New push for Senators to pass the SAVE Act; 300 Catholic leaders including 15 bishops ask Senate to reject ICE funding; Essayist: Why Bishops Can’t Afford to Close the Border; Former pastor of invaded Minneapolis church: ‘It’s Christ or Chaos’; Ben Carson: Patients should never fear political bias in healthcare; Major nurses union holds secretive training sessions to ‘Fight ICE’; Catholics celebrate the Feast of Candlemas; and more —
Patriot urges voters to phone Senators to demand they pass the SAVE Act
Watch @JoelOsteenQ17
Nicki Minaj lends her support to the SAVE Act
See @NICKIMINAJ
Nearly every major democracy requires voter ID
See @ArthurMacwaters
Trump and sons consider settling $10B lawsuit against IRS
See @FoxNews
Peaceful arrest of hundreds of aliens in WV proves chaos in Minnesota is manufactured
See @FDRLST
South Dakota shows Minnesota how it’s done
See @FDRLST
‘Christ or Chaos’: Former Pastor of Invaded Minneapolis Church Has a Message for America
Joe Rigney, a pastor who helped to launch Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, warned the nation that the protests at the congregation were a harbinger of a spiritual crisis for America as a whole. …
In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Rigney cautioned that there is “escalating violence on the left of normal Christian people, and I just want to underscore that piece of it,” …
“This is not a political church. These are normal, Bible-believing evangelicals,” he said.
Rigney identified the issue as a cultural rot that can only be fixed with the gospel of Jesus Christ. …
The two options for America, according to Rigney, are indeed “Christ or chaos.”
Read more at The Western Journal
Catholic journalist explains attacks on Christian churches
Watch at Michael Knowles
Hillary Clinton slams MAGA’s ‘attack’ on empathy
See @FDRLST; find Hillary Clinton’s essay ‘MAGA’s War on Empathy’ at The Atlantic (under partial paywall)
Archbishop Sheen on the importance of Faith
See @FultonSheen
300 Catholic leaders including 15 bishops ask Senate to reject ICE funding if no reforms
The 300 Catholic leaders are asking that Congress approve protections for migrants in any funding bill to prioritize family unity and alternatives to detention …
[In a letter] Catholic leaders, which includes Santa Fe, New Mexico, Archbishop John C. Wester and Seattle Archbishop Paul D. Etienne among the signatories, asked the Senate to oppose ICE funding for similar reasons: opposition to Trump’s mass deportation initiative.
“Catholic social teaching affirms that the family is the basic unit of society, willed by God and deserving of protection in law and public policy,” the letter reads. “Recent immigration enforcement actions carried out under DHS authority have heightened our concern that this fundamental principle is being compromised. In many communities, enforcement practices have resulted in families being separated with little warning or recourse.”
Read more at EWTN News
An NGO with a Steeple: Why the Bishops Can’t Afford to Close the Border
Tara Lee Rodas thought she was answering a call from God. It was 2021, and the Biden administration had issued a desperate plea for federal employees to volunteer at Emergency Intake Sites for the surge of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) flooding the border. Rodas, a dedicated public servant and a woman of faith, raised her hand. She landed at the Pomona Fairplex in California—a sprawling, makeshift city of cots and confusion.
She arrived expecting to place vulnerable children into loving homes. She expected a rescue mission. What she found was a logistics operation.
Rodas watched as the system—frantic to clear bed space and secure grant metrics—began handing children over to “sponsors” with barely a glance at the vetting paperwork. She saw red flags ignored. She saw children released to addresses linked to labor trafficking rings. And when she blew the whistle, she realized she wasn’t witnessing a glitch. She was witnessing a feature.
In her testimony to Congress, Rodas delivered a line that should haunt every pew-sitting Catholic in America: “We are luring children to the United States to be the white-glove delivery system of these children to known MS-13, 18th Street Gang, Russian Balkan crime syndicates.”
And that ‘we’? It isn’t just the federal government. It’s the Catholic Church. …
Read more at Between Two Ages
Cardinal McElroy fans the flames – commentary by Phil Lawler
By now all responsible public leaders have recognized the need to dial down the rhetoric and de-escalate the confrontations in Minnesota. Yet Cardinal Robert McElroy has joined with several other religious leaders in Washington to rouse passions still further, beyond their already dangerous heights.
“The murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti,” the religious leaders’ joint statement begins. Right away that opening statement signals their choice to use inflammatory language. They could have spoken in neutral terms about the “deaths” of those two people. Or “killings” would have been perfectly accurate, and conveyed a better sense of the violence involved. But to term these tragic deaths as “murders” is simply irresponsible.
Murder is a specific word, describing an intentional killing without justification or excuse. In law, a charge of murder requires proof of malice aforethought. Whether the law-enforcement officers who shot these two unfortunate people intended to kill is debatable; whether they acted without justification or excuse is even more questionable. But to say that they acted with malice aforethought is simply implausible; in all likelihood the officers did not know these individuals before the fatal confrontations. …
Read more at Catholic Culture
St. Thomas Aquinas’ guidance on immigration
Read @IMPERATORAUS
London authorities ban ‘Walk with Jesus’ march in Muslim-majority neighborhood
The Metropolitan Police banned a “Walk with Jesus” event from taking place in a London borough, citing concerns it would provoke the members of the community. …
The Metropolitan Police revealed on January 23 that it was imposing conditions on the march “to prevent disorder.” …
UKIP shared a video from its leader, Nick Marcel Tenconi, on Friday, announcing that participants should gather at Marble Arch [an alternate location], which is located outside the borough of Tower Hamlets.
“Ladies and gentlemen, I believe we are fighting for the soul of our great nation,” Tenconi stated. “The battle we are in is to save Britain. The war we are in is a holy war. And the crisis we face is spiritual crisis. … To save Britain, we must unite. But we can only do this if we return to our faith before any kind of unity can be achieved. That’s why we have always failed. To save Britain, we must reinstate Christianity back into the heart of government.”
Read more at The Blaze
DR. BEN CARSON: Patients should never fear political bias in healthcare
See @gatewaypundit; read more at Fox News
Major Nurses Union Holds Secretive Training Sessions To ‘Fight Against ICE’
A major nurses union is holding secretive training sessions for union members to learn how to “fight” federal immigration enforcement in their hospitals.
An email reviewed by The Daily Wire reveals that the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) is promoting training sessions for nurses to resist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents in hospitals.
ONA, which represents around 15,000 nurses, is the largest nurses union in Oregon. As an affiliate of National Nurses United—the largest nurses union in the United States—ONA also wields influence at the national level.
Notably, the email says that the sessions will not be recorded or posted publicly, adding a secretive element to the training sessions.
Read more at the Daily Wire (under partial paywall)
Wisconsin bishop officially opens cause for canonization of Adele Brice
Watch @GreenBayDiocese
Today is the feast of Candlemas
See @CatholicSat; see more @father_rmv
More about Candlemas and a poem for the holy occasion
Read @malcolmguite
