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April 8, 2020

Salvation by Faith or by Works? James and Jude Speak, by Dr. Jeff Mirus

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - But God’s purpose in creating us is not completed by justification but by bringing those who are willing into a union of Love with Himself. The sacrifice of Christ tells us only about God’s love—not our own! Consequently, God wills that we be joined to Christ’s body on earth to live ever more fully in Christ, growing in grace as we learn God’s will and develop the habit of following it, for He “desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Tim 2:4). For most of us, self-evidently, this is not the work of a moment.

April 8, 2020

Trump: ‘We Are Going to Look Into’ Defunding Pro-Abortion World Health Org – Live COVID-19 Updates, by Claire Chretien

By Claire Chretien, LifeSiteNews - At the White House’s daily coronavirus briefing today, which is still going on, Trump signaled that he is open to the idea of defunding the WHO, a pro-abortion U.N. entity with suspicious ties to communist China… “They seem to err always on the side of China and we fund it, so I want to look into it,” he said. .. A reporter pressed him, “Is it time to freeze [U.S.] funding to the WHO during a pandemi?”… “No, maybe not, I am not saying that I am going to do it, but we are going to look at it,” Trump replied.

April 7, 2020

Millions in Vatican Assets Seized, by Bradley Eli

By Bradley Eli, M.Div., Ma.Th., ChurchMilitant - Pope Francis is establishing an emergency fund to supposedly aid victims of the Wuhan virus. However, savvy Catholics know the Vatican often misdirects funds — as has been in the news frequently — even as recently as two days ago… This past Friday a Maltese court ordered $32 million in assets belonging to the Vatican Bank be seized… The Vatican Bank's official name is the Institute for Religious Works, and in this case, the so-called religious works amounted to reneging on financial obligations with real estate and money firms that dated back to the final weeks of Pope Benedict XVI's papacy.

April 7, 2020

Evidence From Wuhan’s Morgues, Crematoriums Suggests COVID-19 Deaths 20 Times Higher Than Official Count, by Steven Mosher

By Steven Mosher, LifeSiteNews - In January, people in Wuhan began dying of the novel coronavirus. Not long thereafter, disturbing pictures began to leak out of China showing hospital hallways crowded with the bodies of the dead, and vans loaded with body bags heading toward crematoria. Yet the rapidly rising death toll these pictures suggested was not reflected in the official death toll, which remained puzzlingly low.