I live in Connecticut, a very Democratic state. Our state has come under siege by the Democratically controlled state legislature when it tried (unsuccessfully) to enact a law that would have changed the way the Catholic Church is governed. Led by our bishops, we resisted it & the legislation was defeated. Last week, the bishops warned us about another challenge to freedom, this time from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services "that would require health care plans nationwide to cover contraception & sterilization as 'preventive services' for women. The mandate includes drugs that cause abortions." Strange that all these assaults on religious freedom come from Democrats who were voted into office with the help of Catholics!

I agree with your remarks. My parish has been growing by leaps and bounds over the past two or three years. We have Catholics from many different ethnic backgrounds, all hungry for God and for religious and moral truth. We are far from weak, but growing stronger all the time. I suspect this is a movement of the Holy Spirit, i.e., as the Church becomes more of a target of secular forces (including the Obama Administration and other like minded Democrats), her faith grows stronger to resist these assaults. The Church always gets stronger and grows during periods of persecution, in the past and in our own time too.

Thank you for exposing more truth about the Obama administration. I question how many Catholics who voted for Obama know about this outrage. We can only hope that Obama and his entire administration will be swept from office in 2012 by a landslide victory. The nation cannot afford another four years of this political aberration.

The U.S. should sign an alliance with India and drop Pakistan. I am sick to death of seeing my tax dollars pour into a country that regards mine as an enemy but will gladly take its cash. Let the hypocrites fend for themselves or live off the dole from their new Chinese friends.

Apart from the raid on Bin Laden's lair and the disaster called "ObamaCare," Obama entire presidency has been pure rhetoric and illusion.

Agreed. "Reality," Communist style = mass murder, arrests, torture, imprisonment for expressing anything that goes against the Party line. Just think, Jeffrey, how well you might fit in with Communist China's "reality." Until you said or wrote something the Communists did not like. Then you would find yourself harassed, arrested, "detained," or some such assault on human dignity. How would you like their "reality" then?

Sorry, Mr. Giles. I have to disagree with you on this one and I am no bleeding heart liberal, but an orthodox Christian. While I am happy Osama Bin Laden is dead and gone from this world, I cannot rejoice because he is in hell. Christ suffered and died to save all men and when any soul is lost that grieves His heart. 1 Timothy 2:4 reads: "God wills that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth." When anyone rejects divine grace to the end and dies impenitent, that is nothing to rejoice about. Luke 15: 7 says: "there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents." It does not say that heaven rejoices when any sinner refuses to repent, and ends up in hell.