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April 30, 2019

Border Patrol Official: Central Americans Entering U.S. With Contagious Health Conditions

By Susan Jones, CNSNews - "You know, yesterday when we were talking with some of the migrants, I asked one woman, I said, why are you here? She said 'asylum, asylum.' She spoke Spanish, and I said 'Oh, well what's happening there? Did they try to hurt you?' She said, well actually, I just want to get opportunity for my daughter. So they are seeing America as just an opportunity for their families. It's not necessarily that they're fleeing.

April 30, 2019

What Is Wrong With Socialism? by Donald DeMarco

By Donald DeMarco, EWTN News - “What is wrong with socialism?” After all, does not socialism embrace the virtues of equality, justice and the fair distribution of wealth?... For the informed Catholic, this question is not difficult to answer since it has been adequately answered in three great encyclicals: Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 Rerum Novarum… Pope Pius XI’s 1931 Quadragesimo Anno… John Paul II’s 1991 Centesimus Annus… All three pontiffs agree that socialism, in general, carries at least a strong impetus toward extreme governmental control, including the confiscation of private property, a disregard for the true nature of the human being……

April 30, 2019

The Church is Waking Up! by Sean Martin

By Sean Martin, The Stream - In the case of abortion, children die when pastors are afraid to speak up and actively seek to rescue those being led away to death… Ken Peters, pastor at Covenant Church Spokane, Washington, sensed God leading him to plant another campus of the church he leads at the Planned Parenthood in Spokane… but the location was a bit unorthodox… This call came during a worship service, and Pastor Peters has been obedient. He planted a church right on the sidewalk outside of Planned Parenthood. The church now holds a worship service one night a month at the Planned Parenthood.

April 30, 2019

No, Non-Believers Are Not Increasing In America, by Glenn T. Stanton

By Glenn T. Stanton, The Federalist - Professor Barry A. Kosmin, director of the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, the man who coined the term “the nones,” expresses frustration that the larger press has not really gotten the story right on what belief group is actually seeing the largest size increase. He told me, “The rise of nondenominational Christianity is probably one of the strongest [religious growth] trends in the last two decades” in the United States… He added that the percentage gain among the “nons,” or nondenoms, is “many times larger” compared to those we have come to know as the nones.