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Urgent
Action Item!
No Time Out for Christmas!
It seems there is no time out in the nation's Cultural War.
Not even Christmas is sacred. The American Society for the
Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) is protesting
Time magazine's publishing of statements against the
virginity of Our Lady in the cover article of its December
13 edition.
The American TFP is strongly objecting to
what it considers a most unwarranted attack on Mary and the
Catholic faith. The Time article cites authors that
call into question the circumstances of Our Lord's birth with
declarations like:
"Critics may also have alleged that Jesus'
birth early in Mary's marriage to Joseph was the result of
her committing adultery; much later Jewish sources named a
Roman soldier called Panthera. Those accusations, some scholars
believe, account for the verse in Matthew in which Joseph
considers divorcing Mary before his dream angel allays his
doubts" (Time, 12-13-04).
Particularly offensive was how a magazine
like Time would be so unfeeling for Catholic sentiment
as to provide broad publicity to the dissident opinion of
a feminist from the University of Detroit Mercy who suggests
"violation as the cause of Mary's pregnancy" and that the
Holy Spirit converted "a ritually taboo pregnancy into an
occasion of glory and the birth of the Holy Child."
The TFP and its America Needs Fatima campaign
is asking its members and supporters to speak out now. The
peaceful and legal nationwide protest involves prayer, reparation
and action.
The American TFP web site is participating
in the action with an e-protest. Web site readers can send
a protest email and thus fulfill their duty to defend Mary's
purity.
Campaign supporters are being asked to send
protest messages telling Time how deeply offended they
are with the statements against Mary's virginity in its December
13 cover article. The messages also ask Time to apologize
and never publish such offensive statements again.
"Now is the time to prove our love for Jesus,
Mary and Joseph, and for the beautiful mysteries of Christmas,
the birth of Christ," says Robert Ritchie of the America Needs
Fatima campaign. "We must always stand up for our faith!"
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