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July 21, 2020

Aleteia: Photo of Doctor Praying the Rosary in COVID-19 Hospital Goes Viral

Aleteia - Anesthesiologist Néstor Ramírez Arrieta of Colombia takes advantage of every opportunity to pray the Rosary when he has a chance in his workday. A friend of his who is an Evangelical Protestant pastor, Luis Alberto Gallego, took a photo of him at prayer (protective gear and all) and shared it on Facebook with a moving message: “This image of my great friend and brother, the doctor anesthesiologist Nestor Ramírez, breaks my heart. He, like many doctors, endures endless shifts, and very intense emotional pressure that many of us would not be able to sustain. ..."

July 21, 2020

Christ Is the Cure for What Ails Us, by Regis Nicoll

By Regis Nicoll, Crisis Magazine - My mentor, Chuck Colson, once noted that, during the Sixties and Seventies, liberals and conservatives viewed crime and its causes differently. Liberals, thinking crime was caused by poverty, launched the antipoverty programs of the Sixties. The result was that the crime rate went up. Conservatives, believing that crime would be reduced by surer and harsher punishments, instituted the tough prison sentences of the Seventies, only to watch the crime rate go up further.

July 21, 2020

Rising Diversity Is Joe Biden’s Worry, Too, by Patrick J. Buchanan

By Patrick J. Buchanan - According to Brookings Institution demographer William Frey, between 2010 and 2020, while America’s population grew by 20 million, our white population fell for the first time since the 1790 census.... White Americans fell as a share of the population in all 50 states... During that same decade, our Black population grew by 3 million, our Asian population by 4 million and our Hispanic population by 10 million... What’s the significance of those numbers? In presidential elections, Hispanics and Asians vote 70% Democratic and African Americans vote 90%.... Bottom line: The pool of Democratic voters is growing inexorably while the largest pool of potential GOP voters is aging, stagnating and shrinking.

July 21, 2020

GUEST BLOG POST FOR NFP WEEK! “NFP is Fertility Awareness”

By Emily, Total Whine - One of the mischaracterizations of NFP is that it is synonymous with avoiding pregnancy in people’s minds, and in most minds, it’s an ineffective means... When I went through marriage prep, avoiding pregnancy was certainly foremost in my mind. My husband and I were in that crowd of “We want to wait a year before we start having kids,” and NFP was stressed as being on par with birth control for avoiding pregnancy as if to put our minds at ease.