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October 21, 2019

Pope Francis at Ethnological Museum: ‘Beauty Unites Us’, by Courtney Mares

By Courtney Mares, Catholic News Agency - Pope Francis said that in the museum one should feel that God’s art has the same value and is treated and preserved with the same passion that is reserved for Renaissance masterpieces or for Greek and Roman sculptures… “Since works of art are the expression of the spirit of peoples … one must always look at each culture, at the other, with an open mind and with benevolence,” he said.

October 21, 2019

Vatican Has at Least a Dozen More Allegations of Boys and Seminarians Sexually Abused by McCarrick, by Doug Mainwaring

By Doug Mainwaring, LifeSiteNews - “In an interview, an accuser told The Washington Post that many of the boys knew one another. They often would travel together with McCarrick on fundraising trips to churches and the homes of donors nationwide, where the abuse allegedly would occur,” wrote Boorstein… “It wasn’t until late last year, however, after allegations involving two other boys became public, that the man said he and other accusers contacted officials.”… Victim: ‘We came forward to defend the truth ... to defend the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ.’

October 21, 2019

Louisiana Could be First Abortion-Free State if SCOTUS Upholds Pro-Life Law, Liberal Media Goes Nuts, by Kyle Drennen

By Kyle Drennen, LifeNews - On Friday, CBS This Morning was fearful of pro-life legislation passed in Louisiana that would require abortion doctors have admitting privileges to hospitals. The coverage sounded the alarm about the move potentially “regulating abortion out of existence” in the state and fretted over the upcoming Supreme Court decision that would determine whether the new law violated Roe v. Wade… “CBS News has learned that Louisiana could become the first state in the country without access to abortion as soon as next year,” co-host Gayle King proclaimed at the top of the segment

October 21, 2019

The U.S. Bishops and Vatican Heartburn, by Russell Shaw

By Russell Shaw, The Catholic Thing - And indeed that list of ten bishops nominated by their peers for the top offices in the bishops’ conference will be probed for its meaning by people who’ve been following the twists and turns in the relationship between Rome and the Church in the United States... But the list’s most striking feature isn’t the names that are there but the names that aren’t. Missing are the three members of the American hierarchy generally regarded as closest to Pope Francis – Cardinals Blase Cupich of Chicago and Joseph Tobin of Newark, and Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego.