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March 27, 2019

Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis to Work With Lay Advisory Board

By Jonah McKeown, CNA - The Archdiocese of of Saint Paul and Minneapolis is organizing a lay advisory board aimed at bringing input and suggestions from parish councils to the archbishop’s office... Its goal is to help bring parishioners healing after a tumultuous past several years in the archdiocese... Father Michael Tix, archdiocesan liaison for the effort and vicar for clergy and parish services, told CNA in an interview that the archdiocese set up the board in a way that mirrored the existing diocesan presbyteral council.

March 27, 2019

If Non-Catholics Can Be Saved, Why Evangelize? by Steven D. Greydanus

By Steven D. Greydanus, National Catholic Register - Catholics don’t believe that every religion is as good as every other, that all roads lead to God, and so whether one is a Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu or atheist makes no difference as long as we try to lead a good life. But we also don’t believe that only duly baptized members of the Catholic Church can be saved and everyone else is damned... Since the days of the Early Fathers, Catholics have believed both that a) there is no salvation apart from Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church and also that b) some people are saved outside the visible communion of the Catholic Church.

March 27, 2019

How Leftist Ideology Ruins College Students, by Walter E. Williams

By Walter E. Williams, The Daily Signal - Philip Carl Salzman… explains that cancer in a Minding the Campus article, titled “What Your Sons and Daughters Will Learn at University.”… Salzman argues that for most of the 20th century, universities were dedicated to the advancement of knowledge. There was open exchange and competition in the marketplace of ideas. Different opinions were argued and respected…. Most notably in the social sciences, social work, the humanities, education and law, this is no longer the case. Leftist political ideology has emerged.

March 27, 2019

Assume the Left Lies and You Will Discover the Truth: Reflections on the Trump-Russia Collusion Lie, by Dennis Prager

By Dennis Prager, The Stream - From the beginning, I repeatedly said the charge that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to defeat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election was a lie. The president’s description of it as a “witch hunt” was accurate... I regularly acknowledged that I was putting my credibility on the line by stating that it was all a hoax. But how did I know that? After all, I wasn’t privy to any confidential intelligence.