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By Fr. James V. Schall, S.J., Catholic Exchange - At His birth, Christ’s conception becomes public to shepherds, to the world. We wonder about the difference between a child’s initial conception and his birth nine months later. A British court decided that a child in the womb was not in law a “person.” This arbitrary decision was based on nothing other than the will to allow abortion with legal impunity. Otherwise the whole modern practice of denying the full dignity of a child would be undermined.

Catholic News Agency - Three Catholic charitable organizations were named as winners of $5 million grants from the charitable organization of Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos... Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami, and Catholic Community Services of Western Washington were three of the 24 organizations selected to receive grants by the Bezos Day 1 Families Fund... A total of $97.5 million was distributed amongst the selected organizations, with the grants awarded at either the $5 million or $2.5 million levels.

By JP Nunez, Catholic Stand - Throughout most of the last 2,000 years, Christians have considered homosexual activity a sin. Could Jesus’ opinion on homosexual activity  differ from this? Homosexual activity is condemned in both the Old and New Testaments (Leviticus 18:22, 20:13; Romans 1:26-27), and until very recently, Christian opinion on this issue has almost unanimously agreed with Scripture.

Msgr. Charles Pope - As I walk or drive through my Capitol Hill neighborhood here in Washington, D.C., I pass by more than twenty churches (all of them Protestant) that have been closed in the past decade. Many of them are grand and prominent buildings. (Click here to see four of them.) Most of the them have been converted to condominiums, likely due to historic preservation norms that seek to retain the exterior appearance of historic buildings.