Live Blogging the Olympics

It's finally here.  The 2010 Olympic Winter Games begin today in Vancouver with an opening ceremony that's sure to be spectacular (after all, it's a closely guarded secret, and that's always a good sign with things like this).  Over 5,000 athletes from 80 countries will be competing at this event.

The games can be viewed live on your local NBC (for Americans) or on the local station of your home country.  Missed something?  Can't watch them?  I'll be posting live results from the games here on my blog each day of the games. Stay tuned here for updates.

Pax Christi, and God bless the athletes.

Prayer for the Olympic Athletes
Lord Jesus Christ, as the eyes of the world turn to Vancouver for the XXI Olympic Winter Games, we ask you to bless these games and those who participate in them.  We ask you to grant the athletes success in their competitions, and to give them the strength to compete fairly in the true spirit of sportsmanship.  Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, extend your mantle of protection to the athletes and keep them safe from injury as they compete.  Put in their hearts love for their fellow athletes, that they might seek to build friendships with those they compete against and enable them to respect their fellow competitors.

Lord, we commend to your mercy the soul of Nodar Kumaritashvili, who was killed tragically in a luge accident this morning.  Grant him eternal rest in your heavenly kingdom.

Blessed Mary, Mother of God and of Christians, pray for the Olympic athletes and take our petition on their behalf to our Lord, for your Son will not refuse a request from you.


St. Sebastian, patron of athletes, pray for the Olympic athletes.

We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.  

Amen.

Planned Parenthood Tears at Catholicism

The folks at Planned Parenthood are at it again. 

The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has released a new report on sex education.  Wait do you hear what they have to say.

IPPF uses the terms young people, youth and adolescents interchangeably to refer to people who are between 10 and 24.

In other words, elementary school kids should be treated the same as college graduate students when it comes to sex education.  Any word on the right of parents to choose how best to educate their children?  None that I can see.

It gets better than that though.  Hat tip to the Catholic League.

The entire program is based on a faulty assumption. IPPF says that “The taboo on youth sexuality is one of the key forces driving the AIDS epidemic and high rates of teenage pregnancy and maternal mortality.” Nonsense. In the 1950s, there was no sex education in the schools, the pill was not commercially available and AIDS didn’t exist. Yet the out-of-wedlock birth rate was comparatively miniscule and sexually transmitted diseases were relatively rare. All because of taboos.

According to IPPF, it’s those Catholics—who are indistinguishable from radical Islamists—who are the problem. “Fundamentalist and other religious groups—the Catholic Church and madrasas (Islamic schools) for example—have imposed tremendous barriers that prevent young people, particularly, from obtaining information and services related to sex and reproduction.”

So, let me see if I get this straight; a kid who goes to a parochial school and learns about responsible sexual behavior (such as chastity before marriage) are analogous to Imam Amir's madrasa students who are denied any sort of sex education and are taught that homosexuals are to be put to death?  I fail to see the similarity.

I bring this up not because it's new, but because it's just another example of the extent that the culture of death is going to achieve its aims.  Planned Parenthood and other abortion chains around the world have been arguing for "youth sexual rights" for years.  Why, do you ask?  The reason is simple: money.  More people having sex means more unintended pregnancies (ever notice it's the "sexually liberated" types that have the highest rates of illegitimacy, abortion and STDs?), and more unintended pregnancies means more desperate women coming into their abortuaries, which means more cash for the chains.

Another reason why Catholics and others must stand loud and proud for the virtue of chastity.  Lives depend on it.

You can read the report straight from the horse's mouth here.

Capt. Phil Harris Dies

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- A spokesman for The Discovery Channel says the captain of the "Deadliest Catch" fishing vessel Cornelia Marie has died.

Capt. Phil Harris suffered what his family described as a massive stroke on Jan. 29 while the boat was in port at St. Paul Island, Alaska. He was flown to Anchorage for surgery.

A Discovery spokesman says the Harris family contacted the network Tuesday evening with word of his death.

Few details were released; however, Discovery Channel spokeswoman Elizabeth Hillman issued a statement on behalf of Harris' sons, Jake and Josh, saying their father has "always been a fighter and continued to be until the end."

The Discovery Channel reality show depicts the crab fishing industry in the dangerous waters off Alaska. Harris' fishing vessel was based in Seattle.

It is with great sadness that I must report this.  Phil was widely loved by all fans of Deadliest Catch.  He will be missed.

I ask all who read this blog to please pray for his soul.

LifeSiteNews: Duggar Family Renting the Former Home of PP Founder

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, February 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, the reality TV parents who recently grabbed headlines following the birth of their nineteenth child, are now renting a house once owned by the eugenicist founder of Planned Parenthood in Little Rock, Ark., reports the Examiner.

"It’s comical that the house we’re renting was actually owned by a lady who started Planned Parenthood in Little Rock. There’s even a plaque outside in the front yard," Jim Bob told the news service in a telephone interview.

The irony is inescapable; this family, which has allowed God to bless them with so much new life, is renting the home of a woman who was a racist and advocate of eugenics, and who founded an organization which is one of the leading advocates of the abortion holocaust in America today.  Perhaps the Almighty is sending us a message here?

May the Good Lord continue to bless the Duggars for the rest of their lives.

Pax Christi

William Albrecht Weighs in on Sedevacantism Debate

Now that the Super Bowl craze has worn off temporarily, I here present this.



William Albrecht of Catholic Legate (gnrhead on YT) recently debated Peter Dimond of Most Holy Family Monastery (a leading voice for sedevacantism on the WWW) and here are his thoughts on Dimond's hilarious attempts to keep his position afloat after it was torpedoed.

Enjoy, but please keep all comments civil.

WHO DAT!!?

Say gonna beat them Saints.  =)

I'm a Patriots fan, but New Orleans is my second favorite team, and I'm estatic that these guys have finally won their first Super Bowl.

Hat's off to them, your Super Bowl Champions, the New Orleans Saints.  Can't call them the Aints anymore, so put away those paper bags =).

Sea Shepherd's At It Again

Courtesy of PropagandaBuster on YT.

This one even has an image of M/V Bob Barker displaying flags of various Japanese vessels on it's side like the marks a fighter pilot puts on his plane to indicate a kill.  Sea Shepherd vessels display these marks to indicate a vessel that they have rammed or, in some cases, sunk.

Here's an image of the same thing.

Note the word "sunk".

Still convinced SSCS isn't a violent eco-terrorist outfit?