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A church in Washington state won its case against a state abortion coverage mandate on Thursday. State law requires employers, including churches, to cover abortions if their health plans also included maternity coverage. The law allowed religious groups not to pay for abortion coverage, but Cedar Park Church argued it could not find a health plan without abortion coverage included. 

On Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi cited her Catholic faith, while defending efforts to permit federal funding of elective abortions. A House committee recently approved a draft spending bill that excludes the Hyde Amendment. The federal policy prohibits funding of most abortions in Medicaid. The archbishop of Pelosi’s home diocese of San Francisco has said no one can claim to be a devout Catholic and condone the killing of innocent human life.

Bishops and cardinals continue to respond to the pope’s recent motu proprio restricting the Traditional Latin Mass . In England, Cardinal Vincent Nichols has said he will grant faculties to priests seeking to celebrate Traditional Latin Masses , as long as they fulfill the conditions of the pope’s motu proprio. Bishops in the Philippines issued a statement supporting the motu proprio. Cardinal Raymond Burke has called the restrictions severe and revolutionary, and questioned the pope’s authority to revoke use of the rite. 

Today is the feast day of Saint Bridget of Sweden. Bridget received visions of Christ’s suffering many times throughout her life, and eventually founded the order of the Most Holy Savior.

July 23, 2021

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