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January 15, 2020

Catholicism Is Even More Local Than Politics, by Dr. Jeff Mirus

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - It has been said that “all politics is local”, and this is a valuable axiom for winning public office. Unfortunately, after such victories, politics mostly proceeds from the top down. This creates a huge temptation to seek change by leaping over what is local in an effort to control high-level socio-political policies. In the Church, this temptation tends to take its most virulent form in the role by national episcopal conferences. I began an assessment of such conferences last week in On funding (or dissolving) episcopal conferences. Today I take up their tendency to substitute a thirst for political influence for each soul’s thirst for God.

January 15, 2020

Bernie Sanders Staffer Says Trump Supporters Should be Put in Gulags Because They’re Nazis, by Steven Ertelt

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews - The new video from Project Veritas reveals that a paid Iowa Field Organizer for the Bernie Sanders Presidential Campaign, Kyle Jurek, says cities will burn if President Trump wins re-election, and calls for the mass murder of anyone who opposes a socialist revolution… “In Nazi Germany, after the fall of the Nazi Party, there was a s—-ton of the populace that was f—— Nazified,” says Jurek. “Germany had to spend billions of dollars re-educating their f—— people to not be Nazis,” he continues. “We’re probably going to have to do the same f—— thing here. That’s kind of what all Bernie’s whole f—— like, ‘hey, free education for everybody’ because we’re going to have to teach you to not be a f—— Nazi.”

January 15, 2020

Unpacking the Benedict-Cardinal Sarah Book Fiasco, by Edward Pentin

By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register - The controversy regarding the book on the priesthood and priestly celibacy with parts penned by Benedict XVI and Cardinal Robert Sarah has produced plenty of heat but not much light… So what are the hard facts, as far as we know? Perhaps the first place to look is precisely what Cardinal Sarah and Benedict had previously agreed upon concerning the book entitled From the Depths of Our Hearts: Priesthood, Celibacy and the Crisis of the Catholic Church.

January 15, 2020

Trump Campaign Ramps Up Attention To Catholic Voters Ahead Of 2020 Elections, by Mary Margaret Olohan

By Mary Margaret Olohan, Daily Caller - The president has focused significant attention on Evangelical voters but now recognizes that he must devote similar attention to Catholic voters if he wishes to secure the 2020 presidential election, Politico reports. Many members of Trump’s staff are Catholics, including acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, Attorney General William Barr, and White House counsel Pat Cipollone… “Catholics were of secondary importance to the Trump campaign in 2016, behind evangelicals…” ….