"the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable"

The Pennsylvania Catholic Conference's "Current Alerts" (http://www.pacatholic.org/) facilitate messages of gratitude for the  

• Down Syndrome Prenatal and Postnatal Education Act (HB 2111/SB 1339) and 
• SB 75 (for battling human trafficking).   

It facilitates messages in support of  

• equal education funding,  
• immigration reform, and of 
• Marriage.   

It also facilitates message to OPPOSE  

• HB 162,  
• HB300/SB300, and the 
• death penalty.   

The USCCB's "Alerts Central" (http://cqrcengage.com/catholicbishops/action) invites and facilitates action in support of the

• Marriage Protection Amendment (HJ Res 51), 
• Marriage and Religious Freedom Act (HR 3133 / S 1808), 
• State Marriage Defense Act (HR 3829 / S 2024), 
• No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (HR 7 / S 946), and
• Health Care Conscience Rights Act (HR 940 / S 1204). 

"Three chairmen of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) gave their strong support for the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act of 2014" (USCCB, 7/31/14).  You can click a National Organization for Marriage link, in support of the

• Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act of 2014 (HR 5285 / S 2706). 

As per the USCCB, "Action alerts for issues related to immigration reform can be found through the USCCB-led Catholic coalition, Justice for Immigrants."  You can send an

• "electronic postcard [to] your U.S. Senators and Representatives asking that they pass just and compassionate immigration reform legislation in the 113th Congress." 

As per the USCCB, "Action alerts for pro-life issues can also be found through our partner organization, the National Committee for the Human Life Amendment"  NCHLA is facilitating action to OPPOSE the so-called

• Protect Women’s Health from Corporate Interference Act (S 2578).

As per the Holy Father's 8/9/14 letter to the U.N. Secretary General:

• "It is with a heavy and anguished heart that I have been following the dramatic events of these past few days in Northern Iraq where Christians and other religious minorities have been forced to flee from their homes and witness the destruction of their places of worship and religious patrimony....I write to you, Mr Secretary-General, and place before you the tears, the suffering and the heartfelt cries of despair of Christians and other religious minorities of the beloved land of Iraq. In renewing my urgent appeal to the international community to take action to end the humanitarian tragedy now underway, I encourage all the competent organs of the United Nations, in particular those responsible for security, peace, humanitarian law and assistance to refugees, to continue their efforts in accordance with the Preamble and relevant Articles of the United Nations Charter.  The violent attacks that are sweeping across Northern Iraq cannot but awaken the consciences of all men and women of goodwill to concrete acts of solidarity by protecting those affected or threatened by violence and assuring the necessary and urgent assistance for the many displaced people as well as their safe return to their cities and their homes"

As per the Holy Father's 8/16/14 address to the Korean laity (Zenit translation):

• "Today, as ever, the Church needs credible lay witnesses to the saving truth of the Gospel, its power to purify and transform human hearts, and its fruitfulness for building up the human family in unity, justice and peace....all that you do is meant to advance the Church’s mission by ensuring that the temporal order is permeated and perfected by Christ’s Spirit and ordered to the coming of his Kingdom....At a time of great crisis for family life, which we all know, our Christian communities are called to support married couples and families in fulfilling their proper mission in the life of the Church and society. The family remains the basic unit of society and the first school in which children learn the human, spiritual and moral values which enable them to be a beacon of goodness, integrity and justice in our communities....May you draw constant inspiration and strength for your apostolates from the Eucharistic sacrifice, wherein 'that love of God and of humanity which is the soul of the apostolate is communicated and nourished' (Lumen Gentium, 33)."

As per the Holy Father's 8/17/14 homily at the closing Mass of the 6th Asian Youth Day:

• "The martyrs of Korea – and innumerable others throughout Asia – handed over their bodies to their persecutors; to us they have handed on a perennial witness that the light of Christ’s truth dispels all darkness, and the love of Christ is gloriously triumphant....Do not be afraid to bring the wisdom of faith to every aspect of social life!....You are...able to discern what is incompatible with your Catholic faith, what is contrary to the life of grace bestowed in Baptism, and what aspects of contemporary culture are sinful, corrupt, and lead to death.....Let Christ turn your natural optimism into Christian hope, your energy into moral virtue, your good will into genuine self-sacrificing love!....It is by His mercy that we are saved."