Matthew25.org: Hypocrisy, American-Style

Among all the chicanery of last year's politicking, the disinformation campaign waged by operatives at http://www.matthew25.org/ ranks as the most offensive. Having aided and abetted anti-life candidates and causes by duping impressionable, uninformed and uncatechized voters, they're now busy putting a Christian spin on the Obama administration's manifold violations of the natural moral law.

The charade requires twisting the Gospel message. Quoting from the 25th chapter of Matthew, these brazen hucksters promote abortion, euthanasia, contraception, cloning and lethal human experimentation as if they were corporal works of mercy.

I'm hard pressed to convey, by word alone, my opinion of those who use the Word of God to further such manifest evil. Hence, the cartoon... a cartoon that applies not only to these shameless dissemblers, but to Roe-era America in general.

The American Holocaust Memorial & Museum?

Disarming words of welcome, Auschwitz

Disarming words of welcome, Wichita

Warning at perimeter fence, Auschwitz

Warning at perimeter fence, Wichita

Mothers and children entering death camp, Auschwitz

Mothers and children entering abortion mill, Wichita

Nazi-era crematorium, Auschwitz

Roe-era crematorium, Wichita

Not long after George Tiller was murdered, it occurred to me that his heirs might find it difficult to unload the late abortionist's property. Who, really, would want real estate and facilities used to slaughter tens of thousands of human beings? As a pro-life advocate and former museum exhibit designer, I would. Because the most appropriate use for such property is as an educational memorial to the victims of abortion. If the death camp of Auschwitz can be rehabilitated, why not the abortion mill of Wichita?

We can call it The American Holocaust Memorial and Museum.

For all their differences, Auschwitz and Wichita have something in common: ghastly facilities in which members of disenfranchised populations were processed, murdered and incinerated. But more to the point, both places convey the shared methods and madness of yesterday's Nazis and today's abortion advocates...

Wary of public reaction, Nazis tried concealing evidence of genocide behind the barbed wire of death camps; image-conscious abortion advocates lash out when photographs of disemboweled, dismembered near-term children are displayed. Nazis dehumanized their victims, denying them legal status as persons and calling them parasites; abortion advocates refuse to recognize the personhood of the unborn and call them products of conception. Nazis used the antiseptic term final solution for the slaughter of Jews; abortion advocates use reproductive freedom, family planning, women's health care, choice and other innocuous-- indeed, positive-- terms for the slaughter of children.

Just as tours of Auschwitz's horrific facilities now shed light on the reality of Germany's Nazi-era, tours of Wichita's appalling abortion mill would shed light on the reality of America's Roe-era. And there is no more pressing need than to teach our people, especially our youth, the terrible truth of the American holocaust.

Wichita photos courtesy Stuart Bensch (http://dr-tiller.com/) and Cheryl Sullenger (http://www.operationrescue.org/).

Tiller's Slaying: All the Excuse Napolitano Needs

Over the years we've seen myriad examples of politicians bending federal, state and local police forces, courts and other government agencies to the purpose of anti-life interests to whom they're indebted.

Kansas Democrats offer a textbook example. Referring to the abortion lobby's influence during Kathleen Sebelius' tenure as governor, I once wrote of "a long line of officeholders-- from small-claims court in Wichita to the legislature and Supreme Court in Topeka-- who've taken extraordinary measures to ensure that Tiller remains untouchable. Having amassed a fortune by duping young mothers and killing their children, Tiller is proof that almost any legislator, prosecutor, policeman or judge can be had."

No one, then, should be surprised when Eric Holder's Department of Justice, Janet Napolitano's Homeland Security, Kathleen Sebelius' Health and Human Services and other government entities spin George Tiller's murder to the abortion lobby's advantage, painting the pro-life community as a bunch of latent terrorists. Indeed, who needs reminding that Napolitano already had warned law enforcement agencies across the nation that drivers sporting pro-life bumper stickers are suspected rightwing extremists?

As a matter of fact, my sticker reads Protect Human Life.

Not only that, but last week I participated in a novena for the conversion of George Tiller. At the start of each Rosary, I asked Our Lady that Tiller might understand the carnage he has wrought. And that his demonic, murderous career might come to an immediate end.

Homeland Security, come get me.

Pope Pius XII: The Most Accomplished, Most Vilified Humanitarian of the Twentieth Century

The anti-Catholic rhetoric stirred up by Pope Benedict XVI's trip to the Middle East called to mind an email I sent last year to the Philadelphia Jewish Voice, a leftwing tabloid that I imagine offends as many sincere, observant Jews as it does level-headed gentiles.

My email was in response to an op-ed written by mudslinging pseudo-scholar Daniel Goldhagen, author of scurrilous books and articles claiming, among other nonsense, that Pope Pius XII was some kind of Nazi sympathizer who sat on his hands while Hitler slaughtered six million Jews. In his op-ed, Goldhagen slung the same mud at Benedict XVI.

Mr. Dan Loeb, Publisher
The Philadelphia Jewish Voice

Dan--

I just happened across Daniel Goldhagen's ridiculous comments on Benedict XVI's visit to Auschwitz (PJV website, July 2006). Despite being way too busy to waste time addressing nonsense like his, I'm going to.

Goldhagen seems to think the Church-- and Pope Pius XII, in particular-- owes him an apology. For what? For not saving even more Jewish lives? Obviously, Goldhagen has fallen for that tired, long-discredited smear campaign begun by the Soviets shortly after WWII in its effort to destabilize the West. That he perpetuates such fiction shows just how much credibility this joker has.

Pius XII's name soon will appear in the Canon of Saints. Because, among many other selfless acts, he saved the lives of uncounted victims of Nazi ruthlessness, including hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees. No matter how viciously Goldhagen tries smearing the Body of Christ and the Successor of Peter, in the end he'll likely succeed only in convincing those as spiteful as he. Indeed, Goldhagen should consider apologizing himself. And he might consider facts, too. Such as the fact that Jews were not the only victims of Nazi terror. How many more gentiles died, not only in concentration camps, but in the seas, skies and battlefields of WWII?

What Goldhagen clearly doesn't get is that the Nazis committed crimes against all humanity. And that their legacy continues in a way he surely will not acknowledge. The Nazis were outstanding adherents of utilitarianism, the very philosophy of today's culture of death. Goldhagen has absolutely no problem with abortion, euthanasia and embryonic experimentation; he's as thoroughly utilitarian as any Nazi ever was. So, what distinguishes Goldhagen from the Nazis? Merely the languages in which they have lied.

Truth conquered evil in 1945; it continues doing so as liars like Goldhagen are exposed.

Semper veritas,
John Francis Borra

Not surprisingly, my letter was not published.

So, if Goldhagen's work is trash, why do I mention it? Because his calumnies are representative of the appalling injustices done to one of the greatest humanitarians of all time. Among many extraordinary accomplishments, Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli, as nuncio, secretary of state and pope, saved far more Jewish lives than anyone else in history. Moses included.

What finally prompted me to post this was EWTN's recent airing of A Hand of Peace: Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust, another wonderful documentary from the Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation. A beautiful, moving tribute to this most holy of men, A Hand of Peace relies on interviews with both Jewish and Catholic scholars, revealing the source of the black legend plaguing the memory of Pius XII and the truth about his selfless, heroic actions in the face of Nazi and Soviet threats. Importantly, it brings to light the uncommon wisdom, prudence, charity and courage of a man who clearly did everything possible to alleviate suffering and stem violence without provoking reprisal and even greater bloodshed.

Something else that becomes clear in this documentary is that the Catholic Church was the greatest threat to Nazi and Soviet hegemony. This is precisely why they waged a relentless war of lies to discredit the Vicar of Christ and undermine the Church's influence. And when it became clear that lies weren't enough, both the Nazis and the Soviets resorted to assassination. But as John Paul II reminded us, Our Lady would have none of it.

Today the war continues, taken up by Hell's latest pawns.

Feared and hated by ideologues of political extremism, profiteers of human experimentation, hedonists of homosexual activism, butchers of abortion, pornographers of mainstream media, pagans of radical environmentalism, hate-mongers of Islamic fundamentalism and petty prophets of Christian revisionism, the Church will suffer the blows of an idolatrous world until the very day Her Founder returns.

To learn more about the Salt and Light Media Foundation and see all that this worthy apostolate offers, visit their site at http://www.saltandlighttv.org/index.html

Our Anti-Life Culture: Motherhood is for Suckers

Only the dullest observer can be surprised by the ongoing collapse of our contracepting, sterilizing, aborting society. After all, the family is the very foundation of society and marriage is the institution which brings forth the family. So when the procreative function of sex is removed and the unitive function is exploited as mere recreation, that foundation crumbles and the walls come tumbling down.

As I reminded readers in my post of February 8, 2009, it's not as if the Catholic Church hasn't been warning us for two thousand years. Read more about the unfolding and inevitable catastrophe of birth control at http://veritatisthecartoon.blogspot.com/2009/02/its-not-like-we-werent-warned.html

Plan B for Kiddies: The Abortion Lobby Usurps Even More Parental Authority

This is an updated version of my original Plan B cartoon that first appeared in 2006, when a politically browbeaten FDA finally allowed Teva Pharmaceutical's Plan B abortifacient-contraceptive to be purchased without prescription. Last month, U.S. District Court Judge Edward Korman made it timely once again by ordering the FDA to lower the age restriction for this "emergency contraceptive" or "morning after pill" to seventeen. But that's not all. Korman took the extra step of ordering the FDA to investigate eliminating all age restrictions.

That's right. This activist judge considers it reasonable to dispense an abortifacient-contraceptive (containing, by the way, many times the dose of progestin contained in conventional birth control pills) to a child of any age, without a parent's permission or so much as a physician's word of advice.

Last Wednesday, the FDA announced it would comply. Responding, Planned Parenthood's Cecile Richards said, "Today's announcement by the FDA is a strong statement to American women that their health comes before politics. The U.S. has the highest rate of teen pregnancy among the most developed countries in the world. Providing birth control, including emergency birth control, to young women helps them make responsible decisions and avoid unintended pregnancy."

Richards is lying, of course.

Once again, leftwing politics trumps not only health, but life. However, we can't expect Richards to acknowledge publicly what everyone on both sides of this apocalyptic battle knows: that wider availability of contraceptives increases the number of unintended pregnancies. And because Plan B is a child-molester's dream, its availability increases the incidence of rape. But it's not as though Richards minds; after all, Planned Parenthood's business model is based entirely on irresponsible, abusive behavior. Selling contraception encourages promiscuity that leads to abortion. It's a win-win situation for America's biggest abortion vendor and a lose-lose situation for everyone else.

So much for Richards' claim of helping kids "make responsible decisions and avoid unintended pregnancy."

Earth Day 2009: Conservationism, Obama-Style

Here's a quick cartoon to celebrate the most important feast on radical-environmentalism's liturgical calendar, Earth Day.