Primary Election Day (4/26/16): “It is necessary for us to undergo many hardships to enter the Kingdom of God.”

 Tuesday of the 5th Week of Easter

“It is necessary for us to undergo many hardships to enter the Kingdom of God.”

• Bucks County is providing Sample Ballots: General Primary, April 26, 2016

•  "2016 Presidential Candidate Voter Guide" (FRC Action) is an informative guide.  National Right to Life and the National Organization for Marriage have both endorsed Ted Cruz.  For our 8th congressional district, Barbara Evangelou is the delegate candidate supporting Cruz  (cf, FW: PA Pro-Life PAC releases delegate information) Down the line, Cruz appears to be the only candidate running who will appear on our ballots for any office, who is strongly pro life AND strongly pro marriage (cf, http://downloads.frcaction.org/EF/EF16B01.pdf).

• Pa Pro Life is looking at the races for U.S. Senate, State atty general, State auditor general, and State treasurer (cf, http://www.paprolife.org/2016springvgd).

• Of those left in the race for Mike Fitzpatrick's seat in Congress, only Marc Duome has indicated that he is pro life (cf, http://faithfulinthe8th.blogspot.com/2016/04/by-way-what-do-candidates-for-pas-8th.html)

• In our State House and the State Senate, Craig Staats is the only elected official from Bucks County who seems to be consistently standing up for life.  Davis and Santarsiero are probably the most blatantly antagonistic.  We need to do an enormously better job of making ourselves heard on life and marriage issues (cf, http://faithfulinthe8th.blogspot.com/2016/04/harrisburg-update.html).

• Washington, DC Update (4/14/16) 

• Harrisburg Update (4/14/16)

In the News

• April 24, 1916: "A Terrible Beauty is Born"

• Amoris Laetitia - Some thoughts (4/22/16)

• re: "Appeals court upholds Utah ski resort’s snowboard ban" (Salt Lake City Tribune, 4/19/16)

• "Double Standard" [re: conscience protection] (Courier Times, 4/14/16)

• "Obama admin cites Catholic Health Association to bolster case against Little Sisters" (LifeSiteNews, 4/13/16)

• “'velvet-gloved' persecutions that are 'cloaked in politeness': the ones that marginalize you, take your job away if you fail to adapt to laws that 'go against God the Creator'” (Pope Francis, 4/12/16 - as reported by Vatican Radio)

Catholic Identity

• In thinking about "material cooperation," some MISTAKENLY act as though that meant "cooperation that does not matter"....

• Email pastors in Bucks with ads for an acknowledged abortifacient provider.

• Concerns about  "Catholic" hospitals in the Archdiocese: Email Archbishop Chaput

• Email Archbishop Kurtz (USCCB president), Archbishop Chaput and the National Catholic Bioethics Center, to ask for an end to the use of emergency (so-called) contraception in Catholic hospitals.