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May 7, 2025

Cardinals Hear Call for ‘Unity of the Church’ at Mass Ahead of Conclave, by Courtney Mares

By Courtney Mares, CNA - Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the 91-year-old dean of the College of Cardinals, presided over the liturgy, underlining the need for unity in the Church. “Among the tasks of every successor of Peter is that of fostering communion: communion of all Christians with Christ; communion of the bishops with the pope; communion of the bishops among themselves,” he said... “The unity of the Church is willed by Christ; a unity that does not mean uniformity, but a firm and profound communion in diversity, provided that full fidelity to the Gospel is maintained,” he added.

May 7, 2025

Daily Scripture Readings and Meditations: I Will Raise You up at the Last Day

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word - John 6:35-40 - 35 Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst. 36 But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. 37 All that the Father gives me will come to me; and him who comes to me I will not cast out. 38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me; 39 and this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up at the last day. ....

May 7, 2025

Judge Blocks School Board From Removing Explicit Books, Saying It’s Unconstitutional to Follow ‘Conservative Values’, by Tyler O’Neil

By Tyler O'Neil, The Daily Signal - Julian Ellis, the school district’s attorney, told The Daily Signal that the district had asked Sweeney to hold an evidentiary hearing so she could review the books herself, yet the judge refused. The board had included segments from the books in its filings, aiming to demonstrate the vulgar and inappropriate material, but the judge dismissed those... Instead, the judge ruled that “the district’s decisive factor in voting to permanently banish the removed books was because the district disagreed with the views expressed in the books and to further their preferred political orthodoxy.”

May 7, 2025

What Rights Do Human Embryos Have? by Stacy Trasancos

By Stacy Trasancos, Catholic Exchange - When President Trump signed an executive order on February 18, 2025 calling for a 90-day policy review and recommendations to lower the cost of IVF, he launched a discussion about the morality of assisted reproductive technology. The Catholic Church has declared this procedure illicit ever since 1897 when scientists first considered extending artificial insemination from livestock to humans. When the first test tube baby, Louise Joy Brown, was born in 1978 in England, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) followed up with Donum vitae (“The Gift of Life”) in 1987.