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August 9, 2017

St. Padre Pio Warned Abortion Was the “Suicide of the Human Race”

By ChurchPOP Editor - St. Padre Pio was not only a holy man, miracle worker, and mystic, he was also a prophet… he predicted the demographic consequences of widespread abortion that much of the developed world is currently suffering... “The suicide of the human race will be understood by those who will see the earth populated by the elderly and depopulated of children: burnt as a desert.”…

August 9, 2017

Witness to Truth at 75

By Robert Royal. The Catholic Thing - Today is the 75th anniversary of the death of a woman whom St. John Paul II called “a martyr to truth,” Edith Stein, a brilliant philosopher, a Jewish convert to Catholicism, who got caught up in the Nazi persecutions of Jews and the Church, and died at Auschwitz.

August 9, 2017

Evangelical Trump Supporters Want Meeting With Pope Francis Over Civiltà Cattolica Article

By Associated Press, (Catholic Herald) - The July 13 article warned that the decades-old political alliance between some American Catholics and Evangelical Protestants had “gradually radicalized” to promote conflict and hatred and a “xenophobic and Islamophobic vision that wants walls and purifying deportations”.

August 9, 2017

Suffering, Suicide, and the Light of Hope

By Jeannie Ewing, Catholic Exchange - Suffering appears to us as a specter of disappointment. We chase it only to attempt capture, only to control or subdue it. We do not allow suffering to befall us in unforeseen or unpredictable ways. And when it does, we plunge into the depths of discouragement and even despair.