It's not every morning that you wake up looking down at Independence Hall. It just happens to be the room you got at the cheaper option on a hotel discount app when swinging by the Constitution Center for the Becket Fund's annual dinner. For the semiquincentennial of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, this is the place to be for an organization — a ministry, really — dedicated to keeping America free, defending religious liberty in court, and fighting for the rights of Americans to believe or not to believe.

Last night, I was at an old, reliable daily Mass in town, at St. John the Evangelist in Center City. At the same time, not too far from Walt Disney World, the Catholic bishops of the United States were consecrating the nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

The feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a moving feast in the Catholic Church, although it always occurs on a Friday in June. Four years ago, it also happened to be the day that the Dobbs........

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