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

Sunday, August 27, 2023

"You duped me, O Lord, and I let myself be duped" (9/3/2023)

22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, 9/3/2023 (sign/voice)

St John the Baptist, 8/29
St Augustine of Hippo, 8/28
St Monica, 8/27

  • [PROTEST THE AMA POSITION - i.e.,] AMA: Taxpayers should subsidize trans reproductive surgeries (AFA, 8/23/2023)
  • The Powerful Witness of James Lane Buckley’s Eloquence in Defense of Life (John Grondelski, PhD, 8/22/2023) 
    • "In 1976, James Buckley was trying to maintain his U.S. Senate seat against a challenge by Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan. While both were practicing Catholics, only Buckley was identifiably pro-life. One of the religious brothers from our school told my buddy that he was voting for Moynihan because Moynihan’s positions were supposedly better for economically impoverished people. Somehow, I do not recall the brother’s 'calculus' ever being explained. Is it any wonder that Catholic lay people did not take the horrendous crime against humanity, abortion, with sufficient seriousness when Catholic leaders had dismissive attitudes about abortion?" (Catholic Stand, 6/8/2023)

         Scorecard - SBA Pro-Life America

        Promoting the Sanctity of Life and the Sanctity of Marriage/Family/Human Sexuality (8/16/23 edition)

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


        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)








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        Sunday, August 20, 2023

        "you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church" (8/27/23)

        Memorial of the Passion of Saint John the Baptist
        Memorial of St Augustine, Bishop & Doctor of the Church
        Memorial of Saint Monica
        (sign/voice 1, 2)

        • Largest Catholic Health Network is Partnered With Abortion Provider (The Lepanto Institute, 8/14/2023)
          • Are the Bishops Being Faithful to Their Own Ethical & Religious Directives for Catholic Health Services? (Catholic365, 7/9/23)
            • Many advocating for the sanctity of human life and marriage/family do not see the USCCB (or state Catholic conferences or diocesan pro life offices) as strong allies.  Might bishops better spent money on such things as mobile ultrasound units?
        • House Conservatives Object to $24 Billion Ukraine Aid Request: Americans 'Tired' of Endless Wars (Breitbart, 8/11/2023)
          • The Worsening Crisis (Rev Gerald Murray, 8/9/2023) 
              "Dietrich von Hildebrand published The Devastated Vineyard in 1973, a pointed analysis of the troubled state of the Church fifty years ago."

          • On the prophetic anarchy of Dorothy Day (Catholic World Report, 8/7/2023)
              "The best way to describe Dorothy’s 'politics' is as a politics of anti-centralization that opposes the Leviathan of the outsized, modern centralized State and the bureaucratic apparatus that imposes itself with ever greater force upon all of us"
            • "Dorothy Day’s perspectives on abortion & contraception may not sit well with those who...lack a proper understanding & appreciation" (CatholicStand, 1/10/2023) of Catholic Social Teaching. 

             Scorecard - SBA Pro-Life America
            Promoting the Sanctity of Life and the Sanctity of Marriage/Family/Human Sexuality (8/16/23 edition)

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


            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)







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            Saturday, August 12, 2023

            "My salvation is about to come, My justice, about to be revealed" (8/20/23).

                  • The Worsening Crisis (Rev Gerald Murray, 8/9/2023) 
                      "Dietrich von Hildebrand published The Devastated Vineyard in 1973, a pointed analysis of the troubled state of the Church fifty years ago."

                  • On the prophetic anarchy of Dorothy Day (Catholic World Report, 8/7/2023)
                      "The best way to describe Dorothy’s 'politics' is as a politics of anti-centralization that opposes the Leviathan of the outsized, modern centralized State and the bureaucratic apparatus that imposes itself with ever greater force upon all of us.... True subsidiarity, as Dorothy understood, requires the recognition that there are competencies and forms of natural authority, rooted in divine and natural law.... [She] believed passionately that if all Christians lived the Gospel radically that a more just form of 'politics' would emerge from that effort."
                    • "Though slanted, her Wikipedia entry does acknowledge that – after her conversion – Dorothy Day was opposed to sex outside marriage and 'never deviated from The Church’s teachings on the sanctity of human life from conception till natural death.'  However, it very much fails to convey her perspectives on abortion and contraception as assaults on the sanctity of human life and marriage/family:
                      • Catholic Worker, 1933: '….Three little pigs are crowded into a too-small cage, the case is brought into court, the judge’s findings in the case being that pigs should not be crowded the way subway riders are. And a family of eight children, mother, and father, are crowded in three rooms and the consensus of opinion is that they’re lucky to have that and why don’t they practice birth control anyway….'
                      • The Family vs Capitalism, 1936: '….in New York…, there is no diocesan provision whatsoever for the poor who are trying to observe the teachings of the Church against birth control and raise families despite their economic circumstances….'
                      • On Pilgrimage, 1963: '….Sex is a profound force, having to do with life, the forces of creation which make man god-like….'
                      • Chastity, 1966: '….the marriage act purged of impurities is the nearest thing to the beatific vision we can know…. '
                      • On Pilgrimage, 1972: '….birth control and abortion are genocide….'
                      • On Pilgrimage, 1980: '….When she [my sister] went on to exhort me on another occasion, that I should not urge, as a Catholic, Tamar, my daughter, to have so many children, I got up firmly and walked out of the house….'
                      "Dorothy Day’s perspectives on abortion and contraception may not sit well with those who appreciate her pacifist and impoverished people’s leanings but lack a proper understanding and appreciation of Catholic Social Teaching." (CatholicStand, 1/10/2023)
                    • Are the Bishops Being Faithful to Their Own Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Services? (Catholic365, 7/9/23)


                     Scorecard - SBA Pro-Life America

                    Promoting the Sanctity of Life and the Sanctity of Marriage/Family/Human Sexuality (Sts Dominic & Lawrence edition)

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


                    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)





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                    Monday, August 7, 2023

                    Sts Dominic & Lawrence update

                    • Super AWKWARD Walgreens Encounter: Men Pick Up Pills For Their Pregnant Women (Live Action, 8/5/23)
                    • Promoting the Sanctity of Human Life and the Sanctity of Marriage/Family/Human Sexuality (Sts Dominic & Lawrence edition)
                      • Father Dominic founded a 13th century order, which combated the Albigensian heresy.  Albigensians/Cathars were the latest incarnation of a dualistic heresy (Much earlier, Augustine of Hippo was taken with the Manichean/dualist heresy.). As per this heresy, God is NOT all powerful and is perpetually at war with an equally powerful bad god. In their convoluted thinking, the body is bad.  They fail to recognize the significance of the "resurrection of the body"; that God wants our bodies and souls in Heaven!  Dominic's memorial is August 8.
                      • Lawrence was a 3rd century, 33year old Roman deacon. Ordered to gather up & surrender the Church's treasure, he gathered impoverished peoples for whom the Church was caring (No government safety net.).  "Here's the Church's treasure," he announced.  The powers that be (or that were) were not amused and decided on a slow death for Lawrence.  While being roasted on an open fire, Lawrence told his torturers: "You can turn me over, I am done on this side."  Lawrence is remembered as the patron saint of chefs and comedians.  His feast day is August 10.


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                    Sunday, August 6, 2023

                    "Truly, You are the Son of God" (8/13/23)

                    Why Does the Church Teach that
                    Mary was Assumed, Body and Soul?

                    The Assumption


                    (Click the painting to read about this work by Rembrandt.)   

                    "Peter got out of the boat and began to walk on the water toward Jesus. But when he saw how strong the wind was he became frightened; and, beginning to sink, he cried out, 'Lord, save me!' Immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and caught Peter, and said to him, 'O you of little faith, why did you doubt?' After they got into the boat, the wind died down.  Those who were in the boat did Him homage, saying, 'Truly, You are the Son of God.'"
                    (19TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY time (Sign/Voice))
                    "Truly, You are the Son of God"
                    • Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Has Speech Canceled After Saying ‘Climate Change Is Not a Crisis’ (DailySignal, 8/1/23)
                    • "God uses even evil to purify us—and especially to purify His Church, which is also the Body of Christ, so that it will 'prosper in the thing' for which He established it. This prospering may be a constant struggle for her members. But if we deliberately separate from the Church, we can only return to God empty—which is to say we cannot return at all" (Do not panic! God uses evil for good, even in the Church Catholic Culture, 7/31/23).
                    • Are the Bishops Being Faithful to Their Own Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Services? (Catholic365, 7/9/23)
                    • "There’s no sure-fire way to ensure that your kids will remain practicing Catholics after they leave the nest....Although faithful Catholics know there is supernatural power behind even the most bland sacramental celebrations, those who are not fully formed in the faith don’t usually recognize this....Thus the young man who sees parish life as an exercise in effeminacy and counts the days until he is on his own and can stop attending. Or the young woman who wants more than just platitudes and feel-good religion—who wants to give up her life for a cause—and so she leaves Catholicism for a robust evangelical Protestant church or for political activism" (The Problem of Powerless Parishes, 6/28/23).
                    Promoting the Sanctity of Life and the Sanctity of Marriage/Family/Human Sexuality (Sts Ignatius of Loyola, Alphonusus Ligouri, & John Vianney edition)

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


                    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)





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