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July 5, 2019

Magisterial Liberalism, Ed Condon

By Ed Condon, First Things - Unmoored from concepts like Natural Law—which provided a common societal bedrock in previous centuries—the true, the good, and the right are now adrift, blown by the ever-stronger winds of legal positivism into whatever harbor awaits them. For a growing number of people, the Supreme Court’s decisions now make moral truths. Going beyond protection of common freedoms, they define the goods that underpin them.

July 5, 2019

Deacon Keith Fournier: Our National Independence Requires Our Dependence On God

By Deacon Keith Fournier, Catholic Online - As we reflect upon the Declaration of Independence this weekend we need to remember that our forebears were not declaring their independence from Divine Providence. Rather, they were trusting in the primacy of the Governance of God over their own lives and their noble undertaking… They sought independence from a monarchy which had become tyrannical precisely because it had forgotten the implications of the primacy of Divine Providence. The principles set forth in that Declaration were a rallying cry which called forth extraordinary sacrifice.

July 5, 2019

US Bishop Demands Investigation Into Viganò’s Latest Accusations of Vatican Sex-Abuse Cover-Up

By Dorothy Cummings McLean, LifeSiteNews - An American Catholic bishop is calling for an investigation into a Vatican whistleblower’s most recent allegations concerning the Vatican and Pope Francis covering up of clerical sexual abuse… Bishop Joseph Strickland, the ordinary of Tyler, Texas linked on Twitter to a recent LifeSiteNews article containing material cut from an interview Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò gave the Washington Post… “Faithful Catholics who believe in the Eucharist & pray the rosary need to demand an investigation of this & a clear reporting of the truth,” Strickland tweeted.

July 5, 2019

US Bishops’ Agency Doubles Down on $750,000 Grant for Pro-LGBT Org, by Michael Hichborn

By Michael Hichborn, Church Militant - A week and a half ago, The Lepanto Institute published an article illustrating the rampant promotion of homosexuality and transgenderism by an organization called the Ignatian Solidarity Network (ISN)… The USCCB’s anti-poverty program, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), is providing a strategic grant of $750,000 to ISN over the next three years… Alexandra Carroll, the USCCB's communications manager for social mission, responded by claiming that ISN had not violated Catholic teaching…