It is with a heavy and incredulous heart that I post the news that our beloved Father, Fr. Santan Pinto, died suddenly in a car accident after just arriving for a home visit in India. Apparently, Fr. Pinto was the passenger in a car that was struck and he died instantly. A Bishop in India, the Bishop of Belgaum, has contacted our community and confirmed this sorrowful news. Fr. Pinto's funeral will be tomorrow in India. It's interesting, you know, after just posting Father's Christmas message yesterday and then posting the clip by Fr. Barron about the true nature of Advent, we never know when God will take us home. The media and secular society loves to mock celibacy and the priesthood but it's easy to see that Fr. Pinto has more spiritual children than those people ever will. God will not be mocked. Father was a priest who was faithful to the end, who loved God more than anything and made countless sacrifices for his many spiritual children. To say that he will b...
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I apologize for the huge sentence to follow.
I would challenge Mitt Romney to sign a a simple written pledge, based on the Grover Nordquist tax pledge. It would state that he will veto ANY legislation with Pro-Choice components, and will never nominate a candidate for the Supreme Court who does not sign a similar pledge to overturn Roe v Wade and support any legislation required to eliminate abortion in the U. If he does this, I will not only vote for the guy, but I will camapign tirelessly to get him elected and turn Washington into a Red State.
They dont have to make any promises they cant keep about the outcome. Only that they will do everything they can in their positions to stop abortion.
And if we have to admit to themselves that neither Romney nor the SCOTUS nominees would ever make such a commitment, you will know where the pro-life voters stand. And how we are being used.