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Monday of the Second Week of Easter - April 20th, 2009

American Papist >> Update: Embryonic Stem Cell Research Breviarium Romanum >> "Et praecinxisti me virtute ad bellum" Dignare Me, Laudare Te Virgo Sacrata >> Solemn High Mass at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Virginia In the Light of the Law >> Are "family annihilators" owed a Church funeral? Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> "Amen, amen I say to you, unless one is born from above" The Black Biretta >> We Will Be Keeping An Eye On You Preacher and Big Daddy >> Shakespeare Compendium The Catholic Thing >> Church and Sect (Robert Royal) New Liturgical Movement >> Cardinal Cañizares on Communion Received Kneeling Whispers in the Loggia >> Four Years Ago Today (posted yesterday)

CNA: Homeland Security Report equates 'abortion opponents' with white supremacists

This story filed today by CNA ( CATHOLIC News Agency) should be filed in the "you'll be left speechless" category: According to a Homeland Security Report distributed to law enforcement organizations, abortion opponents are as great a threat to national security in the immediate future as white supremacists ... [...] The report describes "Rightwing extremism" broadly as “those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.” Under the title “Revisiting the 1990s,” the report claims that “paralleling the current national climate, rightwing extremists during the 1990s exploited a variety of social issues a