Supreme Court rules children of illegal aliens and foreign nationals born in US count as American citizens; Justice Thomas torches SCOTUS for protecting birth tourists and illegal immigrants; SCOTUS allows states to bar trans athletes from girls’ sports; Catholic bishops ask faithful to appeal to US Senate to protect Haitians from deportation; DOJ launches investigation into centimillionaire Neville Roy Singham for funding a network of Marxist groups in US for more than a decade; Trump takes aim at church-state separation; Once strongly Catholic Quebec leads world in assisted dying; Muslim Fulani terrorists kill 28 Christians in central Nigeria; Catholics remember nameless Christians brutally killed by mad Emperor Nero (54 AD – 68 AD) for the fire in Rome; and more —
Supreme Court Strikes Down President Trump’s Executive Order On Birthright Citizenship in 5-4 Decision – Roberts and Amy Coney Barret Side with Liberals
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down President Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship in a 5-4 decision.
Chief Justice Roberts wrote the majority opinion.
“Children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause,” Roberts wrote.
Roberts was joined by Amy Coney Barrett, Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson.
In September, President Trump asked the US Supreme Court to end birthright citizenship.
Several federal judges have blocked President Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order.
According to President Trump’s order, the 14th Amendment is being misinterpreted by the left to give citizenship to ‘anchor babies.’
Read more at the Gateway Pundit
Justice Thomas torches SCOTUS for birth tourists and illegal immigrants
Watch @MichaelARothman
Women’s sports WIN at the U.S. Supreme Court
USCCB issues action alert: ‘Call on the US Senate to protect our Haitian neighbors’
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) asked the faithful to “call on the US Senate to protect our Haitian neighbors” from deportation.
The USCCB’s action alert, issued on June 29, follows Mullin v. Doe. In the 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration has the authority to end temporary protected status (TPS) for Haitians and Syrians whom an earlier Secretary of Homeland Security had permitted to live temporarily in the United States—in the Haitians’ case, since the 2010 earthquake; in the Syrians’ case, since 2012, because of repression under then-President Bashar al-Assad.
The action alert calls for support for S.4814, a bill sponsored by Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) that would require the designation of TPS status for Haiti. The USCCB’s suggested message to senators states:
As a Catholic and your constituent, I urge you to protect the Haitian families who have been relying on temporary protected status by supporting S. 4814. It is simply not possible for hundreds of thousands of people to return to Haiti in a safe and orderly manner at this time.
Because of that, the sudden loss of their legal status and work authorization creates a moral crisis. Many American communities have also been benefiting from the economic and social contributions of these Haitians, especially as healthcare workers and caregivers, and they will be harmed as a result of this situation. Please prevent these families from needlessly being added to the undocumented population.
In a statement issued June 26, the chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on Migration said that “revoking the legal status of hundreds of thousands of people residing in our country creates a moral crisis when returning to their country of origin is not a safe or reasonable option.”
Read more at Catholic Culture
Stephen Miller: Temporary Protected Status is temporary
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DOJ investigating Marxist millionaire Neville Roy Singham over potential financial crimes
The Justice Department has launched a grand jury investigation into centimillionaire Neville Roy Singham for allegedly breaking the law to fund a network of Marxist and other left-wing groups in the US for more than a decade, The Post has learned.
Grand jurors have been empaneled in Manhattan and prosecutors in US Attorney Jay Clayton’s office have fired off subpoenas for bank records to probe allegations of money laundering or other financial fraud, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The grand jury probe into the Connecticut-born, Shanghai-based tech mogul, first reported by Fox News, was begun months ago and authorized by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the source said.
The grand jury probe into the Connecticut-born, Shanghai-based tech mogul, first reported by Fox News, was begun months ago and authorized by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the source said.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has also met with Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon to discuss the investigation. The bank’s philanthropic entity, the GS Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management, allegedly helped funnel Singham’s dollars to US groups.
Read more at the New York Post
Trump calling communism, well, communism
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Bishop Barron sounding alarm about the rise of communist politicians
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DOJ Religious Liberty Commission Report Seeks to Restore Faith in Public Life
Draft report calls to dismantle “separation of church and state” misconceptions, protecting religious institutions from ideological coercion and combating antisemitism through civil rights enforcement
The Department of Justice released the draft version of the Religious Liberty Commission report on June 26 on the premise that American society has wrongly treated religion “not as a protected and valued contribution to public life, but as a problem or annoyance to be managed, restricted, or sidelined.”
The 224-page report, based on testimony from over 100 witnesses, calls for the Department of Justice to issue guidance “clarifying the proper understanding of the Establishment Clause and separation of church and state,” repeal the Johnson Amendment restricting political speech by religious leaders, and guarantee faith-based institutions equal access to federal funding without requiring them to “renounce their religious identity.”
The central argument, religious liberty erosion stems from a fundamental misunderstanding that the Constitution requires religious voices to be silenced, when in fact, the Founders established protections precisely because “religion itself is indispensable to a flourishing society.”
Read more at CROSSCURRENTS; read full Report from Religious Liberty Commission here
Call to pray for world leaders from prominent author/political commentator
See @carolmswain
How Quebec, in a Decade, Came to Lead the World in Assisted Dying
A society once strongly Roman Catholic has rejected the church’s prohibition on euthanasia, with many instead viewing control over one’s death as an individual right.
The wood-paneled wall, surrounded by surfaces in muted white and blue, gave the room the feel of a boutique hotel. A lone bird flew near an iceberg in a framed photograph above a coffee maker, a stereo system and a landline.
But the sofas and armchairs were oriented not toward the wall-mounted TV but toward the medical bed at the center of the room. A large plastic container for used syringes hinted further at the place’s purpose: a facility for medically assisted dying.
The room was inside a new palliative care center in Lanaudière, a region of Quebec where 13 out of 100 people die through assisted death. That is the highest rate in the province, itself the world leader in assisted deaths, according to Canadian and Quebec government reports. Built with money from private donors and run by the provincial government, the center reflected two elements that have propelled Quebec to the top: assisted death’s integration into the public health care system, and its broad public support.
Since Quebec pioneered assisted dying in Canada in 2015, it has fueled a profound social transformation in the French-speaking province. Choosing to die, on one’s own terms and without suffering, is now seen as an individual right in a society that has rejected the Roman Catholic Church’s teaching that euthanasia is a grave sin.
“This is a social phenomenon that has grown exponentially,” said Dr. Louis Daigle, an emergency physician in Lanaudière who has administered 662 medically assisted deaths since 2017. “A lot of people now idealize this way of dying, with dignity, so much so that I think there is a belief that there are now two good ways to die: either suddenly or with medically assisted dying.”
From The New York Times
Government-approved euthanasia procedure turning into horror show
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Pope Leo: A physician should never be allowed to decide of the life of a particular embryo or a particular elderly person
See @CatholicArena
Celebrating a rescued infant in the Venezuelan rubble
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Pastor Among Dozens Of Christians Slain By Muslim Herdsmen [in Nigeria]
Resident Jesse Peter Dukut said villagers were trapped inside their homes as gunmen moved through the community.
A pastor and dozens of Christians were killed in an overnight attack on a Nigerian village, the latest massacre in a region where targeted violence, land conflict, and terrorism have increasingly converged around Christian communities.
The assault began around 2 a.m. on June 22 in Kawel village in Bokkos County, Plateau State, where Fulani herdsmen killed 28 Christians, including Rev. Markus Nyam, pastor of the Church of Christ in Nations, according to Christian Daily International.
Resident Jesse Peter Dukut said villagers were trapped inside their homes as gunmen moved through the community.
“We were inside our houses when the Fulani herdsmen invaded our village,” Dukut said. “If anyone came out of their houses, they were shot at sight. And a sound from any of the houses in the village attracts shooting from the terrorists.”
Dukut said phone and telecom services had been cut, preventing residents from calling security agencies for help. He also said the attackers spoke in Fulani and Hausa and called out the names of Christian leaders, leading him to believe they were being guided during the attack.
Read more at the Daily Wire; read also ‘Fulani terrorists kill 28 Christians in central Nigeria’ at Christian Daily International
Christian attacked by group of Muslims for evangelistic outreach in Uganda
@ChDaily_News
Today is the Memorial of the First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church
See @father_rmv
Prayer on the last Day of the Month of the Sacred Heart
Pray @FGenteroyJr; see also @MariaAngelaGrow
