The mission of Wake Up America movement is to outreach, inform and empower the public about how We the People can bring about needed Reforms in our mainstream media and, by placing Principles over party, in our national leadership. W.A.M. invites participation of all concerned individuals and groups who share in this common cause purpose:
- impact reforms in Mainstream Media to better serve the public interest
- influence mass media to report vital news & information accurately and objectively
- disseminate public information that increases integrity and transparency in Washington
- support public officials to place the Will of the People over self serving interests
- generate effective action in Congress on critical issues of concern to most Americans
Get involved in this grass roots movement to help mobilize the growth of
true participatory Democracy. By acting together, our collective influence will
impact real results on vital issues in place of media spin and stymied party politics!
This year America's future seems to hang in the balance
Many issues are at stake. Some are more important than others
No issue can be ignored. But none are more crucial to the foundation of our country than...
LIFE and Family
The family must be strengthened not redefined
Human life is paramount and must be protected from conception to natural birth
Catholics have been integral to the success of America
Since the beginning Catholic immigrants helped build this country
And their children fought to preserve it
Now more than any other time in history a new generation
must stand for truth
The strength of our nation is not only in its military or economic power but in our committment to moral values for the good
of the world
67 million Catholics in America working alongside
countless others
We can protect the values this great nation was built upon
Life, faith and family
Catholic bishops will fight Obama on abortion
Nov 11 2008 08:16PM CST | AP
Excerpts from article by By RACHEL ZOLL - AP Religion Writer
“The nation's Roman Catholic bishops vowed Tuesday to forcefully confront the Obama administration over its support for abortion rights, saying the church and religious freedom could be under attack in the new presidential administration. . . Bishop Joseph Martino of Scranton, Pa., singled out Vice President-elect Biden, a Catholic, Scranton native who supports abortion rights. . . I cannot have a vice president-elect coming to Scranton to say he's learned his values there when those values are utterly against the teachings of the Catholic Church.
Archbishop Joseph Naumann of the Diocese of Kansas City in Kansas said politicians can't check your principles at the door of the legislature. Naumann has said repeatedly that Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, a Catholic Democrat who supports abortion rights, should stop taking Holy Communion until she changes her stance, saying They cannot call themselves Catholic when they violate such a core belief as the dignity of the unborn.
The discussion occurred on the same day the bishops approved a new Blessing of a Child in the Womb. The prayer seeks a healthy pregnancy for the mother and makes a plea that our civic rulers perform their duties while respecting the gift of human life. Chicago Cardinal Francis George, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, is preparing a statement during the bishops' fall meeting that will press Obama on abortion. The bishops suggested that the final document include the message that aggressively pro-abortion policies would be viewed as an attack on the church.
Chicago Cardinal Francis George, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, is preparing a statement during the bishops' fall meeting that will press Obama on abortion. The Obama-Biden press office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.”
Catholic bishops cut off funding for Acorn
from an AP report, Nov 11
“A community grantmaking arm of the U.S. Roman Catholic bishops has cut off all funding for a group embroiled in controversy over claims of voter registration fraud and embezzlement, church leaders said Tuesday.
The Catholic Campaign for Human Development, which supports anti-poverty and social justice programs nationwide, will no longer make grants to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN, said Auxiliary Bishop Robert Morin of New Orleans. The decision was made following claims that nearly $1 million had been embezzled from ACORN by the brother of its founder.
The Catholic Campaign for Human Development, which has an annual budget of about $10 million, had planned to grant about $1 million to local groups across the country through ACORN this fiscal year, Morin said. None of that money will be distributed. There will be no funding relationships with ACORN groups in the future, Morin said, during the fall meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
ACORN founder Wade Rathke has defended allowing his brother to make restitution privately, saying that getting law enforcement involved could have risked ACORN's financial ruin. New Orleans-based ACORN, which has chapters in 110 cities and 40 states, completed a massive registration drive in poor and working-class neighborhoods _ which tend to vote Democratic _ across 21 states, signing up more than 1 million new voters.
