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Congressman Henry J. Hyde of Illinois is dead. The man who became famous as a pro-life leader for his sponsorship of the 1976 Hyde Amendment that cut off most federal funding of abortions, died at 2:30 a.m. Thursday after suffering ill health for the past year.
We have to thank Our Sunday Visitor for the Thanksgiving prayer the Scheidlers, all 32 of us around the family table, will be saying at our Thanksgiving Day meal in the old Scheidler home.
The prayer is as follows:
Lord, we thank you for the goodness of our people and for the spirit of justice that fills this nation. We thank you for the beauty and fullness of the land and the challenge of our cities. We thank you for our work and our rest, for one another and for our homes. We thank you Lord (here each member of the family who wishes to mention a particular good he or she is especially thankful for). For all that we have spoken and for all that we keep in our hearts, accept our thanksgiving on this day. We pray and give thanks through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Thursday morning from 9:30 to 10:30 Walter Krawiec and I meet at the Albany Medical Center on Elston Ave. and Cicero in Chicago to pray for the babies being killed inside that abortuary as well as for the killers. The two of us pray while sidewalk counselors talk to the women coming for abortions. We do this because someone has to do it, and because we believe God wants us to do it.
As the Fr. Euteneuer/Sean Hannity battle over contraception continues, we are reading hundreds of e-mails sent to both parties. You can spend hours reading these letters with the intelligent ones supporting Fr. Tom’s efforts to bring Sean Hannity to an understanding of the Church’s teaching on contraception.
I apologize for being late with this Action News, but the pressure of planning for the future of activism on several levels has been unusually intense the past few days, and has left me with little time to put together even an abbreviated message.
Sometimes a writer is so outrageous that she virtually paralyzes her reader. Case in point: Sara Paretsky’s column in Sunday’s Chicago Tribune Perspective section entitled, “Bush’s pick a reminder of what’s not right.” Paretsky, an identity blurb says, is the creator of the Warshawski novels. Fiction, we presume. Well, here is a piece of fiction for you.
Incoming Pro-Abortion House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is going to stress her Catholicism and her Italian heritage for all they’re worth before she gets sworn in as the first woman Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Our hat is off to the good pro-lifers of South Dakota for all the work they are doing to win the referendum on Deferred Law 6, the law passed last spring that would make abortion a crime in that state except to prevent the death of the mother. It is the strongest pro-life law ever proposed, passed in the legislature, and signed by a Governor, and it would be the law except for the abortion forces who managed to hold it up for a referendum to be decided by the people Nov. 7.
Arlene Sawicki informs us that Georgetown University’s Law Center has established the Rev. Robert F. Drinan Chair in Human Rights.
Fr. Drinan of Massachusetts, as old-time pro-lifers will recall, was a sure pro-abortion vote in the Congress of the United States, and was eventually ordered out of the Congress by Pope John Paul II himself, but not before Drinan had helped send millions of unborn babies to their deaths by abortion. Fr. Drinan was known among pro-lifers as “Father Death.” I literally ran into him once in Washington and I thought I had seen a ghost.
With the announcement that the Federal Drug Administration under its soon to be new director, Andrew von Eschenbach, ruled that anyone over 18 can get the baby-killing drug “Plan B” right over the counter like tooth paste, it consoled me to recall that over the past thirty years I have picketed many pharmicutical companies in the killer-pill business, from Upjohn to Searl.