Dear Pastors: If you don't know pharmacies sell abortifacients and contraceptives, you're not getting out too much!

(This is a Good Friday 2019 update of parish bulletins to check, to ensure that there is no advertising for providers of abort (The(Thets…. be

• St. Agnes, Sellersville
• St. Andrew, Newtown
• Assumption BVM, Feasterville
• St. Bede the Venerable, Holland
• St. Charles Borromeo, Bensalem
• St. Christopher, Philadelphia
• St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Jamison
• St. Ephrem, Bensalem
• St. Frances Cabrini, Fairless Hills
• Holy Trinity, Morrisville
• St. Ignatius of Antioch, Yardley
• St. Isidore, Quakertown
• St. John Bosco, Hatboro
• St. John the Baptist, Ottsville
• St. John the Evangelist, Morrisville
• St. Joseph, Warrington
• St. Jude, Chalfont
• St. Lawrence, Riegelsville
• St. Mark, Bristol
• St. Martin of Tours, New Hope
• St. Michael the Archangel, Levittown
• Nativity of Our Lord, Warminster
• Our Lady of Good Counsel, Southampton
• Our Lady of Grace, Penndel
• Our Lady of Guadalupe, Buckingham
• Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Doylestown
• Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Hilltown
• St. Philip Neri, Pennsburg
• Queen of the Universe, Levittown
• St. Robert Bellarmine, Warrington
• St. Thomas Aquinas, Croydon
• St. Vincent de Paul, Richboro )

In the 86 years since the Lambeth Conference and Casti Connubii, we appear to to have witnessed what Pope Pius XI would call a "guilty silence" by innumerable pastors.  

Making that even worse is that we now know that some so-called contraceptives can act in an abortifacient manner. 

It is widely estimated that there have been almost 58 million pre born babies killed by abortion in the United States (cf., LifeNews.com), since 1973.  As hideous and staggering as that genocidal total appears, it pales in comparison to the more accurate estimate.  If you count pre born babies killed by the abortifacient effects of chemicals and devices thought to be "merely" contraceptive, the estimate soars to 308 million (cf., Pharmacists for Life International).  As that is the only honest number, it is the only number that pro life people should cite.  Perhaps, ignorance about actual totals and the deadly effect of certain "contraceptives" have been complicit in one quarter billion additional deaths!

Are providers of abortifacients/contraceptives included in parish bulletins?  At minimum, questions need to be posed to our pastors - to most of our pastors:   

	2/20/16 update on 2/1/16 list
St. Agnes, Sellersville	You advertise Grandview Medical Practices <www.gvmp.org>, which includes OB-GYN and Maternal Fetal Medicine.  How have you vetted that they practice in manners consistent with Catholic medical ethics?
St. Andrew, Newtown
Assumption BVM, Feasterville
St. Bede the Venerable, Holland	Since you advertise Village Shires Pharmacy <http://www.villageshirespharmacy.com>, how have you vetted that they practice in manners consistent with Catholic medical ethics and do not sell abortifacients/contraceptives?
St. Charles Borromeo, Bensalem	Since you advertise Riccio Family Pharmacy <http://www.ricciofamilypharmacy.com/>, how have you vetted that they practice in manners consistent with Catholic medical ethics and do not sell abortifacients/contraceptives?
St. Christopher, Philadelphia
St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Jamison
St. Ephrem, Bensalem	Since you advertise Riccio Family Pharmacy <http://www.ricciofamilypharmacy.com/>, how have you vetted that they practice in manners consistent with Catholic medical ethics and do not sell abortifacients/contraceptives?
St. Frances Cabrini, Fairless Hills	It MAY be the case that Oxford Valley Pharmacy <http://www.oxfordvalleypharmacy.com/> does NOT sell abortifacients/contraceptives.  Since you advertise them, how have you vetted that they indeed practice in manners consistent with Catholic medical ethics and do not sell abortifacients/contraceptives?
Holy Trinity, Morrisville
St. Ignatius of Antioch, Yardley
St. Isidore, Quakertown	You advertise Grandview Medical Practices <www.gvmp.org>, which includes OB-GYN and Maternal Fetal Medicine.  How have you vetted that they practice in manners consistent with Catholic medical ethics?
St. John Bosco, Hatboro
St. John the Baptist, Ottsville
St. John the Evangelist, Morrisville	Your bulletin advertises Shop Rite, which in turn even advertises the Plan B abortifacient <http://www.shoprite.com/pd/Plan-B/OneStep-Emergency-Contraceptive/1-ct/351285162885/4E53123746/>!
St. Joseph, Warrington
St. Jude, Chalfont
St. Lawrence, Riegelsville
St. Mark, Bristol
St. Martin of Tours, New Hope	Your bulletin advertises Shop Rite, which in turn even advertises the Plan B abortifacient <http://www.shoprite.com/pd/Plan-B/OneStep-Emergency-Contraceptive/1-ct/351285162885/4E53123746/>!
St. Michael the Archangel, Levittown
Nativity of Our Lord, Warminster
Our Lady of Good Counsel, Southampton
Our Lady of Grace, Penndel
Our Lady of Guadalupe, Buckingham
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Doylestown
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Hilltown	You advertise Grandview Medical Practices <www.gvmp.org>, which includes OB-GYN and Maternal Fetal Medicine.  How have you vetted that they practice in manners consistent with Catholic medical ethics?
St. Philip Neri, Pennsburg	You advertise Grandview Medical Practices <www.gvmp.org>, which includes OB-GYN and Maternal Fetal Medicine.  How have you vetted that they practice in manners consistent with Catholic medical ethics?
Queen of the Universe, Levittown	It MAY be the case that Oxford Valley Pharmacy <http://www.oxfordvalleypharmacy.com/> does NOT sell abortifacients/contraceptives.  Since you advertise them, how have you vetted that they indeed practice in manners consistent with Catholic medical ethics and do not sell abortifacients/contraceptives?
St. Robert Bellarmine, Warrington
St. Thomas Aquinas, Croydon	Since you advertise Mat’s Pharmancy & Medical Supply <http://www.matspharmacypa.com >, how have you vetted that they practice in manners consistent with Catholic medical ethics and do not sell abortifacients/contraceptives?
St. Vincent de Paul, Richboro

Many who should know better are displaying inadequate understandings of "cooperation," "formal cooperation," "material cooperation," "immediate (v. mediate) material cooperation," "passive/negative cooperation," and "scandal", seemingly dismissing moral culpability for advertising content in parish bulletins.  

Email Msgr Prior and Father Kindon, to remind them that an acknowledged provider of the Plan B abortifacient should NOT be appearing in a parish bulletin.