1. A fifth and sixth video have now been released by The Center for Medical Progress revealing a conversation of a Planned Parenthood employee discussing the sale of aborted babies. And if “kidneys” or other specifically mentioned baby parts and recognizing a baby’s gender as “another boy” wasn’t bad enough in the first four videos, the August 4 and 12 videos show Planned Parenthood negotiating for “fully intact” aborted babies and selling without patient consent.

    I thought selling persons was called human trafficking.

    And I thought that was illegal, yet our tax dollars are funding Planned Parenthood.

    Forget the legality—did I forget to emphasize how grotesque these actions are?

    For years, Catholics along with other Christian sisters and brothers have been praying for an end to abortion. People have given up hours of their Saturday mornings to standing in front of abortion clinics; millions have gathered, January after January, in our nation’s capital to witness to the dignity of the unborn; and countless dollars have been spent on counseling to help women who are struggling with having abortions.

    I probably forgot other things you and others have done, but we get the point.


    Pro-Life prayers, trips and witnessing aren’t small acts. They cost time and money. For decades people have been pouring themselves into slowing and eventually stopping abortion. And the Senate nearly passed legislation on August 3 to defund the nation’s largest abortion provider, falling just 7 votes short. 

    Many Republican and Democratic Senators supported the measure. Praise God! Let's call and ask how our senators voted, thanking those who supported the measure and letting those who voted against Senate Bill 1881 on August 3 know that we are checking on them.

    Click on this link, and select your state.

    Call the phone numbers for each Senator's office listed under each Senator's name, and simply ask how your Senator voted on Bill 1881 on August 3 to defund Planned Parenthood. Thank them for their support of the bill and/or ask them to support future Pro-Life issues. It will take less than 4 minutes.


    It's time to make the trips to DC and the prayers you’ve offered and the donations you’ve made matter in this pivotal moment of change.


    Unborn children depend on you. The four minutes it takes to call both of your Senators may be the most influential minutes of the day.

    *The videos are graphic

  2. Over the past few weeks, thousands of people have been following Jesus around the countryside. They are tired. They are hungry. They want to go home. They probably smell bad. Last weekend, they were starving and Jesus fed them fully, with extra left over.

    Last week, Jesus multiplied five loaves and two fish to feed more than 5000 people. If those people following Jesus around that day in Galilee only knew all that Jesus could do.

    This week they realize Jesus has moved on, and they decide to bring the whole mass of people to him. Why? What did they find in him? Maybe they didn’t even know that morning, but came back looking for him anyway.

    Did they know? Did they get it?

    They press him: give us a sign. Jesus does not grow impatient. He realizes they are getting closer. And he leads them gently. “It was not Moses who gave the bread from heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

    And here, after all of their searching, they finally say it, “[g]ive us this bread always!”

    Picture Jesus in this intimate moment. Jesus came to Earth that we might have life. He came to reach these people who were following him around. And he would one-day soon institute the Last Supper with them for centuries to come, and thereafter give himself up for them.

    And for months and months he has been trying to tell them who he is and the invaluable treasure he offers them, and now, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, these lost sheep finally, point-blank, ask for very thing he came to give them: himself, food of eternal life.

    Like the heart of a deeply-touched father or an exhausted mother longing for their children, his heart may very well have swollen up, full of joy, as his eyebrows raise and he chokes up and says while looking through his own tear-filled eyes and gazing upon their eyes says, “I am the bread of life”! It’s here! You don’t have to go looking any longer. Forget your empty searching and your restless worrying. I’m here!

    If the people in Israel that day only knew that what they were asking for was right before them.


    And if we only knew it is He who is likewise before us at every Mass.

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