On Wednesday, Attorney General William Barr delivered a speech addressing the common misrepresentation of the phrase “separation of church and state” at the 16th Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast. The event was held virtually due to the pandemic.

“Militant secularists have long seized on [the “separation of church and state”] slogan as a facile justification for attempting to drive religion from the public square and to exclude religious people from bringing a religious perspective to bear on conversations about the common good,” Barr said.

According to Fox News, Barr also noted a decline of “traditional morality” as “actively hostile” people call for the support of removing religion from state entities.

The attorney general argued that the removal of religion and “striking increases in urban violence, drug abuse and broken families” are directly correlated.

“Problems like these have fed the rise of an ever more powerful central government, one that increasingly saps individual initiative, coopts civil society, crowds out religious institutions and ultimately reduces citizens to wards of the state,” Barr said.

Barr also addressed “three important victories for religious freedom” concerning recent Supreme Court cases, including a July decision that allows employers to opt-out of the Affordable Care Act’s birth…

A Christian student group, Business Leaders in Christ, was reportedly deregistered and essentially kicked off the University of Iowa campus and put on a religious watchlist for requiring its leaders to sign a statement of faith that did not affirm the LGBTQ community.

According to CBN News, Vice President and Senior Counsel for Becket Law Firm Eric Baxter, who is representing the group, said that the university discriminated against Business Leaders in Christ because they did not affirm homosexual marriage and other LGBT hot button issues.

According to Baxter, once they complained to the university, the school doubled down and proceeded to deregister several other religious groups after asking them to outline their beliefs. The only group that was allowed to stay on campus was the one religious group that supported homosexuality. Baxter is arguing that the group was also given preferential treatment.

“That was textbook discrimination and in violation of our clients’ first amendment rights,” Baxter told CBN News.

Reportedly, the student who started the other group was disgruntled with Business Leaders in Christ and started his own group requiring leaders to affirm homosexuality in the statement of faith.

Baxter says they have asked the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals to hold these officials accountable for what they did, including forcing the religious groups to either change their statements…

During the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast on Wednesday, President Trump announced that he will be signing the Born Alive Executive Order that will ensure medical treatment for infants who survive attempted abortions.

“Today, I am announcing that I will be signing the born alive executive order to assure that all precious babies born alive, no matter their circumstances, receive the medical care that they deserve. This is our sacrosanct moral duty,” Trump said in a pre-recorded video appearance at the event.

He added that his administration will provide increased federal funding for neonatal research, CBN News reports.

At the time of this writing, the full text of the Born Alive Executive Act has yet to be released.

A bill bearing the same name had previously been introduced to Congress multiple times but has yet to pass through both houses.

According to the Catholic News Agency, the proposed bill required that babies who survive failed abortions must be given medical care just as if they had been born prematurely under different conditions.

Following Trump’s announcement, Jeanne Mancini, president of the pro-life March for Life, lauded the president for his actions.

“President Trump once again has stepped up for life,” Mancini said. “His actions today provide necessary legal protections for some of the most vulnerable in society: survivors of failed…

In a new study published in the journal Nature, neuroscientists Adam B. Weinberger, Natalie M. Gallagher, Zachary J. Warren, Gwendolyn A. English, Fathali M. Moghaddam and Adam E. Green at the University of Georgetown have found that the ability to see patterns in visual cues correlates strongly with belief in God, meaning people who are more apt to see order in visual data are also more likely to state there is a God/order to the universe.

The study took American Christians and Afghans from unspecified religions and tested them using a visual pattern test designed to gauge intuition. They found that all people who professed a belief in God were more apt to recognize patterns in the experiment. This could mean that people who are more apt to notice patterns can see God at work easier than those who cannot. According to The Christian Post:

“They pressed a button for each of the moving dots but some participants in the study — the ones who registered the strongest implicit learning ability — began to subconsciously learn the patterns hidden in the sequence. They pressed the button for dots before they appeared. Even the best implicit learners in the study did not know that the dots formed patterns, which demonstrated that the learning had happened at an unconscious level.”

One of the researchers, Adam Green, was interviewed by The Christian Post concerning the study and,…

Earlier this week, Quebec’s Minister of Health and Social Services, Christian Dubé, announced that churches and places that serve alcohol must lower their capacity to no more than 50 people, according to The Christian Post.

Areas hit hard by COVID, such as Montreal and Quebec City, that have been labeled “orange” for infections, must restrict their indoor facilities’ capacity to only 25 people present.

Yet religious leaders find the announcement troubling as other indoor facilities are exempt from the new ruling, including auditoriums, cinemas, theaters, and audiovisual recording studios. These places may have 250 people present.

“Epidemiological investigations have shown that outbreaks are more particularly linked to gatherings,” said the Health and Social Services department in a statement. “Thus, public health therefore recommends tightening the rules relating to gatherings in order to protect the population.”

Bishop Pierre Goudreault, head of the Roman Catholic Dioceses of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere believes the ruling is discrimination as no Catholic church has experienced an outbreak. Mass participants have practiced the three “W”s: “watch your distance, wear your mask, and wash your hands,” according to a report by RealClearScience.

“With approximately 17,000 parishes in America typically holding three or more weekend…

Months after the death of Breonna Taylor, a grand jury has decided to indict one of the three police officers involved in the police shooting of the 26-year-old emergency room technician.

On Wednesday, a grand jury indicted former Louisville police detective Brett Hankison on three felony charges of first-degree wanton endangerment.

Hankison was charged with endangerment because he was found to have fired his weapon into a covered glass patio door and window, a move that is in clear violation of a department policy dictating that an officer must have a clear line of fire before discharging his or her weapon. Reportedly, at least one bullet fired from Hankison’s gun traveled through Taylor’s apartment wall and into the adjoining residence where a pregnant woman, her husband and their 5-year-old child were sleeping. None of them were harmed.

Hankison, who was not brought up on charges for Taylor’s death, has since been fired from the force.

In his dismissal letter issued in June, the Louisville Police Department argued that Hankison showed “extreme indifference to the value of human life” when he “blindly fired” 10 times into Taylor’s apartment.

The other two officers involved, Sargent Jonathan Mattingly and Deputy Myles Cosgrove, were not indicted by the grand jury.

According to the Washington Post, Mattingly, who suffered a gunshot wound to the upper thigh, was the only…

Evangelist Anne Graham Lotz is issuing an urgent call to repentance, warning that America has a “small window of opportunity” to return to God, that, if not taken, will incite severe judgment.

In an interview with The Christian Post, Lotz, founder and president of Angel Ministries, said the United States has repeatedly “shaken its fist” in God’s face, removing His name everywhere from schools to the government. 

“When you do that, God just backs away,” she said, citing Romans 1, which speaks of the retributive judgment of God. 

“God gives us over to ourselves, and I believe that is where we are right now; it really is the judgment of God,” Lotz said. “America has a window of opportunity to return to the Lord, but it’s just a window, and it’s going to close. We’re going to find our nation without God, and without Him, we don’t have His protection, we don’t have His wisdom.”

“If we’re not careful, we’re going to totally lose our way,” she stressed. “America will become unrecognizable. The world is a…