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May 22, 2023

Is Paganism Dead? Or Are We Just Living in Denial? by Dr. Jeff Mirus

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - Yet in every way, the deliberate sacrifice of children to the gods of atheism seems ever more increasingly to dominate our society. The problem is expressed both specifically and generally in Leviticus. Thus: You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God…. Any one of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death…. I myself will set my face against that man…. And if the people of the land do at all close their eyes to that man…then I will set my face against that man and against his clan…. [Lev 18:21; 20:1-5]

May 22, 2023

The Synod of Bishops: RIP, by Fr. Gerald E. Murray

By Fr. Gerald E. Murray, The Catholic Thing - The October Synod will be a meeting of bishops and non-bishops as equals. It is no longer an expression of the “union of the Bishop of Rome with the Bishops whom the Holy Spirit had constituted to govern the Church of God.” As such it poses a grave threat to the proper understanding of the nature of the Church as a hierarchical society composed of the ordained shepherds and the lay faithful they are called to lead... The appointment of non-bishop members to a synod of bishops is like having non-cardinal members in the College of Cardinals.

May 22, 2023

“Orwellian!” FBI Whistleblowers’ Bombshell Testimony Reveals Agency Targets Pro-Life Christians, by Joshua Mercer

By Joshua Mercer, LifeNews - By Joshua Mercer, LifeNews - The House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on Thursday heard testimony from three former FBI agents … “If you’re a parent attending a school board meeting; if you’re a pro-lifer praying at a clinic, or you’re a Catholic simply going to Mass, you are a target of the government, a target of the FBI,” said House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-OH, ahead of the hearing.

May 22, 2023

The Pope, the Prime Minister, and the Elephant in the Room, by David Ayers, Ph.D.

By David Ayers, Ph.D., Crisis Magazine - The pope’s story about his tragicomic encounter with a fiftyish woman who wanted him to bless her “baby”—a dog—certainly colorfully drove home his warnings about the misplaced, upside-down personal priorities among many modern Italians that are contributing to their looming “demographic winter.” Francis has made similar remarks about prioritizing “pets over children” in the past... There were lots of people, lights, and cameras at this remarkable joint presentation—journalists, policy wonks, activists, clerics, and politicians aplenty. So, how did they miss that humongous elephant in the room? That elephant being “the decline of natural marriage.”