in Pennsylvania's First Congressional District
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and the Central Garden State

Sunday, December 8, 2019

"Be strong, fear not! Here is your God, He comes with vindication" (3rd Sunday of Advent)

Third Sunday of Advent, December 15
NOT a Dark Knight, December 14
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, December 12
Feast of the Immaculate Conception, December 9


 

3rd Sunday of Advent,
Signed Homily
(Yes, the wrong color vestments are shown.)


  • Buffalo’s Caretaker Bishop: Let Healing Grace Fall Like Snow (National Catholic Register, 12/6/19)
    • Bishop Scharfenberger was ordained in 1973 and began his priestly ministry in the Diocese of Brooklyn:

        "In 1968 only 338 annulments were granted in the United States.  Today[i.e., 1997], the U.S. church approves more than 50,000 every year.

        "'An annulment is, essentially, a conclusion based upon evidence that (what) would appear to have been a solid and binding marriage was, in fact, not," said Monsignor Edward Scharfenberger, judicial vicar of the Dioceses of New York....

        "parents who have an annulment...'will be doing their children a potential service by helping them to see what in fact does constitute a true marriage and what does not,' Scharfenberger said.

        "The controversy was brought to the attention of the nation recently by Sheila Rauch Kennedy, who is appealing the annulment of her 12-year marriage to Democrat U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy of Massachusetts" (CNN, 7/6/1997).

      • Fast forward back to our time and long after the Vatican formally agreed that the annulment of the marriage between Sheila Rausch and Joe Kennedy II was invalid, we find Rausch and Kennedy's son, Rep Joe Kennedy III, to be an enemy of religious freedom, a "champion" of redefining marriage/family/sexuality, and an unapologetic promoter of abortion.  Sorry Bishop Ed, but I don't see how Joe 3 benefited from his parents' attempted annulment.  In fact, the perception of too readily available annulments may help explain why so few Catholic young people now seek to marry in the Church:

        "I am not saying this is an accurate universal portrayal of annulments, but the fact is too many easy annulments have created a distorted perception of Catholic marital teaching. Church leaders, religious media personnel, and faithfully practicing older Catholics desperately need to go outside of the narrow circle of various Catholic media outlets to discover what tens of millions of Catholics, especially young adults, are really thinking about annulments" (Steve Wood, 1/30/16).

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)

    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)
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