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FI News #33 - Type the Caption here ( 9min) >>> Play

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This exciting video of Doug Barry’s Radix Boot Camp has been edited from footage captured a the last Knights and Squires Encampment in Griswold Connecticut, held last Fall. We will be running the Encampment and Boot Camp again on the Weekend of May 23-25. Doug will not be there, but we hope to have him come for the Fall Encampment.

For more on this, check out MaryVictrix.

Yes, Fr. Angelo did give a bit of bad news yesterday, that Quark Express founder Tim Gill is well funded and using a clever strategy to attack marriage, a chilling wake-up call indeed, but Fr. Angelo also gives us the good news and how to take action: here and here on his vlog Mary Victrix. The good news is the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) which was founded and is headed by Brian Brown who is a fellow Knight of Lepanto and is using the very same strategy as Tim Gill, supporting key local battles throughout the nation. As many of us know the current key battles are in the North East in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Jersey. Here is a Massachusetts’s billboard funded by NOM to let people know that a local politician failed to support his pro-marriage constituents in a key vote.

Certainly, Tim Gill is better funded, but that is just a matter of donations.

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Immaculate Music #12 - God is present in our lives, be good (3min) >>> Play

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This latest video of the series: “Immaculate Music” is all about God being present and how we ought to please Him by being good. Come with your children and watch this wholesome message of joy.

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Roving Reporter #13 - Peter Wolfgang sends a message to the CT Supreme Court (8min) >>> Play

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Our 500th Post!! Deo Gratias!

Peter Wolfgang, Executive Director of the Family Institute of Connecticut gives us an interview at the pro-family rally they sponsored at the CT State Capitol to send a message to the Ct Supreme Court to not suppress existing legislation in the court case Kerrigan et al v. the state Department of Public Health. If the supreme court decides in favor of the plaintiffs then all the recent legislative victories won in recent years to keep marriage defined as a union between a man and a woman will be negated.  Listen to this interview from the front lines of the state level national battle to protect marriage and religious freedom.

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Standing Fast #14 - Fr. Angelo on the need for Fathers (7min) >>> Play

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Fr. Angelo commenting on an article in the City Journal about the high rate of fatherlessness in Newark, New Jersey which has reached epidemic proportions and the corresponding high rate of crime explains the need for Fathers in society and for men to take back their position in family and society as father figures. But why aren’t more people talking about this very obvious need? Listen to Father’s impassioned plea for men to speak up and Stand Fast!

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Shamelessly pulled entirely from the blog of Dr. Edward Peters, JD, JCD. I really had no idea there was such a practice as “joint” celebration of Penance.

The practice of spouses jointly celebrating the sacrament of confession recently garnered support from Catholic News Service veteran columnist Fr. John Deitzen. Provided that couples “approve and consider it helpful for their marriage”, Deitzen holds that spouses may confess their sins in each other’s presence and receive absolution. He notes only that each spouse would be bound by the seal of confession in regard to what he or she learned about the other.

Dr. Peters is a canon lawyer and is always great reading. It also helps to have a canon lawyer around as a resource His books on Annulments and Excommunication are spectacular!

Keep the Family #2 - Brian Brown on the Battle for Massachusetts (7min) >>> Play

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Brian Brown gives a blow by blow account of how the referendum initiative to stop ‘gay marriage’ in Massachusetts was defeated through lobby pressure from special interest groups. Come listen to how politics really work.

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Starting from a recent post on Air Maria Fr. Angelo makes a great post on his new blog Mary Victrix.

Steven Malanga has written an article in City Journal called “City Without Fathers.” He comments on the out-of-control crime rate in Newark, New Jersey by pointing out that the rate of fatherlessness in that city is also out of control:

According to 2005 figures from the U.S. Census Bureau, only 32 percent of Newark children are being raised by their parents in a two-adult household. The rest are distributed among families led by grandparents, foster parents, and single parents€”mostly mothers. An astonishing 60 percent of the city€™s kids are growing up without fathers. It isn€™t that traditional families are breaking up; they aren€™t even getting started. The city has one of the highest out-of-wedlock birthrates in the country, with about 65 percent of its children born to unmarried women. And 70 percent of those births are to women who are already poor, meaning that their kids are born directly into poverty.

Most interestingly though, he notes how not only are politicians and policy makers are silent on the subject, but also our religious leaders as well:

The starkness of these statistics makes it astonishing that our politicians and policy makers ignore the subject of single parenthood, as if it were outside the realm of civic discourse. And our religious leaders, who once preached against such behavior, now also largely avoid the issue, even as they call for prayer vigils and organize stop-the-violence campaigns in Newark. Often, in this void, the only information that our teens and young adults get on the subject of marriage, children, and family life comes through media reports about the lifestyles of our celebrity entertainers and athletes, who have increasingly shunned matrimony and traditional families. Once, such news might have been considered scandalous; today, it is reported matter-of-factly, as if these pop icons€™ lives were the norm.

The obviousness of this problem would seem to be a screaming opportunity to preach the gospel, and to reassert a little paternity. “Oh well,” we say, “pass the remote.”

Are we awake yet?

Standing Fast #12 - Fr. Angelo on Christ the King and a man’s duty to put on his crown and follow Him (9min) >>> Play

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In this episode of Standing Fast Fr. Angelo explains the need for men to imitate Christ the King by making use of the graces given at baptism to be Priests, Prophets and Kings. He says both men and women get these graces but men especially have the duty to be good, saintly kings in their families and society. So all you men out there, put down the Bud and the potato chips, grab your scepter and crown, and listen-up!

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Immaculate Music #6 - Children’s Sing-a-Long, Why did God Make Us? (3min) >>> Play

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Pro Multis Media is a new company that produces wholesome Catholic content for all ages. Their DVD Sing-a-long Songs for Catholic Children will both entertain and educate your kids on the faith. This selection is about why God made us and gives the Catechism answer: to know, love and serve Him. Come bring your kids and listen to this good wholesome music combined with pious, beautiful art. Beware! These tunes are catchy!

Thanks to Pro Multis Media for giving us permission to have these videos on AirMaria. Check out their growing list of products.

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Roving Reporter #5 - Teresa Tomeo in Cleveland >>> Play

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At the recent CMN Conference in Cleveland, Ohio Teresa Tomeo of nationally syndicated Catholic Connection (www.teresatomeo.com) speaks out about the new hate crimes bill in the House and Senate in DC and how it is in an effort to silence pastors on the moral issues including biblical teachings on marriage. She gives several links where we can stay informed on these issues and find out what can be done.

Links:
American Family Association www.afa.net
Dr. Dobson Focus on the Family at www.family.org

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Keep the Family #1 - Brian Brown hosts our new show: Keep the Family >>> Play

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Brian Brown hosts our new show: Keep the Family. This exciting new series will concentrate on how to defend the family institution and provide solutions for us to keep the family strong. Come watch this first episode as he exposes the dangers to the natural family in our modern society.

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