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May 29, 2021

The Zombie Enlightenment Enslaves Us to a New Religion.

By Ross Hunt, Claremont Institute - Surviving the virus is this Church’s equivalent of salvation; saving “just one life” is its version of Christian charity and community; the daily and hourly COVID reports are its liturgy of the hours and the double mask its scapular. Social distance is its prayer without ceasing. Hand sanitizer is the Church’s holy water: who among us, for months, did not faithfully apply it before entering or exiting any building? The vaccine (at last!) is ....

May 28, 2021

18 Connecticut Teens Hospitalized for Heart Problems After COVID Vaccines, White House Says Young People Should Still Get the Shots, by Megan Redshaw

By Megan Redshaw, J.D., LifeSiteNews - One week after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced it was investigating heart inflammation in recently vaccinated young adults, Connecticut reported 18 new cases of heart problems among teens who had received a COVID vaccine... All 18 cases resulted in hospitalization — the vast majority for a couple of days, reported NBC Connecticut. The cases were reported to the Connecticut Department of Public Health by vaccine providers, said Deirdre Gifford, acting health commissioner.

May 28, 2021

Fissures On Holy Communion: Some (67) Bishops Push Back on Eucharistic Coherence Discussion, by Joan Frawley Desmon

Joan Frawley Desmond, EWTN News - Five months after the inauguration of President Joe Biden — a Catholic who both supports the expansion of permissive abortion laws and receives Communion — a faction of U.S. bishops has campaigned to postpone discussion on the drafting of a formal statement on the meaning of the Eucharist in the life of the Church at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ meeting in June.

May 28, 2021

Zuckerberg’s Outsized Election Interference, by Thomas Gallatin

By Thomas Gallatin, Patriot Post - During the 2020 election cycle, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg/wife spent hundreds of millions in electioneering efforts backing Democrat candidates... an eye-popping $350 million to the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), a leftist organization that in turn gave the money in grants to some 2,500 municipalities in 49 states... “In exchange for the money, elections divisions agreed to conduct their elections according to conditions set out by the CTCL, which is led by former members of the New Organizing Institute, a training center for progressive groups and Democratic campaigns.”