Religion, Legatus

Virginia “Ginni” Thomas

Liberty Central – America’s Public Square. We Listen. We Inspire. We Activate…to secure the blessings of liberty.

In November of 2009, Virginia ‘Ginni’ Thomas founded Liberty Central, a 501(c)4 organization whose primary objective is to harness the power of citizen voices, inform everyday Americans with knowledge, and activate them to preserve liberty. Ginni recognized the need for our country to bridge the gap between our nation’s citizens and its Capitol and return to a government that adheres to our core Founding Principles – limited government, personal responsibility, individual liberty, free enterprise, and national security.
http://www.libertycentral.org/video_categories/citizen-voices

http://www.muckety.com/Liberty-Central/5083873.muckety

Clarence Thomas’ Supreme Conflict of Interest

Mrs. Thomas is back in hot water as founder of a new advocacy group called Liberty Central, which she describes as a bridge between the conservative political establishment and the anti-establishment Tea Party. “I’m getting to know the Tea Party groups,” she told Human Events magazine. “What I think I can bring to the table is a connective tissue between the new people and the old people.” Especially, she might have added, but didn’t have to, when your husband is an associate justice of the Supreme Court.

Now, no self-respecting liberal would demand that Ginni Thomas abandon her own professional career simply because her husband has a big-time job. Washington’s filled with congressional spouses who lobby, organize, or consult with major corporations and organizations. But most of them do so quietly.

Not Thomas. As head of Liberty Central, she’s adopted the Tea Party rhetoric, accusing President Obama of establishing a “hard left” government and leading the nation toward “tyranny.” On Fox News, she told Sean Hannity her mission was to fight “a massive power grab” in Washington. And the real challenge facing Americans today, she says, is whether we’re “self-governed or ruled; citizens or subjects.”

Most Washington spouses also do a better job of avoiding potential conflicts of interests. Thomas’ organization is a conflict-heavy minefield. Consider, for example, the questionnaire Liberty Central circulated to federal candidates seeking their endorsement. It includes the question: “Would you support repealing the Obama health-care bill, including the individual mandate?” Since several state attorneys-general have already filed lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the individual mandate, that question will eventually be decided by the high court. Will Justice Thomas recuse himself?

more here
http://www.billpressshow.com/2010/07/09/clarence-thomas%E2%80%99-supreme-conflict-of-interest/

thanks nikki..ginni looks happy..cheques must be written in time..

Will we be converted by the Pope’s visit?
Pope Benedict XVI faces a sceptical reception when he arrives for four-day trip to Britain next week. Cristina Odone wonders whether he can win over his critics

The visitor to the More Hall care home in Stroud, Gloucestershire, usually finds an oasis of pious tranquillity. But for some days now, the Benedictine nuns who run the home have been in a state of high excitement: two of the sisters have won tickets to Birmingham on September 19 to see Pope Benedict XVI. The beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman will take place at Cofton Park and – “God willing” – Sister Elsy Poonoly and another nun will be there. “We are very pleased,” Sr Elsy tells me, “and very excited.”

Threats of a citizen’s arrest; protests from survivors of priestly abuse and the gay rights lobby; some spectacular organisational bungling on the part of the Catholic hierarchy in this country: nothing can dent the sheer joy felt by many of Britain’s four million Catholics at the prospect of seeing the Pope in their midst. In what must count as the annus horribilis of the Church, when every day seemed to bring fresh revelations of abuse by priests of their young charges, the Catholic faithful are hungry for reassurance. Apart from a miracle – Richard Dawkins’s Damascene conversion? Cardinal Newman, resurrected, fulminating at the next gathering of the British Humanist Association? – the papal visit, with its pomp and picnics, is the best means to restore hope and rekindle faith.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/the-pope/7981937/Will-we-be-converted-by-the-Popes-visit.html

http://seeker401.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/legatus-fall-pilgrimage-september-9th-20th-germanyhungary/

Legatus Insider (From the editor)

I am in Rome this week attending a seminar for journalists sponsored by the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross. Entitled The Church Up Close: Covering Catholicism in the Age of Benedict XVI, the seminar has drawn journalists from around the world who cover the Roman Catholic Church.Consequently, there will be no Legatus Insider next Tuesday (Sept. 14). We will return with a full slate of news on Tuesday, Sept. 21.

Update on Feb speakers (Added Fr Corapi)
Annual Summit
Ritz-Carlton Beach Resort
Naples, Florida
February 3-5, 2011

Speakers include:
Justice Clarence Thomas
Carl Anderson
Bill Donohue
Fr. John Corapi
and more …

some of the featured articles

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A Catholic Speaks at the Glenn Beck Rally
At Catholic Advocate, I have posted the speech given by Dr. Patrick Lee, a professor at Franciscan University, at the America’s Divine Destiny event last Friday night at the Kennedy Center.

Sponsored by Glenn Beck, the Kennedy Center event featured a Jewish, Evangelical, Protestant, and Catholic speaker. The Catholic was Dr. Lee, a renown pro-life speaker and expert in bioethics.
http://www.insidecatholic.com/myblog/a-catholic-speaks-at-the-glenn-beck-rally.html



Ask Fr. Spitzer: Was the story of Jesus actually lifted from the Egyptian Horus myth?The curious metaphysics of Dr. Stephen Hawking
http://magisreasonfaith.org/blog/?p=39

http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=dyirbhcab&v=0013-zw4rcnoTsMEtaM_HJwpBk_KFnqV207_nUy9stp0N-4_PPOXv0W4sXvTjjQ0JP5CGB9OBSg73QAh4lGqw7njn_6woT1dLtKdX0xKJ_OkxI%3D

Ask Fr. Spitzer: Was the story of Jesus actually lifted from the Egyptian Horus myth?The curious metaphysics of Dr. Stephen Hawking

wtf..they are discussing that?

Nun at Ave Maria accused of sexual relationship with female student

AVE MARIA, Fla. – A whole sisterhood of nuns is forced to leave Ave Maria after the school confirms their superior had a sexual relationship with one of the female students at the university.

The Ave Herald identifies her as Sister Maria Elena. She is from the Hogar de la Madre Order.

Read more: http://www.winknews.com/Local-Florida/2010-09-07/Nun-at-Ave-Maria-accused-of-sexual-relationship-with-female-student#ixzz0yxDbmE7D

Muslims will become majority in Europe, senior Vatican official warns
European Christians must have more children or face the prospect of the continent becoming Islamised, a senior Vatican official has said.

Italian Father Piero Gheddo said that the low birth rate among indigenous Europeans combined with an unprecedented wave of Muslim immigrants with large families could see Europe becoming dominated by Islam in the space of a few generations.

“The challenge must be taken seriously,” said Father Gheddo, of the Vatican’s Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/7986528/Muslims-will-become-majority-in-Europe-senior-Vatican-official-warns.htm

see the post i did on libya and black europe yesterday

India calls for media blackout of burning

India, home to the world’s third-biggest Muslim population, called Thursday for the US to take “strong action” to prevent a planned Quran burning ceremony and demanded a media blackout.
http://www.emirates247.com/news/world/india-calls-for-media-blackout-of-burning-2010-09-09-1.289254

Cardinal McCarrick: “I Cannot Say, ‘Don’t Embrace The Quran’”

Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the Catholic archbishop emeritus of Washington, D.C., told CNSNews.com that if “someone sees the Gospel as the truth of God’s presence in our world, that person should embrace the Gospel.” He also said, however, “If a person sees the Quran as proof of God’s presence in the world, then I cannot say, ‘Don’t embrace the Quran.’”

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Rev. Dr. Welton Gaddy, the President of Interfaith Alliance told CNSNews.com that a Muslim living in Saudi Arabia has the God-given right to convert to the Roman Catholic faith.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/72393

IMO It’s all about conversion and catholic education (to convert the youngsters). Seems there is a plan here with Muslims and the Catholic church. Note We had a muslim convert Easter 2009

nikki6278 wrote:India calls for media blackout of burning

India, home to the world’s third-biggest Muslim population, called Thursday for the US to take “strong action” to prevent a planned Quran burning ceremony and demanded a media blackout.
http://www.emirates247.com/news/world/india-calls-for-media-blackout-of-burning-2010-09-09-1.289254

why does india care..they arent muslim

Annual Red Mass to be celebrated Sept. 26


The Catholic Lawyers Guild of the Archdiocese of Boston will gather for the annual Red Mass for those involved in the legal profession at 11:30 a.m. Sept. 26 at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley will be the main celebrant.

A luncheon will follow at the Seaport Hotel in Boston featuring keynote speaker Helen Alvare. Alvare is a law professor at George Mason University, USCCB pro-life advisor and Vatican consultant.

"No one will fall asleep," said guild clerk Fran Hogan. "She's very alive."

Each year the guild gathers for Mass to ask the assistance of the Holy Spirit as the United States begins another legal year. The Supreme Court opens the first Monday of October.

"It's the celebration of the opening of court," said Catholic Lawyers Guild Vice-President Paul McNamara.

Historical records indicate that the first Red Mass was celebrated at the cathedral of Paris in 1245, and the tradition moved to England around 1310. English King Edward II began the tradition to bring together all the members of the bench and bar -- judges and lawyers -- to invoke the guidance of the Holy Spirit on the proceedings of the coming judicial year.
http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=12338

Anglo Irish Says 25 Billion-Euro Cost a `Pretty Good’ Estimate on Bailout

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Ireland has already pumped 22.9 billion euros into Anglo Irish, which was nationalized in January 2009. The government this week said it would split the bank in two and gave the financial regulator until next month to determine the final cost. Standard & Poor’s last month said the cost may eventually rise to 35 billion euros, a figure the bank has disputed.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-10/anglo-irish-says-32-billion-pretty-good-estimate-of-bank-s-bailout-cost.html

Anglo Irish has legatus connections via Garrett Kelleher of
“Chicago Spire” and Ave Maria board member.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rWhXNa1cnQQJ:ganleydeclan.blogspot.com/2009/09/scary-laissez-faire-christian.html+%22anglo+irish+bank%22+legatus&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Also Legatus has a chapter in Dublin.

red mass..where state and religion blur..