Faithful Citizenship in Pa's 1st Congressional District and the Central Garden State: CUA, So called sex change surgery, religious exemptions, fetal cell research, so called brain death and more....

Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Mass Readings for the Assumption (8/15/21)

Memorial of St Maximilian Kolbe, August 14

Before making Archbishop Perez's requested gift to the Catholic University of America, please ask yourselves why CUA's law school proudly displays the names of such "champions" of marriage "redefinition" as alumnus Senator Bob Casey and alumnus NY Gov-to-be Kathy Hochul? Casey and Hochul have also failed to consistently defend pre born humans. And CUA is proud of them?

Texas determines sex-change surgery for minors is child abuse (TheBlaze, 8/12/21)

Director Abel Ferrara Pursuing Shia LeBeouf for Comeback Role as Italian Saint Padre Pio (Variety, 8/12/21)

Cardinal Cupich Reportedly ‘Leaning Hard’ on Bioethics Center to Retract Stance on COVID Vaccine Exemptions (National Catholic Register, 8/12/21)
As per an 8/10/21 phone conversation with Archbishop Perez's secretary, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia is NOT supporting religious exemptions to the COVID 19 vaccine mandates "at this time." Does anyone know whether Jersey's bishops will support Catholics' right to religious exemptions?

"The bishops of Colorado published an Aug. 6 letter stating that '...we continue to support religious exemptions from any and all vaccine mandates.' Their statement provided a template religious exemption letter for pastors — the very kind of letter the NY archdiocese told pastors they should not sign" (The Pillar, 8/10/2)

Bioethicist: There must be conscience exemptions to vaccine mandates (CNA, 8/4/21)
Joint Statement: Vaccines and Conscience Protection (American College of Pediatricians, Catholic Medical Associations, Christian Medical and Dental Association, National Association of Catholic Nurses, U.S.A., 3/24/21)

Letters to Pharmaceutical Companies ["to protest the use of abortion-derived cell lines and advocate for the development of vaccines with no connection to abortion."] (USCCB)

"Pope Francis has appointed the co-inventors of the CRISPR genome editing technology to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences....Their discovery sparked research into new treatments for cancer and other diseases, earning the two female scientists the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, but it also poses a host of bioethical questions....National Catholic Bioethics Center President Joseph Meaney has condemned experimentation on human embryos.... Meaney added that it could be permissible to use this gene editing technology to correct genetic problems in adults who can give their informed consent after it had been safely tested in animals" (CNA, 8/12/21).

If you want to stop fetal cell research, don't buy these products (HLI, 8/12/21)

Fort Tryon Park, the Shrine of St. Frances Cabrini, & the Cloisters (5/9/15 update)

Email Bishop O'Connell and Archbishop Perez to ask that James Martin, SJ, NOT be allowed to mislead & scatter their flocks.

"Monsignor Patrick Corish, who died in 2013, was the Professor of Modern History in St. Patrick’s College Maynooth when he wrote ‘The Catholic Community in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries’ in 1981.... this short book is of particular interest for contemporary observers reflecting on the recent collapse of the Catholic Church in Ireland. Dramatic though the fall in the Church’s moral authority and social standing has been, it pales in comparison with what Catholics endured between 1600-1800....Corish’s book shows that hardly any of today’s difficulties...are unprecedented. It also shows that a community which has lost so much can recover and rebuild. It has happened before, and could happen again" (Mercator.net, 8/8/21).