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The Progressive Is A Different Kind Of Animal

August 24, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on The Progressive Is A Different Kind Of Animal

By WAYNE TRYHUK We should not be surprised that “progressives” promote something as radical as “transgenderism.” After all, they engage in another kind of “trans” behavior. We could call it transpecielism, the exhibition of characteristics of another species — in this case, the animal one. For aren’t “progressives” behaving like members of the animal species — who sometimes abandon their helpless young, ensuring their consequent deaths — when they approve of legally allowing babies who survive abortion to die, writhing and gasping for air, due to a failure to provide potentially life-saving care? Showing similar animalism, “progressives” condone poisoning, chemically burning, and wrenching apart babies in the womb as is done in various forms of abortion. And how lacking in…Continue Reading

Cardinal Pell . . . “Amazon Or No Amazon, The Church Cannot Allow Any Confusion”

August 23, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Cardinal Pell . . . “Amazon Or No Amazon, The Church Cannot Allow Any Confusion”

By ED CONDON MELBOURNE (CNA) — George Cardinal Pell has written a letter to supporters saying he is “disturbed” by the preparations for the forthcoming synod on the Amazon. The text of the two-page, handwritten letter — images of which were shared with Catholic News Agency and confirmed by sources close to Pell — has been circulated among a group of Pell’s closest supporters in Australia. In the letter, dated from Melbourne Assessment Prison on August 1, the cardinal also says that he has been sustained in his incarceration by his faith and by the prayers of the faithful, and that he is offering his suffering in prison for the good of the Church. “The knowledge that my small suffering…Continue Reading

China’s High-Tech Tyranny

August 22, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on China’s High-Tech Tyranny

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY (Editor’s Note: Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor-in-chief of CNSnews.com. Creators Syndicate, www.creators.com, distributed this column.) + + + There are passages in the State Department’s latest reports on human rights and religious freedom in the People’s Republic of China that read as if they ought to be in some futuristic horror story — not in a federal agency’s factual explanation of how freedom is curtailed in the world’s most populous nation. First, there are the multitudinous surveillance cameras and the facial recognition software that makes them so useful to China’s Communist regime. “According to media reports, the Ministry of Public Security used tens of millions of surveillance cameras throughout the country to monitor the general…Continue Reading

A Book Review… Pulling Back The Veil Between Heaven And Earth

August 21, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… Pulling Back The Veil Between Heaven And Earth

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY Eucharistic Miracles and Eucharistic Phenomena in the Lives of the Saints, by Joan Carroll Cruz (TAN Books, 330 pages, Paperback and Kindle). Available at amazon.com. This book deals with miracles involving the Eucharist and saintly figures. The text ranges from miracles occurring in the eighth century to those occurring in more recent times and has numerous black and white illustrations. Most of the miracles described here date from the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries, that is from the ages of faith. The book begins with an introduction outlining Catholic teaching on Holy Communion and emphasizes that the Eucharist is truly the Body and Blood of Christ, that it causes an increase of sanctifying grace in the…Continue Reading

Diocese of Scranton . . . Launches Investigation Into National Shrine Rector Rossi

August 20, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Diocese of Scranton . . . Launches Investigation Into National Shrine Rector Rossi

By ED CONDON WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNA) — The Diocese of Scranton has begun an investigation into allegations of misconduct on the part of the rector of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. “Bishop Joseph Bambera, bishop of the Diocese of Scranton, has commenced the process of launching a full forensic investigation into the concerns that have been raised,” about Msgr. Walter Rossi, the diocese told Catholic News Agency August 14. “Approximately one year ago, concerns were raised in the public sector regarding Msgr. Walter Rossi, a priest who was incardinated in the Diocese of Scranton but who has served more than 20 years at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate…Continue Reading

China’s Human Rights Sham

August 19, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on China’s Human Rights Sham

By JOHN J. METZLER PARIS — It’s never polite to question the deteriorating human rights situation in China, but let’s do it anyway. The hidden and systematic repression of ethnic Uighur Muslims in China’s western Xinjiang province and the high-profile crackdown on pro-demonstrators in Hong Kong, many of them Christian, are both rooted in the same glaring reality: China’s Communist Party (CCP) does not allow dissent. The regime’s crackdowns in Xinjiang are rooted largely in religious and cultural repression of the Muslim minority, usually under the specious guise of combatting terrorism. Beijing’s atheistic state does not sit well alongside genuinely practiced religion whether it’s Islam or Roman Catholicism. Thus, over the past few years more than one million Muslim civilians…Continue Reading

Wisconsin Lawmaker Lies About Catholic League

August 18, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Wisconsin Lawmaker Lies About Catholic League

By BILL DONOHUE (Editor’s Note: Catholic League President Bill Donohue commented as follows August 14 on Wisconsin state legislator Chris Taylor’s attack on the League.) + + + Having co-authored a bill that would require Catholic priests to violate the seal of the confessional, Rep. Chris Taylor distorts the Catholic League’s opposition to this bill as a stand against protecting abused children. Nothing could be further from the truth. We have always supported laws that require all professionals who work with minors — be they clergy, teachers, scout leaders, health-care workers, or abortion providers like Planned Parenthood — to report instances of child sexual abuse. Wisconsin’s current law, which we support, already includes clergy as mandatory reporters. What we oppose…Continue Reading

China, Not Russia, The Greater Threat

August 17, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on China, Not Russia, The Greater Threat

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Ten weeks of protests, some huge, a few violent, culminated August 13 with a shutdown of the Hong Kong airport. Ominously, Beijing described the violent weekend demonstrations as “deranged” acts that are “the first signs of terrorism,” and vowed a merciless crackdown on the perpetrators. China is being pushed toward a decision it does not want to make: to use military force, as in Tiananmen Square 30 years ago, to crush the uprising. For that would reveal the character of President Xi Jinping’s Communist dictatorship, as well as Beijing’s long-term plans for this semi-autonomous city of almost 7.5 million. Yet this is not the only internal or border concern of Xi’s regime. Millions of Muslim Uighurs…Continue Reading

Cicero On Old Age

August 16, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Cicero On Old Age

By JUDE DOUGHERTY Marcus Tulius Cicero, philosopher orator, statesman completed De Senectute (On Old Age), one of many books, in July 44 B.C. Dedicated to Cato the Elder, the book addresses “the common burden of old age.” A beloved author through the ages, Cicero lived from 106 B.C. until he was murdered in 43 B.C. Harvard University Press continues to make available William A. Falconer’s 1923 laudable translation of De Senectute in its Loeb Classic Series. The book may be called “a timely treatise,” given that the U.S. population grows significantly older with each passing generation. Authorities tell us that in 2018, seventeen percent of the United States’ GNP was devoted to health care, but there were only 7,000 certified…Continue Reading

French Language Under Assault From English

August 15, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on French Language Under Assault From English

By JOHN J. METZLER PARIS — A long linguistic battle between French and English appears to have been settled: English won. Some twenty-five years after passage of legislation to specifically defend use of the French language, and protect its patrimony throughout the land, what’s known as the Toubon law has become a quaint footnote. The respected French daily newspaper Le Figaro headlines, “Advertising, Business, and Politics: Franglais is gaining territory.” Franglais, which is a mix of French heavily mixed with English words and terms, has evolved since WWII. It does not have its roots in British English but in American English, which like the Latin of old, has become the lingua franca of our modern age. This is a language…Continue Reading