TRUMP STANDS WITH TEXAS;INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE RFK BACKS TEXAS;BIDEN’S DEM CHALLENGER CALLS BORDER CRISIS ‘INEXCUSABLE’;FALSE: MASSIVE RAPE RATES IN PRO-LIFE STATES

 

SATURDAY, JANUARY 27 TRUMP STANDS WITH TEXAS  Former President Donald Trump issued a statement Thursday backing Texas and promising to “stop the invasion” at the southern border as president. “Those Biden has let in should not get comfortable because they will be going home.”  READ INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE RFK BACKS TEXAS  “Texas is right,” stated independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. this week. “Biden’s failure to secure the border leaves states no choice but to take matters into their own hands.”  READ BIDEN’S DEM CHALLENGER CALLS BORDER CRISIS ‘INEXCUSABLE’  Presidential candidate Rep. Dean Phillips, D-MN, denounced President Biden’s ongoing border crisis as “unmitigated and inexcusable” and released a four-step plan to combat illegal immigration.  READ FALSE: MASSIVE RAPE RATES IN PRO-LIFE STATES  A recent study suggested that pro-life laws “resulted in 64,565 children conceived in rape” in red states. Researcher Michael New called the study “frankly one of the worst and most misleading pieces of advocacy research that I have ever encountered in my years as a social scientist.”  READ ALABAMA MOTHER SUES PRISON OVER HORRIFIC TREATMENT  Prison staff and medical providers offered only Tylonol to an Alabama inmate when she went into labor after a high-risk pregnancy. She gave birth in the prison shower room. “Acknowledging the personhood of the unborn child must also include a demand for humane treatment of the mother,” writes Erika Ahern.  READ POLL: ELITE AMERICANS AT ODDS WITH MOST VOTERS  A new poll found that a majority of graduates from Ivy League colleges and nearly half of the top 1% of earners believe there is “too much freedom” in the United States. A whopping 89% of Ivy Leaguers and 77% of the top 1% supported “rationing gas, meat, and electricity” to “fight climate change.”  READ BOEING ‘DEI’ PUSH SCRUTINIZED AMID MALFUNCTIONS Boeing planes have suffered a series of dangerous mechanical failures, prompting critics to accuse the aerospace giant of prioritizing political ideology over passenger safety. In the latest incident, a Delta Airlines flight carrying 184 lost a nose wheel just before its scheduled takeoff.  READ POPE OFFERS ANOTHER COMMENT ON ‘SAME-SEX’ BLESSINGS  Pope Francis on Friday told a gathering of members of the Vatican’s top teaching office that “when a couple spontaneously approaches” to ask for a blessing, “the union is not blessed, but simply the people who have requested it together.”  READ LOOPcast  With Trump on the ticket, LOOPcast explores your reactions to the CatholicVote endorsement. SCOTUS leaves Texas to the coyotes, and globalists want your kids to know human rights are fake. Are MMA fighters the last authentic men in America? Say it ain’t so on this week’s episode of LOOPcast.  WATCH THE SELF I MUST DENY  “If any man would come after me,” Jesus said, “let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.” Self-denial is a confusing, scary concept, and it turns many away from the faith. Here is a great reflection on what self-denial really means.  READ 30 HEART-HEALTHY DINNERS  Sometimes it’s good to reset the system of your body. Here are 30 heart-healthy dinners. Add them to your rotation or try a whole month of heart-happy eating.  READ ‘CABRINI’ MOVIE REVIEW  From the director of “Sound of Freedom” comes the upcoming film “Cabrini,” dramatizing the life of a five-foot-tall Italian woman who took on the New World in all its power and poverty. Brad Miner from The Catholic Thing gives his review of the film.  READ TO DATE OR NOT TO DATE? It’s a heated debate among young Catholics – and their parents, peers, and pastors: Should Catholics date non-Catholics? CatholicVote’s Shelby Bland interviewed students at Benedictine College to find out what Gen Z Catholics are saying.  READ CATHOLIC 101  When we gossip or bear false witness against our neighbor, we harm not only them but also ourselves. Our words should build up the Mystical Body of Christ, not tear it down. When we fall short, our Lord is waiting for us in the Sacrament of Confession.  READ SAINT OF THE DAY  Angela Merici was born in Desenzano, Italy, in 1474, and from a young age decided to dedicate her life to the Lord. Angela opened her home to young girls to educate them, creating a community called the Company of St. Ursula, now known as the Ursulines. READ SATURDAY'S PSALM  “Create a clean heart in me, O God.” (Psalm 51:12)  READ SATURDAY'S READINGS  Saturday's Mass readings.  READ SUNDAY’S PSALM  “If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.” (Psalm 95:8)  READ SUNDAY’S READINGS  Sunday's Mass readings.  READ ANSWER TO THE TRIVIA  In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that separating schoolchildren in public schools based on race violated the Constitution. HAVE A TIP?  Send us your news for the Weekend LOOP.  EMAIL ARTWORK  Can't get to Rome? You can tour the amazing Sistine Chapel, restored under the papacy of Pope St. John Paul II, from the comfort of home! Enjoy this walk-through of one of the most significant worship sites in the Catholic Church – the very rooms where the cardinals gather to elect a new pope.  VISIT 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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