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Are Abortion & Gay Rights American Values?

June 15, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Are Abortion & Gay Rights American Values?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “My religion defines who I am. And I’ve been a practicing Catholic my whole life,” said Vice President Joe Biden in 2012. “I accept my church’s position on abortion as . . . doctrine. Life begins at conception. . . . I just refuse to impose that on others.” For four decades, Biden backed the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits the use of the tax dollars of Joe’s fellow Catholics to pay for what they view as the killing of the innocent unborn. The past week, Joe flipped. He now backs the repeal of the Hyde Amendment. Ilyse Hogue of NARAL Pro-Choice America welcomed home the prodigal son: “We’re pleased that Joe Biden has joined the rest…Continue Reading

New Vatican Document . . . Says Gender Theory Is “Cultural And Ideological Revolution”

June 14, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on New Vatican Document . . . Says Gender Theory Is “Cultural And Ideological Revolution”

VATICAN CITY (CNA) — A Vatican department has issued a sweeping denunciation of so-called gender theory, and affirmed the principles of human dignity, difference, and complementarity. “In all such [gender] theories, from the most moderate to the most radical, there is agreement that one’s gender ends up being viewed as more important than being of male or female sex,” the Congregation for Catholic Education wrote June 10, in a new document entitled Male and Female He Created Them. “The effect of this move is chiefly to create a cultural and ideological revolution driven by relativism, and secondarily a juridical revolution, since such beliefs claim specific rights for the individual and across society.” The document says it aims to set out…Continue Reading

Archbishop DiNardo… Accused Of Mishandling Clerical Sexual Misconduct Case

June 13, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Archbishop DiNardo… Accused Of Mishandling Clerical Sexual Misconduct Case

HOUSTON (CNA) — The president of the U.S. bishops’ conference has been accused of mishandling an allegation of sexual coercion made against his former vicar general. A Texas woman says that Daniel Cardinal DiNardo permitted the priest, who she says sexually coerced her, to transfer to another diocese and continue in ministry, after she was promised that he would not be permitted to serve as a pastor. DiNardo is also the archbishop of Galveston-Houston. Laura Pontikes, a Houston-area Catholic, told the AP that while DiNardo acknowledged that she had been a “victim” of manipulation by an archdiocesan priest, the cardinal permitted the priest to continue serving in ministry. In 2007 Pontikes sought counsel from Msgr. Frank Rossi, vicar general of…Continue Reading

A Book Review . . . Seven Cultural Revolutions Revisited

June 12, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review . . . Seven Cultural Revolutions Revisited

By ABIGAIL WYNNE How Christianity Saved Civilization…And Must Do So Again by Mike Aquilina and James L. Papandrea, Sophia Institute Press: 2019; 270 pages. Available at www.sophiainstitutepress.com. In the book, How Christianity Saved Civilization…And Must Do So Again, Mike Aquilina and James L. Papandrea clearly and persuasively lay out the similarities between pre-Christian societies, particularly Roman society, and our current “post-Christian” world. These writers emphasize that the point of their book is not merely to show the contributions of the Catholic Church to the growth and betterment of society in the past, but also to encourage more change through the New Evangelization: “We believe that the Church can change the world for the better again.” The changes brought about by…Continue Reading

A Book Review… A Profound And Sweeping Look At Twentieth-Century Philosophy

June 11, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… A Profound And Sweeping Look At Twentieth-Century Philosophy

By JUDE DOUGHERTY Baring, Edward. Converts to the Real: Catholicism and the Making of Continental Philosophy. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2019; 493 pages. At one time — in the English-speaking world — “continental philosophy” was a term of abuse. The name designated those European philosophers who did not fit the Anglo-American mold. Edward Baring, early on in Converts to the Real, notices the anomaly, the designation of one philosophy by its predominant mode, the other by its geographical reach, i.e., France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Spain. “In the first decades of the twentieth century,” Baring writes, “neo-scholasticism was by any reasonable norm the most influential philosophical movement in the world.” It was this loosely defined network of like-minded philosophers…Continue Reading

Liberty Counsel Says… Illinois’ Abortion Bill Is Worse Than New York’s

June 10, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Liberty Counsel Says… Illinois’ Abortion Bill Is Worse Than New York’s

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Senate voted 34-20 May 31 to pass a bill that is even more extreme than New York’s infanticide law, says Liberty Counsel. The Reproductive Health Act repeals the state’s ban on partial-birth abortion, allowing abortions through nine months, and requires insurance companies to provide coverage. Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzker who has campaigned to make Illinois the most progressive state in the country for abortion, hugged and congratulated supporters of the bill on the Senate floor after the vote. Pritzker was expected to sign the bill into law. SB 25 strips all rights from unborn children, changes the definition of viability, and legalizes abortions through all nine months of pregnancy, up to the moment of birth,…Continue Reading

The Commencement Address I Did Not Give

June 9, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on The Commencement Address I Did Not Give

By DONALD DeMARCO Mr. President, dignitaries, graduates, alumni, relatives, and friends. Let me say at the outset that I have no idea why your president asked me to be your commencement speaker. I am the most politically incorrect person he knows. He may be taking a chance he will later regret. At any rate, I would like to say something memorable. This is surely a most daunting challenge. And I say this, knowing full well that I might be motivated by pride rather than by benevolence. I have listened to many commencement speakers over the years and I must say that I can hardly remember anything that any of them said. A single incident, however, stands out. One particular commencement…Continue Reading

Do Trump’s Hawks Speak For Trump?

June 8, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Do Trump’s Hawks Speak For Trump?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN For a president who won his office by denouncing the Middle East wars into which George W. Bush and Barack Obama plunged the nation, Donald Trump has assembled the most unabashedly hawkish conclave of foreign policy advisers in memory. And he himself seems to concede the point. If foreign policy were decided by my security adviser John Bolton, the president confided recently, “We’d be in four wars by now.” It was Bolton who ordered the Abraham Lincoln carrier group and B-52s to the Gulf and told the Pentagon to draw up plans to send 120,000 U.S. troops. It is Bolton who is charging Iran with using mines to sabotage four oil tankers outside the Strait of…Continue Reading

The Cost Of Warring On Religion

June 7, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on The Cost Of Warring On Religion

By BILL DONOHUE (Editor’s Note: Catholic League President Bill Donohue on June 4 commented as follows on what happens when politicians declare war on God.) + + + The left likes to describe the way status groupings such as class, race, and gender interconnect, constituting what they call intersectionality. In real life, no one uses such verbiage: It is confined to higher education and other left-wing ghettos. But it may have some utility in explaining why so many Democrats are sponsoring bills that result in the killing of innocent persons. Women and African Americans, two segments of the population championed by Democrats, are now at risk, thanks to policies that Democrats are supporting. On June 3, the Democrat-controlled Illinois Senate…Continue Reading

Archbishop DiNardo… Accused Of Mishandling Clerical Sexual Misconduct Case

June 6, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Archbishop DiNardo… Accused Of Mishandling Clerical Sexual Misconduct Case

HOUSTON (CNA) — The president of the U.S. bishops’ conference has been accused of mishandling an allegation of sexual coercion made against his former vicar general. A Texas woman says that Daniel Cardinal DiNardo permitted the priest, who she says sexually coerced her, to transfer to another diocese and continue in ministry, after she was promised that he would not be permitted to serve as a pastor. DiNardo is also the archbishop of Galveston-Houston. Laura Pontikes, a Houston-area Catholic, told the AP that while DiNardo acknowledged that she had been a “victim” of manipulation by an archdiocesan priest, the cardinal permitted the priest to continue serving in ministry. In 2007 Pontikes sought counsel from Msgr. Frank Rossi, vicar general of…Continue Reading