Being faithful to the teachings of Jesus' Church in the public sphere will not enhance your popularity!
Those who defend human life or marriage/family/human sexuality now absurdly get called "haters."
Being Signs of Contradiction
Belief in the sanctity of each human life from its first moment of fertilization to its natural end is under assault. Belief in the sanctity of marriage / family / human sexuality is also under assault. Even among practicing Catholics, these essential positions do not alway seem well understood. Many feel that these positions do not get sufficient attention from the pulpit.
We can and we must stand up for both!
We are called to be a light to the world and to not leave that light under a bushel basket. The internet age gives us a chance to shine brightly.
Responding as Catholic Christians in defense of the Sanctity of Human Life and the Sanctity of Marriage/ Family/ Human Sexuality - in the U.S. & particularly in New Jersey & Pennsylvania.
Joe Tevington is a proudly orthodox Catholic, a husband since 1986, a dad to two married adult children, a grandpa to two, and a civil service retiree. He is a sign language fluent certified rehabilitation counselor with graduate degrees in deafness rehabilitation, religious studies/moral theology, & Christian counseling psychology, as well as a catechetical diploma and certificates in benefits planning and Catholic social ministry. He deeply appreciates Catholic teaching on the sanctity of human life and the sanctity of the transmission of human life, as well as how they are to inform us in our apostolates and ministries.
On much lighter notes, he fancies himself to be the foremost authority on his native Brooklyn, when it comes to architecture, geography, history, Italian food, Saturday Night Fever, stick ball, stoop ball, or wiffle ball.