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By Stephen Wynne, ChurchMilitant - Cardinal Raymond Burke, former head of the Vatican Supreme Court, is endorsing America's Rosary Coast to Coast prayer campaign... "There is no question that we are living in the most troubled times," Burk declared in a video message to all U.S. Catholics on Thursday. "Fundamental truths about human life about marriage and the family and about the conscience are being called into question by threatening the lives of individuals and of our society.".. "But we are full of courage because we know that our Lord is with us," he added.

By Matt Robinson, MA, Catholic Stand - Why have the emotions earned such a poor reputation? Perhaps, the reason is that the emotions are always present in our vices, and, because of this, we most highly associate emotion with sin. Hatred can lead one to commit sins like racism and prejudice. Anger can lead one to commit sins like murder and road-rage. Despair can lead one to commit sins like suicide and self-loathing. Because some emotions tend to be present while we sin, we sometimes subconsciously (or even consciously) think that the emotions must be dramatically suppressed.

By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register - Nearly 50 seminarians in Honduras have protested against what they say is a widespread and entrenched pattern of homosexual practice in Tegucigalpa’s major seminary… In a letter written to the seminary’s formators… the seminarians asserted “irrefutable evidence” exists that a homosexual network pervades the institution and is being protected by its rector… “Heterosexual seminarians are scandalized and really depressed,” one of the seminarians who drafted the letter told the Register… “Many are thinking about leaving the seminary”

By Hannah Brockhaus, CNA/EWTN News - Saturday Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick from the College of Cardinals, and suspended him from the exercise of any public ministry… Pope Francis accepted Cardinal McCarrick’s resignation from the cardinalate July 28 and applied a suspension ad divinis, which according to canon 1333 in the Code of Canon Law, prohibits him from acts of the power of order and governance and from the exercise of the rights or functions attached to his office… The pope also directed Cardinal McCarrick to observe “a life of prayer and penance in seclusion” until the end of the canonical process against him…