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By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews - Joe Biden has slammed a ruling from a federal judge blocking the abortion pill nationwide because the FDA didn’t properly investigate the safety of a drug that has killed women and resulted in flooded ERs with women suffering potentially life-threatening injuries... Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas issued the ruling blocking approval of the dangerous abortion pill... Biden has done that and issued a statement blasting the decision, calling it a “political, ideological” attack.

By Venerable Fulton J. Sheen, Catholic Exchange - Not one of the three gave a thought to the Man who went down to the defeat of the Cross on that Good Friday afternoon. For the Hebrew with his love for religion, and the Roman with his love for law, and the Greek with his love for philosophy, there was not the faintest suggestion that He who called Himself the Way of religion, the Truth of law, and the Light of philosophy, and who was now imprisoned by rock-ribbed earth, would ever again stir the hearts and minds and souls of men. They could not agree upon what would most influence the world in the next generation, but they were all agreed that He whose blood dried upon the Cross that afternoon would never influence it.

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture - The Immaculate Conception—the conception of Mary in the womb of St. Ann without the stain of Original Sin—and the Last Supper both anticipate and participate in the historical events of the Cross and Resurrection. As we consider the mysteries of Mary, we gain a deeper understanding of our participation at Mass... The Last Supper has similarities to the Immaculate Conception. The Divine favor of the Immaculate Conception anticipates Mary’s participation in Jesus’ redemptive Sacrifice. The Cross and Resurrection, like the Incarnation, weds heaven and earth. ...