News Release

A VISION FOR AMERICA

by

Fr. Bill McCarthy, MSA

America today is met in a great civil war testing whether this nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.  The battle lines have been formed.  On the right you have Americans who uphold traditional values; on the left you have secular humanists who dominate our media. 

WE ARE NO LONGER A NATION UNDER GOD - Our 243 Founding Fathers were all professing Christians who established this nation on the laws of nature, the laws of nature’s God – the Bible.  In 1781 the Highest Court of the land stated that Christianity was the official religion of America.  All our Schools taught Judeo-Christian morality.

WE HAVE DENIED THE INALIENABLE RIGHT TO LIFE – As Americans we held that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable, God-given rights, above all the right to life.  Today in America 400 million American citizens have been murdered in the womb.

WE NO LONGER HAVE ORDERED FREEDOM – Our Founding Fathers made a clear distinction between freedom (that which was ordered to the morally good) and license (that which is ordered to evil).  Today freedom means the right to pornography, promiscuity, abortion and sodomy.   

WE NO LONGER UPHOLD THE TRADITIONAL FAMILY - As a nation we always believed that marriage was between one man and one woman.  Our laws reflected our belief that we were to respect marriage, womanhood and sexuality.  Today even that is under attack. 

WE HAVE LOST A SENSE OF COMMON DECENCY - Not only was pornography outlawed in this land, but vulgarity in the public forum was outlawed as well.  Indecent public exposure was illegal.  Pornography has become mainstream in America and little or nothing is done by our courts to stop it.   

WE NO LONGER HAVE GOD-CENTERED EDUCATION – The Bible and the New England Primer were the official text books throughout the land.  All education in America was God-centered.  The first 108 colleges in our country were all Christian schools.  Vouchers, which would support parochial and home-schooled children, would go a long way in correcting this imbalance.

WE NO LONGER HAVE A GODLY PUBLIC FORUM - The media, including movies, television, newspapers and magazines, presented the basic Judeo-Christian decency to the American public.  Today, however, most of the media is anti-God, anti-Christian, anti-decency and anti-life.  The media has lost its credibility because of its all-too-liberal leaning. 

WE NO LONGER PROMOTE GODLY RULERS  - Noah Webster stated, “When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose ‘just men who will rule in the fear of God.’  The preservation of our government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty.    In the past the moral outcry of America would have been strong.  The fact that it is not, is a sign of our moral decline.

A NOTE OF HOPE - God has promised, “If My people who are called by My Name will humble themselves and pray and seek My Face, I will hear from Heaven and I will heal their nation and restore their land.”  We Americans at heart are a Godly people.    The real issues are not the economy, the war, social security, etc.  The real issues that we are called to be a nation under God that supports the inalienable right to life; that we are a religious people, a people of integrity with strong family values and a deep love for the decency of our youth.  I urge them to sing our National Anthem’s second verse

“Blessed with victory and peace, may this Heaven-rescued land

Praise the God who has made and preserved us a nation, then

Conquer we must when our cause it is just, and this is our motto

In God be our trust.

And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.