2nd Sunday of Advent: "One mightier than I is coming after me...."

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Second Sunday of Advent, 12/10/17

• S.B.3 Progress; Upcoming Vote Dec. 12-13 (Pro Life Coalition of Pa, 12/8/17)
• Our Lady of Guadalupe (12/12/17)
• Update--abortion ban in PA (Pa Pro Life, 12/6/17)
• End Brutal Dismemberment Abortions (Pa Catholic Conference, 12/5/17)

 

• Renovatio 21 in Italy speaks out on aborted fetal vaccines (Children of God for Life, 12/6/17)
  (NOTE: At some points, this article seems to have been awkwardly translated.  However, it raises concerns about a topic which often seems to have been treated dismissively - vaccinations derived from aborted children.)

• Pope appeals for wisdom and prudence to prevail over Jerusalem (Vatican Radio, 12/6/17)

• Marriage Unique for a Reason: December 2017 Newsletter (USCCB, 12/5/17) 

• Me and Mengele (Dr. Diane Irving, 12/4/13)

•  St Mary's Cathedral (Trenton, 12/2/17)

• STOP Pro-Abortion "Internships" at Catholic Campus. Protest Now. (TFP Student Action, 11/30/17)

On the right side of the home page is a link to email the White House and the Pa Delegation on selected federal matters (12/2/17 update), as well as a link to email Bucks County's Delegation in Harrisburg on selected state matters (12/2/17 update).

• Looking at the Updated Charter for Healthcare Workers
• "Introduction: Ministers of Life" (excerpts)
• "Procreating" (excerpts)
  
  (Fertility regulation; Medical responses to marital infertility; Prenatal and preimplantation diagnosis; Freezing embryos and oocytes; New attempts at human generation and procreation)
• "Living" (excerpts)
(Human life inviolable and 'indisposable; Abortion and the destruction of nascent life; Embryo reduction; Interception and contragestation; Ectopic pregnancies; Anencephalic fetuses; Conscientious objection; Defending the right to life;
Prevention; Prevention and vaccines; Medical prevention and society;
Sickness;
Diagnosis;
Interventions on the genome; Gene therapy; Regenerative therapy;
Treatment and rehabilitation; 
Prescription and appropriate use of pharmaceuticals; Access to available medications and technologies; Sustainable health, pharmaceutical companies, rare or neglected diseases; Pain relief treatments;
Informed consent of the patient; 
Biomedical research and experimentation; 
Organ and tissue donation and transplantation; 
Determination of death; The removal of organs from pediatric donors; 
Xenotransplants; Transplantation and personal identity; Abuses in transplantation;
Forms of dependence; Drug dependence; Alcoholism; Tobacco dependence; 
Psychotropic drugs; 
Psychology and psychotherapy; 
Pastoral care and the sacrament of the Annointing of the Sick;
Ethics committees and clinical ethics counseling;
Health care policies and the right to preservation of health)
• "Dying" (excerpts)
• Conclusion