Category: Politics / Geopolitics

Withholding Communion: Compassion, Not Punishment

Randolph Jason

Withholding Communion: Compassion, Not Punishment By Sylvia M. Olberding  for American Thinker Recently, Steven Colbert talked about the U.S. Catholic bishops denying communion to Catholic politicians as “punishment.”  Many recent headlines use the word “denying” in reference to the U.S. Catholic Bishops, communion, and Catholic politicians supporting issues that go against Church teachings, namely abortion rights. Perhaps a better word is “withholding.”  Withholding communion is a most compassionate act and showers these politicians with the utmost pastoral care and provides them the opportunity to model exemplary leadership.  Likewise, withholding communion…

READ MORE

Working families don’t need universal child care

Randolph Jason

Working families don’t need universal child care by Clare Anne Ath for Washington Examiner Prior to the pandemic, women made up more of the labor force than men, earned more degrees than men, and held more than half of management occupations. All this progress came to a halt when, in the spring of 2020, schools and child care centers across the country began to shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Without access to child care, many working families faced difficult decisions and uncertainty. As a result, 5.1 million mothers in the United States left…

READ MORE

Southern Baptist Convention Calls for ‘Immediate Abolition of Abortion Without Exception or Compromise’

Randolph Jason

Southern Baptist Convention Calls for ‘Immediate Abolition of Abortion Without Exception or Compromise’ By Tré Goins-Phillips for Faith Wire GNN Note – The two messengers from my church voted on this without hesitation. If it were baby seals or elephants or snail-darters it would be a slam-dunk in the secular community as well – no killing. /END During its annual meeting earlier this month, the voting members of the Southern Baptist Convention — known as messengers — passed a resolution calling for the “immediate abolition of abortion without exception or compromise.”…

READ MORE

EU approves report on ‘reproductive health,’ presents abortion as human right

Randolph Jason

EU approves report on ‘reproductive health,’ presents abortion as human right By David McLoone for Life Site News The report qualifies a doctor’s objection to abortion ‘based on personal beliefs’ about the unborn as ‘the denial of medical care.’ A March 25 report “on the situation of sexual and reproductive health and rights in the EU [European Union], in the frame of women’s health” has received the approval of the European Parliament, thereby adopting the report’s framing of abortion as an “essential health service” and a “human right” in a vote Thursday.…

READ MORE