We are putting bulletin announcements and emailable fliers in our vault.

Click here and use them to bring out the concerned citizens on October 16, 2009.

Call 515-8511 to get master copies of postures to place on bulletin boards or to use as bulletin inserts.

When asked what cuisine he wanted to enjoy before his lecture, Dr. Rice replied, “No need to feed me nice …  just some pizza with anchovies would be great.”

If you would like to come to a pizza party with the good professor (anchovies optional) then email archangelinstitute@gmail.com and let us know how many pieces of pizza you and your friends will put down.

This will be an RSVP event taking place between 5 -6 on Friday, October 16.  And a fine opportunity to visit with Dr. Rice, as that he will not be available after his lecture that evening.

Also this just in at archangelinstitute@gmail.com …

“To whom it may concern,

I was sickened to hear that Prof. Rice’s talk will be on Friday, Oct. 16th.  The Bishop Dwenger/Bishop Luers football game starts at 7 that night and will involve many of your potential clientele.”

The bad news is that Dr. Rice can only be in the Fort on Friday.  See the vault (page down) for events taking place other than at IPFW.

And shall we all pray for rain that evening so that the plush, comfortable seats in warm and dry Auer Hall will be much more inviting than a cold, hard, wet bench outdoors!

One last thing … have you asked to run a bulletin insert on the Rice event yet?  See the vault, next post down.  Alter them as you deem fit.  May we suggest “An ArchAngel recommends fasting from football on October 16 and adding anchovy pizza and conlaw as penance.”

p.s.  The lady who wrote up red above is very nice.  She wrote to give us heads up on a “Battle of the Bishops” conflict that we did not recognize.  It is a classic “have my cake or eat it” dilemna.  We here at AI have the solution.  It is both less filling and great tasting! The game is to be played at Concordia, less than a mile from where Dr. Rice is lecturing.  Come to Dr. Rice’s lecture at 7 — we will get him on first thing — and then leave when he finishes. You will be back for the half time show, full of conlaw and ready for football. Hey, you can even listen to the game on a discrete earphone during the lecture, we don’t mind.  And…get this …. it is close enough to walk!   Exercise, intellectual stimulation and football.  Where else can you get all of that in one fantastic evening?  Only in Fort Fun on Friday night, October 16.

Who says you cannot eat your cake and have it, too?  (or is it anchovy pizza?)

The Board of the ArchAngel Institute has recently installed me, Bryan J. Brown, as Executive Director.  I had stepped aside from the financial benefits of that arrangement in August, 2008 and then from leadership of the Institute in January 13, 2009.

The Institute faced three major hurdles at birth:  (1)  the federal lawsuit that placed an injunction on the building and upon me; (2) the need to gain tax-deductible status under the IRS code, and; (3) my acceptance into the Indiana bar as an attorney.

Goals 1 & 2 are fully realized.

Given that I had been a licensed attorney in Kansas since 1996, given that I had passed character and fitness review in Montana in 1996, and given that I was accepted onto the role of the United States Supreme Court in 2000, and given that I had been cleared by the National Board of Law Examiners in 2005, and given that I was approved to sit for the Missouri bar exam in 2006, the third hurdle seemed to be the one that would, in time, clarify itself if I were only patient.

I have been patient and we finally have an answer to #3.

More details will be forthcoming at the October 16 event on the status of hurdle # 3.  Suffice it to say that a door of opportunity has swung wide open!

Today’s readings celebrate the Final Victory that those sworn to the kingship of the King of Kings will soon realize!

Reading 1
Dn 7:9-10, 13-14 or Rv 12:7-12ab

Dn 7:9-10, 13-14

As I watched:

Thrones were set up
and the Ancient One took his throne.
His clothing was bright as snow,
and the hair on his head as white as wool;
His throne was flames of fire,
with wheels of burning fire.
A surging stream of fire
flowed out from where he sat;
Thousands upon thousands were ministering to him,
and myriads upon myriads attended him.

The court was convened, and the books were opened.
As the visions during the night continued, I saw

One like a son of man coming,
on the clouds of heaven;
When he reached the Ancient One
and was presented before him,
He received dominion, glory, and kingship;
nations and peoples of every language serve him.
His dominion is an everlasting dominion
that shall not be taken away,
his kingship shall not be destroyed.

or

Rv 12:7-12ab

War broke out in heaven;
Michael and his angels battled against the dragon.
The dragon and its angels fought back,
but they did not prevail
and there was no longer any place for them in heaven.
The huge dragon, the ancient serpent,
who is called the Devil and Satan,
who deceived the whole world,
was thrown down to earth,
and its angels were thrown down with it.

Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:
“Now have salvation and power come,
and the Kingdom of our God
and the authority of his Anointed.
For the accuser of our brothers is cast out,
who accuses them before our God day and night.
They conquered him by the Blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony;
love for life did not deter them from death.
Therefore, rejoice, you heavens,
and you who dwell in them.”
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 138:1-2ab, 2cde-3, 4-5

R. (1)  In the sight of the angels I will sing your praises, Lord.
I will give thanks to you, O LORD, with all my heart,
for you have heard the words of my mouth;
in the presence of the angels I will sing your praise;
I will worship at your holy temple
and give thanks to your name.
R.        In the sight of the angels I will sing your praises, Lord.
Because of your kindness and your truth;
for you have made great above all things
your name and your promise.
When I called, you answered me;
you built up strength within me.
R.        In the sight of the angels I will sing your praises, Lord.
All the kings of the earth shall give thanks to you, O LORD
when they hear the words of your mouth;
And they shall sing of the ways of the LORD
“Great is the glory of the LORD
R.        In the sight of the angels I will sing your praises, Lord.
KING OF KINGS, GLORIFY YOUR NAME THROUGH THE WORK THAT YOU HAVE GIVEN THE ARCHANGEL INSTITUTE.

Reflections on the Struggle to Advance the Culture of Life
 

It is clear that we are experiencing today a period of intense and critical struggle in the advancement of the culture of life in our nation. The administration of our federal government openly and aggressively follows a secularist agenda. While it may employ religious language and even invoke the name of God, in fact, it proposes programs and policies for our people without respect for God and His Law. In the words of the Servant of God Pope John Paul II, it proceeds “as if God did not exist” (Pope John Paul II, Post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation Christifideles laici, “On the Vocation and the Mission of the Lay Faithful in the Church and in the World,” 30 December 1988, no. 34).

With the red and blue bold shot across the bow the former ArchBishop of St. Louis, Raymond Burke, brought the full focus of his intense gaze upon the battle that the ArchAngel Institute and Donegal Corridor were launched to fight.

The good ArchBishop left St. Louis last year for quite a promotion.  He is holds the office of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura.   That  is the highest judicial authority in the Roman Catholic Church besides the Pope himself.

Here is more from this man who sits in the chair next to St. Peter’s, again in red and blue:

The ArchAngel Institute (an Indiana non-profit corporation and a member of the Hoosier Patriots Coalition) is excited to host Dr. Charles E. Rice at 7:00 pm on Friday, October 16, 2009, in Auer Auditorium on the campus of Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne.  (In the Rineheart Music Center.)  Dr. Rice’s lecture is entitled “The Constitution in the Age of Obama” and will be of interest to all who are concerned about the present trajectory of the federal government.

Dr. Rice is Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame law School. His areas of specialization are constitutional law and jurisprudence.  His lecture will be followed by a round table discussion by a panel of distinguished guests.  Questions will be taken from the audience.  This unique event will take place in the comfortable Auer Performance Hall of the beautiful Rinehart Music Center on the North IPFW Campus.

The doors will open for general admission seating at 6:45 pm.  A free will offering will be taken to offset costs for this event.

A VIP reception with Dr. Rice and the panel of experts will take place in the hour before the lecture.  VIP admission passes will allow access to seating at 6:15 pm.  All on the ArchAngel Institute’s mailing list will receive an invitation to the VIP reception.  To get on that mailing list send an email to archangelinstitute@gmail.org or fcm to The ArchAngel Institute, 827 Webster Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 46802.

More information and a picture of Dr. Rice is available here.

September 21 update

In Swansong (from pro-life leadership) #1 the following was written: “The post election fires of purgation still burn brightly in Kansas, and some of my former associates are yet being thrown to the lions and under busses there.”

Here is the update on that … a career headed to the stake.  More are likely to follow in short order.

In a related story, the same watchdog reports the following hint of a plethora of investigations ongoing in Kansas …

Slow Processing by the Disciplinary Board. The McGraw and Weber cases were [deemed] “old” and [ones that] should have been brought to the Supreme Court months ago. Several of the Justices quizzed the Deputy Disciplinary Administrator why the cases were only now being brought. The explanation was that one of the investigators became ill and resigned. The justices didn’t seem to understand why that should cause a delay of 18 month so more.

Of course, the above may also reveal a desire on the part of some on the court to quickly move forward with investigations still in progress.  But that is mere conjecture.

September 22

Operation Rescue is breaking a story(and likely  sharing expert opinion/insider information) on a subject that they have tracked for many years.   They have stood with Phill Kline through thick and thin — they could teach a lesson on such fidelity in spite of difficult factpatterns, in fact.

We add only this:  Hatred and vendetta are not detered by state boundaries, and can travel across our nation as easily as interstate commerce.  Especially when fueled by the dogma of political correctness, and especially in the legal profession.

September 23

Eric Rucker, former Chief Deputy under Attorney General Phill Kline, has now shown up in news reports about ethics charges in Kansas alongside former Assistant Attorney General Steve Maxwell and former Attorney General Phill Kline.

Here is the reporting from a Culture of Life newsource.

And a Fox affiliate

And Topeka’s mainstreammedia.

The comments to the latter reveal what could be deemed “high negatives” in the Topeka market.

The deadline for the Culture of Death to file an appeal against the Honorable Judge William C. Lee’s ruling on Bryan Brown’s Rule 60 motion was midnight, September 8, 2009.  (CLICK HERE TO READ THAT RULING)

If such an appeal had been filed then the Culture of Death – by and through either abortionist  Ulrich George Klopfer or by and through the Women’s Health Organization  (ostensibly still managed by feminist fatale Susan Hill) – then the C.O.D. could have fought back and attempted to yet hold Brown and the address of 827 Webster Street (their former slaughterhouse) in certain economic chains.

Thanks be to God and our Lady (September 8, the celebration of a special birth, was an interesting deadline on this 19 year old legal case), the August 6, 2009 Order of the Court (issued on the Feast of the Transfiguration) is now solid rock!  The injunction and its ancillary orders, including the February 20, 1991 order that Brown and Wendell Brane pay $61,616 … is no more!!!  (Fully satisfied under the law, with the case dismissed once and forever.)

“with Mary’s birth the darkness is dispersed and there rises in the world the dawn that announces the Sun of Justice, Christ the Lord.”

Donegal Corridor filed its motion that began the process of unraveling this injustice prayerfully and on the date of its attorney’s (David Wemhoff) choosing:  The Feast Day of St. George (the dragonslayer). This ruling was a milestone — even the Raison d’être – for the Donegal Corridor.  Click here to understand why.

Thanks be to God, all of his Saints (dead and living) and Judge William C. Lee for today’s final triumph over those who sued Brown and Brane during Holy Week, 1990.

Here are former posts on the abortionist Klopfer and culture of death profiteer Susan Hill from this website as background for this great victory.

Klopfer and Hill’s dedication to women’s health revealed in porcelain and pink paint downstairs (baby blue upstairs): http://www.archangelinstitute.org/archangel-raphael-division-in-the-news/

http://www.archangelinstitute.org/why-we-march-part-three/

Does ethnicity inform Klopfer’s hatred for the unborn?  http://www.archangelinstitute.org/burning-down-the-haus-swan-song-post-7/

Is Klopfer about to retire?  “http://www.archangelinstitute.org/economic-boom-hit-the-fort/

Has  Susan Hill tried to cause some to think that she is still reaping a profit in Fort Wayne? (She is not, but may be too proud to admit that her formerly lucrative childkilling enterprise is almost finished off.)   http://www.archangelinstitute.org/exposing-susan-hills-hands-behind-the-scalpel/

More on the Susan Hill’s legal exploits against Brown & Brane:

http://www.archangelinstitute.org/the-open-house-page-2/

http://www.archangelinstitute.org/open-house-background-page-3/

One of Susan Hill’s cruelest legal strikes:

http://www.archangelinstitute.org/nuisance-litigation-steals-away-a-soldier/

Saying goodbye to Susan Hill (until — and only if — we meet again on the other side):  http://www.archangelinstitute.org/susan-hill-in-her-own-words/

THE ARCHANGEL INSTITUTE WILL ANNOUNCE BRAND NEW INITIATIVES AND PROGRAMS

ON SEPTEMBER 29, THE FEAST OF THE HOLY ARCHANGELS

AND

OCTOBER 8, THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE BLESSING OF THE INSTITUTE BY THE GOOD BISHOP JOHN M’ DARCY

(CLICK HERE FOR MORE ON THE LATTER)

New blue signs compliments of Diskey Sign of Fort Wayne.  Please take your sign business to Mike and Cathy Butler at Diskey Sign.

Contact the ArchAngel Institute by

calling (800) 399-4620 or 423-1771 or

emailing archangelinstitute@gmail.com or

fcm to 827 Webster Street, Fort Wayne, IN  46802

To appreciate our path to victory you should read the letter from the President of the ArchAngel Board posted in our vault, here.

And this post, in which we attempted to address the IRS’s concerns as we were patiently awaiting their decision here:  http://www.archangelinstitute.org/please-help-us-make-the-irs-happy/

Some of us had concluded, based upon the length of the processing and the questions asked, that the IRS had acted quite slowly on our August 2008 filed application.

Someone we respect advised us that the IRS has not acted in a dilatory fashion toward the Institute, but truly has been overwhelmed and understaffed.

On the other hand, the IRS themselves had advised that all processing, even with a backlog, would have been completed by the first quarter of 2009.

And then we learned, 10 days after the fact, that the official decision to grant the ArchAngel Institute approval under IRS 501C3 was made on Friday, August 21.  Inexplicably, the notice was not mailed to the Institute and its attorney until August 31.

The great news is that 10 business days had passed, so the decision was rock solid by the time we even learned of it.

Here is what the IRS wrote to us “We are pleased to inform you that upon review of your application for tax exempt status we have determined that you are exempt ….  Contributions to [the Institute] are deductible …. You are also qualified to receive tax deductible bequests, devices, transfers or gifts… ” and so forth and so on.

Attempts to post that lightly printed notice here failed today.  We could use more expertise on the technology front!  Here it is in the vault.

Regardless, congrats to ArchAngel Institute for passing muster under what seemed to be a withering and ongoing IRS review.  And thanks to Dave Wemhoff for great counsel.  Click here for info on Dave’s book.

Hello, my name is Keith L. Brown and I am the President of the ArchAngel Institute Board.  Bryan has asked me to keep current our posts on the ArchAngel website, as he continues to seek wisdom from Above on what is next for him.

Bryan is contacting the leading national pro-family groups seeking grants to keep the ArchAngel Institute viable.  I would be remiss if I didn’t make you aware that  Bryan has drawn very little as to salary from the ArchAngel Institute since its inception, and has drawn none at all from the Institute for more than one year now.  He raised much money to aid in the complete remodeling of the former abortion clinic d worked throughout the first three quarters of 2008 on that massive remodeling with our father, John R. Brown.

Bryan stepped aside last August to allow a post-abortion woman the opportunity to go on salary and lead our prayer and organizational efforts from last summer to last February.  She headed up the prayer effort and some other projects, but our funds continued to drain throughout the fall and winter and so we had to go to limited hours.  Unfortunately she was unable to continue under such a reduced salary and thus we had no option save layoff.

Now is the time;  if you’re a friend of ArchAngel Institute or a friend of Bryan Brown, please consider a financial gift to ArchAngel Institute, a 501c3 non-profit.  Like most nonprofits, we are facing a challenge on finances.  The IRS has stalled making a decision on our permanent 501C3 status, causing our mailing costs to be more than they should be. (And causing us to investigate legal alternatives to merely waiting while our papers are held up for no apparent reason.) As all readers know, Bryan has been stalled for years by the Indiana bar admission process. His family is suffering financially due to this situation.

Bryan took a job with a local manufacturer last fall.  He was downsized three months ago and did not quality for unemployment since his status with AI for most of 2008 was not as an employee.   Work is hard to come by for one in Bryan’s unenviable position … few friends for those who are disliked by people in high places in Indiana.  Not one to be idle, even during this downturn Bryan is quite busy for the best of causes.  He took a sabbatical from ArchAngel and soon was working — volunteer — to help launch another group. Find more on that at www.hoosierpatriots.blogspot.com

The ArchAngel Institute has been operating on prayer and the generosity of others for two years now. We are asking Bryan to return to the Institute to lead it full time, as the only full time employee.  We beseech your prayers and generosity in this critical hour.

Write us as:

ArchAngel Institute, 827 Webster St., Fort Wayne, IN 46802

For the Board of the ArchAngel Institute,

Keith Brown

archangelinstitute@gmail.com

800.399.4620

“Live pure,

speak true,

right wrong,

follow Christ the King.”

Lord Alfred Tennyson 1872

ArchAngel Institute Treasurer Barb Budson has forward Bishop John D’Arcy’s recent article in America magazine for publication on this website.  Since full publication without comment would be a likely copyright violation, and since inserting commentary in the Bishop’s text seems highly inappropriate – and frankly quite unnecessary – we are presenting only a selection that compliments our previous posts on the Notre Dame happenings last spring and the good Bishop’s final call to action.

http://www.archangelinstitute.org/breaking-silence/

http://www.archangelinstitute.org/open-mouth-remove-all-doubt-part-2/

http://www.archangelinstitute.org/god-bless-our-wise-shepherd/

Rread the entire article by good Bishop John  RIGHT HERE.

The Church and the University

A pastoral reflection on the controversy at Notre Dame

John M. D’Arcy | AUGUST 31, 2009

[material excerpted]

Developments on Campus

Yet the questions about the relationship of the university as a whole to the church still stand, and what happened on campus leading up to and during the graduation is significant for the present debate about Catholic higher education. I released a statement on Good Friday, asking the Catholic people and others of good will not to attend demonstrations by those who had come avowedly to “create a circus.” I referred to appropriate and acceptable responses within the Notre Dame community led by students. Titled “ND Response,” and drawing a significant number of professors, these responses were marked by prayer and church teaching, and they were orderly.

This journal and others in the media, Catholic and secular, reporting from afar, failed to make a distinction between the extremists on the one hand, and students and those who joined them in the last 48 hours before graduation. This latter group responded with prayer and substantive disagreement. They cooperated with university authorities.

In this time of crisis at the university, these students and professors, with the instinct of faith, turned to the bishop for guidance, encouragement and prayer. This had nothing to do with John Michael D’Arcy. It was related to their understanding of the episcopal office—a place you should be able to count on for the truth, as Irenaeus contended in the second century when he encountered the Gnostics.

I attended the Baccalaureate Mass the day before graduation, for the 25th time, speaking after holy Communion, as I always do. Then I led an evening rosary at the Grotto with students, adults and a number of professors. We then went to a chapel on campus. It was packed for a whole night of prayer and eucharistic adoration.

It was my intention not to be on campus during graduation day. I had so informed Father Jenkins and the student leadership, with whom I was in touch nearly every day. This is the kind of deference and respect I have shown to the Notre Dame administration, to three Notre Dame presidents, over the years. I found it an increasingly sad time, and I was convinced that there were no winners, but I was wrong.

As graduation drew near, I knew I should be with the students. It was only right that the bishop be with them, for they were on the side of truth, and their demonstration was disciplined, rooted in prayer and substantive. I told the pro-life rally, several thousand people on a lovely May day, that they were the true heroes. Despite the personal costs to themselves and their families, they chose to give public witness to the Catholic faith contrary to the example of a powerful, international university, against which they were respectfully but firmly in disagreement. Among those in attendance were many who work daily at crisis pregnancy centers on behalf of life.

[material excerpted]

Critical Questions

As bishops, we must be teachers and pastors. In that spirit, I would respectfully put these questions to the Catholic universities in the diocese I serve and to other Catholic universities.

Do you consider it a responsibility in your public statements, in your life as a university and in your actions, including your public awards, to give witness to the Catholic faith in all its fullness?

What is your relationship to the church and, specifically, to the local bishop and his pastoral authority as defined by the Second Vatican Council?

Finally, a more fundamental question: Where will the great Catholic universities search for a guiding light in the years ahead? Will it be the Land O’Lakes Statement or Ex Corde Ecclesiae? The first comes from a frantic time, with finances as the driving force. Its understanding of freedom is defensive, absolutist and narrow. It never mentions Christ and barely mentions the truth. The second text, Ex Corde Ecclesiae, speaks constantly of truth and the pursuit of truth. It speaks of freedom in the broader, Catholic philosophical and theological tradition, as linked to the common good, to the rights of others and always subject to truth. Unlike Land O’Lakes, it is communal, reflective of the developments since Vatican II, and it speaks with a language enlightened by the Holy Spirit.

On these three questions, I respectfully submit, rests the future of Catholic higher education in this country and so much else.

End of article

FOR THOSE WHO ARE NOT CATHOLIC …. THIS IS ONE OF THE LOUDEST AND CLEAREST SHOTS HEARD ‘ROUND THE WORLD BY A CATHOLIC BISHOP AS TO THE CORE PROBLEM FACING CATHOLIC EDUCATION.  BISHOP JOHN D’ARCY IS A HERO IN THE EYES OF THE ARCHANGEL INSTITUTE.