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President Joe Biden’s regular parish in Washington DC has said its priests and ministers will not deny Communion to those approaching to receive. Holy Trinity parish in Washington released the statement on Tuesday. Biden has attended Sunday Mass at the parish at least six times as president. Biden supports the codification of legal abortion in federal law, and the taxpayer funding of abortion.
Several organizations in Spain are planning massive demonstrations against the current government’s laws that violate a right to life. The government legalized euthanasia in March. Lawmakers are also working to pass a bill that would criminalize sidewalk counseling or demonstrating by pro-lifers near abortion clinics.
The dramatic conversion of Saint Paul should remind us that God has a plan for our lives. That was the message of Pope Francis on Wednesday, during his general audience in Rome. The pope asked how often we ask how it is possible for God to use a sinner to do his will. Francis said everything has been prepared in God’s plan.
Yesterday was Pope Emeritus Benedict the Sixteenth’s 70th ordination anniversary. The future Benedict the Sixteenth, Joseph Ratzinger, was ordained at the age of 24 in Bavaria. He was ordained alongside his brother. The pope emeritus reportedly offered Mass privately to mark the anniversary.
Today, the Church remembers the first Christians persecuted and martyred under the Emperor Nero in the year 64. These men and women were martyred before Saints Peter and Paul. They are called the “Disciples of the Apostles”, and their firmness in the face of their gruesome deaths was a powerful testimony that led to many conversions in the early Roman Church.