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The Saturday Loop - August 9, 2025
FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT CRACK DOWN ON DC CRIME
President Donald Trump this week ordered federal law enforcement to assist in policing Washington, DC, saying crime in the city has gotten “totally out of control." “If D.C. doesn’t get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City,” Trump said.
DHS DOCS: BIDEN FREED A 'TRANS' MIGRANT CHILD ABUSER
The Biden administration released a convicted child sex offender from immigration detention in 2021 at the request of the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center, Department of Homeland Security records show. The criminal in question identified as "transgender."
FED JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ORDER
A federal judge in Maryland issued a nationwide preliminary injunction late Aug. 7 blocking Trump's executive order to end automatic citizenship for children born in the US to non-citizens. The judge, a Biden appointee, ruled that the policy is "likely unconstitutional."
ATTACKER OF ELDERLY PRO-LIFERS GETS LIGHT SENTENCE
A man who assaulted two elderly pro-life men outside a Planned Parenthood in Baltimore in 2023 was sentenced Aug. 7 to one year of home detention and three years of probation. Prosecutors had asked for a sentence of 10 years in prison. READ
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POPE LEO VISITS TEEN LYMPHOMA PATIENT DURING JUBILEE
When Pope Leo heard that 15-year-old pilgrim Ignacio Gonzálvez had collapsed and been hospitalized during the Jubilee of Youth, the Pontiff went unannounced to visit the boy in the Vatican children's hospital and pray with his family. The teen's mother said of the visit, “I saw Jesus Christ approach me and say, ‘You are not alone.’” The boy is reportedly in his final hours.
CHRISTIANS MURDERED IN NIGERIA
Terrorists killed 11 Christians and a policeman in Benue State, Nigeria, in a series of attacks between Aug. 1 and Aug. 5, the latest episode in an alarming trend of anti-Christian violence.
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ASK HER OUT
Our dating culture is anemic, and it's up to young men to turn the tide! Refine has advice on how to ask out a woman you're interested in. It's not that bad once you get in the groove of it, and the ladies are begging you to start asking!
END SUMMER WITH A BANG
Don't get into the school-work-grind mindset yet. We still have one last summer hurrah! Here are four summer party ideas to send everyone out on a high note. Food focused, movie focused, or book focused, the Refine team has you covered.
MY SMART PHONE ADDICTION
For parents who want to limit screentime in their kids' childhood, the best place to start is with your own device use! Here's how freeing yourself from the anxiety of screen addiction will help free your whole family.
SAINT OF THE DAY
Today the Church honors Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, a scholar, Carmelite, and martyr who died at the hands of Nazis.
SATURDAY'S PSALM
"I love you, Lord, my strength." (Psalm 18:2)
SATURDAY'S READINGS
Saturday's Mass readings.
SUNDAY'S PSALM
"Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own." (Psalm 33:12)
SUNDAY'S READINGS
Sunday's Mass readings.
ANSWER TO THE TRIVIA
President William McKinley was gunned down in 1901 by an anarchist in Buffalo, New York.
THE URSULINE CONVENT RIOT
Rampant bigotry towards Irish Catholics was brewing in 1834 Boston, and the Ursuline convent and school in Charlestown, Massachusetts, was the unfortunate victim. After wild rumors of dungeons, torture chambers, and a young woman held against her will, an angry mob surrounded the convent and set fire to its walls. When city firemen arrived, even they joined in on the attack!