Announcements and News

40 Days for Life

Applications are NOW OPEN for the next coordinated 40 Days for Life campaign that will be held from February 17 through March 28, 2010.

More information and the online application form can be found at http://40daysforlife.com/apply

December 10, 2009

Manhattan Declaration

November 24, 2009

Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) Information
by American Life League
Released November 1, 2009

There is a lot of confusion surrounding the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, particularly regarding the organizations it funds through grants. American Life League and other organizations recently revealed that the CCHD has been giving money to organizations whose objectives and actions are in direct conflict with Catholic teaching. More to the point, ALL is conducting a "No Thank You!" campaign, asking Catholics to withhold donations from the CCHD because current CCHD grantees support:

• Abortion
• “Family planning” services
• Birth control
• “Comprehensive” sexuality education
• Same-sex marriage
• Decriminalized prostitution
• Emergency contraception

Several people have notified us that they called their dioceses, receiving assurances that the CCHD had defunded all of the offending organizations. This is not true! In order to support this claim, many responses include copies of an October 2 memo sent to all other bishops by Bishop Roger Morin, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ chairman of the CCHD, regarding recent charges that the CCHD is funding radical organizations. Bishop Morin acknowledged that the CCHD defunded some of the groups and, after further investigation, found no fault with the rest. Read more...

Please print out the statement cards and share them with fellow Catholics. Tell the CCHD "No Thank You!" when the annual collection is taken in your parish on November 22.

November 10, 2009

Blood Money Film
The following link is to a new independent film which needs our support to expose the corruption of Planned Parenthood. The movie is called Blood Money and in order for the producers to get it into the theaters they need to show that millions of interested people have visited their website. You need only visit the website; there is no need to sign-up as a supporter unless you are compelled to do so. The trailer for the movie can be viewed here. PLEASE HELP GET THIS IMPORTANT FILM INTO THEATERS BY VISITING THE WEBSITE. Americans NEED to see this.

November 10, 2009

ABSOLUTE OPPOSITION TO NATIONAL HEALTH CARE REFORM A MUST
Posted: Monday November 2, 2009 at 10:49 am EST by Judie Brown

A couple of recent news items from South America have reminded me once again why the United States government — or any government, for that matter — must never be entrusted with the health care of its population.  Political arrangements or authoritarian actions are always just the stroke of a pen away from oppression of religious liberty.

It is the rare country these days that can boast of a politician who actually stands up for truth, life and the ethics of honest government. When I first read of the actions of the president of the Constitutional Court of Peru, I was in total disbelief and had to immediately check sources to make sure that the news I had read was accurate. The president, Juan Vergara, has asked Peru’s minister of health, Oscar Ugarte, to prohibit the sale of the morning-after pill in pharmacies, due to the fact that the pill can cause an abortion.  

This announcement came almost three years to the day after Chile’s feminist president, Michelle Bachelet, fought to liberalize the nation’s policies regarding the availability of contraception by making this very pill, the morning-after pill, available free at state-run hospitals.  Read more...

November 7, 2009

With more than 620 Catholic hospitals serving the public around the United States, hundreds of Catholic medical clinics and shelters, and even a few Catholic-affiliated medical schools, Catholics have a keen interest in healthcare reform. That interest isn’t new. It’s rooted in experience, including the experience of trying to help people with little or no health insurance at all. For decades, the U.S. bishops have pushed for an overhaul of our nation’s healthcare industry and the way it delivers its services. Why? Because the Church sees access to basic health care as a right and a social responsibility, not a privilege.

But Catholic support for the general principle of reform does not bind anyone to endorse a specific piece of legislation. God gave us brains for a reason, to think; and we need to use them, because the practical and moral problems we face on the way to good healthcare reform are as formidable as the goal is admirable. This is why the U.S. bishops’ conference has tried so diligently for the past three months to work with Congress and the White House in seeking sound compromise legislation. As of November 5, all those efforts have failed.

The bishops have a few simple but important priorities. Read more...

November 7, 2009