“To you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you." (from the Gospel for 2/24/19)

7th Sunday in Ordinary Time (2/24/19) (audio) (signed homily)

• Born Alive Survivors Protection Act (S 311 / HR 962) (NCHLA, 2/19/19) 
• Support the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act (USCCB)
• Urge your Representative and Senators to repeal the "Parking Lot Tax!" (USCCB)
• Give Americans Health Plans That Do Not Cover Abortion (NCHLA. 2/12/19)
• I Cherish Life: I call on Congress to ban late term abortions when babies feel pain!(Family Policy Alliance, 2/6/19)
• Tell the Senate to Reject Religion Tests for Judicial Nominees (USCCB, 2/6/19)
• Common Ground on the INEQUALITY of the So-Called Equality Act?(cf.,Andrew Sullivan, NY Magazine, 2/1/19)
• Equality Act and Do No Harm Act with Robert Vega (USCCB, 1/26/19)
• FW: Made for Love (MUR e-news) February 2019
• Save the Hyde Amendment (March for Life Action, 1/24/19)
• Sen Paul Reintroduces 'Life at Conception Act' and Bill to End Planned Parenthood Funding (CNSNews, 1/18/19) 
• Stop Taxpayer Funding of Abortion: "New threats are emerging at the state and federal levels to force us taxpayers to pay for abortion. Please sign our new petition demanding that elected officials prevent taxpayer funding of abortion. You can sign the petition by clicking here." (Pa Pro Life Federation, 1/28/19 email)

• Please urge your [Pa] Representative or Senator to support or co-sponsor Down Syndrome Protection Legislation (Pa Catholic Conference, 2/13/19)
• Please ask your State Representative to Co-Sponsor the "Heart-Beat Bill" proposed by Stephanie Borow (Pa Catholic Conference, 2/11/19)
• Urge your State Senator to co-sponsor Sen. Judy Ward's bill on Keystone Scholarship Program (Pa Catholic Conference, 2/8/19)
• Urge your lawmakers to support [Pa] House Bill 51 which helps individuals looking to receive nursing care (Pa Catholic Conference, 2/4/19)
• [Pa] Lawmakers want to take away our right to vote for judges (Pa Pro Life Federation, 1/28/19 email

• Here’s why a person with disabilities doesn’t want N.J. to have a law that allows people to kill themselves (nj.com, 2/6/18)
• Contact Your [NJ] Legislators to Oppose Assisted Suicide (NJ Catholic Conference)
• Ask Murphy to Maintain Nonpublic School Funding in Budget (NJ Catholic Conference)

On the right side of the home page, you will find links to email 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 (as per most recent update from NJ Catholic Conference)

• A Fabulous Way to Honor Saint Patrick in Anticipation of March 17!   Though last year's result of Ireland's abortion referendum vote was not altogether unexpected, the margin of victory for the pro death cause was unexpected.  Irish heroine Joanna Jordan is bringing evidence of election fraud to European courts.  Assistance for her efforts can be sent to:

• "Men who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies should not become seminarians and should never be ordained. And priests who have such inclinations right now — regardless of whether they 'discovered' their homosexuality after ordination or not — absolutely need to leave active priestly ministry....priests like Fr. James Martin openly claim that he knows 'hundreds' of 'gay' priests and that probably 30 to 40 percent of our priests are 'gay'....if his percentages are accurate, 30 to 40 percent of our priests should leave....In the long-titled 2005 document 'Concerning the Criteria for the Discernment of Vocations with regard to Persons with Homosexual Tendencies in view of their Admission to the Seminary and to Holy Orders,' we read [also that]….If a man supports the 'so-called ''gay culture''....He's prohibited from seminary and from ordination" (Jim Russell, 2/19/19)
• "I wouldn’t dream of demanding that the Church throw away her hard truths just to lie to me in hopes I’ll feel better about myself....I don’t understand those Catholics — such as...Fr. Martin — who imply that if people don’t like what the Church says, maybe the Church is wrong or should apologize. The Church was founded on a rock and a cross, not on a hug....The fact that so many of us think hurting people’s feelings is the greatest evil says all you need to know about the decline of our civilization" (Milo Yiannopoulis,10/11/17)

• Anti-abuse group calls for five “more McCarricks” to be defrocked (Crux, 2/18/19)
  

• Despite Grave Problems, the Lord Will Never Abandon His Church (Archbishop Carlo Viganò, 2/16/19)

• Manifesto of Faith (Cardinal Mueller, 2/8/19)