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March 10, 2020

A Day in the Senate with the Born-Alive Act, by Hadley Arkes

By Hadley Arkes, The Catholic Thing - The bill would break out to the public news that most people would find jolting. Most people did not know that under Roe v. Wade and its companion case of Doe v. Bolton, the right to abortion would extend through the entire length of the pregnancy – and even when a child survived the abortion… It turned out that there were far more of these babies surviving than we had known at the time. But it was the mass of killings taking place in the abattoir of Dr. Kermit Gosnell in Philadelphia that brought a new attention to the problem – and offered the moment to act.

March 10, 2020

Fr. Peter M. Stravinskas: Joining Our Lady at the Foot of the Cross

By Fr. Peter M. Stravinskas, Crisis Magazine - Very early in this Lent of 2020, we celebrate a votive Mass, which invites us to take our place at the foot of the Cross with the Mother of Sorrows… Popular piety has identified seven “dolors” of the Blessed Virgin: the prophecy of Simeon; the flight into Egypt; the loss of the Boy Jesus; the meeting on the way to Calvary between Mary and Christ; the death of Jesus on the Cross; Mary’s reception of her Son’s dead body; the placing of that body in the tomb. Only the most heartless, insensitive person would not be moved by that list of sorrowful events, as the Stabat Mater plaintively demands…

March 10, 2020

Bernie Unveils ‘Reproductive Justice’ Plan: Taxpayer-Funded Abortion Till Birth, by Calvin Freiburger

By Calvin Freiburger, LifeSiteNews - Democrat presidential contender and avowed socialist Senator Bernie Sanders has formally unveiled the abortion agenda he’s running on in 2020, collecting in a single location the various absolutist promises he has made to the abortion lobby… The Vermont senator’s so-called “Reproductive Health Care and Justice for All” plan pledges to repeal the Hyde Amendment, thereby allowing direct funding of elective abortions with tax dollars; make contraception “free” and available over-the-counter; and “significantly” expand “funding for Planned Parenthood, Title X, and other initiatives” that offer and promote abortions.

March 9, 2020

Detroit Abp. Vigneron Cozy With Pro-Terrorist Imam, by William Mahoney

By William Mahoney, Ph.D., Church Militant - Detroit archbishop Allen Vigneron works closely with Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi, a Detroit-area Islamic cleric who recently praised a terrorist mastermind and often publicly denounces President Trump with inflammatory rhetoric… Vigneron has a history of interfaith activity with Muslim leaders, earning the prelate the "Interfaith Partner Award" presented by the Council of Islamic Organizations of Michigan in 2011.