Let us pray. O Eternal God, who gave us, in the person of Saint Cecilia, a powerful protectress, grant that after having faithfully
passed our days, like herself, in innocence and holiness, we may one day attain the land of beatitude, where in concert with her, we
may praise you and bless you forevermore in eternity. Amen.

Two great musicians are working on the prayed for premier of an original work. Michael Moriarty*, celebrated actor, musician, composer and defender of unborn children has written a string quartet – musical presentation that …

This morning, Chicago Tribune’s opinion page featured another in the endless shower of Police Torture screeds. This was written by Bendictine Sister Benita Coffey and has all of the value of a Confederate $100 Bill.

 
Here is a taste:
Last week, the Chicago City Council unanimously passed a resolution against torture, a symbolic act, at best. Torture is inhumane, banned by the United Nations and most civilized nations, and is contrary to the core beliefs of the world’s major religions.
So why are the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, the Illinois Coalition Against …

Meet Henry Van Amerigen – Henry is helping fund the petition drive against Chicago’s Cardinal George.

Cardinal George is now the target of a petition signed by 1,000 persons from around the country, as radical Gay activists mobilize their hearts, hands and voices in a national shriek.
With multi purpose Soros funded push by Change.Org – Gay Activists are doing their best to make Catholics uncomfortable. We’re Okay. Thanks and Merry Christmas.
However, such actions and the very cooperative nature of a not very bright American media can confuse some people . . …

They are as nothing compared to political and economic earth rattlers about to happen right here in the City of Big Shoulders – Soon to be City of Slim Hips. For years, smart sizing and diet concerns of Progressives have become policy. Policy is what replaced politics. Politics was glad-handing and quid pro quo battering for votes that was the igneous rock upon which urban, county and state government was built. The City that Works, remember that?

The Urban Gentry largely childless, secular, affluent and educated scorns the bootless and unhorsed …

It is sign of one’s Progressive street-cred to vilify a Catholic’s beliefs, Catholic leadership, Catholic history, and above all Catholic Institutional failings, while protesting in a soft, silky, humming NPR tone that ‘well its is all true. Is it not?’

Eric Zorn cuts to the core of the problem at Penn State by touting a Nash-like cartoon from the in-house paper hanger Stantis -Scott Stantis. I do not believe that there is a Roman Catholic bishop on the Board of Directors at Penn State. While Joe P is a practicing Catholic …

Two political mice, Governor Pat Quinn and his boss Terry Cosgrove*, have pushed a rape victim out in front of their brawl with Illinois’s Catholic Bishops.

Governor Pat Quinn has revealed the full content of his character and its emptier than a politician’s promise.
Terry Cosgrove, President of Planned Parenthood’s Personal PAC, shoveled $ 500,000 and ‘in-kind’ support behind a career opportunist.
I worked to help this manneQuinn get elected Governor. God forgive me.
Since his victory Governor Pat Quinn has done everything he was told to do by every lug nut and gear …

No Chicago journalist ever bothers to connect the dots on the thick network of activists whose fibers form a Gordian knot of lucrative activism via academia, radical terrorism, public service PACs like SEIU, the media, lawsuit lotto lawyers, Brahmin agendas: Gay, Anti-War, Poverty Pimping, and tax-increase legislation.

Kevin Clark – a leader of the highly dicey International Solidarity Movement is also a Gay Liberation Activist who happens to work closly with self-proclaimed Catholic Anti-war activists, Hamas, and was the man who helped guide Rachel Corrie into the path of an …

Here is the Map of Success – 2011 Leo Grads are going to school all over America!
When asked by (WLS AM Bill)Cameron whether the conditions were ripe for a strike this year, she (Teachers Union President Karen Lewis)said: “I think it’s very high. Because people are very upset and people feel disrespected.”
Chicagoist 8/15/2011 ( parentheses my own)
Earlier in the piece we find this, “she (Lewis) did not predict that teachers will ultimately go on strike, only that the probability is high that members will call for a strike …

Sunday’s Chicago Sun Times offered another heaping plateful of juicy caveats with regard to our fat co-workers and group health insurance. Incentives for Healthy Lifetsyles encouraging comrades of the workforce to exercise and forgo the cheese melt sandwiches from the roach coach and canteen vending machines. Likewise, educational cheerleading about nutrition that his medicine is offered in which one man of science and math from the research organization offering the morning’s portion shouts this!

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Nancy Nusbaum, an “Ain’t She Great-er*” in the mold of IL Rep. Jan Schakowsky, had two at bats in the Cheese State -one for the Supreme Court and one for the legislature. Nancy 0; Wisconsin 2.

Illinois goofiest Congress critter Schakwosky also took a whack between the eyes with an electoral two-by-four:
Underscoring the national implications, U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Chicago, a member of the House Democratic leadership, traveled to Pasch’s campaign headquarters Tuesday, where the two exchanged hugs. Schakowsky and some of her political workers were assisting in getting voters …