‘My son, you are here with me always; everything I have is yours. But now we must celebrate and rejoice, because your brother was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.’”

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

On the 4th Sunday of Lent, Many of Us May Need to Bite Our Tongues During Homilies that Appear to MISTAKENLY Suggest that Mercy Includes Overlooking the Self-Destructiveness of Sin!  It is NOT Merciful to Fail to Proclaim the Truth!  So Many of Our Clergy Appear to Have Forgotten This!

• ProLifers' Court Date for Trenton PP Rescue is March 26 (Pro Life Educators, 3/13/19)
• While Our Blessed Mother said "Yes," we attempt slick responses!  Let us say "Yes" to human life and reject whatever is nonsensical from John Haas and his National Catholic Bioethics Center.  Haas now doubles as the head of moral theology at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary!
• Emergency so-called contraception in Catholic hospitals!
• Prominent voices very much disagree with John Haas' acceptance of so-called brain death criteria!

• "I was recently talking with a Catholic woman in her mid-twenties when the subject of annulments came up. Her immediate response was, 'It’s a joke.' If you supposed that this young adult woman was a cafeteria Catholic showing up for Mass a few times a year, picking and choosing convenient moral doctrines, you assumed wrong. She is a faithful Mass attender who knows her faith and adheres to all of the Catholic moral teachings. The Catholic Church is suffering a severe credibility crisis among faithful young adults....
  
  "I am convinced that the Catholic Church says all the right things about the indissolubility of marriage. Yet, most folks both inside and outside of the Church, as well as those on the margins, will give greater weight to what the Church does with annulments when forming opinions on just how serious the Church is about indissolubility....too many easy annulments have created a distorted perception of Catholic marital teaching. 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. Equally important is to uncover why the marriage rate of young Catholic adults is plummeting. While easy annulments are not the only cause, they are certainly one of the primary reasons why thousands of young adults hold such a low view of a sacramental church wedding that they are increasingly avoiding it altogether....
  
  "While there are many fine exceptions, overall there is a shocking lack of pastoral and parish support for those experiencing marital difficulties. Saying to a troubled spouse, 'Come see me after the divorce and I’ll help you through the annulment process,' is not support for lifelong marriage....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 Your Legislators 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)