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March 26, 2026
By Francis X. Rocca, The Atlantic - Not so long ago, when U.S. Catholic leaders said something political, they tended to sound like conservatives. American bishops’ most prominent policy statements focused on three issues: same-sex marriage, contraception, and—above all—abortion... Since Donald Trump’s reelection, however, the Church in the United States has been sounding more liberal. Its teaching hasn’t changed, but the president’s second term has shifted the bishops’ attention. The most urgent political concern for America’s Catholic leaders is no longer abortion; it’s immigration.
March 26, 2026
By Carole Novielli, Live Action News - New abortion data for 2025 published by the Guttmacher Institute estimates that "1,126,000 abortions were provided by US clinicians in 2025" — an increase of about 0.18% (less than two-tenths of a percent) from abortion totals estimated for 2024... Though this percentage seems very small and is presented as "largely unchanged" by Guttmacher, it represents the deaths of approximately 2,000 more preborn children than 2024.
March 26, 2026
By Greg Cook, Catholic Exchange - Although the Holy Catholic Church will persist until the end of time, there have been moments in time when it has seemed beyond hope of resuscitation. The year 1968 was one of those moments, so much so that we shouldn’t be afraid to call it “The Year of Catholic Death.”... 1968 featured death in many guises: the death of sanity, as students and radicals rose up in bifurcated France, eldest daughter of the Church and bastion of the Revolution; the death of the old Mass, as many priests began celebrating facing the people and in the vernacular, coupled with the death of a proper understanding of the priesthood and consecrated religious life;
March 26, 2026
By Trinity Communications - St. Ludger was born in Friesland about the year 743. His father, a nobleman of the first rank, at the child's own request, committed him very young to the care of St. Gregory, the disciple of St. Boniface, and his successors in the government of the see of Utrecht. Gregory educated him in his monastery and gave him the clerical tonsure. Ludger, desirous of further improvement, passed over into England and spent four years and a half under Alcuin, who was rector of a famous school at York.
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