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November 9, 2019

Msgr. Charles Pope: Three Images of a Christian—Which One Are You?

By Msgr. Charles Pope - Consider the commercial below. It says a lot about how we can conceive of Christ and of the desire of some to refashion Him. Perhaps we do well to look at it by analyzing the dramatis personae (cast of characters) and weaving in the plot… As the scene opens, three women come upon a car belonging to one of them. The car has been damaged, and this little crisis sets the stage for the different notions of the sort of savior who is needed. Let’s look at each person in the drama and see what we can learn…

November 9, 2019

The Difference One Racist Made: Margaret Sanger’s World, by Susan Ciancio

By Susan Ciancio, Human Life International - Sanger eventually went to nursing school, then married and had three children. She and her husband became immersed in the bohemian world of Greenwich Village, where they lived. It was at this time that she joined the Women’s Committee of the New York Socialist’s Party and began to advocate for the sexual education of women. Though she never finished nursing school, Margaret began working as a nurse in a poor immigrant section of NYC, where she grew to believe in—and teach—the importance of birth control. She also began to write about these beliefs in a column entitled “What Every Girl Should Know.”

November 9, 2019

Cardinal Burke, Archbishop Aquila Call Catholic Laity and Clergy to Be ‘Faithful Echoes’ of the Church, by Roxanne King

By Roxanne King, Denver Catholic - Last week the Archdiocese of Denver served as a launch-pad for a movement to rally Catholic laity and clergy in rekindling their zeal for holiness and evangelization in response to the controversies and abuse crisis dominating media headlines about the Church.“The Faithful Echo movement … is directed to drawing clergy and the lay faithful in ever closer unity to combat the darkness of the present confusion, error and division in the Church,” Cardinal Raymond Burke told more than 200 laity and priests attending the Faithful Echo Dinner

November 9, 2019

‘Soros Factor’ Revealed in State Attorneys’ Elections, by Chad Groening, Jody Brown

By Chad Groening, Jody Brown, OneNewsNow - According to The Washington Post, the outcomes in three of the DA races "were powered to a significant degree" by George Soros, whose Justice and Public Safety PAC poured nearly $2.1 million into the primary and general election campaigns of those progressive candidates in Fairfax, Arlington, and Loudoun counties. The Post says the winner of the contest in Prince William County didn't receive in-kind contributions from Soros.