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, August 30, 2022

"Or who ever knew Your counsel, except You had given wisdom and sent Your Holy Spirit from on high? And thus were the paths of those on earth made straight" (9/4/22).

9/4/22: 23rD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME(SIGN/VOICE)

    • Criticism of Vatican’s life czar on abortion ‘specious’ and ‘offensive,’ spokesman says (Crux, 8/29/22)
  • 'Our joy is stolen' - Martyred priest's bishop calls for change in Nigeria (The Pillar, 8/29/22)
  • "May the faithful, admonished by good priests, move themselves far away from these wolves in sheep’s clothing and pray to the Lord asking him to intervene to save His Church" (Archbishop Vigano, 8/27/22).

Lying & Other Dishonesty: a Handy Guide



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)
Scientific documentation abortion [including so called "contraceptives" that are abortifacient] kills living human beings/persons (Diane Irving, PhD, 6/26/22)



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    (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)


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    Friday, August 26, 2022

    "NO" to HR 8404 & RIN 0945-AA17

    8/28/22: 22ND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME(SIGN/VOICE)

    • Shia LaBeouf converts to Catholicism after studying for 'Padre Pio' movie (Fox News, 8/25/22)
    • Urgent: Tell Senators to vote 'NO' on Homosexual 'Marriage' Bill (AFA, 8/24/22)


    Lying & Other Dishonesty: a Handy Guide



    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)
    Scientific documentation abortion [including so called "contraceptives" that are abortifacient] kills living human beings/persons (Diane Irving, PhD, 6/26/22)



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      Tuesday, August 23, 2022

      Oppose HHS' proposed RIN 0945-AA17

      8/28/22: 22ND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME(SIGN/VOICE)

      • Contraception and Infallibility, part 1& 
        2 (National Catholic Register, 8/21/22)


      Lying & Other Dishonesty: a Handy Guide


      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)
      Scientific documentation abortion [including so called "contraceptives" that are abortifacient] kills living human beings/persons (Diane Irving, PhD, 6/26/22)



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        Monday, August 22, 2022

        from 8/22/22 email from the NCHLA

         HHS Proposed Rule Coerces Health Care Professionals and Insurers

        The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a proposed rule (RIN 0945-AA17) that violates rights of conscience and religious freedom by coercing health care professionals and providers to perform, and health plans to cover, abortions and gender-transition procedures.  

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        The proposed rule expands the definition of “sex discrimination” to include “termination of pregnancy” and “gender identity.”  

        If HHS adopts this expanded definition, it may be construed to require a health care professional and provider to perform, and a health plan to cover, abortions on the theory that declining to do so constitutes sex discrimination.

        The rule, if adopted, would similarly prohibit health professionals and other health care providers from declining to provide, and prohibit a health plan from declining to cover, gender-transition procedures, again on the theory that a decision not to participate in or pay for such procedures constitutes sex discrimination.

        You can contact HHS to comment on the proposed rule.  Comments must be received by HHS on or before October 3, 2022.

        Send an electronic message to the HHS here.

        In lieu of sending an electronic message, you can mail comments to HHS at the following address (but they must be received by October 3 to be considered):

        U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights 
        Attention: 1557 NPRM (RIN 0945-AA17) 
        Hubert H. Humphrey Building, Room 509F 
        200 Independence Avenue SW 
        Washington, DC 20201.

        Proposed Message:

        The proposed rule (RIN 0945-AA17) is an affront to, and offends, the conscience rights of health care professionals and entities that seek to Do No Harm and to offer practical and life-giving care to the people they serve.  Health care providers and insurers should not be coerced to perform or cover abortions or transgender procedures.  

        A decision not to provide or cover abortion or transgender procedures is not sex discrimination.

        Provisions of the proposed rule that can be construed to require the providing for or coverage of such procedures violate rights of conscience and religious freedom as reflected in current federal conscience laws, including the Weldon Amendment.

        For these reasons, I oppose the abortion and gender identity provisions of the proposed rule.

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        Sunday, August 21, 2022

        Contraception and Infallibility

        8/28/22: 22nd SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME(SIGN/VOICE)

        • If those in the trenches do not see the USCCB (or state Catholic conferences or diocesan pro life offices) as strong allies, wouldn't monies be better spent on such things as mobile ultrasound units?
          Many bishops & other clergy are NOT seen as strongly pro life, in the sense of seeing abortion as an horrendous evil & the first priority for pro life advocacy.  Perhaps, the same could be said of their treatment of  marriage/ family/ sexuality.  With God's truth treated as matters of opinion, many "Catholic" schools, social services, and hospitals give half hearted witnesses to life & marriage/ family.  Yet, God has again parted the waters for His people. 

        Lying & Other Dishonesty: a Handy Guide


        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)
        Scientific documentation abortion [including so called "contraceptives" that are abortifacient] kills living human beings/persons (Diane Irving, PhD, 6/26/22)



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          8/28/22: 22nd SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

          • If those in the trenches do not see the USCCB (or state Catholic conferences or diocesan pro life offices) as strong allies, wouldn't monies be better spent on such things as mobile ultrasound units?
            Many bishops & other clergy are NOT seen as strongly pro life, in the sense of seeing abortion as an horrendous evil & the first priority for pro life advocacy.  Perhaps, the same could be said of their treatment of  marriage/ family/ sexuality.  With God's truth treated as matters of opinion, many "Catholic" schools, social services, and hospitals give half hearted witnesses to life & marriage/ family.  Yet, God has again parted the waters for His people. 

          Lying & Other Dishonesty: a Handy Guide


          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)
          Scientific documentation abortion [including so called "contraceptives" that are abortifacient] kills living human beings/persons (Diane Irving, PhD, 6/26/22)



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