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Yahoo
16-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Erie Women's Care Center hosts annual Baby Bottle Campaign
The Knights of Columbus have launched their fourth annual 'Baby Bottle Campaign' to raise funds for the Women's Care Center of Erie County, a vital resource for those facing unplanned pregnancies. The campaign involves 36 churches and five schools within the Catholic Diocese, where participants collect spare change in baby bottles distributed on Mother's Day and return them by Father's Day. This unique fundraising effort supports the center's mission to provide free, confidential services to individuals in need. Vatican agrees to hear parents' case on Blessed Sacrament School 'We support the pro-life movement. It's a part of the mantra of the Catholic Church and Christianity in general, and that's our aim to support wonderful facilities like the Women's Care Center,' said Phil Legler, co-director of the Baby Bottle Fundraiser. Randy Newport, Executive Director of the Women's Care Center, emphasized the importance of the support, stating, 'Without the fundraising, without the individual donors that support the center, we wouldn't be able to keep our doors open, so this is a very vital part to the ministry.' The Women's Care Center has been offering free services for over 40 years, assisting those with unplanned pregnancies, youth navigating relationship decisions, women seeking healing, and couples hoping to become parents. They operate from three locations, providing medical support and education. Since 2018, the Knights of Columbus have donated five ultrasound machines to the center, each costing about $127,000. These machines have played a crucial role in the decision-making process for many women, as Phil Legler noted that over 700 babies have been born to women who were previously considering abortion after seeing images of their unborn children. Grow Erie hosts open house to show off years of work at Savocchio Park Jade Leah Burns reported that fundraisers like the Baby Bottle Campaign help the Women's Care Center purchase state-of-the-art equipment, such as ultrasound machines that monitor women throughout their pregnancies. The ongoing support from the Knights of Columbus and local donors is essential for the Women's Care Center to continue its operations and expand its services. The Baby Bottle Campaign not only raises funds but also raises awareness about the center's mission and the impact it has on the community. All facts from this article were gathered by WJET/WFXP journalists. This article was converted into this format with assistance from artificial intelligence. It has been edited and approved by WJET/WFXP staff. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Chicago Tribune
16-05-2025
- General
- Chicago Tribune
Worship news: Pancake breakfast, mass for Pope Leo, golf scramble
Holy Name of Jesus Parish: 133rd Ave. — All are welcome to join the Knights of Columbus for a pancake breakfast after Sunday masses on May 18 in the Sacred Heart Hall at Holy Name of Jesus Parish. There will be regular, blueberry and chocolate chip pancakes. St. Matthias Roman Catholic Church: 101 W Burrell Drive — St. Matthias will have a trivia night beginning at 5 p.m. May 17, with doors opening at 5 p.m. for dinner and trivia beginning at 6 p.m. Tacos will be provided, and babysitting is available with advanced notice. Call 219-663-2201 to reserve a spot. Cathedral of the Holy Angels: 640 Tyler St. — Cathedral of the Holy Angels will have a mass for Pope Leo XIV at 11 a.m. on May 18. The mass will be held in conjunction with the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV in Rome. Couples celebrating milestone anniversaries will also be honored. River Pointe Country Club: 6700 Country Club Rd. — Bethel Church will have a Men's Golf Scramble beginning at 12 p.m. May 31 at the River Pointe Country Club. All levels of golf are welcome to attend for fun, food and fellowship. The cost is $60 per person and includes green fee, a cart, prizes and dinner. Register here: Bethel Church: 704 W 700 N — Bethel Church Hobart-Portage campus will have a women's morning Bible study from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on Thursday mornings beginning on June 5. The Bible study will go for eight weeks and will be reading through 'When You Pray' to explore different types of prayers modeled in Scripture. Childcare is available for $25 per child. To register, visit: St. Michael Parish: 1 W. Wilhelm St. — St. Michael Parish will have a Memorial Day Mass and 150th Time Capsule Burial from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. May 26. This is an outdoor event and those who attend are asked to bring a chair and join in remembrance and hope. For more information, call 219-322-4505.
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump's All-Out Culture War Is Now Targeting Philanthropy
Remember 'a thousand points of light'? Accepting the Republican nomination for president in 1988, George H. W. Bush celebrated what he described as a bright constellation of charitable organizations, 'thousands and tens of thousands of ethnic, religious, social, business, labor union, neighborhood, regional and other organizations, all of them varied, voluntary and unique.' 'This is America,' Bush said, 'The Knights of Columbus, the Grange, Hadassah, the Disabled American Veterans, the Order of Ahepa, the Business and Professional Women of America, the union hall, the Bible study group, LULAC [League of United Latin American Citizens], Holy Name, a brilliant diversity spreads like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.' Bush contrasted the creativity of these nonprofit organizations with government, which, in his view, didn't always remember that 'the people are its master,' and fell hostage to 'the imaginings of the social planners.' Private sector do-gooders, not top-down government regulators, would show us 'what's been tested and found to be true.' That was then. Today, Republican doctrine is to bleed nonprofits to bail out a federal government rendered insolvent by 44 years of irresponsible tax cuts. Poppy Bush's desire to replace government spending with private philanthropy was wrongheaded, but at least it was identifiably conservative. The GOP's defunding of philanthropy is both wrongheaded and a violation of the conservative principle that private organizations should take the lead in addressing societal needs. The House tax bill (text; section-by-section summary) increases taxes on philanthropies. It was news to me that philanthropies pay any taxes at all; I always thought nonprofit status shielded these groups entirely from taxation. That's not correct. Philanthropies were first subjected to taxation in 1969, when Congress imposed a flat tax on foundations' endowment income. Then, as now, a central motivation was Republican animus against what it deemed an overly liberal nonprofit world. Today, the Enemy is George Soros; back then it was the Ford Foundation, which took a left turn in the late 1960s under the leadership of McGeorge Bundy, former national security adviser to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. In signing the 1969 tax bill into law, President Richard Nixon said it 'reflected a deep and wholly legitimate concern about the role of foundations in our national life.' Two years later, in April 1971, Nixon could be heard grousing about the Ford Foundation on the White House tapes. The foundation, Nixon said, funded trips to Africa by Maine Senator Ed Muskie, then judged Nixon's likeliest Democratic opponent in 1972: I traveled for eight years by myself. I paid it all out of my own pocket…. I financed the whole goddamn thing. Did I ever hear a word from the Ford Foundation? How many foundations suggested, 'Look, Nixon, the former Vice President, is going to make this trip abroad. You're going on a non-partisan basis. We'd like to help'? No. They finance this son-of-a-bitch Muskie. Under current law, philanthropies are required to pay a flat 1.39 percent tax on their endowment income. The House bill would keep that 1.39 percent tax rate for foundations with net assets below $50 million but impose three new brackets for wealthier philanthropies. Foundations with net assets at or above $50 million but less than $250 million would pay a marginal tax of 2.78 percent; foundations with net assets at or above $250 million but less than $5 billion would pay a marginal tax of 5 percent; and foundations with net assets at or above $5 billion would pay a marginal tax of 10 percent. These higher rates would apply to 2,900 philanthropic organizations, according to the nonprofit Philanthropy Roundtable, at a total cost over the next ten years of not quite $16 billion. As the Philanthropy Roundtable points out, that $16 billion 'would otherwise support education, the arts, religious missions, medical research and local civic efforts.' One puzzling aspect of the House proposal is that it would affect conservative philanthropies as well as liberal ones. Since 1969, philanthropy has changed in three significant ways. First, it's gotten significantly more political. Second, many of these more political philanthropies are conservative (typically very conservative). Third, philanthropies are funded much more than they used to be by big-money donors, many of whom also throw a lot of money at conservative political candidates. But the wealthiest foundations still follow the old philanthropic model: mostly apolitical, focused on addressing health, the environment, poverty, and other broadly societal problems. The conservative Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation doesn't crack the top 100; neither, as best I can tell, do any of the Koch foundations (though these operate through so many front groups it's hard to know for sure). The richest five foundations in the United States are: 1.) The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ($59 billion in assets) 2.) Lilly Endowment ($40 billion) 3.) Howard Hughes Medical Institute ($24 billion) 4.) Ford Foundation ($16 billion) 5.) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ($13 billion) The tenth-richest is Soros's Foundation to Promote Open Society ($10 billion). Under the House bill, there is no conservative foundation that would have to pay the highest marginal tax of 10 percent, and very possibly none that would have to pay the second-highest maginal tax of 5 percent, either. The $16 billion that the House bill would squeeze out of philanthropy doesn't get House Republicans very far toward actually balancing the budget; as written, the House bill will more than double the deficit. The only plausible motive for the new tax brackets is a GOP culture war against not only liberals but also mainstream culture, as demonstrated by its war against federal grants to universities. University culture skews liberal, it's true, but there's nothing especially liberal about, for example, the science funding that's drying up with the Trump administration's evisceration of the National Science Foundation. There's nothing particularly liberal about any innovations that research would spawn, either, or the jobs these would create. The House bill also increases taxes on income generated by university endowments, with an even higher top marginal rate of 21 percent. That will generate an even smaller amount for the Treasury, about $7 billion over ten years. As is true in so many other ways, such Trumpian policymaking is not so much ideological as it is pathological. It certainly isn't conservative. Republican nihilism predates Trump (see my 'How the GOP Lost Its Brain,' February 2023), but the problem has gotten exponentially worse in Trump's second term. For some years now Republicans have used the very word 'mainstream' pejoratively (as in 'mainstream media'). Now even the mainstream conservatism of Bush's thousand points of light is under attack.
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Sellout crowd comes to charity golf tournament
The annual Operation LAMB (Least Amongst My Breathren) and Holy Cross Council 8509 Golf Classic drew a record crowd on Saturday morning to Pine Knolls Golf Club in Kernersville. The golf tournament, which is the biggest fundraiser for the local benevolent Knights of Columbus chapter, was the most successful one yet, said Church Tierney of Holy Cross Council 8509. Advertisement 'We had a sellout crowd of 116, which was the most we have ever had. We raised 14,400 in money, which is the most we have ever had. All of the money will be distributed locally and it is much needed,' he said. 'Mercifully, the weather turned out good. When we were setting up at 6 a.m. it was 49 degrees and raining. Then the sun came out and stayed up, and it was just really pretty. When we had our first tournament we only had 29 players ' Although, Forsyth County Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough was unable to attend, the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office team of Rocky Joyner, Wesley Cline, Travis Broughton and Wyatt Joyner won the tournament with a combined score of 17 under par. The team of Jim Babcock, Jake Babcock, Hogan Mitchell and Chris Fulk took second place with a score of 15 under. The Kernersville Fire & Rescue Department's team — Capt. Josh Stafford, Engineer Chase Mabe, Engineer Cody Mathis and Jeff Taylor — placed third with a score of 13 under. Advertisement No one aced the No. 11 par three hole to win the $25,000 offered by Parks Chevrolet in Kernersville. The tournament proceeds will be used by the Holy Cross Council of the Knights of Columbus for local charities. Previous gifts have benefited Room at the Inn, Shepherd's Center, Samaritan Ministries Next Step Ministries, Winston-Salem Rescue Mission, Veterans Helping Veterans Heal, Winston-Salem Boys & Girls Clubs, Shop with a Cop, Crisis Control and Ministry Birthright of Winston-Salem. Sponsor proceeds also benefit citizens in Forsyth County and beyond, including Piney Grove Elementary School, Caleb Creek Elementary School, Cash Elementary School, Kernersville Elementary School, Sedge Garden Elementary School, Walkertown Elementary School and the Coats for Kids program.
Herald Malaysia
30-04-2025
- Politics
- Herald Malaysia
Cardinal: True faith is found in compassion, not just creed
Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica, celebrated a memorial Mass for Pope Francis Apr 30, 2025 Cardinals and bishops attending one of the Novemdiales Masses in St. Peter's Basilica.(Photo: Vatican News) By Justin McLellan, Catholic News Service True discipleship is not measured by the creeds Christians recite or the theology they know, but by how deeply they love, a cardinal said at a memorial Mass for Pope Francis. "It is not the profession of faith, the theological knowledge or the sacramental practice that guarantees participation in the joy of God," said Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica, "but the qualitative and quantitative involvement in the human experience of the least of our brothers and sisters." Celebrating Mass in the basilica April 29 for the fourth day of the "novendiali" -- nine days of mourning for Pope Francis marked with Masses -- the cardinal said that Christ's final judgment will not be based on knowledge or status, but on acts of mercy toward the hungry, the stranger, the sick and the imprisoned. His message came as cardinals gathered in Rome said they are beginning to reflect on what qualities the next pope must embody. The cardinals are meeting daily in general congregation meetings ahead of the conclave, which is scheduled to begin May 7. Concelebrating the Mass with Cardinal Gambetti were the cardinals who lead the three other papal basilicas in Rome: Cardinal Baldassare Reina, papal vicar of Rome and archpriest of the Basilica of St. John Lateran; Cardinal Rolandas Makrickas, coadjutor archpriest of the Basilica of St. Mary Major; and U.S. Cardinal James M. Harvey, archpriest of St. Paul Outside the Walls. Patrick Kelly, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, was seated in a front row. Reflecting on the Gospel's imagery of sheep and goats, Cardinal Gambetti explained that those who are welcomed into God's kingdom are not those who sought independence and self-interest, but those who lived with gentleness, solidarity and compassion. "At the personal and institutional level, we must ask ourselves: which of these two styles do we embody?" he said. Pope Francis' humanity, tenderness and commitment to peace touched believers and nonbelievers alike, the cardinal said. Quoting Edith Bruck, a Holocaust survivor, poet and friend of Pope Francis, Cardinal Gambetti said the late pope was "a man who loved, who wept, who invoked peace, who embraced and spread warmth wherever he went." True evangelization, the cardinal said, does not come through grand proclamations but through humble acts of solidarity that reveal God's love in tangible ways. "Who touches humanity touches God; who honors humanity honors God; who scorns humanity scorns God," he said. Recalling Pope Francis' conviction that "all, all, all, are called to live in the church," Cardinal Gambetti reflected the on the episode from the Acts of the Apostles in which St. Peter meets Cornelius. In that account, St. Peter enters the gentile's home despite Jewish custom forbidding him to do so, and, after preaching about Jesus, the Holy Spirit descends upon them both, and the apostle baptizes Cornelius. The Gospel account is "an episode that, in an age that is globalized, secularized and thirsting for truth and love such as ours" reveals the first pope's attitude toward evangelization, the cardinal said: "Openness to the human person without reservation, gratuitous concern for others, sharing and deepening experiences to help every man and woman give credit to life, to the grace of creation."--
