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January 28, 2020

The Five Foundations for Discernment On the Path to God’s Peace, by Dan Burke

By Dan Burke, Catholic Exchange - In Teresa I found a kindred soul — one that understood what a real relationship with Jesus looked like. In de Caussade I found a way to see a vision of God in all things, in every moment. These writers helped to reinforce my commitment to prayer and to filling my mind with truth. This helped me to better see God and yield to Him as I experienced circumstances and situations that brought fear, anxiety, and despair to the surface — to be healed. ....

January 28, 2020

Fr. Benedict Kiely: With Burning Concern

By Fr. Benedict Kiely, Crisis Magazine - Recently the nonagenarian environmentalist, Sir David Attenborough, familiar to viewers of BBC America over many years for his nature shows, warned in bloodcurdling terms that it was almost too late to save the world from the horrors of the “climate crisis.” I remember as a child watching similar warnings during the early 1970s, of the perils the world would face by the millennium.

January 28, 2020

Achieving Christendom is America’s Best Chance at Overthrowing Abortion, LGBT Reign of Terror, by John Horvat II

By John Horvat II, LifeSiteNews - Christendom! It may seem shocking since its days seem long past. We are supposed to be in a post-Christian era. However, the urgency of our times call for it. We need a Christian civilization if we are going to overcome the present crisis. It needs to be at least considered… Because our problems are moral, our solutions must also be moral. The rich treasury of Western thought and traditional Church teaching prove that the natural law and Christian morality are the norms that are best suited to our human and social nature. We find our greatest happiness inside institutions and social structures that take us to the end for which we are created—God.

January 27, 2020

Abortion is the Top Priority at the Ballot Box, U.S. Bishop Tells March for Life, by Lianne Laurence

By Lianne Laurence. LifeSiteNews - Archbishop Joseph Naumann, archbishop of Kansas City, Kansas, and chairman of the USCCB’s committee on pro-life activities.. said the bishops approved a document in November that provides “guidance to Catholics as they exercise their responsibility as voters.”… And while Catholics must consider “many important societal issues with great moral significance,” such as immigration reform, care for refugees and the poor, health care, religious liberty, and the “care for creation," the bishops “affirmed that the protection of the unborn remains the preeminent priority,” Naumann said, to a burst of applause.