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May 19, 2021

Top CDC Official Steps Down Weeks After Emails Surface Showing Collusion With Teachers Union, by Jordan Davidson

By Jordan Davidson, The Federalist - One of the top CDC and Prevention officials.. will step down from her position this summer... Anne Schuchat, the CDC’s principal deputy director, was one of multiple government health officials included in emails between The American Federation of Teachers union, who repeatedly lobbied against in-person schooling, and the agency over the school reopening guidelines which were released earlier this year.

May 19, 2021

Catholics and Protestants Share Communion at German Ecumenical Convention, by Edward Pentin

By Edward Pentin, EWTN News - Protestant and Catholic worshippers in Germany defied Church teaching on Sunday by taking part in each other’s celebration of the Lord’s Supper at an Ecumenical Convention in Frankfurt... In four services in the city, Catholics were invited to take part in an Evangelical Supper with Protestants and similarly invited to celebrate the Catholic Eucharist, with the decision to receive Holy Communion at Mass or bread at a Protestant service left to an individual’s conscience.

May 19, 2021

Opinion: Is Pope Francis Preparing the Catholic Church to Abandon Unborn Children? by Joseph D’Hippolito

By Joseph D'Hippolito, The Stream - On May 7, Cardinal Luis Ladaria issued a letter from the Vatican discouraging American bishops from preventing elected officials who support abortion to receive Communion... “It would be misleading,” Ladaria continued, “if such a (policy) were to give the impression that abortion and euthanasia alone constitute the only grave matters of Catholic moral and social teaching that demand the fullest level of accountability on the part of Catholics.”... Why would Ladaria take such an approach? Because Francis wants environmental sustainability and economic justice to define his papacy.

May 19, 2021

Young American Catholics and the Normalization of Lesbian and Gay Sexuality, by David Ayers

By David Ayers, Ph.D., Crisis Magazine - In recent years we have witnessed the rise of two national political leaders—Joseph Biden and Nancy Pelosi—who claim to be devout Catholics while actively promoting radical pro-abortion and pro-LGBT agendas. This has brought into sharp relief the growing disparity between two thousand years of unvarying Church teaching on these issues against the opinions of large swaths of professing Catholics.