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January 22, 2019

What Did This Year’s March for Life Really Look Like?

By Josh M. Shepherd, The Stream - On Friday, an estimated 250,000 people braved winter temperatures in Washington, D.C. to rally together at the 46th annual March for Life… Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen made a surprise appearance at the rally. “We gather here because we believe as our Founders did,” said Pence, as the crowd cheered and waved pro-life signs. “That we are, all of us, born and unborn, endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights… “First among these rights is the right to life.”

January 22, 2019

Fr. Ed Broom: 10 Ways Creation Can Move Us to Prayer & Gratitude

By Fr. Ed Broom, OMV, Catholic Exchange - Let us always begin with a keen awareness of the glory, greatness, and love of God as Creator in our own person. Never should we forget our destiny and our dignity that flow from God’s loving kindness and abundant mercy... You were created in the image and likeness of God. Then, as a result of God’s infinite bounty, He endowed you with one of the greatest gifts: the Sacrament of Holy Baptism. From this you entered into a deep and intimate union with the Trinitarian Family—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In all truth you are loved infinitely by God.

January 22, 2019

POLITICS: Sex, Lies, and Videotape — A Week in the Culture War, by Dov Fischer

By Dov Fischer, American Spectator - We are embroiled in the fight for our lives. The secret to America’s greatness has been and is our culture. More than fighting ISIS in Syria or investigating the now-discredited Steele Dossier for two years, our nation’s future will rest on whether we can protect the Judeo-Christian culture that built this country and that continued making it the greatest nation humans ever created... We are a good people. We also are a normal people. Our norms stem from values that trace to Holy Scripture, to ten Divine pronouncements that the Bible records at Mount Sinai, to the expanded values that derive from those recorded declarations....

January 21, 2019

BRAVO! Bishop Writes Open Letter to N.Y. Gov.: Mr. Cuomo, Do Not Build This Death Star.

By Most Rev. Edward B. Scharfenberger, Bishop of Albany - Although in your recent State of the State address you cited your Catholic faith and said we should “stand with Pope Francis,” your advocacy of extreme abortion legislation is completely contrary to the teachings of our pope and our Church. Once truth is separated from fiction and people come to realize the impact of the bill, they will be shocked to their core. By that time, however, it may be too late to save the countless lives that will be lost or spare countless women lifelong regret.