“With these beads bind my children to your Immaculate Heart!”

 

• ‘We Will Not Back Down To Bullies’: Anti-Abortion Rally Outside Philadelphia Planned Parenthood Draws Large Crowd  (CBSPhilly, 5/10/19)

• Expert on marriage and family: The father-son bond is ‘civilization’s keystone’ (Catholic World Report, 5/8/19)

• ‘Today God has answered their prayers’: Pakistan releases Asia Bibi (Catholic Philly, 5/8/19) 

• "Congratulations (of a sort) are due to Rep. Brian Sims, a Democratic member of Pennsylvania’s state legislature. He has done something that other pro-abortion fanatics have failed to do. He has captured videotape of harassment outside an abortion clinic. Hasn’t it ever struck you as remarkable that, while pro-aborts constantly demand stricter laws to prevent harassment at the clinics, and while the clinics are bristling with security cameras that are perfectly positioned to capture evidence of that harassment, you’ve never actually seen the harassment?  But now Sims has provided evidence, videotaping harassment. By himself." (Catholic Culture.org, 5/8/19)

• "On Easter Sunday in France, a fire originating in a Notre Dame confessional received little attention. That Notre Dame was not the great cathedral in Paris, but an ordinary church in Tarascon, near Marseille. In February, Notre Dame of Dijon was vandalized, with Hosts scattered about. At Notre Dame Church in Nimes, a cross was recently drawn on the wall using excrement and consecrated Communion Hosts. Notre Dame of France Catholic bookstore was vandalized last September. None of the attacks on these other Notre Dames drew much notice, either.
  
  "The flames that ravaged Paris' Notre Dame riveted the world because it is a legendary, architectural masterpiece at the center of France's capital and much of its political history. For those who track religious-freedom threats, the fire itself may be less of a surprise than that it apparently was started by accident.
  
  "Hundreds of other French churches are being quietly burned or damaged — in deliberate attacks.
  
  "Ellen Fantini, who directs the watchdog Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe, told me in an email that church attacks in France have been relentless for the past four years....
  
  "We also see this happening to churches in Northern Cyprus, Egypt, northern Nigeria and other places where certain members of society are hostile to a small and weak Christian community and the government itself is indifferent.....
  
  "Ironically, they are targeting churches, when, as a 2018 Pew survey found, only 18% of the French attend church even monthly, and the churches' influence over French politics and culture is diminishing to the vanishing point....
  
  "Church leaders themselves seem reluctant to discuss the attacks....
  
  "I was reminded of what veteran Church scholar George Weigel observed a decade ago, 'Too many European bishops have internalized a sense of their own irrelevance and the Church's'....
  
  "No graffiti or claim of responsibility has surfaced to suggest that the Notre Dame fire was anything but an accident. And while the example of Notre Dame may not rekindle appreciation for France's Christian patrimony, it should stir a demand for the government to protect it." (National Catholic Register, 5/2/19)

 

• Contact your senators and representative today and urge them to oppose the [so-called] Equality Act! (USCCB)
  • In the U.S. Senate, Robert Casey is a cosponsor of the so-called Equality Act (S.788), as are Booker and Menendez from New Jersey!
  • "If the [so-called] Equality Act reaches a full vote in either chamber of Congress, it will mark the first time the bill — which has been introduced in various forms since 1974 — has done so. A similar bill, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, passed the Senate in 2013. Four currently serving Republican senators voted in favor of that bill: Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Patrick Toomey, R-Pa." (NBCNews, 3/11/19).  
  • In the U.S. House, Brian Fitzpatrick is one of three Republican co-sponsors of the so-called Equality Act (H.R. 5)., showing that it is not just Democrats who are failing to protect consciences and religious freedom.
    

• Support the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act (USCCB)
  
  

  While Pennsylvania should be proud that Rep Mike Kelly is the primary sponsor of the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act in the House (HR 897), only two fellow Pennsylvanians (i.e., Schmucker and Reschenthaler) and one New Jersey representative (i.e., Smith) are joining him! No one from Pa or Jersey is a co-sponsor of S 274 in the Senate!  From both the House and Senate, why is it only ONLY Lloyd Schmucker, Guy Reschenthaler, and Chris Smith who are willing to co-sponsor a bill which "prevents faith-based child welfare service providers from being targeted by government discrimination. The Act would prohibit the federal government and any state that receives certain federal funding from discriminating against child welfare service providers on the basis that they decline to provide a child welfare service that conflicts with their sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions. The Inclusion Act is needed because child welfare service providers are being discriminated against because of their sincerely held religious beliefs and moral convictions. For example, certain religiously-affiliated charities in Massachusetts, Illinois, California, and the District of Columbia have had to stop adoption and foster care services because of requirements imposed upon them to place children in households headed by two persons of the same sex. Also, women and men who want to place their children for adoption should be free to choose from a diversity of adoption agencies, including those that share the parents' religious beliefs and moral convictions."  It is not just Democrats who are failing to protect consciences and religious freedom.  


• Trump Moves to Protect Conscience Rights of Health Care Workers (Family Policy Alliance, 5/2/19)
• "Ultimately Congress needs to pass permanent laws protecting the conscience claims that are now secured by presidential initiatives or by statutes on a year-by-year basis" (Public Discourse, 5/30/18)
Tell Your Representative to protect conscience rights and to fight against taxpayer-funded abortion [i.e. OPPOSE Medicare for All] (March for Life Action) 


• Born-Alive Legislation Deserves a Vote in the People's House (USCCB) (HLA)
• The Discharge Petition to bring the Born Alive Survivors Protection Act to a vote in the House 
• Further Action Needed to Save Babies Born Alive! (USCCB)

• Save the Hyde Amendment (March for Life Action)


• Life at Conception Act Petition (National Pro Life Alliance)

• "Senator Lindsay Graham...[has] introduced the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, a nationwide ban on abortion after 20 weeks....Senator Graham has introduced this bill or one similar every year since 2013. Although it has never received the 60 votes necessary for cloture, there is some hope that if enacted, it could now be upheld in an inevitable legal challenge due to the majority conservative Supreme Court (Live Action News, 4/11/19).
• I Cherish Life: I call on Congress to ban late term abortions when babies feel pain!(Family Policy Alliance)
  

• Tell the Senate to Reject Religion Tests for Judicial Nominees (USCCB)

• Ask the Department of Homeland Security to Rescind the "Remain in Mexico" Policy and Support Asylum Seekers by Following Existing Law (USCCB)  

• Stop Taxpayer Funding of Abortion (Click for Pa Pro Life Federation petition)

• Sign the Petition to Repeal the Abortion Law (NYS Catholic Conf)

• The New ERA....It Attacks Life and Women's Privacy -- Act Now to Stop It (Family Policy Alliance)

• Pa Family.org, 2019 Election Center

• Call your [Pa State] Senator to oppose assisted suicide (Pa Pro Life Federation, 4/2/19)

• Please Urge Lawmakers to support an increase in the Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) (Pa Catholic Conference)

• Please urge your [Pa] Representative or Senator to support or co-sponsor Down Syndrome Protection Legislation (Pa Catholic Conference) 

• Please ask your State Representative to Co-Sponsor the "Heart-Beat Bill" proposed by Stephanie Borowicz (Pa Catholic Conference)

• Urge your State Senator to co-sponsor Sen. Judy Ward's bill on Keystone Scholarship Program (Pa Catholic Conference)

• Urge your lawmakers to support [Pa] House Bill 51 which helps individuals looking to receive nursing care (Pa Catholic Conference)

• [Pa] Lawmakers want to take away our right to vote for judges (Pa Pro Life Federation)

• NJ Governor Phil Murphy signed assisted suicide into NJ law. To express your outrage, Murphy can be reached at 609-292-6000 or https://www.state.nj.us/governor/contact.

• Ask Legislators to Increase Non Public School Funding (NJ Catholic Conference)

• Protect Viable [New Jersey] Babies in the Womb – Equal rights for children who can survive outside the womb (http://protectviablebabies.com/).

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