Petition urges CDC to update misleading info on natural family planning (Arlington Catholic Herald, June 13, 2017)

http://www.catholicherald.com/News/Catholic_Living/Health___Wellness/Petition_urges_CDC_to_update_misleading_info_on_natural_family_planning/

Ask the CDC to report accurate data on side-effect free and effective Fertility Awareness Based Methods

http://petition.naturalwomanhood.org/cdc/

Call your state rep now on an important pro-life issue (Pa Pro Life, 6/27/17)

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From: Maria
Sent: ‎6/‎27/‎2017 9:57 AM
To: gallagher@paprolife.org
Subject: Call your state rep now on an important pro-life issue

Dear Pro-Life Leaders,

 

Please call and email your state representative now with this important message: "I do not want my right to vote for judges to be taken away. Please oppose House Bill 111!"

 

Pro-abortion groups such as the ACLU, the Women's Law Project, and billionaire abortion backer George Soros want to take away your right to vote for judges for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the Superior Court, and the Commonwealth. Instead, they want a pro-abortion Governor to appoint these judges based on a list of names submitted by a small, elite group of unelected, unaccountable people. That's why we need to work to defeat House Bill 111, which would set up a system of so-called "merit selection" of judges—taking away the people's right to vote for these important office holders.  

 

If you don't know who your state representative is, or you need contact information, please visit http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/findyourlegislator/#address .

 

Thank you for making these critical calls and sending these important emails!

 

All the best,

 

Maria V. Gallagher

Legislative Director

Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation

www.paprolife.org

717-541-0034

 

"...Elisha promised, 'This time next year you will be fondling a baby son.'"

 On the right side of the home page is a link to email the White House and the Pa Delegation in D.C. on federal/international matters, as well as a link to email the Bucks County Delegation in Harrisburg on state matters.

7/2/17, 13th Sunday  in Ordinary Time

• National NFP Awareness Week 2017 

• Solemnity of Saints Peter (1,2) and Paul (1), Apostles (6/29/17)

• Memorial of St. Irenaeus (1), Bishop and Martyr (6/28/17)

• Nuncio encourages Christians to return to Iraq (CNA, 6/27/17)
  
• Terrorists desecrate Eucharist, destroy Catholic chapel in the Philippines (EWTN/CNA, 6/27/17)

• South Sudan churches decry warring factions for ignoring people’s needs (CNS, 6/26/17)

• Who is Karen Handel, winner of that big Georgia race? Surprise! Press ignored a key angle (Terry Mattingly, 6/26/17)

• Message of the Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development on the occasion of the International Day against Abuse and Illicit Trafficking of Drugs (6/26/17)

• Clergy in Middle East must be the ‘last among the least’, says Pope (Catholic Herald, 6/25/17) 

• This beautiful church was a gift from Slovakia to Icelandic Catholics (CNA, 6/24/17)

• How the Church is helping Christians return to Aleppo (EWTN/CNA, 6/23/17)

• Free to Serve (USCCB, 6/22/17)

• The OAS 47th General Assembly: New Hope for Life and the Family in the Americas (C-Fam, 6/22/17)


• Fortnight for Freedom 2017 (USCCB, 6/21/17 - 7/4/17)

• Elder abuse is a clear and present danger in the euthanasia debate(Mercatornet, 6/15/17)

• What can priests practically do to combat the porn epidemic? (EWTN, 6/14/17)

• Decree Regarding Same Sex "Marriage" and Related Pastoral Issues (Bishop Paprocki, 6/12/17) 

State Issues (6/27/17 update)

Pa Catholic Conference

Prioritize Funding for Women's Primary Health Care

"Health care facilities that provide a wide range of women's services should have priority for receiving our limited federal and state tax dollars over those that offer limited services and focus on abortion....Please support Senate Bill 300."

Support Positive Reform for Sexual Abuse Statutes of Limitation

"The positive, prospective changes in SB 261 will hold more abusers accountable for their crimes and will require all organizations, public and private, to improve their vigilance for keeping the children in their care safe. The Senate determined that amendments to allow retroactive lawsuits to be filed would be unconstitutional in Pennsylvania.  Regardless, it is definitely unfair to today's individual Catholics. Bankrupting my parish, Catholic school, or diocese today penalizes the wrong people for the crimes of the past."

Support a Better Life for Human Trafficking Victims

While the Pa Catholic Conference is supporting SB 554, the  fact that Senator Daylin Leach is one of its prime sponsors suggests that there should be careful assessment of  whether this legislation and its implications are truly consistent with Catholic teaching

Act Now to Support Increasing Education Tax Credits!

"House Bill 250, which would increase tax credits available under the Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) program by $50 million (raising it to $175 million) and the Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC) program by $25 million (raising it to $75 million), overwhelmingly passed the House of Representatives with bipartisan support....urge all lawmakers to invest in success and support the expansion of the Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) and Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC) programs by voting YES on a state budget that includes an increase in the programs' line items."

What "Government School" Means (NYTimes, 7/31/17)
While this article tries to associate any MODERN critiques of public schools with historical racism and "anti-Catholicism," it particularly fails to make the latter connection.

End Brutal Dismemberment Abortions

After passing both chambers, are we shamefully seeing SB 3 stalemated and HB 77 stalemated?

No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion

Federal issue - "Urge our [United States] Senators to support H.R. 7 to permanently protect our tax dollars from paying for or promoting elective abortions."

Should Doctors Be Neutral on Suicide?

Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Religious Liberty

"proposals which seek to add 'gender identity or expression' and 'sexual orientation' to Pennsylvania's non-discrimination law....[are] intolerant and prejudiced against people of faith"

Pa Pro Life Federation 

Call your state rep now on an important pro-life issue (Pa Pro Life, 6/27/17)

FW: Act Now to Support Increasing Education Tax Credits!

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From: Pennsylvania Catholic Conference
Sent: ‎6/‎26/‎2017 8:07 AM
To: Faithful InTheEighth
Subject: Act Now to Support Increasing Education Tax Credits!

Pennsylvania's constitutional deadline of June 30 to pass a state budget is quickly approaching.House Bill 250, which would increase tax credits available under the Educational Improvement Tax Credit

Pennsylvania's constitutional deadline of June 30 to pass a state budget is quickly approaching. House Bill 250, which would increase tax credits available under the Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) program by $50 million (raising it to $175 million) and the Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC) program by $25 million (raising it to $75 million), overwhelmingly passed the House of Representatives with bipartisan support. Budget negotiations are taking place and this issue is currently being considered, so NOW is the time to remind members of the House to maintain support for an increase and to urge state senators to follow suit by voting for EITC and OSTC increases! The EITC and the OSTC programs have always achieved bipartisan support and have been acclaimed as two of the best educational programs Pennsylvania offers to students in both public and private schools. The tax credit scholarships have been an investment that has paid dividends for students seeking a Catholic or other private education in Pennsylvania. Every Catholic school in all corners of this great Commonwealth benefits from the EITC or OSTC programs. Each year more than 40,000 families get a scholarship that permits the parents to send their children to a school that best meets their needs. It gives these families a true choice in the right educational path for their children. We need your help to urge all lawmakers to invest in success and support the expansion of the Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) and Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC) programs by voting YES on a state budget that includes an increase in the programs' line items.    Click the link below to log in and send your message: https://www.votervoice.net/BroadcastLinks/KrO43wcmQEC22YP0l4FTDQ Find us on Follow us on Subscribe to To manage your alert preferences including the issues about which you'd like to receive alerts, click here

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The Church of Peter's Primacy in the Holy Land

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http://www.custodia.org/default.asp?id=1895

http://www.josemariaescriva.info/article/footprints-of-our-faith-tabgha-church-of-the-primacy

National NFP Awareness Week 2017

National NFP Awareness Week (USCCB, 7/23/17 - 7/29/17) 

• Quick Explanation re Catholic Teaching and Contraception (Video)
• How the Pill Works as an Abortifacient (Video)
• An Introduction to Church Teaching on Contraception (Human Life International)
• Humanae Vitae: Its 48th anniversary (July 25, 2016)
• The Importance of ‘Humanae Vitae’ — a Testimony to the Truth (Archbishop Chaput, National Catholic Register, 6/20/17) 
• After shameful dissent to Humanae Vitae, a post Humane Vitae silence has largely continued for nearly half a century. If we love our clergy, don't those of us who embrace the Theology of the Body and NFP bear special responsibility to remind them that the Church's teaching has never been abrogated?
• Breaking Silence: Catholics, Contraception, and Same-Sex Marriage (Catholic Stand, 7/8/13)
• Jesus' grandparents (6/25/17)
• Intercessors for parents and grandparents
• St. Anne, St. Anne, Send Me A Man (Catherine Szeltner, 10/20/13)
• In the fabulous NaPro Technology Revolution, Dr. Thomas Hilgers maintains that "Each of...three major developments in the field of reproductive medicine - the release of the birth control pill, the legalization of abortion, and the introduction of in vitro fertilization - has had a major [devastating] impact on the practice of obstetrics and gynecology and the health care of women" (p. 4).  Dr. Hilgers maintains that fertility awareness can be readily taught for postponing or achieving pregnancy. 
• There is a new Natural Family Planning eNewsletter from the Couple to Couple League of Southeast PA.
• Ask the CDC to report accurate data on side-effect free and effective Fertility Awareness Based Methods
• Say, Hasn't the Church Already Said a Few Things about Marriage/Family/Sexuality? (1/29/17)
• "'Human Love in the Divine Plan,' or with greater precision, ‘the Redemption of the body and the Sacramentality of Marriage’"(3/5/16)
• Say, Hasn't the Church Already Said a Few Things about Marriage/Family/Sexuality?(10/8/15)
• The Gospel of Indissolubility: Yet again, we desperately need to be called back to a proper understanding of marriage (11/4/14)

Jesus' grandparents

"An ancient story dating to the first centuries of the Church’s life recalls how Saints Anne and Joachim, like Abraham and Sarah, were scorned by their neighbors because they had no children.

"Years of longing did not weaken their trust in God, but grief eventually drove Saint Joachim into the wilderness to fast and pray. Saint Anne, remaining at home, dressed in mourning clothes and wept because she had no child of her own. Seeing her mistress distressed, a servant girl reminded Anne to put her trust in God. Saint Anne washed her face, put on her bridal clothes and went to a garden to plead with God for a child.

"Angels appeared to Saint Anne in her garden and Saint Joachim in the desert, promising that, despite their old age, they would give birth to a child who would be known throughout the world. The new parents ran to meet one another at Jerusalem’s Golden Gate, and with a kiss rejoiced in the new life which God had promised would be theirs.

"Saints Anne and Joachim are powerful intercessors for all married couples, expectant mothers and married couples who are having difficulty conceiving, as well as all who have grown old" (U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops).

 

http://www.custodia.org/default.asp?id=779&ricerca=bethesda&id_n=32012

 http://www.seetheholyland.net/church-of-st-anne/

 

 

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"Everyone who acknowledges me before others I will acknowledge before my heavenly Father."

 On the right side of the home page is a link to email the White House and the Pa Delegation in D.C. on federal/international matters, as well as a link to email the Bucks County Delegation in Harrisburg on state matters.

6/25/17, 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time

(The Church of the Holy Sepulchre)

• National NFP Awareness Week (USCCB, 7/23/17 - 7/29/17)
  (NOTE: There is a new Natural Family Planning eNewsletter from the Couple to Couple League of Southeast PA.)

• On the Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, a look at his hometown (6/24/17)

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  Sistine Chapel images @ WTC (6/24/17)

• How the Church is helping Christians return to Aleppo (EWTN/CNA, 6/23/17)

• Free to Serve (USCCB, 6/22/17)


• Fortnight for Freedom 2017 (USCCB, 6/21/17 - 7/4/17)
  Saint (Bishop) John Fisher and Saint Thomas More stood firmly with the Pope, as he declined Henry VIII’s demand for a declaration of marital nullity after abandoning his wife (See Katherine of Aragon: the  Official Website for Her Cause.).  A half millenium later, spousal abandonment is a plague: "In a world that would have us believe that divorce is just an opportunity for a new start, the Church’s message must be loud and clear: We will hold fast to our ancient teachings on marriage – for the sake of our souls, our families, and our civilization." (Dr. Hilary Towers, Catholic News Agency, 3/4/11).


• "In the fight against evil, we Christians do not despair. Christianity cultivates an incurable confidence" (Pope Francis, 6/21/17)

• Fordham Won't Pull the Plug on Pro-Euthanasia Efforts (National Catholic Register, 6/21/17)

• The Importance of ‘Humanae Vitae’ — a Testimony to the Truth (Archbishop Chaput, National Catholic Register, 6/20/17)


• "All You Have to Decide is What to Do with the Time that is Given to You" (6/19/17)

• Christian population of Iraq, Syria halved since 2011 (CWN, 6/15/17)
  
  
• Growing family culture locally: the church /Migration makes the local church as a home even more necessary (Mercatornet, 6/15/17)

• Elder abuse is a clear and present danger in the euthanasia debate(Mercatornet, 6/15/17)

• What can priests practically do to combat the porn epidemic? (EWTN, 6/14/17)

• Pope Francis' Message for the First World Day of the Poor, 11/19/17 (released on 6/13/17)

• Appointment of Ordinary Members of the Pontifical Academy for Life (Vatican Press Office, 6/13/17)
• Philosopher who supports legal abortion joins Vatican pro-life academy (CNA, 6/13/17)

• Abortion increasingly common for multiple pregnancies, English statistics show (CWN, 6/13/17)


• Catholics in Florida remember victims of Pulse nightclub (The Catholic Spirit, 6/13/17)

• Conscience: "that still small voice that people won't listen to" (J.Cricket) (6/13/17)

• Mexican priests are targets of violence (CWN, 6/13/17)

• ‘Catholic Church committed to protecting migrants’ (Pope Francis, 6/12/17)
  • Dozens of Iraqi Christians arrested in immigration roundup, face deportation (CWN, 6/12/17)

• The Consequences of Not Telling the Truth (Fr. Shenan J. Boquet, 6/10/17)

• Pope Condemns ‘Barbaric Attack’ in Tehran (Zenit, 6/9/17)

On the Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, a look at his hometown (6/24/17)

http://www.custodia.org/default.asp?id=1884

 

 

http://www.custodia.org/default.asp?id=1885