NOT a Dark Knight, December 14
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, December 12
Feast of the Immaculate Conception, Decembeer 8
- Metcalfe, State Lawmakers Introduce Resolution Disputing 2020 General Election Results (11/30/2020)
- Ga. secy. of state announces probe into third-party groups trying to register out-of-state voters (One America News Network, 11/30/2020)
- President Trump's legal team, Ariz. GOP hold hearing on election integrity (One America News Network, 11/30/2020)
- Trump says judges refuse to look at evidence of election fraud (Washington Times, 11/29/2020)
- Systematic Eradication of Children With Down Syndrome (American Center for Law and Justice, 11/30/2020)
- Down Syndrome Awareness Month (10/17/2010) Note - "mental retardation" is no longer an appropriate term.
- Gov. Murphy's policies killed another beloved NJ restaurant chain (101.5, 11/30/2020)
- Ultimate Biblical Run through Jerusalem! Take a Virtual Pilgrimage even though Israel is Closed (Stephen K. Ray, 11/28/2020)
- Cardinal...Gregory intends to defy Canon 915 and ''Worthiness to Receive Holy Communion'' (Cardinal Ratzinger, 2004) (11/26/2020)
- Washington’s archbishop...told a journalist Tuesday that in his diocese, he will not deny Holy Communion to a politician who has pledged to enshrine access to abortion in federal law and permit federal funding of abortions. That politician is President-elect Joe Biden.... In 2004, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, then head of the Church’s doctrinal office, told U.S. bishops in a memo that a Catholic politician 'consistently campaigning and voting for permissive abortion and euthanasia laws' is engaged in 'manifest' and 'formal cooperation' in grave sin. In such a case, the politician’s 'pastor should meet with him, instructing him about the Church’s teaching, informing him that he is not to present himself for Holy Communion until he brings to an end the objective situation of sin, and warning him that he will otherwise be denied the Eucharist,' Ratzinger wrote. If the Catholic perseveres in grave sin and still presents himself for Holy Communion, 'the minister of Holy Communion must refuse to distribute it'.... Ratzinger’s memo gave bishops instruction on how to apply the Church’s law. On Tuesday, Archbishop Gregory said he has no plans to do so....In 2004, when U.S. bishops discussed pro-choice politicians and the Eucharist, one cardinal among them was charged with summarizing the memo sent from Ratzinger to bishops on the subject, as few of them had yet received it. The cardinal downplayed the memo....That cardinal was Theodore McCarrick....Under McCarrick’s influence, the bishops decided the best way to handle the question was to defer to the individual judgement of bishops. The memo, incidentally, was sent ahead of the meeting to two U.S. bishops: McCarrick, and the president of the U.S. bishops’ conference, Bishop Wilton Gregory. In the wake of McCarrick’s more recent scandal, pro-lifers will not be the only ones to lament Gregory’s decision about Biden. Catholics concerned with ecclesial reform are also likely to have concerns....Some will argue that Gregory has substituted his own judgment for the law of the Church, and the Vatican’s instructions on how to apply it. That practice, they’ll say, is the kind of clericalism that made the McCarrick scandal possible" (CNA, 11/24/2020).
- A new opportunity to challenge the triumph of McCarrick Catholicism (Our Sunday Visitor, 11/24/2020)
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- Horror in Africa: ACLJ Delivers Critical Universal Periodic Review to UN as Deadly Violence Against Christians Spreads Across Africa (American Center for Law and Justice, 11/25/2020)
- The unethical testing of 'ethical' COVID vaccines (LiveAction, 11/18/2020)
- Pledge to Make Reparation for Louisiana Church Sacrilege (Return to Order, 10/13/2020)
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