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June 4, 2020
14 teenagers of Our Lady of Good Counsel (OLGC) Parish in Pompton Plains scrambled to be the first to shake their hands and wiggle their fingers first while playing the childhood favorite on a recent Zoom videoconference. Quickly, these young people of the parish’s Living Out Our Purpose (LOOP) youth ministry learned one drawback when making “jazz hands” in Zoom: having to keep their movements close to their faces to fit in their small windows on screen. Despite the limitations, they all enjoyed playing, laughing, talking and praying together in LOOP’s two virtual meetings last month — this after having practiced weeks of mandated social isolation to help slow the spread of coronavirus.
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June 4, 2020
The story of Father Michael McGivney is like a page from history that could be written today. The Knights of Columbus founder died of pneumonia on Aug. 14, 1890 — two days after his 38th birthday — after falling ill serving his people amid a coronavirus pandemic. Last week, Pope Francis had approved the beatification of the Connecticut-born priest and local Knights of Columbus councils were filled with joy at the news that Father McGivney is a step closer to sainthood and will soon be declared “Blessed.”
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June 4, 2020
There is still hope that Congress can once again take up the Born Alive Act. The optimism comes from two newly elected members of Congress who signed a petition May 26 to bring a key pro-life bill to the House floor for consideration. That same day, Reps. Mike Garcia (R-Calif.) and Tom Tiffany (R-Wisc.) were both sworn in to the House, and signed the discharge petition for the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act afterward according to the office of Minority WHIP Steve Scalise (R-La.).
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