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Celebrating The Sacred Liturgy With The Utmost Magnificence And Splendor

August 1, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Celebrating The Sacred Liturgy With The Utmost Magnificence And Splendor

By JAMES MONTI In the Roman Canon (Eucharistic Prayer I), amid the Old Testament sacrifices it cites as prefiguring that of Christ on Calvary, we find the sacrifice of Abel. At the dawn of human history, two sacrifices were offered to God, both by sons of Adam, but only one of these found favor with Him. For Abel offered to God the very best He had to offer, “the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions” (Gen. 4:4). But Cain offered the bare minimum, “the fruit of the ground” (Gen. 4:3), and nothing more. Abel’s oblation was pleasing and acceptable to God; Cain’s was not. From the abundance of God’s creation Abel took abundantly and gave abundantly —…Continue Reading

An American Life

July 31, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on An American Life

BY JUDGE ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO Last week, in Ridgewood, N.J., a 92-year-old unsung American patriot lost his battle with congestive heart failure. He had been surrounded by his wife and children and their spouses and their children. He left this vale of tears in his wife’s arms, peacefully and with dignity. His was an American life. He was born in Newark, N.J., during the Roaring 20s, the son of Italian immigrants who had come to America as children. When he was four years old, he met a curly-haired little girl in the neighborhood who was just three days older than he. She would become his high school sweetheart and his best friend for 88 years and his wife for the…Continue Reading

Courage Conference Celebrates Fr. John Harvey

July 30, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Courage Conference Celebrates Fr. John Harvey

By PERRY WEST PHILADELPHIA (CNA) — The Catholic group Courage International hosted its 30th annual Courage and EnCourage conference in mid-July, which aimed to offer men and women with same-sex attraction inspiration from the organization’s founder, the late Fr. John Harvey, OSFS. “This year we had the opportunity to remember the legacy of Fr. Harvey who is our founding director,” said Ann Schneible, communications director for Courage International. “This is really important, especially for our new members who joined since he stepped down from the position in 2008,” she told Catholic News Agency. More than 300 people attended the conference, which was hosted on July 12-15 at Villanova University in Philadelphia, where Harvey was born. The event also recognized what…Continue Reading

The Ten Virtues of Mary

July 29, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on The Ten Virtues of Mary

By DONALD DeMARCO Most Catholics, if asked how many virtues there are, would reply by saying “seven.” They would come to this number by adding the four cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude) to the three supernatural virtues (faith, hope, and charity). Then again, they might add the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit to the three evangelical virtues to get ten. But there is another way of enumerating virtues, one concerning which Catholics should be more familiar: the Ten Virtues of Mary. They correspond to the decade one recites when praying the “Chaplet of the Ten Evangelical Virtues of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary.” These virtues are recorded in various passages in the New Testament where Mary personifies…Continue Reading

Did Putin Persuade You To Vote Against Hillary?

July 28, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Did Putin Persuade You To Vote Against Hillary?

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.) + + + “We all know the Russians interfered in the last election and the question is: Are they going to do it again?” That is what Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday, July 24 before he laid down a red line: “They better not do it again.” Reasonable people cannot disagree with McConnell on this. But less-than-reasonable people may not put it in context. On July 31, 2016, the FBI started its investigation of Russian involvement in the 2016 election. The FBI team running that investigation had one remarkable characteristic: Many had just finished working together on “Midyear…Continue Reading

In Defense Of Trump With Putin

July 27, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on In Defense Of Trump With Putin

BY JUDGE ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO As a trial judge in New Jersey during the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush years, I spent much of my time trying to settle cases. This process involved bringing into my chambers the lawyers for the disputants and asking them in the absence of their adversaries to lay their cards on the table. After I found out what the litigants truly wanted and I did some pushing and shoving and jawboning, more often than not, agreements were reached. The threat of an imminent jury trial — with its expenses, complexities and uncertainties — was often enough to bring the parties to a quick, sensible and relatively inexpensive resolution. Occasionally, flattery — even fatuous flattery…Continue Reading

After Spring Teacher Strike… Maneuverings Have Taken No Summer Vacation

July 26, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on After Spring Teacher Strike… Maneuverings Have Taken No Summer Vacation

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — When the free-market Goldwater Institute based here issued an education policy memo in late June, that was only one result of the widespread Arizona teacher strike staged shortly before summer vacation began. The strike was heralded by its organizers as a foretaste of activism to be used against conservative states. Maneuverings following that strike have taken no vacation at all, with leftists hoping their activism will prove rewarding by raising taxes and defeating Republicans in Grand Canyon State November elections, and those on the other side cautioning about damage from that activism. The #RedForEd movement deprived about 850,000 Arizona public-school students of their classes from April 26 to May 4, even though Republican Gov. Doug…Continue Reading

Trump Calls Off Cold War II

July 25, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Trump Calls Off Cold War II

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Beginning his joint press conference with Vladimir Putin, President Trump declared that U.S. relations with Russia have “never been worse.” He then added pointedly, that just changed “about four hours ago.” It certainly did. With his remarks in Helsinki and at the NATO summit in Brussels, Trump has signaled a historic shift in U.S. foreign policy that may determine the future of this nation and the fate of his presidency. He has rejected the fundamental premises of American foreign policy since the end of the Cold War and blamed our wretched relations with Russia, not on Vladimir Putin, but squarely on the U.S. establishment. In a tweet prior to the meeting, Trump indicted the elites of…Continue Reading

U.S.-Russian Relations As A Domestic Political Weapon

July 24, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on U.S.-Russian Relations As A Domestic Political Weapon

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY (Editor’s Note: Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor-in-chief of CNSnews.com. Creators.com distributes his column.) + + + Former CIA Director John Brennan never accused his old boss Barack Obama of “treasonous” behavior. But when Brennan was serving as Obama’s homeland security adviser in March 2012, Obama met in South Korea with then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and had an exchange that suggested Obama was asking for a favor. Medvedev was a lame duck at the time — a leader whom the Congressional Research Service would later politely describe as Vladimir Putin’s “handpicked successor for one-term.” “Putin served eight years as president before stepping down in 2008, in compliance with constitutional limits on successive terms,” CRS explained. “His…Continue Reading

The Contraception-Abortion Connection… Pope John Paul II And What Pro-Life Means

July 23, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on The Contraception-Abortion Connection… Pope John Paul II And What Pro-Life Means

By FR. PAUL MARX, OSB (Editor’s Note: Below we reprint our historic article from Fr. Paul Marx, OSB, recounting his 1979 visit with Pope John Paul II, when the Holy Father told him “you will be doing the most important work on earth.” The Pope and Fr. Marx, who died just short of his ninetieth birthday in March 2010, agreed that widespread contraception always leads to massive abortion. (In this article, Fr. Marx, the founder of Human Life International, calls on priests to “learn and preach the prophetic Humanae Vitae, and speak out against contraception, abortifacients, and sterilization.” + + + On November 17, 1979 I discussed the pro-life movement with Pope John Paul II. He had just returned from…Continue Reading