Presbyterian Church USA approves using offering dollars to pay for sex change operations

  

Presbyterian Church USA approves using offering dollars to pay for sex change operations
“Gender affirming care”, a euphemism for sex change operations which can include chopping off breasts and penises, received approval at the convention of the liberal Presbyterian Church USA. Read the whole, sad story below.
The PCUSA pays for abortions and sex change operations in its healthcare program, which is funded by offering dollars. That’s right, your Presbyterian offering dollars at work, killing unborn children and mutilating bodies.

Jesus said in Matthew 19:4 that “God made us male and female”. He nowhere taught that if a man thinks he is a woman, then he is a woman, and we should use church dollars to castrate him.

The Word That Marked Romero for Death

 

On two nights of our 250th — beneath Mount Rushmore, then before the Washington Monument — a president made the “communist menace” the organizing theme of his coming midterm campaign and revived Joseph McCarthy’s loyalty oath. A Catholic who loves Óscar Romero knows precisely where that language ends.

The White House had promised us something else. In the hours before, the press secretary called it an “inspiring” and “optimistic” address that would answer “what does it mean to be an American.” That preview was disingenuous. What the nation received Friday night at Keystone, beneath the carved faces of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, was not a birthday toast to a republic founded on the right to dissent. It was a loyalty oath.

Here is the line the whole speech was built to deliver, verbatim from the official transcript: “You can be loyal to Karl Marx or you can be loyal to America. You can be a communist or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both.”

Christ is hope amid the scourge of war

‘Thanks to John Paul II, my father always kept hope alive,’ Jérôme Lejeune’s daughter says

Lejeune and John Paul II were united in friendship and in defending the right to life, especially of those with intellectual disabilities.

Pope Leo XIV says Christ is hope amid the scourge of war

The pontiff prayed the Angelus in St. Peter’s Square before traveling to Castel Gandolfo for three weeks of vacation.

Pope Leo XIV dines with U.S. ambassador on Independence Day

The pope visited the private residence of U.S. Ambassador Brian Burch after returning from Lampedusa.

Pope Leo XIV praises U.S. Eucharistic pilgrims, highlights country's 'strong Eucharistic heritage'

The Holy Father addressed pilgrims at the close of the 2026 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, which concluded in Philadelphia on July 5.

Chinese pastor released from prison

In final earnings test, some religious colleges get reprieve, but concerns remain
Inside Higher Ed: Programs that fail the accountability measure won’t face a more severe penalty if they don’t accept federal student loans — a change intended to address concerns.

 

Chinese pastor released from prison after Trump raised his case with Xi Jinping
NBC News: Ezra Jin Mingri, who founded Beijing’s Zion Church, was detained in October in one of China’s largest crackdowns on a single church in decades. 

 

Reeling from Venezuela's earthquakes, churches rush to inspect buildings, distribute supplies
Religion News Service: Despite the fact that many Venezuelan faith leaders have been themselves impacted by the ongoing disaster, they’ve sprung into action to provide food, psychological support and other basic needs to the large population of victims.

 

What is the religious and political messaging behind Khamenei’s funeral?
Al Jazeera: The Islamic Republic is leaning into religious imagery to hone its political messaging locally and across the region.

 

Conscientious AI objectors: HR’s role in keeping workplaces human
Baptist News Global: In the aftermath of Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical letter, human resource professionals are gearing up for religious accommodations to avoid using artificial intelligence tools in the workplace. 

Leo XIV Reveals The Four Things He Will Do While on Vacation

 

Anglicans in Canada Normalize Murder Through Official Ritual Liturgies for Euthanasia

Anglicans in Canada Normalize Murder Through Official Ritual Liturgies for Euthanasia

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The newly released text, entitled Pastoral Liturgies at the Time of Death in Contexts of Medical Assistance in Dying, states that its purpose is not to settle the ethical controversy surrounding assisted death or to argue either for or against the practice

Pro-Life Victory at the Organization of American States

Stefano Gennarini

The pro-life victory stunned long-time participants on both sides of the debate at the work of the Organization of American States (OAS), an international organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., where the governments of the Western Hemisphere discuss regional cooperation on democracy, peace, and human rights.

Some Reflections on the Founding Principles of the United States: Leo XIV’s Speech Upon Receiving the Medal of Freedom

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Address of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV Acceptance of the Liberty Medal of the National Constitution Center (USA)

U.S. Permanent Diaconate Reaches Historic High. Aging Raise Questions About the Future

Tim Daniels

The findings come from A Portrait of the Permanent Diaconate in 2025, the annual national survey conducted by Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations.

Leo XIV sends a letter to the American people on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the country’s founding

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Letter of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV on the 250th Anniversary of the Founding of the United States of America

Leo XIV Celebrates the United States’ 250th Birthday at the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See

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The gesture has been viewed as a sign of closeness on a particularly significant day in the history of the United States, the country of Leo XIV’s origin.

How can the weight of the cross be “easy” and “light”? Leo XIV explains it

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Address on the Occasion of the Angelus Prayer on Sunday, July 5, 2026

Questions about liturgy: “My Sacrifice and Yours”

Fr. Edward McNamara

Answered by Legionary of Christ Father Edward McNamara, professor of liturgy and sacramental theology at the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum university.

A Desire to Serve: From the Longest-Living YouTuber Nun to Women Collaborating with Key Dicasteries

Alma Recinas

Before entering the convent, she worked for years as a governess and teacher for children, while also serving the needy, as well as elderly and sick priests. However, she always held in her heart the desire to consecrate herself to God in the contemplative life.

Catholic Priest asked about Gay Past

12 Catholic Americans who helped shape the United States

He ran across the U.S. to support pregnant women; now he’s off to be a monk

Before he enters a monastery, a 23-year-old ran across the country to raise money for his local pregnancy help center and to pray for women, babies, and the people he met along the way.

12 Catholic Americans who helped shape the United States

Here are 12 Catholic Americans whose lives and legacies have left a lasting mark on the United States.

Perpetual Eucharistic pilgrims reflect on 'being with Christ 24/7' as pilgrimage nears end

A nine-person team has taken the Blessed Sacrament across 18 dioceses as part of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, which will come to an end in Philadelphia on July 5.

Catholic historians reflect on the Church’s role as America marks 250 years

Dr. Kathleen Sprows Cummings of the University of Notre Dame and Dr. Christopher Shannon of Christendom College reflected on the complex history of Catholicism in the United States.

Homily for the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Msgr. Arthur Holquin, S.T.L. Jul 5  Readings: Zechariah 9:9–10 · Psalm 145 · Romans 8:9, 11–13 · Matthew 11:25–30 There is a certain irony in this Sunday’s Scriptures. Only yesterday our nation marked the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its independence — a birthday won, in no small part, by a people who had grown weary of kings. And yet here we are, gathered the very next morning, and the Word of God will not stop speaking to us of kings. “See, your king shall come to you,” says the prophet Zechariah. “I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God,” sings the psalmist. Of all the Sundays of the year, the Lord seems to have chosen this one to remind a republic that it still has a King. But before we bristle at the word, it helps to remember what it meant in the mouth of a prophet. When Zechariah and the psalmist speak of a king, they are not describing the sort of ruler our founders crossed an ocean to escape. The biblical imagination heard in that word something closer to what we might call a Sovereign — not a distant monarch enthroned above his subjects, but one who watches over them; one who lovingly and compassionately oversees the whole of a life. Listen to how the psalmist fills out the portrait: “The LORD is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness.” “The LORD lifts up all who are falling and raises up all who are bowed down.” That is the King the Scriptures announce. And Zechariah’s king is stranger still — no conqueror on a war-horse, but a “just savior... meek, and riding on an ass,” who comes not to wage war but to “proclaim peace to the nations.” He banishes the chariot and the warrior’s bow. This is sovereignty as the world has never known it: power that stoops, majesty that heals. And this is where Saint Paul draws us deeper this morning, because you and I are more than citizens of an earthly nation. We have another dimension to our lives — the life of the spirit — and no one describes it more beautifully than Paul does in his Letter to the Romans. “You are not in the flesh,” he tells us; “on the contrary, you are in the spirit, if only the Spirit of God dwells in you.” There is a country we hold in common as Americans, and there is a deeper citizenship, inscribed not in any founding document but in the human heart, where the Spirit of God has made his dwelling. The oversight of this Sovereign is unlike any government the world has ever devised. He governs from within. He knows our deepest thoughts and our hidden hungers, our fears and our fragile hopes, our need — every one of us — for healing. No census records what he records; no official sees what he sees. And to a people who labor under the weight of all of that, he does not issue a decree. He issues an invitation.

San Diego Japanese Christian Church 07.05.2026

 

We call this SoNoGo - South Park-North Park-Golden Hill & Our Mission: to see the baptized who live in SoNoGo worship in SoNoGo 

San Diego Japanese Christian Church

OMS Holiness Church of North America

San Diego Japanese Christian Church (SDJCC) is here to share the good news that a dynamic relationship with Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord is the key to abundant living in today’s world. Our church was founded as an outreach to Japanese speaking farmers in San Diego County over 80 years ago. SDJCC now has English and Japanese speaking ministries. It’s easy to miss, tucked away at the elbow of 19th and E streets just above Interstate 5: the Japanese American Christian Church in Golden Hill. You’d most likely drive past this humble place of worship on the way up Broadway without noticing it, but if you happened to be on a stroll down E Street looking at the nice old houses, you’d stumble upon it after the bigger homes give way to a series of California bungalows. It’s there before E turns right into 19th. Across the street from the church, a chain-link fence lines the sidewalk above the 5 where the homeless set up camp on a regular basis before they are swept out and relocated only to return again when the police shift their attention elsewhere. Historically, the church itself is a product of a relocation of a different sort. As my City College colleague, historian Susan Hasegawa informed me, it was originally founded as the Japanese Holiness Church by Christian Nikkei (immigrants and their descendents) in 1930 and located on Newton Avenue. Sponsored by the Oriental Mission Society, the church focused its efforts on outreach to Issei (first generation immigrant) farmers.