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41. In what way is God the truth?

(Contact the NJ & PA delegations in DC.)

OPPOSE the misleadingly named Equality and Do No Harm Acts (which would weaken the Religious Freedom Restoration Act),
OPPOSE efforts to weaken the Hyde Amendment,
OPPOSE Planned Parenthood (and "services" like it),
OPPOSE Federal Executions,

SUPPORT the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act,
SUPPORT the Dignity for Aborted Children Act,
SUPPORT the Save Moms & Babies Act, and
SUPPORT the Save Democracy Act.

(Contact the Burlington, Mercer, Monmouth, & Ocean delegations in Trenton.)

Action Needed to Oppose the NJ Reproductive Freedom Act (S3030/A4848) (NJ Right to Life)
Public Comments due to NJ Board of Medical Examiners by March 5, 2021 on Proposed Abortion Rule Changes (NJ Right to Life)

(Contact the Bucks delegation in Harrisburg.)

Back to basics!

42. In what way does God reveal that he is love?

43. What does it mean to believe in only one God?

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"Job spoke, saying: Is not man’s life on earth a drudgery?" (5th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 2/7/21)

St Blaise, Bishop and Martyr (2/3)

Defend Persecuted Christians Worldwide from Violence and Abuse

We MUST demand vaccines produced AND tested in ethical manners! Big Pharma will not look to provide such unless people of good will - clergy AND laity - DEMAND ethical alternatives. Does one possibility exist?

Horseshoe crab blood: the miracle vaccine ingredient that's saved millions of lives (Natural History Museum, 1/15/21 update)

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"We are obliged...to avoid using vaccines that rely on aborted fetal cell lines unless we are in grave danger. The Church says we have a 'moral duty' to avoid cooperation in evil, however remote, as the default condition. It is only morally permissible to get the vaccine if you need it. Either way, we are all also supposed to work to change the culture got us backed into this corner. We all have an obligation to effectively oppose the use of aborted children in biomedical research" (Children of God for Life).

Bishops must act on—not just talk about—Biden’s abortion advocacy (Catholic Culture, 1/25/21)

(Contact the NJ & PA delegations in DC.)

OPPOSE the misleadingly named Equality and Do No Harm Acts (which would weaken the Religious Freedom Restoration Act),
OPPOSE efforts to weaken the Hyde Amendment,
OPPOSE Planned Parenthood (and "services" like it),
OPPOSE Federal Executions,

SUPPORT the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act,
SUPPORT the Dignity for Aborted Children Act,
SUPPORT the Save Moms & Babies Act, and
SUPPORT the Save Democracy Act.

(Contact the Burlington, Mercer, Monmouth, & Ocean delegations in Trenton.)

Action Needed to Oppose the NJ Reproductive Freedom Act (S3030/A4848) (NJ Right to Life)
Public Comments due to NJ Board of Medical Examiners by March 5, 2021 on Proposed Abortion Rule Changes (NJ Right to Life)

(Contact the Bucks delegation in Harrisburg.)

Pledge to Make Reparation for Louisiana Church Sacrilege

Pharmacists for Life International has long warned that 308 million babies in the U.S. have been killed in abortion since Roe V Wade - a plague of unimaginable proportions!

Stop Aborted Fetal Cell Lines in Medical Products.

Back to Basics....

38. With what name does God reveal Himself?

39. Is God the only One who “is”?

40. Why is the revelation of God's name important?

Horseshoe crab blood: the miracle vaccine ingredient that's saved millions of lives (Natural History Museum, 1/15/21 update)

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/horseshoe-crab-blood-miracle-vaccine-ingredient.html

Friday, January 29, 2021

Objection and Illicit Cooperation

Stop Aborted Fetal Cell Lines in Medical Products.

From both New Jersey and Pennsylvania, it was ONLY Pa's Rep Mike Kelly, who joined with Rep Hice's H.Res. 58, while NO ONE joined Senator Braun's companion S.Res.12. These resolutions were to honor unborn children killed by abortion.

Bishops must act on—not just talk about—Biden’s abortion advocacy (Catholic Culture, 1/25/21)

"We are obliged...to avoid using vaccines that rely on aborted fetal cell lines unless we are in grave danger. The Church says we have a 'moral duty' to avoid cooperation in evil, however remote, as the default condition. It is only morally permissible to get the vaccine if you need it. Either way, we are all also supposed to work to change the culture got us backed into this corner. We all have an obligation to effectively oppose the use of aborted children in biomedical research" (Children of God for Life).

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Defend Persecuted Christians Worldwide from Violence and Abuse

Pharmacists for Life International has long warned that 308 million babies in the U.S. have been killed in abortion since Roe V Wade - a plague of unimaginable proportions!

Pledge to Make Reparation for Louisiana Church Sacrilege

(Contact the NJ & PA delegations in DC.)

OPPOSE the misleadingly named Equality and Do No Harm Acts (which would weaken the Religious Freedom Restoration Act),
OPPOSE efforts to weaken the Hyde Amendment,
OPPOSE Planned Parenthood (and "services" like it),
OPPOSE Federal Executions,

SUPPORT the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act,
SUPPORT the Dignity for Aborted Children Act,
SUPPORT the Save Moms & Babies Act, and
SUPPORT the Save Democracy Act.

(Contact the Burlington, Mercer, Monmouth, & Ocean delegations in Trenton.)

Action Needed to Oppose the NJ Reproductive Freedom Act (S3030/A4848) (NJ Right to Life)
Public Comments due to NJ Board of Medical Examiners by March 5, 2021 on Proposed Abortion Rule Changes (NJ Right to Life)

(Contact the Bucks delegation in Harrisburg.)

BACK TO BASICS....

36. Why does the Profession of Faith begin with the words, "I believe in God"?

37. Why does one profess belief that there is only one God?

Cooperation

In a June 9, 2005 letter, the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life reviewed "The principle of licit cooperation in evil":

"The first fundamental distinction to be made is that between formal and material cooperation. Formal cooperation is carried out when the moral agent cooperates with the immoral action of another person, sharing in the latter's evil intention. On the other hand, when a moral agent cooperates with the immoral action of another person, without sharing his/her evil intention, it is a case of material cooperation.

Material cooperation can be further divided into categories of immediate (direct) and mediate (indirect), depending on whether the cooperation is in the execution of the sinful action per se, or whether the agent acts by fulfilling the conditions - either by providing instruments or products - which make it possible to commit the immoral act. Furthermore, forms of proximate cooperation and remote cooperation can be distinguished, in relation to the "distance" (be it in terms of temporal space or material connection) between the act of cooperation and the sinful act committed by someone else. Immediate material cooperation is always proximate, while mediate material cooperation can be either proximate or remote.

Formal cooperation is always morally illicit because it represents a form of direct and intentional participation in the sinful action of another person.¹⁰ Material cooperation can sometimes be illicit (depending on the conditions of the "double effect" or "indirect voluntary" action), but when immediate material cooperation concerns grave attacks on human life, it is always to be considered illicit, given the precious nature of the value in question¹¹.

A further distinction made in classical morality is that between active (or positive) cooperation in evil and passive (or negative) cooperation in evil, the former referring to the performance of an act of cooperation in a sinful action that is carried out by another person, while the latter refers to the omission of an act of denunciation or impediment of a sinful action carried out by another person, insomuch as there was a moral duty to do that which was omitted¹².

Passive cooperation can also be formal or material, immediate or mediate, proximate or remote. Obviously, every type of formal passive cooperation is to be considered illicit, but even passive material cooperation should generally be avoided, although it is admitted (by many authors) that there is not a rigorous obligation to avoid it in a case in which it would be greatly difficult to do so."

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

The Hyde Amendment and more

St Thomas Aquinas, Priest & Doctor of the Church (1/28)

4TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (1/31/21)

THE 1/29 MARCH FOR LIFE IN DC IS GOING VIRTUAL

*8:45 am public Rosary on the grounds of St John the Evangelist in Lower Makefield

Letter to Speaker Pelosi, Republican Leader McCarthy, Majority Leader Schumer, and Minority Leader McConnell, asking for preservation of Hyde Amendment (1/26/21)

We should thank NJ's Jeff Van Drew, as well as Pa's John Joyce, Fred Keller, Mike Kelly, Dan Meuser, Scott Perry, Guy Reschenthaler, Lloyd Smucker, and Glenn Thompson for signing this letter. NOT ONE DIME of public monies should be going to Planned Parenthood and "services" like it.

It is a great disappointment to NOT see the signature of Brian Fitzpatrick on this letter (Oddly, I was not able to find that of Chris Smith.).

Our representatives and senators in DC must be reminded to also OPPOSE the misleadingly named Equality and Do No Harm Acts, which would weaken the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and facilitate abortion.
Our representative and senators in DC must be reminded to defend all vulnerable humans and promote conscience protections, by SUPPORTING the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act, the Dignity for Aborted Children Act, the SAVE Moms and Babies Act, and the Save Democracy Act.

Bishops must act on—not just talk about—Biden’s abortion advocacy (Catholic Culture, 1/25/21)

Pledge to Make Reparation for Louisiana Church Sacrilege

"We are obliged, then, to avoid using vaccines that rely on aborted fetal cell lines unless we are in grave danger. The Church says we have a 'moral duty' to avoid cooperation in evil, however remote, as the default condition. It is only morally permissible to get the vaccine if you need it. Either way, we are all also supposed to work to change the culture got us backed into this corner. We all have an obligation to effectively oppose the use of aborted children in biomedical research" (Children of God for Life).

Pharmacists for Life International has long warned that 308 million babies in the U.S. have been killed in abortion since Roe V Wade - a plague of unimaginable proportions!

Defend Persecuted Christians Worldwide from Violence and Abuse

(Contact the NJ & PA delegations in DC.)

OPPOSE the misleadingly named Equality and Do No Harm Acts (which would weaken the Religious Freedom Restoration Act),
OPPOSE efforts to weaken the Hyde Amendment,
OPPOSE Planned Parenthood (and "services" like it),
OPPOSE Federal Executions,

SUPPORT the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act,
SUPPORT the Dignity for Aborted Children Act,
SUPPORT the Save Moms & Babies Act, and
SUPPORT the Save Democracy Act.

(Contact the Burlington, Mercer, Monmouth, & Ocean delegations in Trenton.)

Action Needed to Oppose the NJ Reproductive Freedom Act (S3030/A4848) (NJ Right to Life)
Public Comments due to NJ Board of Medical Examiners by March 5, 2021 on Proposed Abortion Rule Changes (NJ Right to Life)

(Contact the Bucks delegation in Harrisburg.)

BACK TO BASICS....

33. What are the symbols of faith?

34. What are the most ancient symbols (professions of faith)?

35. What are the most important symbols of the faith?

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

"If today you hear His voice, harden not your hearts" (1/31/21).

THE 1/29 MARCH FOR LIFE IN DC IS GOING VIRTUAL

4TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (1/31/21)

*8:45 am public Rosary on the grounds of St John the Evangelist in Lower Makefield