Jorge has been busy, busy, busy when it comes to veneration of saints this year.
To date, Jorge has canonized 898 saints, all of whom seem to have a similar cord running throughout their miraculous works with tiny human trust funds, but, hey, what do I know?
I know our current media platforms seem to follow this similar path of beatification.
I, also, know, Manuel Lozano Garrido was the first journalistic spokestoken for Catholic Action Association.
Catholic Action was the name of many groups of lay Catholics who were attempting to encourage a Catholic influence on society.
They were especially active in the nineteenth century in historically Catholic countries that fell under anti-clerical regimes such as Spain, Italy, Bavaria, France, and Belgium. Adolf Hitler ordered the murder of Erich Klausener, head of a Catholic Action group in Nazi Germany, during the Night of the Long Knives. Catholic Action is not a political party in and of itself; however, in many times and places, this distinction has become blurred. Since World War II the concept has often been eclipsed by Christian Democrat parties that were organised to combat Communist parties and promote Catholic social justice principles in places such as Italy and West Germany.[1]
Catholic Action generally included various subgroups for youth, women, workers, etc. In the postwar period, the various national Catholic Action organizations for workers formed the World Movement of Christian Workers, which remains highly active today as a voice within the Church and in society for working class Catholics.[2]
The Catholic Action movement had its beginnings in the latter part of the 19th century as efforts to counteract a rise in anti-clerical sentiment, especially in Europe.[3]
A variety of diverse groups formed under the concept of Catholic Action. These would include: the Young Christian Workers, the Young Christian Students; the Cursillo movement, RENEW International; the Legion of Mary; Sodalities; the Christian Family Movement; various community organizing groups like COPS (Communities Organized for Public Service) in San Antonio, and Friendship House in Harlem, an early influence on Thomas Merton.[3]
Examples
Around 1912, as a curate in a parish in Laeken, on the outskirts of Brussels, Joseph Cardijn, who dedicated his ministry to aid the working class, founded for the young seamstresses a branch of the Needleworkers' Trade Union.[4] In 1919 he started the "Young Trade Unionists". In 1924, the name of the organization was changed to "Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétienne", the Young Christian Workers.[4] JOC grew rapidly throughout the world; its members were often known as "Jocists" (the movement was often called "Jocism"). By 1938, there were 500,000 members throughout Europe;[5] in 1967, this had increased to 2,000,000 members in 69 countries.[6]
I, also, know that St. Gianna Physician's Guild, possibly still tethered to St. Vincent de Paul, is not registered anywhere but solicits money, online.
A fruit of the contemporary Catholic Action movement, the International Catholic Union of the Press UCIP was founded in Belgium in 1927. A year later the Organization Catholique Internationale du Cinéma (OCIC) came into being in The Netherlands, and the Bureau Catholic International de Radiodiffusion (BCIR), in Germany. It became Unda in 1946. These professional Catholic lay associations, working in the world of the professional media, wanted to unite their efforts against the secularization of society. On the one hand, they were aware that the press and the new media of radio and cinema were contributing to secularization. On the other hand, they also believed that by engaging in the secular media, they could use them as a new means of evangelization. Efforts had to be made to evangelize the secular mass media, or at least to insert the values of the Gospel into them. As a result of the merger of the Catholic media organizations OCIC and Unda, a new organisation was founded in 2001 in Rome called SIGNIS.[7] In 2014 the Vatican suggested that SIGNIS should also integrate the members of the former International Catholic Union of the Press (UCIP), which a few years earlier had lost its recognition by the Holy See as an official Catholic organization.
Just another Jorge Stinky Touch. Smell it. It stinks like tiny human lab rats.
The examination was led by a former New York City medical examiner.
George Floyd’s death caused by asphyxiation, independent autopsy finds
The autopsy, requested by George Floyd's family, said his death was "caused by asphyxia due to neck and back compression that led to a lack of blood flow to the brain."
An independent autopsy ordered by George Floyd's family found his death was a "homicide caused by asphyxia due to neck and back compression that led to a lack of blood flow to the brain," according to early findings from the examination released Monday.
Floyd was apprehended by police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota, last Monday, and one of the officers pinned his knee to Floyd's neck as Floyd called out that he couldn't breathe.
The independent examiners found that weight on Floyd's back, the handcuffs and the positioning were contributory factors because they impaired the ability of Floyd's diaphragm to function. The report concluded that Floyd, 46, died at the scene.
MORE: George Floyd remembered by friends and family as hardworking 'gentle giant'
"The ambulance was the hearse," Ben Crump, an attorney for Floyd's family, said at a news conference announcing the findings.
Later Monday, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's office released its initial findings of their autopsy and also declared Floyd's death was a homicide caused by "a cardiopulmonary arrest while being restrained by law enforcement officer(s)."
Courtesy Ben Crump LawGeorge Floyd is pictured in an undated photo released by the office of Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump.George Floyd is pictured in an undated photo released by the office of Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump.
Courtesy Ben Crump Law
Dr. Michael Baden and the University of Michigan Medical School's director of autopsy and forensic services, Dr. Allecia Wilson, handled the newly announced independent examination.
Baden, who was New York's medical examiner in 1978 and 1979, had previously performed independent autopsies on Eric Garner, who was killed by a police officer in Staten Island, New York, in 2014 and Michael Brown, who was shot by officers in Ferguson, Missouri, that same year.
Baden said Floyd was in good health before his death and said the video of his death showed the compression of his neck and back very clearly.
"When he said 'I can't breathe,' unfortunately, many police are under impression that if you can talk that means you're breathing. That is not true," he said during the news conference.
MORE: 'We're sick of it': Protesters explain method to the madness of violent demonstrations
Wilson said toxicology reports and other examinations are still ongoing and acknowledged that since they conducted a second autopsy, as the medical examiner had done one previously, they did not have access to Floyd's tissue samples in their original state.
"We feel those items will not change or alter the cause of death with mechanical asphyxia," she said.
Courtesy Ben Crump LawDr. Michael Baden and Dr. Allecia Wilson discuss the preliminary findings of their independent autopsy of George Floyd during a news conference on June 1, 2020.Dr. Michael Baden and Dr. Allecia Wilson discuss the preliminary findings of their independent autopsy of George Floyd during a news conference on June 1, 2020.
Courtesy Ben Crump Law
The medical examiner's preliminary report, however, said Floyd had "other significant conditions," including "arteriosclerotic and hypertensive heart disease, a fentanyl intoxication and recent methamphetamine use."
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, identified as the officer who put his knee to Floyd's neck, was arrested and charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter. Floyd was heard saying "I can't breathe," while the officer had him pinned for nearly nine minutes, according to the criminal complaint.
MORE: Derek Chauvin had his knee on George Floyd's neck for nearly 9 minutes, complaint says
Three other officers who were involved in the arrest have been fired but haven't been charged as of Monday afternoon.
The criminal complaint said the official examination of Floyd's body by the medical examiner is still ongoing, but prosecutors provided some information about this death. This is separate from the independent autopsy requested by Floyd's family.
The medical examiner's initial findings were that Floyd had underlying health conditions including coronary artery disease and hypertensive heart disease, the complaint said.
These are the people behind the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, better known as Parental Rights for corporations, for the purposes of trafficking tiny humans.
Christian evangelist Ravi Zacharias will be honored in a livestream memorial service this week.
Zacharias died May 19 at the age of 74. The service will be streamed live at RZIM.org/RaviMemorial on May 29 at 11 a.m. ET.
“The story of the gospel is the story of eternal life. My life is unique and will endure eternally in God’s presence. I will never be ‘no more.’ I will never be lost because I will be with the One who saves me,” Zacharias wrote in Seeing Jesus from the East.
Zacharias founded Ravi Zacharias International Ministries in 1984. His ministry equipped some 100 Christian scholars and authors to travel the world and speak to millions of people.
Former football star Tim Tebow, Louis Giglio, Brooklyn Tabernacle Senior Pastor Jim Cymbala and others are expected to speak at Ravi’s memorial service. Matt Redman and Lecrae will also perform.
In lieu of flowers, the Zacharias family has asked that donations be made to RZIM.
Zacharias was best known as a top Christian apologist.
"(Ravi) saw the objections and questions of others not as something to be rebuffed, but as a cry of the heart that had to be answered," said Michael Ramsden, president of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries.
"People weren't logical problems waiting to be solved; they were people who needed the person of Christ. Those who knew him well will remember him first for his kindness, gentleness, and generosity of spirit. The love and kindness he had come to know in and through Jesus Christ was the same love he wanted to share with all he met."
As Christian Headlines previously reported, Zacharias wrote more than 30 books and preached in some 70 countries during his 48-year career. He was born in India and converted to Christianity as a teenager after reading the Bible in the hospital while recovering from a failed suicide attempt.
Zacharias is survived by his wife, Margie, daughters Sarah and Naomi, son, Nathan, and five grandchildren.
Christian evangelist Ravi Zacharias will be honored in a livestream memorial service this week.
Zacharias died May 19 at the age of 74. The service will be streamed live at RZIM.org/RaviMemorial on May 29 at 11 a.m. ET.
“The story of the gospel is the story of eternal life. My life is unique and will endure eternally in God’s presence. I will never be ‘no more.’ I will never be lost because I will be with the One who saves me,” Zacharias wrote in Seeing Jesus from the East.
Zacharias founded Ravi Zacharias International Ministries in 1984. His ministry equipped some 100 Christian scholars and authors to travel the world and speak to millions of people.
Former football star Tim Tebow, Louis Giglio, Brooklyn Tabernacle Senior Pastor Jim Cymbala and others are expected to speak at Ravi’s memorial service. Matt Redman and Lecrae will also perform.
In lieu of flowers, the Zacharias family has asked that donations be made to RZIM.
Zacharias was best known as a top Christian apologist.
"(Ravi) saw the objections and questions of others not as something to be rebuffed, but as a cry of the heart that had to be answered," said Michael Ramsden, president of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries.
"People weren't logical problems waiting to be solved; they were people who needed the person of Christ. Those who knew him well will remember him first for his kindness, gentleness, and generosity of spirit. The love and kindness he had come to know in and through Jesus Christ was the same love he wanted to share with all he met."
As Christian Headlines previously reported, Zacharias wrote more than 30 books and preached in some 70 countries during his 48-year career. He was born in India and converted to Christianity as a teenager after reading the Bible in the hospital while recovering from a failed suicide attempt.
Zacharias is survived by his wife, Margie, daughters Sarah and Naomi, son, Nathan, and five grandchildren.
After Emancipation Proclamation, the plantations renamed as children's charities to snatch and sell kids from the Secret Society of Gerry, gerrymandering, now known as CPS.
The nuns were German Nazis doing Lebensborn because not all Paper Clippers were men.
Buying and selling tiny humans of The Poors is legal and built this christian nation.
These are the places, when a little girl got knocked up, that birthed and snatched the babies to put them up for adoption or sale.
Baby plantations.
The United States has demonized women, or young girls who were raped and impregnated, as floozies, sluts, whores, when they are just victims of a christian hierarchic society, under chattel law, where children were, and still are, to be seen, and not heard, because it is the industry which built this great nation.
Some may readily understand this to be forced adoptions.
Think about this because as it all still goes on today, deeply woven into our economies.
Remember, a child can only be emancipated upon the proper age of a juridic person.
The coronavirus outbreak was difficult to trace in the Wisconsin convent, which specializes in care for aging nuns with dementia.
CHICAGO — Our Lady of the Angels Convent was designed as a haven of peace and prayer in a suburb of Milwaukee, a place where aging, frail nuns could rest after spending their lives taking care of others.
Songbirds chirped in the sitting area. A courtyard invited morning prayers and strolls for the several dozen nuns who lived in the facility, a low-slung cream-colored building with a turret.
The quiet convent has become the site of a deadly cluster of the coronavirus. Four staff members have tested positive, a health official said. Since April 6, five nuns have died from the virus.
Covid-19, difficult to contain in any circumstance, has spread within Our Lady of the Angels with a particular invisibility. All five nuns who died were only discovered to have the virus after their deaths.
Sister Mary Regine Collins
The women had moved into the convent after decades of service in Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska. They worked in parishes, schools and universities, teaching English and music, ministering to the aged and the poor and nurturing their own passions for literature and the fine arts. Our Lady of the Angels, which specializes in caring for people with dementia, was meant to be their final home.
IMPOSSIBLE CHOICE
Many workers in states that are reopening must wrestle with whether to risk their health or their livelihood.
Officials say that this week, as alarm has grown surrounding the outbreak in the convent, medical staff quickly increased testing, ensuring that every resident was tested for the coronavirus. Earlier in April, the facility had temporarily stopped testing nuns for the coronavirus, according to investigative reports by the Milwaukee County medical examiner.
Records show that administrators at the convent had reasoned that the process of testing the nuns, by inserting a long nasal swab through a nostril into the back of the throat, was too difficult for them to endure.
Sister Marie June Skender
In early April, Sister Mary Regine Collins was several weeks away from her 96th birthday. She had retired to Our Lady of the Angels after a life filled with religious service and education, according to a biography provided by her ministry, the School Sisters of Notre Dame.
She taught in Catholic schools and at a university in Milwaukee; she earned a master’s degree in art at the University of Notre Dame in 1962 and was known for her wood carvings.
On April 3, she developed a mild cough. The next day she was short of breath. On April 6, she died.
The convent staff had attempted to test Ms. Collins for the virus, but she had dementia and was “too combative to tolerate” the process, an investigator’s report from the medical examiner’s office said.
“Staff is treating her death as if she had Covid,” the report said.
A post-mortem coronavirus test, conducted by the medical examiner’s office, came back positive.
There have been at least 6,854 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Wisconsin, according to a New York Times database, and as of Thursday, at least 316 people had died.
ENROLLMENTS PLUMMETAs high school seniors put off college, school administrators foresee steep financial losses.
Most of the deaths have occurred in Milwaukee County, the most populous county in the state. In March, local health officials hosted conference calls with administrators of nursing homes and long-term care facilities, warning them that their residents — in advanced age, with underlying medical conditions — would be especially vulnerable.
“The convent administrator and staff have been following, and continue to follow, all the guidelines and recommendations of the local health department, the facility’s infection control coordinator, and the sisters’ primary care physician,” said Michael O’Loughlin, a spokesman for the School Sisters of St. Francis, a co-sponsor of the convent.
“They are very aware that the convent’s residents, who are elderly and receive specialized memory care, are a vulnerable population, which is why the convent suspended all communal activities and enforced social distancing long before any of the residents tested positive for Covid-19.”
Darren Rausch, the director and health officer for the Greenfield Health Department, said Our Lady of the Angels was among the facilities in the small suburb of Milwaukee that had kept in close touch with his office.
Sister Annelda Holtkamp
From the beginning of the outbreak, the convent staff followed the advice of his department, he said. Isolate positive cases. Make sure staff members are wearing personal protective equipment. Monitor the temperatures and symptoms of residents.
“It’s definitely very challenging,” Mr. Rausch said, noting that it can be more difficult for medical staff to detect symptoms of the coronavirus in patients with dementia. “They can’t always vocalize what’s going on.”
Health officials say that monitoring for Covid-19 is especially crucial in a residential setting full of older, medically vulnerable patients; about one-fifth of coronavirus deaths in the United States have been linked to nursing facilities.
Nursing homes and long-term care facilities, which struggled with a widespread lack of tests in the early days of the outbreak, have significantly ramped up testing in recent weeks, even for residents who are asymptomatic.
Sister Mary Francele Sherburne.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services has asked long-term care facilities with an outbreak to test residents who appear sick; the specimens can then be sent to a state lab for free Covid-19 testing.
Many people who undergo coronavirus tests using the most common method — swabbing through the nose — find the test uncomfortable or even painful. Other methods, using a sample of saliva that is spit into a vial, are being introduced in a small number of states but are not widely available yet.
Mr. O’Loughlin, a spokesman for the ministry, said that since testing at the convent resumed, all of the residents have now been tested, some multiple times.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ History
The School Sisters of St. Francis community was founded on April 28, 1874. Our sisters began their ministry in parish schools, responding to the call of the Church in the United States. Our ministries, past and present, are rooted in Christian and Franciscan values. Our community is alive with the call of the Gospel, uniting with others to build a just and peaceful world.
Called by God
FoundressesIn 1873, three young women—Emma Franziska (Mother Alexia) Hoell, Paulina (Mother Alfons) Schmid, and Helena (Sister Clara) Seiter—were called by God to establish a Franciscan religious community that would care for people in need. They left their ten-member community, ministering at an orphanage in Schwarzach, Germany, and sailed to America. They settled in New Cassel (now Campbellsport) Wisconsin. Their dream was to help immigrants with a large religious community that would meet the needs of the Church.
Rapid Growth
Mother AlexiaMany women joined the community in the next decade and by 1887, our sisters staffed schools in five states. A new motherhouse, St. Joseph Convent in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was built and dedicated. St. Joseph's Normal School, which would grow to become Alverno College, was established within the motherhouse to educate the sisters. In 1893, the community expanded into health care ministry with the opening of Sacred Heart Sanitarium adjacent to the motherhouse. The sanitarium was the first of its kind in Milwaukee and became well known around the world.
Expansion in Europe
Mother Alexia returned to Europe in 1895, where she focused the community’s energies on ministry in sanitariums, kindergartens, homes for orphans and troubled youth, and homes for young women seeking higher education. Working mostly in Germany and Switzerland, sisters also conducted pastoral work and offered care to sick and elderly people.
Leadership in the Arts
Leadership in the ArtsUnder the leadership of Mother Alfons Schmid, a lover of the arts, the community established a strong tradition in music and art. The School Sisters of St. Francis have merited distinction as artists, composers, music educators and parish musicians, and have provided leadership in the field of liturgical music throughout the United States. The initiative of Mother Alfons in fostering the arts shaped a legacy that continues today.
New Institutions
Sharing Christ's mission through education, health care, social work and pastoral ministry became a central focus for our congregation. Under Mother Alfons' direction, the School Sisters opened these institutions:
Alvernia High School, Chicago
Madonna High School, Aurora, Illinois
St. Mary's Hill Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Seraphic Press and St. Joseph Convent Conservatory of Music, Milwaukee
New InstitutionsLater outreach efforts included these institutions, some still active, some now a part of our community’s legacy:
Alverno College, Milwaukee
Sacred Heart School of Practical Nursing, Milwaukee
Waupun Memorial Hospital, Waupun, Wisconsin
St. Joseph Academy, Kenosha, Wisconsin
Ryan High School, Omaha, Nebraska
Service in numerous multicultural parishes and neighborhoods
Global Outreach
Global OutreachIn the 1930s and following decades, the community’s vision became more international. Expansion included a school in China, two missions in India, several hospitals in Germany and an orphanage in Honduras.
A province developed in Latin America with missions in Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Peru and Mexico. It was named the Union of Latin American ULAF ProvinceFranciscans (ULAF). This province, now administered as a region of the congregation, emphasizes pastoral work, education, health care, ministry to indigenous people, and service in the Guatemalan orphanage founded by the community.
Two provinces in India, established in 1996 and 2000, each have attracted close to 100 sisters. There, the School Sisters of St. Francis serve the poorest of the poor, carrying out ministries in villages, dispensaries, schools and hostels for girls and women.
Congregational Renewal
Congregational RenewalThe events and direction of the Second Vatican Council mandated that religious congregations renew themselves and faithfully follow the charism of their founders. The School Sisters of St. Francis responded whole-heartedly. The Constitutions and Rule of Life were revised to become new Congregational Renewalministries and opportunities—developed in response to new needs in pastoral outreach, social justice, education and health care—reflected a more contemporary understanding of Gospel life and service.
The School Sisters of St. Francis today is firmly rooted in the Franciscan values of non-violence, mutuality, hospitality, and spirituality that balances activity and prayer. Associate Relationship gives lay women and men the opportunity to join the School Sisters of St. Francis in a common commitment to the Gospel and to carrying forward the mission of the Church.
Reconciling with the SSJ-TOSF
ssj-tosfAt the turn of the 19th century, a number of School Sisters of St. Francis were called to establish a new congregation that would become the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Third Order of St. Francis. Based in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, SSJ-TOSF sisters serve in direct ministry to those in need throughout the United States and around the world. After years of prayerful discussion, a formal reconciliation between our communities was celebrated in 2013 as sisters with whom we are truly sisters!
My apologies for missing this video, but I must recognize the power of AI for bringing this subject matter to my attention.
This was produced by House Judiciary Republicans, who have traditionally taken to lead when it comes to generating propaganda videos dealing with child welfare, but this was of particular interest because said nothing, absolutely nothing, about the reasons of why parents are sending their children on this dangerous journey to salvation in the United States.
It seems I am the only one to identify elephant in the room.
Hillary Clinton is handing out humanitarian awards to her Lebensborn Girls to become more empowered to continue her mission of highjacking and bleachbitting my Sweetie's legacy of Jobs, Justice and Peace, by and through her gift of bastardizing the original intent of civil rights by launching "Women, Peace, Justice" Studies to bring prison services to young men in El Salvador prisons, not ending the drug trade she set up, but to make prison the best thing to happen in their lives.
This is a battle for parental rights and the foreign corporate privateers who want to maintain their industries of human asset management, in the name of the tax exempt god.
There has not been one word of Foster Care and Adoption, for there are people who are willing to lay down their lives to ensure the salvific mission of gerrymandering continues.
What no one is telling you is about the citizenship of these children once they cross the borders, including the Northern border.
Who or rather what has parental rights over these?
It really does not matter if he is living or dead because we are dealing with "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) and the investigation is continuing onto the co-conspirators.
So, in watching this video, I found Michael Baden, the world renowned forensic pathologist who has commented on notable individuals like John F. Kennedy, Michael Brown, and Jeffrey Epstein.
But of course, I went for his first wife.
The first wife is always the one who can provide the origins of an individual's motivation, but I did not get that far.
Michael Baden's first wife was Judianne Densen-Gerber.
She founded what I like to call the first residential institution for tiny human lab rats, labeled as abused and neglected, in Flint, named the Odyssey House, a Lebensborn Model.
Flint and Saginaw Odyssey House drug and alcohol treatment programs continue as the heart of the Odyssey Village’s holistic and comprehensive recovery management service array. In addition to providing residential and outpatient drug and alcohol treatment services in both Flint and Saginaw, the Odyssey Village includes a virtual village of services that recognizes addiction as a chronic problem that requires a long term relationship through a therapeutic community.
The Odyssey Village is a drug-free comprehensive recovery community that serves as a microcosm of society. Our holistic person approach challenges participants to be economically self-reliant, develop positive character , and become spiritually, physically, emotionally, and psychologically healthy in a lifestyle of sobriety.
These are the new human plantations for live human subject biogenetic and psychological experiments using their acquired goods through corporate parental rights to conduct pharmaceutical and epigenetic trials.
I keep telling everyone that slavery was never abolished, nor was using "The Poors" as a human usufruct through the chattels.
"The goal is to change one person’s life, which will affect not only their family, but their community and future generations."
You prop up and compromise your chosen "Elected Ones" who would do anything to get that life time pension check of public office to keep their water from shutoff.
Dr. Judianne Densen-Gerber, a lawyer and psychiatrist who founded the drug treatment program Odyssey House and went on to give widely quoted but sometimes disputed testimony on subjects like child abuse and pornography, died on Sunday in Manhattan. She was 68.
The cause was cancer, said her daughter Dr. Sarah Baden, who added that her mother lived in Westport, Conn., and had come to New York for Mother's Day.
In 1966, Dr. Densen-Gerber founded Odyssey House, one of the earlier drug-free therapeutic communities that helped addicts recover. She was a leading advocate of such programs, which involved group residence and group therapy, as opposed to methadone-maintenance programs.
She got to know Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller when she picketed in front of his house to demand funds for her program, and they became friends. In the 1970's she became a conspicuous figure at public hearings, society balls and ghetto demonstrations with her bouffant hairdo, rhinestone-studded glasses and cigars.
A 1979 profile in New York magazine quoted Mayor Edward I. Koch as saying that she was ''one of those seminal forces, original, a go-getter.'' He said there were ''few people who can claim as many accomplishments.''
Dr. Densen-Gerber's success at getting government help became her downfall when the state investigated her use of public funds in the early 1980's and found irregularities. She resigned as executive director of Odyssey House in 1983, but remained active in affiliated programs.
Her influence extended to areas like child pornography. In 1977, her testimony that there were 264 monthly publications devoted to the subject helped persuade the House of Representatives to unanimously pass a bill to regulate it.
IPT, the publication of the Institute for Psychological Therapy, reported in 1992 that later government investigations proved her estimates to be exaggerated by ''several orders of magnitude.''
Dr. Densen-Gerber also commented on many other hot issues from a psychiatric point of view.
In 1991, she went to Omaha to testify in court that her interview with a man convinced her he had witnessed four satanic ritual killings. She characterized herself as an expert at deprogramming survivors of satanic cults.
In 1997, she appeared on Geraldo Rivera's television program to analyze a videotape of JonBenet Ramsey in a children's beauty contest.
Her unorthodox approach extended to her psychiatric practice. In 1999, she agreed to pay $200,000 to settle a civil lawsuit over her inability to account for 1,270 vials of medicinal cocaine. She denied any violation of the law.
She was born in Manhattan on Nov. 13, 1934. Her mother, Beatrice Densen, who had kept her own name, was an heiress of the Densen paper-box fortune. Her father, Gustave Gerber, a chemical engineer, became a lawyer in his 40's and was considering studying medicine in his 60's.
Dr. Densen-Gerber's parents persuaded her to study law before supporting her through medical school. She graduated from Columbia Law School and New York University Medical School. She did her residency at Metropolitan Hospital, where during one of her pregnancies, the director suggested she spend an hour or two a day working with addicts. That led to her assembling, in 1966, a group of addicts who wanted to cure themselves without using drugs. Before she found a home for them, they slept in 11 temporary shelters, giving rise to the name Odyssey.
Her original capital was $3.82, and dinner was often rice and spaghetti. Her first permanent building, on East 109th Street, was rented for $17 a month. There were 17 residents.
Within four years, other Odyssey Houses had started to spring up in other cities. In New York, Dr. Densen-Gerber reached out to new populations like prostitutes and addicted mothers.
Her own celebrity grew, and in 1981 The New York Times noted her costume at the April in Paris Ball at the Waldorf-Astoria. She wore a leather lionlike mask and a lionlike coiffure.
By the next year, Dr. Densen-Gerber faced stiff challenges. She agreed to pay back $20,000 in excessive personal expenses to close a state investigation. News reports suggested she had become intoxicated with her own power.
''I remember her grandly lying back and being grande dame to all the peons who were lying around,'' Nancy Hoving, a former member of Odyssey's advisory council, said in a New York magazine interview.
In 1997, her marriage to Michael Baden, who had been the city's medical examiner and a top forensic official for the state police, burned out in a flurry of lawsuits and spectacular accusations.
The marriage's beginning had also been unusual. Mr. Baden said in an interview with The Daily News in 1989 that he took her to an autopsy on their first date and proposed by phone while assisting in the post-mortem on the bullet-riddled body of the mobster Albert Anastasia.
In addition to her daughter Sarah, Dr. Densen-Gerber is survived by another daughter, Trissa Baden of Hopewell, N.J.; a son, Lindsey, of Brookline, Mass.; and two grandchildren.
It always starts with the children because no one cares.
This is a video into the minds of the "Smarty Pants" who believe they are superior.
This is your evolutionary psychology and they have been experimenting with children for a very long time, but no one wants to talk about it.
These people believe in the concept of chattel law where the souls are a legal mechanism called chattel.
These people fear death because they have black souls.
How come "The Poors" cannot freeze themselves?
That sounds like discrimination.
These people are dropping money to freeze their pets, but what about "The Poors"?
So, if someone from "The Poors" sticks the head of their loved ones in the kitchen freezer, can they claim economic cryogenic discrimination as a legal defense?
"Freeze my cat or feed "The Poors"?
#Priorities
Some say they lack souls, spirituality or a conscious.
I say they lack a viable brain.
That is why they are freezing their heads in hopes to find a cure.
Pay attention to the people who are so privileged to freeze themselves and the people who get to be used as their lab rats to help them attain immortality.
"The biggest risk factor for mortality is age."
Yes, these Smarty Pants actually said this.
DUH.
These people say aging is a disease.
Aging is part of life.
If you do not age, then you are dead.
Feel free to provide clarification if I got this wrong.
Check this out.
They are taking about gene therapy using their own genes, while mentioning that their children have genetic disorders.
Start with Detroit, or Flint, the major cities with populations of "The Poors" and #coloredrevolution cover up psyoptics, for this is where you shall find your human genetic and psychological experiments with children in the child welfare system.
Yes, the poisoning of Flint was intentional.
I give credit to Chris Lambert for this human plantation crappy predictive human plantation model I shall include in the curriculum of stealin'.
Hate is taught, but no one wants to talk about the origins.
Hate is also a form of propaganda to cover up the revenue maximization of our children, our most precious treasures , but no one wants to talk about the child welfare system or even why there is a need for it.
Hillary Clinton called these youths "Superpredators who must be brought to heel" because they are the result of our lucrative child welfare system that has built generational fortunes off the backs of the weak, the sick, the young and the old, pilfering our national treasury and pirating the children's trusts.
DETROIT (FOX 2) - The suspect charged in the beating death of a Berkley man after a car crash in July had his first run-in with the law 15 years ago - when he was just nine years old. His juvenile and adult record shows he's had a troubled life ever since.
Lawrence Davis and Tyler Wingate were nearly the same age when they met last month when the two got into a minor car accident in Detroit on July 22. Davis is accused of punching and beating Wingate to death after a crash at Livernois and Davison. Surveillance video from a gas station showed Wingate walking up to a man and being hit with a vicious right punch.
"The victim was defenseless, woozy, unarmed, acting very calmly and at this point in time, the defendant continued to brutally assault the victim in the case," said the prosecutor on Wednesday.
However, it was a final kick to the head before Davis fled that the prosecutor said was what killed Wingate.
A little more than a week after the fatal beating, Davis was arrested at an apartment on 8 Mile in Detroit. On Thursday, he was arraigned on the murder charge.
How did this happen? How did two 24-year-old men get to this point?
The answer for Davis is in the court records.
While he's not been convicted of the murder, Davis has had a life full of hardship and violence. On Thursday, his aunt told FOX 2 that it was all a mistake.
After Wingate's death, word started to spread that Davis had a difficult upbringing. His family didn't want to talk so the court records will have to tell the story.
Here are three contracts to start investigating when it comes to the origins of hate. Praise the Lord.
In Detroit and Wayne County, kids who commit crimes are processed through the Lincoln Hall of Justice - aka juvenile court. For Davis, it started in 2005, when he was nine years old and picked up for a curfew violation in Detroit.
Two years later, he was in trouble in Highland Park, the next year was his second curfew violation in Detroit, and over the next year, he would miss 83 days of school.
In February 2010, things got serious. He was ordered to leave the grounds of Stewart Academy when he punched a cop and was charged with assault.
Court records show that his father was absent and eventually listed as dead.
In September 2010, Davis' mother died. The next month, he was caught in a stolen Dodge Intrepid.
He pleaded guilty and was on probation with grief counseling, mentoring, drug screens and tether. The court recommended tutoring, and sent him to his grandmother's home in a rough west side neighborhood, where life did not get any easier.
On March 23, 2011, Davis was charged with assault with intent to murder and, at the age of 15, was tried as an adult.
He pleaded guilty to weapons charges and was sentenced to between 29 and 57 months in prison. But the sentence was delayed and he bounced around youth programs and lived with relatives - while testing positive for marijuana and getting involved in an incident at his guardian's apartment complex.
By October 2013, when Davis was 18, the court ruled that Davis had "Received the maximum benefit from services provided and is no longer a danger to community or himself."
That may have been wishful thinking.
Two years later, just days before his 20th birthday, Davis pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. The following year, he was charged with domestic violence for assaulting his aunt.
That the case was dismissed when she failed to appear in court.
Little does she realize that she the agency which has licensed her is preparing for a major influx of Faith Based Funding for its legal defense of war crimes with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Yes, Michigan is under the scrutiny of the legal community for its trafficking of tiny humans because it is nothing but the residuals of the peculiar institution where one can pay their mortgage off while doing the work of the foreign, regal monarchy of the Vatican by saving the savages.
Samaritas, also doing business in Detroit as Lutheran Family Services, along with Bethany Christian generates sustainability for its institutions by constancy acquiring more goods to be processed through its chattel system as it transforms into corporate guardianship to pilfer the children's trusts.
Michigan Samaritas Prepares For Profiting From Trafficking Of Tiny Humans From The Border
Michigan is also at the threshold of a federal decision on the legitimacy of its child welfare system once Nancy Edmunds stops playing games, but I believe she will need a bit of assistance because she was mean to my Sweetie, but I digress.
Michigan is ground zero for the horrors of child trafficking due to its Public Private Partnership of Medicaid fraud in child welfare.
Instead of generating more propaganda campaigns to recruit more foster parents, how about stop stealin' the children, the land and the vote because this has been going on for centuries.
When Michigan stops intentionally making people poor, ends the criminalization of poverty, you shall find there is no longer a need for foster mothers and fathers, because there degrees of consanguinity and affinity already in place.
And, on that note, this is why this article is nothing but teaching model of covering up why there is a need of more foster mothers and fathers, which, in itself is propaganda to glamorize modern day human trafficking.
Farmington Hills — Sarah Sporny says she has always had a heart for children. But what she needed was some mac-n-cheese, twin bed sheets and a car seat.
Sporny recalled the phone call in 2016 from a foster care agency worker who said a 6-year-old boy needed a home: would Sarah and her husband Rob, who had obtained their foster care license after intensive training, be ready in hours for their first foster child?
"I asked a lot of questions. There is a lot about a kid. It's important you know what you are getting into," said Sarah, a social worker for 20 years.
The couple met the little brown-haired boy inside a Bob Evans where he was focused on his pancakes.
After a short conversation about making chocolate chip pancakes at his new foster home, the child walked out of the restaurant with the Spornys. And without prompting, while the adults talked, the boy hopped into the back of the family car and belted himself in.
At home, the boy wrapped himself up in a blanket that night and laid on Rob's lap as a movie played. This family of two was suddenly now three.
"It was the sweetest night," Sarah said.
The Spornys fostered the child for six months before he was reunited to his biological family. Sarah says she and her husband would do it all over again and are awaiting their next call to foster another child who needs a home.
"It's incredibly rewarding," Sarah said. "It feels incredibly loving. And I found that I really loved parenting, picking him up from school, reading books, nighttime snuggles."
As of April, 13,574 children are in foster care in Michigan. That includes 3,297 in Wayne County, 698 in Oakland County and 613 in Macomb County. Yet there are only 6,000 foster homes ready to take in a child.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the state’s foster care system, says the first step to becoming a foster parent is contacting a Foster Care Navigator, experienced foster parents who can answer questions, help individuals find an agency and provide guidance.
“Foster parents are critically important in helping us meet our mission of protecting the safety and well-being of children,” MDHHS Director Robert Gordon said.
Children land in foster care who have been victims of abuse and neglect and who need temporary homes to care for them, until they can be safely reunified with their parents or find adoptive homes.
Laura Mitchell, executive director of foster care for Samaritas, a nonprofit that recruits and supports foster care families, supports 900 kids and families in foster care every day. The agency also works with birth parents to restore rights, which is the goal of foster care.
"Foster care is never because of what a child did. It was what was done to them," Mitchell said.
The children have experienced abuse, neglect and trauma, she said.
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"All of our kids have some sort of trauma," Mitchell said. "Even just being removed from home. Home is where we are magnetically pulled, and we feel that connection to family. Kids who have experienced trauma don’t know how to process that."
Foster parents are trained on how to recognize and respond to trauma in children.
"Often times, kids are seen as bad or naughty kids due to their behavior, but that is their response to trauma," Mitchell said. "It's our role to make sure foster parents are educated on the effects of trauma to a child and also help the child work through that trauma."
Foster care parents see children not only need love and attention but need support to heal, Mitchell said.
"The amount of selfless love and commitment they give to a child who is hurting and has had very difficult life experience is amazing," she said.
Jessica Sweet, a foster and adoptive parent recruitment support and development manager at DHHS, said becoming a foster parent takes a lot of patience and skill. The state uses a specialized program called PRIDE to train parents.
"As much as we try to support and prepare people ahead of time, it's something you can't fully learn until you start doing it," Sweet said. "We ask families to assess what they are capable of, what areas do they need support."
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer proclaimed May to be Foster Care Month in Michigan to encourage people to consider becoming foster parents and to recognize those who are already doing so.
“Every child deserves a safe, loving and stable home,” Whitmer said. “This month and throughout the year, I hope Michiganders will consider opening up their homes to children in foster care.”
Cathe Hoover, an adoption, guardianship, recruitment and retention program manager at DHHS, said there are a lot of misconceptions about becoming a foster parent.
You do not need to be married or own your own home, Hoover said, and it often takes a person a few years between being curious about foster care and reaching out to a foster care agency to take those next steps.
"A lot of this is word of mouth," Hoover said. "If you know someone who does this you can see this. There is a lot of support and they aren't left on an island. It’s a really big decision people are making for their families."
Sarah Sporny, who now has an 18-month-old son, said she thinks about her foster son every day although it's been nearly three years since she has seen him.
She said she will think about him on Mother's Day as she celebrates being a mother with her family.
"I absolutely loved my foster son. Sometimes, I say loved, but I still love him," she said. "He hasn't been here for three years, but I love that child."
Sarah says being a foster parent was a good experience, but she knows it's unclear what the next foster care experience may be like.
"It might be better. It might be worse," she said. "So there is always some apprehension on what the next child will be like, but it's worth it, and I am willing to take that chance," she said.
