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July 4, 2019

The Fourth of July and St. John Paul II: A Polish Pope With a Heart for the US, by Paul Kengor

By Paul Kengor, National Catholic Register - Every Fourth of July, the United States commemorates its Founders’ dedication to our unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness — rights endowed by our Creator… One person who greatly respected what those Founders did was a Polish pope, St. John Paul II… John Paul II expressed that admiration a number of times, including on U.S. soil… “Every human being living on earth is a member of a civil society,” said the Pope. “Each one of you, distinguished ladies and gentlemen, represents a particular state, system and political structure, but what you represent above all are individual human beings … each of them a subject endowed with dignity as a human person.”

July 3, 2019

Tactics Catholic Evangelists Should And Shouldn’t Use, by Marcel LeJeune

By Marcel LeJeune, Catholic Missionary Disciples - I recently ran across an essay which may be one of the most influential pieces of writing in the last 30 years. I heard about it previously, but had not read it until last week. After several readings, I concluded that to modern ears, it sounds like someone is writing satire. But, it isn’t. Rather, the essay was written in 1987 about how to “desensitization of the American public concerning gays and gay rights”. What is amazing is how the strategy were perfectly implemented…

July 3, 2019

Justice Thomas: ‘SCOTUS Must Face Abortion Decisions’, by Mat Staver

By Mat Staver, Christian Newswire - Justice Clarence Thomas challenged the justices to confront the realities of what the Supreme Court "has wrought" through abortion rulings after it declined Friday to revive Alabama's ban prohibiting dilation and evacuation (D&E) abortion… Justice Thomas joined his colleagues in deciding not to hear West Alabama Women's Center v. Thomas Miller, but he said the Court eventually must face the consequences from its past abortion decisions. The justice said that it is "implausible" that the Constitution would protect the dismemberment of a living child.

July 3, 2019

Fr. Shenan J. Boquet: Before and After the Pill: Its Redefinition of Human Sexuality and Impact on Society

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet, Human Life International - It truly is hard to overstate the impact of the pill on our world. As Evangelical Pastor Albert Mohler observes in writing about the death of Rosenkranz, the invention of the pill is truly one of those rare events in history, the consequences of which are so seismic that it constitutes a dividing line – before the pill, and after the pill. Only in the 1960s, for the first time in human history, did humans widely have access to a relatively reliable method of separating sex from procreation. And, as Mohler observes, “once that separation took place, you basically redefined human sexuality.”