The good news:  a native Fort Wayne industry is doubling its size.

The bad news:  It is the abortion industry.

The details:

Berean (church goers  — the local group that risks much and suffers much (esp via weather and rejection) to offer alternatives to women seeking abortion services)–

Just a heads up that I recently found out about a new abortion facility in Fort Wayne called Indiana Women’s Center.  They are located on Coliseum Blvd.

From the website it looks as though they perform medical abortions up to 9 1/2 weeks via RU-486 at the Fort Wayne site.

They also perform surgical abortions up to 19 weeks but only at their Ohio sites.  First appointment can be made at Fort Wayne and then referred onto Ohio sites.

http://www.indianawomenscenter.com/

I wasn’t sure if you were all aware of this or not.

ArchAngel Institute conjecture and analysis:  The abortion business is a business.  Supply (abortionists and their staff) can only meet the demand (women willing to pay to have their offspring terminated.)  While some advertising might increase the geographic area served, the business is pretty well steady-state.  Spikes after Prom, after Spring break, after New Years, etc, and other than that pretty much a slow and steady pace in Fort Wayne.

So what will we now have, a price war?  Perhaps the newcomer should give abortions away to get an established market, or offer green stamps or new toasters with each abortion?

No, not good ideas.

Here is what is more likely afoot:  Ulrich George Klopfer, the German-accented angel of death who has been servicing the abortion industry in the Fort since about 1990 is probably finally ready to retire.  Click here and here to learn more about Mr. Klopfer.

The pro-aborts simply cannot abide pro-lifers celebrating Fort Wayne being abortion free.  (The struggle against abortion in the Fort has a long, rich history.  Click here and here for some of that history.)

Thus a plan was hatched to get a franchise in the Fort with a traveling abortionist to serve this area after Klopfer finally rides off to Crete to spend his final years in abject loneliness (but not poverty), counting his sheckels and awaiting his appointment with Holy One who created all those little lives that Klopfer vacuumed into blood and gold.

Stay tuned for details, but do not expect an announcement of Klopfer’s closing.  One day his clinic will just be shut down, and escorts will be on hand to direct all interested parties to the new killing grounds in town.

End of Conjecture and Analysis.

Click here for “the rest of the story” on just how very untimely and unwelcome the ArchAngel Institute views the assassination of George Tiller.

The ArchAngel Institute honors and thanks Kansans for Life for their hard fought battle to expose George Tiller for what he truly was.  Special kudos go to KFL’s Topeka-based Christian activist  Kathy Ostrowski, a great woman of faith and determination.  (And mother of five faith-filled children who are taking up the call of discipleship in the next generation.)

If given the opportunity to set up his own assassination, George Tiller actually may have welcomed it.  Being shot down at church actually saved George from a fast approaching public humiliation.  He is now a martyr of the Left instead of a disgraced childkiller.

Could the killing of George Tiller been anything other than a great victory for the Evil One?

Could it be said that George Tiller was a pawn of the nefarious powers to the very end?

Imagine that … used of Satan for most of his adult life and then paid off with an assassin’s bullet at the urgings of one of Slewfoot’s minions.  Quite the hellish retirement plan that is.  It is amazing that Mr. D can find so many useful idiots given the way he treats his “friends.”   (Make that tools.)

Love, Sweet Love?  So it was sang back in 1965, just as the Free Love society, the generation that gave us Bill Clinton, George Bush Jr. and our present cultural cul de sac, was being formed.

That became the “me generation” — the most narcistic lot since ancient Babylon.

We need no more such self-love.  What the world needs now is creative extremists who are willing to put themes greater than mammon and their “sexual liberation” first.

Not ideologue anarchists like the murderous assassins who cut down George Tiller and some innocent security guard this month!  That is not creative, it is demonic.  Those two are one in the same. Anyone who cannot see that should spend much time in prayer and ask God to enlighten them, for they are being seduced into the spirituality of Cain, which is pure wickedness.

We need creative extremists in this dire hour.  But instead look for Hates Crime legislation to soon be rushed through Congress that will render creative extremism illegal, in the name of Homeland Security.

Here is an excerpt on the best known work on creative extremism.  It explains much of what we are seeing as those who are seduced by the spirit of Cain “go pop” on the evening news.  It explains that a heavier governmental hand will likely only bring upon more violence and less of what America truly needs in this hour:

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American Negro. Something within has reminded him of his birthright of freedom, and something without has reminded him that it can be gained. Consciously or unconsciously, he has been caught up by the Zeitgeist, and with his black brothers of Africa and his brown and yellow brothers of Asia, South America and the Caribbean, the United States Negro is moving with a sense of great urgency toward the promised land of racial justice. If one recognizes this vital urge that has engulfed the Negro community, one should readily understand why public demonstrations are taking place. The Negro has many pent up resentments and latent frustrations, and he must release them. So let him march; let him make prayer pilgrimages to the city hall; let him go on freedom rides -and try to understand why he must do so. If his repressed emotions are not released in nonviolent ways, they will seek expression through violence; this is not a threat but a fact of history. So I have not said to my people: “Get rid of your discontent.” Rather, I have tried to say that this normal and healthy discontent can be channeled into the creative outlet of nonviolent direct action. And now this approach is being termed extremist. But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. Was not Jesus an extremist for love: “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.” Was not Amos an extremist for justice: “Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever flowing stream.” Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian gospel: “I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.” Was not Martin Luther an extremist: “Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God.” And John Bunyan: “I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.” And Abraham Lincoln: “This nation cannot survive half slave and half free.” And Thomas Jefferson: “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal . . .” So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice? In that dramatic scene on Calvary’s hill three men were crucified. We must never forget that all three were crucified for the same crime–the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality, and thus fell below their environment. The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment. Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html  (emphasis added)

This story now breaking in the British news discusses a coming Obama Admin plan to begin depopulating cities that have fallen to the avarice of America’s ruling elites == those who have sold out our nation by undercutting its economic independence.  Cities in the rust belt, cities that the Obama Admin will now finish off via state owned means of production.

That story in the media brought the following list to mind.  The bold have all accelerated in the past four months, have they not?

Nevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable.

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.

4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.

5. Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.

6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state.

7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.

8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.

9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.

10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.

SOURCE:  The Communist Manifesto of 1848

Frequent visitors to this site know that the founder of the ArchAngel Institute and head of the ArchAngel Michael Division, Bryan Brown (me), has a long history with George Tiller, the recently assassinated late term abortionist.  (So late as to be infanticide)

I also have more than some experience with the former Kansas Governor, now head of Obama’s HHS, still the wife of a federal judge, daughter of an Ohio Governor, all around powerful political class elitist, Kathleen Sebelius. 

Jack Cashill of Kansas City knows the backstory to Tiller, Sebelius and my former boss, Phill Kline as good or better than anyone.

Here is some of what Jack knows.

Pharisees can always be recognized be their “do what we say, not what we do” methodology.

Here follows in blue a fine example from the AP:

In the interim, Obama said he expects “rigorous evaluation” of his nominee but added: “What I hope is that we can avoid the political posturing and ideological brinksmanship that has bogged down this process, and Congress, in the past.”

He derided “some in Washington who are attempting to draw old battle lines and playing the usual political games, pulling a few comments out of context to paint a distorted picture of Judge Sotomayor’s record.”

“But I am confident that these efforts will fail,” Obama added, “because Judge Sotomayor’s 17-year record on the bench — hundreds of judicial decisions that every American can read for him or herself — speak far louder than any attack; her record makes clear that she is fair, unbiased and dedicated to the rule of law.”

As a senator, Obama supported a failed attempt by Democrats to stall President George W. Bush’s nomination of Samuel Alito to the high court.

First time visitor to the Institute?

Start here, please . . .

 This post is a rebuttal. Click here to read the previous post in this series.

Randy Terry the self-proclaimed prolife potentate

 Is has been my first hand observation that the unmitigated gall of Randy Terry is without limit. 

I first met Randy Terry in New York City in 1989.  He was a young firebrand of a pro-life leader who led the charge with much bravado while demanding that those who believe abortion is murder act like abortion is murder.

His message was simple, direct and called for personal sacrifice.  He lambasted those who stood against his crusade.

Randy’s message spread like wildfire, and within a few short years 50,000 Americans had risked arrest.  I did so numerous times. The movement blessed Randy with millions of dollars and two houses before it was shut down by the concerted efforts of the federal government and the abortion industry.

No one can deny Randy a place in the pro-life history books.  Some go even further and dub him a poster child for culture war profiteering. 

Years later Randy, like me, joined the Roman Catholic Church.  He and I had discussed a Romeward journey a few times over the years.  Randy had even called me when he heard that I was joining the Church and attempted to talk me out of it –  to no avail.  I joined the Church in 1994 after reading Veritatis Splendor.  (I could do nothing else!)  Many years later Randy also “came home to Rome.”

I always wondered if one as self-directed as Randy could really become Catholic.  I believe that recent events  have answered that question.

Randy Terry recently  announced plans to enter into the diocese of Bishop John Darcy to protest Notre Dame’s regrettable decision to host President Barack Obama on campus.  (The visit and dialogue does not trouble me, it is the honorary law degree that violates their Catholic charter as I see it.) 

Randy’s bravado was met with a direct and immediate cease and desist order from the diocese of Fort Wayne- South Bend.  If Randy remains protestant then he is free to give such orders about as much consideration as he granted federal court orders protecting abortion clinics “back in the day.”   If Randy is truly Catholic, however, then such an order should give him pause.  Great pause.  As Saint Ignatius of Antioch taught (capturing the essence of the Church Fathers) Catholics give glory to God when they obey the local Bishop. 

This rule of obedience is robustly tested when we are asked to obey while we yet disagree with the local ordinary.  (See Father John Jenkin’s predicament as a fine example.)

If Randy gave Bishop D’Arcy’s injunction any pause at all it  was not evident in his recent column in the Journal Gazette.  Randy instead launched into this fine and honorable Bishop with the very same vitriol that has defined his bombardment of abortionists and abortion protecting judges.

It was both friendly fire and pure showmanship.  Randy proving himself the ringmaster of his own personal circus.

Bishop D’Arcy has, in the unyielding private judgment of Randy Terry, denied Christ and apostated from the truth once given.  (The good Bishop merely disagrees with Randy Terry on a tactical matter, something that many of Randy’s ex-friends did — but usually only once or twice.)

Randy’s invective reveals the shallowness of his Catholic conversion.  Turning Rome on its head, he accuses this direct agent of the fisherman of being a traitor to the faith, of being Peter before the cock crowed instead of Peter after the Holy Spirit’s indwelling.

Like the most rabid of cultists, Randall accuses Bishop John D’Arcy of denying Christ three times.

Mr. Terry finds great irony in the Bishop’s Good Friday rebuffing of Terry’s self-annointed strategy to turn the Notre Dame graduation into a so-called “circus.”  I find profound irony under other those big tops.  But not the same irony that Randall spotted.

Irony #1

I was in Wichita, standing against George Tiller’s unspeakable brutality and Judge Patrick Kelly’s statist injunction, when Randy stopped by just long enough to take up a few collections.  The priest (now Auxiliary Bishop) James Conley who received me into the Catholic Church years later witnessed Randy’s faith firstand.  When the federal judge ordered the Operation Rescue leaders arrested  Randy fled the city before sundown.  I know, I was there and I stayed, facing down the activist judge alone.   After 68 days of unconstitutional incarceration the judge relented and I was set free.

Such irony – Randy, who denied Christ by running from a federal “Pilate” in Wichita now finds in Bishop John D’Arcy’s well meaning call for prayers and student led dialogue a capitulation to “Pilate.”

Irony # 2

Randy Terry tried to make contact with me about two years ago.  The rumor mill reported that he was out of cash and looking to get back into the culture war profiteer business.  (Click here for more details on that profession.)  I took a call from a mutual friend who asked me to renew my relationship with Randy now that we were both “in the Church.”

I informed my friend that I would not make amends with Randy until I first heard from the woman that he divorced, Cindy.  Randy and Cindy stood together through thick and thin for many long years.  Cindy was my friend, and Randy “put her away”  after “falling in love” with the babysitter/secretary who aided he and Cindy during one of Randy’s numerous ill-fated political stints.  It was reported in the Christian press (World Magazine) that Randall Terry flat out abandoned Cindy and their minor children.

Randy did seek me out a year later.  He was unable to arrange the call from Cindy and so our relationship was not “rekindled.” 

Such irony – Randy, who denied Christ by turning “Judas” on the wife of his youth and his own adopted children now comes to South Bend to accuse Bishop John D’Arcy  of being a Judas  – despite Bishop D’Arcy having led (and is yet leading) the dissent against the president’s Notre Dame visit.

Irony #3

Finally we have the prolife potentate Randall Terry calling a Bishop of the Catholic Church into the confessional for failing to “follow biblical teaching” and for allegedly leading his flock into “the sins of omission and silence” and thus “abandoning Christ.”   

Did I already write  ”unmitigated gall?”

Such irony – Randy, who violates the heart of our Catholic teaching on humble obedience, has the audacity to allege that our good Bishop is in need of “conversion and restoration” simply because he disagrees with Randall Terry on how to best protest the president’s visit.  Randy’s remonstrating against the local ordinary  merely demonstrates that Mr. Terry’s own Catholic conversion was no more sincere than Peter’s pre-cock crowing denials. 

Or no more sincere than Father Guido Sarducci’s Roman collar.  (See hyperlink at the above picture of Randy attempting his best Joe Scheidler impression.)

It would appear that Randy did not join the Catholic Church to be a layman but rather joined up to be our first American pope.

I am pleased to note that we already have a German Shepherd in Rome far more genuine and thought out than Randy Terry can ever be.  And a fine Irishman here at home, to boot.

Randy’s telling protestations against Bishop D’Arcy bring to mind a practice of Roman soldiers at the birth of the Church.  It is said that many of them, upon being baptized, allowed all but their swords to be immersed.  Their hearts went to the Risen King, yes, but their swords remained ever loyal to Rome.  It would seem that Randy’s conversion to the Catholic faith was much the same.  His heart may claim some allegiance to Rome, but his pen remains loyal to only himself –  a culture war profiteer he remaineth still … and he doth protesteth too much as well.

Go home, Randy.  Notre Dame has a fine shepherd – one that does not shear the sheep for self aggrandizement or filthy lucre.   Go home, Randy –  and allow the local ordinary’s orders to bring a godly resolution to the Church’s problem at the University of Our Lady.   Go home, Randy –  your plan to turn this serious matter into a “circus” has done nothing but revealed you as a catholic (small c) , classless clown.

I strive to ever practice what I preach:  I will be home when President Barack Obama speaks at Notre Dame.  My family will be in prayer while Notre Dame dishonors its Catholic heritage by honoring the most pro-abortion president in our nation’s history with a law degree.  (St.Michael the ArchAngel , defend us in battle….)  By so praying we will be obedient  to the Bishop that God has given us, realizing, through faith,  that following the local ordinary is our very best strategy for a godly result in this troubling situation. 

I invite both Randy Terry and Father John Jenkins to join me in this faith-filled strategy.

Bryan Brown was formerly a leader with NorthEast Indiana Rescue and a former associate of Randy Terry.  Brown  left Fort Wayne in 1991 (as a protestant evangelical) after being sued by the local abortion clinic (under a subsequently discredited legal theory), and returned to Fort Wayne in 2007 (as a Roman Catholic) to establish the ArchAngel Institute in the building that previously housed the abortion clinic that had driven him from his homeland 17 years earlier.   He lives in Fort Wayne with the beautiful wife and five children that the Lord gave him after leaving Fort Wayne for Wichita, Kansas  in 1991. 

 Bryan J. Brown reporting from Topeka, Kansas ….

I attended the Topeka tea party last night along with about 1500 fine Americans.  Thousands gathered elsewhere in Kansas at the same time. 

CNN, NBC and the main stream media wishes to dismiss this “movement” as nothing more than a tempest in a  teapot,  an amen chorus of the Christian Right that will soon fall silent.

That is not what I observed last night.   I know most of the “usual suspects” among the Kansas Christian Right.  They were not running the show in Topeka last night.  From what I gather few, if any, of the Tea Parties were the creation of the usual suspects among the Christian Right.

This is new wine in new wineskins.

How refreshing!!!

I witnessed long hair bikers protesting Big Brother’s policies.  One biker carried a sign that read “Trillions of debt = checkmate” while holding a little dog  with a sign around his neck that barked out “taxed to the bone.” 

I witnesses Ron Paul libertarians, I witnessed those protesting taxes, protesting the disarmament of the citizenry, protesting corporate political puppets, protesting runaway debt, and protesting the expulsion of God from the public sphere by the shock troops of the political correctness movement.

But most of all those present seemed to share in a collective angst about where our nation is now being taken by the radical leftists manning Ship Obama. 

The Topeka rally was heavy, too heavy, with elected officials.  It was more a political rally than anything else, although it did include a fair amount of calling upon the Name of the Lord.  (It is Kansas, after all.)   I hear that a tea party in Missouri disallowed any elected official from speaking.  While that might be an overreaction, it does strike me as better than allowing a bunch of “me too” johhny-come-lately GOPpers to get more mic time than they deserve.  Much more — for the GOP sold out as to constitutional principles long, long ago.

Any elected officials who have not already shown themselves to be statesmen or stateswomen should stand in the crowd, not at the podium.  Having failed to lead, they should follow or get out of the way.

Senator Sam Brownback batted last at the Topeka rally.  I heard more than a few grumblings from the crowd due to Sam’s failure to firmly oppose Governor Kathleen Sebelius’ nomination to President Obama’s cabinet. 

Sam used a few of his minutes on stage to introduce and yield to a local celebrity.  Kerry Livgren, former front man for the rock band Kansas, was with us.  Kerry’s most famous work is Dust in the Wind.  Kerry committed his life to Christ a few years after releasing that nihilistic anthem (click here for more on Kerry).

Kerry noted that he was never one to “protest” but came to the tea party because he has a son in the armed forces and grave concerns about the future of our nation.  He voiced his dissent.  Dissent in the wind.  Dissent that now makes him suspect according to the head of the federal Department of Homeland Security.   

Livgren said that he represented many other Americans, formerly silent majority Americans, who were now concerned enough about about the future of the nation to stand up and call the wayward sons back to the ancient foundations.  (Or something like that.)

It is all just a tempest in a teapot?  Or does the Office of Homeland Security really have a growing problem to monitor and, if the political will exists, crush?

Only time will tell.  A important Hoosier window opens at 12 noon on Saturday, April 18.

The question lingering at this time is what will become of this rare grassroots “uprising”?  Will leadership emerge to keep the flames of dissent burning?  Will these Tea Parties kick off something that will crest into massive outpourings of American dissent over the long, hot summer ahead?

Like the long hot summer of 1989 — twenty years ago?

Those reading this blog within driving distance of Fort Wayne have two opportunities to show the main stream media and Big Brother lovers that this is a viable movement with potential staying power.

Opportunity number one is Fort Wayne’s own belated tea party!  It will take place in downtown Fort Wayne, at the old county courthouse, this Saturday, April 18, at noon.  Alan Keyes will speak, which should challenge some stereotypes about the tea party movement.

Why not send this link to all of your friends withing driving distance of the Fort, asking them to join you at Fort Wayne’s tea party this Saturday?  CNN, NBC and the Department of Homeland Security wants you to stay home and dissent in private, if you must dissent at all.

The Instititue urges you to rather give public voice to your grave concerns, much like Kerry Livgren.  Much like the constitution protects — from the likes of departments of homeland (or Fatherland) security.

The second opportunity is coming on Saturday, April 25.  Letters have gone out inviting friends of the Institute to a very special meeting on that day.  If you did not get the letter but want to attend the annual briefing on the progress of the Institute (with some exciting announcments) then come to 827 Webster Street at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 25 to be invited to this by-invitation-only meeting.

At the risk of stealing thunder, the ArchAngel Institute was throwing tea overboard well before the Tea Parties started.  Read this two year old post for the long version of the Institute’s very reason to exist and note it is grounded in the throught of our Fathers — Church and state.

Here are a few more posts demonstrating the ArchAngel Institute’s zeal for this new direction among America’s patriots.

http://www.archangelinstitute.org/honoring-alexander-solzhenitsyn-post-5/  (Academic bias)http://www.archangelinstitute.org/honoring-alexander-solzhenitsyn-post-9/  (Media bias)

http://www.archangelinstitute.org/the-church-and-the-right-to-resist/  (taking the stand)

http://www.archangelinstitute.org/a-congressman-from-texas-on-the-question-at-hand/  (Ron Paul)

http://www.archangelinstitute.org/executive-directors-post-july-4th-post-4/  (Francis Schaeffer)

We welcome the dissent that is now blowing in the wind.   If it can be fanned into a Jesus-first, family-second and nation-third Second American Revolution then we just might save our nation from dissolution into a Big Brother-first (and second, and third) superstate. 

All along the watchtower the hour is late.   It it time to call forth minute men and women for Jesus.

The ArchAngel Institute is mustered and ready. 

Join us!!!

p.s.  Here is a proper introduction to the Institute for first time visitors and Homeland Security kommissars.

This post continues our background on the legal killing of a newborn baby with Down’s Syndrome and a blocked esophagus in Bloomington, Indiana almost 27 years ago. 

Because the court-ordered dehydration of a newborn in Bloomington, Indiana figured highly into my own formation as a constitutional law attorney (I was licensed in Kansas 14 years after Baby Doe was ‘lawfully’ killed) I am using his execution as a platform to address significant issues of law and policy affecting all Americans today.

Like this:

The judicially-decreed death rattle of Baby Doe, and of countless babies like him (born and unborn) raises important questions: What is the foundation for the law and what purpose should it serve?

These questions are among the most important any individual can ask of her social order. For that reason they are largely ignored in this amusement-driven culture.

Notre Dame Professor Emeritus Charles Rice, a friend of the Institute, refuses to ignore these crucial questions. One of his best books is 50 Questions on the Natural Law: What it is & Why we need it. (Ignatius Press, ISBN No. 0-89870-454-5, click here to order).

In this very readable work (it is written for laymen) Professor Rice defines such crucial terms as legal positivism and natural law, breaking them down to an understandable level.

“Natural law will seem mysterious if we forget that everything has a law built into its nature….The natural law is the story of how things work. … Morality is governed by a law built into the nature of man and knowable by reason…. Let us say upfront that the natural law makes no ultimate sense without God as its author. The natural law provides a guide through which we can safely and rightly choose to love God by acting in accord with our nature and by helping others to do the same…. The natural law provides an objective standard of right and wrong….. if an enacted law is contrary to the natural law, it is not even a law. It is void, an act of violence rather than law. The natural law is therefore a standard for the state as well as for its citizens.”

50 Questions, excerpts from paragraph 3: “But what is natural law?”

Natural law assumes a Creator who leads us to Reason. Legal positivism is a child of the Enlightenment, and thus assumes no Creator and demands Reason to lead us to affirm that atheistic assumption. (See Romans 1)

Professor Rice quotes Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger to make this point: “The fundamental dogma of the Enlightenment is that man must overcome the prejudices inherited from tradition; he must have the boldness to free himself from every authority in order to think on his own, using nothing but reason.”

50 Questions at p.36, quoting a 1991 address by the current Pope.

Positivism led Europe into a nightmare, and is taking America to the same dark place. Rice turns to a German legal scholar for the following quote: “Positivism, with its thesis that ‘[the] law is [the] law’ has made German jurists and lawyers defenseless against laws of arbitrary or criminal content. Positivism simply holds that a law is valid because it is successfully enforced.”

Rice quoting Henrich Rommen, Natural Law in Decisions on the Federal Supreme Court and the of the Constitutional Courts in Germany, 4 Natural Law Forum, (1959).

Germany rejected Natural Law and embraced Positivism in the years following World War I. Hitler’s dictates were the law, and the law was the law. Dissidents, be they Christian conscientious objectors, Generals who recognized strategic folly or brave pastors like Dietrich Bonhoeffer were all dealt with in very rough fashion.

At the end of the road Gernany’s new found faith did not serve her well.

Baby Doe’s death rattle, which came as the Indiana Supreme Court stood guard over that dying boy’s tortured body, was a signal to Indiana and all of America that this nation was crawling down the God-denying corridor that led our German cousins to trial at Nuremberg.

Indiana was embracing this new found faith, as signaled by a human sacrifice. The sacrifice of a Baby Doe.

Many have stood against this apostasy from the Christian faith these past four decades. One of the goals of the ArchAngel Institute is to memorialize those who so stood and to prepare all for a future that will ask for more Faith and Courage in the face of godless statism. If we do not return to moral sanity quite soon then our collective insanity will claim more careers, more families and even more lives.

The next post will present to the teaching of the Church on the taking the stand against godlessness in high places.

Postscript: The art in this post is a poster from 1930’s Germany informing the reader of the high cost of keeping the handicapped alive. Hilter, like the Indiana Supreme Court, had a final solution for those like Baby Doe.

Today is the first day of winter. May it be the worst! The lights are on in downtown Fort Wayne, but many places in Allen County yet struggle through the bitter cold with the power down.

An Artic air mass has fallen upon Fort Wayne, 48 hours after the most disruptive ice storm since 1990. Many visitors to this webpage have escaped this, since many of our visitors are from California, Texas, Mississippi, Florida and other places much warmer than Indiana. Our statistics also show many visitors from throughout the English speaking world. Welcome one and all. We are a unique Christian ministry offering post abortion mentoring from a former abortion clinic. A former abortion clinic that sued our executive director out of economic existence in 1990. Here is a post on that history.

In the next several weeks many important posts will be displayed on this website, updating the reader on projects in the ArchAngel Raphael, ArchAngel Gabriel and ArchAngel Michael divisions. The Executive Director also has a couple of very important announcement to make very soon, so stay tuned. One involves the birth of a child, another a change in the guard.

We are not focused upon Advent as we were last year, but see our many Advent posts on this website for the celebration of Christmas at the Institute. Here is a favorite.

Last year’s celebration was more external for us, as that the interior of the former abortion clinic was still in shambles. The former clinic has now been reborn, and the front room — that was once filled with remorseful women — now hosts a banner celebrating the Annunciation and a creche and Christmas tree. All evidence of a more feminine presence at the Institute, as is pictured here.

Want to know more about our unique mission? Here is a lengthy post sharing it.