This release covers three items: 1) The letter that is being hand-delivered to 13 bishops at 13 Cathedrals; 2) The quote of Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, openly supporting child-killing and defying the Church -- yet she receives communion; 3) A link to www.ProlifeDefender.com; George Offerman asks: "Why does 'secular press' report the truth, and 'pro-life news' like lifenews.com 'spikes it.'"

Contact: Catherine Veritas, 904-687-9804; www.Overturnroe.com

MEDIA ADVISORY, Dec. 11 /Christian Newswire/ -- The following is submitted by Randall Terry, Insurrecta Nex:

Complete "Deaf at the Cathedral Tour" at www.OverturnRoe.com

FIRST: The Letter to Bishops:

Your Excellency:

We thank you for your service to us and to all the Church, and , in particular, for all that you have done for the unborn.

We humbly beg you to warn any Catholic Senator or House Member within your See or within your state: "If you vote for child-killig in 'Health Care Reform,' you will be denied Holy Communion."

Is this not a bishop's pastoral duty of mercy?

Jesus' witness to the truth (Jn 18) cost him his life. Following Christ's example many bishops have been martyred, including St. Timothy, St. Ignatius of Antioch, Pope St. Clement, and St. John Fisher.

STANDING UP FOR THE BABIES AND THE EUCHARIST IN THIS HOUR WILL SURELY NOT COST YOU YOUR LIFE!

Be of good courage and let your voice be heard!

Sincerely in Christ,
 
Diana Roccograndi, Gary Boisclair, Andrew Beacham (and those present who want to sign their name.)

SECOND: Excerpts of the Hartford Courant story about the "Deaf at the Cathedral" tour. This story has a pro child-killiing, defiant quote from a US House Member. Why does her bishop let her continue in this scandal?

"An anti-abortion group founded by Randall Terry, who also started Operation Rescue, rolled into Hartford Tuesday afternoon to ask that Archbishop Henry J. Mansell deny Communion to any Roman Catholic legislator from Connecticut who votes for health care reform that funds abortion.

Diana Roccograndi, one of a band of three from Insurrecta Nex, said Hartford was one stop on the D.C.-based group's 13-cathedral tour across nine states with predominantly Roman Catholic delegations in Washington. Of Connecticut's seven U.S. representatives and senators, four are Roman Catholic.

The group came to hold up signs and pray the Rosary outside Cathedral of St. Joseph on Farmington Ave., and then Roccograndi went into archdiocese offices next door to deliver a letter that said, in part:

"We humbly beg you to warn any Catholic Senator or House Member within your See or within your state: 'If you vote for child-killing in 'health care reform,' you will be denied Holy Communion.'"

Gary Boisclair, who held signs in the chill wind, described denying communion as "pastoral," a characterization with which Rep. Rosa DeLauro, of New Haven, disagreed.

DeLauro said:

"The Eucharist should never be used as a political weapon - it is the most sacred aspect of our Catholic faith. And while I do not challenge the Church's teaching on abortion, I am troubled by Operation Rescue's politicization of the issue.

"Abortion is a morally complex matter of conscience that speaks to our most fundamental values as citizens and as legislators. While I support a woman's right to choose, I understand that there are different points of view on the issue. As we in Congress work to pass meaningful health reform, something that speaks to the Church's fundamental obligation to help the poor and heal the sick, it was never our intention to make abortion part of the debate. In fact, many of us worked together to craft a compromise that maintained current law on abortion in our plans for reform, meaning that no federal funds would be used to pay for the service.

"But the Stupak amendment goes far beyond this. It effectively bans coverage of abortion even for those women who wanted to use their own money. America's women need a health care bill that ends discrimination against them, not encodes it ever further into our system of law, and I urge Operation Rescue and the Church to understand that."

One of Boisclair's signs asked the church to "Enforce Canon 915," a part of church law that denies communion to Catholics who engage in serious sins. That part of church law has been discussed, of late, as a means of bringing Catholic politicians (and their votes) into line with church policies on abortion, stem-cell research, and end of life issues. The protest of Insurrecta Nex -- roughly translated as "revolt against death" -- comes just weeks after Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) announced that, given his pro-choice stance, he had been asked to not take Communion by Bishop Thomas Tobin."

See full story at:
http://blogs.courant.com/susan_campbell/2009/12/roman-catholics-eucharist-and.html

THIRD: George Offerman asks some hard questions in two articles posted at www.Prolifedefender.com. Why is it that the "secular media" -- who are often our adversaries -- regularly reports the truth to millions of people, while our "friends" do not have the integrity to do honest journalism? Read these two articles at: www.Prolifedefender.com.