"Help them get the joy missing from their lives" (?????).

• The above ad was spotted this morning on the northbound platform of the Metro Park, NJ train station.  In 2008, the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith provided us with Instruction Dignitas Personae on Certain Bioethical Questions, which certainly made clear the absolute moral wrongness of IVF procedures.  Compounding this wrongness is when sperm or eggs of non-spouses are "donated"!  Why is no one talking about the IVF industry's shameful exploitation of young women? (cf, https://www.eggsploitation.com/story-cb.htm )

 

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• 10/22/17, 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time (with links to readings in text/audio and a signed homily)

• World Mission Sunday ~ October 22 (Diocese of Harrisburg)

• Vatican hosts conference on Disability and Catechesis (News.Va, 10/19/17)

• Webinar for parents, parishes aims to combat porn usage (CatholicPhilly.com, 10/19/17)

• Pope Appeals for Somalia (Zenit, 10/18/17)

• Feast of St. Luke the Physician and the updated Charter for Health Care Workers (10/17/17) 

•  USCCB Migration and Refugee Services Release Report Recommending Extension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for El Salvador and Honduras (USCCB, 10/17/17)

• Pope Marks 800 Years Franciscans in Holy Land (ZENIT, 10/17/17) 

•  "The United States, Poland, and more than one hundred other governments and non-governmental organizations barraged the UN Human Rights Committee with briefs, pleading them not to declare abortion a human right....The UN committee is finalizing a legal commentary that excludes unborn children and the terminally ill from the right to life in article 6 of the UN treaty on civil and political rights, one of the earliest and most widely ratified UN treaties. The commentary will not be binding but could be influential" (C-Fam, 10/13/17) 
•  United Nations Petition Drive (Human Life International, 9/28/17)

On the right side of the home page is a link to email the White House and the Pa Delegation on federal matters (10/17/17 update), as well as a link to email Bucks County's Delegation in Harrisburg on state matters (10/17/17 update).