News Item: : Stopped Short!
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Monday 17 November 2008 - 20:01:42
It is great news that the planned visit of the pro-abortion MP Clare Short to St. Paul's Girl's School in Birmingham was stopped late last week.
Clare Short responded in the Birmingham Mail by saying;
 'This shows how incredibly rude they are and is the same reason so many Catholic girls cease to be Catholics.' Â
We cannot improve on the response to that given by James and Ella Preece on their cool blog www.lovingit.co.uk where they state;
'No Shorty - The height of bad manners is voting in favour of making it legal to have little babies ripped out of their mothers womb and shredded in to tiny pieces. The reason so many Catholic girls cease to be Catholics is simple - we stop teaching them about Catholicism when they are six. They are still singing "who put the colours in the rainbow" when they are fourteen and when they turn sixteen we invite pro-abortion MP's to come and give them awards. Also bad manners, is calling your school "Catholic" and then requiring parents to organise protests before you tell the aforementioned MP to get lost. Once upon a time, a Catholic school was a school that was Catholic, now it seems a Catholic school is one that feels obliged to occasionally humour religious people when they make a fuss (and only if it's a big fuss).'
Whilst many liberals will be complaining that this is all an infringement of 'free speech', it is also worth reflecting that this is a profound act of charity. It has prevented the orthodox girls and parents from the school, and the wider Catholic community, from being further scandalised; and it has given a clear sign to Clare Short that one cannot be Catholic and pro-abortion. In that sense it is an essentially pastoral act in the service of her eternal soul and those of onlookers in need of clear guidance.
Please pray for Clare Short in this serious matter.
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Please also pray for all women who have been damaged by abortion that they would know that the way to forgiveness and healing is open to them in Christ and His Church.
Let us humbly give thanks to God for this positive result. Let us also give thanks to all concerned for seeing correctly... after pressure. Let us thank all in the blogosphere for contacting the school to ask that this event be stopped. And let us thank that faithful and unsung heroin, the Catholic Mom of 10, for sticking her neck on the line and standing up to be counted in order to uphold the Catholic ethos of the school and to protect her own and other families girls from this confusion.
To quote a much over used Americanism;
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!!!Way to go Jackie Parkes!!!
Catholic Woman of the Year award anyone?
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(Category: Torch of The Faith News)
Posted by admin
Monday 17 November 2008 - 20:01:42
It is great news that the planned visit of the pro-abortion MP Clare Short to St. Paul's Girl's School in Birmingham was stopped late last week.Clare Short responded in the Birmingham Mail by saying;
 'This shows how incredibly rude they are and is the same reason so many Catholic girls cease to be Catholics.' Â
We cannot improve on the response to that given by James and Ella Preece on their cool blog www.lovingit.co.uk where they state;
'No Shorty - The height of bad manners is voting in favour of making it legal to have little babies ripped out of their mothers womb and shredded in to tiny pieces. The reason so many Catholic girls cease to be Catholics is simple - we stop teaching them about Catholicism when they are six. They are still singing "who put the colours in the rainbow" when they are fourteen and when they turn sixteen we invite pro-abortion MP's to come and give them awards. Also bad manners, is calling your school "Catholic" and then requiring parents to organise protests before you tell the aforementioned MP to get lost. Once upon a time, a Catholic school was a school that was Catholic, now it seems a Catholic school is one that feels obliged to occasionally humour religious people when they make a fuss (and only if it's a big fuss).'
Whilst many liberals will be complaining that this is all an infringement of 'free speech', it is also worth reflecting that this is a profound act of charity. It has prevented the orthodox girls and parents from the school, and the wider Catholic community, from being further scandalised; and it has given a clear sign to Clare Short that one cannot be Catholic and pro-abortion. In that sense it is an essentially pastoral act in the service of her eternal soul and those of onlookers in need of clear guidance.
Please pray for Clare Short in this serious matter.
Â
Please also pray for all women who have been damaged by abortion that they would know that the way to forgiveness and healing is open to them in Christ and His Church.
Let us humbly give thanks to God for this positive result. Let us also give thanks to all concerned for seeing correctly... after pressure. Let us thank all in the blogosphere for contacting the school to ask that this event be stopped. And let us thank that faithful and unsung heroin, the Catholic Mom of 10, for sticking her neck on the line and standing up to be counted in order to uphold the Catholic ethos of the school and to protect her own and other families girls from this confusion.
To quote a much over used Americanism;Â
!!!Way to go Jackie Parkes!!!
Catholic Woman of the Year award anyone?
This news item is from Torch of The Faith
( http://www.torchofthefaith.com/news.php?extend.128 )