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Please announce the USCCB's NFP Awareness Week in your bulletins and from the pulpit....
Please announce the USCCB's NFP Awareness Week [July 24 - 30] in your bulletins and from the pulpit....
- The USCCB sometimes allows potential abortifacients in Catholic hospitals??? Come on, you're kidding me, right? (3/5/16)
USCCB Legislative Advocacy
Advocacy in Harrisburg on pro life and pro marriage/family legislation....
- YES
to HB1623, HB1948 /SB888; NO to Planned Parenthood, repealing Act 122 of 2011, repealing Act 13 of 2013, HB1336, HB1510/SB 974/SB 1306/SB1307/SB 1316, HB 1947, HB 162, and doctor prescribed suicide.):
- Click to Email the
governor, as well as all of Bucks County's representatives and senators
in Harrisburg, on pro life and pro marriage / family concerns.
In the news....
- Pastoral Guidelines for Implementing Amoris Laetitia (Archdiocese of Philadelphia, 7/1/16)
- "The guidelines state, 'Undertaking to live as brother and sister is
necessary for the divorced and civilly-remarried to receive
reconciliation in the Sacrament of Penance, which could then open the
way to the Eucharist.' Excerpts from Amoris Laetitia
are restated in the guidelines, showing how priests should help parties
understand their situation according to the teaching of the Church....What is not publicized in the United States is that when those united
by Catholic marriage separate (with any civil divorce or civil
separation), the Church (not the divorce court) has competence to
determine a separation plan that is in accord with divine law (canon
1692 §2). Even for those with an invalid marriage, the Church has
competence to determine the obligations of the parties. A Catholic
decree invalidating parties' marriage should include instructions of the
parties’ obligations toward each other and their children (Motu Proprio
canon 1691 §1)" (Bai Macfarlane, 7/7/16).
- ...one "More" look... (7/4/16)
- "I Know the Pain of Being Left by a Gay Husband: An Open Letter to Lauren Pearson" (Public Discourse, 7/8/16)
- "When Christian rock star Trey Pearson announced he was coming out of
the closet and separating from his wife and their two children after
seven and a half years of marriage, he said that his wife had been his 'biggest supporter' and that 'she just hugged me and cried and said how proud of me she was.' If this account is exactly true, it is troubling. Think about the
degree of social decay required—especially within Christianity—for a
Christian wife to be so conditioned by popular culture that
she immediately congratulates her husband for abandoning her and their
children, rather than reaching out for help to preserve their marriage
and family. A man who walks away from a marriage because of same-sex
attraction is no different from a man who abdicates his role as husband
and father for sex with other women. We shouldn’t view Trey Pearson’s
actions as heroically true-to-self, but as simply selfish. I should know. I walked away
from my marriage nearly twenty years ago because of my same-sex
attraction. I made a stunning error in judgment" (Doug Mainwaring, 7/11/16).
- July 14, 2016, Memorial of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin
- "Kateri made her own
pilgrimage when she traveled from her Mohawk home in New York to the
Christian settlement in Quebec where, as we know, she completed her
brief life growing in love of and service to her Bridegroom, Jesus
Christ, and His Church. She did not leave her Native identity, culture,
or heritage behind her when on that journey; rather, she grew into
her new Native Catholic identity, fully blossoming as the Lily of the
Mohawks....the message we must proclaim to our friends and
neighbors is the same one St. Kateri herself announced joyfully to her
companions every day of her life, and on her death bed itself: 'Jesus, I
love you'" (Cardinal Dolan, 7/26/2012).
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