Missionary Returns Award to Protest Eluana's Murder

In response to the cruel dehydration killing of Eluana Englaro, Father Aldo Trento, a missionary in Uraguay since 1989, returned the highest Italian honor a citizen can receive, Knight of the Order of the Star of Solidarity.

"How can I, an Italian citizen, receive such an honor from you, who, with your action, permitted the death of Eluana in the name of the Italian Republic?"

See ZENIT News: Cases Like Eluana's Can Have Happy Endings

Will Eluana Be Dehydrated to Death like Terri?

The fight over the planned dehydration murder of Eluana Englaro, Italy's Terri Schiavo, is raging. The young woman, like Terri, is in a state of diminished consciousness NOT A COMA. Like Terri she has a simple feeding tube for nutrition and hydration, but is not hooked up to any other life support. Like Terri, a family member, in Terri's case her husband Michael and in this case Eluana's father, wants her dead. Terri was offered lifetime care by the Missionaries of Charity, Eluana was in a hospice run by nuns who wanted to go on making her a loving home. Both offers were refused. Eluana was transferred to a home in a town on the Adriatic, Udine in Northeast Italy. Terri was executed in the Florida Gulf city of Tampa. Terri and Eluana share being literally between the devil and the deep blue sea. But the devil, in both cases, was and is standing over their beds. In both cases he wears a smile, speaks in lies, and works to expand the killing.

Italy's Prime Minister continues to try to save Eluana like Jeb Bush tried to save Terri. The Archbishop of Udine, Pietro Brollo, unlike his American brother Bishop Robert Lynch who assisted Terri's killers, is calling for "the suspension of this tragic execution and the conversion of hearts."

Eluana at 38 is a little younger than Terri who was 41. Both young women were vivacious with dark brown hair and dancing eyes before the injuries that left them brain-damaged. Both are victims of the neo-Nazi belief that some lives are not worth living. Pray for Eluana and especially for her father, Beppino Englaro. The murder of your own child is no small event. It was a father's murder of his infant son that ushered in the German T4 euthanasia program. What exactly will the repeat of such a diabolical event usher in today?

For the latest update on Eluana see:
Berlusconi under fire over Italian right-to-die case

LifeSite News provided the contact information below. Please call and email your protest to the Italian embassy of your country:

EMBASSY OF ITALY IN THE UNITED STATES
3000 Whitehaven Street, NW - Washington, DC 20008
Tel (202) 612-4400 - Fax (202) 518-2154
Press and Public Affairs Office
Tel (202) 612-4444
Fax (202) 518-2154
e-mail: stampa.washington@esteri.it

EMBASSY OF ITALY IN CANADA
275 Slater Street, 21st Floor
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5H9
CANADA
Tel +1.613.232.2401 - Fax +1.613.233.1484
ambasciata.ottawa@esteri.it
Press and Information
Tel: +1-613-232-2401
Fax: +1-613-233-1484
email: info.ottawa@esteri.it


EMBASSY OF ITALY IN LONDON
14, Three Kings Yard
London W1K 4EH
Tel.: +44 (0)20 73122200
Fax: +44 (0)20 73122230
ambasciata.londra@esteri.it
Gianluca Grandi, First Counsellor
Domestic Politics, EBRD
bers.amblondra@esteri.it

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Isabella has two mommies - or so they say

Tomorrow in Vermont Lisa Miller and Janet Jenkins, former lesbian lovers, duke it out once again over custody of Isabella. The breach occurred when Lisa (the biological mom) decided to leave the lesbian lifestyle and return to Virginia. This case could have been resolved if Virginia courts had upheld the Defense of Marriage Act, but they didn't. Please pray for this little girl who is the face of the homosexual wars. If she ends up with Janet who continues to live the lesbian lifestyle, God help this precious little one. You can read more at my Les Femmes blog.

The Nature of Law and FOCA (The Wanderer, January 15, 2009)

Read it here.

Barry's Esteem for Roe v. Wade

President Obama expresses his esteem for the legalization of murdering unborn children in this statement from January 22. Yours truly has taken the liberty of commenting on his statement.

On the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we are reminded that this decision not only protects women’s health and reproductive freedom, but stands for a broader principle: that government should not intrude on our most private family matters.

"Women's health" and "reproductive freedom?" Last time I checked, pregnancy wasn't a disease. Never more has the government intruded on "the most private family matters" as when the Supreme Court chose the path of the "privacy jurisprudence." Think about it. How much ink was spilled on the most intimate details of sex prior to the Griswold decision? The government has been more interested and involved in the most "intimate decisions" since inventing imagined "liberty interests."

I remain committed to protecting a woman’s right to choose.

Translation: "a woman's right to intentionally murder."

While this is a sensitive and often divisive issue, no matter what our views, we are united in our determination to prevent unintended pregnancies, reduce the need for abortion, and support women and families in the choices they make.

There is no need for abortion. I won't support women and families if the choice is to kill their unborn children. I guess we're not united, Barry!

To accomplish these goals, we must work to find common ground to expand access to affordable contraception, accurate health information, and preventative services.

There can be no common ground on an intrinsic evil such as contraception. Does "preventative services" include education for chastity?

On this anniversary, we must also recommit ourselves more broadly to ensuring that our daughters have the same rights and opportunities as our sons: the chance to attain a world-class education; to have fulfilling careers in any industry; to be treated fairly and paid equally for their work; and to have no limits on their dreams. That is what I want for women everywhere.

So the President has taken the position that the fact that women have wombs and can have babies gets in the way of women's opportunities and rights. Wow. So much for the dignity of women. Translation: women you must become a man in order to have "no limits on your dreams" and "to be treated fairly" and "paid equally."

Why "professional" news organizations are dying...

They've been biased so long, no one believes them any more.

And they apparently keep on hiring idiots.

And homosexuals, of course. So it would be hard for even an AP reporter trying to tell the straight story to report (accurately) that the Vatican's efforts to stem homosexual behavior flow from the disaster that active homosexuals wrought for years, exposed in the scandals that have emerged since 2001.

A copy editor, a national desk -- somewhere in the news chain of command there sits a gay-friendly type who has no interest in the story, or the truth, but just wants to propound his propaganda. So we read that "experts on sex offenders say gays are no more likely than others to molest children."

Either the reporter/editors or the experts are lying.

Love those 'experts." Brian Clowes, of Human Life International, found that gay priests were hundreds of times more likely to abuse than heterosexual ones, according to the USCCB's own figures.

On the other hand, when you see "experts say," or "analysts agree" in a news story, brace yourself for the reporter/editor's personal ideological opinions.

Bush says goodbye ...

... but were the last eight years really all about him?