Pro-lifers are used to media blackouts of their events. The under reporting of Washington DC’s March for Life (which draws hundreds of thousands every year) or San Francisco’s Walk for Life West Coast which draws over 50,000 people. But the negligence of the mainstream media in refusing to cover the January 17 OneLife LA event in downtown Los Angeles sets a new low.
As of noon on January 19, a Google news search for OneLife LA articles over the previous 24 hours returned exactly two responses: an article from Catholic News Agency, and an article in the Rock Hill Herald, a publication based in, Rock Hill, South Carolina. That article was a reprint of the OneLife LA press release which followed the event. A similar search with the term “Archbishop Jose Gomez” (who presided over the event) over the same time frame only returned one reponse, the Catholic News Agency article.
Here is a link to a story about the Los Angeles Walk for Life. It seems to have been a very inspiring event highlighting the dignity of live of everyone in any age or stage (disabled, elderly, more not just abortion) which is a great message.
https://www.angelusnews.com/news/local/thousands-march-to-support-human-dignity-in-downtown-la-7221/#.VL3YaC6ul_d
Jim, convoluting the message against the murder by painful dismemberment or chemical burning of over 1 MILLION innocent human beings in the USA each year for the convenience of others should not be buried within other social issues.
If the Abp wanted to have a separate march at another time of the year for other social issues, that would be ok.
In addition the LA Abp was doing his job, he should have excluded CA State pro-abortion Diane Watson from Holy Communion, Canon 915.
(If Gomez had done his job, perhaps she would have seen the serious evil of her ways.)
https://cal-catholic.com/?p=16731
And since the LA Abp (and other CA Bishops) has not done his job in a timely manner – teaching about the responsibility for Catholic Citizens to VOTE,
and NOT to vote for pro-abortion and pro-euthanasia politicians or these voters may NOT receive Holy Communion – – – – – the State of CA has a euthanasia bill before it right now – (And CA politicians will probably try to spread this poison to the entire Country through their Federal politicians.)
In addition this Abp honors Cardinal Roger Mahony who aided and abetted
child Priest abusers by promoting him on the LA Diocese web site.
https://www.la-archdiocese.org/cardinal/Pages/default.aspx
And allowing Mahony to publically speak at Catholic functions within the Diocese.
When the Church or people mix social issues with life and death issues such as abortion and euthanasia with ILLEGAL immigration etc.,
it is difficult for the secular media to get a handle on what is actually taking place and why it should be news.
OneLife LA mixes the instrinsic evils (murder of the innocent) with social issues, so the message gets lost or watered down.
It also allows people to support pro-abortion and pro-euthanasia politicians by confusion of what is most critical.
This of course violates God’s commandment of “Thou shall not Kill, abortion teaching in the CCC, and “Worthiness to Receive Holy Communion, General Principles” by Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict).
I personally will not attend OneLifeLA for these reasons.
It is unfortunate that Abp Gomez and his staff chose Jan 17, for their function – which can take away from the real issue of the “RIGHT to LIFE” itself.
Bill K.
Thank you for seeing through this charade!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika and His Church!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Kenneth M. Fisher
Bill,
I have been in the pro-life movement since the early 60’s; and until now, I never heard of “One Life L.A. It seems that this is an upstart organization, part of the infamous “Peace and Justice” Commission, founded to give cover for Archbishop Gomez and his connections with the Demoncrat Party!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika and His Church!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Kenneth M. Fisher
The “MARCH for LIFE” in Washington, DC is THURSDAY, Jan 22.
https://marchforlife.org/march-for-life-2015/
The “WALK for LIFE – West Coast” in San Fransisco is SATURDAY, Jan 24.
https://www.walkforlifewc.com/event-info/event-schedule/
These are the two events that focus on the Right to Life of every human being.
We should all contact CNN and FOX etc., TODAY to cover both of these.
We can at least do this if we can not attend either March.
We must be united and stay focused, so the message will not be lost.
If big media get enough calls, they will cover it.
EWTN will be covering both Marches as usual.
https://www.ewtn.com/channelfinder/
ENDOWMENT for HUMAN DEVELOPMENT is a wonderful scientific / non-religious web site.
https://www.ehd.org/movies.php?mov_id=44
Why the surprise? The “main stream media” largely serves the will of Satan. Abortion, sexual freedoms of every kind, homosexual marriage, all of these outrages to the Faith are deemed Man’s highest achievement in today’s media. Religion is treated as the refuge of the anti-social, non-progressive, violent, and sexually-repressed, in society.
Now you can see what bishops do not like to buck the popular media. These guys crave attention, like teenagers, and you will not get that unless you are “popular”. So, you will soon see the Cardinal of New York at the front of a parade that includes joyous sodomites and lesbians beaming that “their Church” now “supports” their lifestyles.
Oh yes, one can imagine C. Dolan’s mouthpiece “clarifying” that this does not mean the Cardinal “supports homosexual sex” and all that. But, only the most intellectually inferior would fail to see the disconnect from reality in such statements. The “main stream media” is always there to help our good clergy to undermine centuries of Church teaching. Soon these media will record the Church’s own witch-hunt for “Orthodox” rebels in the Church that simply refuse “to do things the new way”.
The event wasn’t reported because the media didn’t think it was newsworthy — which explains why they continue to lose readership.
If a newspaper doesn’t adequately report reality and truth, it no longer has a reason to exist. duh!
“You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut “. Dr. Seuss
The Media ignoring what is happening doesn’t make it so…
Here’s the Riverside Press-Enterprise’s coverage of the One Life event:
https://www.pe.com/articles/abortion-758147-march-bishops.html
Here’s coverage (in advance no less) from the Fresno Bee for this year’s SF Walk for Life, including how you can find transportation if you want to go:
https://www.fresnobee.com/2015/01/16/4334017/buses-available-in-clovis-sanger.html
Here’s last year’s coverage of the Walk for Life in the San Jose Mercury News:
https://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_24992277/walk-life-west-coast-march-draws-thousands-social
Here’s last’s years coverage of the Walk for Life in the SF Chronicle:
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Antiabortion-rally-in-downtown-S-F-draws-5175545.php
These articles are not hard to find. You could certainly argue that there should be more coverage, but it’s not a “media blackout” either. ADMIN has been drinking too much EWTN/Teresa Tomeo kool-aid.
These are not CNN or FOX, or Reuters, or Associated Press.
We need to bring the chemical burning and dismemberment of over a million innocent babies each year in the USA – to the entire population.
This evil is a matter for the public square throughout the USA.
Dave N., most people throughout the USA have never heard of the media that you described. Censorship of this issue by major media is criminal in the moral sense.
Trust me, there will be nothing about chemical burning or dismemberment at any of these events. It’s all about happy-clappy fun fun fun!!!
https://www.wjla.com/articles/2015/01/thousands-set-to-protest-abortion-in-annual-march-for-life-in-d-c–110783.html
Here’s this year’s Associated Press/ABC coverage. People love their persecution complexes.
Another New Low
RORATE CÆLI: More on the Papal Masses in Manila:President of Philippine Bishops’ Conference defends the passing of hosts as accounts of hosts trampled into the mud emerge
https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/01/more-on-papal-mass-in-manila-president.html#more
Distribution of Communion at Papal Mass in Manila; January 2015
Check out this video on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/u3G43C16Ju0
Shock and sadness. Bishop and Priests should have protected Our Dear Lord.
Don’t blame the media for the blackout. Look to the root source. Look to those who initially started the ball rolling when they blacked out the Catechism teachings and the fullness of Truths of our Catholic Faith. During his time on earth Jesus’s own followers also thought that Jesus would conquer by political means of power or expression. They were WRONG. Jesus conquered sin and evil because he did the Will of his Father.
Many of our shepherds have abandoned Jesus’s teachings including the belief in the supernatural power and the supernatural authority and the supernatural justice of Almighty God. As Our Lady of Akita said in her Church approved messages, “Many have compromised.” As the leadership in the Church goes the world goes! How does our world look lately? In many cases, one can barely tell the difference between the political world and the political shepherds who now look to political means instead of ” the supernatural means of God.” God will NOT reward political means because they are not rooted in the supernatural. They are rooted in the ideas of men. Wake up sleeping sheep. These marches for the return of the belief in the “supernatural life” should be held around the majority of our own chanceries that have become political machines masquerading as keepers of the Deposit of Faith. Our Lady of Akita, Japan was warning us of the coming calamities due to shepherds compromising, churches and altars being sacked and consecrated souls leaving the service of the Lord.
continued from January 21, 2015 at 2:23 pm
Another New Low
Taken from:
RORATE CÆLI: TERRIFYING – What the Official Daily of the Church in Italy is now teaching about the family: “Gender Theory” and “Large Families” are just two extremes of a virtuous middle…
https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/01/terrifying-what-official-daily-of.html
New Low ? Why is the blackout considered so much worse in L.A. ? Because it is a media capital ? Or because it was led by a Mexican Abp. in latino territory and those kind of people are used to having their a—s kissed by the politically correct ? Or is the non-coverage considered more outrageous because the content seems to have included things like illegal immigration ? BTW didn’t Jan. 17th occur during the U.S. Bishops’ annual “migration week” ?
I looked it up. Jan. 4 – 10th was migration Week. USCCB Migration Week always seems pretty close to the Roe anniversary though. The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is Jan. 19 – 25th, per the Vatican website.