Cesar Fernandez-Stoll

Gospel text ( Luke 8,16-18): Jesus said to his disciples, «No one, after lighting a lamp covers it with a bowl or puts it under the bed; rather he puts it on a lamp-stand so that people coming in may see the light. In the same way, there is nothing hidden that shall not be uncovered; nothing kept secret that shall not be known clearly. Now, take care how well you listen, for whoever produces will be given more, but from those who do not produce, even what they seem to have will be taken away from them».

Our lives are made out of a sequence of lived experiences, of events and situations that are presented before us. They are a sequence because they are consequent to its own progress through time. There are those who see this progress as a sequence of accidentally occurring events and there are those who see a master plan behind these events, situations consequent of the wishes of a higher authority, a divine plan that is written upon each of us for our salvation and that of others.

Regarding the article pointed by this link (click please on the title above) I don't think the Carmelites had any work on the calamity of the holocaust, neither I believe, it to be an exclusive Jew sacred place. As far as the Mosque close to ground zero is concerned, which has no equivalence but to urinating in the pain of so many relatives and friends of the ones perished on 9/11, which by the way was an act of religious freedom, but of the worst order; it should not be permitted. The Islamic community has many ways to represent themselves and to claim exception from the crime against humanity that took place on September 11, 2001 . They seemed to have bypassed all of them. From the celebrations in the streets, the world witnessed, exclusive to the Islamic world, after these poor souls lost in their hate and misguidance threw themselves into hell claiming to be fighting the great Satan while embracing the real one, to many other occasions where they could have simply claim exc...

Many of us live entrapped in the past, slave of it, for something that happened or something that did not happen, events that left indelible marks, scars that produced bars with locks, that made escaping impossible and unlikely in self incarceration. Many others too, live entrapped in the future, always concerned with what it will be, not just to themselves but to the universe altogether, and the jail that holds them is made of dreams and nightmares, thinking on how good it will be or how disastrous, only if acting now means not to enjoy today so that they can enjoy tomorrow, so that they won’t enjoy today because otherwise, they will loose tomorrow, even before the impossibility of know how far tomorrow is and much it will last, at either end, the anxiety to control to the point of assuming ownership of the present in the lives of everyone else, pushes them to drag, to suck; others into their slavery, into their prisons, not living and not letting live.

Freedom is a gift from God and therefore does not come without the responsibility of being accountable to its exercise, through choices and decisions of all sorts and kinds, each and every second of our existence. What God gives, men cannot take away and therefore it is not up to governments or any other institution to deny humans the freedom given upon creation. The institution of government, administers justice, so when the exercise of freedom invades other people freedom or when represents a menace or a threat to others it is the authority of government invested by God to act in order to protect life and freedom.

Etymologically, the word Democracy means the government by the people, uniquely and different from other terminology like plutocracy, which entails the government by the wealthy or powerful; is defined by the people as individuals. The definition commonly assigned to democracy as the government by the majority or what the majority wants, falls into the area of plutocracy as the will of the majorities can not only be grossly wrong but also ill intentioned or viciously manipulated, thereby constituting the power over the people. True democracy starts from the individual actually preventing the dictatorship of the majorities thereby guaranteeing prosperity and development amongst families and individuals. It requires of a limited government and of full participation from the people.

Canada for so many years already is experiencing what to live under government health care means and it has been so evident how from carefully managing the economics of the system, it has devolved into a politics of convenience, just granting everything and anything the different minority groups ask for just to avoid the noise and risk to be noticed. Consequent of that process if the trap of having to elect one after another, wolves under sheepskin, wannabe dictators disguised as truly democratic leaders, who will work as hard as they can to preserve the establishment so broadly propagated as perfect or close to it, but which in reality seriously restricts freedom and ignores protection of life. It is quite different to try to safe the life of a voter than it is to safe the life of just a human being. Throughout history we have witnessed how different one is from the other.

Current economy and political directions, seem to be stuck into the black and white alternative, as being either capitalism or socialism, as if these were always opposed to each other. As capitalism many times makes use of socialism as a way to improve its numbers, socialism often makes use of capitalism as a vehicle to achieve its goals and so centrism becomes a political of choice. The problem with such a equation is that either side by using the other becomes an extreme to itself and it becomes even worst that by working independently for a more transparent goal.

Humans playing God Not too long ago, the National Post in Canada, published an article entitled, Playing God is underrated and which started… ‘Craig Venter, the controversial American scientist and entrepreneur, stirred up considerable media excitement last week by announcing the birth of Synthia. Described as "the first-ever synthetic life-form”’ How many times have we’ve seen or read ‘news’ about how ‘science’ has moved forward reaching a point only possible to God and as many times we have witnessed how the claim is not really so, because after all, well, it was not really… and life and science continue their paths and yet mankind cannot match God’s creation.

The world is in turmoil. Political correctness has taken over not just the past and the present but the future as well. Collectivism has institutionalized itself as the one and only way to go, where happiness is redefined with respect to the sentiment of the intellectuality preached by the elites and even forced upon the people as some new understanding based on what the community can provide as a right and for which goodness is imperative to surrender our freedom to them because we owe our happiness to them.

The ‘cost’ of my freedom, race and spirit How free we are if we ignore our responsibilities, our accountability for the choices we took exercising our free will? It seems that in a world were God is secondary to the power that money gives; freedom has been equated to the amount of power accumulated but with one catch. The power given by money, by material possession, needs to be fed and grown and in the very moment that some of the benefits of it, is harvested, a thirst fro more immediately surges and the spiral of greed and ambition grows even more and freedom is no more but an enslavement process with no end.

Women should be loved not pushed to kill their babies

FIDES ET RATIO

The bottom line for collectivism, dilapidating resources in their own 'social' agendas, while the nation starves and dies, physically, morally and spiritually

How difficult is to get the right idea of the problem of abortion of pregnancy? LIFE The so feared debate is not about rights of women or religious fanatics, but simply about civilization, about protecting the life of all humans from conception to natural death. The author of this article tries to analyze every angle trying uselessly to find a middle ground some magic line that supposedly will satisfy everyone, forgetting the main subject who is the forever victim of any one of these 'procedures'; the human being alive and in process of development since day one, the time of conception and who is would be sacrificed to the expectation of a social peace based on satisfying egos while degrading human life under that of irrational animals and other species, because with the ability to reason, we are disregarding ourselves as subjected to the capricious life style of some other person or in the case of rape, to the frustration of an already terrible crime. There is n...

Let's pray for our representatives, all of them; to start actively working for the culture of life, not just outside, where they can be seen, with no intention of diminish their courage, but within as well, standing before their own crowd to for once and for all, set the terms of the law to protect each and every one of us, from conception to natural death.

I guess I must start by describing myself as part of that religious right this article so much insisting on highlighting. That means that I am in the group of believers as opposed to unbelievers. The use of the religious connotation is designed to imply something that is related to what people think about religion, like implying that most of the people is not religious and therefore the ones that are actually pro-life as opposed to the ones that are against-life, sorry, pro-choice to kill a human being because, just because; are all religious.

Why the media does not raise noise when these things happen?

A contract for government sense that should propagate to every country... Enough with collectivism and the idea of a servant people to the government.

Let the PMO know 41 years of unborn child-killing in Canada is 41 years too many. May 14, 2010 marks 41 years since the Parliament of Canada passed Justice Minister Pierre Trudeau's omnibus bill removing criminal sanctions for abortion in Canada under certain circumstances (these included the emotional health of the mother, abortionspeak for 'for any reason at all'). Since that time, it is estimated that nearly 4 million unborn babies have been killed by abortion, depriving Canada of the invaluable contributions they may have made to society.