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June 6, 2020

Black Pro-Lifers Arrested for Praying at Planned Parenthood While Hundreds of Rioters Go Free, by Micaiah Bilger

By Micaiah Bilger, LifeNews - Church Militant reports pro-life advocates Bevelyn Beatty and Edmee Chavannes were arrested May 30 on the sidewalk outside the Margaret Sanger Planned Parenthood Center in Manhattan... The women were arrested after allegedly violating city social distancing guidelines because of the coronavirus. Beatty and Chavannes said they were social distancing... “Let me tell you something, Christians get it the worst,” Beatty said of their pro-life outreach. “I have not been so harassed by the police until I started doing this! Christians get it the worst!”

June 5, 2020

Msgr. Charles Pope: With Cries That Pierce Me to the Heart: A Priestly Testimony of Grief in These Times

By Msgr. Charles Pope, EWTN News - I write this with deep respect for Archbishop Gregory and I admire the work he is doing to reunite our archdiocese, which has been so rocked by the scandal. But I appeal to all bishops to hear the cry of your faithful who long for just this sort of clarity and strong denunciation when it comes to less “safe” issues such as abortion, same-sex attraction, transgenderism and the like. Your faithful want and need your strength.

June 5, 2020

Church Leaders Have a Duty to Unite, Not Divide, Our Country, by Brian Burch

By Brian Burch, RealClearPolitics - There is no better place for Americans to be right now than in church, kneeling in prayer and imploring God to heal our land. President Trump and first lady Melania Trump, during a trip to Saint John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C., spent part of Tuesday doing exactly that... Sadly, the presidential visit to the shrine was denounced by those who should have welcomed it most. And while there is no good time for partisan vilification by religious leaders, it is particularly devastating now when tensions are high, and grief is great.

June 5, 2020

Trump Triggers DC Archbishop, by David Nussman (Video)

By David Nussman, Church Militant - The archbishop of D.C. is angry at President Trump for visiting a Catholic shrine... The president and the first lady went to St. John Paul II National Shrine on Tuesday — the same day Trump signed an executive order on religious freedom... But Washington, D.C. archbishop Wilton Gregory was not pleased with the president's public visit, saying in a statement, "I find it baffling and reprehensible that any Catholic facility would allow itself to be so egregiously misused and manipulated."