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June 12, 2019

Dozens of Business Leaders Advocate Abortion Access: ‘Don’t Ban Equality’, Mary Margaret Olohan

By Mary Margaret Olohan, Daily Signal - The National Abortion Rights of America League released a statement expressing gratitude. NARAL, Planned Parenthood, and the American Civil Liberties Union led the effort to secure the business leaders’ support… “We are grateful and inspired to have so many business leaders standing with us proudly and publicly to oppose these dangerous, unprecedented attacks—raising the alarm about the chilling effect on their employees and the communities where they do business,” said Planned Parenthood President and CEO Leana Wen.

June 12, 2019

We’re Facing Civil War, Because We Don’t Agree on What America Is About, by Michael Liccione

By Michael Liccione, Ph.D., The Stream - We’re facing civil war. The mutual enmity grows daily. Read the news. Listen to party leaders. Just look at your Facebook feed. Where does this come from? Red and blue America no longer agree on what America is about. There’s no consensus about the philosophical and moral premises of the Union… If that’s true, we can’t just muddle through. We must now ask: What kind of polity are we going to be? What kind of nation? What kind of people? Because if we don’t ask, and answer it well, we may find ourselves fighting each other.

June 12, 2019

As Bishops Gather in Baltimore, Prosecutors (in 20 States) Step Up Scrutiny of Church

AP, By Juliet Linderman, Garance Burke and Martha Mendoza - Hundreds of boxes. Millions of records. From Michigan to New Mexico this month, attorneys general are sifting through files on clergy sex abuse, seized through search warrants and subpoenas at dozens of archdioceses… They’re looking to prosecute, and not just priests. If the boxes lining the hallways of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s offices contain enough evidence, she said, she is considering using state racketeering laws usually reserved for organized crime… For decades, leaders of the Roman Catholic Church were largely left to police their own. But now, as American bishops gather for a conference to confront the reignited sex-abuse crisis this week, they’re facing the most scrutiny ever from secular law enforcement.

June 12, 2019

Why I’m Not So Quick to Judge Jonathan Morris for Leaving the Priesthood

By Steve Skojec, OnePeterFive - For people who were not subject to the kind of vocational pressure the Legionaries produced, what Morris is doing (and my sympathy for it) likely doesn’t make much sense. But it is critical to understand that the Legionaries were merciless in their recruitment techniques. They laid on the guilt so thick, and in my personal experience, they played on my scruples and my desire to do God’s will to such a degree that I wound up spending probably half a dozen years in a state of near constant anguish. And after I left, they backstabbed me and tried to destroy my reputation.