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"I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." " (21st Sunday in Ordinary Time, 8/27/17)
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federal matters, as well as a link to email Bucks County's Delegation in Harrisburg on state matters.
This coming Sunday...
In the news...
- "....Christian hope is based
on faith in God, who always creates novelties in man’s life, He creates
novelties in history and He creates novelties in the cosmos. Our God is
the God that creates novelties, because He is the God of surprises. It’s not Christian to walk looking down — as pigs do: they always go
like this — without raising our eyes to the horizon, as if all our
journey ended here, in the span of a few meters of travel; as if there
were no aim in our life and no landing, and we were constrained to an
eternal wandering, without any reason for our many toils. This isn’t
Christian. The last pages of the Bible show us the ultimate horizon of the
believer’s journey: the Jerusalem of Heaven, the celestial Jerusalem....We believe and know that death and hatred are not the last words
pronounced in the parable of human existence. To be Christians implies a
new perspective: a look full of hope....We do not delude ourselves in nostalgias,
regrets and laments: we know that God wants us to be heirs of a promise
and tireless cultivators of dreams..." (Pope Francis, 8/23/17)
- 138th Anniversary of Our Lady's Appearance at Knock (8/21/17)
- USCCB Migration Chairman Deeply Disappointed by Administration’s
Decision to Terminate the Central American Minors Parole Program (USCCB, 8/21/17)
- Saint Peter's University Hospital "Advance Directive for Health
Care" could foster the impression that Catholic medical ethics are
merely a set of sectarian idiosyncrasies (8/20/17)
- The Legacy of White Supremacy: Why Confederate Monuments Should Come Down (Witherspoon Institute, 8/18/17) Note:
The Witherspoon Institute is a Princeton-based think tank that has
distinguished itself with scholarly defenses of the sanctity of life and
marriage/family.
- "....'You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native
among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in
the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God' (Leviticus 19:34)....
"I wish to reaffirm that 'our shared response may be
articulated by four verbs: to welcome, to protect, to promote and to
integrate'....
"The principle of the centrality
of the human person, firmly stated by my beloved Predecessor, Benedict
XVI,[5] obliges us to always prioritise personal safety over national
security...." (Pope Francis, Message for the 1/4/18 104th World Day of Migrants and Refugees [1/14/2018], 8/15/17)
- What's happening with the English translation of the Vatican's Charter for Health Care Workers? (8/13/17)
- "....Inconsistencies arise in such areas as the
provision of sign language interpreters and captioning for persons who
are deaf, in the accessibility of church facilities for persons with
mobility needs, and in the availability of catechetical programs for
persons with intellectual, developmental, and other
disabilities ....Since the parish is the center of the Christian
experience for most
Catholics, pastors and other parish ministers should make every effort
to provide for all Catholics with disabilities who reside within a
parish’s boundaries...." (USCCB, Guidelines for the Celebration of the Sacraments with Persons with Disabilities, Rev. Ed., 6/15/17)
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