"Do we really believe God’s plan for marriage and sexuality is good news for the world?"

8th Sunday in Ordinary Time (3/3/19) (audio) (signed homily)

• Vandalism at Brooklyn parish being investigated as a hate crime (CNA, 3/1/19) 

• Hold the Revolution: Roberts Keeps Joining High Court Liberals (Blomberg, 3/1/19)
• Whither Chief Justice John Roberts? Do pro-life Americans have reason to worry about the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court’s vote to block Louisiana’s law restricting abortion providers? (National Catholic Register, 2/15/19)

• Methodists make history, vote against allowing homosexual ‘marriage,’ LGBT clergy (LifeSiteNews, 3/1/19)
  

• Jailed Cdl. Pell is victim of anti-Catholic witch hunt, critics maintain (LifeSiteNews, 2/28/19)


• Excommunication, Abortion and Catholic Lawmakers: What Can Be Done? Bishop Edward Scharfenberger of Albany, New York, discusses possible canon-law responses in the wake of New York State’s new legislation that removed third-trimester-abortion restrictions (National Catholic Register, 2/21/19)
• "In 1968 only 338 annulments were granted in the United States. Today, the U.S. church approves more than 50,000 every year. 'An annulment is, essentially, a conclusion based upon evidence that (what) would appear to have been a solid and binding marriage was, in fact, not,' said Monsignor Edward Scharfenberger, judicial vicar of the Dioceses of New York. But while it's a process that allows thousands of divorced Catholics to participate, it is pushing away many others who believe it is hypocritical....The controversy was brought to the attention of the nation recently by Sheila Rauch Kennedy, who is appealing the annulment of her 12-year marriage to Democrat U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy of Massachusetts....'The problem is that unquestionably in Western society many marriages are not properly founded,' Scharfenberger said" (CNN, 7/6/97).
• "The Vatican reversed the annulment of former Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II's first marriage, a union that had lasted 12 years and produced two sons....[Sheila] Rauch had sharply criticized the Catholic church for annulling her marriage, alleging in a 1997 book that the Kennedy family's influence in the church had made it possible....Rauch said she was told of the Vatican's decision to reverse the annulment by officials from the Boston Archdiocese in May, although the decision was actually reached in 2005"(NBC, 6/20/07)
• "Sexual continence after divorce, and celibacy in the context of SSA or other struggles with sexual identity, are not signs of mental imbalance or oddity. Neither are they unrealistic for the average man or woman of goodwill, if they are given enthusiastic support by their families and their Church. The question for Christians remains: Do we really believe God’s plan for marriage and sexuality is good news for the world?" (Hilary Towers and Leila Miller, 6/27/18).
Sign the Petition to Repeal the Abortion Law (NYS Catholic Conf, 2/20/19)

• Support the Born Alive Survivors Protection Act (HR 962) (NCHLA, 2/26/19) 
• While Pa's Casey and Toomey both voted pro life on S311 (Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act), NJ's Booker and Menendez voted in a pro death manner (2/25/19)
  
• Support the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act (USCCB)
• Urge your Representative and Senators to repeal the "Parking Lot Tax!" (USCCB)
• 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)
• Made for Love (MUR e-news) March 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 Lawmakers to support an increase in the Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) (Pa Catholic Conference, 2/26/19)
• Please urge your [Pa] Representative or Senator to suppot 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

• New Jersey's so-called "Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill" (2/21/19)
• Contact Your Legislators to Oppose Assisted Suicide (NJ Catholic Conference)
• Ask Murphy to Maintain Nonpublic School Funding in Budget (NJ Catholic Conference)

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