in Pennsylvania's First Congressional District
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania's_1st_congressional_district http://archphila.org/pastplan/MAPS/Arch.pdf
and the Central Garden State

Sunday, March 1, 2020

"And He was transfigured before them" (2nd Sunday of Lent).

 http://www.josemariaescriva.info/article/in-the-footprints-of-our-faith-mount-tabor3a-basilica-of-the-transfiguration
 http://www.josemariaescriva.info/article/in-the-footprints-of-our-faith-mount-tabor3a-basilica-of-the-transfiguration
http://www.josemariaescriva.info/article/in-the-footprints-of-our-faith-mount-tabor3a-basilica-of-the-transfiguration
http://www.josemariaescriva.info/article/in-the-footprints-of-our-faith-mount-tabor3a-basilica-of-the-transfiguration
http://www.josemariaescriva.info/article/in-the-footprints-of-our-faith-mount-tabor3a-basilica-of-the-transfiguration
http://www.josemariaescriva.info/article/in-the-footprints-of-our-faith-mount-tabor3a-basilica-of-the-transfiguration
(Unless otherwise indicated, the above photos were taken at Mt. Tabor in Israel on 3/9/17.)
  • Hundreds of thousands forced to flee as attacks continue in Burkina Faso (CNS, 3/2/20
  • "the U.S. House of Representatives failed to advance the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. A procedural vote to amend another piece of legislation (H.R. 2339, Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act of 2019) to include the Born Alive Abortion Survivors’ Protection Act failed by a vote of 187 to 220 [link added]" (USCCB, 2/28/20).

International Concerns

  • Support the Heartbeat Bill, HR 3985 (cf, LifeSite)
  • Support the Life at Conception Act
  • Support the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act (cf, USCCB)
  • Support H. Con. Res. 79, that assisted suicide is a “deadly, discriminatory and non-compassionate practice” (USCCB
  • Opppose the Misnamed International Violence Against Women Act (cf, C-Fam)
  • Oppose HJ Res 79, as it is "intended to insert language into the U.S. Constitution that could invalidate any limits whatsoever on abortion, including late abortions, and require government funding of abortion"  (cf, NRLC
  • Oppose the Misleadingly Named Medicare for All Act (cf., Politico)
  • Support the Equal Campus Act, HR3243/S1168 (USCCB)
  • Support the Farm Workforce Modernization Act (cf., USCCB)
  • Support S. 2394/HR2529, the New START Nuclear Weapons Treaty (USCCB
  • NO to "the Shaheen amendment...[in] the Senate’s State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs (SFOPS) appropriations bill" (Human Life Action).

The Commonwealth of Pa

(Pa Catholic Conference Legislative Review and Voter Voice)
  • Support the Telemedicine Bill (SB 857) as passed by the Pa House (Pa Catholic Conf)
  • Please ask the governor, Pa Senate and Pa Assembly for a religious exemption for adoptions (Pa Catholic Conference(See also the Pa Family Council link.)
  • Call for Funding Increase for Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) (Pa Catholic Conference)  
    • Please ask Governor Wolf to SIGN House Bill 800 on the Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) (Pa Catholic Conference)

Pennsylvania March for Life [Harrisburg, 5/18/20] 

Pa ProLife Federation petition


The Garden State

  • "Legislation (S2173/A3818) to remove a religious exemption and mandate immunizations for children....this legislation undermines parental rights and should be vigorously opposed" (NJRTL email, 1/10/20).

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