Faithful Citizenship in Pa's 1st Congressional District and the Central Garden State: "Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect."

Thursday, August 27, 2020

22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, 8/30/2020

St John the Baptist, 8/29/2020

Philadelphia archdiocese asks two priests to undo hasty church renovations (CNA, 8/27/2020)

Boston priest claims Catholics can support ‘right to choose’ abortion, archdiocese declines comment (CNA, 8/26/2020)

Click to email the Apostolic Nuncio, the USCCB president, Cardinal O'Malley, Archbishop Perez (as well as his auxiliaries), and Bishop O'Connell, for an IMMEDIATE correction of this nonsense from Msgr Garrity.

After Correction, Study Claiming Mutilating Trans People Helps Them Now Finds The Opposite (The Federalist, 8/26/2020)

Montreal’s Masterpiece for Mary: Cathedral-Basilica Tribute to the Queen of the World (National Catholic Register, 8/22/2020)

Neither Casey, Nor Fitz, Nor Fitzpatrick sign 8/12/2020 letter asking end to tax breaks for abortion.

Two Lower Bucks Catholic h.s. alumni vie for the same seat in Congress.... (7/7/2020)

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

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

Protect the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (USCCB)
Support the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act (USCCB)
Support the Born Alive Survivors' Protection Act (Human Life Action)
Support S. 2590/HR 4934 The Dignity for Aborted Children Act (Human Life Action)
Support S. 874, the Dream Act of 2019 (USCCB Justice for Immigrants)
Protect DACA recipients (USCCB Justice for Immigrants)
Concern for vulnerable people in COVID-19 Relief (USCCB; USCCB Justice for Immigrants)
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)
Support the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (USCCB)
NO to "the Shaheen amendment...[in] the Senate’s State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs (SFOPS) appropriations bill" (Human Life Action).
Oppose HJ Res 79 (USCCB)
Oppose the Misnamed Equality Act (Senate Conservatives)

(Pa Catholic Conference Legislative Review and Voter Voice)

Reject Wolf's budget item to increase funding to Planned Parenthood (Pa Family Council)
Support a religious exemption for adoptions (Pa Family Council).
Oppose SB 614, SB 224, and HB 1404 (Pa Family Institute).
Please Urge Governor Wolf to Not Divert Federal CARES Act Money From Catholic and Nonpublic Schools (Pa Catholic Conference)
Pennsylvania Cannot Afford New Gambling Expansion (Pa Family Council)
In rightly asking us to advocate for school transportation for all students (https://www.votervoice.net/BroadcastLinks/FMMTkN3gUSYvGi4yr6Wafg), the Pa Catholic Conference states "School districts are required to provide transportation to both public and nonpublic students, even during the pandemic." LONG before the pandemic, that has NOT been happening with the Morrisville school district. Though stuck with paying for the Morrisville School District, Morrisville families are forced to paying for high school transportation to nonpublic schools. Please remind state representatives (RepWarren@pahouse.com, Jgalloway@pahouse.net), the state senator (senatorsantarsiero@pasen.com), and the U.S. representative (BriFitz8@gmail.com) of their duties to their Morrisville constituents. They should be urging other districts to accept a merger with Morrisville (which is woefully shy of students) and/or advocating a voucher system that would truly benefit ALL families.