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March 4, 2024

WATCH: I’m Embarrassed the Church is Complicit in Human and Sexual Trafficking

By Rachel Campos-Duffy, Twitter - In a recent tweet, Rachel Campos-Duffy stated: I am so embarrassed that the Church is complicit in human & sexual trafficking at the border their NGO, Catholic Charities. Time for the Catholic Church to end it’s addiction to government money!... Rachel’s tweet was referring to her recent visit to the U.S. southern border and her undercover video exposing Bishop Weisenburger’s operation housing illegal aliens in Tuscon.

March 4, 2024

America’s Flight From Marriage Laid Bare by New Study, by Charles Collins

By Charles Collins, Catholic Herald - A new study claims one-in-three young adults in the United States will never marry... Writing for the Institute for Family Studies (IFS), Lyman Stone said these are close to the lowest levels ever observed for marriage rates... “Many commentators will blame these declines on the increased delay in marriage. While there’s some truth to this, the situation is extreme at higher ages, too,” he wrote...

March 2, 2024

New Book Challenges Men to Virtue, Strength, and Staying in the Saddle, by Julian Kwasniewski

By Julian Kwasniewski, Catholic World Report - Wherever you live, Bear Woznick’s new book 12 Rules for Manliness: Where Have All the Cowboys Gone brings some of their wisdom right to you. “The world needs more real men. The world needs more cowboys.”... Woznick’s sentiment is echoed by Catholic men’s guides of various stripes, but few authors have the credentials he has: real time in the saddle, in the waves, on the road... “Men,” Woznick says, “we need to fan into flame the hidden embers in the ashes of traditional virtues to put a fire in our belly that will make us strong and maybe even a little dangerous.”... This book takes an explicitly Catholic and Christian approach to virtue building, acknowledging that building real virtue is impossible without divine assistance.

March 2, 2024

What is the Catholic Church’s Position on IVF? by Peter Pinedo

By Peter Pinedo, Catholic News Agency - Since the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that embryos created through in vitro fertilization (IVF) are human children, debate over fertility treatment has erupted anew... Here’s everything you need to know... What is IVF?... IVF is a medical procedure that fuses sperm and egg in a lab environment to conceive a child outside of the sexual act. The live embryo is then later implanted into a uterus to continue developing until birth... According to the Mayo Clinic, IVF is typically used as a “treatment for infertility” that “also can be used to prevent passing on genetic problems to a child.”