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A Movie Review . . . Get Inspired By “I Am Patrick”

March 9, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on A Movie Review . . . Get Inspired By “I Am Patrick”

By REY FLORES What better way to spend St. Patrick’s Day this year than to watch the epic new film I Am Patrick: The Patron Saint of Ireland? This film, which will be in theaters for only two days, tells the story of one of our most revered and popular saints through re-enactments, expert interviews, and writings from the saint himself, which detail his journey to sainthood. The feature-length docudrama film features celebrated actor John Rhys-Davies, known for his role in The Lord of the Rings, as the older Patrick. Fellow actors Sean T. O’Meallaigh and Robert McCormack portray the younger Patrick in the film. While several films have been made about St. Patrick, this particular presentation goes further in…Continue Reading

Meditation On A Stop Sign

March 8, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Meditation On A Stop Sign

By DONALD DeMARCO The Stop Sign is different from the traffic light. The latter tells us when to “stop,” but it also tells us when to “go.” The Stop Sign tells us to stop and nothing more. It leaves a great deal of room for thought. In this regard, it is very much like life. We do not have ready instructions that tell us what to do after we stop. We are often stuck at the Stop Sign. The Stop Sign, unlike life, is a perfect example of both brevity and clarity. A single word in white on a background of red tells us exactly what to do. It commands obedience. Its octagonal shape was designed to indicate the presence…Continue Reading

Finish The Wall

March 7, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Finish The Wall

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY (Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor in chief of CNSNews.com. Creators.com distributes his column.) + + + The senator was adamant. “People should not have to force the federal government to live up to our responsibilities to enforce our borders and our laws. Period,” she said. “We do not have the luxury of debating this issue for another two years or four years,” she added. “Rather we have the responsibility to take action now.” She wanted the government to enforce the border and the laws against employing illegal immigrants. “Illegal immigration, however, is a matter of law enforcement,” she said. “Whether it is enforcing our borders, enforcing our laws against working illegally or hiring someone to…Continue Reading

Dioceses In Northern Italy… Suspend Mass During Coronavirus Outbreak

March 6, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Dioceses In Northern Italy… Suspend Mass During Coronavirus Outbreak

By HANNAH BROCKHAUS MILAN, Italy (CNA) — Several Catholic dioceses in northern Italy have suspended Mass and other activities to help contain the spread of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by coronavirus. The northern regions of Italy saw a dramatic uptick in coronavirus cases over the weekend of February 22, prompting some regions to suspend all events or gatherings of any form, in public or private. In response to the outbreak, dioceses in the area have taken various measures, including canceling Masses and asking Catholics to receive the Eucharist only in the hand. Italian officials have also imposed quarantine restrictions on several towns in the Lombardy and Veneto regions, where most of the infections have occurred. The number of coronavirus…Continue Reading

But Vigilance Is Needed . . . Why We Can Breathe a Sigh of Relief On Querida Amazonia

March 5, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on But Vigilance Is Needed . . . Why We Can Breathe a Sigh of Relief On Querida Amazonia

By FR. BRIAN HARRISON, OS A great deal has now already been written about Pope Francis’ anxiously awaited post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation Querida Amazonia, promulgated on the Feast of the Presentation, February 2, 2020. Many or even most Catholics were expecting — with either enthusiasm or trepidation — that the Holy Father would follow-up last October’s “Amazon” Synod of Bishops with some ground-breaking progressivist decisions that would, for better or worse, make a great impact on the universal Church. Well, that didn’t happen. In this article I will not attempt to review the entire exhortation, with its poetry-studded papal “dreams” about various broad ecological, humanitarian, and ecclesial concerns. Rather, I will focus on what seems to me the most important immediate…Continue Reading

Choosing Happiness And Authentic Freedom

March 4, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Choosing Happiness And Authentic Freedom

By MOST REV. JOSEPH STRICKLAND People are searching for true happiness. St. Augustine, in his Confessions, wrote, “The happy life is this — to rejoice to you, in you, and for you. That is it! And there is no other. But those who think there is another follow after other joys, and not the true one.” People want to be free. But the only freedom which will truly satisfy is the authentic freedom which comes from God alone; from choosing what is true, and good and noble and beautiful. Both the desire for happiness and the desire for freedom are a natural and supernatural longing. We live in an age which suggests that “happiness” can come from various forms of…Continue Reading

Episcopal Bishop Should Butt Out

March 3, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Episcopal Bishop Should Butt Out

By BILL DONOHUE (Editor’s Note: Catholic League President Bill Donohue commented February 21 on remarks made by an Episcopal bishop from Olympia, Wash.) + + + We would not defend a Catholic bishop who publicly criticized a decision by a high-ranking cleric of another religion about matters that pertain only to the members of that religion. We respect house rules. It’s too bad that Greg Rickel, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia, Wash., does not. Recently, two teachers at a Catholic high school in the Seattle area, a man and a woman, resigned, and it is believed they did so because it became known that they each got engaged to a person of the same sex. They had voluntarily…Continue Reading

“Sin Maketh Nations Miserable”

March 2, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on “Sin Maketh Nations Miserable”

  (Editor’s Note: Deacon James H. Toner, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of Leadership and Ethics at the U.S. Air War College, a former U.S. Army officer, and author of Morals Under the Gun and other books. He has also taught at Notre Dame, Norwich, Auburn, the U.S. Air Force Academy, and Holy Apostles College & Seminary. He serves in the Diocese of Charlotte, N.C. He has previously contributed to The Wanderer.) + + + An essay, a report, a book — together they make the melancholy case that publicly and privately we live at a time, as Alasdair MacIntyre tried to tell us about forty years ago, “after virtue.” We scramble for the best term to describe our plight: “Modernity,”…Continue Reading

The Art Of Being Tactful

March 1, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on The Art Of Being Tactful

By DONALD DeMARCO Tact is a way of making a point without making an enemy. It is correcting a friend without bruising his ego. And we all know, or at least should know, how fragile the ego can be. Tact is being sensitive to other people’s sensitivities. We need to be tactful so that our friends, relatives, colleagues, or associates do not remain in error. Tact is the delicate art that involves the proper balancing of respect, support, council, correction, and even kindness. “The greatest kindness one can render to any man,” wrote St. Thomas Aquinas, “consists in leading him to truth.” The transition from error to truth, however, is often stubbornly resisted. People, as a rule, would rather save…Continue Reading

Will JFK’s Party Become Sanders’ Party?

February 29, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Will JFK’s Party Become Sanders’ Party?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN (Editor’s Note: Mr. Buchanan’s column was distributed on February 25, prior to the votes in South Carolina and on Super Tuesday.) + + + Sen. Bernie Sanders may be on the cusp of both capturing the Democratic nomination and transforming his party as dramatically as President Donald Trump captured and remade the Republican Party. After his sweep of the Nevada caucuses, following popular vote victories in Iowa and New Hampshire, Sanders has the enthusiasm and the momentum, as the crucial battles loom in South Carolina on Saturday, February 29 and Super Tuesday on March 3. The next eight days could decide it all. And what is between now and Super Tuesday that might interrupt Sanders’ triumphal…Continue Reading