Lots of good comments in the post below this – interesting things seem to be happening around the Catholic world. I was particularly struck by this, so I’m highlighting it:<\/p>\n
\n\nAll things Christ and Philly…<\/em><\/p>\n
This week, the <\/em>ever wise Philadelphia City Council declared Philadelphia a "pro-choice city".<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n
<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n
Cardinal Rigali quickly answered with <\/em>this<\/em><\/a> (video version) (<\/em>print version)<\/em><\/a>: <\/em><\/p>\n
Our parish pro-life committee answered the city council by putting up white crosses on Saturday in front of Church, each one representing one million children killed by direct abortion since 1973.<\/em><\/p>\n
This morning, they were all gone. Stolen.<\/em><\/p>\n
Our new pastor, Fr. Mulligan, answered with a brilliant homily, tying together Jesus’ ability to feed the multitudes, with our opportunity to enter more fully into life with Christ in the Eucharist and to realize in a profound way that it is the Real Presence, to a call to evangelize our very blue\/liberal neighborhood and to evangelize the theifs who stole the crosses.<\/em><\/p>\n
It was almost quite literally breathtaking. <\/em><\/p>\n
I was in tears. Tears of sadness over the affront to human dignity that goes on here in Philly day in and day out; and tears of hope that God can use these events to bring his lost sheep home.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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