Showing posts with label Rally for Religious Freedom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rally for Religious Freedom. Show all posts

Rosary Rally for religous freedom lead by Bp. Morlino June 20th, 7pm

Attention, brave and loving hearts! Fr Isaac Mary Relyea and Fr Rick Heilman invite you to kneel in prayer together every Thursday evening, at the State Street steps of the Capitol in Madison, WI. We continue to pray for the family, protection of all life, and religious liberty. We have been praying an unbroken chain of 15 decades of the rosary every week for a year! 

On Thursday, June 20, outdoor Rosary Rallies will resume on Thursdays at 7 p.m. on the State Street steps of the State Capitol and will continue throughout the summer. Bishop Morlino will lead the 15 Mysteries of the Rosary for Religious Freedom, Life, Family, and Conversion of the World on Thursday, June 20, on the State Street steps of the Capitol.  
 CapitalRosaryRally.com

Facebook: Rosary Rally

Oct 20 rallies across state to protest HHS abuses


Here's the full listing for Wisconsin.  I believe they all start at noon unless otherwise noted.  Send me your pictures and I will post out here to share. 
Eau Claire
Federal Courthouse
500 South Barstow Avenue (map)
Email the Eau Claire Rally Captain
Green Bay
NOTE: The start time for the Green Bay Rally will be announced soon
Brown County Courthouse Terrace
100 S. Jefferson Street (map)
Email the Green Bay Rally Captain
La Crosse
Band shell in Riverside Park
(map)
Email the La Crosse Rally Captain
Madison
Wisconsin State Capitol, State Street Steps
The Capitol Square corner of West Mifflin, Carroll, and State Street (map)
Email the Madison Rally Captain
Milwaukee
Federal Building
310 West Wisconsin Avenue (map)
Email the Milwaukee Rally Captain
Stevens Point
NOTE: The Stevens Point Rally will be held on the stage by Shopko and the city bus drop-off
Intersection of Strongs Avenue and Main Street
(map)
Email the Stevens Point Rally Captain

Heckling the Rosary or Renaming the Wisconsin State Journal

Don’t Diss My Church

One of the prime goals of this cultural values blog is to defend my religion, Catholicism, against the regrettably frequent and unjust attacks we suffer, particularly in Madison, WI.
One of this blog’s first blog categories was “Don’t Diss My Church.”
And in Madison, the Wisconsin State Journal has provided more than it’s fair share of imbalanced reporting on Catholics, frequently fueling my blog.

Why Pray the Rosary at Madison’s Capitol Square?

Now that the Obama administration has embarked on restricting the religious freedom of Catholics, Madison Catholics have begun praying the rosary on Thursday evenings on the Madison Capitol steps, to beg God’s help in the restoration of religious freedom to our nation. 
Madison’s Rosary Rally gatherings attract 150-300 quiet, polite people each week.  The crowd includes families with small children, young singles, and many grandparents as well.  The Catholics gather quietly after business hours, do not disrupt Capitol business, leave no litter behind, do no shouting, carry no vuvuzelas, whistles or drums, and don’t even carry signs.  They come, they pray for our nation, and they leave quietly, leaving no damage in their wake.

Who Heckles Children Praying the Rosary?

About 3 to 10 ne’er-do-wells have started showing up at these rosary events, attempting to disrupt them. Their tactics include shouting four letter words from across the street, mocking the rosary, carrying rude signs mentioning private body parts, and all the usual aggressive radical left tactics Wisconsin has witnessed at recent teacher union protests, and at Madison Pro-Life rallies (which radicals have routinely tried to disrupt in recent years, and where they have even been known to get up in pulpits at Library Mall and perform strip-tease dances in front of children with literally only God knows what motivation).
continue at Syte Reitz

A must read, check out the profile on these looneys. 

Pray hard and be ready to fight

Auxiliary Bishop at Archdiocese of Milwaukee Donald Hying joins a prayer during the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' biannual meeting Wednesday, June 13, 2012, in Atlanta. The national gathering is the bishops' first since dioceses filed a dozen lawsuits against an Obama administration mandate that most employers provide health insurance covering birth control.
Source

You may have seen that the bishops are up against some very well funded and influential enemies.

Pro-Life Wisconsin stands with U.S. Catholic bishops in fight for religious freedom


Peggy Hamill speaking at Religious Freedom Rally
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has called for "A Fortnight for Freedom," during the two-week period from June 21 to July 4 -- beginning with the feasts of St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher and ending with Independence Day -- to focus “all the energies the Catholic community can muster” for religious liberty.

Pro-Life Wisconsin urges Wisconsinites to heed the call and make a difference.

State Director Peggy Hamill offered the following comments:

Birth control is being enshrined as an entitlement through the Health and Human Services mandate. This mandate, which requires virtually every health insurance plan to offer all FDA approved birth control and all sterilizations free of charge, is an attempt to force people of conscience to participate in what they know to be intrinsically immoral.”

“Pro-lifers are on the brink of being driven to civil disobedience to simply adhere to the gospel of life. We must recommit ourselves to combat the contraceptive mentality. We mourn the loss of the untold millions of babies lost to abortifacients. We pray for the Church, for employers, for individuals and for ourselves, asking God for the courage to stand strong in rejection of the mandate.”

Below are links for each diocese, which list diocesan-sponsored activities.
- Archdiocese of Milwaukee.
- Diocese of Green Bay
- Diocese of La Crosse [PDF]
- Diocese of Madison
- Diocese of Superior

Roundup - Rally Edition


Carrie Gurda and Andrew Fryjoff watch as
Reeny Mulcahy (red with religious depiction) joins other demonstrations.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel had a photographer present at the Milwaukee rally. View the Journal Sentinel's photos here

Bishop Lenard Blaire of Toledo who conducted the doctrinal assessment on the LCWR on the LCWR coverage.(read the whole thing, it's fantastic!)
The biggest distortion of all is the claim that the CDF and the bishops are attacking or criticizing the life and work of our Catholic sisters in the United States. One report on the CBS evening news showcased the work of a Mercy Sister who is a medical doctor in order to compare her to the attack that she and sisters like her are supposedly being subjected to by authoritarian bishops. The report concludes with a statement that the bishops impose the rules of the Church but the sisters carry on the work of the Church.

The fundamental question posed to the LCWR leadership as part of the assessment was simply this: What are the Church’s pastors to make of the fact that the LCWR constantly provides a one-sided platform—without challenge or any opposing view—to speakers who take a negative and critical position vis-a-vis Church doctrine and discipline and the Church’s teaching office?
Green Bay Diocese responds to Merryfield lawsuit verdict(the one where the victims gave the money back)

Mr Yanke posted the now viral weeping Barrett supporter.  If you haven't seen it... it's worth a watch.  "Democracy died tonight"  "If we didn't win tonight, the end of the USA just happened!"

Bishop Callahan has a nice post on the HHS mandate and Catholic persecution... The link, I think only works until the next post, it's not a normal RSS feed where you can directly link to a post.  They are hiring a communications director though.  The La Crosse Diocese has been without a communications director for like 10 years....

Pro-Life Wisconsin's Peggy Hamill spoke at the Stevens Point rally. Read an article about that rally in the Marshfield News-Herald here.

In Madison on the State Street steps of the State Capitol Building every Thursday evening at 7pm, from June 21st until the federal election this autumn, Fr. Isaac Mary Relyea (of the Franciscan Friars of Our Lady of Good Success) and Fr. Rick Heilman (a diocesan priest) will be leading the Rosary in reparation for the HHS mandate (and the many other anti-life acts of the current Administration). 

The Capital Times' charitable foundation gave $100,000 to Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin in general support of the organization’s work. Read more here.

Video: Ted Turner, Reduce population by five billion people. Read more here.

Men of Christ 5k Run: Join us for the first annual Men of Christ 5K Holy Hill run on June 16! You can download the race flyer here. Proceeds will benefit 40 Days for Life of Milwaukee.

via TPE: "For me to travel with Russ Feingold and to talk about honesty and integrity makes me feel like I'm traveling with the Pope... ."  --Tom Barrett

Does anyone else think that the Oklahoma City Thunder are being blessed because they have one of the best bishops in the country? Well in the same state, anyway.

Finally getting caught up on email since the last vacation.  I have some photos to share but I also have a crashed laptop that I'm working on fixing.  Yes, I am still going to see the Steve Miller Band & Foreigner this weekend though.  I am not yet sure if I will see Foo Fighters at Summerfest.... I'm supposed to be on vacation again with family....  but isn't family always there?  Can someone talk me into this?  It's FOO FIGHTERS in MILWAUKEE! This is almost as bad as me missing the Habsburg conference in Chicago.

The strange man living in my basement is now gone.  I now must read about John Senior by myself.  *sigh*

I pray you all have safe travels and good health this summer.

Video of crowd of 2,000+ at Religious Rally in Downtown Minneapolis





ht Ray @ Stella Borealis

Caption Contest: Religious Freedom rally

Sent from a reader who was at the Madison Stand Up Rally last Friday.  Did the police run out of normal yellow warning tape?


Photos from area Religious Liberty Rallies: UPDATED

If you want to share your photos, you can send them to matt@badgercatholic.com

From the Minneapolis rally via Relevant Radio(more over there)


Bishop LeVoir of New Alm

NFL all-pro Matt Burke

The Catholic Spirit also posted a few


Chicago via Relevant Radio


Stevens Point, WI(courtesy of Jenn Dunnett)


Peggy Hamill of Pro-Life Wisconsin

Rachel Campos-Duffy

Ann Arbor, MI via EWTN


La Crosse, WI via Edward Jones




Steve Karlen of Pro-life WI


Pastor Sateren of Bethany Evangelical Free
Madison WI via Laetificat Madison(more over there)


Fr Rick Heilman led an opening prayer. Some of the speakers drew attention to the fact that no Wisconsin organization has yet signed on to the coordinated lawsuits against the HHS Mandate, and that is what the "Wisconsin File Suit" signs refer to. The Alliance Defense Fund is a group willing to represent any organization or business that wants to join the suit, for free.

Sister Maria Christi of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist spoke from her heart. This wonderful order is focused on Catholic education was formed in 1996 but has grown by extraordinary leaps and bounds, there are now 100 sisters.

Live coverage of Religious Freedom rallies on Relevant Radio

Join Relevant Radio® on Friday, June 8th, for LIVE coverage of the “Stand Up for Freedom” Rallies.  LIVE coverage begins at 11:45 AM CT and continues through 12:30 PM CT.

Tune in at 5 PM CT as Stand Up for Freedom Organizer, Eric Scheidler, kicks off A Closer Look™ with Sheila Liaugminas followed by interviews with rally captains and speakers from around the United States.
And send me some pictures and I'll post them this afternoon or this weekend!

Sen Grothman headlines speakers at the Madison HHS rally


The eeeeevil Catholics oppressing their employees!
Wisconsin State Senator Glenn Grothman: HHS Mandate, what it means to religious liberty, and the threat it poses
Wisconsin Rep. Evan Wynn, MC
Julaine Appling, President, Wisconsin Family Action: Cultural war against religious freedom,
WFA’s role in fighting for religious liberty, WFA legislative goals
Joseph Leone, attorney addressing confusion about separation of church and state myths
Matt Sande, Pro-Life Wisconsin: exhortation to businesses, organizations, schools,
state agencies and dioceses to join lawsuits against HHS concerning mandate
Fr. Rick Heilmann, spiritual warfare invitation to prayer at the Capitol, Fortnight of Freedom,
recognize clergy/ministers present).
Sr. Marie Christi, hope and perseverance in the fight

Updated Flyer 

Photo

NFL all-pro center Matt Birk headlines MN Religious Freedom Rally

Bishop John LaVoir of New Ulm and All Pro Center Matt Birk (of the Baltimore Ravens, Cretin-Derham Hall and Harvard Grad and former Minnesota Viking) are confirmed as speakers at the "Stand Up For Religious Liberties" rally at the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Minneapolis on Friday, June 8 at 12:00 noon.

This is one of the events of the Fortnight For Freedom that the U.S. Bishops have called to express displeasure with provisions of the Obama-care bill requiring Catholic agencies, both religious and those owned by Catholics to provide contraception and abortions in their health plans for their employees.


June8 Religious Freedom Rally

Rally for Religious Freedom - this Friday June 8th

From Laetificat Madison
There will be a Stand Up for Religious Freedom Rally at Madison’s Federal District Courthouse 120 N Henry St, Friday June 8 at Noon.

A new Religious Freedom Group is meeting each Monday until June 18th, 7-8:30 pm at St Paul’s University Catholic Center, 723 State Street, downstairs in Newman Hall.

Stay tuned for news about Fr Isaac Mary Relyea and Fr Rick Heilman’s weekly Rosary Rally for Life, Family and the Conversion of the World on the State Street Steps of the Capitol 7pm Thursday evenings starting June 21st, a St John the Baptist Bonfire June 23rd, and more.

Madison Rally June 8

The full listing of Wisconsin:
Eau Claire
Federal Courthouse
500 South Barstow Street (map)
Email the Eau Claire Rally Captain
Green Bay
Brown County Courthouse Plaza
100 S. Jefferson Street (map)
Email the Green Bay Rally Captain
La Crosse
US Post Office
State Street and 4th Street (map)
Email the La Crosse Rally Captain
Madison
Kastenmeier Federal Courthouse
120 N. Henry Street (map)
Email the Madison Rally Captain
Milwaukee
NOTE: Milwaukee Rally will consist of Mass and Rosary at noon, followed by a rally outside the church
St. Anthony of Padua Church
1711 S. 9th Street (map)
Email the Milwaukee Rally Captain
Stevens Point
US Post Office
1320 Main Street (map)
Email the Stevens Point Rally Captain

Photos of Madison's Rally for Religious Freedom

In Madison, 500 people attended the Rally for Religious Freedom. Bishop Morlino delivered the keynote speech, which you can listen to online here. The Cap Times, a liberal pro-abort Madison newspaper, covered the rally in an article here (the reporter misspelled development director Steve Karlen's name and misquoted him; he also misspelled Tom Glavin's name; and one has to wonder if he knew who Patrick Henry was before Friday). 


 PLW's Steve Karlen talking about Patrick Henry and introducing the Bishop.


Father Rick Heilman led the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. 



 Bishop Morlino addressing the crowd.


Thanks to Tom Reitz for sharing his photos!