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September 25, 2019

Cdl Marx: ‘No Stop Sign’ From Pope Francis for Our German Synodal Path on Celibacy, Sexual Morality, by Maike Hickson

By Maike Hickson, LifeSiteNews - Speaking about his visit and conversations in Rome which ended on September 20, the President of the German Bishops' Conference and archbishop of Munich-Freising insisted that they have been “throughout positive and encouraging.”… “There is no stop sign,” explained Marx, “it was a constructive encounter” with Ouellet and the Pope, so that “I cannot see that the synodal path now somehow would be endangered.”… That is to say, Pope Francis did not tell Cardinal Marx to stop a project that plans to question the Church's …

September 25, 2019

Trump Administration Tells UN: There is No International Right to Abortion, by Micaiah Bilger

By Micaiah Bilger, LifeNews - The Trump administration is encouraging countries across the world to stand up for the rights of unborn babies by opposing radical pro-abortion policies at the United Nations… In a letter leaked to the Guardian and reportedly signed by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, the United States urged countries to join a “growing coalition” in opposing the “harmful” pro-abortion agenda… The Guardian, a pro-abortion news outlet, described the letter as an attempt to “rollback women’s rights.” But abortion appears to be the real issue of concern.

September 25, 2019

The Wars of Religion Are Only Beginning, Chilton Williamson, Jr.

By Chilton Williamson, Jr., Crisis Magazine - Today, the field is even more diverse. The rival combatants belong to the innumerable religions that have arisen in the vacuum left by the decline of Christianity. Now we must contend with all manner of secularist, individualist, identitarian, and globalist. And, unlike us, they all have a sort of home-field advantage. They’re the natural flora and fauna of a world where various cultures and faiths have been brought into close proximity…

September 24, 2019

Cardinal Sarah’s Cri de Coeur: The Catholic Church Has Lost Its Sense of the Sacred, by Edward Pentin

By Edward Pentin, EWTN News - (Sarah) I wanted to open my heart and share a certainty: The profound crisis that the Church is experiencing in the world and especially in the West is the fruit of the forgetting of God. If our first concern is not God, then everything else collapses. At the root of all crises, anthropological, political, social, cultural, geopolitical, there is the forgetting of the primacy of God. As Pope Benedict XVI said (on) Sept. 12, 2008, “The ‘quaerere Deum’ — ‘searching for God,’ the fact of being attentive to the essential reality of God is the central axis on which all civilization and culture is built.