8/19/18: "Forsake foolishness that you may live; advance in the way of understanding."

8/19/18, 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time

(audio of readings)

• Anniversary of Knock, 8/21/18
  

• The Assumption, 8/15/18

• "lucky number eight"!!!! (8/11/18)
  

• Catholic Medical Association Condemns the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Use of Aborted Babies’ Tissue in Experiments (Catholic Medical Association, 8/9/18)
  

• Hiroshima (8/6/1945), Nagasaki (8/9/1945), and John C. Ford, S.J.
  

• The Encyclical Humanae Vitae: A Sign of Contradiction by Dietrich Von Hildebrand (Hildebrand Project, 8/8/18)
  "'To read The Encyclical Humanae Vitae: A Sign of Contradiction by Dietrich von Hildebrand some five decades later is a very consoling experience,' writes Tracey Rowland, in her foreword to the book. 'It bears testimony to the fact that at least one Catholic married man had the necessary spiritual and intellectual capital to make the right judgment call and explain it within the broader context of the Church's understanding of the sacrament of marriage and the work of the human conscience.'"

• On the right side of the home page are links to email the White House and the Pa Congressional Delegation (or the While House and the NJ Congressional Delegation;  See 8/5/18 issues update and report cards) 

• On the right side of the home page is a link to email the Bucks County delegation in Harrisburg (See 8/5/18 issues update and report card)

• HB 2050 should be up for a vote in the Pa Senate.  Senators Blake, Loughlin, McIlhinney, Tartaglione, and Yudichak should particularly be reminded to stand up for pre-born children with Down Syndrome.

• On the right side of the home page is a link to email the Burlington, Mercer, Monnouth, and Ocean delegations in Trenton (See 7/21/18 issues update).