"Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!"

 

 

• Abortion Non-Discrimination Act. SUPPORT this pro life federal legislation: https://www.votervoice.net/PACC/Campaigns/37647/Respond

• Ads from Providers of Contraceptives and Abortifacients in Parish Bulletins: Across the country, it is the rare pharmacy which does NOT sell abortifacients and contraceptives. In the Bucks County / Jersey are, the St Clare Pharmacy is the only pharmacy believed to NOT sell abortifacients and contraceptives.  Hence, it boggles the mind that

  OLA (Trenton) is advertising Vizzoni's and Episcopo's,
  OLS/St.Anthony's (Trenton) is advertising Episcopo's and Risoldi's,
  St.Ann's (Lawrenceville) is advertising McGrath's and Penlar, and
  St. Charles Borromeo (Bensalem) is advertising Riccio's!

  Seeing abonimations in parish bulletins is all the more appalling, when you consider shopkeepers who have been forced out of business, because of refusal to compromise their consciences!  Please send an email to the pastors.

• Archbishop Cordileone: Stand with him "against shameful attacks!"  https://www.lifesitenews.com/petitions/i-stand-with-archbishop-cordileone/475031 

• "Catholic" Hospitals: As per our Holy Father emeritus: ''The diocesan Bishop is obliged, if necessary, to make known to the faithful the fact that the activity of a particular charitable agency is no longer being carried out in conformity with the Church's teaching, and then to prohibit that agency from using the name 'Catholic' and to take the necessary measures should personal responsibilities emerge'' (Apostolic Letter Issued 'Motu Proprio' of the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI on the Services of Charity).  It's straightforward Truth in Advertising: If a hospital does not act Catholic, it should NOT be called "Catholic.'  Email Archbishop Chaput

• Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act of 2015 (HR 1299/S 667). SUPPORT this pro family / pro religious liberty, federal legislation: https://www.votervoice.net/FRCA/campaigns/39176/respond  
  

• Death Penalty: OPPOSE it and support the moratorium: http://www.votervoice.net/groups/pacc/Advocacy/?SiteID=-1&IssueID=29560 

• Emergency So-Called "Contraception" in Catholic Hospitals: Many are unaware that so-called emergency ''contraception'' can be used in Catholic hospitals for individuals identifying themselves as victims of sexual assault.  Advances in scientific knowledge show that such practices must immediately stop.  Email Archbishop Kurtz (USCCB president), Archbishop Chaput and the National Catholic Bioethics Center, to remind them that use of potential abortifacients has no place in "Catholic" facilities. 

• Equal education funding: SUPPORT such state efforts. http://www.votervoice.net/groups/pacc/Advocacy/?SiteID=-1&IssueID=36012

• HB 300 / SB 300.  OPPOSE this state legislation.  As the Pa Catholic Conference, “In other states, this law has shuttered Catholic adoption agencies and trampled religious liberty….Simply put, this legislation is intolerant and prejudiced against people of faith." http://www.votervoice.net/groups/pacc/Advocacy/?SiteID=-1&IssueID=33451

• HB 752.  SUPPORT this state legislation: https://www.votervoice.net/PACC/Campaigns/39294/Respond

• Health Care Conscience Rights Act (HR 940). SUPPORT this pro life federal legislation: http://nchla.org/actiondisplay.asp?ID=292

• Marriage Protection Amendment (HJ Res 32).  SUPPORT this pro family federal legislation: http://www.capwiz.com/nationformarriage/issues/alert/?alertid=63432731

• No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (S 946): SUPPORT this pro life federal legislation: http://cqrcengage.com/catholicbishops/app/write-a-letter?6&engagementId=42752

• Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (HR 36): SUPPORT this pro life federal legislation:

• Protect Women's Health from Corporate Interference Act (S 2578): OPPOSE this misleadingly named federal legislation: http://cqrcengage.com/catholicbishops/app/write-a-letter?4&engagementId=53590 
  

• SB 549: OPPOSE this state legislation.  As per the Pa Pro Life Federation, "Please contact the pro-life members of the Senate Judiciary Committee with this urgent message:  'I urge you to oppose Senate Bill 549, the assisted suicide bill. The legislation would hurt people with disabilities and the frail elderly.'  Here is the contact information for the pro-life members of the Senate Judiciary Committee:

Senator John Rafferty: jrafferty@pasen.gov (717) 787-1398

Senator Joseph Scarnati: jscarnati@pasen.gov (717) 787-7084

Senator Richard Alloway: alloway@pasen.gov

Senator John Eichelberger: jeichelberger@pasen.gov (717) 787-5490

Senator John Gordner:

http://www.senatorgordner.com/contact-me/ (717) 787-8928

Senator Dominic Pileggi: dpileggi@pasen.gov (717) 787-4712

Senator Randy Vulakovich: rvulakovich@pasen.gov (717) 787-6538

Senator Gene Yaw: gyaw@pasen.gov (717) 787-3280

Also please contact the Judiciary Committee Chair, Senator Stewart Greenleaf: sgreenleaf@pasen.gov (717) 787-6599."

• State Marriage Defense Act of 2015 (HR 824, S 435).  SUPPORT this pro family federal legislation: http://cqrcengage.com/catholicbishops/app/make-a-call?2&engagementId=81348

• Life Action Day in Harrisburg, April 13 

• March for Marriage: "We are now just six weeks away from one of the most important events in our cause to preserve marriage — the 2015 March for Marriage taking place on April 25th in Washington, DC.  The importance of this march cannot be overstated — it is our last, best hope to show the justices of the US Supreme Court that the American people demand that their views, values and votes be respected and that marriage be preserved!....Three days after the justices of the Supreme Court see the outpouring of support for marriage, they will hear oral argument in the case that could shape the legal definition of marriage in America for years to come.
  
  
  "In the weeks ahead, I will be sending you more specifics on ways you can participate and support the march — either in person or online through the Virtual March for Marriage.  Watch for updates on www.marriagemarch.org coming soon.....Cognizant of the inherent threats to religious freedom that redefining marriage presents, Representative Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY) have introduced the 2015 Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act in the US House and Senate."  If the Archdiocese does not organize buses to the March (Keep an eye on www.phillycatholiclife.org.), Amtrak can take you from Trenton to DC's Union Station in 2.5 hours (about $52, each way).  

• "This year – the 20^th anniversary of the Beijing Women’s Conference – thousands of delegates and civil society representatives are gathered in New York to assess 20 years of progress on women’s issues.  Rather than haggle late into the nights as is done each year at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, countries adopted a political declaration on the first day of the two-week conference. It makes no mention of sexual and reproductive health or rights, terms linked to abortion and sexual issues" (C-Fam, 3/13/15)

•  As per the American Life League, "Please sign the petition asking Cardinal Dolan to step down as Grand Marshall" of NYC's March 17th Parade (In Cardinal O'Connor's time, that parade could have rightly been called St. Patrick's!).

• ...Could either of our living Popes get a job in a New Jersey Catholic school?

• NY Mets Silence Christian Baseball Player for Expressing Acceptance but Disagreement with Homosexuality

• UN to Measure Countries’ Access to Abortion and LGBT Acceptance

• Uproar as US Navy chaplain may be fired over Christian views on sexuality

• Virginia bishops back Catholic groups pulling out of St. Patrick’s Parade after pro-abort governor named grand marshal

Is Moral Cowardice the "Reward" (i.e., Result) of Failure to Obey God's Law?

• Leviticus 26 assures us of blessings, "If you live in accordance with my statutes and are careful to observe my commandments."  Yet, it also describes a pathetic lack of fortitude resulting from disobedience: "You will flee though no one pursues you....Those of you who survive in the lands of their enemies, I will make so fainthearted that the sound of a driven leaf will pursue them, and they shall run as if from the sword, and fall though no one pursues them; stumbling over one another as if to escape a sword, while no one is after them—so helpless will you be to take a stand against your foes! You shall perish among the nations, swallowed up in your enemies’ country. Those of you who survive will waste away in the lands of their enemies, for their own and their ancestors’ guilt."