First Sunday of Advent: O Come, O Come Emmanuel

Our Lady of Guadalupe (12/12/17)
Immaculate Conception (12/8/17)
First Sunday of Advent (12/3/17)

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).

• "Groundbreaking legislation on behalf of the unborn has just been introduced in the U.S. Senate.  Montana Senator Steve Daines has just offered an amendment to the Senate’s tax reform bill which would make the Child Tax Credit (CTC) applicable to unborn children from the time of their conception....Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council....urged them [supporters] to call their senators and ask them to expand the Child Tax Credit to children in utero....Susan B. Anthony List president Marjorie Dannenfelser reacted to the news in a statement, 'By including unborn children to qualify for the child tax credit Congress would achieve a significant pro-life win for families preparing for their baby’s birth'" (LifeSiteNews, 11/30/17) 

• With chalk sketches, the Met captures the making of Michelangelo (Crux, 11/25/17) 

• Looking at the Updated Charter for Healthcare Workers (11/23/17)
• "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)