"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you....stand up and tell them all that I command you....They will fight against you but not prevail over you, for I am with you to deliver you, says the LORD."

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time (2/3/19) (audio) (signed homily)

• ISIS: We're Responsible For The Cathedral Bombings In The Philippines (Townhall, 1/27/19)

• "But I don't love him!" (1/27/19)

• Save the Hyde Amendment (March for Life Action, 1/24/19)

• Trump admin backs religious foster agency’s right to reject same-sex households (LifeSiteNews, 1/24/19)

• Trump, the Military and the Supreme Court (Family Policy Alliance, 1/22/19)

• It's Time to Put #ThemBeforeUs: The Global Movement for Children's Rights (Public Discourse, 1/20/19)

• Sen Paul Reintroduces 'Life at Conception Act' and Bill to End Planned Parenthood Funding (CNSNews, 1/18/19) 

• re: Press release: Taxpayer funding of abortion threat in PA (Pa Pro Life Federation, 1/17/19) 

• Bishops Express Dismay at Court Ruling Enjoining Moral and Religious Exemption to HHS Mandate (USCCB, 1/15/19)

• Urge Congress to Pass the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (HumanLife Action, 1/14/19)

• There is Much More to International Pro-Life than Mexico City Policy (C-Fam, 1/10/19)


• On the right side of the home page, you will find links which will automatically assemble emails to Church leadership about "Catholic" health care, Bucks country representation in DC, Bucks County representation in Harrisburg, Central NJ representation in DC (some updates needed) and Central NJ in Trenton (some updates needed)
• Protect Assylum Seekers (USCCB, 1/7/19)

"But I don't love him!"

"Stan and Ollie" and the BBC's "Stan" are wonderful films about the final years of a legendary comedic duo.  Though oft married (4 times for Stan Laurel and 3 for Oliver Hardy), their heyday pre-dated society's uncritical acceptance of entertainers as embodiments of wisdom on marriage and family issues.  Society only looked to Laurel and Hardy for laughs.  The below scene from 1934's March of the Wooden Soldiers was funny because of its absurdity!

Bomb Attack at Philippines Cathedral Kills 20 (NY Times, 1/27/19)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/27/world/asia/philippines-jolo-cathedral-bombing.html

The March for Life Needs to TRULY Reaffirm Itself and Apologize to the Covington Boys

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (1/27/19) (audio) (signed homily)

Stand with the Covington high school students (AFA, 1/24/19) 

Anyone who has ever been at the March for Life is acutely aware that a tremendous block of Marchers consists of Catholic high school students, whose parents are trusting that they will be safe from harm and slander. Deleting the tweet is not enough.   Remind the March for Life to apologize to Nick Sandmann and the other young pro life witnesses (This email will work best from the home page.). 

Though we live in an era of rage toward clergy for abusing adolescents, CNN's Father Edward Beck sure knows how to blame teenage victims and confuse issues, all the while displaying a deficient theological formation and a hyper-acute sense of HIS victimization. Remind Father Beck to apologize to Nick Sandmann and the other young pro life witnesses (This email will work best from the home page.). 

• Save the Hyde Amendment (March for Life Action, 1/24/19)

• Trump admin backs religious foster agency’s right to reject same-sex households (LifeSiteNews, 1/24/19)

• Trump, the Military and the Supreme Court (Family Policy Alliance, 1/22/19)

• It's Time to Put #ThemBeforeUs: The Global Movement for Children's Rights (Public Discourse, 1/20/19)

• Sen Paul Reintroduces 'Life at Conception Act' and Bill to End Planned Parenthood Funding (CNSNews, 1/18/19) 

• re: Press release: Taxpayer funding of abortion threat in PA (Pa Pro Life Federation, 1/17/19) 

• Bishops Express Dismay at Court Ruling Enjoining Moral and Religious Exemption to HHS Mandate (USCCB, 1/15/19)

• Urge Congress to Pass the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (HumanLife Action, 1/14/19)

• There is Much More to International Pro-Life than Mexico City Policy (C-Fam, 1/10/19)


• On the right side of the home page, you will find links which will automatically assemble emails to Church leadership about "Catholic" health care, Bucks country representation in DC, Bucks County representation in Harrisburg, Central NJ representation in DC (some updates needed) and Central NJ in Trenton (some updates needed)
• Protect Assylum Seekers (USCCB, 1/7/19)

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...Father Edward Beck sure knows how to blame teenage victims...

Though we live in an era of rage toward clergy for abusing adolescents, CNN's Father Edward Beck sure knows how to blame teenage victims and confuse issues, all the while displaying a deficient theological formation and a hyper-acute sense of HIS victimization.  As per Father Beck's CNN piece of Thurs, Jan 24:

"Some have suggested that a full viewing of available video of the incident shows that the students were not the aggressors. So what? It doesn't matter who moved toward whom first. It doesn't matter who provoked the incident. It doesn't matter that some adults may have acted poorly....

"the boys should [not] have been permitted to wear MAGA hats to the March for Life event they attended. The 'Make America Great Again' slogan has become political code for an agenda that is often in opposition with the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church....

"The Catholic Church's pro-life teaching encompasses a panoply of issues such as: abortion, immigration, capital punishment, the environment and climate change, sex trafficking, and the inequitable distribution of the world's resources. Some claim the 'MAGA philosophy' is not in accord with church teaching on many of these issues. Teachers and chaperones from the Catholic school should have discouraged students from, however unwittingly, promoting a questionable partisan political agenda....

"On Monday we celebrated the life of a man who stood on the National Mall in Washington DC to proclaim his hope and dream for America. I fear that decades later, this weekend's event on that same mall suggests that we have far to go in realizing that dream."

Father Beck, are you dismissing the entire witness of the March for Life?  And where is your outrage that police were not called, when children were assaulted with vile vulgarities?  Where is your applause for children who were doing the most politically incorrect thing and defending the sanctity of the most vulnerable human beings?

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/22/opinions/maga-hats-dont-belong-on-a-catholic-school-trip-beck/index.html

From Msgr Pope’s lips to the bishops’ ears (Edward Peters, 1/24/19)

https://canonlawblog.wordpress.com/2019/01/24/from-msgr-popes-lips-to-the-bishops-ears/

Covington bishop apologizes to Covington Catholic students (CNA, 1/25/19)

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/covington-bishop-apologizes-to-covington-catholic-students-95095/

Trump admin backs religious foster agency’s right to reject same-sex households (LifeSiteNews, 1/24/19)

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trump-admin-backs-religious-foster-agencys-right-to-reject-same-sex-househo

Stand with the Covington High School students (AFA, 1/24/19)

https://www.afa.net/activism/action-alerts/2019/stand-with-the-covington-high-school-students/

Save the Hyde Amendment! (March for Life Action, 1/24/19)

http://p2a.co/eyt84Oa

The March for Life, Bishop Foys, and Covington Catholic HS Still Need to Apologize!

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (1/27/19)
 Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul, Apostle (1/25/16)

Let us remember the Covington HS teens who were abused with calumny and remind the March for Life, the Bishop of Covington, and Covington Catholic HS to apologize to Nick Sandmann and the other young pro life witnesses (This email will work best from the home page.). 

• Trump, the Military and the Supreme Court (Family Policy Alliance, 1/22/19)

• It's Time to Put #ThemBeforeUs: The Global Movement for Children's Rights (Public Discourse, 1/20/19)

• Sen Paul Reintroduces 'Life at Conception Act' and Bill to End Planned Parenthood Funding (CNSNews, 1/18/19) 

• re: Press release: Taxpayer funding of abortion threat in PA (Pa Pro Life Federation, 1/17/19) 

• Bishops Express Dismay at Court Ruling Enjoining Moral and Religious Exemption to HHS Mandate (USCCB, 1/15/19)

• Urge Congress to Pass the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (HumanLife Action, 1/14/19)

• There is Much More to International Pro-Life than Mexico City Policy (C-Fam, 1/10/19)


• On the right side of the home page, you will find links which will automatically assemble emails to Church leadership about "Catholic" health care, Bucks country representation in DC, Bucks County representation in Harrisburg, Central NJ representation in DC (some updates needed) and Central NJ in Trenton (some updates needed)
• Protect Assylum Seekers (USCCB, 1/7/19)

Congressman: Media’s attack on high schoolers was calculated to detract from March for Life (LifeSite, 1/22/19)

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/congressman-medias-attack-on-high-schoolers-was-calculated-to-detract-from

Covington Student Did No Wrong (CNS, 1/23/19)

https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/terence-p-jeffrey/covington-student-did-no-wrong

It's Time to Put #ThemBeforeUs: The Global Movement for Children's Rights (Public Discourse, 1/20/19)

https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2019/01/48302/

Bishops Express Dismay at Court Ruling Enjoining Moral and Religious Exemption to HHS Mandate (USCCB, 1/15/19)

http://www.usccb.org/news/2019/19-008.cfm

Trump, the Military & the Supreme Court - Family Policy Alliance (Family Policy Alliance, 1/22/19)

https://familypolicyalliance.com/issues/2019/01/22/trump-military-supreme-court/

Nathan Phillips rally attempted to disrupt Mass at DC’s National Shrine (CNA, 1/22/19)

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/nathan-phillips-rally-attempted-to-disrupt-mass-at-dcs-national-shrine-91038/

On this Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children (January 22), let us remember the teens who were abused wtth calumnies

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (1/27/19)
 Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul, Apostle (1/25/16)
Saint Francis de Sales, Deaf People, and American Sign Language (1/24/18)

On this Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children (January 22), let us remember those teens who were abused with calumny and remind the March for Life, the Bishop of Covington, and Covington Catholic HS to apologize to Nick Sandmann and the other young pro life witnesses (This email will work best from the home page.). 

• Sen. Paul Reintroduces 'Life at Conception Act' and Bill to End Planned Parenthood Funding (CNSNews, 1/18/19) 

• re: Press release: Taxpayer funding of abortion threat in PA (Pa Pro Life Federation, 1/17/19) 

• Urge Congress to Pass the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (HumanLife Action, 1/14/19)

• There is Much More to International Pro-Life than Mexico City Policy (C-Fam, 1/10/19)


• On the right side of the home page, you will find links which will automatically assemble emails to Church leadership about "Catholic" health care, Bucks country representation in DC, Bucks County representation in Harrisburg, Central NJ representation in DC (some updates needed) and Central NJ in Trenton (some updates needed)
• Protect Assylum Seekers (USCCB, 1/7/19)

"Friendly" Fire aimed at children

Isn't calumny toward teens a form of child abuse? Apologies are owed to Covington HS students from the March for Life, the Diocese of Covington, and Covington HS?

• "this past weekend, a video went viral showing a group of boys, many of them in MAGA hats, surrounding an older Native American man who was banging a drum.....The man, Nathan Phillips, told two different versions of what happened. He told The Washington Post that he was singing a traditional song when the teenagers swarmed around him, some chanting, 'Build that wall, build that wall.' He decided the right thing to do was to get away....He told The Detroit Free Press that the incident started when the boys started attacking four African-Americans. So he decided to intervene....The institutions in charge of serving the boys did what institutions always do in the face of a social media mob. They cratered. The school and archdiocese apologized. The mayor of Covington denounced them.  On Sunday several longer videos emerged showing that most of what Phillips had told the media was inaccurate. The incident actually started when members of ...— the Black Hebrew Israelites — started hurling racist and homophobic slurs at the boys.  The Covington boys eventually asked their chaperone if they could do their school cheers. As they were doing that Phillips walked into the middle of their circle and banged his drum in the face of one of the boys....The Covington case was...a blatant rush to judgment" (David Brooks, NY Times, 1/21/19)

"Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing."

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time (1/27/19)

• Saint Paul the Apostle (January 25)
• Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul, Apostle (1/25/16) 


• Saint Francis de Sales (January 24)
• Saint Francis de Sales, Deaf People, and American Sign Language (1/24/18)


• Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children (January 22)

• USCCB President’s Statement for Martin Luther King Jr. Day (January 21)

• Dignity of Life: 6th and 7th Commandments (1/20/19)

• "In today’s Gospel (Cf. John 2:1-11) we find the account of Jesus’ first miracle. The first of these miraculous signs is carried out in the village of Cana in Galilee, during a wedding celebration. It’s no accident that placed, at the beginning of Jesus’ public life, is a nuptial ceremony, because in Him God has married humanity. This is the Good News, even if those who invited Him didn’t know yet that the Son of God was seated at their table and that He is the true Groom. In fact, the whole mystery of the sign of Cana is founded on the presence of this Divine Groom, Jesus, who begins to reveal Himself. Jesus manifests Himself as the Groom of the People of God, proclaimed by the prophets, and it reveals to us the depth of the relationship that unites us to Him: it’s a new Covenant of love" (Pope Francis, 1/20/19).

• Sen. Paul Reintroduces 'Life at Conception Act' and Bill to End Planned Parenthood Funding (CNSNews, 1/18/19) 

• March for Life (1/18/19)

• re: Press release: Taxpayer funding of abortion threat in PA (Pa Pro Life Federation, 1/17/19) 

• Urge Congress to Pass the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (HumanLife Action, 1/14/19)


• "Identical" Twins Are Clones Formed Naturally And Artificially By A-Sexual Human Reproduction (Dianne N.Irving, 1/13/19)

• Urge SCOTUS: Keep the Bladensburg Peace Cross (Return to Order,1/13/19) 


• Ask Father James Martin SJ: Among modern Jesuits, is it clericalism that results in so many failing to appreciate authentic marriage?  If not clericalism, what is it? And isn't it ironic that the lay man and champion of authentic marriage/family, Dietrich von Hildebrand, was the 20th Century's foremost philosopher from a Jesuit institution? Please email Father Martin (This email will likely work best directly from the web page.). (1/13/19)


• There is Much More to International Pro-Life than Mexico City Policy (C-Fam, 1/10/19)

• If McCarrick is Guilty, Don't Laicize Him, EXCOMMUNICATE Him (1/8/19) 


• On the right side of the home page, you will find links which will automatically assemble emails to Church leadership about "Catholic" health care, Bucks country representation in DC, Bucks County representation in Harrisburg, Central NJ representation in DC (some updates needed) and Central NJ in Trenton (some updates needed)
• Protect Assylum Seekers (USCCB, 1/7/19)

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The vacant minds of inquisitorial senators (Father George Rutler, 1/13/19)

https://www.catholiceducation.org/en/controversy/politics-and-the-church/the-vacant-minds-of-inquisitorial-senators.html

March for Life 2019

re: "May all unborn children be welcomed, cherished, and protected."

New Pa delegation 

Report card (Pa and NJ), 10 21 18 

• re: Press release: Taxpayer funding of abortion threat in PA (Pa Pro Life Federation, 1/17/19) 

• Urge Congress to Pass the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (HumanLife Action, 1/14/19)

• "Identical" Twins Are Clones Formed Naturally And Artificially By A-Sexual Human Reproduction ( Dianne N.Irving, 1/13/19 )

• Urge SCOTUS: Keep the Bladensburg Peace Cross (Return to Order,1/13/19)

Only 55 Million? Huh? Try 308,000!

If McCarrick is Guilty, Don't Laicize Him,
EXCOMMUNICATE Him (1/8/19)

"There was a wedding at Cana in Galilee...." (1/20/19)
(click above image)

• The Epiphany, the Baptism of the Lord, the Wedding at Cana, and what Father James Martin is Missing.... (1/7/19)
• Ask Father James Martin SJ: Among modern Jesuits, is it clericalism that results in so many failing to appreciate authentic marriage?  If not clericalism, what is it? And isn't it ironic that the lay man and champion of authentic marriage/family, Dietrich von Hildebrand, was the 20th Century's foremost philosopher from a Jesuit institution? Please email Father Martin (This email will likely work best directly from the web page.).


• On the right side of the home page, you will find links which will automatically assemble emails to Church leadership about "Catholic" health care, Bucks country representation in DC, Bucks County representation in Harrisburg, Central NJ representation in DC (some updates needed) and Central NJ in Trenton (some updates needed)
• Protect Assylum Seekers (USCCB, 1/7/19)

re: Press release: Taxpayer funding of abortion threat in PA (Pa Pro Life Federation, 1/17/19)

Kudos to the Pa Pro Life Federation for alerting us to this.  Yet, to say that "Pennsylvania's abortion totals are at a record low" requires accepting stats that overlook the all too likely massive numbers from elsewhere, such as abortifacient "contraceptives."

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From: Maria
Sent: ‎1/‎17/‎2019 6:42 AM
To: gallagher@paprolife.org
Subject: Press release: Taxpayer funding of abortion threat in PA

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                       CONTACT: MARIA V. GALLAGHER

January 16, 2019                                                                               717-541-0034

                                                                                                   gallagher@paprolife.org                

                                                                                                                           

           

Taxpayers Will Be Outraged at Suit Requiring Taxpayer Funding of Abortion

 

Harrisburg, PA—Taxpayers across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will be outraged by a lawsuit demanding that hard-earned tax dollars be spent on abortion.

 

Abortion facilities in Pennsylvania have filed a suit that would require taxpayer-funded Medicaid money to be spent on abortion in an attempt to overturn the Keystone State's long-standing ban on the practice.

 

"Poll after poll has shown that taxpayers in the U.S. do not want their tax money to be spent on abortion, period," said Maria Gallagher, Legislative Director for the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation, an affiliate of National Right to Life. "This lawsuit flies in the face of the will of the people to safeguard their money from abortion," Gallagher added. 

 

The lawsuit, known as Allegheny Reproductive Health Center v. Pennsylvania Department of Human Services, represents a giant step backward in both the protection of tax money and the protection of women and their preborn children from the harm of abortion.

 

"Research shows quite clearly that taxpayer funding of abortion is greatly unpopular. At a time when Pennsylvania's abortion totals are at a record low, abortion businesses are trying to capture a lucrative market to prop up their sagging industry. This is a lose-lose proposition—for taxpayers and for pregnant women," Gallagher said. 

 

Pennsylvania's law is constitutional and should be upheld, Gallagher added.

 

 

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The Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation is a grassroots right-to-life organization with members statewide.  As the state affiliate of National Right to Life, PPLF is committed to promoting the dignity and value of human life from conception to natural death and to restoring legal protection for preborn children.