Holy Cross Catholic Church in Vero Beach, Florida, had a cantor give an oddly specific, passive aggressive prayer during mass, highlighting what seemed were his own personal irritants and pet peeves, as part of the time of corporate read and response, taking the congregation to task for stealing xerox paper, using tax loopholes to get disability benefits, cheating at golf and hoarding toilet paper.

From the sense of blind entitlement some people seem to have, Lord have mercy.

From a blind judgmental attitude over other people’s appearance or dress, Christ have mercy.

For the times our sharp political divide blinded our call to care for each other, Christ have mercy.

When people use loopholes to take advantage of disability benefits, Christ have mercy.

From a blind attitude over the theft of work Xerox paper for personal use, Lord have mercy.

When we attempted to jump the line or skirt the rules to get a vaccine, Lord have mercy.

From a lack of courtesy, especially for the elderly, Lord have mercy.

From a lack of humility or lack of patience, Christ have mercy.

From a temptation to cheat at golf tournaments by not reporting strokes or by a foot wedge, Christ have mercy.

From a blind attitude during COVID of not wearing masks or hoarding toilet paper, Christ have mercy.

For the times we lacked respect for God in church with distracted talking, Lord have mercy.

We are tempted to gossip or be engaged in incessant griping, Lord have mercy.

When we are blind to racism in all its colors, Lord have mercy.

For the times we blame the church as an excuse for not participating, Christ have mercy.

From the attitude that it is okay to double bill or not show up for doctor appointments, Christ have mercy.

When we become annoyed that someone is sitting in my pew or think the homily is too long, Christ have mercy.

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— Fr. Tom Bombadil (@calix517) June 26, 2022

LifeSiteNews) – The Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, and states across the U.S. are now moving rapidly to enforce the strictest pro-life laws in generations, sending Democrats and the abortion industry scrambling to keep abortion legal on-demand wherever they can.

As of Wednesday evening, laws in at least seven states have taken effect criminalizing abortion throughout pregnancy with virtually no exemptions. Several other states have sharply restricted the murder of unborn children within their borders, and 10 or more are set to enforce bans in the coming days and weeks following the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on Friday.

UPDATES – Thursday, June 30:

• Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has announced that he will enforce Arizona’s total abortion ban.
• A Kentucky judge has temporarily paused the state’s trigger law.
• A campaign in Michigan to enshrine abortion up to the moment of birth in the Michigan Constitution says it has enough signatures to get the issue on the ballot in November.
• Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi has totally halted abortions as of Tuesday.

Check the guide below for comprehensive information about where each state currently stands on abortion in post-Roe America.

ALABAMA – Ban throughout pregnancy

As of Friday, abortion is illegal at all stages of pregnancy in Alabama with few exceptions. A federal court lifted an injunction on the state’s near-total abortion ban enacted in 2019, Attorney General Steve Marshall announced within hours of the Dobbs ruling.

Penalties: The 2019 law, known as the Human Life Protection Act, makes performing an abortion a Class A felony that can result in life imprisonment.

Exceptions: The law allows exceptions when “necessary in order to prevent a serious health risk to the unborn child’s mother” or for fatal fetal anomalies. Alabama has another 1951 pre-Roe ban on the books that outlaws abortion except to preserve a mother’s life or health.

Impact: The last three abortion facilities in Alabama halted all procedures Friday.

ARIZONA – Ban throughout pregnancy

Arizona has an enjoined pre-Roe law from 1901 that bans abortion throughout pregnancy with penalties of up to five years in prison for anyone who aborts a woman’s baby or helps her to do so. The only exception is when an abortion would be “necessary to save [the mother’s] life.”

In effect: Gov. Doug Ducey has said that he will move to implement a 15-week ban that he signed in March and that takes effect in September. But Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced Wednesday that the pre-Roe law is enforceable, and he said it doesn’t conflict with the more recent ban.

Brnovich added that he’ll seek the removal of the injunction placed on the law in 1973, the Associated Press reported.

Eugenic abortion ban: The Republican attorney general has indicated that another pro-life law enacted last year that prohibits abortions due to race, sex, or non-lethal genetic abnormality may also take effect with Roe out of the way. That law, SB 1457, makes performing a eugenic and race- or sex-selective abortion a Class 3 felony except in a “medical emergency” necessitating an immediate abortion to avoid the mother’s death or serious, permanent injury, based on a physician’s “good faith clinical judgment.”

Fetal personhood: It also contains a provision declaring unborn babies legal persons “at every stage of development” and granting them “all rights, privileges and immunities available to other persons, citizens and residents of this state, subject only the Constitution of the United States” and constitutional decisions of the Supreme Court.

A federal judge blocked part of SB 1457 last year but declined halt the fetal personhood provision, according to the Associated Press.

Impact: Planned Parenthood of Arizona and other abortion businesses in the state have stopped abortions.

ARKANSAS – Ban throughout pregnancy

Abortion is illegal throughout pregnancy in Arkansas.

A 2019 trigger law came into effect after Attorney General Leslie Rutledge certified on Friday that the Supreme Court had struck down Roe, the Arkansas Democrat Gazette reported. “None of us thought today would come in our lifetimes,” Rutledge said Friday.

Penalties: Anyone other than the mother who performs or attempts to perform an abortion will now face felony charges, fines of up to $100,000, and up to 10 years in prison.

Exceptions: The trigger law allows exceptions only when “necessary to preserve the life of a pregnant woman whose life is endangered by a physical disorder, physical illness, or physical injury.”

Impact: In response to the trigger law, Planned Parenthood Great Plains has completely halted abortions in the…

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Editor’s Note. This article was written by Raymond Wolfe and published at Life Site News

Last month, in a rare showing that the Roman Catholic Church, led by the insufferably heretical Pope Francis, is not just a bloated corpse of Mariology and malaise, American Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, who leads the archdiocese of San Francisco where Pelosi attends mass, announced that she would be subsequently barred from taking the eucharist on account of her rabidly pro-abortion ways, which are considered known mortal sins within the Roman Catholic faith.

At the time, he explained that a “Catholic legislator who supports procured abortion, after knowing the teaching of the Church, commits a manifestly grave sin which is a cause of most serious scandal to others” and told her:

“You are not to present yourself for Holy Communion and, should you do so, you are not to be admitted to Holy Communion until such time as you publicly repudiate your advocacy for the legitimacy of abortion and confess and receive absolution of this grave sin in the sacrament of Penance.“

But Francis doesn’t care. He’s on record saying, “I Have Never Refused the Eucharist to Anyone,” and has expressly thwarted the instruction of Cordileone who is acting according to the Catholic Catechism, ultimately sending a message to Pelosi not to listen to her archbishop and to keep on her crooked path.

After all, the decrepit pontiff, whose theology makes the Banquet of Chestnuts feel like a holy gathering in comparison, has consistently affirmed that Joe Biden is a “good catholic” who he would not refuse communion, despite the President’s septuagenarian penchant for baby blood, so why would Pelosi be any different?

Pelosi met with him before the service, received a personal blessing, and then received communion during a papal Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, designed to mark the feasts of St. Peter and St. Paul. She was sitting in the VIP diplomatic seating, so there was no missing her as just another face in the crowd.