The sanctity of human life and authentic marriage/family

3rd Sunday of Easter

St Catherine of Siena

• URGENT: Tell PHRC to Reject New Proposal that Threatens Religious Freedom, Privacy Rights (Pa Family Assoc, 4/28/22)

• Drag Show at Saint Joseph’s University? Catholic Education Expert Sounds Alarm (National Catholic Register, 4/28/22)

• Kay Jewelers Attempts to Redefine Family (OneMillionMoms, 4/27/22)

• Celebrating the Family in St. John Paul II’s Sanctuary in Krakow (National Catholic Register, 4/26/22)

• "The crisis created by Russia’s war on Ukraine demands de-escalation, not imperial aggrandizement and schemes of regime change.... we ask people of goodwill everywhere to join us in saying No to the illogic of escalation" (Compact, 4/2/2022).
• Pro-Life Jews: Why Doesn't Zelensky Urge Jews to Oppose the 'Ongoing Holocaust Against Preborn Ukrainian Civilians' (CNSNews, 3/14/2022) 
• The Fight for Ukraine Is Also a Fight for LGBTQ Rights [This article contain vulgar language and an anti marriage/family perspective.] (Vanity Fair, 3/4/2022).  

"Right is right even if no one is doing it;  

wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it."  (Saint Augustine?)

Letters to Pharmaceutical Companies ["to protest the use of abortion-derived cell lines and advocate for the development of vaccines with no connection to abortion."] (USCCB)

Children of God for Life

End the Use of Aborted Children in Science  

National and International Matters

New Jersey Matters

Pennsylvania Matters

Church leadership matters

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“We must obey God rather than men." (3rd Sunday of Easter)

3rd Sunday of Easter

St Catherine of Siena

• Cardinal Sarah’s Sober and Gentle View of Marriage (Father Paul Scalia, 4/23/22)

• "The crisis created by Russia’s war on Ukraine demands de-escalation, not imperial aggrandizement and schemes of regime change. It calls for prudence, not self-righteous posturing.... President Biden recently described the confrontation with Moscow as a long war 'between democracy and autocracy.'  Similarly grandiose rhetoric ensnared the West in the quicksand of the Middle East after 9/11, costing hundreds of thousands of lives and untold treasure. Before replicating those mistakes, we must step back from the abyss. We ask people of goodwill everywhere to join us in saying No to the illogic of escalation" (Compact, 4/2/2022).
• Pro-Life Jews: Why Doesn't Zelensky Urge Jews to Oppose the 'Ongoing Holocaust Against Preborn Ukrainian Civilians' (CNSNews, 3/14/2022) 
  
• The Fight for Ukraine Is Also a Fight for LGBTQ Rights [This article contains vulgar language and may make you feel naive about the Ukraine] (Vanity Fair, 3/4/2022).  Below video is 3 years old.... 
  
  Why would we think that Biden would be on a pro life / pro family side?

"Right is right even if no one is doing it;  

wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it."  (Saint Augustine?)

Letters to Pharmaceutical Companies ["to protest the use of abortion-derived cell lines and advocate for the development of vaccines with no connection to abortion."] (USCCB)

Children of God for Life

End the Use of Aborted Children in Science  

National and International Matters

New Jersey Matters

Pennsylvania Matters

Church leadership matters

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"EPHPHATA" - A STUDY GUIDE

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Plenty of reasons we need His mercy!

• Easter: Bringing Out The Worst In Unbelievers (Christopher Mannion, 4/23/22)

• Brain Death: Let us remain faithful to the principle of precaution (Bp Strickland. Dr Eble, 4/21/22)

• No, it’s not the economy, stupid -- it’s the raging perversion, moral depravity, and transgender mutilation of our own children (RenewAmerica, 4/21/22)

• Along with games of chance, this will likely prove to be another way to exploit (poor) people in NJ (4/20/22)
• Dan Bartkowiak: Listen to people who know what drugs do, not people who want to sell them (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 4/19/22)

• facades? (4/19/22)

• "A whopping 84 percent of Catholics no longer believe in Satan or objective sin.  70 percent no longer believe in the Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist.  Most Catholics don’t even realize it’s a mortal sin to not participate in Mass on Sundays and Holy Days of obligation.  Communion lines have grown longer (almost everyone goes) while Confession lines have become almost nonexistent. As St. Pope Paul VI said, we’ve lost our sense of sin.  Beyond the occasional rosary (maybe), who prays anymore?....
  Truth is the only avenue to Heaven, and all religious truth resides in the Roman Catholic Church. So there are two things we all need to do. First, think about all the things the Church teaches as truth that you’ve chosen to disagree with because these truths cramp your lifestyle — remarriage after divorce, artificial contraception, the Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist, the need for Confession, etc. Then renounce your subjective opinions in favor of objective truth....
  quit worrying about offending people with the truth. You have a moral obligation to always proclaim the truth, no matter how well it’s received. Speak the truths of Christ as taught by His holy Roman Catholic Church, and don’t worry about the consequences. By doing this, you’ll be living like and imitating Jesus…which is exactly what we’re supposed to do" (Joe Sixpack, 4/15/22).

2ND SUNDAY OF EASTER, DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY, 4/24/22

facades?

• Open Letter To Catholic Media Complicit In The Cover-Up Of Sexual Abuse (Complicit Clergy, 4/3/22)
• Is Msgr. Burrill the Tip of the Iceberg? (Crisis, 7/28/21)
• Pledge to Make Reparation for Louisiana Church Sacrilege (Return to Order)

• The Facade of the Duomo of Florence (Liturgical Arts Journal, 4/12/22)

(The below photos are from a 2012 visit.)

• As per a 4/13/22 nj.com review of Father Stu by Father Alexander Santora of the Archdiocese of Newark: "there is a diatribe on perfect and imperfect contrition. No one talks this way, not even priests [Please see Compendium of the Catechism (#303).] ....the film has an agenda: Restore the pre-Vatican II church. Some people...are behind opposition to Pope Francis and his vision of church." Why does Cardinal Tobin allow faculties for a theologically ignorant priest voicing such bigotries against many of God's people?

• Pope Benedict XVI and the ‘German Question’ (National Catholic Register, 4/13/22)

• Anatomy of a Schism (Complete Christianity, 4/18/22)

2nd Sunday of Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday, 4/24/22

2nd Sunday of Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday, 4/24/22

Divine Mercy Sunday 

• Exclusive: Zelensky says world should be prepared for possibility Putin could use nuclear weapons (CNN, 4/15/2022
• "The crisis created by Russia’s war on Ukraine demands de-escalation.... grandiose rhetoric ensnared the West in the quicksand of the Middle East after 9/11, costing hundreds of thousands of lives and untold treasure....We ask people of goodwill everywhere to join us in saying No to the illogic of escalation" (https://compactmag.com/article/away-from-the-abyss).
• Pro-Life Jews: Why Doesn't Zelensky Urge Jews to Oppose the 'Ongoing Holocaust Against Preborn Ukrainian Civilians' (CNSNews, 3/14/2022)
• The Fight for Ukraine Is Also a Fight for LGBTQ Rights [This article contains vulgar language and may make you feel naive about the Ukraine] (Vanity Fair, 3/4/2022)

• "Contrary to the Jesus of the Gospels and the documents of Vatican II, ... traitors watered down catechesis, flat-out denied some dogmas and doctrines, and attempted to transform Jesus from the Incarnate Word of God to Jesus the Warm Fuzzy....6.5 people leave the Church for every one that joins" (The Wanderer, 4/15/2022)

• It's Because Of The Resurrection That The Culture War Matters (Federalist. 4/14/2022)

• Bishop-Elect Challenges Gays in Seminaries (Church Militant, 4/8/2022)
• Williams: Jesuit Father Martin Defends Cardinal Marx over Homosexuality (Breitbart, 4/2/2022)
• Demand that Father Martin's coy, confusing statements not go unchallenged.  Email Family Life Offices of Trenton & Philly, Bishop O'Connell and Archbishop Perez to ask that James Martin, SJ, NOT be allowed to mislead & scatter their flocks.

• The Left Unmasks Its Desire To Destroy The Nation With Sexual Chaos (Federalist, 4/4/2022)

Misleading messaging is a misuse of the rainbow....

"Right is right even if no one is doing it;  

wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it."  (Saint Augustine?)

Letters to Pharmaceutical Companies ["to protest the use of abortion-derived cell lines and advocate for the development of vaccines with no connection to abortion."] (USCCB)

Children of God for Life

End the Use of Aborted Children in Science  

National and International Matters

New Jersey Matters

Pennsylvania Matters

Church leadership matters

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"EPHPHATA" - A STUDY GUIDE

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Easter 2022

Easter (4/17/22)

Signed Easter homily (+ unofficial translation)

• Jesus's Resurrection Is Probably The Best-Documented Historical Event Ever (Federalist, 4/15/2022)

Signed Easter homily (+ unofficial translation)

Easter (4/17/22)

Easter Morning

The Empty Tomb is All the Proof We Need
(Catholic Stand, 4/7/2022)

John 20:1-9 [links added]

On the first day of the week,

Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning,

while it was still dark,

and saw the stone removed from the tomb.

So she ran and went to Simon Peter

and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them,

"They have taken the Lord from the tomb,

and we don't know where they put Him."

So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb.

They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter

and arrived at the tomb first;

he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in.

When Simon Peter arrived after him,

he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there,

and the cloth that had covered His head,

not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place.

Then the other disciple also went in,

the one who had arrived at the tomb first,

and he saw and believed.

For they did not yet understand the Scripture

that He had to rise from the dead.

(The Church of the Holy Sepulchre)

• Bishop-Elect Challenges Gays in Seminaries (Church Militant, 4/8/2022)
• Williams: Jesuit Father Martin Defends Cardinal Marx over Homosexuality (Breitbart, 4/2/2022)
• Demand that Father Martin's coy, confusing statements not go unchallenged.  Email Family Life Offices of Trenton & Philly, Bishop O'Connell and Archbishop Perez to ask that James Martin, SJ, NOT be allowed to mislead & scatter their flocks.
• Bobby Rydell (4/26/42 - 4/5/22), RIP
• 2% Catholics and the Roots of Modern Idolatry (Crisis, 4/4/2022)

Misleading messaging is a misuse of the rainbow....

Letters to Pharmaceutical Companies ["to protest the use of abortion-derived cell lines and advocate for the development of vaccines with no connection to abortion."] (USCCB)

Children of God for Life

End the Use of Aborted Children in Science  

National and International Matters

New Jersey Matters

Pennsylvania Matters

Church leadership matters

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Our bishops and other clergy MUST stop pussyfooting around what the Church has ALWAYS proclaimed about the sanctity of human life and the sanctity of marriage/family

Palm Sunday (4/10/2022)

Lent in the Holy Land (Catholic Stand, 3/1/22)

• Biden Admin Prioritizes Climate Fantasies While Global Famine Looms (Sen Marco Rubio, 4/8/2022)
• The Empty Tomb is All the Proof We Need (Catholic Stand, 4/7/22)
• Russian Crimes, Even if Real, Don’t Justify Another Children’s Crusade Led by Dilettantes, Leaving Another Country in Ruins (The Stream, 4/7/2022)
• The Sciences and Homophiliac Synodality (The Catholic Thing, 4/6/2022)
• US Priest Begs Cardinals to Uphold Catholic Teaching on Homosexuality (National Catholic Register, 4/6/2022)
• Williams: Jesuit Father Martin Defends Cardinal Marx over Homosexuality (Breitbart, 4/2/2022)
• Email Family Life Offices of Trenton & Philly, Bishop O'Connell and Archbishop Perez to ask that James Martin, SJ, NOT be allowed to mislead & scatter their flocks.

(images from.the Holy Land 2017)

Letters to Pharmaceutical Companies ["to protest the use of abortion-derived cell lines and advocate for the development of vaccines with no connection to abortion."] (USCCB)

Children of God for Life

End the Use of Aborted Children in Science  

National and International Matters

New Jersey Matters

Pennsylvania Matters

Church leadership matters

(Click here for bishop contact info)

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Palm Sunday (4/10/2022)

Lent in the Holy Land (Catholic Stand, 3/1/22)

•  The Empty Tomb is All the Proof We Need (Catholic Stand, 4/7/22)
• Massachusetts Bishop Asks Catholic Middle School to Take Down ‘Pride,’ ‘Black Lives Matter’ Flags (National Catholic Register, 4/5/2022).  Too bad that Archbishop Perez and Bishop O'Connell doesn't show the fortitude to do the same with places like St Joe's University and Georgian Court!:

• Williams: Jesuit Father Martin Defends Cardinal Marx over Homosexuality (Breitbart, 4/2/2022)
• Demand that Father James Martin, SJ's coy, duplicitous statements not once again go unchallenged.  Remind the Trenton Diocese and the Archdiocese of Philly that you and your families are serving the Lord!  Email Family Life Offices of Trenton & Philly, Bishop O'Connell and Archbishop Perez to ask that James Martin, SJ, NOT be allowed to mislead & scatter their flocks.
• Trump slams Dems for 'waging war on reality' with their 'extremist sex and gender ideology' (Fox News, 4/3/2022)
• Theology of the Body Revisited (Donald Demarco, 4/3/2022)
• Williams: Jesuit Father Martin Defends Cardinal Marx over Homosexuality (Breitbart, 4/2/2022)
• Demand that Father James Martin, SJ's coy, duplicitous statements not once again go unchallenged.  Remind the Trenton Diocese and the Archdiocese of Philly that you and your families are serving the Lord!  Email Family Life Offices of Trenton & Philly, Bishop O'Connell and Archbishop Perez to ask that James Martin, SJ, NOT be allowed to mislead & scatter their flocks.
• The Saint Who Faced the First Pornocracy (OnePeterFive, 2/23/2022)
• The universal call to chastity and "de facto apostates" (?) (Amazon review, 2/26/2019)

(images from.the Holy Land 2017)

Letters to Pharmaceutical Companies ["to protest the use of abortion-derived cell lines and advocate for the development of vaccines with no connection to abortion."] (USCCB)

Children of God for Life

End the Use of Aborted Children in Science  

National and International Matters

New Jersey Matters

Pennsylvania Matters

Church leadership matters

(Click here for bishop contact info)

"EPHPHATA" - A STUDY GUIDE

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Through the Bible in One Year