22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (9/1/19)
- Made for Love (USCCB, September 2019)
- Homeschooling? Every Home is a School (CatholicStand, 8/31/19)
- Legally Protected Serial Killers (Judie Brown, 8/30/19)
- A Priest Killed in Nigeria While on Mission of Peace (Zenit, 8/30/19)
- "In Nigeria, deadly violence linked to Fulani herdsmen is increasingly taking toll on Christians and their leaders in a conflict seen largely as a struggle for land resources. The assailants have advanced on villages, homes, farms, and churches, in some cases reportedly shouting 'Allahu Akbar.' This has created doubts among Church leaders and analysts as to whether this is indeed a conflict over resources and grazing lands, or whether there were religious motivations as well....With the seemingly endless killing, the notion that this is a mere farmer-herder conflict is gradually becoming unbelievable. Analysts say the attacks are premeditated and appear to be targeting Christian villages, homes, and churches" (Catholic World Report, 8/30/19)
- "Currently pending before the Supreme Court...is an appeal from a federal court ruling that Philadelphia city authorities were within their rights in barring Catholic Social Services of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia from making foster care placements because of its refusal to place children with same-sex couples....Sixty years ago American theologian Father John Courtney Murray, S.J., whose views on church and state were soon to influence the Second Vatican Council’s declaration on religious liberty, pointed to the dire consequences of the collapse of consensus on moral issues which he discerned already far advanced in the U.S." (Russell Shaw, 8/29/19)
- Churches in Northern Ireland attacked almost every other day (Washington Examiner, 8/29/19)
- "Our history is littered with clerics going to jail for crimes of conscience or for things they simply didn’t do....if you believe something is wrong, regardless of what the rest of society thinks, you have to say so" (Catholic Herald, 8/29/19).
- 4,014 Babies Have Been Saved by Safe Haven Laws. Learn More...(NCHLA, 8/21/19 (email))
- "[There are] migratory flows that are drastically reducing the Christian presence in the West Bank" (Agenzia Fides, 6/12/2019)
National Concerns
- As per an 8/20/19 email from the Family Policy Alliance: "President Trump’s Department of Labor has proposed a new federal rule that would protect an important aspect of religious freedom.... While simply indicating your support of the proposed rule is just fine, you may wish to add additional comments...making your voice heard [Click here.] in support of religious freedom!"
- Submit Your Official Comment to Say: Pro-Life Health Workers Must Not Be Forced to Assist With Abortions (Susan B Anthony List)
- Oppose the Misleadingly named Do No Harm Act (cf, American Life League)
- Oppose the Misnamed Equality Act (Human Life Action)
- Support the Heartbeat Bill, HR 3985 (cf, LifeSite)
- Support the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act (cf, USCCB)
- Born-Alive Legislation Deserves a Vote in the People's House (USCCB)
- Contact your U.S. senators and representatives today and ask them to support the LIFT for Charities Act! (USCCB)
- Support the Equal Campus Access Act, HR3243/S1168 (USCCB)
Commonwealth of Pa
(Pa Catholic Conference Legislative Review and Voter Voice)
- Please Urge Your Senator and Representative to Co-Sponsor the "Heartbeat" Anti-Abortion Bill (Pa Catholic Conference)
- Please contact your Rep, Senator, and the Governor to ask for a religious exemption for Catholic adoptions (Pa Catholic Conference)
- (See also the Pa Family Council link.)
- Call for Funding Increase for Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) (Pa Catholic Conference)
The Garden State
- Support the NJ Born Alive Survivors Protection Act A5287/S3905 (NJRTL)
- Vote No on S4103/ A5802 (NJRTL)
- Vote No on A5508/ S3804 (NJ Catholicj Conf)
- Support the NJ Pain Capable Unborn child Protection Act, A 1686/S537 (http://protectviablebabies.com/take-action/)
(from Wisdom 14)
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