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, April 21, 2024

4/28/84: 5th Sunday of Easter


Anyone who does not remain in Me
will be thrown out like a branch and wither; people will gather them & throw them into a fire & they will be burned.

(includes fingerspelling mistake(s))

Pro Life / Pro Family Advocate Mark Houck deserves our support!

  • Message for the 61st World Day of Prayer for Vocations 2024 (Pope Francis, 4/21/24)
    • "Have you ever considered, dear husbands and wives, that among the diverse states and callings of Christian life there are only two for which Our Lord has instituted a sacrament?.... May our good Lord and Master Jesus Christ, Restorer of marriage as it was divinely formed in the beginning, infuse into your hearts an understanding and love of the incomparable mission entrusted to you in the Church through this sacrament and give you the nobility of spirit, the courage and the faith needed to remain always loyal to it" (Pope Pius XII, 1/15/41)
  • Planned Parenthood Performed More Abortions Than Ever Last Year – And Got Another Raise from Taxpayers (CatholicVote org, 4/19/24)

  • NPR editor Uri Berliner resigns after essay accusing outlet of liberal bias (USA Today, 4/18/24)
  • "there are many other roads to having children which are natural, moral, less costly, & without the [absolute immorality,] high medical & psychological risks involved with IVF. These paths are less known, scientifically sound, and yet denounced by the larger, more profitable industry which the baby-making machines of assisted reproductive technology have become.
    "Natural Procreative Technology, more commonly called NaPro Technology, uses medicines and surgical techniques to overcome certain inabilities to conceive a child or to assist the body naturally to achieve conception. Doctors have a 30-year-plus track record with scientific research understanding the fertility cycle better than any IVF clinic." (Christopher Bell, 4/16/24)

"TAKE ACTION: Contact Cheryl McConnell, President of St. Joseph’s University, at 610.660.1000 to let her know what you think.
 
Then contact Archbishop Nelson Perez at 215-587-0506 or dhuddell@archphila.org and urge him to put a stop to this scandal from happening at a Catholic university."

  • Report: Biden Campaign ‘Plans to Spend Every Day’ Until November Focusing on Abortion (Breitbart, 4/15/24)
  • "....Reason 1: Tormented by tunnel vision....The pro-life movement has focused primarily on abortion as a disease in need of a cure rather than the symptom of a different problem. Indeed, it ultimately became so preoccupied with fighting narrow legal and regulatory battles that it completely missed, or otherwise ignored, the emerging war involving abortifacients....
    "Reason 2:
     A Confused Mind Doesn’t Buy....
    "Reason 3: Speaking with a Forked Tongue....
    For decades, the pro-life movement has waffled on when to hold the law accountable to protect innocent life, and when to give it a pass....This is garden-variety hypocrisy....Every time the pro-life movement contradicts its own premises and makes the intentional killing of some human life politically negotiable, it loses a bit more of its legitimacy. 
    "Reason 4: Dogged by the Denial of Fetal Personhood....

    "Reason 5: Misunderstood the Mission....
    Yes, Dobbs overturned Roe, but only to the extent that a woman’s 'right to privacy' does not include a right to an abortion; it completely sidestepped Roe’s denial of fetal personhood. Failing to state that human life begins at fertilization, an objective truth the science of embryology has confirmed for ages was a stunning omission, especially for the “case that overturned Roe.” It is also the only thing standing in the way of total victory for life. Fetal personhood is the death knell of legalized abortion. Yet, the slaughter continues....
    "Conclusion....
    Unless and until the pro-life movement declares that no life is negotiable and demands, once and for all, that the law fulfill its obligations to every human, it will continue to lose not just on abortion, but in the coming contests around IVF, surrogacy, and euthanasia...." (Kelley Keller, 5 reasons pro-life keeps losing at the polls, 4/11/24)

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Sunday, April 14, 2024

4th Sunday of Easter (4/21/24)

“I am the Good Shepherd.
A good shepherd lays down
His life for the sheep"

          • Accidental Incest Exposes Dangers of Fertility Industry (HLI, 4/8/24)
          • Planet Fitness Backlash: Says Men OK to Use Women's Dressing Rooms (AFA, 3/20/24)
          • We need our Holy Father and others to demonstrate an acutely improved understanding of God's gift of authentic marriage/family (Catholic365, 3/3/24
            • We still need our Holy Father & his associates "to demonstrate an acutely improved understanding of God's gift of authentic marriage/family" (Catholic365, 4/12/24)
          • Woman known as 'the matriarch of pro-life activism' is facing 11 years in prison (LiveAction, 9/12/23)
            • A Chance Meeting with a Saint on the 48th Anniversary of Roe v Wade (1/22/21)

            Monday, April 8, 2024

            The Annunciation

             

            • The Annunciation
              • "Though we often fail to speak this way, the Annunciation – not Christmas – marks the very start of Christ’s human life! ...Nazareth was the place where the Archangel Gabriel announced to young Mary that she would conceive and give birth to the Savior" (Catholic Stand, 3/1/22)

            Sunday, April 7, 2024

            3rd Sunday of Easter (4/14/24)



            • Africa’s population “targeted for decimation”: Catholic Pro-lifers on WHO Birth Control Strategies (aciafrica, 4/6/24)
              • Man accused of intentionally setting fire to N.J. Catholic church (nj.com, 4/5/24)
              • Over 700 Baptized on Easter Sunday in Nigerian Catholic Diocese Despite Rise in Attacks Targeting Christians (aciafrica, 4/4/24)


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              Friday, April 5, 2024

              Catholic Vote Campaigns & More


              • ABSOLUTELY NO to slaughtering human infants - before or after birth!
              • ABSOLUTELY NO to mutilating kids' gonads or any other promotion of transgenderism.
              • ABSOLUTELY NO to pretending that support for monogamous heterosexual marriage is a hate crime.
              Being faithful to the teachings of Jesus' Church (and authentic science!) in the public sphere will not enhance your popularity.  
               

              Monday, April 1, 2024

              Divine Mercy Sunday (4/7/24)


                • "the theoretical argument against scheduled confessions during the Paschal Triduum is unjustified.... the Church’s first, foremost, & constant mission is reconciliation & communion. Not liturgical preparations. Not flower arrangements. Not cleaning the church. Not blessing foods" (Crisis Magazine, 3/26/24)

                Monday, March 25, 2024

                "For they did not yet understand the Scripture that He had to rise from the dead" (Easter Sunday, 3/31)

                The Empty Tomb is All the Proof We Need

                The Holy Sepulchre

                Palm Sunday & Holy Week images

                • Nigerians Need Now “more than ever before” Courage to Address Multiple Societal Evils (aciAfrica, 3/24/24)

                • ‘Her Daughter Was Given a Chest Binder by Her School’–Fighting the Liberal Agenda in the States (DailySignal, 3/20/24)
                • Despite Bans, Number of Abortions in the United States Increased in 2023 (Guttmacher Institute, 3/19/24; This is not even counting the abortifacient effect of some "contraceptives"!  Guttmacher is a Planned Parenthood affiliate.)
                • In Vitro Fertilization: The Human Cost (USCCB, 3/11/24)
                  • [Dignitas Personae:] A Call to Everyone to Courageously Defend Human Life (Amazon review, 1/11/09)
                    • Abortifacients, Contraception, and Emergency "so called" Contraception (Catholic365, 6/5/23)
                      • "ANY use of contraceptives is also absolutely wrong.  They separate the unitive and procreative aspects of the marital act" (Catholic365, 6/6/23)


                2.) Select "The Resurrection Tomb of Christ."

                The easiest way to discredit Jesus would be to come up with His body and disprove His resurrection.  No one ever did, and no one ever will.  Instead, we human try in all ways of manner to change the subject.  Yet, Jesus Christ is risen today!


                Tuesday, March 19, 2024

                Palm Sunday (3/24) - the start of Holy Week

                Palm Sunday,
                the start of Holy Week
                  • "As America’s second Catholic president, Biden received considerable pushback from the U.S. bishops for his pro-abortion stance early in his presidency, but Church leaders have been curiously silent as he promises to bring back abortion-on-demand as the law of the land"(Thomas D Williams, PhD, 3/19/24).
                    • How Does Any Bishop, Cleric, State Catholic Conference &/or [Arch]Diocesan Respect Life Office Fail to Condemn the Championing of Abortion & Disrespect for the Family Established by a Wife, Husband, and Their Kids?  (Catholic365, 3/16/24)
                  • Hundreds of Nigerian school kids abducted in broad daylight (Aletia, 3/14/24)
                  • Elon Musk, Matt Walsh highlight study showing transgender surgeries double risk of suicide (LifeSite, 3/14/24)
                    • "Rates of psychiatric emergencies are high both before and after [so called] gender affirming surgery. Although both the phalloplasty and vaginoplasty patients have similar overall rates of psychiatric encounters, suicide attempts are more common in the later. In fact, our observed rate of suicide attempts in the phalloplasty group is actually similar to the general population, while the vaginoplasty group's rate is more than double that of the general population. Patients undergoing GAS with a history of prior psychiatric emergences or feminizing transition are at higher risk and should be counseled appropriately" (Journal of Urology, 2021)

                  Tuesday, March 12, 2024

                  Courage, Catholic Relief Services, Fiducia Supplicans, Nigeria,


                  • "priests, reinforced by the gift of celibacy, have an easier time proclaiming the truth than the laity. At the moment, priests can speak freely from the pulpit. The worst the clergy can expect is the loss of parishioners, reduced parish revenue, or the occasional rebuke of ecclesiastical authorities. Indeed, priests receive their salaries before the parish pays the utility bills. Unlike the laity smothered by corporate and government political correctness, priests and bishops have no excuse for failing to preach the Gospel" (Rev Jerry Pokorsky, 3/11/24).

                  Sunday, March 10, 2024

                  3/17 - 5th Sunday of Lent

                  Lent in the Holy Land 




                    • We need our Holy Father and others to demonstrate an acutely improved understanding of God's gift of authentic marriage/family (Catholic365, 3/3/24)
                    • Re: "Catholics United on Brain Death and Organ Donation: A Call to Action calls for an immediate moratorium on the transplantation of vital organs." (2/27/24)

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