One of the best scenes in the Godfather movie trilogy was in "Godfather II," when Kay Corleone (Diane Keaton) told her husband Michael (Al Pacino) she was taking their two children and leaving him. The dialogue:
Michael: Do you expect me to let you take my children from me?.... Don't you know that's an impossibility, that that could never happen, that I'd use all my power to keep something like that from ever happening?.... I know you blame me for losing the baby. Yes. I know what that meant to you. Kay. I swear I'll make it up to you.... I'll change. And you'll forget about this miscarriage, and we'll have another child, and we'll go on, you and I, we'll go on.
Kay: Oh - oh, Michael, Michael, you are blind. It wasn't a miscarriage. It was an abortion, an abortion, Michael! Just like our marriage is an abortion, something that's unholy and evil. I didn't want your son, Michael! I wouldn't bring another one of your sons into this world! It was an abortion, Michael. It was a son, a son, and I had it killed, because this must all end. I know now that it's over. I knew it then. There would be no way, Michael, no way you could ever forgive me, not with this Sicilian thing that's been going on for 2,000 years....
SLAP.
Michael: You won't take my family!And she doesn't.
That spontaneous slap was the reaction of a real man who a woman had just told she aborted his baby. Compare that to the modern day cowardly male response, "It's your choice. Whatever you decide, I'll support you." Or worse, his threat to abandon her if she does not abort.
It was this fierce devotion to family that strangely endeared us to the Corleone men despite their otherwise heinous behavior.
In fact, Mafiosos aside, the Italian culture has always evoked thoughts of large, loving families.
No longer. Legalized abortion has poisoned Italy.
According to several foreign or Christian news reports like this one in SperoNews.com:
A 13-year-old girl is in the psychiatric unit of an Italian hospital after a forced abortion....
Continue reading my WorldNetDaily.com column today, "Italian abortion mafia."
How many abortion-minded Catholics today and same-sex marriage Catholics feel they are being 'nice and tolerant' toward others who opt for this life style by being SILENT, but are literally paving their way to hell with such a diabolical tolerance. It is all about "false charity" within and without the Church which is destroying the West, one of Satan's most cunning of weapons. There is much more on this--false charity!
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Is anyone of Italian/Sicilian heritage offended by the title Jill Stanek chose for this column? Italian abortion mafia??? What on earth was she thinking? What does the mafia have to do with abortion in Italy? What is happening in the Italian culture is no different than what is happening throughout Europe and the United States. Why brand the Italian and Sicilian people, once again, with the mafia label? The only example she could come up with of Italians who "value" human life was a fictional mafia don who gave his faith lip service while beating his wife and murdering his family members? Pathetic! Is Ms. Stanek big enough to issue a public apology to all of us pro-life Italians?
"Real" men don't hit women. Ever. How sad that you think they do.