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By M.C. Holbrook, Catholic Exchange - And so, the scene ends with Mary and Joseph, once again, submitting to the law in obedience. Even their act of returning home is an offering on behalf of God’s will. Which brings us to our second lesson: not all our acts of obedience will be hard for us to carry out, nor will they make us miserable. After all, it is certain that as much as it would have been lovely to see friends and family again, Mary and Joseph would have been ready and eager to go home—especially after receiving the sobering news that Simeon had to share.

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - Do you notice something missing? The clerics cite their “fear” that religious services might be disrupted “by aggressive enforcement tactics.” In their rush to place all blame on one side, they fail to notice that in Minnesota, church services already have been disrupted—not by federal enforcement officers, but by the activists who have been opposing them. Those same radical activists indeed might choose to disrupt worship services in Washington, DC, before too long. ...

By Mary Eberstadt, The Catholic Thing - For over sixty years, after all, we have lived under the tyranny of a collective declaration that I am my own, and no one else’s – that I decide matters of life, and the giving, taking, or preventing of life; that I, and no one else, have the right to do with my body whatever I see fit... And this repudiation of the truth that we are not our own can now be judged by its fruits, which are everywhere around us. The declaration that I am my own, the fundamental battle cry of the sexual revolution, has rendered life radically different, and in several respects, worse for us than for any other human beings in history.