"...What is man that you should be mindful of him..."

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity (May 22, 2016) 

"When I behold your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you set in place —What is man that you should be mindful of him, or the son of man that you should care for him?"

• "It's been ten months since Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. Raul Labrador introduced the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA) protecting the right of Christians and people of faith to live out the truth of marriage in their daily lives and at work without fear of being punished for doing so by the federal government. Over two hundred members of Congress have added their names as co-sponsors of the legislation (S. 1598/HR 2802) but that's about all they have done [Note: NEITHER Casey NOR Toomey is a co-sponsor or S 1598.  Among U.S. representatives from Pennsylvania, NEITHER Brady, NOR Fattah, NOR Costello, NOR Meehan, NOR Fitzpatrick, NOR Shuster, NOR Barletta, NOR Boyle, NOR Doyle, NOR Dent, NOR Cartwright only is even a co-sponsor of HR 2802.]. No hearings have been scheduled and nothing of substance is happening to actually enact the legislation. It looks like all talk and no action from a do-nothing Congress.  It's time to tell Congress to get off their collective behinds and get to work to pass this critical legislation!" (National Organization for Marriage, 4/19/16)
• Click to Email Pa's Congressional Delegation, asking for Co-Sponsorship/Support of legislation backed by the U.S.Conference of Catholic Bishops (including the FADA) and/or its affiliate, the National Committee for a Human Life Amendment.
• Click to Email all of Bucks County's representatives and senators in Harrisburg, asking for opposition to ANY funding for Planned Parenthood and co-sponsorship/support of HB 1623 and HB 1948.  Ask for opposition to HB 162,  HB1510/SB974, HB 1947, and doctor prescribed suicide. 

 

  To Trump or Not to Trump

• "Analysis: Where Trump’s potential Supreme Court nominees stand on life and marriage" (LifeSiteNews, 5/20/16)
• "Dear Mr. Trump: If You Want to Make America Great Again, You’ve Got to Start with Marriage"
  
  "....If you want to make America great again, you cannot afford to ignore the role stable marriage plays in motivating our labor force and in our nation’s economic growth as a whole...." (Public Discourse, 5/20/16) 
• "The Problem of Character: Why Conservatives Must Reject Donald Trump"
  
  "....The face that is emerging for the GOP is the ugly face we have always been accused of having—misogynistic, racist, and gratuitously authoritarian. If we assent to his nomination, how can we still consider ourselves the flag bearers of the attempt to harmonize virtue and the political life?...." (Public Discourse, 5/19/16)

• "The guidance issued May 13 by the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Education that treats 'a student's gender identity as the student's sex' is deeply disturbing....Children, youth, and parents in these difficult situations deserve compassion, sensitivity, and respect. All of these can be expressed without infringing on legitimate concerns about privacy and security on the part of the other young students and parents....We pray that the government make room for more just and compassionate approaches and policies in this sensitive area, in order to serve the good of all students and parents, as well as the common good" (USCCB Chairmen Respond to Administration’s New Guidance Letter on Title IX Application", 5/16/16)
• Not even one U.S. Representatives from Pa was among the 73 signing a letter to President Obama, to protest this policy.
• Neither Senator Casey nor Senator Toomey was among 25 U.S. Senators signing a letter to President Obama, to protest this policy. 
• Among Bucks County's Representatives in Harrisburg, only Scott Petri, Craig Staats, and Kathy Watson joined in the letter from Representatives Metcalfe, Rapp, and Tallman to President Obama, to protest this policy.
• FW: Come to Harrisburg on June 7!

• "religious freedom abroad has been under serious and sustained assault....From the plight of new and longstanding prisoners of conscience, to the dramatic rise in the numbers of refugees and internally displaced persons, to the continued acts of bigotry against Jews and Muslims in Europe, and to the other abuses detailed in the 2016 annual report, there was no shortage of attendant suffering worldwide.... The incarceration of prisoners of conscience, the increase in the number of refugees, and the spread of anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim actions across Europe are crises in their own right which cry out for continued action on the part of the international community, including the United States.... such action must recognize the unmistakable fact that religious freedom is a common thread in each of these challenges, and deserves a seat at the table when nations discuss humanitarian, security, and other pressing issues. The United States and other countries must fully accord this right the respect it deserves and redouble their efforts to defend this pivotal liberty worldwide" (Robert P. George, Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, 5/2/16).
•  "We Are Asking the United Nations to Recognize Pornography and Prostitution as Forms of Torture" (National Center on Sexual Exploitation (nee, Morality in Media))
•  "Tell Amnesty International to Change Their Policy on the Decriminalization of Prostitution" (National Center on Sexual Exploitation (nee, Morality in Media))

• C-O-O-P-E-R-A-T-I-O-N
• Email pastors in Bucks with ads for an acknowledged abortifacient provider.
• Concerns about  "Catholic" hospitals in the Archdiocese: Email Archbishop Chaput
• Email Archbishop Kurtz (USCCB president), Archbishop Chaput and the National Catholic Bioethics Center, to ask for an end to the use of emergency (so-called) contraception in Catholic hospitals.