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The crowd gathered in St. Peter’s Square to listen to him was mostly older adults, but we might hope that before the Synod comes to an end, he uses his considerable charisma to convey that same message to young people as well. Because over and above the various debates and the mechanics of the event, that will the measure of whether the Synod is a success or failure.
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🔔Pray the Rosary in October!
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Source: 🔔The Pope’s Urgent Call: pray the Rosary in October!
Synod Report Displays Ignorance About Homeschooling
At the Youth Synod in Rome this week, one of the bishops’ discussion groups made some disappointing and ignorant comments about Catholic homeschoolers.
It’s a sad reminder that, while homeschooling seems to be gaining support from many bishops in the United States, other bishops here and abroad have yet to embrace one of the most promising developments in the Church today. Earnest and faithful homeschooling parents deserve encouragement and not derision from their shepherds.
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What “Future” without Children? – The Catholic Thing
Robert Royal: At the Synod on Youth, there’s much talk about the “future.” But unless young people marry and stop contracepting, what future will there be?
The “future” has been a hot topic at the Synod on Young People. Virtually everyone, bishops and lay people alike, works hard to find reasons to believe that, despite the dismaying statistics about young people turning their backs on Christianity and the mostly tepid stance of most of those who have not left, we should not give into pessimism or, worse, the sin of despair. There’s “hope” – they say – for the “future.”
But there’s a telling omission. Yes, adolescents and young adults represent the immediate future. Still, if they don’t start having children in greater numbers than the generation or two before them, “the future” is going to hit a demographic wall. And not all that far in “the future.”
All of this is connected, of course, with a topic that Archbishop Bruno Forte – author in 2014 of the scandalous passage in the mid-term report at the Synod on the Family about “valuing” homosexual relationships – said yesterday has not been discussed explicitly in the first ten days: Humanae Vitae, whose 50th anniversary the Church is not exactly celebrating, but kind-of-sort-of remembering this year.
How can you talk about marriage, family, and sexuality and not mention the most salient tool of destruction wielded against them all: contraception? Most bishops and even the pope himself avoid the subject as much as possible – for the obvious reason that it automatically puts you at odds with one of the deepest beliefs in the modern world: the right to childless sex. And there are few willing to suffer the shunning and criticism that will bring.
Click here to read the rest of Dr. Royal’s report from Rome . . .
Source: The Catholic Thing
Ouellet vs Viganò: What have we learned? – 12 Oct 2018
California Catholic DailyDear Reader, Our line-up for today includes:
 Bishop SotoSacramento bishop warns of “unauthorized rites”: In a Sept. 25th memo, Bishop Jaime Soto tells priests and parishioners that unauthorized Masses and other sacraments are being celebrated “in houses, halls, parks and other places”  Vandals target Old Mission Santa Barbara again: Pillars were defaced with 3-foot-high graffiti, paint splattered on the front door and walkway; Last year, the statue of St. Junipero Serra was removed after someone poured red paint over it and cut off its head |
Mary can obtain everything from Her Son!
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IS WASHINGTON STATE PRO-LIFE? – Catholic League
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on life and death policies in the state of Washington:
On October 11, Washington State’s Supreme Court unanimously declared that the death penalty was unconstitutional. It cited the “arbitrary and racially based” manner in which the death penalty was invoked as grounds for its ruling.
Does this make Washington State pro-life? After all, its position on the death penalty is shared by the Catholic Church. But to qualify as truly pro-life, it would have to share the Church’s opposition to abortion as well. It does not. Indeed, it is one of the most enthusiastic defenders of abortion in the nation.
Nationally, blacks account for 28% of abortions, even though they are slightly less than 13% of the population. That kind of racial disparity should matter to the elites in Washington state, but it doesn’t—disproportionate racial representation only applies to the death penalty, not abortion.
The following restrictions on abortion are available in the states [source: Guttmacher Institute October 1, 2018]:
- Physician and Hospital Requirements. 42 states require an abortion to be performed by a licensed physician. Washington does not. Some states, 19 of them, require abortions to be performed in a hospital. Washington does not.
- Gestational Limits. 43 states prohibit abortions in almost all instances after a specified point in pregnancy. Washington does not.
- “Partial-birth” Abortion. 20 states ban it. Washington does not.
- Public Funding. 32 states prohibit public funding of abortion in most instances. Washington does not. In fact, it funds abortion under Medicaid.
- Waiting Periods. 27 states require a waiting period, usually 24 hours, before a woman can elect to have an abortion. Washington does not.
- Parental Involvement. 37 states have some kind of parental involvement in a minor’s decision to have an abortion. Washington does not.
- “Choose Life” License Plates: 32 states allow “Choose Life” license plates. Washington does not.
Getting back to the question, “Does this make Washington State pro-life?” Only when it comes to saving the lives of serial rapists, serial killers, and genocidal terrorists. As for the most innocent among us—those who are alive but not yet born—it is one of the most pro-death states in the nation. That makes it a splendid example of liberalism.
