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USA: Surrogacy is an Injustice to All Involved, Bishop Barron Says in Support of Pope Francis - ZENIT - English  https://zenit.org/2024/01/10/usa-surrogacy-is-an-injustice-to-all-involved-bishop-barron-says-in-support-of-pope-francis/?eti=12984  USA: Surrogacy is an Injustice to All Involved, Bishop Barron Says in Support of Pope Francis Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life, and Youth, issued this reflection in support of the Holy Father’s recent remarks to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See   (ZENIT News / Washington, 01.10.2024).- “Pope Francis strongly condemned the practice of surrogacy calling it ‘a grave violation of the dignity of the woman and the child.’ He emphasized that a child is a gift and as such can ‘never (be) the basis of a commercial contract.’  Surrogacy represents the commodification and instrumentalization of a woman’s body, treating her as a ‘carrier’

  Why We Should Fight https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/why-we-should-fight?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=novashare via @CrisisMag

  Be a Pell https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/be-a-pell?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=novashare via @CrisisMag The signature of our time  is the betrayal of the small by the powerful. Bureau thugs with mammoth government backing surveil Catholic families; protestors fester in prison for years without a trial; bishops are stripped from their flock without canonical justification. And the man who should most have our backs, the man who has charge over God’s little ones, instead undermines the Faith and honors our antagonists in the Vatican. It’s no wonder we feel the need of a strongman.  George Pell was such a one, a colossus literally and figuratively. At 6 feet, 4 inches, Pell was commanding in physical stature alone, and his intellect and courage only magnified his eminence.  The hard loss of Cardinal Pell on January 10, one year ago, came only days after Pope Benedict’s death. It felt as if God was systematically removing the very people we hoped might

 The Holy Catholic Church and Christian Culture, From The Foundation of Christendom by H. Belloc,   The Holy Catholic Church and Christian Culture, From The Foundation of Christendom by H. Belloc, The Holy Catholic Church and Christian Culture, From The Foundation of Christendom by H. Belloc, We must begin by laying down as a historical fact not to be removed by affection one way or the other, that the conversion of the Roman Empire was a conversion to what was called by all our ancestry and what is still called by those with any historical sense The Catholic Church. The Empire was not ‘converted’ to what modern men mean when they used the word ‘Christianity’. The phrase is continually used and as continually corrupts the historical judgement of those who use it and those who hear it. In the ears of modern youth, especially in societies which have lost the Catholic Culture, the word ‘Christianity’ means vaguely, “That which is common in various sects, opinions and moods inherited in