Welcome to Citizeness Journalist, a blog about discovering truth.
Human beings are limited. Sometimes, we don’t know the truth. Sometimes, we don’t want to know. Truth can take us out of our comfort zone.
Long ago, men discovered if you control public opinion, you could rule the world. Therefore, we must double-check every news story we hear. That is what being a Citizen Journalist is about. If you get your news from CNN, BBC, the NY Times or the big three networks, look out. You are getting a virtual feeding tube of spin from power brokers whose agendas are the antithesis of your own. You will be told what your values will be and who to vote for. You know better.
I’ve been told, "No one will listen to YOU." "This will take a lot of time." "Why don't you just pray?"
There is a time for prayer, a time for silence and a time to speak. Whatever the outcome, November 6, 2012 will change our lives. As you listen and read outright lies and hate speech against everything we know to be true, you too must speak. However, we must speak out in love. Don’t fall into the trap of hating those who revile and say all manner of evil against you. That temptation is straight from, you know where. Apathy is the state required for nations to fall, tyrants to rule, the innocent to be crushed and souls to be lost for eternity.
THIS IS THE TIME TO SPEAK. Are you ready?
Citizeness Journalist won't be all doom and gloom. There will be laughter, art, and the good news. Look in any time you are in despair about the world situation. Upcoming articles like, "They Shoot Germans, Don't They?", "Not Your Pop Pop's Batman", "Weak, Helpless, Woman" and "When Liberalism Isn't Liberal" are meant to entertain, inform and bring people together. There will be links to news resources, links to stories for clarification. Please let me know what you think. Respectful comments are welcome.
I encourage you all to be your own Citizen or Citizeness Journalist.
“WHAT IS TRUTH?”
"What
is Truth?" An apathetic question by a cruel Roman
Prefect to Jesus of Nazareth. Meaning, "One truth is as good as
another." In a word, "Relativism". Sadly, we live in
a world of relativism, where truth is your opinion and needn't be based on
fact. There is an inference here; those in authority determine the
truth. A convenient point of view for a
villain, for the reason to deny "truth" is to deny good and
to deny intrinsic evil, falsehood and sin. Jesus never denied the
existence of sin, in fact, He came to testify to the TRUTH.
Journalists,
politicians, scientists, historians, entertainers and activists casually
lie. News services "spin" stories to project opinions
meant to mislead. Examples of this are by no means scarce. If
the end justifies the means and there is no God then slander your enemy. Not only are public figures slandered but
entire groups of people. How many Catholics know calumny is a serious
sin? Another “spin” is neglecting to
mention stories of unparalled import, for example the HHS
Mandate. Out of sight out of mind. https://www.stophhs.com/ This petition has been up for months and
only 101,628 have signed. There should
be millions.
Hate
Speech. Did we ever hear so much of it? Hate speech directed
against me and mine, my Church, my faith, my priests, my party affiliation, my
morals and my sex. And not the, "Wing nut!" variety, I refer to
the obscene, bullying variety.
Do
you recall Alec Baldwin's terrorist threats against Senator Henry Hyde and his
family live on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, December 12, 1988, before the
Clinton impeachment? (Clinton was
acquitted.) Baldwin said, "if we were in another country...we would
stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and kill their wives
and their children. We would kill their families, for what they're doing
to this country." Baldwin later apologized. The network said it was a
"joke." Someone else would have been put in jail. Pro
life Senator Hyde died in 2007. Baldwin
went on to star in hit shows and mock conservatives. The tragedy here is both Baldwin and Hyde were both raised Roman
Catholic and Democrat. Small world.
The
Hollywood crowd, you know the ones, I won’t grant them any more press. Their vile remarks against those who are pro
life and who want to live their faith reveal more of themselves than anyone
else. Most disturbing were the
obscenities hurled at Cardinal Dolan for the beautiful interfaith
prayer he said at the end of the Democratic Convention. And I saw Democrats pray, yes!
Those in favor of the Democratic Party Platform, praying. Might there be hope?
Could
we go beyond party affiliation? People
of all faiths and some searching. Party
affiliation is fleeting and often the passions aroused by party fighting come
straight from, you know. These passions
come from ignorance, propaganda, life journey and careless rushing to judgment
about others.
Al
Kresta interviewed Ray Flynn, former governor of Boston. Speaking as a Catholic Democrat, he said
they were people who worked hard. I thought to myself, Catholic
Republicans work hard too. I
recalled some of my ancestors; a coal miner, a weaver, a policeman, a brewer,
and a baker. Not a millionaire in the
bunch. All Republicans aren’t Rockefeller. Nor are all Democrats struggling.
Instead
of finger pointing, we should be praying that God would forgive our
rush to judgments or as my friend Msgr. Murray would say, “our selfishness, our
self centeredness, our sins.” And that God would restore the country
we've succeeded in destroying.
Here
are some links.
Please
consider listening to Senator Barack Obama LIVE from the Illinois Senate as he
justified an abortionist's call to allow a baby, who survived an abortion, to
DIE alone in a storage closet. YES. And this was PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
BEFORE the last presidential election.
Novena
Prayer for the Election in November, please consider prayer and fasting from
now until then.
Do
you know your party's platform? Better check. Time is up. I have friends, life long Democrats from
Democratic families, who have become Republicans. Why? The life issues and
the HHS Mandate.
You
can't support an intrinsic evil if you are a Catholic. Then why do so
many?
Hilarious
animation. How did they do the voices? Makes all these people seem like children
but in the eyes of God we all are.
See
you next week. This is just the tip of
the iceberg.
Peace,
Citizeness
Journalist
Obama is making a terrible mistake if he involves himself in such delicate issues like abortion. And for what? For some votes? George W. Bush may have many faults, but he was always against abortion.
ReplyDeleteThe society is filled with evil and I think that for people who have faith and who want to do something good, really good, it is very hard to cope with such a great force from the opposite side. Too much hate is around us. Let's think that those children who never come to life - or at least some of them - might have had the chance to become important politicians who could rule the world. I heard of many cases when a famous person was, actually, a very frail child or even worse, his parents didn't want him/her alive. One of the top politicians in my country was somehow saved by God because his mother changed her mind about aborting him. She didn't want to have the baby because she was young, pretty, she cared for her own body and she was (and still is) selfish. But her son is now among the leaders of a country member of the EU, a man who has his own family and who is the leader of a powerful political party.
Elections are everywhere around the world, every year. The important thing is what choices we have and how we elect. A political analyst said that people should pay very much attention to the leader they vote, because later, when they change their minds, it will be very hard, if not impossible to replace him as much as they'd want to. How true!