Mary & Drew: Where to get St. Gerard miscellany

Saturday, April 09, 2011

Where to get St. Gerard miscellany

If you need a hanky, novena, or medal, contact the National Shrine of St. Gerard at St. Lucy Parish in Newark.

Here is the parish contact info.

And as God is my witness, I WILL get to this shrine one day for the big Feast Day celebration.
Zeppoles, y'all!

2 comments:

Sew said...: I have a good story to tell but to lazy to type it...Not as good as your last post! But it was sweet.... :); Saturday, April 09, 2011
Cathy said...: Hahaha! I very rarely am NOT "too lazy to type."

;); Saturday, April 09, 2011

Why not?

From a moral point of view, circumcision is permissible if, in accordance with therapeutic principles, it prevents a disease that cannot be countered in any other way.
-Pope Pius XII, 1952

Except when performed for strictly therapeutic medical reasons, directly intended amputations, mutilations, and sterilizations performed on innocent persons are against the moral law.
-Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2297

Neonatal male circumcision has no medical indication. It is a traumatic procedure performed without anaesthesia to remove a normal and healthy prepuce.
-Australian Academy of Pediatrics, 1996

The AAPS does not support or condone the practice of child circumcision.
-Australasian Academy of Pediatric Sciences, 1996

Circumcision of newborns should not be routinely performed.
-Canadian Pediatric Society, 1989

The British Association of Paediatric Surgeons advises that there is rarely a clinical indication for circumcision.
-2003

There are no valid medical indications for circumcision in the neonatal period.
-American Academy of Pediatrics, 1971