8/3: 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time

 The Transfiguration

Hiroshima and Nagasaki [August 6 & 9]

18th Sunday in Ordinary Time

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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 

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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
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• 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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