"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)

Stop Abortion in the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and more!

• The canonical case against Fr. Alex Crow (The Pillar, 8/17/23)
• Philadelphia Archdiocese settles for $3.5 million in sex abuse lawsuit for deceased priest (Catholic World Report, 8/10/2023)
• "Even after two decades of scandal, the first instinct of in-house editors is not to explain the bad news, or even to downplay the bad news... but to ignore the bad news" (Catholic Culture, 8/17/2023).

• How Gender Activists Defaced Pediatric Medicine: An Interview with Miriam Grossman, MD (Public Discourse, 8/17/2023)

• Pakistani Mobs Attack Christian Communities and Burn Churches Over Blasphemy Accusations (National Catholic Register, 8/16/2023)

• Jimmy Lai remains in jail despite overturned conviction (The Pillar, 8/16/23)

• 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?

• OH Catholic Churches Attacked After Issue 1 Vote  (CatholicVote org, 8/14/2023)

• Deaf Versus Not Listening (Catholic Stand, 8/6/2023)

• Three Killed as Fresh Attacks Rock Nigerian Village Targeted in Good Friday Massacres (aciafrica, 8/11/2023)
• Slaughter of Nigerian Christians Warrants International Attention (Daily Signal, 8/3/23)

• House Conservatives Object to $24 Billion Ukraine Aid Request: Americans 'Tired' of Endless Wars (Breitbart, 8/11/2023)

• New Evidence: ‘Anti-Catholic’ FBI Memo NOT From Just One Field Office (CatholicVote org, 8/9/3023)

• 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. 

• Pro-Life Activist Mark Houck Announces Run for Congress (CatholicVote org, 8/2/23)

• The Song of Songs, the Theology of the Body, and Heal Me with Your Mouth (Catholic365, 7/26/2023)

 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)

Advertisers in Parish Bulletins

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

President Joe Biden Has Turned a Blind Eye to the Killing of Christians in Nigeria.

The Bible in a Year

The Catechism in a Year

Ephphata