We’ve had a mixture of rain and sun this week, and one night I slipped out of the house to run to the store for strawberries.

Jennifer Briemann, executive director of the Maryland Catholic Conference, said lawmakers and voters should be greatly concerned about House of Delegates Speaker Michael Busch’s plan to introduce legislation establishing a woman’s “right” to abortion via a Maryland Constitutional Amendment on the 2020 ballot.

Ideas have consequences, and for decades some very bad ideas have given aid and comfort to predators inside and outside the church.

In the evangelical context, therefore, true accompaniment goes beyond fellowship. It has to do with offering the bread of life.

“When you override nature itself,” Bishop Brennan added, “you don’t respect it.”