"...let us rid ourselves of every burden and sin that clings to us and persevere in running the race that lies before us while keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus...." (Hebrew 12: 1, 2)

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (8/14/16)

 

• Keeping Our Eyes Fixed, re: Federal Concerns

• Keeping Our Eyes Fixed, re: State Concerns

• “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my Savior” (Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 8/15/16)
  
  
• Sign This Petition Against the [8/15/16] Satanic Black Mass in Oklahoma City (TFP Student Action)

• Call to Prayer (USCCB, 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) 

• Illinois weakens conscience-protection law (Catholic Culture, 8/9/16) 

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

• Pope sends condolences to victims of Pakistan hospital attack (EWTN News, 8/9/16) 
  
  
• Anniversary of Edith Stein’s Death and Bombing of Nagasaki (Zenit, 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)).

• Pope: It's 'unacceptable' that civilians must pay the price of Syrian conflict (EWTN News, 8/7/16)

• Message From Justice and Peace Council on Anniversary of Hiroshima Bombing (Zenit, 8/6/16)

• "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)