Don't Just "Understand us," fix heinous conditions in our own archdiocese.

4th Sunday of Lent (3/31/19) (audio) (signed homily)

Don't Just "Understand us," fix heinous conditions in our own archdiocese!

• "There are days when everyone in the Church seems angry. Laypeople and priests are angry with their bishops for the abuse scandal, which never seems to end. Bishops are angry with priests for their bad example. And many bishops are also frustrated – to put it gently — with Rome for its unwillingness to acknowledge the real nature and scope of the abuse problem....Many of our people in the lukewarm middle are leaving the pews....This ongoing cultural realignment will shake many of our Church institutions, from urban parishes, to schools, universities, hospitals, and other agencies – even seminaries" (Archbishop Chaput, 3/27/19)

• John Haas, PhD, and his National Catholic Bioethics Center have the USCCB's ear in promoting two positions which faithful Catholic physicians say have tragically wrong assumptions! Haas now doubles as the head of moral theology at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary.
• Emergency so-called contraception in Catholic hospitals - a position opposed by the Catholic Medical Association and the Catholic Pharmaceutical Association.
• Prominent voices very much disagree with John Haas' acceptance of so-called brain death criteria!

• "Church leaders, religious media personnel, and faithfully practicing older Catholics desperately need to go outside of the narrow circle of various Catholic media outlets to discover what tens of millions of Catholics, especially young adults, are really thinking about annulments....thousands of young adults hold such a low view of a sacramental church wedding that they are increasingly avoiding it altogether....overall there is a shocking lack of pastoral and parish support for those experiencing marital difficulties....What Catholic marriages really need, especially in Europe and North America, is practical and effective assistance in healing hurting marriages in order to reduce the Catholic divorce rate" (Steve Wood, August 2014).
• The Link Between Family Background and Academic Success (Institute for Family Studies, 9/13/16)

• Contact your senators and representative today and urge them to oppose the [so-called] Equality Act! (USCCB)
• "As of 3/13/19, Rep Brian Fitzpatrick is 1 of 2 Republicans nationwide (239 in total) leading an latest assault on religious freedom.  TEN REPs from PA and ELEVEN REPs from NJ are ACTUALLY CO-SPONSORS!  From Pa, Rep Fitzpatrick (R), is joined by Rep's Boyle (D), Cartwright (D), Dean (D), Doyle (D), Evans (D), Houlihan (D), Lamb (D), Scanlon (D), and Wild (D) in leading this assault on religious freedom. From NJ, Rep's Gottheimer (D), Kim (D), Malinowski (D), Norcross (D), Pallone (D), Pascrell (D), Payne (D), Sherill (D), Sires (D), Van Drew (D), and Watson Coleman (D) are leading the attack.  The Family Policy Alliance has set up a link to facilitate contacts to your own representative.


• Contact your U.S. senators and representatives today and ask them to support the LIFT for Charities Act! (USCCB)

• Tell the Senate to Reject Religion Tests for Judicial Nominees (USCCB)

• Support the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act (USCCB)

• Ask the Department of Homeland Security to Rescind the "Remain in Mexico" Policy and Support Asylum Seekers by Following Existing Law (USCCB)  
• The Mysteries of the Mandorla in the Our Lady of Guadalupe Icon (New Liturgical Movement, 3/19/19) 
• Mexican St. Patrick’s Day tribute (Angelus News, 3/16/19)

• Support the Born Alive Survivors Protection Act (HR 962) (NCHLA)

• I Cherish Life: I call on Congress to ban late term abortions when babies feel pain!(Family Policy Alliance,)
  

• Save the Hyde Amendment (March for Life Action)

• Stop Taxpayer Funding of Abortion (Click for Pa Pro Life Federation petition)

• Sign the Petition to Repeal the Abortion Law (NYS Catholic Conf)

• Please Urge Lawmakers to support an increase in the Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) (Pa Catholic Conference, 2/26/19)

• Please urge your [Pa] Representative or Senator to suppot or co-sponsor Down Syndrome Protection Legislation (Pa Catholic Conference, 2/13/19) 

• Please ask your State Representative to Co-Sponsor the "Heart-Beat Bill" proposed by Stephanie Borow (Pa Catholic Conference, 2/11/19)

• Urge your State Senator to co-sponsor Sen. Judy Ward's bill on Keystone Scholarship Program (Pa Catholic Conference, 2/8/19)

• Urge your lawmakers to support [Pa] House Bill 51 which helps individuals looking to receive nursing care (Pa Catholic Conference, 2/4/19)

• [Pa] Lawmakers want to take away our right to vote for judges (Pa Pro Life Federation, 1/28/19 email

• Contact Murphy to Oppose Assisted Suicide [i.e., A1504/S1072] (NJ Catholic Conference)

On the right side of the home page, you will find links to email Church leadership about "Catholic" health care, Bucks country representation in DC, Bucks County representation in Harrisburg, Central NJ representation in DC (some updates needed) and Central NJ in Trenton (as per most recent update from NJ Catholic Conference)