CATHOLICVOTE BACKS TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT;BIDEN CAMP EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER FACING TRUMP;136 ABORTION MILLS SHUT DOWN SINCE FALL OF ROE; POLLING: GEN Z BLAMES RELIGION

 

TUESDAY, JANUARY 23 CATHOLICVOTE BACKS TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT  CatholicVote on Monday officially endorsed former President Donald Trump. “We need someone who knows the truth and is willing to fight for it – not simply someone who will calculate the path of least resistance to accomplish some good on the margins,” said CatholicVote President Brian Burch.  READ BIDEN CAMP EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER FACING TRUMP  Just days before the New Hampshire primary, multiple members of President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign expressed concerns about the increasingly likely general election rematch with Trump.  READ KEY NEW HAMPSHIRE ENDORSEMENT GOES TO BIDEN OPPONENT  The largest newspaper in New Hampshire announced Monday that it is endorsing President Joe Biden’s longshot Democratic 2024 challenger, Rep. Dean Phillips, D-MN. Phillips offers “a reasonable alternative to the Trump/Biden rematch we are told is inevitable,” wrote the editorial board of the New Hampshire Union Leader.  READ 136 ABORTION MILLS SHUT DOWN SINCE FALL OF ROE  Forty-nine abortion facilities “closed or halted abortions” in 2023, Operation Rescue reported on the day of the March for Life. “Between 2022 and 2023, a total of 136 abortion clinics have stopped killing. Cities that once had abortion mills in full operation are now abortion-free!”  READ CRITICS WARN AGAINST WHO-BACKED ‘PANDEMIC AGREEMENT’  Many experts and commentators have blasted the World Health Organization (WHO) after its director called for countries to sign on to a “Disease X” global pandemic agreement while speaking at the World Economic Forum.  READ YOUNG CATHOLIC VOLUNTEER MURDERED IN DC Police are investigating a suspected armed robbery after beloved 23-year-old Catholic volunteer Ryan Realbuto was shot and killed in Washington, D.C. last week as he walked home through his neighborhood. Realbuto was a volunteer with the Capuchin Franciscan Volunteer Corps. He was murdered on his way home from a Holy Hour. READ POLLING: GEN Z BLAMES RELIGION  Though 59% of Americans identify religion as a potential solution to America’s problems, 61% of Gen Z think of religion as a source of the problems. An additional 56% of Gen Z specifically identified people of faith as culpable. Here’s the polling.  READ LOOPcast INTERVIEW  Trafficked. Sold. Abused. From the time she was a child, Jean Marie Davis knew only slavery and prostitution. She was running for her life when she walked into a pregnancy center and met “a man named Jesus.” Hear her amazing story of resilience, redemption, and the fight to save trafficked women in America.  WATCH NUNS KIDNAPPED IN HAITI AS GANG VIOLENCE RISES  Unknown assailants abducted six nuns and their companions “in broad daylight” while they were traveling through the capital of Haiti last week. Bishop Pierre-André Dumas strongly condemned the kidnapping and offered himself in place of the victims.  READ DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER TO SHUT DOWN  The bishop of Peoria has announced the closure of its diocesan newspaper, The Catholic Post. Bishop Louis Tylka wrote in a letter sent to the publication’s some 10,000 subscribers last Thursday that he would be shutting down the publication, citing various administrative concerns.  READ IMAGINED VIRTUE  Acknowledging that humans can’t help having both benevolence and malice, the demon Screwtape encourages his nephew Wormwood to “direct [the human’s] malice to his immediate neighbors whom he meets every day and to thrust his benevolence out to the remote circumference, to people he does not know. The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary.” Here’s how reading too much news can lead to “imagined virtue.”  READ CATHOLIC 101  One of the spiritual works of mercy is to “admonish the sinner.” That is, to lovingly rebuke and correct someone out of a sincere concern for them. But how can we do this? Wouldn’t that be judgment? And doesn’t Scripture (Mt. 7:1) clearly tell us not to judge?  READ SAINT OF THE DAY  St. Ildephonsus is a Spanish saint known for his writings and devotion to the blessed mother. He entered monastic life at a young age against the wishes of his father. Ildephonsus was an abbot at the monastery and then was appointed bishop. The Blessed Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to Ildephonsus and clothed him with priestly vestments. He died on January 23, 667 after serving as bishop for nine years.  READ DAILY PSALM  “Who is this king of glory? It is the Lord!” (Psalm 24:8)  READ DAILY READINGS  Today's Mass readings  READ 2024  Trump Thanks CatholicVote for endorsing his candidacy and expresses concern that the FBI has been targeting Catholic Americans.  SHARE Paid for by CatholicVote Civic Action, a 501(c)(4) organization. CATHOLICVOTE  |  PO Box 3310  |  Carmel, IN 46082  |  (317) 669-6127