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News – Page 13 – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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June 9, 2026

Can We Humanize Our Brave New World? by Samantha Stephenson

By Samantha Stephenson, Public Discourse - Is it ethical to alter the genetic makeup of children? Should we create children with three parents? What about creating sperm from female stem cells to the end of creating a child with two biological mothers? Is it ethical to incubate a growing baby in an artificial womb? Could a womb like that end the perceived need for abortion?... These questions might seem like science fiction, and indeed they were when Aldous Huxley, an agnostic, published his dystopian novel Brave New World nearly one hundred years ago. Huxley wove a fictitious world in which progeny were designed and grown in laboratories ....
June 9, 2026

Daily Scripture Readings and Meditations: The Salt of the Earth and Light of the World

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word - Matthew 5:13-16 - 13 "You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodden under foot by men. 14 You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid. 15 Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. ...
June 8, 2026

Msgr. Jason Gray: Sheen Beatification Calls Catholics Back to the Eucharist

By Msgr. Jason Gray, The Catholic Thing - Catholics around the world are commemorating Corpus Christi today, a feast day celebrating the True Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. But Corpus Christi is especially significant for American Catholics this year. The Catholic Church has seen “historic” rates of converts at parishes nationwide, while Americans’ belief in the Real Presence and reverence for the Eucharist is steadily climbing. 
June 8, 2026

The Sacred Heart: The Antidote to a World That Has Forgotten How to Love, by John B. Manos

By John B. Manos, Bellarmine Forum - What Is In the Old Testament, men dared to say of the Lord: “What does God know? He judges us as through a mist. The clouds are His covering, and He does not consider our affairs, for He walks about the poles of heaven.”... That was the ancient complaint: a distant God, detached and uninterested... What Could Be But the Incarnation changed everything. God no longer walks about the poles of heaven. He lies on a manger bed of straw. He suffers with us. He bleeds with us. He dies with us.

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