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Evening - Tuesday of the First Week of Lent - Missa 'Domine Refugium' - February 23rd, 2010

First Thoughts >> Religious Liberty’s Battle of Hastings Insight Scoop >> Christopher O. Tollefsen has written an exceptional essay... Libera Me >> Dominus Est New Liturgical Movement >> Appreciations for the Posting of English Chant New Liturgical Movement >> Seminarians Learning Vespers RORATE CÆLI >> "L'Enfer est partout où n'est pas Jésus-Christ. " WDTPRS >> Brick by brick at Georgetown WDTPRS >> McBrien urges priests to disobey and resist translation

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...