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July 14, 2020

Cdl Zen: Vatican Has Delivered Church in China into ‘Hands of the Madness of Our Government’

By Dorothy Cummings McLean, LifeSiteNews - Cardinal Zen, the retired bishop of Hong Kong, told a popular EWTN news host that the Vatican deal with China is a “betrayal of the real Church.”.. Zen, 88, appeared on EWTN’s The World Over with Raymond Arroyo show on July 10 to discuss China’s new “security law” for Hong Kong. The measure was imposed upon the former British colony on June 30... Pope Francis was expected to comment last Sunday on the unhappy situation in Hong Kong and speak in defence of religious freedom. The remarks were in copies of his speech distributed to journalists, but he dropped them from his Angelus address.

July 14, 2020

Why Liturgical Bad Habits Must Be Broken, by Peter Kwasniewski

By Peter Kwasniewski, Catholic Education Resource Center - Catholics have a right to a liturgy that is in accord with the mind of the Church and her tradition... Due to the pontificate of Benedict XVI, a steadily increasing number of Catholic clergy and faithful are increasingly likely to implement or request changes in the celebration of the liturgy so as to bring it more manifestly into continuity both with the great Catholic Tradition and with the obvious teaching of Vatican II and numerous postconciliar instructions. And predictably, there are members of the preceding generation who want to blow the whistle and say "Stop! You can't do that.

July 14, 2020

Thugs Killed an Innocent One-Year-Old. Now the Family Has Questions for Black Lives Matter. by Beth Baumann

By Beth Baumann, Townhall - "For the cowards that did this, you should be ashamed of yourself because everybody talk about Black Lives Matter, what about baby lives? What about teenager lives?" the one-year-old's grandmother said during an interview with Fox News' Lawrence Jones. "You took an innocent child from a mother and a father, as well as the grandparents, and I don't think it's fair."... Based on the way city officials are conducting themselves following the child's death, Davel Gardner Sr. said he doesn't believe his son's life mattered.

July 14, 2020

The Little Sisters and the Court: Muddling Through, by Hadley Arkes

By Hadley Arkes, The Catholic Thing - Last week the Supreme Court broke away from its recent run of decisions and sought, for the moment, to do something decent. The Court went again to the rescue of the Little Sisters of the Poor. . .or kind of... With Justice Thomas writing, the Court held that the Trump Administration had not committed any foot-faults, or violations of administrative procedures, as it sought to exempt certain religious entities from the obligation to offer contraception and abortion to their employees.