A REVISED look at those who would like to be our next representative in the U.S. House

"In Philadelphia for the World Meeting of Families, during my Journey to Sri Lanka and to the Philippines, and more recently with the Synod of Bishops, I reaffirmed the centrality of the family, which is the first and most important school of mercy, in which we learn to see God's loving face and to mature and develop as human beings. Sadly, we recognize the numerous challenges presently facing families, 'threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life'. Today there is a widespread fear of the definitive commitment demanded by the family; those who pay the price are the young, who are often vulnerable and uncertain, and the elderly, who end up being neglected and abandoned....

"Persons are no longer seen as a paramount value to be cared for and respected, especially when poor or disabled, or 'not yet useful' – like the unborn, or 'no longer needed' – like the elderly" (Pope Francis, 1/11/16)