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March 2, 2019

Protect Life Rule Is Good News for America, by Star Parker

By Star Parker, The Patriot Post - The Trump administration has taken another critically important step in strengthening the moral health of our nation, and hence our future... The Department of Health and Human Services has issued the Protect Life Rule, stopping the flow of Title X federal funds to family planning clinics that perform abortions or do abortion referrals... It also requires that clinics receiving Title X funds be “physically and financially” separate from any entity providing abortions... This puts a stop to organizations like Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, from claiming that, although they perform abortions, Title X funds they receive are used for other purposes.

March 2, 2019

St. John of Avila: Humility is the Key to Our Lenten Preparations

By St. John of Avila, Catholic Exchange - May God bless you during this Lent and grant that you may receive the ashes upon your forehead at the beginning of this holy season with such fitting dispositions as to preserve constantly that holy humility in your heart. He to whom God gives light to understand and to sorrow for the state he was in while he lived apart from his Creator is delivered from the total blindness of pride and is made capable of receiving all fitting spiritual graces.

March 2, 2019

Pope St. John Paul II: Saint Joseph Continues in His Role as Protector of the Body of Christ (A Homily)

By Pope St. John Paul II - The word of God which the liturgy offers us on today's Solemnity of St. Joseph is very rich. It presents to us the words of the Gospel of St. Luke but, at the same time, it draws from the great treasury of the Old Testament, in particular from the Second Book of Samuel and the Book of Psalms. There is an intimate bond between the Old and the New Testament, which is illustrated clearly and profoundly by St. Paul in the passage from the letter to the Romans proclaimed a short while ago.

March 2, 2019

Weekend Read: Francis Allies Reveal Their Plans for Revolutionary Change, by Julia Meloni

By Julia Meloni, Crisis Magazine - Meanwhile, the synodal machine prepares to churn out revolution on the mafia’s other “knots,” including the “shortage of ordained ministers,” the “role of woman” in the Church, and the “need to revive ecumenical hopes.” Shortly before the 2013 conclave, Murphy-O’Connor said the issue of ordaining married men to the priesthood “very well might come up,” though it wouldn’t be “first on the agenda” (21:38). Now, Pope Francis has said he’s “open” to the practice—presaging the agenda of this year’s Amazon synod.