The sudden rise and recent wave of anti-Catholic violence has come as something of a shock. What exactly do protests about George Floyd and accusations of police brutality have to do with Catholic churches, Saint Junipero Serra, Christopher Columbus, the Good Shepherd, and the Blessed Virgin Mary?
On the face of it, absolutely nothing. But as we have seen throughout history, once unconstrained mobs harboring malevolent grudges and ill-defined resentments are encouraged to prowl the streets without fear of law enforcement, nothing good is likely to result.
A prominent Democrat running for governor of New Hampshire supports a proposed pipeline for natural gas that would run from the town of Exeter in the Seacoast area of the state to its largest city, Manchester.
The 16-inch underground pipeline, called Granite Bridge, would run along Route 101, an important east-west highway in southern New Hampshire. It would connect existing pipelines and allow greater access to natural gas from Dawn, Ontario and liquefied natural gas from Saint John, New Brunswick, according to Liberty Utilities, which is planning to build the new pipeline.
