The Pa Pro Life Coalition is encouraging participation in the following:
"2. Sunday, October 11, 2015, 1:30 PM Black Americans March for Life in Philadelphia. The Black American pro-life organization, L.E.A.R.N. will march from the Greater Exodus Church at 704 North Broad Street (at Fairmount Street) to center-city's PP abortion chamber at 1144 Locust Street (an approximately two mile walk). Rev. Dr. Clenard Childress and Rev. Herb Lusk are leading this effort, which concludes with a public witness at this PP abortion chamber.
"3. Dismemberment Ban Legislation to be Introduced on Tuesday, October 27, 2015. The Pro-Life Caucus in the Pa. General Assembly will be introducing legislation to ban such abortions in Pa. The Pa. Health Department Annual Abortion Report indicated that approximately 2500 such abortions were committed in our state in 2013....contact your state legislators and urge them to support this life-saving legislation [From Bucks County, our state legislators can be contacted as follows: cstaats@pahousegop.com; tdavis@pahouse.net; gdigirol@pahousegop.com; Ffarry@pahousegop.com; Jgalloway@pahouse.net; boneill@pahousegop.com; spetri@pahousegop.com; mquinn@pahousegop.com; Ssantarsiero@pahouse.net; kwatson@pahousegop.com; sgreenleaf@pasen.gov; cmcilhinney@pasen.gov; bmensch@pasen.gov; rtomlinson@pasen.gov.]
4. The Fight to Stop Funding for Planned Parenthood Continues.
The efforts in the Pennsylvania General Assembly to stop funding PP through 'reprioritization language' are on hold because of the current Budget stalemate....We should renew our efforts to persuade Pa.'s Congressional Representatives to stop funding PP even at the risk of a 'government shutdown.' The most important reason for this position is the principle and the reality that actions speak louder than words....We are unwilling to risk temporary unpopularity to order to stop funding this thoroughly evil organization. Our organization is working with other pro-life organizations to prepare an apologetic that makes the case for stopping the funding of PP. This apologetic rebuts the arguments from some pro-life organizations that Congress should not resist President Obama on this issue."
Email Representative Fitzpatrick, Senator Casey, and Senator Toomey, asking for all federal funding of Planned Parenthood to stop.
Email all of Bucks County's representatives and senators in Harrisburg, asking for all state funding of Planned Parenthood to stop.
"everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of Him to Whom we must render and account" (from tomorrow's Second Reading).
- "Rampant sexual abuse of children has long been a problem in Afghanistan, particularly among armed commanders who dominate much of the rural landscape and can bully the population. The practice is called bacha bazi, literally 'boy play,' and American soldiers and Marines have been instructed not to intervene — in some cases, not even when their Afghan allies have abused boys on military bases, according to interviews and court records....The policy of instructing soldiers to ignore child sexual abuse by their Afghan allies is coming under new scrutiny, particularly as it emerges that service members like Captain Quinn have faced discipline, even career ruin, for disobeying it....the Army relieved Captain Quinn of his command and pulled him from Afghanistan....the Army is also trying to forcibly retire Sgt. First Class Charles Martland....'The Army contends that Martland and others should have looked the other way (a contention that I believe is nonsense),' Representative Duncan Hunter, a California Republican who hopes to save Sergeant Martland’s career, wrote...to the Pentagon’s inspector general" (NY Times, U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Allies, 9/21/15). The Family Research Council has an online petition for the Senate and House Armed Services Committees:
"I, the undersigned, urge you to pressure the Pentagon to clear Sgt. Charles Martland's record on the matter concerning his intervention to protect a young Afghan boy from sexual abuse. I also ask that you investigate the policy concerning the ability of U.S. military personnel to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation."
- As per The Atlantic Monthly, “The United States now accounts for less than 5 percent of the world’s inhabitants—and about 25 percent of its incarcerated inhabitants....In 2010, a third of all black male high-school dropouts between the ages of 20 and 39 were imprisoned, compared with only 13 percent of their white peers....The suite of drug laws adopted in the 1980s and ’90s did little to reduce crime, but a lot to normalize prison in black communities....Surveys have concluded that blacks and whites use drugs at roughly the same rates....the chasm in incarceration rates is deeply tied to the socioeconomic chasm between black and white America.” "It is painful when we see prison systems which are not concerned to care for wounds, to soothe pain, to offer new possibilities. It is painful when we see people who think that only others need to be cleansed, purified, and do not recognize that their weariness, pain and wounds are also the weariness, pain and wounds of society....All of us have something we need to be cleansed of, or purified from. May the knowledge of that fact inspire us to live in solidarity, to support one another and seek the best for others" (Pope Francis, 9/26/15).
- Let us pray that the Synod will beautifully present God's plan for Marriage/Family/Sexuality, so that all will recognize the Creator's indescribable love for us. As magnificently explained in the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church,
458. What are the duties that society has toward the family? "Society, while respecting the principle of subsidiarity, has the duty to support and strengthen marriage and the family. Public authority must respect, protect and foster the true nature of marriage and the family, public morality, the rights of parents, and domestic prosperity."
494. What is the responsibility of civil authority in regard to chastity? "Insofar as it is bound to promote respect for the dignity of the person, civil authority should seek to create an environment conducive to the practice of chastity. It should also enact suitable legislation to prevent the spread of the grave offenses against chastity mentioned above, especially in order to protect minors and those who are the weakest members of society."
As per the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, "The First Amendment Defense Act (H.R. 2802, S. 1598) would bar the federal government from discriminating against individuals and organizations based upon their religious beliefs or moral convictions that marriage is the union of one man and one woman or that sexual relations are properly reserved to such a marriage. The Act provides broad protections against adverse federal actions directed toward individuals and organizations that act on such beliefs." Representative Fitzpatrick is NOT among the 149 co-sponsors of HR2802; NEITHER Senator Casey NOR Senator Toomey are among the 37 co-sponsors of S1598. The USCCB has an "alert" for contacts to Fitzpatrick, Casey, and Toomey, re: the First Amendment Defense Act: http://cqrcengage.com/catholicbishops/app/make-a-call?0&engagementId=113753
The Pennsylvania Catholic Conference explains that "Changing the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act (PHRA) will jeopardize many churches and their charitable outreach if they continue to adhere to their religious beliefs. In other states, this law has closed Catholic adoption agencies and violated religious liberty....HB 1510/SB 974 exposes even more Pennsylvanians to discrimination based solely on their religious beliefs. Simply put, this legislation is intolerant and prejudiced against people of faith. " As per the Pennsylvania Family Council, "Stand for true tolerance: oppose Senate Bill 974 and House Bill 1510."
As per the Family Research Council, the so-called "Equality Act" (S. 1858 and H.R. 3185) "would essentially obliterate gender-specific designations in virtually every realm of public life in America and possibly even many private areas."
The 10/8/15 Courier Times featured an "opinion" piece in which two notorious abortion proponents tell us that: "We, like many leaders in the reproductive rights [sic] and women's rights [sic] movement, were baptized and raised as Catholics." Their absolutely ill-informed opinion piece should be a wake-up call to every Catholic within the Courier Times' readership. How can we claim to love our brothers and sisters if we are too cowardly to proclaim the truth which will set them free? From every roof top, our clergy and ourselves should be shouting the truths the Church proclaims about the Sanctity of Human Life and Marriage/Family/Sexuality. For example, as simply and beautifully explained in the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church,
497. When is it moral to regulate births? "The regulation of births, which is an aspect of responsible fatherhood and motherhood, is objectively morally acceptable when it is pursued by the spouses without external pressure; when it is practiced not out of selfishness but for serious reasons; and with methods that conform to the objective criteria of morality, that is, periodic continence and use of the infertile periods."
498. What are immoral means of birth control? “Every action – for example, direct sterilization or contraception – is intrinsically immoral which (either in anticipation of the conjugal act, in its accomplishment or in the development of its natural consequences) proposes, as an end or as a means, to hinder procreation.”
499. Why are artificial insemination and artificial fertilization immoral? "They are immoral because they dissociate procreation from the act with which the spouses give themselves to each other and so introduce the domination of technology over the origin and destiny of the human person. Furthermore, heterologous insemination and fertilization with the use of techniques that involve a person other than the married couple infringe upon the right of a child to be born of a father and mother known to him, bound to each other by marriage and having the exclusive right to become parents only through each another."
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If we truly believe what that each and every new human being has the right to be born from the loving embrace of a mom and a dad who are married to each other, why do we look away from what is happening in "Catholic" hospitals in the Archdiocese?
- Among OBGYNs with privileges, there is a paucity of NFP-only physicians!
- There are privileges for IVF specialists!
- There are privileges for associates of a practice involved with so-called fetal reduction!
- Holy Redeemer's Making Your Own Health Care Decisions (http://www.holyredeemer.com/Main/AdvanceDirective.aspx) fails to specify Catholic teaching with regard to nutrition and hydration, and that health care services cannot honor advance directives (e.g., non-specific directives to forego nutrition and hydration) opposed to Catholic teaching.
Since all but a handful of pharmacies - across the country - sell abortifacients and contraceptives....
St. John the Evangelist and St. Martin of Tours should not be advertising ShopRite, especially as Shop Rite even sells the Plan B abortifacient!
Our Lady of Angels (Trenton) should not be advertising Vizzoni's or Episcopo's.
Our Lady of Sorrows/St.Anthony (Trenton) should not be advertising Episcopo's.
St. Ann (Lawrenceville) should not be advertising McGrath's or Penlar.
St. Ephrem and St. Charles Borromeo should not be advertising Riccio's.
St. Thomas Aquinas should not be advertising Mat's.
Email local parishes with bulletin advertisements for providers of contraceptives and abortifacients.
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