I understand the possible need of cleaning the stones, which is said to remove certain destructive chemicals. Ditto for Chartres Cathedral.

On the other hand, in addition to the irrefutable beauty of both churches, of equally irrefutable importance is that they've survived centuries. Both have seen destructive fires and sanctity as well as impiety. And Chartres was a very important center of Neo Platonism in the 12th century. To present cleaned versions as if they were new seems to soil them with the naive self preoccupation of the overblown yet fragile ego of 21st century man. If the two churches could talk, We've seen it all before might be heard.

My.parents' mailman , an older man, died of a heart attack. On the one year anniversary of his death, the son took his mother out for the evening.

They went to the tea dance at the Hyatt Regency. They died with others in the disaster.

Btw, the hotel was managed by Hyatt but owned by Hallmark--so also is Crown Center. My experience is that lobbies of some Hyatt hotels have been designed to play tricks on the eyes, so that they seem to be on the verge of collapse.

No. you didn't. As I said. the SCOTUS act just lets the present situation remain, which was established by overturning Roe v Wade, which makes it a matter for each state

As much as I would like to see all abortion in the US prohibited, it's highly unlikely to happen. It took 50 years to get Roe v Wade overturned.

For years the Pro Life position has been to overturn Roe v Wade, which returns the abortion question to the states. That happened.

The SCOTUS decision not to hear the case means that levonorgestrel is still a state matter, in line with overturning Roe v Wade.

Re the first 3 questions, I prefer the thought of St Thomas: The grace of original Innocence was sanctifying grace, but it was not Christian grace, which is a call to the Beatifica Vision. Further, a state of natura pura without grace would be a state of original sin.

Also the mention of achieving the BV smacks of semi-Pelagianism. Grace is the first principle of every supernatural act.