What is behind "the failure with respect to the communication of the Church’s teaching on a range of moral issues"?

• Rosary of Reparation in response to an inappropriate event at the Warminster Public Library (6/1/19, 1pm, 1076 Emma Lane)

• The Visitation (5/31/19)

• Ascension Thursday (5/30/19)

• "His Truth Is Marching On" (5/27/19)

• Abortion in the United States 2017: Preliminary Review and a Call for Reform (Charlotte Lozier Institute, 5/22/19)
  PFLI.org estimates 308 MILLION abortions in the US, since Roe v Wade!

• Vaccines from Abortion - Time to Report the Truth (COG, 5/20/19)

• "My use of the word ‘homosexualization’ ought not moreover be taken to mean that I believe a majority of priests are homosexual. That idea is manifestly false. In the sense intended here, even if only 0.01% of priests were homosexual, one could speak of the ‘homosexualization’ of the priesthood. My reflections in this article simply unfold in the context of an awakening realization that there is a problem that needs to be confronted....
  
  "Conjugal love, John Paul II teaches, 'reaches that fullness to which it is interiorly ordained, conjugal charity, which is the proper and specific way in which the spouses participate in and are called to live the very charity of Christ who gave Himself on the Cross.' These words distill and communicate the essence of St. Paul’s teaching on marriage at Eph. 5:21-33. At vv. 25-27 we read that 'Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.' This teaching is stated in striking terms by Brant Pitre. According to Pitre, Paul describes Christ 'as a bridegroom, the Church as his bride, and the crucifixion of Jesus as the kind of ancient Jewish wedding day on which he “loved” her and “gave himself” for her.' Pitre adds that 'From Paul’s point of view, the torture and crucifixion of Jesus on Calvary was nothing less than an expression of spousal love.'....
  
  "Openness to new life as the fruit of sexual union instantiates one important aspect of marital cruciformity….Heterosexual marriage is, as G.J. McAleer expresses the point, 'inescapably a call to participate in creation, to render the service of being deposed to the beginning of another person’s existence'....This helpless other – who begins perhaps to cause some headaches when he/she becomes not so helpless – is according to the teaching of Gaudium et Spes the supreme gift of marriage and contributes immensely to the good of the parents themselves since their fulfilment in Christ is cultivated and perfected by sacrifice....
  
  "although one cannot doubt that homosexual priests are validly ordained, the fact that they do not experience a natural attraction to members of the opposite sex cannot but obscure the symbolism intrinsic to the Sacrament of Holy Orders. Christ, the Bridegroom, offers his whole being in sacrifice for His Spouse, the Church. The heterosexual ordinand foregoes a wife and children in order to sacrifice His life for the sake of Christ’s Bride. That nuptial relationship is especially pronounced when the priest acts in persona Christi in confecting the Eucharist. The sacramental character proper to Holy Orders is impressed on the soul of the homosexual priest and he validly confects the Eucharist. Yet the nuptial dimension of his priestly being is somewhat lacking and this lack penetrates to the heart of the Church’s worship....
  
  "Dr. Gerard J.M. van den Aardweg...maintains that 'The less demanding, softer ways of the post-war Church partly explain why relatively many homosexually inclined and otherwise-less-masculine personality types felt attracted to the priesthood and religious life'....It is reasonable to posit some kind of connection between the homosexualization of the priesthood and the failure with respect to the communication of the Church’s teaching on a range of moral issues....On the basis of the failure to communicate effectively the Church’s moral teaching in all of its distinctiveness, I would go so far as to say that the homosexualisation of the priesthood has in its own way made a significant contribution to the progress of the culture of death in Western society" (Rev Kevin O'Reilly, 5/17/19).

• Need to REFUTE and REMOVE Fake Islamic 'Human Embryology' Teachings (Diane Irving, PhD, 5/9/19/)

 

• "stand against legislation, like Medicare for All and the Equality Act, that force tax-payers to pay for other people’s abortions and that strong arms medical professionals to violate their consciences" (March for Life Action).

• Contact your senators and representative today and urge them to oppose the [so-called] Equality Act! (USCCB)
  • UPDATE: "We are gravely disappointed with the Act’s passage in the U.S. House” (USCCB, 5/17/19).  Republican co-sponsor Brian Fitzpatrick joined Pa Democrats Boyle, Dean, Evans, Scanlon, Houlahan, Wild, Cartwright, Lamb and Doyle in the 236 to 173 betrayal - a vote against pre born children, religious freedom, and parental rights.
  • In the U.S. Senate, Robert Casey is a cosponsor of the so-called Equality Act (S.788), as are Booker and Menendez from New Jersey!
  • "A similar bill, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, passed the Senate in 2013. Four currently serving Republican senators voted in favor of that bill: Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Patrick Toomey, R-Pa." (NBCNews, 3/11/19).  

• Support the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act (USCCB)
  
  

  While Pennsylvania should be proud that Rep Mike Kelly is the primary sponsor of the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act in the House (HR 897), only two fellow Pennsylvanians (i.e., Schmucker and Reschenthaler) and one New Jersey representative (i.e., Smith) are joining him! No one from Pa or Jersey is a co-sponsor of S 274 in the Senate!   


• Trump Moves to Protect Conscience Rights of Health Care Workers (Family Policy Alliance, 5/2/19)
• "Ultimately Congress needs to pass permanent laws protecting the conscience claims that are now secured by presidential initiatives or by statutes on a year-by-year basis" (Public Discourse, 5/30/18)
Tell Your Representative to protect conscience rights and to fight against taxpayer-funded abortion [i.e. OPPOSE Medicare for All] (March for Life Action) 


• Born-Alive Legislation Deserves a Vote in the People's House (USCCB) (HLA)
• The Discharge Petition to bring the Born Alive Survivors Protection Act to a vote in the House 
• Further Action Needed to Save Babies Born Alive! (USCCB)

• Save the Hyde Amendment (March for Life Action)


• Life at Conception Act Petition (National Pro Life Alliance)

• "Senator Lindsay Graham...[has] introduced the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, a nationwide ban on abortion after 20 weeks....Senator Graham has introduced this bill or one similar every year since 2013. Although it has never received the 60 votes necessary for cloture, there is some hope that if enacted, it could now be upheld in an inevitable legal challenge due to the majority conservative Supreme Court (Live Action News, 4/11/19).
• I Cherish Life: I call on Congress to ban late term abortions when babies feel pain!(Family Policy Alliance)
  

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

• Ask the Department of Homeland Security to Rescind the "Remain in Mexico" Policy and Support Asylum Seekers by Following Existing Law (USCCB)  

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

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

• The New ERA....It Attacks Life and Women's Privacy -- Act Now to Stop It (Family Policy Alliance)

• Pa Family.org, 2019 Election Center

• Call your [Pa State] Senator to oppose assisted suicide (Pa Pro Life Federation, 4/2/19)

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

• Please urge your [Pa] Representative or Senator to support or co-sponsor Down Syndrome Protection Legislation (Pa Catholic Conference) 

• Please ask your State Representative to Co-Sponsor the "Heart-Beat Bill" proposed by Stephanie Borowicz (Pa Catholic Conference)

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

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

• [Pa] Lawmakers want to take away our right to vote for judges (Pa Pro Life Federation)
  

• NJ Governor Phil Murphy signed assisted suicide into NJ law. To express your outrage, Murphy can be reached at 609-292-6000 or https://www.state.nj.us/governor/contact.

• Ask Legislators to Increase Non Public School Funding (NJ Catholic Conference)

• Protect Viable [New Jersey] Babies in the Womb – Equal rights for children who can survive outside the womb (http://protectviablebabies.com/).

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