"Heritage Action supports President Trump’s rescission request and expects lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and in both chambers to put the American taxpayer first by rescinding $15.4 billion that has been unused, diverted, or has become unnecessary."

https://heritageaction.com/toolkit/rescissions-toolkit

Senate Introduces Trump’s Rescissions Bill (Heritage Action, 5/25/18)

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From: Heritage Action
Sent: ‎5/‎25/‎2018 2:21 PM
To: faithfulinthe8th@gmail.com
Subject: Senate Introduces Trump's Rescissions Bill

"Over the past decade, it's become increasingly apparent that Washington has no appetite for fiscal restraint," wrote former Heritage Action vice president and current deputy director of the White House Office of Management and Budget Russ Vought. "President Trump stands ready to put our fiscal house back in order and put the American taxpayer first."

On May 8, President Trump exercised his authority under the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 and formally requested that Congress rescind $15.4 billion in "unobligated balances," temporarily freezing the funds from being spent and creating a 45-day window for Congress to pass a bill to rescind the money. The deadline for Congress to act is June 22. 

Yesterday, Sen. Mike Lee and eight original cosponsors introduced the Senate version of the President Trump's rescissions recommendation to cut $15.4 billion in wasteful spending. The "Spending Cuts to Expired and Unnecessary Programs Act" (S. 2979) would return that money to taxpayers and build momentum to further reduce federal spending.

Today is the day for congressional Republicans to fulfill their campaign promises and put an end to wasteful government spending. S. 2979 and its companion bill in the House (H.R. 3) are a great first step. We must do everything we can to voice our support for these bills.

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Corpus Christi (6/3/18): "I am the living bread that came down from heaven, says the Lord; whoever eats this bread will live forever."

• Pro-life movement must now take the long view as it has overseas (Iona Institute, 5/29/18)

• OK to dehumanize unborn children, but not gang members (Courier Times, 5/29/18)

• United States Fertility Rate Hits New Low (Human Life International, 5/29/18)

• Audience with a Delegation of the World Federation of the Catholic Medical Associations (FIAMC) (Pope Francis, 5/28/18)

• Holy Catholic pilgrimages for your “bucket list” (Aleteia, 5/21/18)

(Orvieto, June 2015)

6/3/18, Corpus Christi
(audio of readings) (signed homily)

5/31/18, The Visitation

On the right side of the home page is a link to contact the Holy Father, via the Vatican's Congregation for the Clergy, and ask him to postpone his visit to Ireland. 

On the right side of the home page is a link to email the White House and Pa Congressional Delegation (5/26/18 update)

On the right side of the home page is a link to email the White House and NJ Congressional Delegation (5/26/18 update)

On the right side of the home page is a link to email Bucks County's Delegation in Harrisburg (5/26/18 update)

Tell Sen McIlhinney to redeem his state senate career and stand up for pre born children with Down Syndrome

On the right side of the home page is a link to email Burlington, Mercer, Monmouth, and Ocean Delegations in Trenton (5/26/18 update)

Sign a petition for a Life at Conception Act

Thank Trump for starting to defund Planned Parenthood, but the job’s far from done (LifeSite, 5/23/18/) 

Audience with a Delegation of the World Federation of the Catholic Medical Associations (FIAMC) (Pope Francis, 5/28/18)

http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2018/05/28/180528b.html

OK to dehumanize unborn children, but not gang members (Courier Times, 5/29/18)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-proving-to-be-the-most-fearlessly-pro-life-president-in-history/2018/05/23/c72f2886-5e8a-11e8-a4a4-c070ef53f315_story.html

United States Fertility Rate Hits New Low (Human Life International, 5/29/18)

https://www.hli.org/2018/05/fertility-rate-low/?utm_source=spiritandlife&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sl20180521

Pro-life movement must now take the long view as it has overseas (Iona Institute, 5/29/18)

https://ionainstitute.ie/pro-life-movement-must-now-take-the-long-view-as-it-has-overseas/

"keep in your mercy those men and women who have died in the cause of freedom"

6/3/18, Corpus Christi

5/31/18, The Visitation

 

On the right side of the home page is a link to contact the Holy Father, asking that he postpone his visit to Ireland 

In Ireland's supposed emergence from backwardness, a blind eye has been turned to certain recent developments.

On the right side of the home page is a link to email the White House and Pa Congressional Delegation (5/26/18 update)

On the right side of the home page is a link to email the White House and NJ Congressional Delegation (5/26/18 update)

On the right side of the home page is a link to email Bucks County's Delegation in Harrisburg (5/26/18 update)

Tell Sen McIlhinney to redeem his state senate career and stand up for pre born children with Down Syndrome

On the right side of the home page is a link to email Burlington, Mercer, Monmouth, and Ocean Delegations in Trenton (5/26/18 update)

Sign a petition for a Life at Conception Act

Thank Trump for starting to defund Planned Parenthood, but the job’s far from done (LifeSite, 5/23/18/) 

Ask the Holy Father to postpone his visit to Ireland.

6/3/18, Corpus Christi

5/31/18, The Visitation

Ask the Holy Father to postpone his visit to Ireland.
Click to contact the Holy Father, via the Vatican's Congregation for the Clergy

In Ireland's supposed emergence from backwardness, a blind eye has been turned to certain recent developments.

On the right side of the home page is a link to email the White House and Pa Congressional Delegation (5/26/18 update)

On the right side of the home page is a link to email the White House and NJ Congressional Delegation (5/26/18 update)

On the right side of the home page is a link to email Bucks County's Delegation in Harrisburg (5/26/18 update)

Tell Sen McIlhinney to redeem his state senate career and stand up for pre born children with Down Syndrome

On the right side of the home page is a link to email Burlington, Mercer, Monmouth, and Ocean Delegations in Trenton (5/26/18 update)

Sign a petition for a Life at Conception Act

Thank Trump for starting to defund Planned Parenthood, but the job’s far from done (LifeSite, 5/23/18/) 

In Ireland's supposed emergence from backwardness, a blind eye has been turned to certain recent developments.

"Around 400 A.D., a 16 year old of Roman heritage was kidnapped and sold into slavery.  Though he escaped six years later, a love for the people of his captive land was planted in his heart.  A few decades later, Patrick returned as a bishop to Ireland - to what was then considered the outskirts of Western Civilization - intent on converting her to Catholicism.  He left a lasting impression.  Soon after Patrick, Anita McSorley tells us that Ireland saw an end to the slave trade and an end to human sacrifice; Patrick followed Christ's great commission to bring the Gospel to what was then considered the ends of the earth.

"Fast forward through Catholic Ireland's hay day of monasteries and shrines (cf, Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe, 1996), through the suppression of Catholicism after King Henry VII (cf., Christopher Check, The Great Divorce: The Evil Fruits of Henry VIII's Adultery, 2007), and to the early 19th century, we find that religious practice in Ireland had greatly waned.  Center City's Irish Memorial also reminds us of "

‘Ireland's Great Hunger of 1845 - 1850 when more than one million Irish were starved to death and another million forced to emigrate’ (So many of the ‘sons and daughters’ of Saint Patrick now call America their home.).

"Less well known than Patrick or the Great Hunger is Cardinal Paul Cullen's mid to late 19th century religious revival, returning Irish religious practice to what was intended by Saint Patrick.  In 1972, University of Chicago historian Emmet Larkin coined the term, ‘Devotional Revolution,’ to explain this Cullen-led revival, which resulted in the vast majority of Catholic Ireland going to Sunday Mass for more than 100 years!....

"religious practice has again greatly waned in the early 21st Century....there is now an anti-Catholicism frequently exhibited by people of Catholic heritage.  Early 19th Century apathy has been replaced by early 21st Century hostility. 

"Ireland saw an economic hay day in the 1990s, which seemed to usher in a secularization of the society.  At the same time, it is undeniable that scandals of clerical sexual abuse and institutional abuse have also led to diminished religious practice among Irish Catholics and their Irish-American Catholic cousins (cf, How Catholicism Fell from Grace in Ireland, Chicago Tribune, 7/9/06; John P. McCarthy, What Happened to Catholic Ireland, Homiletic and Pastoral Review, 3/6/14).  Father Tom Forde, OFM Cap....points to the earlier beginnings of a rejection of moral teaching, which was to result in a loosening of Ireland's restrictions on contraception (and later to divorce and abortion): ‘faith does not thrive under disobedience’" (B.C. Courier Times, 3/11/15)

Among those with little appreciation for reality, the Republic of Ireland is often portrayed as just emerging from backwardness, because contraceptives were illegal until 1979, divorce was illegal until 1996, marriage was recognized as only between individuals of the opposite sex until 2015, and Ireland's constitution offered protections for preborn children till 2018.  In this supposed emergence from backwardness, a blind eye has been turned to certain recent developments in Ireland:

• "Since 2003..the number of sexual offences recorded in the Republic has almost doubled" (Irish Times, 5/26/18)
• "Rates of HIV, Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Herpes and Chlamydia are now soaring despite repeated sexual health education campaigns" (Irish Independent, 1/8/18)
• There has been a "sixfold increase in marital breakdown since 1986....[and a] huge increase in cohabitation....A third figure worth highlighting is the number of children being raised outside marriage.  In 1986 this was 12.8pc of all children.  By 2011 it had increased to over 28.1 percent....as 'family 'diversity' in Ireland increases overwhelmingly it will be the result of marriage and relationship breakdown and will go hand-in-hand with a rise in families without active, present fathers" (Iona Institute, 10/31/2013).

"The 8th amendment did not create a right to life for the unborn child – it merely acknowledged that such a right exists, has always existed, and will always exist....

"What Irish voters did yesterday is a tragedy of historic proportions. However, a wrong does not become right simply because a majority support it.

"We are so proud of all of those who stood with us in this campaign – our supporters, our donors, our families, and our loved ones. This campaign took a huge personal toll on all of us who were involved, and we have been so grateful for their support.

"The unborn child no longer has a right to life recognised by the Irish state. Shortly, legislation will be introduced that will allow babies to be killed in our country. We will oppose that legislation. If and when abortion clinics are opened in Ireland, because of the inability of the Government to keep their promise about a GP led service, we will oppose that as well. Every time an unborn child has his or her life ended in Ireland, we will oppose that, and make our voices known.

"Abortion was wrong yesterday. It remains wrong today. The constitution has changed, but the facts have not."

https://www.save8.ie/

BREAKING: Ireland votes to legalize abortion, repeal the Eighth Amendment

https://www.liveaction.org/news/newsbreak-ireland-votes-to-legalize-abortion/

Ireland has apparently voted AGAINST humanity....

6/3/18, Corpus Christi

5/31/18, The Visitation
5/27/17, The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

(audio of readings) (signed homily)

• Exit polls are indicating that Ireland has voted AGAINST humanity, joining its American cousins in choosing AGAINST protections for vulnerable human beings.  

• Thank Trump for starting to defund Planned Parenthood, but the job’s far from done (LifeSite, 5/23/18/) 

• May 22, St. Rita of Cascia 

On the right side of the home page is a link to email the White House and Pa Congressional Delegation (5/26/18 update)

On the right side of the home page is a link to email the White House and NJ Congressional Delegation (5/26/18 update)

On the right side of the home page is a link to email Bucks County's Delegation in Harrisburg (5/26/18 update)

Tell Sen McIlhinney to redeem his state senate career and stand up for pre born children with Down Syndrome

On the right side of the home page is a link to email Burlington, Mercer, Monmouth, and Ocean Delegations in Trenton (5/26/18 update)

Sign a petition for a Life at Conception Act

State of NJ issues, 5/26/18 update

New Jersey Catholic Conference

• Contact your legislators to oppose assisted suicide
• Ask the Legislature to Restore Nonpublic School Funding

New Jersey Right to Life

• Please Tell your 2 State Assembly Members and State Senator to Vote No on Physician Assisted Suicide Bill, A1504/S1072!

New Jersey Family Policy Council

Pa Issues, 5/26/18 update

Pa Catholic Conference

• Support a Better Life for Human Trafficking Victims
• Expand Educational Opportunities - Increase EITC and OSTC
• Support Unborn Children with Down Syndrome
• Amend POLST Bill: Protect Vulnerable Patients from Being Denied Necessary Medical Treatment
• Reauthorize CHIP (Federal)
  with Pa House Bill 1933!  As per the Pa Family.org, "I ask for your support of HB 1933, and end the taxpayer-funding of 'sex change' surgery on children through the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and on adults through Medicaid. This life-altering surgery harms children and adults alike." 
• Should Doctors Be Neutral on Suicide?

Pa Family.org Citizen Action Center  

• SUPPORT HB 1933
• OPPOSE Pa HB 1410 / SB 613
A few years back, Rep. Kathy Watson, (then) Rep. Steve Santarsiero, Rep. Marguerite Quinn, (then) Rep. Scott Petri, Rep. John Galloway, and Rep. Tina Davis, as well as Sen. Chuck McIlhinney, and Sen. Tommy Tomlinson were co-sponsors of  HB 300 / SB 300, which the Pa Catholic Conference described as "intolerant and prejudiced against people of faith"
• HB 300 has evolved, if you will, into House Bill 1410.  Among its co-sponsors are Tina Davis, John Galloway, Perry Warren, Kathy Watson, and Marguerite Quinn. 
• The old Senate Bill 300 has evolved into Senate Bill 613.  Among its co-sponsors is Chuck McIlhinney.  With McIlhinney stepping down, both Santarsiero and Quinn are looking for fill his seat.  
• YES on [the new] SB300 / HB1542: Funding for Women's Health, Not Planned Parenthood and Abortion.

Pa Pro Life Federation

•   Don't let lawmakers take away your right to vote (4/6/18) 

Federal Issues, 5/26/18 update

"As the respective chairmen of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life, and Youth, and the Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, we write in strong support of your bill, H.R. 2028, the Healthy Relationships Act of 2017" (Archbishop Chaput and Bishop Conley, 10/4/17).

USCCB's Action Center

• Support the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act: Contact your Representative and Senators today!
• First Amendment Defense Act - Support Now!

USCCB's and CRS' Catholics Confront Global Poverty / Action Center 

[We can ensure safety for impoverished people and refugees, as well as their host communities.  As our noble efforts at assistance must not be hijacked, this blogger believes that our communications MUST specifically state that contraceptives/abortifacients MUST be excluded from "assistance."]
• Raise your voice to prevent and end hunger.
• Support Refugee and Migrant Families
• Use Your Voice to Combat Human Trafficking
• Urge Our Nation to Care for our Common Home

USCCB's Justice for Immigrants' Action Alerts

[We can ensure safety for impoverished people and refugees, as well as their host communities.  As our noble efforts at assistance must not be hijacked, this blogger believes that our communications MUST specifically state that contraceptives/abortifacients MUST be excluded from "assistance."]
• Protect immigrant children and families seeking safety and shelter from violence by keeping these families together
• Ask Representatives to Support HR 4796, the USA Act of 2018, and HR 3440, the DREAM Act of 2017; AND Moving Legislation Forward to a Vote in the House

Pa Catholic Conference's Current Alerts
(one federal)

• Reauthorize CHIP 

NJ Catholic Conference

(one federal)

• Ask Congress to pass the Dream Act of 2017

Human Life Action Action Alerts

Current Action Alerts

•  Express Disappointment to Congress About Its Failure to Enact the Conscience Protection Act
• Assisted Suicide is Not Healthcare

Previous Action Alerts....

HR 490, the Heartbeat Bill

Exit poll suggests Ireland has voted to repeal its abortion ban

If true, this is an horrendous development

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/ireland-abortion-referendum-polls-close/2018/05/25/bed17d3a-5ea6-11e8-b656-236c6214ef01_story.html

URGENT: Pray and fast for Ireland to vote pro-life on Friday, May 25

https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/urgent-pray-and-fast-for-ireland-to-vote-pro-life-on-friday-may-25

Corpus Christi, 6/3/18

In 1263, "a German priest, Fr. Peter of Prague, stopped in Bolsena, Italy during a pilgrimage to Rome. The priest is described as having been pious, but found it difficult to believe in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist.  During his stay, the priest was saying Mass in the Church of St. Christina in Bolsena, and had just finished the words of consecration when blood began to seep from the Host onto the altar and corporal....Fr. Peter immediately journeyed to Orvieto where Pope Urban VI was residing at the time, and informed the pontiff of what had just occurred.  After hearing the priest’s account, the pontiff absolved the priest for his disbelief and had the host and blood-stained corporal brought to the Cathedral in Orvieto where they are still venerated today, and instituted the feast of 'Corpus Christi' a year later" (EWTN News, 10/7/13)

Pope Francis, Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (“Corpus Christi”), 2016

• Tell Sen McIlhinney to redeem his state senate career and stand up for pre born children with Down Syndrome
• Support a Better Life for Human Trafficking Victims (PaCatholic Conf, 5/21/18)
• Protect immigrant children and families seeking safety and shelter from violence by keeping these families together (USCCB, 5/21/18)

Pray that Ireland Preserves Its 8th Amendment Protection for Preborn Children!

On the right side of the home page is a link to email the White House and Pa Congressional Delegation (5/10/18 update)

On the right side of the home page is a link to email the White House and NJ Congressional Delegation (5/10/18 update)

On the right side of the home page is a link to email Bucks County's Delegation in Harrisburg (5/10/18 update)

On the right side of the home page is a link to email Burlington, Mercer, Monmouth, and Ocean Delegations in Trenton (5/10/18 update)

Sign a petition for a Life at Conception Act

Thank Trump for starting to defund Planned Parenthood, but the job’s far from done (LifeSite, 5/23/18/)

https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/thank-trump-for-starting-to-defund-planned-parenthood-but-the-jobs-far-from

Religiously, nonwhite Democrats more similar to Republicans than to white Democrats (Pew Research Center, 5/23/18)

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/23/religiously-nonwhite-democrats-are-more-similar-to-republicans-than-to-white-democrats/?utm_source=Pew+Research+Center&utm_campaign=2e081ab34e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3e953b9b70-2e081ab34e-400417901

Tell Sen McIlhinney to redeem his state senate career and stand up for pre born children with Down Syndrome

Bucks County's retiring state senator, Chuck McIlhinney, is believed to be a parishioner at Our Lady of Mt Carmel in Doylestown.

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From: Maria
Sent: ‎5/‎23/‎2018 9:11 AM
To: gallagher@paprolife.org
Subject: Help pass this pro-life bill

Dear Pro-Life Leaders,

 

We are gaining support in the Pennsylvania Senate for the Down Syndrome Protection Act, also known as House Bill 2050. This common sense bill, which has already passed the PA House, would ban abortion for the sole reason of a Down syndrome diagnosis.

 

Unfortunately, it's  not enough for us to win passage of the bill in the state Senate. We need to win enough votes for a veto-proof majority, since Governor Tom Wolf's staff have said he would veto the bill if it came to his desk.

 

We have identified five state Senators who have not yet committed to the bill whose votes could help secure that veto-proof majority.

 

Please consider calling these Senators and urging them to vote Yes on House Bill 2050 because you want to see an end to the discrimination against babies with Down syndrome:   

 

Senator John Blake—717-787-6481 

Senator Dan Laughlin--717-787-8927

Senator Chuck McIllhinney--717-787-7305

Senator Christine Tartaglione—717-787-1141 

Senator John Yudichak—717-787-7105 

 

Thank you so much for making these critical calls!

 

All the best,

 

Maria V. Gallagher

Legislative Director

Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation

www.paprolife.org

717-541-0034

 

Learning to Live with Same-Sex Marriage? (Public Discourse, 5/23/18)

http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2018/05/21535/

Holy Catholic pilgrimages for your “bucket list” (Aleteia, 5/21/18)

https://aleteia.org/2018/05/21/holy-catholic-pilgrimages-for-your-bucket-list/

Trinity Sunday

5/27/17, The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

(audio of readings) (signed homily)

• Support a Better Life for Human Trafficking Victims (PaCatholic Conf, 5/21/18)
• Protect immigrant children and families seeking safetyand shelter from violence by keeping these families together (USCCB, 5/21/18)

Pray that Ireland Preserves Its 8th Amendment Protection for Preborn Children!

On the right side of the home page is a link to email the White House and Pa Congressional Delegation (5/10/18 update)

On the right side of the home page is a link to email the White House and NJ Congressional Delegation (5/10/18 update)

On the right side of the home page is a link to email Bucks County's Delegation in Harrisburg (5/10/18 update)

On the right side of the home page is a link to email Burlington, Mercer, Monmouth, and Ocean Delegations in Trenton (5/10/18 update)

Sign a petition for a Life at Conception Act

May 22, St. Rita of Cascia

http://faithfulinthe8th.blogspot.com/2017/05/monday-of-sixth-week-of-easter-st-rita.html

Address to Italian Bishops' Conference (Pope Francis, 5/21/18)

"to give you the opportunity to speak, so that  you can address all your questions, concerns, and criticisms to me - it is not a sin to criticize the Pope here!  It is not a sin, it can be done"
https://zenit.org/articles/popes-address-to-italian-bishops-conference-cei/

Support a Better Life for Human Trafficking Victims (Pa Catholic Conf, 5/21/18)

https://www.votervoice.net/UserSite/PACC/Campaigns/51260/Respond

Protect immigrant children and families seeking safety and shelter from violence by keeping these families together (USCCB, 5/21/18)

http://www.capwiz.com/justiceforimmigrants/issues/alert/?alertid=80408626

Corpus Christi, 5/31/18

Italy's Orvieto miracle inspires thousands during jubilee (EWTN, 10/7/13)
http://www.ewtnnews.com/catholic-news/World.php?id=8571

5/27/17, The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

5/27/17, The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

(audio of readings) (signed homily)

Pray that Ireland Preserves Its 8th Amendment Protection for Preborn Children!

On the right side of the home page is a link to email the White House and Pa Congressional Delegation (5/10/18 update)

On the right side of the home page is a link to email the White House and NJ Congressional Delegation (5/10/18 update)

On the right side of the home page is a link to email Bucks County's Delegation in Harrisburg (5/10/18 update)

On the right side of the home page is a link to email Burlington, Mercer, Monmouth, and Ocean Delegations in Trenton (5/10/18 update)

Sign a petition for a Life at Conception Act

Pentecost: "we hear them speaking in our own tongues of the mighty acts of God."

5/20/18, Pentecost Sunday
(audio of readings) (signed homily)

Mass Schedules (in non-English languages, Archdiocese of Philadelphia)

Mass in a Foreign Language (Diocese of Trenton)

How Many People Have Hearing Losses and Use American Sign Language?

Estimating the numbers of people with hearing loss is challenging!  And how a hearing loss impacts a particular person depends on the type/severity of the loss, what sort of amplification is possible, the age at onset, and educational/rehabilitation strategies, among other factors.  It is even more difficult to estimate the number of people who rely on American Sign Language (ASL).    

• "American Sign Language (ASL) is a complete, complex language that employs signs made by moving the hands combined with facial expressions and postures of the body. It is the primary language of many North Americans who are deaf" (American Sign Language, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, 4/25/17 update)

• Among individual with all types and severities of hearing loss, Jerome Schein and Marcus Delk (National Census of the Deaf Population, 1974) defined "Deaf" people as those whose hearing loss was so severe that they could not hear/understand speech. Schein and Delk found 0.2% of the general population to be "prevocationally deaf" (i.e., to have become deaf prior to 19 years of age).  They also found 90% to have hearing parents and 90% to have hearing children.  Many have assumed that prevocationally deaf people comprise the majority of ASL users. 
  
  "The Schein and Delk (1974) NCDP report remains the ultimate source for data-based estimates of how many people use ASL in the United States....According to Schein and Delk (1974), the total prevocationally deaf population – civilian, noninstitutionalized persons of all ages – was estimated to be 410,522 persons in 1971....Schein and Delk (1974) provided evidence that there may have been as many as 500,000 people, regardless of hearing status, who signed at home in 1972" (How Many People Use ASL in the United States?  Why Estimates Need Updating, 2/21/05).
  

How Do We Meet the Needs of People with Hearing Losses Who Rely on ASL?

As per canonist Dr. Edward Peters (the father of a congenitally deaf daughter)  to prospective members of the clergy:

"* ASL is the first language of over 500,000 Deaf Americans; some two to three million more persons use ASL regularly, making ASL the most common foreign language in America after Spanish.
* Fewer than 5% of Deaf Americans regularly attend a church (let alone a Catholic church) primarily because language barriers inhibit evangelization, catechesis, and liturgical participation.
* Recent advances in ASL linguistics and modern communications technologies make learning ASL easier than ever; Deaf ministry programs are now available to train hearing persons with competence in ASL for effective collaboration with the Deaf.
* College level ASL classes are offered throughout the United States and much of Canada. ASL is recognized as a foreign language by well over 200 American colleges and universities, and opportunities for face-to-face and on-line tutorial assistance are plentiful.
I hope more hearing students will give ASL some consideration when it’s time to decide on their 'pastoral language.'  The need is great; the rewards are amazing!" (10/3/08)

Ten years later, there appear to be extremely  few clerics across the country who are fluent in ASL; few Sunday Masses can be celebrated in ASL.  Sunday Masses can also be conveyed via sign language interpreters.  

Archdiocese of Philadelphia (as of Jan 2018)

Masses Celebrated in ASL

• 1st and 3rd Sundays - 11:15 AM St. Matthew Lower Church, Philadelphia, PA (Except June 3/ July and August) Confession is available at 10:45 AM
• 2nd Sundays - 10:15 AM St. Anastasia Chapel, Newtown Square, PA
• 4th Sundays –11:45AM St. Stanislaus Church, Lansdale, PA

Interpreted Masses

• Every Sunday - 9:30 AM St. Pius X, Broomall, PA
• 2nd, 4th, and 5th Sundays - 11 AM St. Matthew Upper Church, Philadelphia, PA
  (Interpreted Mass June 3 and every Sunday in July/August)
• 2nd and 4th Sundays - 9:30 AM St. Francis Assisi, Norristown, PA
• 1st and 3rd Sundays - 10:00 AM St. Joseph Church, Warrington, PA
• 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th Sundays – 9:00 AM St. Stanislaus Church, Lansdale, PA
• 2nd and 4th Sundays- 11:00 AM Epiphany of Our Lord Church, South Phila., PA
• 2nd and 4th Sundays - 9:00 AM St. Thomas of Villanova, Rosemont, PA
• 2nd Sundays - 10:30 AM Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Doylestown, PA
• 1st, 2nd and 3rd Sundays – 11:30 AM St. Ann Chapel, Phoenixville, PA
• 1st and 3rd Sundays – 11:30 AM St. John Chrysostom, Wallingford, PA
• 4th Sundays - 11:30 AM St. Denis, Havertown, PA

Diocese of Trenton  (as of Jan 2018)

Interpreted Masses

• Brick Town, Church of the Epiphany
  Every Sunday 10:00 am
• Hamilton, St. Raphael-Holy Angels Parish 
  Every Sunday 9:30 am
• Hamilton Square, St. Gregory the Great Parish
  4th Sunday 10:30am
• Jackson, St. Aloysius Parish
  by request only 
• Lakehurst, St. John Parish 
  Every Saturday 4:00 pm
• Neptune, Holy Innocents Parish
  3rd Saturday 5:00 pm
• Seaside Park, St. Catharine of Siena
  Every Sunday 9:30 am

The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has a special, informative form, regarding other requests for sign language interpreting.  The gifts of our few ASL-fluent priests certainly need to be shared across dioceses for the Sacrament of Reconciliation, special missions, and retreats.

Resources for Teaching the Compendium of the Catechism to ASL users:

Much of Part One focuses on what we believe, the Apostles Creed (Click for a video of Deacon Patrick Graybill, who is deaf himself.):

 

Much of Part Two focuses on how we celebrate, the Seven Sacraments (The first video is of Father Chris Klusman.  In the second video, Father Mick Depcick, who is deaf himself, discusses the Sacrament of Reconciliation):

Much of Part Three focuses on how we live, the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes:

Much of Part Four focuses on how we pray, the Our Father (the Lord's Prayer) ( Click for a video of Father Shawn Carey, who is deaf himself.):

NOTE: Dr. Edward Peters maintains "A Bibliography of Deaf Catholic Sources and Studies."