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August 21, 2020

Msgr. Charles Pope: Blessed are the Pure of Heart – A Reflection on an Often Misunderstood Beatitude and Virtue

By Msgr. Charles Pope - One of the beatitudes taught by Jesus is often misunderstood, largely due to the popular translations of it from the Greek text: “Blessed are the pure of heart,” or “Blessed are the clean of heart.” Let’s look at three facets of the beatitude: its fundamental meaning, its focus, and the freedom it gives... I. Fundamental Meaning – While the words “pure” and “clean,” are not inauthentic translations of the Greek word καθαρός (katharos), a more literal translation is “to be without admixture, to be simply one thing.”

August 21, 2020

How Draconian COVID-19 Lockdown Measures Undermine the Abortion Lobby’s ‘My Body, My Choice’ Mantra, by Jonathon Van Maren

By Jonathon Van Maren, LifeSiteNews - Abortion supporters have many arguments they utilize to defend feticide, ranging from difficult and traumatic circumstances to disproven and unscientific babble about the child in the womb being a “clump of cells” rather than a human being (something no credible scientist in the field believes). But the primary argument used to defend the destruction of pre-born human beings in the womb is that of personal autonomy: ....

August 20, 2020

President Trump’s Bioethics Panel Rejects 13 Projects Using Body Parts From Aborted Babies, by Micaiah Bilger

By Micaiah Bilger, LifeNews - A new bioethics advisory board appointed by President Donald Trump released its first report Tuesday, recommending that the government reject funding for 13 of 14 research projects that plan to use aborted baby body parts... The recommendations are good news. Pro-life leaders have been urging the Trump administration to stop using tax dollars to fund unethical research for years. Under the Obama administration, millions of tax dollars were used to fund disturbing research studies, including one to create “humanized mice” with tissue from potentially viable aborted babies.

August 20, 2020

Dear USCCB: You Must Be Clear That Catholics Cannot Support Pro-Abortion Biden-Harris Ticket, by Dan Zeidler

By Dan Zeidler, LifeSiteNews - Dear Bishops Perry, Cahill, Campbell, Cisneros, Haines, Knestout, Madden, Sansaricq, and Staff person Donna Toliver Grimes: I write to express my strong disapproval of statements attributed to USCCB official Donna Toliver Grimes which I believe exacerbate the grave situation the country finds itself in... It is extremely obvious that given the Democratic Party's long-time extreme position against the right to life of unborn children, a position that only gets worse, and the radical pro-abortion positions of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, anything that seems to indicate that officials of the USCCB publicly favor the Democrats is totally unacceptable and deadly.