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By Daniel Chaitin, Savanah Hernandez, Daily Wire, Turning Point Project - A large group of demonstrators protested the Los Angeles Dodgers honoring a drag troupe of self-described “queer and trans nuns” on Friday. Crowds gathered outside Dodger Stadium, where the team would later recognize the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at its annual Pride Night celebration. The group has outraged Catholics due to certain antics, such as pole dancing on a cross, that they say are a mockery of their faith. The rally on Friday was organized by a group called Catholics for Catholics, which disseminated flyers that called on people to join “in prayerful response to Dodgers’ godless decision to honor blasphemous, Christ-mocking ‘Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,’” according to local news station KTLA.

By William Mahoney, Ph.D., Church Militant - The New Orleans district attorney's office says it is in possession of "voluminous documents" concerning an alleged homosexual predator priest after Louisiana's archdiocese handed over those documents as part of a federal hearing in which the judge has yet to rule... Orleans Parish DA Jason Williams recently confirmed he received from the N.O. Archdiocese records that pertain to 91-year-old Fr. Lawrence Hecker. ...

By Michael Pakaluk, Crisis Magazine - Adoration, like saluting, is a movement linked to a purpose. Curiously, each of the two competing etymologies of the Latin word adoratio is mapped to each aspect. One etymology, the more obvious, says that the word comes from ad –orare, “to pray to.” Obviously, if you pray to someone, supposing He Himself has the power to grant your request, whatever it is, you are therefore taking Him to be divine, and your “praying to” Him counts, as they say, as latria, that is, the worship owed to God alone.

By Fr. Paul D. Scalia, The Catholic Thing - Pride is intolerant. That’s a statement about the vice itself before any consideration of our cultural situation. The proud man can’t tolerate any criticism or opposition. Pride is the expansion of the self to the exclusion of others. As C.S. Lewis observes, pride is “essentially competitive.”... June’s Pride demands the surrender of any competing view of the human person... Humility! is not quite as effective a battle cry as Pride! Humility is hard to embrace because it always carries the stinging reminder of our created and fallen nature – that we neither create nor save ourselves. Pride presumes the power to define ourselves and to brush off the creaturely limits of male and female. In so doing, it closes itself off from – it becomes intolerant of – a Savior.