"You will be hated by all because of my name, but not a hair on your head will be destroyed. By your perseverance you will secure your lives." (11/17/19).

National Concerns

• Support S. 2590/HR 4934 The Dignity for Aborted Children Act (USCCB) (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)

• Urge the President and Congress to Maintain the Refugee Resettlement Program (Pa Catholic Conference) 

• Support S. 874, the Dream Act of 2019 (USCCB Justice for Immigrants)

• Oppose the Misnamed Equality Act (Human Life Action)

• Oppose the Misnamed Do No Harm Act (cf, American Life League)

• Submit Your Official Comment to Say: Pro-Life Health Workers Must Not Be Forced to Assist With Abortions (Susan B Anthony List)

• "Make the Family Great Again" petition

Commonwealth of Pa

(Pa Catholic Conference Legislative Review and Voter Voice)

• Support the Perinatal Hospice Care Act (Pa Catholic Conference)

• Support the "Buyer Beware Act (SB 60) to fight human trafficking (Pa Catholic Conference)

• Support the Fetal Remains Bill, HB 1890 (Pa Catholic Conference) 

• Support the "Heartbeat" Bill (Pa Catholic Conference) 

• Support the Down Syndrome Protection Act (Pa Catholic Conference)

• Please ask the governor, Pa Senate and Pa Assembly for a religious exemption for adoptions (Pa Catholic Conference) (See also the Pa Family Council link.)

• Call for Funding Increase for Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) (Pa Catholic Conference)  
• Please ask Governor Wolf to SIGN House Bill 800 on the Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) (Pa Catholic Conference)

• Support school choice in the Harrisburg School district (Pa Catholic Conference), and ask for co-sponsorship of Speaker Turzai's bill (Pa Catholic Conference)

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.)

• November 18th marks the 41st anniversary of the U.S. Bishops' Pastoral Statement on People with Disabilities....  
• Ensuring that modern people "hear them speaking in...[their] own tongues of the mighty acts of God" (6/1/19).

• 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (11/17/19)

• 2018 Hate Crime Statistics Released (FBI, 11/12/19)