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The Friday Loop - January 24, 2025
TRUMP PARDONS PRO-LIFERS PROSECUTED BY BIDEN DOJ
Trump yesterday signed an executive order pardoning 23 pro-life Americans who were targeted by the Biden Justice Department. Trump spoke compassionately about the pardon recipients as he was about to sign the order. “They should not have been prosecuted,” he said, shaking his head. “Many of them are elderly,” he added. “This is a great honor to sign.”
TRUMP WILL ADDRESS MARCH FOR LIFE VIA VIDEO
Trump will address the 52nd March for Life in Washington D.C. by video today. He made history in 2020 by becoming the first sitting president to attend the march in person. The 2020 march was the last to occur during his first term.
TRUMP SIGNS ORDER DECLASSIFYING FILES ON JFK, MLK KILLINGS
Trump signed an executive order yesterday declassifying files related to the 1960s assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Everything will be revealed,” Trump said as he signed the order.
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REPUBLICAN BILL WOULD PROTECT PARENTS’ RIGHTS
Republican lawmakers this week introduced The Families’ Rights and Responsibilities Act, which would protect parents’ fundamental right to direct their children’s healthcare, education, and upbringing.
VICE PRESIDENT VANCE TO SPEAK AT MARCH FOR LIFE
Vice President JD Vance will be one of the speakers addressing the March for Life today. The heads of the March for Life stated they were “thrilled” that the vice president is attending and look forward to working with Trump and Vance as “they dismantle the Biden Administration's aggressive and unpopular abortion agenda.”
BRAVE WOMAN TESTIFIES ABOUT COERCED ABORTION
When Brittany Weston was just 22, her 41-year-old boyfriend demanded she abort her unborn baby. He took Brittany to a Planned Parenthood facility against her will. The “counselor” there ignored her tears and protestations, rushing her to sign a consent form. the rest of Brittany’s harrowing story here.
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RELIGIOUS FREEDOM SUPPORT AT NEW HIGH THANKS TO GEN Z
Americans’ support for religious freedom in the United States hit its highest overall score in 2024, as measured by a recent report from The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. The report noted that Generation Z was overwhelmingly supportive of religious freedom.
CARDINAL TO AUTHOR BOOK ON LITURGICAL MUSIC
Cardinal Robert Sarah recently revealed he is working on a book about music in the liturgy. The book will “address many practical questions which I hope will be of help to priests and to musicians in restoring truly beautiful liturgical music to our churches,” Cardinal Sarah said.
NO TIME TO PRAY
You’re working 80 hours a week (or if you’re a mom, 168), you skip lunch, you don’t sleep much, and you can barely (or simply can’t) fit all your daily responsibilities into one day before you collapse on your bed completely spent. So how do you have time to pray? Here’s a tip from St. Francis de Sales.
CATHOLIC 101
We may think our leisure activities unimportant, but it is good and necessary to relax both our bodies and our minds from time to time. St. Francis de Sales (again!) points out that if an archer were to keep his bow always strung, the bow would lose its spring and wouldn’t function as well when needed. But what is “good leisure?”
SAINT OF THE DAY
Today is the feast of St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622). He became a priest, and eventually a bishop, in the Diocese of Geneva – then a heavily Protestant area. His calm and joyful spirit attracted and converted between 40,000 and 70,000 people. Francis was especially known for his spiritual writings, including two books and numerous pamphlets and letters. He is today venerated as the patron saint of journalists.
DAILY PSALM
“Kindness and truth shall meet.” (Psalm 85:11)
DAILY READINGS
Today's Mass readings.