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The senators who vote to allow this to continue in America are: Maria Cantwell – Washington Susan Collins -Maine Dick Durbin – Illinois Kirsten Gillibrand – New York Heidi Heitkamp – North Dakota Tim Kaine – Virginia Patrick Leahy – Vermont Ed Markey – Massachussetts Catherine Cortez Masto – Nevada Claire McCaskill – Missouri Bob Menendez – New Jersey Lisa Murkowski – Alaska Patty Murray – Washington Jack Reed – Rhode Island If they had voted as their faith (and their common humanity would dictate) this cruel and horrible practice would have been outlawed. Therefore these fourteen can be blamed...

He was called "the engineer of heaven" for saving a dozen churches from destruction during communist rule in Romania. Civil engineer Eugeniu Iordachescu died on January 4, but he left a lasting legacy on the Bucharest skyline. During the rule of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in the 1980s, thousands of structures were demolished in the Romanian capital. But Iordachescu developed a system to move entire structures that saved many churches and other buildings from destruction.

“Meg is extremely faithful,” a longtime friend tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story. “We pray a lot together...She has had, and especially has now, a very close relationship with God.” Meghan, 37, was baptized into the Church of England in a secret ceremony last spring ahead of her wedding to Prince Harry. And the intimate service, which was a significant nod to Harry’s grandmother, Queen Elizabeth’s role as head of the Church of England, had special meaning for Meghan, as faith is a key pillar for her. “A deep sense of gratitude and humility has guided her,” the friend...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recited a verse from the Bible at the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities conference Wednesday, but verse she shared doesn't even exist, according to theology professors. “And I can’t find it in the Bible, but I quote it all the time, and I keep reading and reading the Bible,” Pelosi said.“I know it’s there someplace. It’s supposed to be in Isaiah. But I heard a bishop say, ‘To minister to the needs of God’s creation is an act of worship.

God may not have a favorite football team; however, Pastor Ernie Madden does. That is him standing by the sign and the Patriots snowman that he built in the above picture. We love how the snowman is wearing a Patriots top hat and scarf. Madden is the pastor at Ashland Community Church in Ashland, New Hampshire and is obviously a fan of the New England Patriots and Tom Brady, a.k.a the GOAT. So much so, that he put the following verse on his church's sign:

Catholic partisans often express opinions that are much more in line with the positions of their political parties than with the teachings of their church. Take abortion (which the Catholic Church opposes), for instance: Among Catholic Republicans and GOP leaners, 55% say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases, identical to the share among all Republicans. At the same time, 64% of Catholic Democrats and Democratic leaners say abortion should be legal in all or most cases — slightly lower than the share for Democrats overall (76%). On balance, however, Catholic Democrats are more likely to favor legal...

On Tuesday, January 22, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered that the spire of the One World Trade Center be lit pink. The reason why? To celebrate the passage of a new law that radically liberalizes abortion in New York State – in some cases allowing abortion up until the moment of birth, permitting non-doctors to perform abortions, and removing recognition of preborn babies older than 24 weeks as potential homicide victims. Gov. Cuomo – who considers himself a Catholic – had the gall to use this self-same building to “celebrate” a profoundly divisive and extreme law that will ensure...

Now that we’re retired, the wife and I like to watch Jeopardy in the afternoon. Recently, just before Jeopardy started, I saw the last few minutes of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. The young lady was challenged with the question, something like: What number and aquatic animal describe the closures in the Book of Revelation? She had narrowed her possible answers down to two: - 5 Manatees - 7 Seals Had she chosen 7 Seals, of course, I wouldn’t have written this.

If you want to understand what happened to the Covington Catholic boys at the Lincoln Memorial — and why things like this will continue to happen — you should read the late cultural critic and theorist Rene Girard. I’m not the first one to say this. Bishop Robert Barron has long been a reader of Girard, and the other day interpreted the event at the Lincoln Memorial in terms of Girard’s theory about the scapegoating mechanism. Barron wrote, explaining this theory:

Bishop Roger Joseph Foys of the Diocese of Covington apologized to Catholic families and the teens who were confronted by a Native American elder and then wrongly accused of racism, saying he was "bullied and pressured" into making a premature statement.

This video analysis shows how Nathan Phillips scans the group of Covington students, spots Nick Sandmann, then does a classic pre-fight 'square up' with Nick, a young boy. This leaves no question that Nathan was the aggressor, in a dramatic display of adult-child bullying. Nathan's friend stands beside him with a camera on Nick's face making the incident look like a set up fishing to provoke a violent reaction.

NEW YORK—According to a new report, unborn babies in New York have adopted a new strategy to help them stay alive under the state's barbaric new abortion laws: identifying as convicted criminals so they can't legally be executed under the state's constitution. Since capital punishment in the state has been banned but abortion is legal pretty much whenever and however you want, unborn babies quickly formulated the survival strategy of identifying as murderers, rapists, and genocidal maniacs. "I now identify as a serial killer indicted on five counts of murder," said one 6-month-old baby, whose mother was considering an abortion....

Reverend John Stowe, the bishop of the Diocese of Lexington, Ky., harshly criticized the Covington Catholic High School boys who were confronted by Indian activists after the March for Life on Jan. 18, stating he was astonished they would wear MAGA hats that represent a president "who denigrates the lives of immigrants." He also stated that "the association of our young people with racist acts and a politics of hate must also become unthinkable."

Halfway through the Tiberias Marathon in Tiberias, Israel, on January 4, Bracha “Beatie” Deutsch thought victory was in the bag. But then she saw another female runner, Israeli marathon record holder Elena Dolinin, far up ahead, and her heart sank. “She is a 2:35 marathoner, and I didn’t think she would slow down,” Deutsch told Runner’s World. “I was disappointed, because my family was all there watching.” Cheering on the sidelines were the 29-year-old’s husband and their five children. If being a mother didn’t make the runner stand out from the rest of the elite field, her running attire—a long-sleeved...

"One the one hand hon-moslims can not stereotype. But I also think the moslem community has to think about how we..." - Obama Video at link

Pope Francis said on Friday it was “senseless and irresponsible” to stigmatize migrants and see all of them as threats to society, weighing in again on one of the most divisive issues in the United States. Francis, who has made migration a key theme of his trip to Panama, spoke to several hundred thousand young people at a religious service on the waterfront of the country’s capital, one of the key events of the Roman Catholic Church’s World Youth Day. “We want to be a church that fosters a culture that welcomes, protects, promotes and integrates; that does not stigmatize,...

Confession and Apology For the past two years, I have defended the press from President Donald Trump's criticism. Having worked at both CNN and Fox News, I know the good hard work so many reporters do to provide us with the news. We have a president who found a way out of going to Vietnam, and we have reporters who rush into war zones, risking their lives to provide accurate coverage of dangerous events.But I must confess I have a harder and harder time resisting the temptation to believe the American political press corps has become the enemy of the...

I saw this ad on Twitter and was a little taken aback, so I naturally shared it with my family. That includes my dad. My dad’s an incredible person in many ways. He’s smart, funny, and kind. He’s a man’s man. He wrestled and was all-conference in football in high school. He won a college scholarship to play football, but messed up both his knees senior year, so he went to tech school instead and learned to run heavy equipment. That’s what he was doing when I was born - running dragline, digging ditches, building roads. Union work. He decided...

Proverbs 8:36 ...he that sins against me wrongs his own soul: all they that hate me love death. Two events occurred in the last few days which give us insight into the heart of progressive liberal America and the future of the USA. These events show us what the Bible calls the "spirit of anti-Christ." The first incident is the Covington Catholic school incident on Friday 18 January. Covington Catholic is a small Kentucky Catholic School which was attending a "Right to Life" rally in Washington D.C. An edited video went viral which appeared to show the kids mocking and...

Brazil’s indigenous affairs department (Funai) has accused an American missionary of exposing an isolated indigenous tribe to disease and possibly death. Steve Campbell, a Christian missionary, entered the area occupied by the Hi-Merimã tribe last month, one of the few dozen tribes in Brazil that has had no contact with the outside world.