"....Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained."

Pentecost 2019

• Glowing WPost profile on Pete Buttigieg spouse gets major blowback from Michigan pastor (GetReligion, 6/5/19) 

• Eugenics and Other Evils (Public Discourse, 6/4/19) 

• Bible Basics: Tangible History of the Good Book Comes to Life in Washington Museum (National Catholic Register, 6/4/19)

• Immoral Conduct and Moral Witness (Public Discourse, 6/3/19)

• Voices the News Media Will Ignore During ‘Gay Pride Month’ (Daily Signal, 6/2/19) 

• re: Marriage Unique for a Reason (USCCB, June 2019)

• Prostitution is an 'inherently violent' practice, say critics of decriminalization (CNA, 5/31/19)

• June 22-29 is Religious Freedom Week! (USCCB, 5/30/19)

• Contraception Requirements Impede Pro-Life Health Centers From Accessing Title X (National Catholic Register, 5/30/19)

• Fwd: FW: Action Needed – AMA Vote on Assisted Suicide (Pa Pro Life, 5/28/19) 


• Abortion in the United States 2017: Preliminary Review and a Call for Reform (Charlotte Lozier Institute, 5/22/19)
  PFLI.org estimates 308 MILLION abortions in the US, since Roe v Wade!

• Islamic State claims deadly attack in east Congo's Ebola zone (Reuters, 6/4/19)

• Beware of Muslims Bearing Pamphlets (Crisis, 6/3/19)

• "From a pre-2003 total of 1.5 million, Iraq’s Christian population has declined rapidly, raising fears for the community’s survival, amid declarations of a genocide by Daesh against minorities in the region" (Zenit, 5/31/19)

• Attacks Plague Churches in Ghana and Other West African Countries (Zenit, 5/29/19)

• Four Catholics die in latest Burkina Faso church attack (CNS, 5/28/19)

• The Impossible Future of Christians in the Middle East (The Atlantic, 5/23/19)

 

• "stand against legislation, like Medicare for All and the Equality Act, that force tax-payers to pay for other people’s abortions and that strong arms medical professionals to violate their consciences" (March for Life Action).

• Contact your senators and representative today and urge them to oppose the [so-called] Equality Act! (USCCB)
  • UPDATE: "We are gravely disappointed with the Act’s passage in the U.S. House” (USCCB, 5/17/19).  Republican co-sponsor Brian Fitzpatrick joined Pa Democrats Boyle, Dean, Evans, Scanlon, Houlahan, Wild, Cartwright, Lamb and Doyle in the 236 to 173 betrayal - a vote against pre born children, religious freedom, and parental rights.
  • 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!
  • "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).  

• 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!   


• 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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