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

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Marriage and the Beatific Vision


"It is generally conceded, taking in the whole man as it does, that the marriage act purged of impurities is the nearest thing to the beatific vision we can know. The intense pleasure and delight of the act itself may be like a sword piercing the heart, but though momentary in itself, it colors the hours and days, people and events, before and after, so that one is apt to feel that one is seeing others as God sees them, loving them as God loves them." (Dorothy Day, 12/10/66)
https://dioceseoftrenton.org/world-marriage-day

National Concerns

  • Support the Heartbeat Bill, HR 3985 (cf, LifeSite)
  • Support the Life at Conception Act
  • Support the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act
  • Support the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act (cf, USCCB)
  • Support H. Con. Res. 79, that assisted suicide is a “deadly, discriminatory and non-compassionate practice” (USCCB
  • Opppose the Misnamed International Violence Against Women Act (cf, C-Fam)
  • Oppose HJ Res 79, as it is "intended to insert language into the U.S. Constitution that could invalidate any limits whatsoever on abortion, including late abortions, and require government funding of abortion"  (cf, NRLC)
  • Oppose the Misleadingly Named Medicare for All Act (cf., Politico)
  • Support the Equal Campus Act, HR3243/S1168 (USCCB)
  • Support the Farm Workforce Modernization Act (cf., USCCB)
  • Support S. 2394/HR2529, the New START Nuclear Weapons Treaty (USCCB
  • NO to "the Shaheen amendment...[in] the Senate’s State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs (SFOPS) appropriations bill" (Human Life Action).

The Commonwealth of Pa

(Pa Catholic Conference Legislative Review and Voter Voice)
  • Support the Telemedicine Bill (SB 857) as passed by the Pa House (Pa Catholic Conf)
  • 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)

Pennsylvania March for Life [Harrisburg, 5/18/20] 

Pa ProLife Federation petition

The Garden State

  • "Legislation (S2173/A3818) to remove a religious exemption and mandate immunizations for children....this legislation undermines parental rights and should be vigorously opposed" (NJRTL email, 1/10/20).
    • Open Letter from Dr. Theresa Deisher to Legislators Regarding Fetal Cell DNA IN Vaccines (5/27/19)

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