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August 4, 2022
Thanks to the heads-up from Job Foote, OSB who presides at the Spanish language Mass at Ascension Church, Jeannette and Alejandra Castillo, who frequently attends, I spoke at the June 11th Voice of Westmoreland rally at St Clair Park, Greensburg,
about gun violence
Then Commonweal Magazine published a July 13, 2022 article
entitled:
"American Idols: Uvalde & the culture of death"
which draws heavily on Pope St John Paul Il's 1995 encyclical, Evangelium vitae (The Gospel of Life). I quote on the reverse from that article. Whoever wants a copy of the full article, digital or hard copy provide me their contact/mailing info at:bsurvil@gmail.com or by phone : 724-523-0291.
This at a time when Rep. Reschenthaler voted AGAINST "The Assault Weapons Ban of 2022" and US Senator Toomey is poised to vote against the same legislation to regulate weapons of war (AR-15) and as Catholic voters having to decide how to vote in the November, 2022 general elections.
Fr. Bernard Survil, Diocese of Greensburg
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The encyclical letter on Abortion, euthanasia
And The death penalty In today’s world
By Pope St. John Paul Il
"The recent decision overturning Roe v. Wade
will not end the culture of death in the United
States—far from it. New state restrictions on
abortion without social provisions for women and children
will not reflect a true culture of life in the holistic sense envisioned by John Paul II,”
"Catholics who advocate for the dignity of all human life still have a lot of work to do. They should be the loudest proponents for gun-control restric-tions, for drastic measures to mitigate climate disaster, for expansive health-care and child-care benefits for working families, and for a return to the more progressive kind of tax code that prevailed before the 1980s. They should condemn un-Christian fictions about American exceptionalism or libertarian fantasies that prevent us from defending the lives of innocent children right in front of us. They should be the first to welcome a national "family policy" even if it means higher taxes. As John Paul Il writes: "the cultural change which we are calling for demands from everyone the cour-age to adopt a new life-style...a passing from indifference to concern for others," so that our neighbors are "not rivals from whom we must defend ourselves, but brothers and sisters" (98).These words are a sharp rebuke to the blood-soaked gun culture of the United States."
"To date the alliance between the Catholic pro-life movement and Republican politics has indisputably come at a grave cost. Over the past forty years it has taken billions in wealth from the poorest Americans and given them to the rich and powerful. It has exposed the weakest Americans to more precarious employment, health care, and legal status. It has inflicted still unknown and unfolding damage to the credibility of democratic participation itself and to the peaceful transfer of power. If now, instead of these evils, the culture of life were only to cost higher taxes & stronger gun regulations, will Catholics still celebrate it?"