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, July 27, 2025

8/3: 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time

 The Transfiguration

Hiroshima and Nagasaki [August 6 & 9]

18th Sunday in Ordinary Time
                • "all those who believe in the sanctity of life, regardless of whether they support or oppose the theoretical validity of brain-death criteria, [should] oppose the use of brain-death criteria to obtain organs for transplantation in clinical practice. We can then, as a single voice, support medical research seeking innovative, morally uncontentious ways to replace failing organs" (National Catholic Register, 10/25/21)

  • Islamists and the Tragedy of Holy Family Church (First Things, 7/23/25)
      "While the tragic incident underscores the vulnerability of civilians in conflict zones, Western outrage—if lacking nuance—risks playing into Hamas’s narrative of indiscriminate Israeli aggression, ultimately serving its strategic aims."
  • Subsidiarity, Charity, and the Good Samaritan (Fr Jerry Pokorsky, 7/14/25)
      The Catholic social principle of subsidiarity is central to Catholic thinking but neglected by most of us. The principle holds that the smallest, lowest, or least centralized component of authority should handle the responsibilities and circumstances of everyday living....
      Government programs that fund Planned Parenthood violate the Fifth Commandment. The massive national debt steals from future generations and violates the Seventh Commandment....
      Except where budgetary questions directly violate the Commandments, the clergy should defer to the laity.

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