The so-called Reproductive Health Act (RHA) will expand abortion under the pretenses of choice and progress, which, in fact, it will do little to enhance. At the same time, this legislation threatens to rupture the communion between the Catholic faith and those who support the RHA even while professing to follow the Church, something that troubles me greatly as a pastor.

Institutional Commodity Services (ICS) seeks proposals for warehousing and transportation of USDA and other foods to Catholics schools in Manhattan, Bronx, Staten Island and Westchester. Commercial distributors and contractors with capacity to manage, store and deliver refrigerated, frozen and dry foods are invited to bid.

This morning, I had a chance to salute a towering prophet in our beloved nation’s pursuit of the civil rights of the baby in the womb, John Cardinal O’Connor, who remains ever-young and timeless in so many souls, especially for his daring pro-life witness.

We New Yorkers pride ourselves on being “progressive.”

Words are insufficient to describe the profound sadness we feel at the contemplated passage of New York State’s new proposed abortion policy. We mourn the unborn infants who will lose their lives, and the many mothers and fathers who will suffer remorse and heartbreak as a result.