4/28/84: 5th Sunday of Easter

St Joseph the Worker, 5/1/24

 St Catherine of Siena, 4/29/24

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.

(Sign/Voice)

(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)

• Terrorists murder catechist in Burkina Faso (Catholic Herald, 4/20/24)

• Twenty-nine Nigerian Christians slaughtered in three-day pogrom (Catholic Herald, 4/19/24)

• Planned Parenthood Performed More Abortions Than Ever Last Year – And Got Another Raise from Taxpayers (CatholicVote org, 4/19/24)

• Boston Catholic Schools Foundation Features Pro-Abortion, Pro-LGBTQ Guv At Fundraising Gala (CatholicVote org, 4/19/24)

• Majority of Catholic Women’s Colleges Enroll Men Who Identify As Trans Women (Daily Signal, 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)

• Jesuit University to Host Annual ‘Drag’ Show Friday (Complicit Clergy, 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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