Culture Crisis for Catholic Faith

Following is a letter from Joe Tevington and my response to Joe.

Pro-Life activist are NEVER going to give up the fight for the unborn and the sanctity of marriage between one man and one woman.

On June 19th I rode the bus from St. Andrews to the March for marriage.

When we arrived we were on the mall in front of the Capitol building. The crowd was composed of approximately 80 to 90 % Hispanics and Blacks carrying signs in Spanish and English stating Marriage is one man and one woman.

The speakers were dynamic , some spoke in Spanish and an interrupter let us gringos know what was said in Spanish

There was an estimated 30 thousand in attendance. Many of us felt that whites were in the minority.

Again there was very few Catholic Clergy, but many Evangelical Hispanic Pastors and Deacons, there were Jewish Rabbi's with their signs relating the Sanctity of Marriage in the Torah.

Next year I'm really going to promote this March...i.e. if I'm able to walk.. I could hardly make 2/3 of the way to the Capitol, but thanks to an old friend from the Rescue Days when we were trying to motivate  fellow Catholics and Christians, who helped me along the way and then back to the bus. Next year I will probably rent an electric wheel chair.

Bill Miller

----------Original Message----------

From: William J Miller
Date: Jul 1, 2014 12:15:33 PM
Subject: Re: re: "Why they walked away from St. Joseph the Worker"
To: atptptjt@live.com, info@quparish.com,
Cc: Thank you for this information Joe,

I will share it with everyone on my e-mail lists. At the Bucks County Pro-Life meeting last night many of these issues were discussed and people left very concerned that the leaders of our Catholic faith are not leading, not shepherding our faith, and not even mentioning these CRITICAL MORAL issues at Mass.

I speak with Pro-Life, Pro-Family people all across the Diocese and they feel the same. HOWEVER, they are determined that they will not back off in this fight for the sanctity of Life and Marriage.

 Our Governor, (Corbett) and our most of our Catholic Federal and State Legislators are unwilling to fight the fight for the Unborn being killed every day in Planned Parenthood abortion mills.

The Governor is unwilling to challenge the judicial decision on Same sex marriage. So many Pennsylvanians are disgusted with our political leaders who profess to be Catholics, yet continue to vote for Contraception funding (so called Family Planning).

 

There are many Republican Pro-Life and Pro-Family politicians who think that because ALL the Democrat candidates are Pro-Abortion and Pro-Same Sex marriage they will get their vote, but now these Pro-Life? Pro-Family are either not going to vote, or vote for a third party candidate. I personally don't agree with that approach. In the past, when 3rd party candidates ran they lost, and caused the Pro-Life candidate to also lose

 

 We have a lot of problems, but the greatest problem is lack of leadership from our priests and Bishops. It really hurts me to criticize them. but hopefully they will be true Shepherds and lead the flock through these trying times.

 

I attend daily mass and each day my prayer after communion is that the Lord will send us strong Catholic clergy and politicians leaders.

 

Joe, keep up the good fight. My now deceased pastor, Fr. William F. Tallon was a holy priest and always encouraged me to keep up the work of GOD.

When he would speak out on these issues he would be reprimanded by parishioners who were using contraception, or considering abortion. He was being obedient to God and they were being disobedient, and making their own rules.

 

When we look back on these days we will recall this all started with disobedience to Pope Paul VI encyclical Humane Vitae. In those days, many priests rejected the encyclical and refused to defend it.

So here we are now watching our church disintegrate.  

One parishioner commenting on the reason his parish had to be merged was because 70% of the parishioners never attended Mass or financially supported the parish. How true.

The same applies for the pro-Life movement, because there is no teaching on the Sanctity of Life and Marriage, the parishioner do not participate.

It could make Christ weep!.

 

Bill

 

On 07/01/14, Joe Tevington wrote:

 

If you have not yet seen it, there is an incredible reflection in today's Courier Times on the absorptions of St. Joseph the Worker, St. Ann St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Our Lady of Fatima, and Immaculate Conception:
"Three reasons for Catholic decline predate the scandal: the sin of contraception, the assimilation of Catholics into American culture and the secularization or 'paganization' of baptized Catholics.....

[With regard to contraception;] "no kids means no Catholics and no need for Catholic parishes....

"Catholics were accepted into the mainstream because so many lived openly double lives: attending Mass while rejecting church moral teachings....

[Pre-Christian Rome] "was characterized by promiscuity, birth control, abortion, recreational drugs, and the normalization of infanticide, polygamy and slavery. Christians were martyred for calling out pagan cruelties and inhumanity.

"What is the future for loyal Catholics whose faith commands calling out cultural atavism? It ain’t pretty....

"St. Joseph the Worker, pray for us" (Why they walked away from St. Joseph the Worker, Courier Times, 7/1/14).

Wow!  "The Sin of Contraception"!  Not something you hear much from the pulpit, is it? By the way, One More Soul and Pharmacists for Life International have only been able to identify handfuls of pharmacies - across the country - which do NOT sell contraceptives and abortifacients (e.g., hormonal "contraceptives").  Incredibly, a few pharmacies that sell these poisons have long been advertised in some local parish bulletins - receiving a quasi "imprimataur," if you will!  How could the laity not be confused by such mixed messages?

Immaculate Conception will be absorbed by Queen of the Universe.  Queen of the Universe, by the way, has long been advertising the Oxford Valley Pharmacy (When I last inquired, Oxford Valley even acknowledged that they carry the notorious Plan B for $39.99.). 

Our Lady of Fatima will be absorbed by St. Charles Borromeo in Bensalem, which has long been  advertising the Riccio Family Pharmacy.

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton will be absorbed by St. Thomas Aquinas in Croydon.  While St. Elizabeth  long advertised the Riccio Family Pharmacy, St. Thomas has long "preferred" Mat's Pharmacy and Medical Supply.
On the web page of Bucks County's Catholic hospital (http://www.stmaryhealthcare.org/physicians), we are told that
"....St Mary Medical Center is a Catholic healthcare facility that strives for the highest ideals of quality care and institutional integrity. St. Mary Medical Center is firmly committed to maintaining fidelity to its Catholic identity by closely conforming to the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services.

"Health Care practitioners at St. Mary Medical Center abide by the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic

 

Health Care Services while providing care at any of the St. Mary Medical Center campuses.  Many of these practitioners also provide services outside of St. Mary Medical Center where there is no institutional obligation to practice under the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services...."
That reasoning helps to explain why only one OBGYN can be found on a directory of NFP only physicians!

If you follow St. Mary's web page to "Find a Perinatology Specialist", you will be led to Doctors Stephen Smith, Richard Latta, and Marc Rosenn - all of Abington Perinatal Associates.  At Abington, their associate, Dr. Frank Craparo has been reported to be involved with fetal "reduction" – a euphemism for abortion (See http://www.fertilethoughts.com/forums/selective-reduction-termination-due-health-issues/692269-fyi-something-my-dr-said-others-might-find-interesting.html).