LOOP: DOJ launches investigation of Pennsylvania dioceses
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| FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19 |
| DOJ TO INVESTIGATE DIOCESES IN PA The Department of Justice has served subpoenas to several dioceses in Pennsylvania regarding the transporting of minors across state lines to abuse them and the production or distribution of illegal pornography. Now that there’s a federal investigation, it raises the possibility that similar investigations could be launched in other states. READ |
| MUELLER AFTER MIDTERMS FBI special counsel Robert Mueller will present findings from his Russian investigation, but he’ll do that after the midterm election. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is reportedly pressuring Mueller to wrap up his investigation. READ |
| DODGING STATE LAWS Journalist Margot Cleveland discovered something almost buried in a 34-page opinion from a federal judge: The Obama administration knowingly transported pregnant minors in federal custody to New Mexico to obtain abortions and circumvent parental consent laws in neighboring states. READ |
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| HOUSE 2018 If you wanted two House seats to provide you a microcosm of the political changes going on in our country, you’d be hard pressed to find a better example than the rural 8th District and the suburban 3rd District in Minnesota. READ |
| DIGITAL BLACKLIST Twitter locked LifeSiteNews out of their Twitter account for a fact-based post that mentioned that HIV, syphilis, and gonorrhea is rising amoung homosexuals. The tweet in question was sent over 4 years ago. “Twitter is now trying to force news agencies to report only what is acceptable to their personal, biased views and shutting down balanced, factual reporting on the homosexual issue.” READ |
| FOOLING VOTERS Undercover video suggests that Senator McCaskill, D-MO, is lying to Catholic voters. READ |
| YOUTH SYNOD “No synod has the authority to change core Christian teachings; nor does any Pope. In matters of interpretation, the unstated struggle in the 2018 synod revolves around Catholic sexual morality.” -Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia. READ |
| POP CULTURE AND VOTING Elle magazine used a fake Kim Kardashian and Kanye West gossip story in order to get their readers to register to vote. The trick did not go over well some readers. “This is condescending. People can care about more than one thing at once!” said Erin Strecker. READ |
| JIM TOWEY TO RESIGN Jim Towey, president of Ave Maria University, will be stepping down on June 30, 2020, at the end of his contract. The announcement came about six weeks after Towey published a controversial statement attacking “so-called conservative Catholics” who agreed with Archbishop Carlo Vigano’s August 22 letter critical of Pope Francis. READ |
| MEDIA BIAS The movie Gosnell makes fools of the media even more than the actual Gosnell trial did. READ |
| SAINT OF THE DAY Isaac Jogues and his companions are popularly known as the North American martyrs. Over a period of years, these eight Jesuits worked among the Hurons, bringing many into the Catholic faith. They labored in what would become the northeastern United States and eastern Canada. READ |
| DAILY READINGS “Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.” (Ps 33:12) READ |
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