Rezko: Blago Knew

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ER Overcrowding in Canada

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The Greatness of a Man

Great men in Cite Soleil--May, 2012 (Photo by John Carroll)

"...the greatness of a man is measured not in his lack of faults, but in the abundance of his strength."

Emerson

Catholic Dioceses Sue Obama Administration....Peoria Diocese not one of Them...

See this article in todays Peoria Journal Star.

My comment:

Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria sits on the Board of Fellows at the University of Notre Dame. He did NOT publicly state that he was against President Obama's visit to South Bend in 2009. Bishop Jenky did NOT sign the Cardinal Newman petition which contained the names of dozens of US Catholic bishops who disagreed with President Obama's appearance at UND. 

And for some reason the Catholic Diocese of Peoria is not part of this lawsuit against the Obama administration. The Diocese says they may have their own lawsuit. (Why would they tell the media this? Is it true?) 

However, Bishop Jenky could be a real hero to conservative Catholics (and others) today if he seized the moment.

After Bishop Jenky's criticism of President Obama's health care mandate, and now with the UND lawsuit against the President, Bishop Jenky should end the OSF HealthCare contraceptive policy which was created with the help of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria. This policy allows OSF physicians to prescribe oral contraceptives for thousands OSF patients from OSF offices throughout the entire OSF HealthCare System. 

We can only hope and pray that Bishop Jenky has the courage to take on OSF right here in Peoria. It is his duty to lead with morally consistent words and actions. Confronting OSF with their power and money will be his toughest challenge.

Notre Dame Sues Obama Administration

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Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria sits on the Board of Fellows at the University of Notre Dame. He did NOT publicly state that he was against President Obama coming to South Bend in 2009. And Bishop Jenky did NOT sign the Cardinal Newman petition which disagreed with the Presiden't appearance at UND.

However, Bishop Jenky could be a real hero to conservative Catholics (and others) now if he seized the moment.

After Bishop Jenky's criticism of President Obama's health care mandate, and now with the UND lawsuit against the President, Bishop Jenky should end the OSF HealthCare policy which allows OSF physicians to prescribe oral contraceptives for OSF patients from OSF offices.

We can only hope and pray that Bishop Jenky has the courage to take on OSF right here in Peoria. This will be his toughest challenge.

Haiti is Not Immortal

The situation is serious. The Nation is not immortal, it is dying. The country is short of breath, [...] he world attended, without illusions, to the sad spectacle of Haitian political impasses that succeed by partisan rivalries and sterile, of inquisition on issues foolish such as dual citizenship, while Haiti needs the cooperation of all his daughters and all his son, to see them answer to the appeal of the ancestors, so often sublimated, become a dead letter: 'Unity is strength!' Of the union we have nothing to do, we prefer the division and endless confrontations. [...] we have only for force that of sinking further our land and a population in the poverty, the abject poverty, the misery, the confusion.

It happens to me, I confess, to be ashamed of this pathetic betrayal of our achievements and our conquests of yesteryear. Betrayal of our noblest aspirations to freedom, equality and fraternity. Betrayal of our highest dreams to break all the chains.

I hurt in my heart of Haitian to be challenged by them, smile, pulling the line and only see in Haiti a country ruined, deliquescent, without compass, without State, without a future, a rotten trunk, a world of corruption and some don't hesitate to describes it, of incapable.


Michaelle Jean

Eric Whitaker, MD

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A Clever Move by Bishop Jenky

See this forum article in the Peoria Journal Star.