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June 10, 2019

Msgr. Charles Pope: The Spirit of the Lord Filled the Earth – A Homily for Pentecost

By Msgr. Charles Pope - What a wondrous and challenging feast we celebrate at Pentecost! A feast like this challenges us because it puts to the lie a lazy, sleepy, hidden, and tepid Christian life. The Lord Jesus said to the apostles, I have come to cast a fire on the earth (Luke 12:49). This is a feast about fire, a transformative, refining, purifying fire that the Lord wants to kindle in us. It is a necessary fire, for as the Lord first judged the world by fire, the present heavens and the earth are reserved for fire.

June 10, 2019

Patients’ Rights Advocate Wesley J. Smith: Human Exceptionalism Is Backbone of Civilization

By Joseph O’Brien, National Catholic Register - How did you develop the idea of human exceptionalism in your writings over the years?... Human exceptionalism is more than just the sanctity of human life. A lot of people wonder why I don’t just use that term. But it’s actually more than that. There are two sides of this concept that are important. First, there is the unique value of human life and the indisputable fact that there has never been another species in the known universe like human beings. The difference in us is moral not biological. For example, it isn’t our opposable thumb that gives us unique value. That’s not a moral difference; that is a biological difference.

June 8, 2019

Evangelicals to Trump: On LGBT Issue, ‘You’ve Got to Pick a Side’, by Chris Woodward

By Chris Woodward, OneNewsNow - "Mr. President, you can't play it both ways." That's the message to Donald Trump from a conservative evangelical leader when it comes to LGBT Pride Month… Speaking Thursday on American Family Radio, Dr. Michael L. Brown took issue with President Trump's recent tweets acknowledging LGBT Pride Month… "I wrote an article saying, 'Mr. President, don't do this. You're going to alienate the people most important to you and you're not going to win over the gay and lesbian community…'"

June 8, 2019

Vatican All But Wipes Out Conservative Order of Nuns for ‘Too Much Prayer’, by Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, LifeSiteNews - All but five of the 39 Little Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Redeemer, a conservative French religious order, have been relieved of their vows by the Vatican after refusing to submit to a group of Vatican-appointed commissioners led by a habitless liberal nun who wanted to impose “modern orientations” on the group, in the sister’s words… The 34 nuns, who dress in traditional habits and care for the disabled and elderly in four different nursing homes, have been asked to relinquish their facilities and their religious dress now that they are no longer considered members of their institute. The fate of the nursing homes and their residents is now in question.