1. Newark, N.J. focuses on persecuted Christians.
2. I was in all three cities with Pope Francis last week. I have been announcing, with just a wee bit of hometown pride, that New York won the exuberant welcome award. As in: We wouldn’t shut up (at Madison Square Garden in a particularly relentless way). Pope Francis confirmed this on the plane ride home.
3. Also on the flight home: “I’m not a star, but the servant of servants of God”
4. Russell Hittinger on Pope Francis:
[He has] a very strong social justice message. The liberals did not invent the term social justice. That actually goes back to the Catholic Church of the 19th century.
5. Marriage as a matter of social justice.
6.
The rich and powerful glamorize immorality; the poor and vulnerable bear its costs.
— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) September 28, 20157.
The idea that no choice can be a sin is an … interesting one, theologically speaking. pic.twitter.com/ensVmKMrnH
— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) September 29, 20158.
Complementarity is rooted in a human, social, & even cosmological reality. #WMF2015http://t.co/TnqhKwPIdFpic.twitter.com/ruepO8MoFM
— Humanum (@HumanumIT) September 27, 20159. A quick and easy guide to the Planned Parenthood videos, by Molly Hemingway
10. 5 shocking ways that the Center of Medical Progress edited the videos
11.
Look, this is easy. Put Planned Parenthood abortionists and others appearing in the videos under oath and ask about PP’s organ harvesting.
— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) September 29, 201512. Alternatives to Planned Parenthood: getyourcare.org
(Flashback: “If Planned Parenthood Goes, Where Do Women Go?”
13. What She Saw Changed Her Mind About Getting an Abortion
14. Pope Francis Makes Surprise Stop To Bless Sculpture Symbolizing Catholic Unity With Jews
15. “Women in America run religion.”
PLUS: 15 Archangel things on the feast day of Sts. Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael.