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November 27, 2024

Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation: Not a Hair of Your Head Will Perish

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word - Luke 21:12-19 - 12 But before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name's sake. 13 This will be a time for you to bear testimony. 14 Settle it therefore in your minds, not to meditate beforehand how to answer; 15 for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict. ....

November 27, 2024

The Church as Librarian II, by Anthony Esolen

By Anthony Esolen, First Things - In my previous column, I recommended that every diocese establish at least one library, as part of the Church’s mission to be the Mater et magistra (“Mother and teacher”), to a barbarian world. I described the kinds of books I have found at antique stores and junk shops, and even our town dump, whence I have gathered complete hardcover sets of the works of Washington Irving and George Eliot, probably a day or so before they would be destroyed... Which brings me to two considerations: What kinds of books would such a library include? How could they be obtained?

November 27, 2024

More Than 100 Members of Congress Urge Investigation Into Abortion Funding, by Kate Quiñones

By Kate Quiñones, Catholic News Agency - More than 100 members of Congress asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate the amount of federal funding given to abortion providers nationally and internationally over the past three years, including Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its affiliates... One hundred and twelve members of Congress signed the Nov. 22 letter spearheaded by House Pro-Life Caucus Co-Chair Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-AL), and Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY). ...

November 27, 2024

Walmart Agrees to Drop DEI Policies, Remove Sexualized and Pro-Transgender Products for Children, by Calvin Freiburger

By Calvin Freiburger, LifeSiteNews - Walmart, America’s largest employer, says it will remove sexualized and transgender products targeted at children, review all funding of LGBT ‘pride’ initiatives, end ‘racial equity training,’ and stop participating in the pro-LGBT Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index, among other victories for conservatives... The campaign to “de-woke” corporate America has claimed its biggest win yet, with the news that retail giant Walmart is abandoning a broad range of “diversity” initiatives it had previously invested heavily in.