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News – Page 318 – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

March 13, 2025

Giving Up Bloated Government for Lent, by James Malloy

By James Malloy, The Stream - Thomas Aquinas defined love as “to will the good of the other.”... For me, the question becomes whether and how I am practicing the Golden Rule. The national debt is running higher each moment. Doesn’t it affect others, including our children (future generations) and ourselves? Of course it does! It is now more than $36 trillion, apart from a coming shortfall in entitlement programs and Social Security. So who is selfish: those who don’t care if they burden future generations or those who want a balanced budget?...

March 13, 2025

Daily Scripture Readings and Meditations: Ask and You Will Receive from Your Father in Heaven

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word - Matthew 7:7-12 - 7 "Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or what man of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? ...

March 13, 2025

Rev. Francis J. Hoffman: Lenten Lessons on the Sacraments Eight: Baptism: Matter, Form, and Minister

By Rev. Francis J. Hoffman, Relevant Radio - Theologians who study the sacraments distinguish the Matter and the Form for a Sacrament. For Baptism, the Matter is water . . . natural water. It can be fresh water or salt water, but it must be water, not soap, not beer, not wine, not honey. Water. Why water? Because that is what Jesus did, and that is what he said we should do. And remember, Jesus is God. The water can be warm or cold, but it cannot be ice or steam, because if Jesus meant ice or steam, he would have said “ice” or “steam.”

March 13, 2025

After Kamala Ran on Abortions Up to Birth, Democrats Admit Their Brand is Damaged, by Dave Andrusko

By Dave Andrusko, LifeNews - The Democratic Party’s brand is in rough shape in the congressional battlegrounds... Nearly two months into the second Donald Trump administration, a majority of voters in battleground House districts still believe Democrats in Congress are “more focused on helping other people than people like me,” according to an internal poll conducted by the Democratic group Navigator Research. Among independents, just 27 percent believe Democrats are focused on helping them, compared with 55 percent who said they’re focused on others.

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