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May 26, 2020

This Memorial Day, Honor Fallen Military and Medical Personnel, by Randolph May

By Randolph May, CNSNews - But who can doubt that this year, on this Memorial Day, we should not also solemnly remember all the doctors, nurses, physician assistants, other medical personnel – and all other myriad first responders and essential front-line workers – who have risked their lives, and in some instances sacrificed them, to secure the well-being of us all. Like our fallen soldiers, we remember their sacrifice and honor their memory on this Memorial Day... In his Farewell Address, Ronald Reagan reminded us: "If we forget what we did, we won't know who we are. I am warning of an eradication of that – of the American memory that could result, ultimately, in an erosion of the American spirit."

May 26, 2020

Fr. Paul D. Scalia: Out of This World We’re In

By Fr. Paul D. Scalia, The Catholic Thing - We have perhaps forgotten this “out of the world” part of the Christian life. We found some measure of security and prosperity in the world, so we grew comfortable and sought to make a home here. Science, money, and government-provided, much-desired stability and security. We gave science a mystic authority, like a primitive people believing in the medicine man. We trusted in the power of money and of the state to keep us from all ills. We made gods out of them, willingly sacrificing for the security they could provide.

May 26, 2020

Fr. Roger J. Landry: The Catholic Church’s Irreversible Commitment to Unity

By Father Roger J. Landry, EWTN News - The centenary of the birth of Pope St. John Paul II on May 18 is not the only anniversary of note connected with him this month. On May 25, the Church marks the 25th anniversary of his landmark encyclical on Church unity entitled Ut Unum Sint, taken from Jesus’ prayer to the Father on Holy Thursday, “May they all be one”... This encyclical was the most courageous papal ecumenical proposal since the schism with the Orthodox in 1054 and the Protestant Reformation in 1517. It confirmed as “irreversible” the Second Vatican Council’s commitment in favor of Church unity and called all Catholics, as well as our brothers in sisters in other churches and ecclesial communities, to renew and increase their efforts to respond to Christ’s appeal to work for full and visible communion.

May 26, 2020

Wuhan Suicide Spike, by Paul Murano

By Paul Murano, Church Militant - In the government's attempt to save lives, Wuhan pandemic lockdowns have led many people to take their own, say doctors on the West Coast... Physicians in Northern California attest that they have seen more deaths from suicide than from COVID-19 during the pandemic lockdown. "The numbers are unprecedented," said Dr. Michael deBoisblanc of John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, California, saying that he's seen a "year's worth of suicides" in the last four weeks alone.