Vote NO "on H.R. 2740 as long as it contains the Shaheen amendment" (Heritage Action)

31st Sunday in Ordinary Time
(11/3/19)
(signed homily)

• "This week, the Senate may vote on a bill (H.R. 2740) that would prop up the abortion industry and overseas population-control initiatives with federal funds. H.R. 2740 contains the Shaheen amendment which gives $665 million to organizations that provide abortions.....Senators should reject any vote on H.R. 2740 as long as it contains the Shaheen amendment" (Heritage Action, 10/30/19 email)

• There are two pro-life Pa Superior Court Judge candidates - MEGAN KING and CHRISTYLEA PECK. 

• Marriage: Unique for a Reason (USCCB, 10/30/19)

• The Cry of the People in Lebanon Prompts Largely Peaceful Uprising (National Catholic Register, 10/30/19) 

• Turkey’s Syria Offensive: A Christian Perspective (National Catholic Register, 10/30/19)

• The latest technology to help you track your fertility with confidence (Aletia, 10/26/19)

National Concerns

• 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) 

• Support the Equal Campus Access Act, HR3243/S1168 (USCCB)

• Please urge the President, your Senator and Congressman to Maintain the Refugee Resettlement Program (Pa Catholic Conference)

• "Make the Family Great Again" petition

Commonwealth of Pa

(Pa Catholic Conference Legislative Review and Voter Voice)

• Support the Fetal Remains Bill (Pa Catholic Conf, 10/29/19 email) 

• Please Urge Your Senator & 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) 

• Ask Your Representative to Co-Sponsor Speaker Turzai's Bill to Help Harrisburg Public School Students (Pa Catholic Conference)

• [Human trafficking] "is estimated to be a $100-billion global industry that can be found everywhere, including Pennsylvania ....the vast majority of people involved in prostitution are the victims of human trafficking....Pennsylvania needs harsher punishments to discourage human traffickers and their customers....the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference supports SB 60 and HB 12" (Daily Item, 9/24/19)

The Garden State

• Support the NJ Born Alive Survivors Protection Act A5287/S3905 (NJRTL)

• Vote No on S4103/ A5802 (NJRTL)

• Oppose NJ S3804/A5508 and S3813/A5510 (NJ Catholic Conference)

• Support the NJ Pain Capable Unborn child Protection Act, A 1686/S537 (http://protectviablebabies.com/take-action/)

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 and Central NJ in Trenton.

(Click map of 12/7/19 procession in Trenton to enlarge.)

"Zacchaeus, come down quickly, for today I must stay at your house."

31st Sunday in Ordinary Time
(11/3/19)
(signed homily)

http://www.custodia.org/default.asp?id=1891

• There are two pro-life Pa Superior Court Judge candidates - MEGAN KING and CHRISTYLEA PECK. 

• Marriage: Unique for a Reason (USCCB, 10/30/19)

• Getting Our Church in Order, So We Can Better Witness Against the Culture of Death! (10/30/19) 

• The latest technology to help you track your fertility with confidence (Aletia, 10/26/19)

• The Clericalism of Father James Martin, SJ, and others (10/26/19)

• New film looks into St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body (Crux, 10/25/19)
• re: JP II's Theology of the Body (1979-1984)


• Game-Changer Questions every pro-lifer should ask about the Guttmacher report (Personhood Alliance, 10/10/19) 
  And that does not even consider the abortifacient potential of some things we call "contraceptives"!
  
  
• Why are we not outraged? (7/8/19)

National Concerns

• 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) 

• Support the Equal Campus Access Act, HR3243/S1168 (USCCB)

• Please urge the President, your Senator and Congressman to Maintain the Refugee Resettlement Program (Pa Catholic Conference)

• "Make the Family Great Again" petition

Commonwealth of Pa

(Pa Catholic Conference Legislative Review and Voter Voice)

• Support the Fetal Remains Bill (Pa Catholic Conf, 10/29/19 email) 

• Please Urge Your Senator & 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) 

• Ask Your Representative to Co-Sponsor Speaker Turzai's Bill to Help Harrisburg Public School Students (Pa Catholic Conference)

• [Human trafficking] "is estimated to be a $100-billion global industry that can be found everywhere, including Pennsylvania ....the vast majority of people involved in prostitution are the victims of human trafficking....Pennsylvania needs harsher punishments to discourage human traffickers and their customers....the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference supports SB 60 and HB 12" (Daily Item, 9/24/19)

The Garden State

• Support the NJ Born Alive Survivors Protection Act A5287/S3905 (NJRTL)

• Vote No on S4103/ A5802 (NJRTL)

• Oppose NJ S3804/A5508 and S3813/A5510 (NJ Catholic Conference)

• Support the NJ Pain Capable Unborn child Protection Act, A 1686/S537 (http://protectviablebabies.com/take-action/)

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 and Central NJ in Trenton.

(Click map of 12/7/19 procession in Trenton to enlarge.)

Getting Our Church in Order, So We Can Better Witness Against the Culture of Death!

"It is everyone’s hope that rape victims, whether pregnant or not, receive the most compassionate and effective care available. Unfortunately, using Plan B and continuing to cite the faulty Peoria Protocol, based upon what we now know, is simply an immoral compromise—with the unintended consequence of the loss of human life and the abandonment of truly loving and courageous Christian health care" (Dr. Chris Kahlenborn, 4/8/19)

Click to email the Apostolic Nuncio, the USCCB president, Archbishop Chaput (and his auxiliaries), and the National Catholic Bioethics Center, for an IMMEDIATE disapproval of ANY use of so-called emergency contraceptives in Catholic hospitals because of their very, very strong abortifacient potential.

Certain other "contraceptives" can act as abortifacients! As it has long been known that other hormonal "contraceptives" can cause early abortions and are deadly dangerous (e.g., 1, 2) and just about every pharmacy (including those in supermarkets and department stores!) provide such, no parish should be allowing advertisements from providers of hormonal "contraceptives"!

Please speak with your pastor, to ensure that your parish - be it in a bulletin or a directory - does not have such ads.

Especially with Central Jersey and the Philly suburbs so much being a worldwide capitol for the pharmaceutical industry,Why Are We Not Outragedby that industry's atrocities?

The Clericalism of Father James Martin, SJ, and others

A proper understanding of the theology of marriage and family reveals Cana, the site of Jesus's first miracle, to be of enormous significance to the appreciation of the Sacrament of Marriage and the vocation of husbands and wives.  I had the opportunity to ask Father James Martin, SJ, why he did not include Cana in his book, "Jesus: A Pilgrimage" (A book, which by the way, received a favorable  review from Archhbishop  Chaput.):

While it is certainly to his credit that he responded, I found Father Martin's answer unsatisfying.  Elsewhere, his online visit to Cana confirms his failure to "get it."

Father Martin is certainly not evidencing appreciation for the unique theological significance of authentic marriage between a man and a woman, which signifies and makes present God's love for His people.  Most tragically, few bishops and priests are calling him on this - Is this because clericalism interferes with their own "getting it"?

"O God, be merciful to me a sinner" (from the Gospel for 10/27/19)

30th Sunday in Ordinary Time
(10/27/19)
(signed homily)

• The Clericalism of Father James Martin, SJ, and others (10/26/19)

• South and East Asia now the hotbed of Christian persecution, report finds (CNA, 10/25/19) 

• Appeals court rules against Little Sisters of the Poor over HHS mandate (CNS, 10/25/19)


• New film looks into St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body (Crux, 10/25/19)
• re: JP II's Theology of the Body (1979-1984)

National Concerns

• 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) 

• Support the Equal Campus Access Act, HR3243/S1168 (USCCB)

• Please urge the President, your Senator and Congressman to Maintain the Refugee Resettlement Program (Pa Catholic Conference)

• "Make the Family Great Again" petition

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) 

• Ask Your Representative to Co-Sponsor Speaker Turzai's Bill to Help Harrisburg Public School Students (Pa Catholic Conference)

• "the U.S. Department of Homeland Security defines human trafficking as a form of modern-day slavery that involves the use of force, fraud or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act. It is estimated to be a $100-billion global industry that can be found everywhere, including Pennsylvania....the vast majority of people involved in prostitution are the victims of human trafficking....Pennsylvania needs harsher punishments to discourage human traffickers and their customers. That’s why the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference supports SB 60 and HB 12" (Daily Item, 9/24/19)

The Garden State

• Support the NJ Born Alive Survivors Protection Act A5287/S3905 (NJRTL)

• Vote No on S4103/ A5802 (NJRTL)

• Oppose NJ S3804/A5508 and S3813/A5510 (NJ Catholic Conference)

• Support the NJ Pain Capable Unborn child Protection Act, A 1686/S537 (http://protectviablebabies.com/take-action/)

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 and Central NJ in Trenton.

(Click map of 12/7/19 procession in Trenton to enlarge.)

Abortion is NOT declining

30th Sunday in Ordinary Time
(10/27/19)
(signed homily)

• First Freedom News (USCCB, 10/23/19)
• "When I see a church here, in this city, or when I see it in the other diocese from which I come, with the doors closed, this is a bad sign. The churches must always have the doors open because this is the symbol of what a church is: always open" (Pope Francis, 10/23/19).
• John Paul II’s vision of family and marriage for the New Evangelization (Catholic World Report, 10/22/19) 
• re: JP II's Theology of the Body (1979-1984)
• Polish bishops call for John Paul II to be named a doctor of the Church (CNA, 10/22/19)
• Mission schools attacked in Niger (Vatican News, 10/21/19) 
•  Game-Changer Questions every pro-lifer should ask about the Guttmacher report (Personhood Alliance, 10/10/19)
• This doesn't even address the fact that some "contraceptives" can act in an abortifacient manner (e.g., hormonal contraceptives).
• Please ask your Pa state rep, to support a censure of Representative Brian Sims for his harassment of pro life witnesses.

National Concerns

• 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) 

• Support the Equal Campus Access Act, HR3243/S1168 (USCCB)

• Please urge the President, your Senator and Congressman to Maintain the Refugee Resettlement Program (Pa Catholic Conference)

• "Make the Family Great Again" petition

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) 

• Ask Your Representative to Co-Sponsor Speaker Turzai's Bill to Help Harrisburg Public School Students (Pa Catholic Conference)

• "the U.S. Department of Homeland Security defines human trafficking as a form of modern-day slavery that involves the use of force, fraud or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act. It is estimated to be a $100-billion global industry that can be found everywhere, including Pennsylvania....the vast majority of people involved in prostitution are the victims of human trafficking....Pennsylvania needs harsher punishments to discourage human traffickers and their customers. That’s why the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference supports SB 60 and HB 12" (Daily Item, 9/24/19)

The Garden State

• Support the NJ Born Alive Survivors Protection Act A5287/S3905 (NJRTL)

• Vote No on S4103/ A5802 (NJRTL)

• Oppose NJ S3804/A5508 and S3813/A5510 (NJ Catholic Conference)

• Support the NJ Pain Capable Unborn child Protection Act, A 1686/S537 (http://protectviablebabies.com/take-action/)

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 and Central NJ in Trenton.

(Click map of 12/7/19 procession in Trenton to enlarge.)

Re: Election News: New Jersey Right to Life PAC Endorsements for Tuesday, November 5, 2019

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John Paul II’s vision of family and marriage for the New Evangelization (Catholic World Report, 10/22/19)

https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2019/10/22/john-paul-iis-vision-of-family-and-marriage-for-the-new-evangelization-2/

"The LORD is a God of justice, who knows no favorites" (from the 1st reading, 10/27/19)

30th Sunday in Ordinary Time
(10/27/19)
(signed homily)

• As per a 10/18/19 email from the Pa Family Institute: "On Monday, October 21st, Senator Doug Mastriano (R-Adams) and State Representative Stephanie Borowicz (R-Clinton) will help lead other elected officials and pro-life Pennsylvanians in introducing Senate Bill 912 and House Bill 1977 - the Heartbeat Bill....This legislation would improve our current state law by protecting unborn children from abortion after a heartbeat is detected"  
• Please ask your Pa state rep, to support a censure of Representative Brian Sims for his harassment of pro life witnesses.
• In U.S., Decline of Christianity Continues at Rapid Pace (Pew Research Center, 10/17/19)
• "Yoga is not of Christian origin and is not suitable for our parish school setting and especially during religious education time" (Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan, 10/10/19).

National Concerns

• 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) 

• Support the Equal Campus Access Act, HR3243/S1168 (USCCB)

• Please urge the President, your Senator and Congressman to Maintain the Refugee Resettlement Program (Pa Catholic Conference)

• "Make the Family Great Again" petition

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) 

• Ask Your Representative to Co-Sponsor Speaker Turzai's Bill to Help Harrisburg Public School Students (Pa Catholic Conference)

• "the U.S. Department of Homeland Security defines human trafficking as a form of modern-day slavery that involves the use of force, fraud or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act. It is estimated to be a $100-billion global industry that can be found everywhere, including Pennsylvania....the vast majority of people involved in prostitution are the victims of human trafficking....Pennsylvania needs harsher punishments to discourage human traffickers and their customers. That’s why the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference supports SB 60 and HB 12" (Daily Item, 9/24/19)

The Garden State

• Support the NJ Born Alive Survivors Protection Act A5287/S3905 (NJRTL)

• Vote No on S4103/ A5802 (NJRTL)

• Oppose NJ S3804/A5508 and S3813/A5510 (NJ Catholic Conference)

• Support the NJ Pain Capable Unborn child Protection Act, A 1686/S537 (http://protectviablebabies.com/take-action/)

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 and Central NJ in Trenton.

(Click map of 12/7/19 procession in Trenton to enlarge.)

The moral theory that failed – but is now back in fashion (Father Thomas Berg, 10/17/19)

https://catholicherald.co.uk/magazine/the-moral-theory-that-failed-but-is-now-back-in-fashion/

Kenyan Priest Found Brutally Murdered with Throat Slit (Thomas Williams, PhD , 10/17/19)

https://www.breitbart.com/africa/2019/10/17/catholic-priest-found-brutally-murdered-with-throat-slit-in-kenya/

"We are not asked merely to call ourselves Christians; we are asked to be Christians through our deeds" (St. Ignatius of Antioch).

(Click map of 12/7/19 procession in Trenton to enlarge.)

29th Sunday in Ordinary Time
(10/20/19)
(signed homily)

• Memorial of Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, Priests, and Companions, Martyrs (10/19/19) 
• Feast of Saint Luke [the physician], evangelist (10/18/19) 
• Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop and Martyr (10/17/19) 
• Why the Catholic Church has failed to reach young people (National Catholic Register, 10/14/19)

National Concerns

• 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) 

• Support the Equal Campus Access Act, HR3243/S1168 (USCCB)

• Please urge the President, your Senator and Congressman to Maintain the Refugee Resettlement Program (Pa Catholic Conference)

• "Make the Family Great Again" petition

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) 

• Ask Your Representative to Co-Sponsor Speaker Turzai's Bill to Help Harrisburg Public School Students (Pa Catholic Conference)

• "the U.S. Department of Homeland Security defines human trafficking as a form of modern-day slavery that involves the use of force, fraud or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act. It is estimated to be a $100-billion global industry that can be found everywhere, including Pennsylvania....the vast majority of people involved in prostitution are the victims of human trafficking....Pennsylvania needs harsher punishments to discourage human traffickers and their customers. That’s why the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference supports SB 60 and HB 12" (Daily Item, 9/24/19)

The Garden State

• Support the NJ Born Alive Survivors Protection Act A5287/S3905 (NJRTL)

• Vote No on S4103/ A5802 (NJRTL)

• Oppose NJ S3804/A5508 and S3813/A5510 (NJ Catholic Conference)

• Support the NJ Pain Capable Unborn child Protection Act, A 1686/S537 (http://protectviablebabies.com/take-action/)

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 and Central NJ in Trenton.

"Be gentle to all and stern with yourself" (St. Teresa of Avila).

29th Sunday in Ordinary Time
(10/20/19)
(signed homily)

• Memorial of Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, Priests, and Companions, Martyrs (10/19/19) 
• Feast of Saint Luke [the physician], evangelist (10/18/19) 
• Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop and Martyr (10/17/19) 
• Memorial of Saint Teresa of Jesus [St Teresa of Avila], Virgin and Doctor of the Church (10/15/19)
• "Those within the Catholic Church who wish to attract and engage young people in the Faith must embrace a radical commitment to truth. I’m going to be very specific. Here are the things that young people need to hear about.
• How pornography, masturbation and fornication are hurting them.
• How to stop looking at pornography and masturbating.
• How to have a healthy relationship with members of the opposite sex.
• Who God is and why he love us.
• How to understand God’s mercy.
• How to understand the differences between men and women.
• The importance of families.
• How to prepare for a healthy marriage.
• Why homosexuality is wrong.
• How to find meaning in their lives.
• How to pray.
• How to find God’s will.
• How to discern and follow their vocation...
The reality is that the large majority of young people spend the large majority of their time on social media. They are on Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, YouTube and others, for pretty much all of their free time and then some. If Catholics want to engage young people, they will have to go where the attention is" (National Catholic Register, 10/14/19)
• He who must not be named: How Hunter Biden became a conversation-stopper (The Hill, 10/12/19) 
• No matter what Mayor DeBlasio and his wife say, Saint Frances Cabrini is the woman who most influenced NYC's history.
• Fort Tryon Park, the Shrine of St. Frances Cabrini, and the Cloisters

National Concerns

• 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) 

• Support the Equal Campus Access Act, HR3243/S1168 (USCCB)

• Please urge the President, your Senator and Congressman to Maintain the Refugee Resettlement Program (Pa Catholic Conference)

• "Make the Family Great Again" petition

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) 

• Ask Your Representative to Co-Sponsor Speaker Turzai's Bill to Help Harrisburg Public School Students (Pa Catholic Conference)

• "the U.S. Department of Homeland Security defines human trafficking as a form of modern-day slavery that involves the use of force, fraud or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act. It is estimated to be a $100-billion global industry that can be found everywhere, including Pennsylvania....the vast majority of people involved in prostitution are the victims of human trafficking....Pennsylvania needs harsher punishments to discourage human traffickers and their customers. That’s why the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference supports SB 60 and HB 12" (Daily Item, 9/24/19)

The Garden State

• Support the NJ Born Alive Survivors Protection Act A5287/S3905 (NJRTL)

• Vote No on S4103/ A5802 (NJRTL)

• Oppose NJ S3804/A5508 and S3813/A5510 (NJ Catholic Conference)

• Support the NJ Pain Capable Unborn child Protection Act, A 1686/S537 (http://protectviablebabies.com/take-action/)

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 and Central NJ in Trenton.

(Click map of 12/7/19 procession in Trenton to enlarge.)

"I will be standing on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand."

29th Sunday in Ordinary Time
(10/20/19)
(signed homily)

• "St. John Henry Newman’s insights into the function and meaning of conscience 'could not be more timely' given widespread moral confusion in the Western world....Archbishop Fisher said Cardinal Newman’s theology of conscience offered an antidote to the moral relativism that was convulsing many societies. The power of Cardinal Newman’s teachings, he said, could be seen in the witness of the White Rose, an anti-Nazi movement in wartime Germany, which found the courage to defy Adolf Hitler partly after studying the new saint’s writings on conscience. Sophie Scholl, the most famous member of the White Rose [link added], was just 21 years old when she was beheaded in Stadelheim Prison, Munich, in February 1943 after she and her brother, Hans, flooded the famous Lichthof (atrium) of Munich University with leaflets inciting students to oppose Nazism. He cited scholarly research to emphasize how Cardinal Newman’s works influenced Sophie Scholl in particular....George Weigel of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., told how the nonviolence and Christian resistance of the movement 'was formed in part by a serious spiritual and intellectual encounter' with Newman" (CatholicPhilly.com, 10/14/19) 
• Moral Conscience (Catechism of the Catholic Church) 
• Is it Ethical to Give Emergency Contraception in Catholic Hospitals? (Chris Kahlenborn, MD, 4/8/19) 
• Will our Catholic hospitals love people enough to practice in a manner truly in accord with God's truth about marriage/family/sexuality - proclaiming that truth and steering people away health care providers who do not understand that truth?
• Will our Catholic hospitals cease all provision of so-called "emergency contraception"?
• Will our Catholic hospitals discontinue all association with those providing smorgasboards of prohibited services in their outside practices?
• For example, Holy Redeemer lists Stephen G. Somkuti, Larry I. Barmat, and Jennifer Nichols as specialists in "reproductive endocrinology." Those are the first three physicians listed at Abington Reproductive Medicine, which openly advertises its involvement with prohibited services, including IVF, egg donation, and surrogacy.
  
"Art. 11. – The diocesan Bishop is obliged, if necessary, to make known to the faithful the fact that the activity of a particular charitable agency is no longer being carried out in conformity with the Church’s teaching, and then to prohibit that agency from using the name 'Catholic' and to take the necessary measures should personal responsibilities emerge"  (Apostolic Letter Issued 'Motu Proprio' of the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI on the Service of Charity, 11/11/2012).

• "a major authoritative report by the US National Council on Disabilities, a federal agency, on disability and assisted suicide has been overlooked by the media. Assisted Suicide Laws and Their Danger to People with Disabilities is a scathing analysis of arguments in favour of assisted suicide....The report finds that safeguards are ineffective and that there is little oversight of abuses and mistakes. Why wasn’t this on the front page of the New York Times? Or even on Page 13?.... In eight American states and the District of Columbia it is legal for doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to patients diagnosed with terminal illness and with a prognosis of six months or less to live, if certain procedural steps are followed" (Mercator.net, 10/14/19) 

• "It's also concerning that not that many of our Church leaders seem to be bothered by these numbers. I actually expected the Pew poll news to set off some alarm bells, but it appears I was mistaken. Instead, stories on the Amazon Synod and the Germany Synod quickly re-grabbed the headlines. The '69 percent of Catholics who don't believe in the Real Presence' story became old news" (Catholic Stand, 10/13/19) 

• Archbishop of Aleppo condemns Turkish military offensive in northeast Syria (Vatican News, 10/11/19) 

• USCIRF Launches the Freedom of Religion or Belief Victims List (USCIRF, 10/8/19)

(Click map of 12/7/19 procession in Trenton to enlarge.)

National Concerns

• 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) 

• Support the Equal Campus Access Act, HR3243/S1168 (USCCB)

• Please urge the President, your Senator and Congressman to Maintain the Refugee Resettlement Program (Pa Catholic Conference)

• "Make the Family Great Again" petition

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) 

• Ask Your Representative to Co-Sponsor Speaker Turzai's Bill to Help Harrisburg Public School Students (Pa Catholic Conference)

• "the U.S. Department of Homeland Security defines human trafficking as a form of modern-day slavery that involves the use of force, fraud or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act. It is estimated to be a $100-billion global industry that can be found everywhere, including Pennsylvania....the vast majority of people involved in prostitution are the victims of human trafficking....Pennsylvania needs harsher punishments to discourage human traffickers and their customers. That’s why the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference supports SB 60 and HB 12" (Daily Item, 9/24/19)

The Garden State

• Support the NJ Born Alive Survivors Protection Act A5287/S3905 (NJRTL)

• Vote No on S4103/ A5802 (NJRTL)

• Oppose NJ S3804/A5508 and S3813/A5510 (NJ Catholic Conference)

• Support the NJ Pain Capable Unborn child Protection Act, A 1686/S537 (http://protectviablebabies.com/take-action/)

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 and Central NJ in Trenton.