God's Plan of Love for Humanity

During this election season, a surprising amount of attention has been paid to what the Catholic Church teaches. Because the Church's moral teaching is based upon the natural law, it is applicable to all people. Some may attention, and some disregard what the Church proclaims. As per God's Plan of Love for Humanity (Chapter 1 of the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church),

• "Moral existence is a response to the Lord's loving initiative. It is the acknowledgment & homage given to God & a worship of thanksgiving. It is cooperation with the plan God pursues in history'.
  
  “The Ten Commandments, which constitute an extra-ordinary path of life and indicate the surest way for living in freedom from slavery to sin, contain a privileged expression of the natural law....
  
  “The universality and integrality of the salvation wrought by Christ makes indissoluble the link between the relationship that the person is called to have with God and the responsibility he has towards his neighbour in the concrete circumstances of history. This is sensed, though not always without some confusion or misunderstanding, in humanity's universal quest for truth and meaning”

Federal ProLife Legislation Specifically Suported by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

The USCCB has urged support for the Abortion Non-Discrimination Act: "Passage of ANDA is urgently needed to protect the civil rights of health professionals and other health care entities. This bill reaffirms a basic principle: No health care entity should be forced by government to perform or participate in abortions."

• Senator Casey is NOT a co-sponsor of S. 165 (as of 3/11/2012).


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  Representative Fitzpatrick is a co-sponsor of HR 361.


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  Senator Toomey is NOT a co-sponsor of S. 165 (as of 3/11/2012).

The USCCB has urged support for the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act.

• Senator Casey is NOT a co-sponsor of S. 906 (as of 3/11/2012).


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  Representative Fitzpatrick voted for HR 3.


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  Senator Toomey IS a co-sponsor of S. 906.

The USCCB has urged support for the Protect Life Act.

• Senator Casey is NOT a co-sponsor of S. 877 (as of 3/11/2012).


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  Representative Fitzpatrick voted for HR 358.


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  Senator Toomey is NOT a co-sponsor of S. 877 (as of 3/11/2012).

The USCCB has urged support for the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act.

• Senator Casey is NOT a co-sponsor of S. 1467 (as of 3/11/2012).


• Representative Fitzpatrick IS a co-sponsor of HR 1179.


• Senator Toomey IS a co-sponsor of S.1467.

and in Harrisburg....


Protecting the Federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)

"DOMA is rational, and its repeal would be unjust....

"Redefining marriage to mean simply an arrangement of consenting adults violates justice because it interferes with basic human rights.

"First, changing the institution of marriage by making it indifferent to the absence of one sex or the other denies that children have the fundamental human right to be cared by both their mother and father. Such revision transforms marriage from a child-centered to an adult-centered status to the detriment of children....

"Second, redefining marriage also threatens the fundamental human right of religious freedom. Those who refuse on moral and religious grounds to accept or accommodate the redefinition of legal marriage are already being wrongly accused of bigotry and hatred, bias and prejudice....

"All persons have a rightful claim to our utmost respect. There is no corresponding duty, however, for society to disregard the meaning of sexual difference and its practical consequences for the common good; to override fundamental rights, such as religious liberty; and to re-define our most basic social institution"(Bishop Salvatore Cordileone, chairman of the USCCB's Subcommittee for the Promotion & Defense of Marriage, November 2011).

• Senator Casey is NOT a co-sponsor of S.CON.RES.11, "A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress with respect to the Obama administration's discontinuing to defend the Defense of Marriage Act" (as of 3/11/2012)


• Representative Fitzpatrick is NOT a co-sponsor of H.CON.RES.25 , "Expressing the sense of Congress with respect to the Obama administration's discontinuing to defend the Defense of Marriage Act," NOR a co-sponsor of H.R.875, the Marriage Protection Act, NOR a co-sponsor of H.J.RES.45, Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to marriage (as of 3/11/2012).


• Senator Toomey is NOT a co-sponsor of S.CON.RES.11, "A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress with respect to the Obama administration's discontinuing to defend the Defense of Marriage Act" (as of 3/11/2012).
  

and in Harrisburg....

The Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church
Part One
Chapter 1, God's Plan of Love for Humanity
Chapter 2, The Church's Mission & Social Doctrine
Chapter 3, The Human Person and Human Rights
Chapter 4, Principles of the Church's Social Doctrine

Part Two
Chapter 5, The Family, the Vital Cell of Society
Chapter 6, Human Work
Chapter 7, Economic Life
Chapter 8, Political Community
Chapter 9, The International Community
Chapter 10, Safeguarding the Environment
Chapter 11, The Promotion of Peace

Part Three
Chapter 12, Social Doctrine & Ecclesial Action

Conclusion, For a Civilization of Love