Faithful Citizenship in Pa's 1st Congressional District and the Central Garden State

• "Where is the newborn King of the Jews? We saw His star at its rising and have come to do Him homage." (Feast of the Epiphany, 1/6/19)


• Priest, 3 pro-lifers arrested after saving baby inside [Trenton, NJ] Planned Parenthood before Christmas (LifeSiteNews, 1/3/19)

• 5 facts about the religious makeup of the 116th Congress (Pew Research Center, 1/3/19)

• A Fair America (Tucker Carlson, 1/3/19) 

• Letter of the Holy Father Pope Francis to the Bishops of the United States (1/3/19)
  

• "the crisis...largely stems from a perverse pact made between a degenerate clergy and a deeply corrupt laity. Until both the laity and the clergy are reformed, we will never extricate ourselves from this terrible crisis....
  
  "'Fr. Feelgood' tends to create in his parish a watered-down version of the Catholic faith in which notions of sin, sacrifice, and salvation are deemphasized or eliminated in favor of a low-content sentimentalism that tends to affirm the carnal mentality and worldly tendencies of the congregation....
  
  "what is often overlooked is the more silent and passive but equally essential element in this perverse partnership, and that is the laity of the parish who seem untroubled and even grateful for Fr. Feelgood’s weak character and pandering ministry. Underlying this attitude is a troubling fact that is passed over in silence, and that is that virtually all of the sexually-active members of the parish are themselves involved in the sin of sodomy....A recent Pew Research poll (p. 26)….found that of those Catholics who attend mass weekly only 13% regard contraception as 'morally wrong'....If the ultimate purpose of the sexual act isn’t reproduction, but just selfish pleasure, then why should couples marry at all? Extra-marital sexual activity and cohabitation easily follow from this conclusion, as well as abortion when the 'unwanted' unborn child inconveniently enters into the picture.... Divorce is also closely associated with the sin of contraception....less than a third of Catholics told the Pew Research Center that homosexual behavior is 'morally wrong,' and even among those who attend Mass every Sunday, only 50% held that view (again, p. 26)….The acceptance of contraception is the foundation of the entire sexual revolution....
  
  "Catholic pastors are called to a particular sort of courage in the face of pressure from their confused congregations, who are accustomed to regarding the priest as a facilitator of their lifestyles rather than as a prophet who calls upon them to repent. The duty of the priest is to speak the truth to the laity, even at the risk of persecution, as St. Paul notes in his second letter to Timothy, whom he had personally ordained to the priesthood:
  
  
  I charge thee, before God and Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead, by his coming, and his kingdom: Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine. For there shall be a time, when they will not endure sound doctrine; but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears: And will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables. But be thou vigilant, labour in all things, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry."
  (Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, LifeSiteNews, 12/19/18)


• UN Human Rights Committees Increase Pressure on Abortion/Homosexuality (C-Fam, 1/3/19)

• On the right side of the home page, you will find links which will automatically assemble emails to Church leadership, Bucks country representation in DC, Bucks County representation in Harrisburg, Central NJ representation in DC, and Central NJ representation in Trenton: