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The Journey Deep Into The Sacred

September 3, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on The Journey Deep Into The Sacred

By JAMES MONTI In the Book of Revelation, St. John relates that the Heavenly Jerusalem, “the Bride, the wife of the Lamb” was enclosed within “a great, high wall” with twelve gates (Rev. 21:9, 12). The imagery of enclosing, setting apart and distancing that which is sacred from the rest of creation, of drawing firm boundaries between the sacred and the profane, of defining “holy places” by separating them from their surroundings — the recognition of that which is the privileged “property” of God — runs through the Bible and down through two millennia of Catholic life and liturgy. When Moses was drawn to Mount Sinai for the first time by the mysterious sight of the burning bush, the Lord…Continue Reading

Liberals Don’t “Invest”… They Spend Other People’s Money

September 2, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Liberals Don’t “Invest”… They Spend Other People’s Money

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY (Editor’s Note: Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor-in-chief of CNSnews.com. Creators Syndicate distributes his column. All rights reserved.) + + + Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a self-avowed socialist, sometimes sounds like a multibillionaire entrepreneur when promoting his political agenda. He intends, you see, to “invest” a great deal of money. Of course, unlike a billionaire entrepreneur, Sanders won’t be investing his own money. He will be “investing” yours. Nor does Sanders intend to be a mere retailer. He is promising to make “massive investments” in a “Green New Deal” that will result in “a wholesale transformation of our society.” “From the Oval Office to the streets, Bernie will generate the political will necessary for a…Continue Reading

The Fundamental Mistake In Sex Education

September 1, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on The Fundamental Mistake In Sex Education

By DONALD DeMARCO Virtually every form of sex education commits the same mistake. This mistake has to do with positioning sex in the wrong place. Order is paramount. In relating to human beings, humanness comes first, one’s sexual identity (male or female) comes second. The expression “sex education” is a misnomer because it gives primacy to sex whereas the primacy belongs to one’s humanity. Scripture is clear on this point. Prior to meeting Eve, Adam was preoccupied with plants and animals. He was familiar with many species of life but did not know anyone who belonged to his own species. In his “Theology of the Body” John Paul II described Adam’s condition as “cosmic solitude.” This solitude was needed, however,…Continue Reading

Protests Made A Difference… Bigot Resigns From Virginia Government Post

August 31, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Protests Made A Difference… Bigot Resigns From Virginia Government Post

By BILL DONOHUE (Editor’s Note: Bill Donohue is president of the Catholic League. He issued the comment below on August 29 cheering the resignation of anti-Catholic Gail Gordon Donegan from the Virginia Council on Women. Gov. Ralph Northam had appointed her to the post. Along with Donohue’s protest, Bishop Michael Burbidge of the Arlington Diocese and Bishop Barry Knestout on August 27 jointly called on Gov. Northam to rescind the appointment.) + + + We’ve learned that Gail Gordon Donegan, the anti-Catholic bigot named by Gov. Ralph Northam to the Virginia Council on Women, has resigned. This is welcome news. Following Donegan’s appointment, it was revealed that she has been spewing forth a torrent of vile, hate-filled anti-Catholic twitter messages.…Continue Reading

International Scholars… Express Concerns About John Paul II Institute

August 30, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on International Scholars… Express Concerns About John Paul II Institute

VATICAN CITY (CNA) — A group of 49 academics from universities around the world has asked the administrators of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute in Rome to reinstate several faculty members recently dismissed from the Institute. Contributors to the recently completed Dizionario su Sesso, Amore e Fecondità, an interdisciplinary academic tome on sex, love, and fertility, expressed their views in an August 3 letter to administrators of the Institute. The project, which involved scholars from multiple specializations, was coordinated by recently dismissed John Paul II Institute Professor Fr. José Noriega. The scholars said that their work on the project was “a very fruitful and professional scientific collaboration which has highlighted to us the outstanding academic profile of your Institute…Continue Reading

Remembering Ralph McInerny, Author And Scholar

August 29, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Remembering Ralph McInerny, Author And Scholar

By JUDE DOUGHERTY In 1982, Ralph McInerny and Michael Novak launched Crisis Magazine — which McInerny described in its opening pages as a journal of lay Catholic opinion. McInerny (1929-2010) at that time was a highly respected professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. Having studied in the United States, Canada, and Europe, he was aware not only of what was current in his professional field of study but in the Catholic intellectual world as well. Novak at that time was a scholar in residence at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of the newly released, and soon to be acclaimed, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism. McInerny perceived that what used to be called “the liberal Catholic…Continue Reading

Greenland: Trump’s MAGA Idea!

August 28, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Greenland: Trump’s MAGA Idea!

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN To those of us of who learned our U.S. history from texts in the 1940s and 1950s, President Donald Trump’s brainstorm of acquiring Greenland fits into a venerable tradition of American expansionism. The story begins with colonial officer George Washington’s march out toward Fort Duquesne in 1754 and crushing defeat and near death at Fort Necessity, where, according to myth, he fired the first shot of what would become the French and Indian War. With the British victory, Washington went home to Virginia, only to be called back in 1775 to lead the Continental Army in America’s War of Independence, which lasted six years, until the victory at Yorktown. With the 1783 Treaty of Paris, the…Continue Reading

The Months Of Mary . . . The Birthday of Our Lady, Perpetual Virginity And Fatima

August 27, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on The Months Of Mary . . . The Birthday of Our Lady, Perpetual Virginity And Fatima

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY This is the fourth in a series of articles on our Lady in connection with some of the themes found in her major feasts and the Fatima message. This article is about her birthday, which is celebrated on September 8, the dogma of her Perpetual Virginity, and also about what happened at Fatima on September 13, 1917. In some of the previous articles we looked at the reasons given by the Child Jesus to Sr. Lucia, when He appeared to her in May 1930, as to why it was necessary to have a communion of reparation on five Saturdays. She later explained that she had been given to understand that this related to the five main…Continue Reading

A Book Review… So Much For Gender Being A Social Construct

August 26, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… So Much For Gender Being A Social Construct

By JEFF KOLOZE Ryan T. Anderson’s When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment (Encounter Books, 2018). Available at Amazon.com. Being transgender is a serious matter, and Ryan T. Anderson’s When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment demonstrates how ridiculous the aggressive transgender lobby has become in its efforts to force its ideology on the nation. Anderson’s book could be extremely controversial because it offers facts, not irrational opinions by aggressive transgender activists. He offers common sense and scholarly thought, not unscientific claims by the same aggressive transgender movement. He often provides interesting tidbits of information which carry significant social implications. Peppered throughout the work is Anderson’s profound respect for transgendered persons who either are anguished over…Continue Reading

Trump’s Great Gamble

August 25, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Trump’s Great Gamble

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN President Donald Trump’s reelection hopes hinge on two things: the state of the economy in 2020 and the identity of the Democratic nominee. The further left the Democrats go to select their candidate, the greater the probability Trump wins a second term. Thus Trump got good news this week. The verbal flubs of Joe Biden reached critical mass. They are now so numerous and egregious they have begun to call into question whether Biden, who turns 77 in November, is really up to a year of campaigning, followed by four years of leading the nation in the world. Nor is it only Trump saying this now. The Biden staff appears to be agonizing over the endless…Continue Reading