in Pennsylvania's First Congressional District
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania's_1st_congressional_district http://archphila.org/pastplan/MAPS/Arch.pdf
and the Central Garden State

Saturday, November 30, 2019

"They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks" (First Sunday of Advent)

  • "Being considered 'judgmental' and 'hypocritical' by people who hate your message sort of comes with the Christian message. It’s a big part of the 'the world will hate you because it hated me first' message Jesus preached....And weighing the pros and cons of a presumably unregenerate president who is also willing to defend some of the values we think are worth preserving isn’t hypocritical. It’s prudential. As [per] National Review editor Rich Lowry..., 'At the end of the day, we’re asked to either favor Trump or root for Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden or Mayor Pete, who oppose us on basically everything. So it’s a pretty simple calculation'" (The Federalist, 11/29/19).
  • "A reporter and a researcher who reviewed literature on 'gender affirmation' have raised concerns about growing political and academic support for life-altering surgical procedures...

    "'It’s important to keep some perspective here—how national debates and discourses are being driven by quite small shares of the population,' [U of Texas at Austin Professor Mark] Regnerus said....

    "in 2016, Paul R. McHugh, M.D., the former chief of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Lawrence S. Mayer, M.B., M.S., Ph.D., then a scholar in residence in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s psychiatry department, reviewed hundreds of scientific articles on sexual orientation and gender identity issues. 'Compared to the general population, adults who have undergone sex-reassignment surgery continue to have a higher risk of experiencing poor mental health outcomes,' they concluded'" (CNA, 11/26/19).

  • Under New York State's so-called 'Boss Bill' (SB660): "If a Catholic pro-life pregnancy centre refuses to hire a person who advocates and promotes abortion, or who fires an employee because they do, the new law allows for heavy punitive damages against the charity....The law targets not only conformity to the secular dogma on abortion, but also on contraception, vasectomies, in vitro fertilisation and adoption for LGBT couples (Catholic Herald, 11/26/19).
  • "'In the Sahel the fundamental human rights are violated every day: the right to life, to religious freedom, to education, to property, to security,' denounced the Bishops of Burkina Faso, Niger, Ghana, Mali and Ivory Coast, in a statement released at the end of a meeting held in Ouagadougou, on the crisis that is devastating the region due to the violence of armed jihadist groups that hit vast areas of Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso" (Zenit, 11/25/19).
  • "a resolution recognizing the genocide of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire that had overwhelmingly passed the House of Representatives was recently blocked from moving forward in the Senate by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)....

    "The House passed the resolution...just over two weeks before an official visit of Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the White House. The resolution [was] sponsored by Rep. Adan Schiff (D-Calif.).... 

    "Many scholars have recognized the Armenian genocide of 1915-1923 by name; in that span, the Armenian minority—mostly Christians—in eastern Anatolia was systematically displaced and annihilated by the Ottoman Empire. The death toll of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Chaldeans, and Syriacs is estimated to be around 1.5 million.

    "Turkey has long denied that genocide took place, claiming the number of deaths is far less than estimated and that they were largely due to conflicts related to World War I.... 

    "the White House reportedly did not want to let the resolution torpedo its efforts to get Turkey to reject an S-400 missile system from Russia" (CNA, 11/25/19).
  • New US asylum rule is gambling with lives of migrants, Catholic leaders warn (CNA, 11/25/19)




National Concerns

  • NO to "the Shaheen amendment...[in] the Senate’s State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs (SFOPS) appropriations bill" (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)
    • 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)
    • 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)

    The Garden State

    • Support the NJ Born Alive Survivors Protection Act A5287/S3905 (NJRTL)
    • Vote No on S4103/ A5802 (NJRTL)

    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.

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