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[Catholic Caucus] Irish Catholics pray for Biden’s conversion at Marian apparition site, spread blessed salt after his visit'There was an eerie absence of crowds' at the Knock shrine during and after the pro-abortion U.S. president's visit.KNOCK, Ireland (LifeSiteNews) — A group of Irish Catholics prayed a Rosary of reparation today outside the Marian apparition site of Knock, County Mayo as U.S. President Joe Biden was given a special tour of the shrine.Praying for his conversion from behind a security fence, the group then spread blessed salt throughout the shrine after President Biden’s departure.Organizer Rory O’Beirn told LifeSiteNews that there were...

The Targeting of Military Chaplains Under BidenHe nominates an LGBT activist to oversee them.Military chaplains who adhere to traditional Christian teaching find themselves with targets on their backs in Joe Biden’s military. Its amorphous definition of “bigotry” clearly extends to the historic teachings of Christianity about the natural moral law. Earlier this year, a chaplain who merely criticized transgenderism in a Facebook post was subject to an Army investigation.A foreshadowing of the persecution of Christian military chaplains could already be glimpsed under the Obama-Biden administration. In 2010, a top Army official described conservative Christian members of the military as “bigoted”...

The Cult of Abortion Under BidenIts celebration is a defining mark of his presidency.One of Bill Clinton’s slippery slogans in the 1990s was that abortion should be “safe, legal, and rare.” But the Left never cared for the ambivalence about abortion that that slogan conveyed.To counter that ambivalence, Planned Parenthood launched a campaign to celebrate abortion straightforwardly. It hawked T-shirts that said, “I had an abortion.” Abortion advocates such as Barbara Ehrenreich started writing openly about their own abortions. “You can blame a lot of folks, from media bigwigs to bishops, if we lose our reproductive rights, but it’s the...