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November 20, 2024

Speaker Mike Johnson’s Response To The Trans Bathroom Fracas In Congress Was Cowardly, by John Daniel Davidson

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist - This shouldn’t be hard or need any clarification. Rep. McBride is a man, and Johnson should have said so plainly... House Speaker Mike Johnson failed to answer a very easy question lobbed at him Tuesday morning. He was asked whether Rep. Sarah McBride, an incoming freshman lawmaker from Delaware who identifies as transgender, is a man or a woman. McBride is a man who presents as a woman, so Johnson’s answer should have been easy: McBride is a man.

November 20, 2024

CatholicVote: Russia Says Ukraine’s Use of American-Made Missiles Signal a ‘New Phase’ in War

By CatholicVote - The Russian government this week warned that it would respond to Ukraine’s use of American-made missiles, okayed late last week by the Biden-Harris administration, in the ongoing deadly war between the two Eastern European nations... “Russia has said that Ukraine’s use of long-range ATACMS missiles against its territory marked a ‘new phase of the Western war’ against Moscow, and has said it will react ‘accordingly,’”... “Ukraine used the US-made missiles to target a military facility in Russia’s Bryansk border region overnight, Moscow said... just days after Washington gave the green light for Kyiv to use the long-range weapons against Russian targets.”

November 20, 2024

Bishop Stowe Accepts Award From Denounced LGBTQ+ Activist Group

By Robert Shine, New Ways Ministry, (Complicit Clergy) - Bishop John Stowe, OFM, Conv., was honored with New Ways Ministry’s Bridge Building Award for his consistent and strong support of LGBTQ+ Catholics... The ceremony honoring Bishop Stowe, who leads the Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky, was held last Friday at Trinity Washington University in Washington, D.C., at which he offered remarks about the state of LGBTQ+ rights in both the Catholic Church and U.S. society. Stowe told attendees that “in this era of polarization, the need for bridges is all the more critical,” and even where relationships have been built ....

November 20, 2024

America’s Pro-Life Movement Readies 2025 Federal- and State-Level Policy Efforts, by Tyler Arnold

By Tyler Arnold, Catholic News Agency - Pro-life advocates plan to push federal- and state-level legislative and policy reforms on abortion when the United States Congress and many state legislatures enter into session in January 2025... Many plans look toward regulating the abortion drug mifepristone, which is used in chemical abortions. According to the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion policy group, chemical abortions accounted for 63% of all abortions in 2023, which is an increase of 10 percentage points from 2020 and more than double what it was in 2014.