in Pennsylvania's First Congressional District
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania's_1st_congressional_district http://archphila.org/pastplan/MAPS/Arch.pdf
and the Central Garden State

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

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....

http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/marriage-and-family/natural-family-planning/awareness-week/
https://zenit.org/articles/same-sex-marriage-and-its-relation-with-contraception/

  • 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....

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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