“Neither do I condemn you. Go, and from now on do not sin any more.”

5th Sunday of Lent, 3/13/16

“Neither do I condemn you.
Go, and from now on do not sin any more.”

 

Saint Patrick's Day is One Week Away

• Our Lady of Knock and Marriage/Family

• Irish Bishops Discuss the Climate (Social and otherwise) and the 100th Anniversary of the Easter Rising

 

Other International Concerns

• "Honoring the 'Martyrs of Charity'"

• C-Fam Launches Campaign Against UN Global Abortion Tax

 

Federal Concerns

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  3/8/16 Update on legislation being championed by the USCCB and its affiliate, the National Committee for a Human Life Amendment (Click to Email Pa's Congressional Delegation, asking for Co-Sponsorship/Support of legislation backed by the USCCB and/or the NCHLA.)

• H. Con. Res. 75 and Bacha Bazi

•  3/8/16 Update: Where Do Candidates for Pa's 8th Congressional District Stand on Marriage/Family and Human Life?

• "How an anti-discrimination bill could end up discriminating" (Catholic News Agency) 

• Differences in the parental notification law between NJ and Pa

• USCCB's "Justice for Immigrants"

•  "....Donald Trump is manifestly unfit to be president...." (Robert George, George Weigel, et al, National Review)

• "The Scalia Seat: Let the People Speak" (Sen Ted Cruz)

State Concerns

• 2/20/16 Update on pro life and pro marriage/family being championed by the Pa Catholic Conference (Email all of Bucks County's representatives and senators in Harrisburg.)  

• Oppose HB 1336.  As per the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation, "Please consider calling Rep. Turzai's office to let him know that you oppose House Bill 1336 because you don't want your right to vote for appellate judges to be taken away.  The phone number to call is 717-772-9943."

 

Catholic Identity

• Saint Pope John Paull II talked about "'Human Love in the Divine Plan,' or with greater precision, ‘the Redemption of the body and the Sacramentality of Marriage’"?  His Theology of the Body reminds us that the use of sexual functions by married couples, in manners which cannot be open to life, involves lying with the body.  Use of contraceptives in marriage makes us liars and false prophets.

   

  • Dear Pastors: If you don't know pharmacies sell abortifacients and contraceptives, you're not getting out too much! (Email pastors in Bucks with ads for an acknowledged abortifacient provider)" 

  
  
  

  • The USCCB sometimes allows potential abortifacients in Catholic hospitals??? Come on, you're kidding me, right? (Email Archbishop Kurtz (USCCB president), Archbishop Chaput and the National Catholic Bioethics Center.) 

  
  
  

  • "Catholic" hospitals in the Archdiocese (Email Archbishop Chaput)
    
    

  • Brain Death Criteria: Do Precaution and Respect for Human Life Prevail?

  
  

  • Catholic Medical Association and POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment)