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A proposed state constitutional amendment in Kansas that would have declared there was no right to an abortion in the state was rejected Tuesday. It is a dark day where I live in Kansas. Literally. It’s raining for the first time in weeks. But it’s also a sad day because Aug. 3 is the day after the Value Them Both Amendment failed in a statewide vote. The Kansas Catholic Conference went all out to promote the amendment, which sought to restore the right to life in Kansas after the Supreme Court struck it down. Many Catholics (including me) spent the summer working and praying for its success.  It’s terrible that it lost, and despite the great hope I see for what comes next, it left me deflated. But then the Liturgy came through, as it so often does, with wisdom from God to pump me bac...

Listen to this story: In Brazil, a suspect in a burglary, who was hit by a priest’s car in May, died from the consequences of the collision on July 27. Forty-one-year-old Ângelo Nogueira, a drug user, allegedly stole about $7.50 in coins from a rectory on May 5. On May 7, he broke into the house again and took three sweaters and a T-shirt. He was spotted by Father Gustavo dos Santos shortly after he left the place, in the city of Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo, in São Paulo State. Security video showed that the priest’s car chased Nogueira and struck him at the entrance of a parking lot. The car is then seen leaving the area immediately after the incident, with no aid provided to the victim. Nogueira was hospitalized on a handful of occasions due to the consequences of the collision. According to...

Whoa! 🤯 What do you think of this? A video of a Eucharistic host beating like a human heart recently went viral on social media. The video was captured on July 22 at Our Lady of the Rosary parish in Zapotlanejo, a town in the Mexican state of Jalisco, during Eucharistic exposition. Argentinian priest Father Carlos Spahn, who presided over Mass and Eucharistic exposition that day, says he witnessed the event. [See also: Follow ChurchPOP’s Telegram Channel!] He explained the video is authentic, however, he cannot confirm the alleged miracle, because he “does not have the authorization to do it.” Here’s the video below: Milagro en mexico mientras el padre Carlos Spahn exponía el santísimo la hostia empezó a palpitar. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏...

As monkeypox—a disease that the CDC refuses to identify as a sexually transmitted disease, even though it is spread almost exclusively by men who have sex with men—continues to rage through the gay community, the complaints about “government inaction” have already begun. Claiming that the government has not done enough to keep the gay community “safe” from the disease that causes painful genital lesions—and is primarily spread through those lesions—New York Magazine has led the charge claiming that neither the City of New York nor the federal government has done enough. Demanding “more testing” and “more vaccines,” the gay community is calling on the federal government to do more to keep men who have sex with men “safe.” It seems that keeping gay men safe may be more difficult than anyone ...

The novelty of the Catholic Church as viewed or understood by a person with no explicit or implicit faith would argue that Christianity represents a failure in the resuscitation of man because the very being God sent to attempt to save mankind was instead killed by the very people he came to save. And furthermore, why would any person commit to a religion that celebrates supposed success though the depiction of a horrific crucifixion of a man who did not deserve to die a gruesome death? It can be argued that man has not ceased to this day in his revolt against God. A practical example is the attempt to teach religion to a room full of high school students who are telling you; “go ahead, teach me, I dare you.” In many respects this was the attitude that the God made man Jesus Christ encount...

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky ( bio – articles – email ) | Aug 01, 2022 The caustic and always entertaining British novelist Evelyn Waugh observed: It is better to be narrow-minded than to have no mind, to hold limited and rigid principles than none at all. That is the danger which faces so many people today—to have no considered opinions on any subject, to put up with what is wasteful and harmful with the excuse that there is “good in everything”—which in most cases means the inability to distinguish between good and bad. The pseudo-sophisticated resurgent use of “paradigm shifts” in contemporary moral theology undermines orthodox Catholic teaching on intrinsically evil acts, blurring the distinction between good and evil. The Pontifical Academy for Life has released the results of a ...

All ways do not lead to God. Learn his way and be set free. Get to know the real God. If you’re going to reject God, at least reject him for the right reasons. Let me tell you a story about a fictional letter Pope John Paul I wrote to G.K. Chesterton. Here’s what the Pope wrote: What many people fight is not the true God, but the false idea they have made of God. A God who protects the rich, who only asks and demands, who is jealous of our growing prosperity, who spies continuously on our sins from above to give himself the pleasure of punishing us. Dear Chesterton, you know, God isn’t like that. You know that he’s both good and just. The father of prodigal sons, who wishes them all to be not sad and wretched, but great and free and creators of their own destiny. Our God isn’t man’s rival....

We’ve all wondered what people think of us. Do they find our jokes funny? Are our stories fascinating or insufferably pretentious? The truth is: we may never know. As a consolation prize, though, we can all find out exactly what Google thinks of us, no potentially awkward conversation required.  It’s common knowledge that the tech company monitors your browsing habits to paint a picture of who you are, then uses that portrait to show you ads you might be interested in while you search the web, watch videos on YouTube, or find your way home on Google Maps. But what’s not well-known is how easy it is for you to see that profile for yourself and opt out of some or all of the company’s data-collection process. Decide how much you care Google’s data collection is a double-edged sword. On o...

Don’t be put off by the wall of text! Take some time, scroll down, poke around. I’m offering you all the words with the hope that you can see – as is my constant mission – how the past can illuminate the present. First: Who is he? From B16: Belonging to a rich noble family of Naples, Alfonso Maria de’ Liguori [known in English as Alphonsus Liguori] was born in 1696. Endowed with outstanding intellectual qualities, when he was only 16 years old he obtained a degree in civil and canon law. He was the most brilliant lawyer in the tribunal of Naples: for eight years he won all the cases he defended. However, in his soul thirsting for God and desirous of perfection, the Lord led Alphonsus to understand that he was calling him to a different vocation. In fact, in 1723, indignant a...

July 25, 2022 “The most important thing for any Catholic — right now and frankly, at any time in history — is to focus on your spiritual life. That is what’s going to give us the wisdom to deal with the culture and all the problems that beset us. It’s going to give us the understanding, the knowledge, the counsel and the piety that we need today,” said Charlie McKinney, president of Sophia Institute Press for the past decade. “We really focus on producing books and producing content that helps people to deepen their spiritual life.” McKinney told his story in 2014 on “The Journey Home” of converting to the Catholic faith from being a Southern Baptist. Sophia Institute Press, based in Nashua, N.H., publishes books and Crisis Magazine, as well as the Catholic Exc...

Hey everybody, I’m on vacation, and you’re reading The Tuesday Pillar Post. I’ll tell you more about my vacation in just a bit. First, here’s the news: First, Pope Francis is in Canada this week, on a “penitential pilgrimage” among Indigenous people across Canada. This is not the very model of a modern papal pilgrimage — Francis is not focused on meeting with heads of state, or celebrating stadia Masses. There will be some of that. But most of the trip is focused on meeting with the leaders of Indigenous Canadian communities, to whom the pontiff has expressed contrition for the Church’s complicity in the residential school system, by which Canadian government policies forcibly separated Indigenous kids from their families, and stripped them – often – of their language and cultu...