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By Michael Voris, Church Militant - For nine hours Tuesday, nine Arizona state lawmakers heard expert testimony as well as witnesses who saw the cheating firsthand — like so many did all around the country. This quasi-formal legislative hearing is the first of roughly a dozen that are going to happen around the country in the next few months... And that has the Left freaking out ...

By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing - I’m hardly the only one to have had such an unforgettable, life-changing experience there. During Vespers at Notre Dame on Christmas Day 1886, the great modern poet Paul Claudel, previously a non-believer, recorded, “In an instant, my heart was touched, and I believed.”... For all its tumultuous history since the French Revolution, Notre Dame has still been, you might say, the beating heart of France.

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - Whatever else you read today, don’t miss the opinion by Justice Neil Gorsuch in the Supreme Court case of Dr. A v. Kathy Hochul... Unfortunately, Justice Gorsuch was writing in dissent. The Court’s majority ruled against health-care workers in New York, who had said that mandatory vaccination violates their religious freedom, since it requires them to violate their consciences (by taking a vaccine developed with the use of fetal tissues) or lose their jobs.

By Casey Chalk, Crisis Magazine - In the affluent West, even with slightly declining life expectancies—and a pandemic that has claimed thousands of lives—it can be easy to downplay or simply ignore our mortality. If we take reasonably good care of ourselves and have a decent health insurance policy, we have a good chance of living into our 70s, if not 80s or 90s. But for many Christians around the world, especially those in Muslim-majority countries, that’s often not the case.