News – Page 3285 – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

June 25, 2020

Fr. Raymond J. de Souza: Theodore McCarrick, the Blessed Mother and Pope St. John Paul II

By Father Raymond J. de Souza, EWTN News - But why did he earn the papal favor of St. John Paul II to get the appointment to Washington in the first place? Part of the reason he was able to delay his day of reckoning was because he was held in good esteem and elevated to the highest offices. Why? What was it about McCarrick that attracted favorable attention under John Paul?... But why subsequently Washington and a cardinal?... There is a Marian dimension to the story that helps to explain. ...

June 25, 2020

Republicans Confirm President Trump’s 200th Judge, 7 of 12 Appeals Courts Now Have GOP Majority, by Steven Ertelt

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews - Republicans in the Senate today reached a milestone on one of the most important things they and a president can do to protect human life and safeguard the Constitution: confirm judges... “President Trump, Leader McConnell, and Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham have delivered an historic victory with the confirmation of 200 judges in the president’s first term, and with all appellate-level vacancies now filled,” said SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser... (she said) "It is critical that we re-elect President Trump so he can continue working with the pro-life Senate majority to confirm judges who respect the Constitution and the inalienable right to life. ..."

June 25, 2020

DC Archbishop Claims Birth is ‘First Moment’ of Person’s Human Dignity in Interview on Racism, by Martin Bürger

By Martin Bürger, LifeSiteNews - Abp. Wilton D. Gregory of Washington, D.C. made the claim, contrary to Christian teaching, that a person’s “human dignity” begins at birth. He said this to AP in comments linking racial justice to pro-life advocacy... “Birth is only the first moment of a person’s human dignity, which is never lost throughout the journey of life,” Gregory stated in an email, according to the AP... The “seamless garment” theory that sees issues such as intrinsic evils like abortion as morally equivalent to societal ills like poverty was championed by the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin.

June 24, 2020

America’s Jews and Christians are Failing the Test of Their Lives, by Dennis Prager

By Dennis Prager, The Stream - So, why the silence? Why aren’t all rabbis, priests and pastors telling their congregations and telling America — in tweets, on Facebook, in letters to the editor, on television and radio, in opinion pieces — that there is one race, the human race, and that the only antidote to racism is to deny that race determines our worth, not to affirm its significance?