Challenging Times
Everyone is struggling with the difficult financial situation facing us now.
At the Coalition, we have always strived to get a dime’s worth out of every nickel, but rising costs in materials and postage have made mailing our newsletter a costly effort. In order to continue getting our message to you, our wonderful pro-lifer, the idea of saving money by publishing it on the computer makes a lot of sense.
The information can be accessed on our website www.factsoflife.org and even printed out and distributed to likeminded friends with little work and small, if any, expense.
For those who don’t have a computer, we will keep mailing the newsletter via the Post Office. But we need to know who you are to do that. Please contact us by phone or note and give us your name and address and we will take care of the rest.
And, if you use email, why not get important, occasional updates by joining our Friends For Life Email list. Just call us 610-789-LIFE, or email us at info@factsoflife.org with your email address.
We hope this change offers a good solution to the challenge of spreading the beautiful message of Life!
The Catholic Vote & the Logic of Empire: A talk by E. Michael Jones
On the eve of the 2008 presidential election, it looked as if the outcome were going to be decided by the Catholic vote once again. “It’s an article of faith in US politics,” wrote Los Angeles Times correspondent Tim Rutten, “that, when it comes to the popular vote at least, Catholics determine the winners in our presidential contests.. . . No candidate in recent memory has entered the White House without securing a majority of the votes cast by Catholics, who now make up one-fourth of the US population.”
Rutten then goes into the history of the Republican Party’s attempt to enlist Catholics in their cause “using so-called wedge issues—such as abortion, same-sex marriage, and aid to parochial schools and social-service agencies.” Whoever was responsible for the strategy, it wasn’t working anymore, certainly not for John McCain and certainly not in Pennsylvania, which Rutten finds interesting because, as he puts it, "if there’s any place in America where the traditional blue-collar, ethnic white Catholics who voted for Reagan and Bush continue to make their electoral clout felt, it’s in the Keystone State. Western Pennsylvania, where both McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin, have campaigned so hard is a citadel of family-minded, working-class, white ethnic Catholics. . . . Nearly one-third of all Pennsylvanians are Catholics."
Instead of praising Catholics for their political savvy, Rutten claims that Catholics have abandoned Catholic principle. He concludes that failure to vote Republican means “the end of the Catholic vote.”
In his talk on the “Catholic Vote and the Logic of Empire”, E. Michael Jones suggests that the recent election results can have a number of different meanings. The real message of the elections had more to do with lack of faith in the Republicans’ ability to keep political promises than with a change in attitude toward abortion.
If you would like a CD copy of Dr. Jones’ talk given on April 18, 2009 titled “Catholic Vote and the Logic of Empire”, send a $5.00 check or money order and a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Pro-Life Coalition, 1127 West Chester Pike, Havertown, PA 19083.
For more info; contact us 610-789-5433
Directory of Pro-life Businesses in the Delaware County Area Helps Keep Mom and Pop Stores Going
Hilaire Belloc, one of the most influential English writers of the 20th century, defined capitalism as “a state of society in which a minority controls the means of production, leaving the mass of the citizens dispossessed.”
Through the economic system of Capitalism in the United States, more and more small businesses have been overtaken by big businesses and chain stores such as Home Depot, Target, CVS, and Wal-Mart, leaving the “Mom and Pop” stores to fall by the wayside. They are unable to compete with the megabucks of gigantic corporations whose million dollar advertisements almost brainwash the consumer with their slick and repetitive commercials.
Capitalism, where 5% of the people own 95% of everything, eventually leads to socialism, where the government owns everything. Wealthy Warren Buffet, for example, can buy votes by putting into office those who will agree to support his positions, and lobby government to do his will.
CVS is the biggest chain drugstore in our area. This company dispenses over the counter the Morning After Pill which has the power to abort innocent human life at its very beginning. By uniting our efforts and patronizing only those drugstores which do not dispense this drug, we can keep our family-friendly pharmacies alive and send a message to corporate America that we will not purchase items from a store that sells this death-causing drug.
Pro-life retailers, craftsmen, doctors, pharmacists, etc., generally provide better service than chain stores. The small companies are usually driven by a great sense of integrity and concern for their reputation because they are part of our community. They’re our neighbors and friends, and we should try to support them whenever we can.
Pick up a few Directories, which our organization compiles and distributes free of charge,
from the Pro-life Office and pass them out to other pro-lifers. Let’s support those who agree with us on the vital issue of Life and help these small “Mom and Pop” shops stay in business.
For those who cannot make it into the office, we will be supplying Directories to the Churches in the area, so you will be able to pick up a copy at your local Church. You can also call the office at (610) 789-LIFE if you would like a copy sent to you. (You can help us save some money on postage by picking up the Directory yourself, if you are able.)
If you would like to develop a Pro-Life Business Directory for your local area, contact us at 610-789-LIFE and we’ll give you some suggestions on how to go about it.