Catholic Church

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews - President Donald Trump is expected to include a pro-life message in the State of the Union address next Tuesday. Such a message would come after Democrats have been pushing abortion up to birth and infanticide... Trump has governed as a pro-life president and wasted no time during his first week in office defunding the International Planned Parenthood abortion business. Since that time he has worked on defunding Planned Parenthood domestically, he has defunded the UNFPA which promotes abortion, he has promoted abstinence education, and he’s pressed the pro-life view at the United Nations.

By Philip Kosloski, Aleteia - It is no wonder, therefore, that our predecessors have constantly defended this most approved form of devotion — the pious devotion of the faithful toward the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus [and] the custom of receiving Holy Communion on the first Friday of every month at the desire of Christ Jesus, a custom which now prevails everywhere.—Pope Pius XI Miserentissimus Redemptor

By David Warren, The Catholic Thing - At this moment, I write next to a large window, against which winds are crashing, moaning and howling through every crack they find. It is a fine midwinter scene, up here in the Great North: temperatures from the High Arctic, frequent whiteout blizzards, and the accumulation of mighty snow banks, here in downtown Toronto.