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Cardinal Cupich warns against the Church entering partisan politics NEW YORK - One day after President Donald Trump became the first sitting president to address the March for Life, Cardinal Blase Cupich cautioned that “the Church’s job is not to discern which political, partisan or military force we should support in order for good to triumph,” but to see Christ as the “starting point” for the Church’s social ministry.“What is needed is an integrated and consistent approach, with the priority being our attention to what Christ is doing, saving us by bringing us together, bringing about the Kingdom of God...

Holes in the Seamless Garment Some issues are more important than others The image of Christ's seamless garment, the one made for him by his blessed Mother, has become an icon to modernists seeking to Protestantize the Catholic Church. For nearly 2,000 years, the Church taught that different moral actions had a different "weight," but now, bishops and priests who support sodomy and breaking U.S. law on immigration are claiming it's all the same thing — that they're all "life issues." The idea was developed in 1971 by Catholic pacifist Eileen Egan, who described it as a "consistent ethic of life." In 1983, suspected...