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

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

“What sort of man is this, whom even the winds and the sea obey?”

https://www.youtube.com/embed/fi2EPz_Egrc?autoplay=1
(click the above image)
  • U.S. Bishops’ Religious Liberty and Catholic Education Chairmen Grateful for Supreme Court’s Decision in Blaine Amendment Case (USCCB, 6/30/2020)
https://www.milb.com/trenton
  • Catholic Bishops’ Pro-Life Chairman Says Supreme Court Decision Continues Cruel Precedent of Prioritizing Abortion Business Interests Over Women’s Health and Safety (USCCB, 6/29/2020) 
  • “So, unfortunately, the national situation, compounded by instances of knucklehead behavior here at home, are requiring us to hit pause on the restart of indoor dining for the foreseeable future” (Governor Murphy as reported by nj.com, 6/29/2020).  Huh?
  • Ireland received its lowest rating ever by the U.S. State Department for its efforts to combat human trafficking....The 2020 Trafficking-in-Persons (TIP) report listed Ireland on the 'Tier 2 Watch List' of countries....Ireland, the report said, failed to meet the State Department’s 'minimum' standard of combating trafficking, lacking sufficient support for victims and protection for undocumented workers in the fishing industry" (CNA, 6/26/20). 
    • "For 20 years, the Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP Report) [link added] has demonstrated the United States’ conviction that human trafficking is a global threat necessitating a global response. Traffickers are denying nearly 25 million people their fundamental right to freedom, forcing them to live enslaved and toil for their exploiter’s profit..... governments must end state-sponsored forced labor; they must increase prosecutions of human traffickers; and they should expand their efforts to identify and care for trafficking victims, while ensuring they are not punished for crimes traffickers compelled them to commit" [Secretary of State Mike Pompeo]...












  • "The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has approved 70 new embryonic stem cell lines for use in projects eligible for federally funded research. The new cell lines, which come from human embryos created and destroyed in a laboratory, were approved by the NIH last month....pro-lifers have expressed concern about NIH director Francis Collins, an Obama appointee who has defended research using tissue from aborted babies"(Paul Smeaton, 6/23/3020)
  • "Despite federal and state laws designed to protect conscience rights, Catholic medical professionals and their advocates report that health-care institutions routinely pressure their employees to provide or refer for services to which they morally object — and Catholic institutions are not immune to this tendency....[As per Physician Assistant Megan Kreft,] 'My goal in sharing my story is to be an advocate for other health-care professionals who might find themselves in similar situations, whether it be at secular institutions or even Catholic institutions,' Kreft said, 'and also to bring to light some of the unfortunate assault on human life that’s happening even within our Catholic institutions" (National Catholic Register, 6/23/2020).
 "Cells culled from deliberately aborted babies are being used in the production of at least five leading coronavirus vaccine candidates, including front-runners by Moderna Therapeutics, Johnson and Johnson and Oxford University....By contrast, Sanofi-Pasteur’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate uses insect cells.... 
[Other] ethical coronavirus vaccine candidates [include]...Inovio; and the John Paul II Medical Research Institute" (National Catholic Register, 5/15/20). 
Demand a COVID-19 Vaccine Free from Abortion (USCCB; Human Life Action; 
HHS Secretary Alex M. Azar II can be reached at Secretary@HHS.gov or 
202-690-7000.)



Petition on Hormonal Contraceptives: Effects of Hormonal Birth Control (Human Life International, 4/21/20)



"Send your email thanking President Donald Trump for restoring the due process of law for all students, specifically those who are falsely accused" (AFA).




"In a report issued on 15 May, the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety) said that 620 Nigerian Christians have been killed since the beginning of the year, and mapped a campaign of destruction and arson carried out against churches in the African nation"
(CNA, 5/18/20)
Protect Nigeria's Christians from Persecution.
Save Christian Teen Leah Sharibu.

Free Christian Pastor Cao.

Thank President Trump for visiting church, JPII center

  • Protect the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (USCCB)
  • Support the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act (USCCB) 
  • Support S. 2590/HR 4934 The Dignity for Aborted Children Act (Human Life Action)
  • Support the Refugee Resettlement Program (Pa Catholic Conference)  
  • Support S. 874, the Dream Act of 2019 (USCCB Justice for Immigrants)  
  • ''We urge the Senate to pass another  COVID-19 Relief Package, which:
    1) Automatically extends work authorization and visa renewal deadlines for refugees and immigrants who are providing economic and recovery assistance to our country (particularly DACA recipients, TPS holders and essential workers);
    2) Provides COVID-19 testing and treatment for all, including immigrant communities; ensure that emergency Medicaid covers testing and treatment;
    3) Ensures that tax-paying immigrant and refugee populations are eligible for stimulus payments, including individuals who file taxes with an ITIN;
    4) Halts the implementation of the new public charge rules during the COVID-19 crisis;
    5) Appropriates $642 million in supplemental funding for the Office of Refugee Resettlement for refugees living in the United States''(USCCB Justice for Immigrants)
  • Support S. 2394/HR2529, the New START Nuclear Weapons Treaty (USCCB)  
  • Support "equitable access to K12 federal funds for Catholic schools, direct funding to families for tuition aid and tax breaks for K12 tuition payments" (USCCB) 
  • Strengthen SNAP (USCCB)
  • NO to "the Shaheen amendment...[in] the Senate’s State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs (SFOPS) appropriations bill" (Human Life Action). 
  • Oppose the Misnamed Equality Act (Human Life Action) 

(Pa Catholic Conference Legislative Review and Voter Voice)

--
"308,000,000 estimated deaths [in the U.S.] since Roe V Wade and Doe v Bolton" (pfli.org)
http://faithfulinthe8th.blogspot.com/2015/04/stations-of-cross.html
Links below are to photos of the modern locations of these events, primarily from a March 2017 pilgrimage to the Holy Land....

Joyful Mysteries

  1. The Annunciation
  2. The Visitation
  3. The Nativity of Our Lord
  4. The Presentation
  5. The Finding of the Child Jesus in the Temple

Luminous Mysteries

  1. The Baptism of the Lord
  2. The Wedding at Cana
  3. The Proclamation of the Kingdom
  4. The Transfiguration
  5. The Institution of the Eucharist

Sorrowful Mysteries

  1. The Agony in the Garden
  2. The Scourging at the Pillar
  3. The Crowning with Thorns
  4. The Carrying of the Cross
  5. The Crucifixion and Death of Our Lord

Glorious Mysteries

  1. The Resurrection
  2. The Ascension
  3. The Descent of the Holy Spirit
  4. The Assumption
  5. The Crowning of Mary as Queen of Heaven

"Coronaville" Cinema
The DEFINITIVE (but debatable) List of Top 175 (or thereabouts) Films of All Time
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Thursday, June 25, 2020

Freedom....

  • "The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has paid out or approved more than $50 million so far to 222 [Doesn't the word "alleged" belong about here?] clergy sex abuse survivors, according to a new report from the Independent Reconciliation and Reparations Program (IRRP)....Four of the settlement offers have been declined, while 34 claims have been denied" (CatholicPhilly.com, 6/25/2020) 
    • The Third Order Regular Franciscans, Province of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, announced...that an allegation of sexual misconduct with a minor, made against Father Gabriel J. Zeis, T.O.R., has been found to be not credible....The Very Rev. Joseph Lehman, T.O.R., Minister Provincial of the Province of the Most Sacred Heart... proposes that Fr. Zeis' priestly faculties are reinstated and every effort is made to restore his good name and reputation" (Diocese of Trenton, 6/17/2020). 
  • "The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has approved 70 new embryonic stem cell lines for use in projects eligible for federally funded research. The new cell lines, which come from human embryos created and destroyed in a laboratory, were approved by the NIH last month....Despite President Donald Trump’s many pro-life accomplishments, pro-lifers have expressed concern about NIH director Francis Collins, an Obama appointee who has defended research using tissue from aborted babies"(Paul Smeaton, 6/23/3020)
  • "Despite federal and state laws designed to protect conscience rights, Catholic medical professionals and their advocates report that health-care institutions routinely pressure their employees to provide or refer for services to which they morally object — and Catholic institutions are not immune to this tendency....[As per Physician Assistant Megan Kreft,] 'My goal in sharing my story is to be an advocate for other health-care professionals who might find themselves in similar situations, whether it be at secular institutions or even Catholic institutions,' Kreft said, 'and also to bring to light some of the unfortunate assault on human life that’s happening even within our Catholic institutions" (National Catholic Register, 6/23/2020). 
  • Why are Christians leaving Palestinian territories? (CNA, 6/19/2020) 
 "Cells culled from deliberately aborted babies are being used in the production of at least five leading coronavirus vaccine candidates, including front-runners by Moderna Therapeutics, Johnson and Johnson and Oxford University....By contrast, Sanofi-Pasteur’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate uses insect cells.... 
[Other] ethical coronavirus vaccine candidates [include]...Inovio; and the John Paul II Medical Research Institute" (National Catholic Register, 5/15/20). 
Demand a COVID-19 Vaccine Free from Abortion (USCCB; Human Life Action; 
HHS Secretary Alex M. Azar II can be reached at Secretary@HHS.gov or 
202-690-7000.)



Petition on Hormonal Contraceptives: Effects of Hormonal Birth Control (Human Life International, 4/21/20)



"Send your email thanking President Donald Trump for restoring the due process of law for all students, specifically those who are falsely accused" (AFA).




"In a report issued on 15 May, the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety) said that 620 Nigerian Christians have been killed since the beginning of the year, and mapped a campaign of destruction and arson carried out against churches in the African nation"
(CNA, 5/18/20)
Protect Nigeria's Christians from Persecution.
Save Christian Teen Leah Sharibu.

Free Christian Pastor Cao.

Thank President Trump for visiting church, JPII center

  • Protect the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (USCCB)
  • Support the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act (USCCB) 
  • Support S. 2590/HR 4934 The Dignity for Aborted Children Act (Human Life Action)
  • Support the Refugee Resettlement Program (Pa Catholic Conference)  
  • Support S. 874, the Dream Act of 2019 (USCCB Justice for Immigrants)  
  • ''We urge the Senate to pass another  COVID-19 Relief Package, which:
    1) Automatically extends work authorization and visa renewal deadlines for refugees and immigrants who are providing economic and recovery assistance to our country (particularly DACA recipients, TPS holders and essential workers);
    2) Provides COVID-19 testing and treatment for all, including immigrant communities; ensure that emergency Medicaid covers testing and treatment;
    3) Ensures that tax-paying immigrant and refugee populations are eligible for stimulus payments, including individuals who file taxes with an ITIN;
    4) Halts the implementation of the new public charge rules during the COVID-19 crisis;
    5) Appropriates $642 million in supplemental funding for the Office of Refugee Resettlement for refugees living in the United States''(USCCB Justice for Immigrants)
  • Support S. 2394/HR2529, the New START Nuclear Weapons Treaty (USCCB)  
  • Support "equitable access to K12 federal funds for Catholic schools, direct funding to families for tuition aid and tax breaks for K12 tuition payments" (USCCB) 
  • Strengthen SNAP (USCCB)
  • NO to "the Shaheen amendment...[in] the Senate’s State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs (SFOPS) appropriations bill" (Human Life Action). 
  • Oppose the Misnamed Equality Act (Human Life Action) 

(Pa Catholic Conference Legislative Review and Voter Voice)

--
"308,000,000 estimated deaths [in the U.S.] since Roe V Wade and Doe v Bolton" (pfli.org)
http://faithfulinthe8th.blogspot.com/2015/04/stations-of-cross.html
"Coronaville" Cinema
The DEFINITIVE (but debatable) List of Top 175 (or thereabouts) Films of All Time
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Betrayals amidst defenses of life....

  • "The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has approved 70 new embryonic stem cell lines for use in projects eligible for federally funded research. The new cell lines, which come from human embryos created and destroyed in a laboratory, were approved by the NIH last month....Despite President Donald Trump’s many pro-life accomplishments, pro-lifers have expressed concern about NIH director Francis Collins, an Obama appointee who has defended research using tissue from aborted babies"(Paul Smeaton, 6/23/3020)
  • "Despite federal and state laws designed to protect conscience rights, Catholic medical professionals and their advocates report that health-care institutions routinely pressure their employees to provide or refer for services to which they morally object — and Catholic institutions are not immune to this tendency....[As per Physician Assistant Megan Kreft,] 'My goal in sharing my story is to be an advocate for other health-care professionals who might find themselves in similar situations, whether it be at secular institutions or even Catholic institutions,' Kreft said, 'and also to bring to light some of the unfortunate assault on human life that’s happening even within our Catholic institutions" (National Catholic Register, 6/23/2020). 
  • Why are Christians leaving Palestinian territories? (CNA, 6/19/2020) 
  • The Third Order Regular Franciscans, Province of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, announced...that an allegation of sexual misconduct with a minor, made against Father Gabriel J. Zeis, T.O.R., has been found to be not credible....The Very Rev. Joseph Lehman, T.O.R., Minister Provincial of the Province of the Most Sacred Heart... proposes that Fr. Zeis' priestly faculties are reinstated and every effort is made to restore his good name and reputation" (Diocese of Trenton, 6/17/2020). 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSTADNynVTI&feature=youtu.be
 "Cells culled from deliberately aborted babies are being used in the production of at least five leading coronavirus vaccine candidates, including front-runners by Moderna Therapeutics, Johnson and Johnson and Oxford University....By contrast, Sanofi-Pasteur’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate uses insect cells.... 
[Other] ethical coronavirus vaccine candidates [include]...Inovio; and the John Paul II Medical Research Institute" (National Catholic Register, 5/15/20). 
Demand a COVID-19 Vaccine Free from Abortion (USCCB; Human Life Action; 
HHS Secretary Alex M. Azar II can be reached at Secretary@HHS.gov or 
202-690-7000.)



Petition on Hormonal Contraceptives: Effects of Hormonal Birth Control (Human Life International, 4/21/20)



"Send your email thanking President Donald Trump for restoring the due process of law for all students, specifically those who are falsely accused" (AFA).




"In a report issued on 15 May, the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety) said that 620 Nigerian Christians have been killed since the beginning of the year, and mapped a campaign of destruction and arson carried out against churches in the African nation"
(CNA, 5/18/20)
Protect Nigeria's Christians from Persecution.
Save Christian Teen Leah Sharibu.

Free Christian Pastor Cao.

Thank President Trump for visiting church, JPII center

  • Protect the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (USCCB)
  • Support the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act (USCCB) 
  • Support S. 2590/HR 4934 The Dignity for Aborted Children Act (Human Life Action)
  • Support the Refugee Resettlement Program (Pa Catholic Conference)  
  • Support S. 874, the Dream Act of 2019 (USCCB Justice for Immigrants)  
  • ''We urge the Senate to pass another  COVID-19 Relief Package, which:
    1) Automatically extends work authorization and visa renewal deadlines for refugees and immigrants who are providing economic and recovery assistance to our country (particularly DACA recipients, TPS holders and essential workers);
    2) Provides COVID-19 testing and treatment for all, including immigrant communities; ensure that emergency Medicaid covers testing and treatment;
    3) Ensures that tax-paying immigrant and refugee populations are eligible for stimulus payments, including individuals who file taxes with an ITIN;
    4) Halts the implementation of the new public charge rules during the COVID-19 crisis;
    5) Appropriates $642 million in supplemental funding for the Office of Refugee Resettlement for refugees living in the United States''(USCCB Justice for Immigrants)
  • Support S. 2394/HR2529, the New START Nuclear Weapons Treaty (USCCB)  
  • Support "equitable access to K12 federal funds for Catholic schools, direct funding to families for tuition aid and tax breaks for K12 tuition payments" (USCCB) 
  • Strengthen SNAP (USCCB)
  • NO to "the Shaheen amendment...[in] the Senate’s State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs (SFOPS) appropriations bill" (Human Life Action). 
  • Oppose the Misnamed Equality Act (Human Life Action) 

(Pa Catholic Conference Legislative Review and Voter Voice)

--
"308,000,000 estimated deaths [in the U.S.] since Roe V Wade and Doe v Bolton" (pfli.org)
http://faithfulinthe8th.blogspot.com/2015/04/stations-of-cross.html
"Coronaville" Cinema
The DEFINITIVE (but debatable) List of Top 175 (or thereabouts) Films of All Time
Posted by at No comments:

Sunday, June 21, 2020

"Freedom is the power, rooted in reason and will, to act or not to act, to do this or that, and so to perform deliberate actions on one's own responsibility. By free will one shapes one's own life. Human freedom is a force for growth and maturity in truth and goodness; it attains its perfection when directed toward God, our beatitude." (CCC, 1731)








https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSTADNynVTI&feature=youtu.be
  • Nativity of St John the Baptist (6/24/2020)
  • St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher (6/22/2020)
  • On the Way to Cape...[Canaveral] (6/20/20)
  • Pope Francis declares Catholic sister killed in Satanic ritual a martyr (CNA, 6/19/2020) 
  • Why are Christians leaving Palestinian territories? (CNA, 6/19/2020) 



 "Cells culled from deliberately aborted babies are being used in the production of at least five leading coronavirus vaccine candidates, including front-runners by Moderna Therapeutics, Johnson and Johnson and Oxford University....By contrast, Sanofi-Pasteur’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate uses insect cells.... 
[Other] ethical coronavirus vaccine candidates [include]...Inovio; and the John Paul II Medical Research Institute" (National Catholic Register, 5/15/20). 
Demand a COVID-19 Vaccine Free from Abortion (USCCB; Human Life Action; 
HHS Secretary Alex M. Azar II can be reached at Secretary@HHS.gov or 
202-690-7000.)



Petition on Hormonal Contraceptives: Effects of Hormonal Birth Control (Human Life International, 4/21/20)



"Send your email thanking President Donald Trump for restoring the due process of law for all students, specifically those who are falsely accused" (AFA).




"In a report issued on 15 May, the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety) said that 620 Nigerian Christians have been killed since the beginning of the year, and mapped a campaign of destruction and arson carried out against churches in the African nation"
(CNA, 5/18/20)
Protect Nigeria's Christians from Persecution.
Save Christian Teen Leah Sharibu.

Free Christian Pastor Cao.






  • Protect the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (USCCB)
  • Support the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act (USCCB) 
  • Support S. 2590/HR 4934 The Dignity for Aborted Children Act (Human Life Action)
  • Support the Refugee Resettlement Program (Pa Catholic Conference)  
  • Support S. 874, the Dream Act of 2019 (USCCB Justice for Immigrants)  
  • ''We urge the Senate to pass another  COVID-19 Relief Package, which:
    1) Automatically extends work authorization and visa renewal deadlines for refugees and immigrants who are providing economic and recovery assistance to our country (particularly DACA recipients, TPS holders and essential workers);
    2) Provides COVID-19 testing and treatment for all, including immigrant communities; ensure that emergency Medicaid covers testing and treatment;
    3) Ensures that tax-paying immigrant and refugee populations are eligible for stimulus payments, including individuals who file taxes with an ITIN;
    4) Halts the implementation of the new public charge rules during the COVID-19 crisis;
    5) Appropriates $642 million in supplemental funding for the Office of Refugee Resettlement for refugees living in the United States''(USCCB Justice for Immigrants)
  • Support S. 2394/HR2529, the New START Nuclear Weapons Treaty (USCCB)  
  • Support "equitable access to K12 federal funds for Catholic schools, direct funding to families for tuition aid and tax breaks for K12 tuition payments" (USCCB) 
  • Strengthen SNAP (USCCB)
  • NO to "the Shaheen amendment...[in] the Senate’s State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs (SFOPS) appropriations bill" (Human Life Action). 
  • Oppose the Misnamed Equality Act (Human Life Action) 

(Pa Catholic Conference Legislative Review and Voter Voice)

--
"308,000,000 estimated deaths [in the U.S.] since Roe V Wade and Doe v Bolton" (pfli.org)
http://faithfulinthe8th.blogspot.com/2015/04/stations-of-cross.html
"Coronaville" Cinema
The DEFINITIVE (but debatable) List of Top 175 (or thereabouts) Films of All Time
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