DATED MATERIAL DATED ® —HIS EMINENCE, PATRICK CARDINAL O’DONNELL of Ireland Vol. LXXXIII No. 6 USPS 373340 December 2016 - January 2017 1.50 Hibernian Charity Board reorganized Joseph C. Casler Michael P. Joyce II Billy Lawless Joseph J. Norton, Ph.D. Brian O’Dwyer During the 2016 National Convention in Atlantic City, the general assembly authorized the National Board to reconstitute the National Hibernian Charity. The Hibernian Charity was organized years ago to raise money for the many charitable works of our National Order and was long overdue an update. The NHC was designated by the IRS, as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit corporation which provides an additional incentive for charitable donations. Donors to NHC may claim a tax deduction for their donations according to the law. As a tax-exempt non-profit corporation, NHC is also poised to compete for grants from the nation’s largest philanthropic foundations that restrict their gifts to only tax-exempt non-profit corporations. Pursuant to the charge of the general assembly, the National Board revised the Bylaws of the NHC Constitution to modern operations, conform to best business practices and permit NHC to effectively compete for grant funding. Patrick Sean Ryan Ted M. Sullivan John Patrick Walsh One of the Bylaws changes was to change the title of the Board of Directors to Board of Trustees. The National Board believes the title “Trustee” better conveys the fiduciary responsibility entrusted to Board members and will aide them in their mission. The Michael P. Joyce II, Austin, Texas. Mike is Vice President of Operations & Research purpose of this Board of Trustees is not only to administer funding to our many charities, for the Texas Business Leadership Council (TBLC) in Austin and has eight years of but to seek funds from the many philanthropic individuals and organizations across the experience in the non-profit sector. nation and abroad. With this in mind, the National Board selected eight new members to Billy Lawless, Chicago, Illinois. Billy is a businessman in the Chicago, Illinois, area, serve on the newly constituted NHC Board of Trustees. We wanted individuals who had and is originally from Rahoon, County Galway. He was appointed to the 25th Seanad fundraising and foundation experience, who could bring a spirit of professionalism to the Eireann in May of 2016, becoming the first overseas Senator in Ireland. Board of Trustees, and command the confidence and respect of donors. They come from Joseph J. Norton, Ph.D., Mableton, Georgia. Joe is a proven global leader in different professions and different walks of life, but all share the National Board’s Organizational Design, Development and Cultural Change known for streamlining commitment to meeting the charitable demands of the National Order. business processes and operational efficiency. The members of our new NHC Board of Trustees are: Brian O’Dwyer, New York, New York. Brian is Senior Partner for O’Dwyer & Joseph C. Casler, New Orleans, Louisiana. Joe has served Hibernian Charities for Bernstein, LLP, and has been cited as a New York Super Lawyer since its inception, which several years and is Managing Attorney for Progressive Insurance in Louisiana, North a peer ranking is given to only the top 5 percent of the profession as surveyed by the Bar of Texas and Mississippi. continued on page 6 Frontlines of the Pro-Life fight are in your own backyard By John Patrick Walsh, Pro-Life Chairman have had a chilling effect on abortion providers by Washington, D.C. – On November 15 the D.C. City Election season always seems to point a spotlight on the requiring more stringent health and safety standards for Council voted 11-2 to pass a bill legalizing doctor- topic of abortion with politicians racing to claim the mantle clinics and physicians. The same five-year period has seen prescribed suicide for anyone “18-years-old or older who of “pro-life” or “pro-choice”; this election certainly didn’t the closure of 162 abortion clinics. has a prognosis of six months or fewer to live.” The bill will disappoint in that regard. Perhaps it’s my “inside-the- Sadly, for every battle we win there seems to be an not be opposed by Mayor Bowser, but luckily must be beltway” mentality, but I often grow frustrated with pro-life unheralded loss, often masked in false compassion. Too approved by Congress, which is expected to veto the allies who focus too much on federal elections. I already often the pro-life movement is boiled down to abortion, to legislation. hear the cries, “But Brother Walsh, without a pro-life the exclusion of all other related issues. While advocates of Overturning Roe v. Wade must become the dream, president or Congress how will we: appoint pro-life life celebrate legislative or electoral victories, here are but a not the goal justices, stop taxpayer-funded abortion coverage, protect few examples of defeats experienced in our own backyards: “I do not believe that just because you’re opposed to against government overreach,” and so on. Don’t get me Colorado – On election night, Coloradans approved by abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in wrong friends, having a pro-life executive and legislative a 2-1 margin Proposition 106, known as the “End of Life many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want branch is incredibly helpful to furthering respect for all Options Act,” which will legalize assisted suicide. Colorado is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not stages of life; but have you ever stopped to think about becomes the fifth state to legalize assisted suicide, joining a child housed. That’s not pro-life. That’s pro-birth. We which level of government has the most impact on your California, Oregon, Washington and Vermont. (Montana need a much broader conversation on what the morality of daily life? allows doctors to defend themselves in court if prosecuted pro-life is.” — Sister Joan Chittister, OSB Most Pro-Life battles are won or lost for assisting in a suicide, provided they can prove prior If I thought I heard cries before, many of you may well on the state level consent.) be screaming, “What is he doing quoting a dissident nun, In early July, the Guttmacher Institute, former research Indiana – Monroe County Council (which covers sanctioned by the Vatican?” Friends, let me fill you in on an arm of Planned Parenthood, reported that states have Bloomington, IN), led by the county mayor, voted this inconvenient truth that many advocates for life — enacted 334 pro-life laws in the past five years. That November to award two taxpayer-funded grants to including this guy who’s asking you to come to D.C. on accounts for a full 30 percent of all pro-life legislation organizations that provide and fund abortions. The council January 27th to participate in our annual Pro-Life Breakfast passed since Roe v. Wade in 1973. The report stated that as awarded Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky before the March for Life — don’t like to admit. of July 2016, state legislatures have already passed 46 laws and All Options Pregnancy Center grants totaling $2,000 Overturning Roe v. Wade must become the dream, not the to protect mothers and the unborn. Many of these laws and $3,250 respectively. continued on page 6 COMMEMORATE 2017 AS THE CENTENNIAL OF THE 1917 REPUBLICAN REVIVAL IN THE STORY OF THOSE WHO LIVED THROUGH: • Martial Law under Vengeful British Military Forces • The Torture of Post 1916 imprisonment in Frongoch THE ROAD TO • A Violent War against Undisciplined Black and Tans A REPUBLIC • Destructive Assaults by Vindictive Auxiliary Troops Mike McCormack • A Brutal Civil War that divided Friends and Families ® • The Birth and Demise of the Irish Communist Party • The Creation of the Fascist Blueshirt Movement NATIONAL BOARD OFFICERS • More Divisive Political Intrigue than a Presidential Campaign Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi – AL . National Chaplain. [email protected] • The Final Achievement of an Independent Republic of Ireland Rev. Michael Healy – CA. Deputy National Chaplain. [email protected] Rev. Patrick Collum – LA . Deputy National Chaplain. [email protected] and it all takes place in Mike McCormack’s James F. McKay III – LA . National President / WA . [email protected] OR, CA, CO Daniel O’Connell – OH . National Vice President . [email protected] 2018 National Convention Chairman, Louisville THE ROAD TO A REPUBLIC Jere Cole – NJ . National Secretary . [email protected] Sean Pender – NJ . National Treasurer . [email protected] The 144-page anticipated sequel to Dan Dennehy – NY . Nat’l Director Immigration . [email protected] Chairman / Liaison Metropolitan NY City THE ROAD TO REBELLION Liam McNabb – N . Nat’l Director / Liaison NY . [email protected] Thomas O’Donnell – PA . Nat’l Director / Project St. Patrick . [email protected] This is the little-known story that had to be written. It sings the Liaison PA, NJ Dennis Parks - OH . Natl. Director/ Liaison OH, VA . long-overdue praise of ordinary men and women who supported WV, MD, DE, DC, MI the legacy left them by the heroes of 1916 and who suffered William Sullivan – CT . Nat’l Director / Liaison ME. [email protected] MA NH, VT, RI, CT terribly for doing so. It is to them that this book is dedicated John Wilson – MO . Nat’l Director / Liaison MO, IL. [email protected] with much admiration for their courage, tenacity and devotion IN, KS, NE, MT, IA, OK James Kuhn – LA . National Legal Counsel /. [email protected] to the dream of independence which they finally won. Constitution Committee Michael McCormack – NY .