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EDITORIAL: For Catholics, These Aren’t Ordinary Times – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

EDITORIAL: For Catholics, These Aren’t Ordinary Times

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The Editors, National Catholic Register, June 17, 2025

EDITORIAL: The week that followed the Church’s birthday was one of tumult and terror.

In liturgical terms, Catholics bade a cheerful goodbye to the Easter season following the celebration of Pentecost Sunday on June 8 and entered into liturgical Ordinary Time.

But in secular terms, there’s nothing ordinary about the events that have since taken place. Instead, over the course of one of the most depressing single weeks in recent memory, the world has experienced an extraordinary eruption of turmoil and violence both nationally and internationally.

In the U.S., California remains dangerously mired in the protests and riots that began on June 6, targeted against the arrests of illegal immigrants by federal law enforcement officials. While this destructive climate of violent resistance against the enforcement of national immigration law has been centered in Los Angeles, it has already boiled over into other parts of California and into similarly enforcement-unfriendly jurisdictions in other states. …

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