By Michael Patrick Leahy, Breitbart – The Arizona State Senate announced on Friday that the results of the Maricopa County forensic audit of the 2020 election will be released on Friday, September 24… The report “will be made public at a hearing scheduled for Friday, September 24, according to a spokeswoman for Arizona Senate Republicans,” CBS reported.

By Jennifer Roback Morse, EWTN News – Several high-tech firms strongly oppose Texas’ new pro-life heartbeat law. The Match Group, which owns apps including Match.com and Tinder, announced that it will offer travel assistance to their Texas-based employees who “need to seek care outside Texas.”… Salesforce, a billion-dollar company, announced that it would assist with relocation for any of its 2,000 Texas-based employees who choose to leave the Lone Star State. I think these companies are driven by more than ideologically driven posturing. I think we are seeing something deeper at work.

By Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing – I thought about how all this iconoclasm had taken place in the space of just a few years. Catholic congregations complained bitterly, begged, and pleaded, “Please don’t destroy my church,” but to no avail. Everything had to go… In some cases, it wasn’t enough that an old stone altar was pulled out. Orders were given that the workers should literally smash it to pieces, lest the scorned and detested item ever return. Congregations wept and pleaded, but they were told, “Things are different now. You have to learn to embrace the new.”

By Charlie McCarthy, NewsMax – The White House on Monday endorsed legislation that would guarantee abortion access, The Hill reported… The Women’s Health Protection Act, in response to Texas’ abortion ban, would protect a person’s ability to seek an abortion and for health care providers to provide abortion services, The Hill said… The White House previously would not support the bill, saying it was looking into options to codify Roe v. Wade.

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture – Unborn babies – every unborn baby regardless of heritage, regardless of physical or mental characteristics – need our protection and love. And we need them to fill the earth according to God’s plan of marriage. We rejoice in science, the study of God’s handiwork. Life is beautiful, and God is great. Denying the humanity of an unborn baby and insisting we can choose our gender identities are anti-scientific superstitions.

By Paul Kengor, Crisis Magazine – Gov. Kathy Hochul is doing just that. She is not only actively inviting the women of Texas all the way to New York to procure abortions but insists: “we will help you find a way to New York and we are right now looking intensely to find what resources we can bring to the table to help you have safe transport here.”.. This is a flagrant and aggressive violation of Church teaching. It is really egregious…

By Jules Gomes, Church Militant – The Vatican will prohibit persons without a COVID-19 digital certificate from entering its sovereign territories starting Oct. 1, the Holy See Press Office announced Monday… The ordinance issued by Cdl. Giuseppe Bertello… was promulgated on the express orders of Pope Francis, Sept. 7… Francis said he was prepared “to adopt all appropriate measures to prevent, control and combat the ongoing public health emergency,” even though there are currently zero cases of COVID-19 in the Vatican and no deaths caused by the disease.

By Micaiah Bilger, LifeNews – The U.S. Supreme Court just set a date for a major abortion case that could overturn Roe v. Wade and allow states to protect unborn babies from abortion again… The hearing on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health is scheduled for Dec. 1 at the Supreme Court… Mississippi AG Lynn Fitch said she is looking forward to the opportunity to convince the court that there is no constitutional right to abortion and Roe v. Wade should be overturned.

By Jules Gomes, Church Militant – A Canadian archbishop who fired a faithful priest for denouncing sodomy, cohabitation and abortion has acquired the dubious distinction of becoming the world’s first prelate to ban the unvaccinated from attending Holy Mass… In a strongly worded diktat issued Friday, Abp. Valéry Vienneau, who heads the archdiocese of Moncton in New Brunswick, said he would police entry to churches by enlisting volunteers to stand “at the doors of each church” demanding “full proof of vaccination.”

By Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D., Breitbart – The Vatican City State announced Monday that effective October 1 no one can enter its territory without presenting a coronavirus Green Pass, by order of Pope Francis… The Green Pass can be obtained by showing proof of vaccination against the coronavirus, demonstrating recovery from the coronavirus, or by showing a negative rapid antigen or PCR test, the Vatican ordinance states…

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word – Luke 8:16-18 – “No one after lighting a lamp covers it with a vessel, or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a stand, that those who enter may see the light. For nothing is hid that shall not be made manifest, nor anything secret that shall not be known and come to light. ..

By Franciscan Media,  Sep 20, 2020 Saint Andrew Kim Taegon (August 21, 1821 – September 16, 1846); Saint Paul Chong Hasang and Companions (d. between 1839 […]

By David Nussman, Church Militant – Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have slipped major amnesty measures into their party’s $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill. Some of the provisions the committee approved Monday would create a pathway to citizenship for an estimated 8 million illegal migrants living in the United States… As the Democrats aim to reshape America through mass migration, Republicans in Congress are not able — or not willing — to stand in the breach.

By Stephen Beale, Catholic Exchange – Cloaked in a cloud, with a face as bright as the sun and feet of fire, he saw the angel descending from heaven. The voice of the angel was as a roaring lion. He was so large that one foot rested on the sea while the other touched the land.
In his hand was a small scroll: Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again and said, “Go, take the scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.”

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture – In today’s Wall Street Journal, my friend Tom Spence, president of Regnery Publishing (which brought out my book Lost Shepherd), lets loose on Banned Books Week. He explains that “this gimmicky promotion caters primarily to those who believe that schoolchildren should have access to anything bound between two covers without the interference of those busybodies we call parents.”