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August 15, 2023

Trump, His Lawyers, Others Indicted by Grand Jury in Fulton County Over President’s Questioning of 2020 Election Case, by Al Perrotta

By Al Perrotta, The Stream - As long expected, a Grand Jury under the control of Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis has indicted former Pres. Donald Trump and 18 others over Trump’s questioning of the 2020 election results in Georgia. An election officially decided by a scant 11,779 votes... This is the fourth time Donald Trump has been indicted since announcing he was running in 2024, and the second case involving Trump’s efforts to challenge the 2020 Election.

August 15, 2023

Elon Musk and the Reproductive Revolution, by Samantha Stephenson

By Samantha Stephenson, Public Discourse - What the sexual revolution began by upsetting gender roles and obscuring the necessary link between marriage and procreation, the reproductive revolution continues, shattering our conceptions of motherhood and fatherhood and severing the bond between parents and children... Hailed as Time Magazine’s Person of the Year 2021, billionaire entrepreneur and investor Elon Musk has revolutionized the way we do business. Yet as the father of ten children with three different mothers via multiple different means (including IVF and surrogacy), Musk is also revolutionizing the way we build families.

August 15, 2023

Fr. Jerry Pokorsky: Awesome and Extraordinary

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture - Despite conventional wisdom, man has never been able to control the winds and the sea. The account of Jesus walking on the water confirms His divinity after the miraculous multiplication of the loaves and evokes the response of faith. The stroll of Jesus on the turbulent waters offers a variety of practical religious lessons... “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil; for thou art with me.” (Ps. 23:4)

August 15, 2023

Reflections on the Assumption, by John M. Grondelski

By John M. Grondelski, The Catholic Thing - Though it was only in 1950 that the Feast of the Assumption was defined by Pope Pius XII, Catholics have believed that “having completed the course of her earthly life, the Blessed Virgin Mary was taken body and soul to heaven”... High Mariology focused on Mary’s uniqueness. The Assumption was the special privilege of the one who was immaculately conceived (another ecumenical stumbling block). The body of the sinless woman who bore the Body of Christ could not suffer corruption.