Second Sunday of Advent, 12/10/17

Our Lady of Guadalupe (12/12/17)

Second Sunday of Advent, 12/10/17

• The Immaculate Conception (12/8/17)
• Pope appeals for wisdom and prudence to prevail over Jerusalem (Vatican Radio, 12/6/17)
• End Brutal Dismemberment Abortions (Pa Catholic Conference, 12/5/17)
• Pro-life abortion ban--our next step (Pa Pro Life 12/5/17)  
• Marriage Unique for a Reason: December 2017 Newsletter (USCCB, 12/5/17) 
• All God Asks (Crisis Magazine, 12/5/17)
  "In England, all the bishops but one caved into Henry VIII. Yet Thomas More became a saint and went to the chopping block calm and cracking a joke, not because his parish priest gave great sermons, not because there was a great RCIA program in his diocese, not because of the purity of the clergy or their sound doctrine, but because he led a life of holiness. (And did so while raising a family, being a lawyer, and being involved in politics of all things.) He didn't whine, he didn't complain, he didn't offer excuses. He looked to his own soul."
• To Christians who doubt Judge Moore (Dr. Alan Keyes, 12/5/17)
• Me and Mengele (Dr. Diane Irving, 12/4/13)
• Pope Francis’ Problem From Hell (Robert George, Wall St. Journal, 12/1/17)
• John Paul II’s Prescient 1995 Letter to Women (Peggy Noonan, Wall St. Journal, 11/30/17)
•  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 (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)