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E-Mail Congress Now about Health Reform

The USCCB has strongly supported the need for healthcare reform, while objecting to two problems with the Senate bill now before the House of Representatives with some proposed modifications.  A September 16, 2010 press release explains the two key problems with the Senate bill that have led a strongly pro-reform USCCB to object to this bill.  They are (1) the remaining abortion funding in the bill and (2) its lack of coverage for many people who will remain without insurance.

A page on the USCCB website offers resources concerning health reform.  The NCHLA has an easy form to enable all to e-mail Congress now to oppose abortion funding in the health care bill.

The House of Representatives is planning to vote on Sunday.  According to news articles of this morning, those who oppose the protections contained in the Stupak amendment say that they are confident, as of today, that they will have the votes to pass the Senate bill together with its remaining avenues for funding abortion.  Rep. Bart Stupak has canceled a news conference scheduled for this morning, without a new time set for it.  Seven democrats who previously voted pro-life have reportedly switched sides, but it is still not clear what happened.  There are also reports that several liberal Democrats, unhappy with Pelosi's negotiations with Stupak, left a meeting with her grim faced last night.  See here and here.

If you have not yet voiced your support for the USCCB's position to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on this issue, now is the time to do so.

I walk a desert lone . . . God makes His glory known.

This is my Father’s world,
dreaming, I see His face.

I ope my eyes, and in glad surprise cry,
“The Lord is in this place.
”
This is my Father’s world,
from the shining courts above,

The Beloved One, His Only Son,

Came—a pledge of deathless love.

This is my Father’s world,
should my heart be ever sad?

The lord is King—let the heavens ring.
God reigns—let the earth be glad.

This is my Father’s world.
Now closer to Heaven bound,
For dear to God is the earth Christ trod.

No place but is holy ground.

This is my Father’s world.
I walk a desert lone.

In a bush ablaze to my wondering gaze
God makes His glory known.

This is my Father’s world,
a wanderer I may roam

Whate’er my lot, it matters not,

My heart is still at home.

Photo: A dry riverbed on the floor of Bryce Canyone National Park, 1993.

Words from the hymn "This Is My Father's World" by Maltbie B. Babcock
Cyberhymnal

Alter Christus: Video for the Year of Priests

 

 

See related videos for French, Spanish, Italian and German versions of this video from the Congregation for the Clergy and HM Television.  The videos are about the role of the priest, related to the Year of Priests and St. John Vianney.  For more information see EUK Mamie Foundation.  Hat tip Le Petit Placide.