- "this past weekend, a video went viral showing a group of boys, many of them in MAGA hats, surrounding an older Native American man who was banging a drum.....The man, Nathan Phillips, told two different versions of what happened. He told The Washington Post that he was singing a traditional song when the teenagers swarmed around him, some chanting, 'Build that wall, build that wall.' He decided the right thing to do was to get away....He told The Detroit Free Press that the incident started when the boys started attacking four African-Americans. So he decided to intervene....The institutions in charge of serving the boys did what institutions always do in the face of a social media mob. They cratered. The school and archdiocese apologized. The mayor of Covington denounced them. On Sunday several longer videos emerged showing that most of what Phillips had told the media was inaccurate. The incident actually started when members of ...— the Black Hebrew Israelites — started hurling racist and homophobic slurs at the boys. The Covington boys eventually asked their chaperone if they could do their school cheers. As they were doing that Phillips walked into the middle of their circle and banged his drum in the face of one of the boys....The Covington case was...a blatant rush to judgment" (David Brooks, NY Times, 1/21/19)
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
"Friendly" Fire aimed at children
Isn't calumny toward teens a form of child abuse? Apologies are owed to Covington HS students from the March for Life, the Diocese of Covington, and Covington HS?
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Links Promoting the Sanctity of Human Life & Marriage/ Family/ Human Sexuality
- Abortifacients & Catholic Hospitals....Under no circumstances should Catholic hospitals jeopardize the Catholic witness by providing abortifacients or contraceptives.
- Ads in parish bulletins....this is an appeal for parishes to forego ads for providers of abortifacients and contraceptives.
- AFA (Tell "AMA: Taxpayers should [NOT] subsidize trans reproductive surgeries")
- C-Fam
- Catholic Vote.org
- Children of God for Life
- Family Policy Alliance
- Mass Resistance (The [misleadingly named] Equality Act is back before Congress & must be stopped)
- NJ Family Policy Center (Petition to Attorney General Matt Platkin)
- NJ Right to LIfe
- PA Family
- Pa Pro Life (Oppose Pa HB 1888)
- Pa Pro-Life Federation
- Tell your bishop to prohibit the “blessing” of sinful unions in your diocese
- USCCB (re: Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act)
- USCCB (re: Equality Act)
- USCCB (re: Letters to Pharmaceutical Companies ["to protest the use of abortion-derived cell lines and advocate for the development of vaccines with no connection to abortion."])
The Beatitudes (from "Jesus of Nazareth")

The Rosary
Links are to photos of the modern locations of these events, primarily from a March 2017 pilgrimage to the Holy Land....
Joyful Mysteries
- The Annunciation
- The Visitation
- The Nativity of Our Lord
- The Presentation
- The Finding of the Child Jesus in the Temple
Luminous Mysteries
- The Baptism of the Lord
- The Wedding at Cana
- The Proclamation of the Kingdom
- The Transfiguration
- The Institution of the Eucharist
Sorrowful Mysteries
- The Agony in the Garden
- The Scourging at the Pillar
- The Crowning with Thorns
- The Carrying of the Cross
- The Crucifixion and Death of Our Lord
Glorious Mysteries
- The Resurrection
- The Ascension
- The Descent of the Holy Spirit
- The Assumption
- The Crowning of Mary as Queen of Heaven
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