- After receiving an unprecedented letter from 67 bishops appealing for a delay in a discussion during the bishops' upcoming spring general assembly on whether to prepare a teaching document on the reception of Communion, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' president explained in a memo the procedure followed in bringing the question to a vote during the June 16-18 virtual meeting....Four cardinals are among those signing the letter: Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago, Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington, Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of Boston and Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey" (America, 5/26/21).
- Though it was reported elsewhere that one cardinal later removed his signature, how can cardinals and 63 other American bishops act as though the Church has not spoken clearly on this matter! (cf., Worthiness to Receive Holy Communion). How would they possibly explain their cowardly semantics to the preborn children whom they failed forthrightly defend!
- As per a 5/26/21 email from Jason Yates of My Faith Votes: "Please use our simple tool to contact your US House Representative TODAY and ask them to sign onto a rare bi-partisan letter asking Secretary of State Blinken to raise to the highest levels of diplomacy the issue of children in China, many of whom have serious physical conditions needing attention, who were in the process of being adopted until COVID struck....THE DEADLINE FOR YOUR REPRESENTATIVE TO SIGN THE LETTER IS THURSDAY, MAY 27TH, CLOSE OF BUSINESS so we need to move on this as soon as possible...YOU can impact the lives of these orphaned children who are caught in limbo by encouraging your US House Representative to sign this letter.
On behalf of all adoptive parents, thank you for taking action."
- Bishop ‘angered and sickened’ over revelations priest murdered altar boy (Crux, 5/26/21)
Sample letters provided by the USCCB "to protest the use of abortion-derived cell lines and advocate for the development of vaccines with no connection to abortion"
"In light of the scale of pedophilic misconduct, a word of Jesus has again come to attention which says: 'Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung round his neck and he were thrown into the sea' (Mark 9:42).
"The phrase 'the little ones' in the language of Jesus means the common believers who can be confounded in their faith by the intellectual arrogance of those who think they are clever. So here Jesus protects the deposit of the faith with an emphatic threat of punishment to those who do it harm....
"It is very important to oppose the lies and half-truths of the devil with the whole truth: Yes, there is sin in the Church and evil. But even today there is the Holy Church, which is indestructible. Today there are many people who humbly believe, suffer and love, in whom the real God, the loving God, shows Himself to us. Today God also has His witnesses (martyres) in the world. We just have to be vigilant in order to see and hear them" (Benedict XVI, 4/10/19).New Video Exposes University of Pittsburgh Experiments on Aborted Babies (Pa Family Institute, 5/3/21)
"Dr. Paul R. McHugh is University Distinguished Service Professor in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he served as Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Psychiatrist-in-Chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1975 to 2001....
"....when I looked at the scientific evidence of these things, the very idea that these things were immutable, and discrete, and people were 'born that way,' it didn’t work from the science point of view, and they might, in our society, not be such good ideas, not good things for people to believe....
"children, young people, who believe that they belong in the opposite sex, if permitted to go through puberty normally, 85 to 95 percent of them will at the end of that time say 'No, I am who I am.' But if you give them the puberty blockers at age nine or ten, only 5 or 10 percent at the end of that time will say 'I don’t want to go on further'....
"PM: ....what’s going to happen in my opinion, at least with the young, the people under the age of twenty-one, will be that there will be huge lawsuits" (Public Discourse, 5/20/21).
Email NJ's congressional delegation and Email Pa's congressional delegation to request they
SUPPORT
& OPPOSE
HJ Res 17 / SJ Res 1,
the misnamed Equality and Do No Harm Acts,
efforts to weaken the Hyde Amendment (2)
funding for Planned Parenthood (and all involved with abortion.).
HR 1 / S 1,
and any COVID relief funds for abortion!
Also Tell President Biden that you oppose
the anti life HJ Res 17 & SJ Res 1,the anti life Equality Act(& so-called Do No Harm Act),any weakening of the Hyde Amendment,any funding for Planned Parenthood and others involved with abortionthe anti freedom HR 1/ S 1,any COVID bills that fund abortion
Email all Burlington, Mercer, Monmouth, & Ocean delegations in Trenton
Action Needed to Oppose the NJ Reproductive Freedom Act (S3030/A4848) (NJ Right to Life)
New Jersey Right to Life PAC Election Information - June 9, 2021 Primary Election
Email the Bucks delegation in Harrisburg, to defend human life (e.g., promote HB 118, the Final Disposition of Fetal Remains Act;HB 1500, the Down Syndrome Protection Act; HB 904, the Fetal Heartbeat Bill) and marriage/family, as well as to promote conscience protection/religious freedom
Stop Harmful Marijuana Legalization in Pennsylvania (Pa Family Institute, 3/15/21)Pass the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act (Pa Family, 4/7/21)
"The PA Catholic Conference (PCC)... called on the University of Pittsburgh to stop all experiments with aborted babies & for Pennsylvania lawmakers to open a full investigation into the extent of this practice. 'We are horrified by reports that researchers at the school used scalps from aborted babies to create so-called ‘humanized mice’ for research,' said PCC Executive Director Eric Failing" (Pa Catholic Conference, 5/7/21)
The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
"45. Can the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity be known by the light of human reason alone?"
"48. How does the Church express her trinitarian faith?"
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