In the news....

• Pope Supports Youth Initiative to Stop Mediterranean From Being ‘Sea of Death’ (Zenit, 8/16/16)

• Interview From Aleppo: ‘A Dark City’ (Zenit, 8/16/16)

• During Angelus, Pope Decries Massacre in Congo (Zenit, 8/15/16)

• "The effect of certain pills in certain circumstances can be abortifacient. A person who is seriously living according to his or her Christian beliefs has the moral obligation to inform herself fully about all the effects of these medicinal products in order to take responsible decisions in favour of life. In case of scientific doubt on how these medicinal products work, the decision must always be in favour of the protection of life. The conscience of health-care professionals, who have objections to prescribe or to sell these medicinal products because of scientific doubts about their effects, must be respected...." (Cherishing Life - Pastoral Letter Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary) 

• Mike Pence: ‘I’m pro-life’ and ‘I don’t apologize for it’ (LiveActionNews, 8/15/16)

• Hillary Clinton uses Zika to demand more Planned Parenthood funding (LiveActionNews, 8/12/16)

• Call to Prayer (USCCB, 8/12/16)

• "....the next Republican president should first look to state supreme court justices. It's simply a matter of more accurate information. While there may be potentially excellent candidates among these other legal positions, their track records are just harder to read than that of a state supreme justice from the right state. From one of these second-best legal positions we could get another Justice Thomas or Scalia. But given the track record, we could just as easily get a Justice Stevens or Souter...." (Picking a Justice Who Can Resist the Lure of the Liberal Side, Public Discourse, 8/12/16)

• Friday Fax (C-Fam, 8/11/16)

• 2015 Annual Report (U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, 8/10/16) 

• The Vatican is Determined to End World Hunger by 2030 (Rome Reports, 8/9/16) 

• 12 Ideas For Pro-Family Legislation (Former Congresswoman Rebecca Hamilton, National Catholic Register, 8/9/16)

• Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation Summit: Sept 29 - Oct 1 (National Center on Sexual Exploitation)

• Action Center (National Center on Sexual Exploitation)

• "Let us not move towards weakening marriage but instead endeavor to encourage maturity, fidelity, self sacrifice, respect and follow the right path in all our human relationships especially in building up families, the foundation of society" (Roman Catholic Diocese of Balanga (Phillipines)).

• "In Europe, in America, in Latin America, in Africa, in some countries of Asia, there are ideological colonizations. And one of these – I say it clearly with name and surname ' is gender!....We must think about what Pope Benedict said: [']It’s the time of the sin against God the Creator!'" (Pope’s Dialogue With Polish Bishops, 8/4/16)

• "You fell to the ground after the first stab; you tried to push your attacker with your feet, and you said, 'Go away, Satan.' Again you said, 'Begone, Satan.'  In this you expressed your faith in humanity, created good, but gripped by the devil" (Archbishop Dominique Lebrun at the funeral Mass of Father Jacques Hamel, 8/2/16).

• President Obama’s Sex-Driven War on Science (Notre Dame Law Professor Gerard V. Bradley, 8/2/16)

• Marriage: Unique for a Reason (USCCB, August 2016)

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