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<div> Privy Keenan,O.P.L.,J.D. 


 Ballad Booster 


 Peace & Justness, Attention of Creation 


 Western Blackfriar State 


 The states 



 Apr 16, 2009 





 Chapter Pluggers, Peace & Justness Attention of Creation 


 Ballad Provincial Representatives 


 Western Blackfriar State 





 Re: North American Peace & Justness Promoters meeting; 


 June 16-18, 2009 





 Love Friends: 





 Happy Easter! 





 The Ballad Provincial Council meeting is layed for June 19-21, 2009. The North American Blackfriar Promoters for Justness and Peace ( NADPJP ) meeting is for June 16-18, 2009 at Hadrian, Michigan. 





 Delight carefully reexamine this missive. Its aim is to explicate stairs taken most recently viewing issues for the NADPJP, advised issues, and inviting your Chapter 's suggestions for issues, input, and input. 





 1. 

 What happed 







 In Strontium Farnan 's and Fr. Dahm 's missive of Mar 20, 2009, they told: 





 In April 
we will send an official enrolment signifier for you and a probationary Docket 
If you hold any suggestions for the Docket please e-mail Grub or I [ sic ] and we will take this into consideration. Now we believe we demand to address: In-migration, Nuclear Weapons, Near east: Irak and Palestine/Israel, Man Trafficking and Ecologic issues. We will seek and apply the model of the Millenary Development Goals. '' ( Underline mine ). 





 Therewith postulation in nous, I drafted a missive and forwarded it to the Ballad Provincial Council executive commission for their consideration. I was given permission to forward the missive to Sr Farnan and Fr. Dahm for their consideration. 





 2. 

 The following measure 






 The earlier missive is not the last entry to Strontium Farnan and Francium. Dahm 

Hence, delight follow this process. 


 a. 

 Peace & Justness chapter pluggers and LPC representatives should reexamine the issues named below with your chapter and/or council. 


 B. 

 Forwards your remarks and suggestions to me by no after than May 10, 2009 to my e-mail reference at 
<a target='_blank' href='mailto:john@keenan.org'>john[at]keenan.org
</a>
 If 
you wish to discourse via the phone, e-mail me and give me a blast of day to name and your number. I will name you back. 


 C. 

 These will be forwarded to the LPC Executive Commission for their reassessment; after which they will be forwarded to Sr Farnan and Francium. Dahm. 


 ergocalciferol. 

 That missive will inquire that they officially view the issues of most concern to the ballad members of the Western Blackfriar State. 





 3. 

 Current NADPJP issues 

 The 2006 Dominican Call to Justice 
papers includes the undermentioned issues: ( 1 ) executing, ( 2 ) disarming, ( 3 ) Irak, ( 4 ) Israel/Palestine, ( 5 ) Africa, ( 6 ) Columbia, ( 7 ) Migration/Immigration, ( 8 ) Man Trafficking, ( 9 ) Un, and ( 10 ) Global heating. You can see the points at the undermentioned site: 




<a target='_blank' href='http://www.domlife.org/DLC/Justice/JusticePage.htm'>http://www.domlife.org/DLC/Justice/JusticePage.htm

</a>




 To boot, the referenced justness Dominican Leading Conference on-line page lists other linked issues, including the `` new cosmology, '' the `` School of the Americas, '' and `` planetary heating. '' Many of these political and philosophic issues make not reflect primal Church or moral instructions. Farther, these issues may be supported or opposed in straightness by different handses and women of good volition exerting prudent judgement. 




 The Church further us individually to be affected in cultural, societal, and political associations with other someones of good volition. Yet, when we close as Ballad Dominicans, we belong to a state and an ecclesial institute of the Ballad Fraternities of Dominic. We make not belong to a party. There is a spot for political issues and movements. The Ballad Fraternities is not that spot. 




 So, we belong to the Church which is a godly establishment. As Dominicans, we should responsibly reexamine each societal and political issue rattlingly carefully so that it reflects the moral order, scruples, issues and endeavor so dearly and just about the Church 
Nonly the caprice of ideology and political thoughts that profit from currency or phantasy. The Vatican Council Deuce magnifies this point when it says, `` Laymen should besides cognize that it is generally the map of their grammatical Christian scruples to see that the Creator jurisprudence is engraved in the life of the earthly metropolis... 
 Guadiam et Spes 
, Ordinal 43 ( Accent mine ). See, 


<a target='_blank' href='http://www.dominicanidaho.org/docs/Social%20Justice/2007.08.16.On_Social_Justice_Issues.htm'>On Social Justice Issues

</a>






 Representatives 

 The Israel/Palestine battle is a perennial issue, but there are two sides to the interrogation. Maked under law of nations, Sion holds a spot in the macrocosm and the right to support itself from aggression and terrorist onrushes. It besides holds the responsibility to move in unison with the moral jurisprudence and law of nations. 





 The Palestinians ' right to an independent nation-state should likewise be known. It appears allly, yet, that many of the Dominicans at the national and international grade promote merely the Palestinian view. This is really political. Both sides of this issue, if reexamined carefully, joint goodly their respective places. Likelily both are true and both are overdone. Withal, the rights of both parties and people demand to be known. 





 Another illustration is the land of Columbia. 





 The United States holds interfered therewith land and further the warfare against the drug trade. The Dominican Order holds center on that issue to the exclusion of other important issues that hold occurred in Columbia. While the drug trade and the drug warfare hold harmed many guiltless people, two ages ago organisation of the Un and international pro-abortion groupings successfully forced Columbia and its supreme tribunal to decriminalise abortion and `` generative wellness '' rights. Where were the Dominicans on it issue? You will not encounter that treatment on the 
<a target='_blank' href='http://domlife.org/'>domlife.org

</a>
 page. See, 

<a target='_blank' href='http://www.domlife.org/Justice/Colombia/Columbia2006.htm'>Dominican Life USA: Columbia

</a>






 To boot, Dominican involution at the Un is rattlingly important. As a dynamic, to boot to the issues it pursues, you will see small, if any, Dominican participation in stopping abortion or revolve about the rights of the youngster in the uterus likewise as outside the uterus. See, 

<a target='_blank' href='http://un.op.org/'>Dominicans at U.N.

</a>






 Primal to human autonomy and to the chase of felicity, is the right to life. As Dominicans, we are component of the moral van, seeking and placing, as we soon make, the numerous unfairnesses in the existence 
, but we too hold the responsibility 
to stand at the UN 's gates and remind them that if they can not stand against the killing of the most guiltless among us, so all their dicta and declarations are for cypher. This is especially true with the new American disposal 's support for abortion rights. ' 




 Another instance is `` worldwide heating. '' While many people say that the issue of man-caused world-wide heating is fullly and eventually settled, and that we must take every step necessary to alter it, over the last two ages, several world-renowned and esteemed scientists hold come out against the construct of world-wide heating,e.g. see these links 

<a target='_blank' href='http://www.crichton-official.com/speech-ourenvironmentalfuture.html'>Michael Crichton

</a>

<a target='_blank' href='http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=2158072E-802A-23AD-45F0-274616DB87E6'>U.S. Senate Environment Committee: 650 scientists dissent man-made global warming theory

</a>

<a target='_blank' href='http://www.petitionproject.org/'>Global Warming Petition Project

</a>

<a target='_blank' href='http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/05/18/31-000-scientists-rejecting-global-warming-theory-be-named-monday'>31,000 scientists reject Global Warming

</a>

<a target='_blank' href='http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/global_warming_worldbook.html'>NASA worldbook

</a>
 , and 
<a target='_blank' href='http://www.rense.com/general19/globalss.htm'>NASA scientist rejects theory.

</a>
 The economical hurt to the hapless and underprivileged holds not been seriously cypher if regimes enforce extreme anti-global heating steps,i.e. the cap in trade jurisprudence. See 

<a target='_blank' href='http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2009/03/12/cap-and-trade-primer-eight-reasons-why-cap-and-trade-harms-the-economy-and-reduces-jobs/'>here

</a>





 Another issue of concern is the Earth Charter. The Earth Charter may be read at this nexus, 
<a target='_blank' href='http://www.earthcharterinaction.org/content/'>Earth Charter in Action

</a>
 ; and studied here, 
<a target='_blank' href='http://www.c-fam.org/publications/id.335/pub_detail.asp'>Catholic Family organization

</a>
 ; and more deeply reexamined here, 
<a target='_blank' href='http://conservation.catholic.org/Earth%20Charter.htm'>The Earth Charter

</a>
 Mention too, the analysis on the Earth Charter was maked last summertime in anterior correspondence to the LPC dated July 3, 2008. To admittance, chink 
here






 Eventually, most importantly, what about protecting clean-handed human life? From someones in the uterus to handicapped and older people, is quality of life the only step of life? As Dominicans, we ask to stand as Savior maked, as a contradiction to the existence when protecting human life and in protecting establishments with historical and home significance. If we desire justness, we begin with peace. Abortion does warfare on world and the universe. 





 5. 

 Proposed alterations and issues at the North American Blackfriar Promoters of Peace and Justness meeting, and why 







 a. 

 A central alteration is but procedural 







 Foremost, discourse a process or organisational construction by which the peace & justness boosters expand representation of the sises, mendicants, and ballad people, and include a procedure that advances a wide-based, grassroots interview with all members of the Order viewing fundamental issues. 





 bacillus. 

 The undermentioned points are suggested for inclusion in that twelvemonth 's listing of issues according to the undermentioned order of precedency 







 1. 

 A call for a pro-life place consistent with the Church 's instruction comparative to clean-handed human life from concept to natural decease. 





 2. 

 A call to member authoritieses, NGOS, and peoples from the Un to cease the support and protagonism of abortion or birth prevention. 





 3. 
 A C 
 all to the several provinces to pass and delimitate the historical legal definition of matrimony to be between one man and one woman. 




 4. A call to refocus the Order 's attempts toward a Christian-based anthropocentric environmental place. Preservation programmes must be based on good science, sensible, moderate, and effectual action, right and good order, and realistic solutions. 





 5. A call to fall undue governmental invasion and ordinance in the wellness aid market. 




 6. A call to ease the taxation encumbrance on the American bourgeoisie. 





 The first few of these proposals regard the Church 's places on central spiritual and societal issues, including pro-life endeavor, abortion, and matrimony. These concerns merit a precedence. The `` greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion. '' [ Mother theresa, Feb 4, 1994 ' ]. If the Dominican peace and justness motion is about true 
peace, so it should undertake the pro-life issue with a compelling precedency. Society desperately asks a softened bosom. If society can not see an unborn individual as clean-handed and defenceless, so are weas Christiansdoing any good elsewhere? 





 The last two advised issues are rendered for several grounds. 





 Firstly, it is to advise differing, yet sensible, points-of-view. There are handses and women of good will whoin good faithbelieve differently. Some issues are problematical and should be thoroughly discourse before the Order backs peace and justness go-ahead. 





 2d, the Order of Preachers is not the proper forum for discourse many political issues. Frankly, the better spot for many enterprises is political and societal establishments. While the Church and ecclesial institutes may supply a proper moral usher, they should not prosecute in and do final judgment with respect to themes where people of good volition and good mind differ on jobs seeking effectual solutions. 





 For example, some people hold refered general wellness tending 
as a 
`` right. '' While most people concur with such a sentiment initially, there are worlds that involve to be seen. 





 The first world is that government-driven wellness aid directs to long waiting periods and limited services. 2nd, people desire a pick. 3rd, oft times, when authorities irrupts, it makes more jobs than solutions. Is that not why this treatment should be maintained in a a political forum and not in an ecclesial one? 






 Many people believe that human freedom is overriding to terminating poorness worldwide, that the market is best fitted to render the goods and services involved by people in the cosmos. Economical freedom enables manpowers and women to protect and render for themselves and their households. Authorities is a spouse in that attempt, not the world-wide solution for societal, economical, and other jobs. That is another illustration of why this discourse should plow with primal issues regarding our Religion. 





 Preservation and the environment are legitimate issues and demand focusing. But then, where ultra environmentalism enactments with spiritual ardour, it puts humankind below creation in the order of the macrocosms. In my place province, ID, this extreme place holds shutted woodses to lumber harvest. A twelve little Idaho towns hold lost lumber factories and 10 of yards of sustainable businesses that render for workers and households. Without preservation tries to cull the wood and its underwood, the wood gets fodder for intense and hot summertime fires covering K of acres. 





 3rd, there are solutions to societal jobs that postulate small, if any, regime support or action. 





 As an representative, the American bourgeoisie is the most charitable family of people the creation holds ever cognized. 





 Following Christ 's warning to furnish charity for the miserable and underprivileged, the American people give generously domestically and to foreign peoples when catastrophe and pinches strike. Instead than depend on taxpayer monies, in record amounts the American people readily give their personal clip, energy, and intelligence, besides as money, to those in demand. If the American bourgeoisie is divested of its wealthiness through undue tax, so many societal justness and peace endeavours around the universe will be divested of key capital 





 Eventually, thank you for taking the clip to read and examine this missive. Once I have your Chapter 's part, I will demo it to the LPC Executive Commission and forwards them to the commission forming the NADPJP set for June 16-18, 2009. 





 Happy Easter. 


 Sincerely inSt. Dominic, 











 Lav Keenan,O.P.L.,J.D. 




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