8/24, 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time

NJ March for Life, September 25

                           Pa March for Life, September 22

Saturday morning Rosaries for Life

Nativity of the BVM, September 8

St Augustine, August 28

St Monica, August 27

21st Sunday in Ordinary Time

(sign/voice)

8/17: 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time

STOP the VA from continuing to pay for abortions

• Understanding Evil in the Idaho Murders (Crisis Magazine, 8/15/25)

• Armed militants burn Catholic parish church in Nigeria (Crux, 8/15/25)

• Report states an average of 30 Christians murdered each day in Nigeria in 2025 (Catholic World Report, 8/12/25)
• Islamic State Beheads Christians, Burns Churches in Mozambique Rampage (Breitbart, 8/7/25)

• Mary Kenny: Legion of Mary did more for unwed mothers and their babies than anyone – now the State is demanding redress (Irish Independent, 8/14/25)
• Servant of God Frank Duff (Catholic365, 6/23/25)

• The fascinating history of Catholics and the deaf community (Aletia, 8/13/25)
• Sign language study tools corresponding to 
• the A cycle of Sunday/ Christmas Mass readings 
• the B cycle of Sunday/ Christmas Mass readings 
• the C cycle of Sunday/ Christmas Mass readings
• (the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church) 

• Part 1, the Profession of Faith  

  Part 2, the Celebration of the Christian Mystery  

  Part 3, Life in Christ  

  Part 4, Christian Prayer

• Our Lady of Fatima, ideology, and the Vatican’s homosexual crisis (Catholic World Report, 8/13/25)
• Thank You for Doxxing Me (Them Before Us & Katy Faust, 8/12/25)
• U.S. Supreme Court to Consider Overturning Landmark "Same-Sex Marriage" Decision (Catholics For Catholics, 8/11/25)
• re: "Exploring the State of the Catholic Debate Over Embryo Adoption."  The Vatican Already Answered "NO." (Catholic365, 8/8/25)
• New Mexico Archbishop Reinstated,0p Promoted, and Lives with Priest who Spent 10 Years in Registered Homosexual Relationship (The Lepanto Institute, 8/4/2025)
• Saint Joseph Caravan Shows that Same-Sex “Marriage” Can be Overturned (TFP, 7/30/25)
• The Parenting Study That Should Have Stopped Gay Marriage (Them Before Us & Josh Wood, 7/29/25)

• Religious Transmission: A Solution to the Church's Biggest Problem (University of Notre Dame, 8/12/25)

• Why Not Still Build Most Churches in Magnificent Styles? (Catholic365, 8/11/25)

• Offenses Against Truth (CatholicStand, 8/9/25)

• re: "Charity for Sale" (Catholic365, 8/7/25)

• The Jesuits and My Naivete (Catholic Stand, 7/4/24)
• The Strange Political Career of Father Drinan July 01, 1996 (Catholic World News)

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8/17: 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time

NJ March for Life, September 25

                         

  Pa March for Life, September 22

Saturday morning Rosaries for Life

Nativity of the BVM, September 8

 St Augustine, August 28

St Monica, August 27

20th Sunday of Ordinary Time (sign/voice)

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

Munificentissimus Deus
(highlighting added)

8/14, St. Maximilian Kole

8/11, St Clare

We Need a Wit Like St. Lawrence

8/10: 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Anniversary of Edith Stein’s Death & Bombing of Nagasaki

Remembering the Transfiguration & slaughter....

• Offenses Against Truth (CatholicStand, 8/9/25)

• All of It Is Queer (Crisis Magazine, 8/8/25)

• re: "Exploring the State of the Catholic Debate Over Embryo Adoption."  The Vatican Already Answered "NO." (Catholic365, 8/8/25)

• Catholic Bishops Compare ICE Deportations to Nazis and Slave Catchers (Breitbart, 8/8/25)

• Premises Have Conclusions (Crisis Magazine, 8/7/25)
  To say that the Church’s social teaching is separate from her teachings regarding sex is to get each one of them wrong—and to fail to recognize the sociality of the truths themselves.

• re: "Charity for Sale" (Catholic365, 8/7/25)

• They Lied [sic] to You About Rerum Novarum (Crisis Magazine, 8/6/25)
• Pope Leo XIII on Marriage, Family, & Society (Catholic Stand, 3/1/25)

• Where Are the Republican Pro-family Senators? (Institute for Family Studies, 8/4/25)

• New Mexico Archbishop Reinstated, Promoted, and Lives with Priest who Spent 10 Years in Registered Homosexual Relationship (The Lepanto Institute, 8/4/2025)

• White House has no plan to mandate IVF care, despite campaign pledge (The Washington Post, 8/3/25)
• Re: ''Reproductive Technologies: Guidelines for Catholic Couples'' (Catholic365, 3/12/25)
• An Open Letter to JD Vance about IVF (Catholic World Report, 2/28/25)
• Vance Needs Remedial Catechesis on Abortifacients & Marriage/Family (Catholic365, 7/17/24)
• USCCB opposes so-called Access to Family Building Act (S. 3612).(Catholic365, 3/2/24)

• WATCH: Anti-Israel Mob Blocked from Taking Over NYC Grand Central (Breitbart, 8/3/25 (contains vile language))

• Changing the Subject: Hidden Assumptions in Justice Sotomayor’s Defense of Gender Transition Medicine (Public Discourse, 7/31/25)

• Saint Joseph Caravan Shows that Same-Sex “Marriage” Can be Overturned (TFP, 7/30/25)

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8/10: 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time

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

Munificentissimus Deus
(highlighting added)

8/14, St. Maximilian Kole

8/11, St Clare

19th Sunday in Ordinary Time

(sign/voice)

 

8/6, The Transfiguration

(photo at St Catherine Laboure, N Middletown, NJ)

Hiroshima and Nagasaki [August 6 & 9]

8/3, 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time

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  (Dr Smith's speculation on the bishops & Humanae Vitae/NFP: "we just might as well kind of ignore it.")
• Kim Davis, who refused to certify same-sex marriages, asks Supreme Court to hear case (Catholic News Agency, 1/31/25)
• What Did God Hate About Sodom? (Mary Healy, PhD, 7/28/25) 
• Destruction of Sodom & Gomorrah (Genesis 19: 1-29) & the Church?  (Catholic365, 7/28/25)

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• Pope Leo XIV Sends Message of “deep sorrow” after Islamist Militants Kill Over 30 at Catholic Parish in DR Congo (aciafrica,7/29/25)
• As jihadists advance, 30% of Niger’s Catholics have fled their villages (Catholic Culture, 7/28/25)
• “What is happening to Christianity in Nigeria is incomprehensible.” (Catholic World Report, 7/18/25)
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• NFL's history with CTE back in spotlight after NYC shooting (USA Today, 7/29/25)
• From Tony C to Bennet O: We Need to Better Apply Respect for Human Life in Sport (Catholic365, 5/15/25)

• Trump's Justice Department Takes Down Dark Web Child Abuse Network — 120,000 Users, Millions of Files in Operation Grayskull (The Gateway Pundit, 7/28/25)

• Stauffenberg, Hitler, and the Ever-Forgotten Anniversary (Catholic Insight, 7/28/25)
• The Love and Heroism of Franz and Fani Jägerstätter (Amazon customer review, 1/4/2020)
• Church of Spies (Amazon customer review, 2/2/2019)

• The Depopulation Bomb (WSJ, 7/27/25)

• Now is the time to end organ harvesting from “dead” donors (Catholic World Report, 7/25/25)

• ERDs & "Evangelization to People with Disabilities" (Catholic Stand, 7/8/25)

More human embryos destroyed through IVF than abortion every year

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8/3: 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time

 The Transfiguration

Hiroshima and Nagasaki [August 6 & 9]

18th Sunday in Ordinary Time

(sign/voice)

17th Sunday in Ordinary Time

The Universal Call to Chastity & "De Facto" Apostates

• AFA: Congress needs to hear from you: Repeal the FACE Act now [& pass HR 589]!

• 450,000 unaccompanied migrant children released into US under Biden, Stephen Miller says  (CatholicVote org, 7/25/25)

• Now is the time to end organ harvesting from “dead” donors (Catholic World Report, 7/25/25)
• Red Alert for Organ Donors (HALO, 7/23/25)
• HHS Finds Systemic Disregard for Sanctity of Life in Organ Transplant System (HHS.gov, 7/21/25)
• ERDs & "Evangelization to People with Disabilities" (Catholic Stand, 7/8/25)
  [Note: All extended quotes should have been indented.]
• Are Organ Donors Actually Dead? (HaloVoice, 6/18/25)
• The latest compendium of Catholic teaching on medical ethics / bioethics (Amazon customer review, 12/12/17)
• “Brain Death” Lacks Medical, Moral, and Legal Foundations and is a Concealed Form of Euthanasia (Dr Heidi Klessig, 2/2025)

• "all those who believe in the sanctity of life, regardless of whether they support or oppose the theoretical validity of brain-death criteria, [should] oppose the use of brain-death criteria to obtain organs for transplantation in clinical practice. We can then, as a single voice, support medical research seeking innovative, morally uncontentious ways to replace failing organs" (National Catholic Register, 10/25/21)

• The Problem of Effeminate Men, Priests, & Parishes (Catholic Stand, 7/21/25, 7/22/25, 7/23/25)

• Islamists and the Tragedy of Holy Family Church (First Things, 7/23/25)
  "While the tragic incident underscores the vulnerability of civilians in conflict zones, Western outrage—if lacking nuance—risks playing into Hamas’s narrative of indiscriminate Israeli aggression, ultimately serving its strategic aims."

• TFP Pepper-Sprayed by Fuming Pro-Abort in St. Paul (The American TFP, 7/22/25)

• From Christ's Tomb to Berks County, Pa! (Catholic365, 7/15/25)

• Subsidiarity, Charity, and the Good Samaritan (Fr Jerry Pokorsky, 7/14/25)
  The Catholic social principle of subsidiarity is central to Catholic thinking but neglected by most of us. The principle holds that the smallest, lowest, or least centralized component of authority should handle the responsibilities and circumstances of everyday living....
  Government programs that fund Planned Parenthood violate the Fifth Commandment. The massive national debt steals from future generations and violates the Seventh Commandment....
  Except where budgetary questions directly violate the Commandments, the clergy should defer to the laity.

More human embryos destroyed through IVF than abortion every year

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7/27: 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Sts Martha, Mary, & Lazarus

17th Sunday in Ordinary Time 

(Sign/voice)

NFP Awareness Week

• AFA: Congress needs to hear from you: Repeal the FACE Act now [& pass HR 589]!

• Obituary | James Francis Hitchcock of St. Louis, Missouri | Lupton-Millard Chapel
• History of the Catholic Church: From the Apostolic Age to the Third Millenium (Amazon customer review of James Hitchcock's book, 3/2/13)

• From Christ's Tomb to Berks County, Pa! (Catholic365, 7/15/25)

• Statistics on annual conceptions released July 9 by the Office for National Statistics showed that in 2022, 29.69% of all conceptions in England and Wales ended in abortion, up from 26.54% a year earlier (OSV News, 7/14/25)

• Catholics and “Sodom and Gomorrah” (Catholic World Report, 7/14/25)

• Subsidiarity, Charity, and the Good Samaritan (Fr Jerry Pokorsky, 7/14/25)
  The Catholic social principle of subsidiarity is central to Catholic thinking but neglected by most of us. The principle holds that the smallest, lowest, or least centralized component of authority should handle the responsibilities and circumstances of everyday living....
  Government programs that fund Planned Parenthood violate the Fifth Commandment. The massive national debt steals from future generations and violates the Seventh Commandment....
  Except where budgetary questions directly violate the Commandments, the clergy should defer to the laity.
       
• Rite Questions: Should a paten be used during the distribution of Holy Communion? (Adoremus, 7/12/25)
• Absolute Reverence for the Holy Eucharist (Amazon customer review of Redemptionis Sacramentum, 8/3/2009)

• Follow-up to my Statement on Bishop-elect Hennen (Bp Strickland, 7/11/25)

• ERDs & "Evangelization to People with Disabilities" (Catholic Stand, 7/8/25)
  [Note: All extended quotes should have been indented.]
• Sin Makes You Stupid (Catholic Answers Magazine, 8/31/22)

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7/20: 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time

NFP Week - July 20-26

Humanae Vitae - 57th anniversary

St. Pope John Paul II's "Theology of the Body"
on marriage/family/human sexuality

The Family, The Family & Society (from the Catechism)

Good Saint Ann, Find Me a ]Man

7/20: 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time 

(Sign/voice)

July 14, Saint Kateri

July 13, 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time

• Follow-up to my Statement on Bishop-elect Hennen (Bp Strickland, 7/11/25)

• Minor Seminary in Nigeria Attacked: Security Officer Killed, Three Seminarians Abducted (Aid to the Church in Need, 7/11/25)
• Nigeria. Bishop Anagbe: “A silent genocide against Christians, the Church does not abandon its people” (SIR, 7/10/25)

• Church leaders: It’s time for Nigeria’s Christians to defend themselves (Catholic World Report, 7/6/25)
• Fulani Jihadist expansion in Nigeria ‘backed by government funds’ (Catholic Herald, 7/8/25)
• Nigerian bishop: Displaced families in need of spiritual and material help (Catholic World Report, 7/5/25)

• Protestant vs Catholic Eucharist: Satanic Cults and Evil People Desecration of the Holy Eucharist (Father Leo show, 7/9/25)

• Tom Homan Has Some Choice Words For The California Bishop Who Said Illegals Can Skip Mass (DailyWire, 7/9/25)

• Church and state? What canon law says about backing candidates (Pillar, 7/9/25) 
  IMHO, the Pillar does NOT clarify where in Canon Law or in the Catechism it actually says the Church cannot rule any candidate in or out.
• Spare Us O Lord from the Election of Harris and Walz (Catholic365, 9/9/24)
  On the other hand, can we count on our bishops' judgement in ruling in or ruling out specific candidates?
• “The Catholic Church maintains its stance of not endorsing or opposing political candidates.” (USCCB, 7/9/25)
• IRS says churches can now endorse political candidates without losing tax-exempt status (CatholicVote org, 7/8/25)
• IRS declares churches can endorse political candidates to congregations (The Hill, 7/7/25)

• ERDs & "Evangelization to People with Disabilities" (Catholic Stand, 7/8/25)
  [Note: All extended quotes should have been indented.]

• How Obergefell Harmed Children (First Things, 7/8/25)

• During WWII, Peter To Rot Chose Martyrdom Over Polygamy and Silence (National Catholic Register, 7/7/25)

• Eric Metaxas blasts Episcopal leader for invoking Bonhoeffer (The Christian Post, 7/7/25)
• The Courage to Stand for Truth (Amazon customer review, 9/9/2011)

• How Trans Radicals Brought a Defeat Upon the LGBTQ Movement (TFP, 7/7/25)

• Six uncomfortable facts about divorce (Leila Miller, July 2025)

More human embryos destroyed through IVF than abortion every year

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7/13: 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time

NFP Week - July 20-26

Humanae Vitae - 57th anniversary

St. Pope John Paul II's "Theology of the Body"
on marriage/family/human sexuality

The Family, The Family & Society (from the Catechism)

Good Saint Ann, Find Me a Man

Saint Kateri

7/13: 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Sign/voice)

• Matthew 25 (Catholic365, 7/5/25)

• Pro-Life Groups Celebrate Defunding of Planned Parenthood, Push for More Permanent Action (Breitbart, 7/4/24)

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• HHS Cracks Down on Planned Parenthood’s Smut-Filled Sex Ed Programs with Defunding Warning (The Gateway Pundit, 7/3/25)

• Tragedy at Rattlesnake Falls: Opus Dei Mourns the Drowning of Three of Its Members (National Catholic Register, 7/3/25)

• Lies [sic] Revealed: Latin Mass Survey Fallout (The Prayerful Posse, 7/3/25)

• The Lesson of Sodom and Gomorrha (Bishop Strickland, 7/2/25)

• When Ireland Erases Its Catholic Inheritance (First Things, 7/2/25)

• Trans UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas will be stripped of her [sic] titles after university bends the knee to [rationality &] Trump admin (NY Post, 7/1/25)

• Obergefell Must Go (Professor Robert George of Princeton, 7/1/25)

• Expert: 90% of Germany’s Bishops Subscribe to Views on Human Sexuality that Depart From Church Teaching (Edward Pentin, 6/30/25)

• Bring Out the Shovels (The Catholic Thing, 6/29/25)
  "The most urgent crisis in vocations, in our time, is to the married life."

More human embryos destroyed through IVF than abortion every year

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7/6: 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Humanae Vitae - 57th anniversary

St. Pope John Paul II's "Theology of the Body"
on marriage/family/human sexuality

 The Family, The Family & Society (from the Catechism)

Good Saint Ann, Find Me a Man

14th Sunday in Ordinary Time
(Sign/voice)

• Tell Senators to Stop Funding Abortion (Human Life Action)

• As per a 6/26/25 email from the Pa Family Council, "Now is the time to contact your State Senator and urge them to vote NO on HB 350 [aka Uniform Parentage Act]." 

• Supreme Court Lets South Carolina Defund Planned Parenthood (DailySignal, 6/26/25)

• These Saints Died for Marriage — Will We Stand With Them? (National Catholic Register, 6/25/25)

• Why do our bishops and new pope allow James Martin, SJ, to promote what sure appears to be heresies?

• NFP Week - July 20-26 (from a 6/24/25 flocknote from the Office for Life and Family Archdiocese of Philadelphia)

• 'Slaughter of Innocents' in Suicide bombing at Syrian church called 'unspeakable evil' (OSV News, 6/24/25)

• Rip Down the Pride Flag (Crisis Magazine, 6/23/25)

• Servant of God Frank Duff (Catholic365, 6/23/25)

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