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Earlier this year, The Pillar reported a surge in the number of prospective Catholics looking to join the Church at Easter. The Diocese of Lansing, Michigan, reported a 30 percent increase over the previous year to 633 converts, the highest number in a decade. Father Ryan Kaup of the Catholic Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln baptized 20 students himself— “the most ever”—and performed initiation rites for 50 others from different Christian denominations and now, of course, we have an American pope, Leo XIV, who church leaders hope will further boost the country’s Catholic boom.

Government Interrogator (to the Cardinal under arrest): You see, you represent a religion ...... which provides an organization outside the state. In your pulpit you are more dangerous than a politician. ... you're a national monument. You are outside the party, and that monument must be ... The Cardinal: Destroyed? Interrogator: Defaced. Dialog from the movie The Prisoner 1955

The Heart in Scripture: In Hebrew thought the heart means the entire interior life of the person. It is the center of the person’s identity and the center of understanding and free will. Tradition: The Fathers and theologians from St. Augustine and St. Cyril of Alexandria down to St. Peter Canisius speak of the fountain of living waters of divine love as taking their source in the side of Christ. By this the Fathers meant that the Holy Spirit was poured forth on mankind because he who possessed the Holy Spirit in all his fullness had sacrificed his own Heart. As a direct result the Church and all that it effects, her sacraments and the life of grace flow out from the Heart of Christ as the work of the Holy Spirit.

This just so happens is not a cash-and-carry business, you’re not dealing with the A&P now. These are cannibals, Mr. Leatherby, headhunting bloodthirsty cannibals who are out to eat us up.
Lt Colonel Van Dyke schools naïve American Mr. Leatherby on the nature of the Soviets in the movie Night People 1954. To update you can paste in for Soviets “the communist government of China.”

The current administration in Washington is unfortunately promoting and is in favor of IVF, in vitro fertilization, popularly called test tube fertilization. The rationale for this procedure is to help infertile couples have a child. People ask what can be wrong with that?

NOTE: The Church has clearly and unequivocally judged to be immoral in vitro fertilization or IVF. Unfortunately, most Catholics are not aware of the Church's teaching, do not know that IVF is immoral, and some have used it in attempting to have children.