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, July 4, 2020

“Come to Me, all you who labor & are burdened, and I will give you rest...."

https://youtu.be/MBiBSGv4dog

https://www.foxnews.com/media/howard-safir-nyc-much-more-dangerous-city

  • Noted Environmentalist Apologizes for the “Climate Scare” (C-Fam, 7/2/2020)
  • Huh?
 
(NBC New York, 7/2/2020)
https://youtu.be/ordODDzVso8
    • "after thousands of businesses – many of them black-owned – have been reduced to rubble and innocent people in the inner cities no longer have anywhere to shop for the basic necessities of life, the mainstream media has backed off of its non-stop coverage of the protests....they all simultaneously embraced a new fear story to terrify the masses: a 'second wave' of coronavirus was among us. It was targeting those states that dared to 'open up' their economies and begin a return to relatively normal lives....just a month or so ago they were demanding that we massively increase testing, which would produce just that 'spike' in coronavirus cases they are now using to scare authorities into reinstating the incredibly destructive stay-at-home orders... As former Congressman David Stockman points out, the actual coronavirus numbers do not in any way support the media assertion that a 'second wave' of infection is cresting over Texas. Stockman informs us that in Texas the 'reported infected case rate of 256 per 100,000 is just 10 percent of the real "hot spot" rate of 2,477 per 100,000 in the five boroughs of New York City; and its mortality rate of 6.2 per 100,000 population is just 3 percent of New York City’s 196 per 100,000 rate'....The same people who were demanding more testing are now screaming that we must shut the economy down again because these tests – which are notoriously unreliable – are showing more coronavirus cases. This is a disease that 99.9 percent of the people who are infected with survive! But 40 million people out of work and the thousands of lives that will end due to the shutdown are never mentioned. There is something else going on here, and it is in no way related to public health. (Dr Ron Paul, 6/16/2020)
  • Gospel reading for 7/1/2020:
Why would they beg Jesus "to leave their district"? 
Were any in denial of demonic power and question its existence?
  • Ohio State law professor Michelle Alexander (2012) reports the "War on Drugs" to be conducted in a racially discriminatory manner, effectively replacing the earlier heinous evils of slavery and "Jim Crow" with mass incarceration:
      • "More than two million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins...where discrimination in employment, housing, and access to education were perfectly legal, and where they could be denied the right to vote....Ninety percent of those admitted to prison for drug offenses in many states were black or Latino, yet the mass incarceration of communities of color was explained in race-neutral terms....The New Jim Crow was born" (p. 58). 
      • "If we had actually learned to show love, care, compassion, and concern across racial lines during the Civil Rights Movement... mass incarceration would not exist today.... every caste system, including mass incarceration, has been supported by racial indifference - a lack of caring and compassion for people of other races" (pp. 177, 204). 
      • "If we become serious about dismantling the system of mass incarceration, we must end the War on Drugs....Obama...is proposing nothing less than revving up the drug war through the same failed policies and programs that have systematically locked young men of color into a permanent racial undercaste" (pp. 232, 253). 
    • Joe Biden on Crime and Mass Incarceration (NY Times, 6/27/2019)
        "During the ’80s and ’90s, Mr. Biden helped shepherd a string of bills that transformed the criminal justice system — and, experts say, hurt America’s black communities."

https://www.youtube.com/embed/fi2EPz_Egrc?autoplay=1
(click the above image)

 "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)

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"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

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The DEFINITIVE (but debatable) List of Top 175 (or thereabouts) Films of All Time
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