child sex experiments. Jones also reported that Kinsey: coerced his wife into participating in acts of adultery and sodomy with his staff and co-authors (which were filmed), seduced male students at Indiana University (and bullied their wives into participating), filmed sex with his male co-workers (who were rewarded by promotion to co-authorship), and filmed himself participating in sado-masochistic sex rituals."
In this report Reisman also said, "Based on his [fraudulent scientific] data, Kinsey claimed that children enjoyed sex and the real harm of adult-child sex stemmed from 'hysterical' parents, teachers and professionals who reacted with anger and horror to children's disclosures. Based on his findings, many legislatures lightened or eliminated penalties for sexual offenses ... toward children as 'victims' in cases of incest and child molestation."
In 1991, the widely respected British medical journal The Lancet verified Reisman's research when it demanded that the Kinsey Institute be investigated, writing:
"The Kinsey reports (one in 1948 on males and the companion five years later) claimed that sexual activity began much earlier in life ... and displayed less horror of age differences and same-sex relationships than anyone at the time imagined. It was as if, to follow Mr. Porter again, 'Anything goes'. In 'Kinsey, Sex and Fraud,' Dr. Judith A. Reisman and her colleagues demolish the foundations of the two [Kinsey] reports."
The Bishops, the "Sex Experts' and the Media's Cover-up
Many believe that the Kinseyan experts and the homosexual network within the Church protected the gay sex abuser at the Dallas meeting. As the National Review's Rod Dreher pointed out on June 13, "the need to avoid the 'elephant in the sacristy [the fact that the vast majority of priest sexual abusers are homosexuals],' in Mary Eberstadt's memorable phrase, is perhaps the only point on which the bishops and the media agree."
To this end, the bishops running the Dallas meeting, according to the June 13 National Review article, had staged "briefings for the media on various aspects of the abuse scandal" by Kinseyan psychiatric panelists such as Fred Berlin, Fr. Stephen Rossetti, Fr. Candice Connors and others with a pro-homosexual agenda.
National Review's Dreher said, "The Rev. Stephen Rossetti, current president of St. Luke's, … is believed by some psychiatrists associated with the Catholic Medical Association to have been a big part of the problem, owing to the advice he's been giving bishops. Rossetti has most recently been downplaying the role homosexuality plays in the scandal."
The bishops, the sex experts and the mass media's suppression of the widely known fact that the vast majority of sexual abusers in the Church scandal are homosexuals was even contradicted earlier in the year by a liberal national magazine.
U.S. News & World Report columnist John Leo reported that studies have shown that 5 percent or less of priests fit the pedophile description. He said, "Most sexual victims of priests are teenage boys [abused in homosexual acts], according to one estimate. A study of Chicago's 2,200 priests identified 40 sexual abusers, only one of whom was a pedophile."
Also, according to the News Agency's "The World Seen From Rome," Hastings Wyman, syndicated homosexual columnist, wrote: "[T]he pattern of sexual abuse among Catholic clergy does suggest a gay problem … 90 percent of the cases of sex with adolescents that have come to light in the Church involved teenage boys, not girls. Do the math." (Between the Lines, May 22, 2002)
During the Dallas bishops meetings on June 15, the homosexual spin group Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) through its network in the Church reported news that the mass media censored. Homosexual activist Cathy Renna, writing for GLAAD's Web site, said that liberal bishops within the church protected the gay sex abuser at the Dallas meeting.
"We also learned more late last night about the anti-gay proposal offered by Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Neb. Bruskewitz's 'Amendment 27' would have stated that because the 'current homosexual culture' was the root cause of the sex-abuse crisis, the bishops would be required to force strict conformity with all church doctrines on sexuality. His proposal was soundly rejected on a voice vote, with a source inside the meeting telling me that it received only perhaps a half-dozen votes of support."
During a victory get-together, Renna said she met with "a number of familiar media faces" and Anne Barrett Doyle of the Coalition of Concerned Catholics who is a member of the steering committee for the lay reform movement Voice of the Faithful.
According to Renna, "Anne was one of the first people I spoke with back in March when we were cultivating resources and contacts to offer media outlets. ... Seeing Anne at the cathedral brought to mind how far we've come in the past months."
During those months, the mass media outlets, under the sway of gay activists like Renna and her friend Doyle of Voice of the Faithful, had censored George Will, Pope John Paul II's spokesman Dr. Joaquin Navarro-Valls, and the almost-all-conservative representatives in Dallas who attempted to report the link between homosexuality and sexual abuse by priests, which U.S. News & World Report detailed before the media cover-up.
VOTF and the Doyle-Peterson-Mouton Report
Activist Anne Barrett Doyle and her organization Voice of the Faithful (VOTF) have also taken part in the cover-up of the link between homosexuality and sexual abuse by priests. In fact, VOTF has been promoting the 1985 report by Fr. Michael R. Peterson, which brought the Kinsey experts and pan-sexualism's non-"judgmentalism" into the Church.
As stated earlier, The Wanderer said that the Kinseyan advice to the bishops began when Peterson, who founded the St. Luke Institute (which the Dallas panelists Connors and Rossetti later ran), urged "the Church to rely on Berlin and Money in a 1985 paper" and on his "pan-sexualism" St. Luke Institute.
Even the pro-gay National Catholic Reporter on May 17,2002 admitted that "[t]he [church's highest court, the Vatican] Signatura's brief, later published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, stated: "St. Luke Institute, a clinic founded by a priest [Fr Michael Peterson] who is openly homosexual and based on a mixed doctrine of Freudian pan-sexualism and behaviorism, is surely not a suitable institution apt to judge rightly about the beliefs and the lifestyle of a Catholic priest."
The liberal bishops continued to rely on Peterson for advice despite the Vatican's warning, as shown in the pro-gay National Catholic Reporter's May 17 article:
"By the time of Peterson's death [of AIDS], Cardinal James Hickey of Washington had come to rely on Peterson, along with a number of bishops, for advice in handling sex-offending members of the clergy. During the Mass, Hickey praised Peterson's work at St. Luke Institute, calling him a 'brilliant and hard-working priest.'"
According to the May 30 The Wanderer article "The Homosexual Network and the 1985 Clergy Sex Abuse Report," Peterson was a "disciple" of John Money and a homosexual.
The 1985 Peterson report, which VOTF has been promoting, said:
"We have been hampered in our profession by extreme moral judgmentalism, if I may use the phrase, and it is only in very few medical schools in this country that the issue is treated or even addressed properly. The Johns Hopkins Hospital Sexual Disorders Clinic run by Dr. John Money [who became a pedophilia supporter] and Dr. Fred Berlin [who later covered up for the sex criminals] is probably the 'authority' scientific community. I know personally both of these highly respected scientists and I am very appreciative of their efforts to bring this psychiatric disorder out of the shadows and into the 'scientific daylight' so that we can begin to see the disorder as a psychiatric disease and not a moral weakness [alterboys.tripod.com/moutonreport/pag e_1x.html]."
The VOTF Web site said that the winner of its first VOTF Priest of Integrity Award, the Rev. Thomas Doyle, "[joined] with Rev. Michael Peterson, a priest/psychiatrist who founded a treatment center for clergy, and Ray Mouton, a Louisiana lawyer, [to write] a comprehensive report in 1985, and sent it to every bishop, identifying sexual abuse as a compulsive, lifelong psychosexual disorder, not a moral weakness."
In a report found on the Survivors' Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) Web site called "A Short History of the Manual," Doyle said that Money's disciple Peterson "was a friend and collaborator." The "Short History" report said the manual was an "instrument about how to deal with cases of priest-pedophilia."
However, the manual failed to bring out the homosexual sex abuse of teenage boys as the overwhelming component of the problem, which then as now is 90 percent or more of the sex abuse scandal. Also in the case of the pedophilia abuse, the vast majority are boys.
Even the Doyle-Peterson-Mouton manual said, "In my experience, most of the pedophiliac clerics I have seen and my colleagues have dealt with are homosexual pedophiles and not heterosexual pedophiles; this is surprising since the greater percentage in the general population is the opposite."
But instead of bringing out the homosexual abuse problem as the main portion of the scandal, the manual calls it a "Compulsive Heterosexual/Homosexual Acting Out," "Pedophilia or Sexual Molestation of Minors" and "Exhibitionism" problem.
The Doyle-Peterson-Mouton manual said – and Bill Clinton would appreciate this – that "exposing the genitals" to unfamiliar persons "represents one of the 'victimless crimes.'" But the main problem is that the manual uses the standard gay activist spin that VOTF's Anne Barrett Doyle, GLAAD and the media used to censored conservatives in Dallas who attempted to report the link between homosexuality and sexual abuse by priests.
The tactic, as Peterson used for the most part in the Executive Summary of the manual, is to say that the scandal is about pedophilia and then claim that pedophilia is not associated with homosexuality, but is a heterosexual problem or at most a heterosexual/homosexual problem.
The gay activist expert and psychiatrist Jeffrey Satinover, who wrote the book "Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth," which the Congressional Record of May 1996 called the "best book on homosexuality written in our times," states this is a standard spin. He writes:
"Activists are aware of the adverse effect on the gay-rights movement that could result if people perceived any degree of routine association between homosexuality and pedophilia. ... They have denied this association by focusing on the (true) fact that – in absolute numbers – heterosexuals commit more child molestation than homosexuals.
"But careful studies show that pedophilia is far more common among homosexuals than heterosexuals."
From the information that Kinsey expert Reisman has documented, Peterson was only following the Kinseyan advice of his mentors Money and Berlin, until his death of AIDS in 1987. Also, Peterson, who was homosexual – as with the gay Kinsey in his data – probably felt a need to cover up the gay connection to the scandal in order to protect his gay subculture.
Doyle and VOTF Have No Excuse
But Doyle and VOTF, which is the mass media's favorite "Catholic" lay organization to cure the Catholic Church of its sex-abuse scandal, have no excuse.
Every knowledgeable person without an agenda knows the fact that at least 90 percent of the problem is homosexuals "acting out" on teenage boys. VOTF and Doyle have failed to bring out this fact in their many media opportunities.
In fact, in the 1996 Doyle-Demarest memo, Doyle uses the gay activist spin:
"In the past it was common to refer to priests who had sexually abused male children as homosexuals when in fact "pedophiles" would have been the correct term. ... I am convinced that the use of the term "homosexual" when referring to actions with young boys actually meant pedophilia or at least pedophilic acts [www.thelinkup.com/execsum.html]."
Some orthodox Catholics wonder why VOTF, if it really wants to end the sex abuse scandal, gave the Priest of Integrity Award to Doyle instead of the Latino Fr. Enrique Rueda, who in 1982 wrote "The Homosexual Network."
In the book Rueda documented how disgraced homosexual Archbishop Rembert Weakland and other church leaders brought gay activists into the heart of the church. Connie Marshner of the Free Congress Foundation in a March report "We Were Warned" said:
"The name of the fair city of Boston appears frequently in Fr. Rueda's pages, giving it the dubious distinction of being the birthplace of NAMBLA, the North American Man/Boy Love Association (an interesting coincidence in light of subsequent developments). Also interesting to note is that one [now infamous mass pedophile] Fr. Paul Shanley attended the NAMBLA convention in Boston, supposedly on behalf of the then-Catholic Archbishop, Medeiros."
"In the early days of 'gay liberation,' 1972, a National Coalition of Gay Organizations adopted a "Gay Rights Platform." This list of demands included one to repeal all laws governing the age of sexual consent – a matter of some obvious concern to pederasts."
For his efforts to end the scandal Reuda, according to the March 30 The Wanderer article, was "exiled by his bishop Matthew Clark of Rochester, NY, refused incardination by every other American bishop, and is today, an official 'nonperson' in the American church."
If VOTF and the liberal bishops really want to end the church scandal, then they have to stop covering up the gay part of 90 percent of the scandal. If VOTF and Doyle really want to end the pedophilia part of the scandal, then they have to expose the fraudulent scientific data eliminating penalties for sexual abusers and the Kinseyan "experts" who are advising the bishops.
If not, then VOTF needs to take the advice that Doyle gave in Canada:
"Any institution that enables the cover-up, protects the abusers or the authorities that hide them, doesn't deserve to exist."
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Denial of Sin
Denial of Sin
by James K. Fitzpatrick
5/14/02
In a recent column on the clerical sex abuse scandals rocking the Church, I speculated about how the priests involved in these acts could justify their behavior to themselves in their private moments. One possibility I raised was that they may have bought so totally into premises of the homosexual revolution that they actually felt no shame for what they had done.
Fred Martinez, staff religion editor of the Conservative Monitor and a regular contributor to the San Francisco Faith, a northern California newspaper, forwarded a column of his that appeared on Newsmax.com on April 18th. In it, he speculates that the problem may be even more deep seated.
Martinez holds that we are witnessing the impact of the successful infiltration of Catholic “publishers, seminaries, even convents and monasteries” by a “scientific paganism” that calls for an “inversion of worship and the Judeo-Christian worldview.” He says that we are looking at an outright “denial of original sin and personal sin” by clerics who reject the “basic Christian assumption that there is a need for forgiveness from God. Instead, they believe there is no sin, only selves needing to reach the fullness of themselves”; that this is what lies “behind the headlines of the Boston catastrophe and other dioceses.”
Martinez holds that these views were introduced into our seminaries and workshops for priests, brothers and nuns through the “human potential movement” and humanistic psychology of Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers. The goal of Maslow and Rogers was to promote an approach to education that would be “values-free,” one that would stress that there is no right and wrong, no objective truth when discussing religious or moral issues.
Thus, says Martinez, the Christian understanding of a “fallen and sinful world with persons needing God the Father to forgive them so they can return to be His sons and daughters” was replaced with a “therapeutic starting point,” where what “is needed are not God and His forgiveness, but a therapist assisting a self to reach the fullness of self.” The ideas of Nietzsche, Freud and Jung supplanted in our schools and seminaries the teachings of St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas and Cardinal Newman.
Martinez makes sense to me. Anyone who has sat through a “values clarification” exercise in one of our public schools knows that the purpose of these exercises is promote a “non-judgmental” view of life, an “I’m okay, you’re okay” relativism, a “different strokes for different folks” attitude that purportedly will encourage a spirit of tolerance in our multicultural world. If these views have become part of the training of our priests and religious, it would not be hard to picture how active homosexuals could reconcile their behavior with their priesthood. They are being true to themselves.
We must remember that even though these priests accused of sex abuse are often older men, they are likely to have gone through the seminary at the height of the counterculture influences of the late 1960s and 1970s. The rise of the counterculture was over 30 years ago.
I remember those years. I was teaching at a Catholic high school in the Bronx in the late 1960s. One of the things that struck me was how the nature of retreats changed during those years. During the time when I was a student at a Catholic high school, in the late 1950s, the purpose of a retreat was to encourage a personal rejection of sin and a willingness to submit to the word of God as expressed in the Gospels and the teachings of the Church.
By the late 1960s, things had changed dramatically. The goal seemed to be to remove a sense of guilt and anxiety about sin and promote a sense of psychological well being instead – to make the students “feel good about themselves,” no matter where they “were coming from”. Stress was placed upon the “good news” of the Gospels and God’s love for us and upon our duty to love our neighbor as ourselves for the love God.
In some ways, this change was for the good. Love and redemption are at the heart of Christ’s message. But Christ’s message is more. The men about to stone the women taken in sin are warned that only those without sin should cast the first stone. And the woman was forgiven for her sins. But Jesus also told the woman to “Go and sin no more.” Forgiveness requires repentance and conversion.
If that part of the equation is forgotten, we end up with people who are convinced that their behavior is acceptable if it is in accordance with their personal and unique search for meaning in life. We get relativists, existentialists, multiculturalists – and maybe even priests who can engage in sex with youthful parishioners without feeling guilty about it in the morning.
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