CALIFORNIA AG SUES PRO-LIFE GROUPS;VANCE CALLS OUT MILITARY ABORTION POLICY;FBI LOST COUNT OF HOW MANY INFORMANTS IT HAD AT J6 RIOT;TOP DEM BUCKS SCHUMER FOR NIXING DRESS CODE

 

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 CALIFORNIA AG SUES PRO-LIFE GROUPS  California Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing several pro-life pregnancy centers, claiming they are “misleading patients” by advertising an abortion reversal pill. Heartbeat International and its affiliate, RealOptions pregnancy centers, suggest on their website that the use of progesterone can in some cases reverse the effects of a chemical abortion pill after the first dose.  READ VANCE CALLS OUT MILITARY ABORTION POLICY Sen. JD Vance, R-OH, has become the latest senator to come out in support of Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s, R-AL, holds on military nominees. “There’s a law that says abortions will not be publicly funded, and the Biden administration, I think, is circumventing that law,” said Vance, a Marine Corps veteran. READ FBI LOST COUNT OF HOW MANY INFORMANTS IT HAD AT J6 RIOT  A former high-ranking official at the FBI’s Washington Field Office told Congress that the bureau lost track of how many of their paid informants were present at the January 6 Capitol riot. There was enough confusion that the FBI had to conduct an audit or a “poll” to tally how many of their own had been among the rioters.  READ DISNEY CEO PROMISES TO TONE DOWN WOKENESS  Disney CEO Bob Iger implied to investors that his once-dominant company will tone down its controversial political messaging as it jockeys to keep up with competitors. Iger reportedly told investors his primary goal is to “quiet the noise,” because culture wars are bad for business.  READ TOP DEM BUCKS SCHUMER FOR NIXING DRESS CODE  Sen. Dick Durbin, D-IL, came out against Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s, D-NY, controversial decision to nix the Senate’s dress code. Durbin called on the Senate to overrule the decision. "I think we need to have standards when it comes to what we're wearing on the floor of the Senate," he said, adding that he “can’t understand” what Schumer was thinking.  READ WEST POINT FACES RACISM LAWSUIT  The group behind the landmark Supreme Court case that struck down race-based affirmative action at colleges in June is now suing West Point for allegedly discriminating against white applicants. West Point “openly publishes its racial composition ‘goals,’ and its director of admissions brags that race is wholly determinative for hundreds if not thousands of applicants,” the suit states.  READ PAW PATROL PUSHES LGBTQ ON KIDS  Nickelodeon has hired a far-left activist who reads pro-LGBTQ and pro-abortion books to children on YouTube to be a writer for a spinoff of the popular children’s show “PAW Patrol.” YouTuber Lindz Amer runs a channel called “Queer Kid Stuff” and hosts a weekly “Rainbow Storytime” for children. In a recent episode, she read a “picture book” about abortion.  READ VIDEO  Brian Burch joins EWTN to discuss how leftists in Ohio used Catholic imagery to promote abortion.  WATCH CEASEFIRE AFTER ARMENIANS ATTACKED  A ceasefire deal, drafted by Azerbaijan and Russia, was reached with Armenia on Wednesday. The ceasefire ended a series of drone strikes in the Nagorno-Karabakh region by the Azerbaijani military. The news comes as human rights groups call on the international community to declare Azerbeijan’s escalating aggression against Armenians a genocide.  READ VATICAN ANNOUNCES CHINESE BISHOPS TO ATTEND SYNOD  Two mainland Chinese Bishops who work for the communist regime will attend the Vatican’s Synod on Synodality. The Vatican publicized the addition of the two bishops as official delegates to the synod yesterday. Today is the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Vatican-China deal. The deal has been widely criticized as the state-sanctioned church under the Chinese government has been party to increased persecutions of Christians and other minorities who do not submit to the atheist regime.  READ NATURAL TO TRANSCENDENT  Here’s a deep dive for you. The existence of and the relationship between the material and the spiritual have been an endlessly fascinating topic for all of human history. The realm of the spiritual is so complex that many simply deny its existence altogether. In this article, Dr. George Stanciu takes us on a journey from the natural to the transcendent through the concepts of unconditional love, our social nature, individualism, modernity, science, and anthropology.  READ CATHOLIC 101  The idea of “generational sin,” like the “prosperity gospel,” is problematic, but it has its sources in something genuinely scriptural. Through the prophet Jeremiah and even more beautifully in Our Lady’s Magnificat, we see how God wishes to pass grace on through generations as opposed to trauma and sin.  READ SAINT OF THE DAY  St. Thomas of Villanova joined the Order of St. Augustine in his 20s after leaving the world of academia when his father passed away. He was sought by the king of Spain, Charles V, to advise in the royal court. After years, Thomas became archbishop of Valencia. He faithfully served in this role until his death.  READ DAILY PSALM  “Blessed the poor in spirit; the Kingdom of heaven is theirs!” (Psalm 49)  READ DAILY READINGS  Today's Mass readings  READ NEAT  A Catholic fashion designer enters the convent after co-creating a modest clothing line.  READ Credit: litany.nyc / Instagram The LOOP is a publication of the CatholicVote Education Fund, a 501(c)(3) organization. The LOOP is organized, funded, and published by faithful Catholic laity. 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