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This off the internet is courtesy of Pat Keevill and shows a lion giving a thank you kiss.
The woman had found the animal badly injured in the forest and nursed it back to health before giving it to a zoo according to Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum at Vitality101.com.
Honor Flight Philadelphia is raffling two tickets to the Dec. 14 game between the Eagles and Dallas Cowboys at Lincoln Financial Field.
Yes, that is the game Honor Flight was lucky enough to get for this year’s raffle.
The tickets are $3 each or two for $5.
For information call Cathy at 610-613-3865 or email her here.
Honor Flight Philadelphia gives veterans an all-expense paid trip to the memorials in Washington followed by a banquet.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-20-14
More significant than the debates or documents of the Synod of Bishops that just concluded was the act with which it concluded. Yesterday, Oct. 19, at the Vatican, Pope Francis again declared in an official way the holiness of one of his predecessors: he beatified Pope Paul VI, the Pope who brought the Second Vatican Council to its conclusion and also issued the encyclical Humanae Vitae (July 25, 1968) — a document preceded and followed by no small controversy, and sometimes called “the birth control encyclical.”
Humanae Vitae does not identify the key problem of our day in the realm of sex or birth or “the pill,” but rather in the myth that we can be God. Pope Paul writes at the beginning of the document, “But the most remarkable development of all is to be seen in man’s stupendous progress in the domination and rational organization of the forces of nature to the point that he is endeavoring to extend this control over every aspect of his own life — over his body, over his mind and emotions, over his social life, and even over the laws that regulate the transmission of life” (n.2).
The Pope here is painting a wider vision of the problem. We think everything belongs to us, but the reality is that we belong to God. “Humanae Vitae” means “Of human life.” Human life came from God, belongs to God, and goes back to God. “You are not your own,” St. Paul declares. “You have been bought, and at a price” (1 Cor. 6:19-20). Sex and having children are aspects of a whole cluster of realities that make up our lives and activities. We suffer from the illusion that all of these activities belong to us. “This is my life, my body, my choice.
The problem we face is not that our society is obsessed with sex. Rather, it is afraid of it– afraid of the total reality and power of what it represents, where it comes from, and where it leads. Sex properly understood requires that we acknowledge God who made it. More than that, sex can never be separated from its purpose: to insert us into this immense, powerful movement of life and love that started when God said “Let there be light” (Genesis 1:3) and culminates when the Spirit and the Bride say “Come, Lord Jesus!” (Revelation 22:17).
Sexual activity means so much that it is wrong to diminish its message or deny its full reality: it belongs in the context of committed love (sealed by marriage) and openness to life precisely because this is the only context great enough to hold its message and reflect the greater reality to which the gift of sexuality points us and to which it commits us.
This is a reality that is bigger than all of us. It is the self-giving which starts in the Trinity, and is revealed in a startling way on the Cross, and then challenges each of us in our daily interaction with others, with God, and with our own eternal destiny. It is so real and so big that it is scary. That’s why so many today are afraid of the full reality and meaning of sex. That’s why Pope Paul VI wrote Humanae Vitae.
And to remind the faithful of that teaching, and of the holy Pope who articulated it so well, is part of why we now call Pope Paul VI Blessed.
Rev. Pavone is the national director of Priests for Life.
HB 1816 has been passed by the Pennsylvania legislature and awaits Gov. Corbett’s expected signature, reports State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129).
The bill requires that anyone who applies to work directly in or around schools would have to provide detailed background information from all previous employers, including contact information, in order to be considered for employment. In turn, previous employers would have to provide the inquiring school entity with all requested background information regarding a former employee, explicitly pertaining to abuse allegations.
The bill also would require explicit disclosure from the applicant during the initial application process. The applicant is now required to indicate whether or not they have ever been disciplined, discharged, non-renewed, asked to resign from employment or separated from employment while allegations of such abuse or sexual misconduct were pending or under investigation.
The bill would apply to all public schools, private schools, nonpublic schools, intermediate units and area vocational-technical schools in the Commonwealth.
House Bill 1816 also would encourage teaching and learning in manufacturing and vocational fields and outlines when an assessment of basic skills would be required of an applicant for teacher certification.
