{"id":1041,"date":"2010-06-21T17:20:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T17:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=480"},"modified":"2010-06-21T17:20:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T17:20:05","slug":"pro-life-social-justice-and-amen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1041","title":{"rendered":"pro-life, social justice and “amen”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I gave a talk \u00a0at the most long-standing pro-life Mass in Colorado, maybe even in the country. \u00a0 Fr. Bill has been conducting Mass every<\/em> Saturday (rain, snow, sub-zero temperatures…) since 1994, at a street corner in front of Planned Parenthood’s abortion clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado. \u00a0 Fr. Bill told me that during the Republican Convention here several years ago, he had t-shirts made for people who were born after 1973. \u00a0 They read: \u00a0 “I survived Roe vs. Wade.”<\/strong> \u00a0 Fr. Bill also helps coordinate youth “Chastity Rallies.” \u00a0 He said it is his belief that the use of artificial contraception started to cheapen life, which consequently has led to almost wholesale abortion. \u00a0 During the Mass, Fr. Bill said if abortion continues, God may well, “out of \u00a0His mercy,” \u00a0allow major chastisements \u00a0to correct us… \u00a0 We then stopped in Arvada, Colorado, where we talked with Chris Michalik. \u00a0 He’s been to Juarez, Mexico, four times to help with building projects in the slums there. \u00a0 (He goes with the non-profit group Southern Exposure.) \u00a0 They build a $3,750 home in a week there. \u00a0The modest (by our standards) cinder block homes are like absolute mansions, \u00a0in comparison to the tiny, cobbled together shacks that stand throughout most of the slums. \u00a0 Chris said to me that “…we are fighting the (immigration) battle on the wrong side of the fence.” \u00a0 He said a big part of the answer is to mobilize as much help as possible south of the border so people don’t have to leave family, friends, culture, language… \u00a0 Chris noted that people work in the multi-national factories in Juarez for as little as $4 a 10-hour-shift (Mexico’s current minimum wage), yet he was amazed to see that the prices in the stores in Juarez where comparable to the prices in U.S stores… \u00a0 Chris is also involved with Arvada’s Community Food Bank. \u00a0 We stopped by there today and \u00a0interviewed a \u00a0volunteer who told us that \u00a0the year before last, \u00a0the food bank collected some 46,000 pounds of food, whereas last year it was 42,000 pounds. \u00a0 He attributed the decrease to the recession. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 The \u00a0volunteer’s name at the food bank was: Richard \u00a0Amen. (Honest.) \u00a0 He laughed and said at church when everyone says \u00a0amen, “…I stand up and wave.” \u00a0 \u00a0 Note 2:<\/strong> \u00a0 At the YMCA yesterday in Arvada, we saw a bumper sticker with a picture of a bicycle and the words: \u00a0 “I spend my life behind bars<\/strong><\/em>.” \u00a0 Probably a good ‘sentence’ for all of us concerned about what’s going on in the Gulf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I gave a talk \u00a0at the most long-standing pro-life Mass in Colorado, maybe even in the country. \u00a0 Fr. Bill has been conducting Mass every Saturday (rain, snow, sub-zero temperatures…) since 1994, at a street corner in front of Planned …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}