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Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic… More On Feminist Ideology And Sexual Harassment

June 13, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic… More On Feminist Ideology And Sexual Harassment

By STEPHEN M. KRASON (Editor’s Note: Stephen M. Krason’s “Neither Left nor Right, but Catholic” column appears monthly [sometimes bimonthly]. He is professor of political science and legal studies and associate director of the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at Franciscan University of Steubenville, where he has been on the faculty since 1986. He is also co-founder and president of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists [SCSS] and a lawyer. (In 2012, the Society awarded him with its Pope Pius XI Award for his contributions to Catholic social science scholarship. Among his books are: Abortion: Politics, Morality, and the Constitution; Liberalism, Conservatism, and Catholicism; The Transformation of the American Democratic Republic; and Catholicism and American Political Ideologies. He…Continue Reading

A Book Review… Without Humility, No One Can Love God

June 12, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… Without Humility, No One Can Love God

By MITCHELL KALPAKGIAN Humility: Wellspring of Virtue, by Dietrich von Hildebrand (Sophia Institute Press, Manchester, NH, 1997), 109 pp. Paperback; $5.95. Available from www.sophiainstitute .com or call 1-800-888-9344. The Christian virtue absent in the ancient world of Greece and Rome until taught and embodied by Christ in the example of washing the feet of the disciples (“For I have given you an example, that as I have done to you, so you do also”), humility, like love, protects all the moral virtues from losing their intrinsic goodness and attraction. Without humility, good works acquire various symptoms of pride that taint every virtue with aspects of self-righteousness, spiritual pride, complacency, and legalism. This book plumbs the depths of humility’s spiritual richness.…Continue Reading

Boehner’s Right — It’s Trump’s Party Now

June 11, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Boehner’s Right — It’s Trump’s Party Now

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “There is no Republican Party. There’s a Trump party,” John Boehner told a Mackinac, Mich., gathering of the GOP faithful the past week. “The Republican Party is kind of taking a nap somewhere.” Ex-Speaker Boehner should probably re-check the old party’s pulse, for the Bush-Boehner GOP may not just be napping. It could be comatose. Consider. That GOP was dedicated to free trade, open borders, amnesty, and using U.S. power to punish aggressors and “end tyranny in our world.” That GOP set out to create a new world order where dictatorships were threatened with “regime change,” and democratic capitalism was the new order of the ages. Yet, Donald Trump captured the Republican nomination and won the…Continue Reading

Why Are They Cheering?

June 10, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Why Are They Cheering?

By DONALD DeMARCO On October 3, 1995, O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murdering his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ron Goldman. Cameras were placed in a shelter for abused black women to capture the reaction of these women at the very moment television informed them of the verdict. On hearing the news, the women burst into wild applause and loud, affirming cheers. A little over a year later, on January of 1997, a civil court found O.J. Simpson liable for deaths of Nicole and Ron, and ordered him to pay $33.5 million to the families of the two victims. In hindsight, the cheers were emotional, premature, and ill-considered. In May of 1962, in Liège, Belgium, Suzanne van de Put fed…Continue Reading

A Book Review… Pursuing The Holy Grail

June 9, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… Pursuing The Holy Grail

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY A Catholic Quest for the Holy Grail by Charles A. Coulombe (TAN Books, hardcover, 264 pages, $14.53 print, $10.22 Kindle). A Catholic Quest for the Holy Grail sets out to answer such questions as what exactly was the Holy Grail, and what is its significance for modern Catholics. To do this, author Charles Coulombe looks at the medieval romances which grew up around the subject of the Holy Grail, which in tradition has been regarded as the cup or chalice used by Christ at the Last Supper. (The word Grail comes from the Old French word graal or greal, which means a cup or a bowl.) The author also seeks to relate the Grail to themes…Continue Reading

A Book Review . . . Coming To Know God Is The End Of Human Life

June 8, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review . . . Coming To Know God Is The End Of Human Life

By JUDE DOUGHERTY Elders, Leo. Thomas Aquinas and His Predecessors: Philosophers and the Church Fathers in His Works. Washington, D.C. The Catholic University of America Press. 2018. Pp. xv + 381. This is a valuable survey of the sources that Thomas Aquinas consulted in the development of his philosophy and theology. It is not merely a textual survey of those sources, but an account of how Thomas related to or assessed the authors he consulted. In writing the book, Professor Leo Elders has drawn not only on his knowledge of the works of Thomas Aquinas, but he has utilized the work of scores of secondary sources as he develops his exposition. The philosophers Thomas drew upon were many, as one…Continue Reading

World Youth Day Cross And Icon To Travel Around U.S.

June 7, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on World Youth Day Cross And Icon To Travel Around U.S.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The official World Youth Day (WYD) Cross and Marian Icon, entrusted to the youth and young adults of the world by St. John Paul II in 1984, will make a multi-city tour of the United States in August 2018, the first time in 25 years such a coordinated journey has occurred. The USCCB Secretariat of Laity, Marriage, Family Life, and Youth (LMFLY), in particular its World Youth Day USA (WYDUSA) initiative, is coordinating the national tour. The Cross and Icon will travel across the country from Sunday, August 19 to Monday, August 27, 2018. The five stops along its U.S. journey are, in order: Chicago; Miami; Houston; Washington, D.C.; and Los Angeles. Archbishop José Domingo Ulloa Mendieta,…Continue Reading

G.K. Chesterton’s Sainthood Cause May Soon Be Opened

June 6, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on G.K. Chesterton’s Sainthood Cause May Soon Be Opened

By PERRY WEST NORTHAMPTON, England (CNA/EWTN News) — As an investigation into the life of Catholic apologist G.K. Chesterton nears a close, admirers of the English writer voiced hope that his sainthood cause could soon be opened. “Chesterton stands up as that saint who contradicts the world in terms of speaking out against a bad philosophy and bad thinking,” said Dale Ahlquist, president of the American Chesterton Society. “Chesterton is someone who has really contradicted the age. He is in fact a maker of converts. There are hundreds of people who have come to the Catholic faith as a result of encountering G.K. Chesterton, and I’m certainly one of them.” Ahlquist spoke to Catholic News Agency on May 29, which…Continue Reading

Sensing The Sacred In The Writings Of Dietrich Von Hildebrand

June 5, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Sensing The Sacred In The Writings Of Dietrich Von Hildebrand

By JAMES MONTI From the inception of this Wanderer column in 2015, one of the primary aims of “Restoring the Sacred” has been to explain the importance of cultivating and preserving a sense of the sacred in the life of the Church, in our lives as individual Catholics, and in the wider culture. It is long overdue that I should share with you in this regard the compelling insights of one of the greatest Catholic minds and souls of the twentieth century, Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889-1977). A profound perception of the sacred runs like a strong undercurrent throughout the writings of this remarkable “Knight for truth,” as his wife Dr. Alice von Hildebrand has so aptly dubbed him. His words…Continue Reading

What Is America’s Cause In The World Today?

June 4, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on What Is America’s Cause In The World Today?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN After being sworn in for a fourth term, Vladimir Putin departed the Kremlin for Annunciation Cathedral to receive the televised blessing of Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church. The patriarch and his priests in sacred vestments surrounded Putin, who, standing alone, made the Sign of the Cross. Meanwhile, sacred vestments from the Sistine Chapel were being transported by the Vatican to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art to adorn half-clad models in a sexy show billed as “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.” One model sported a papal tiara. The show proved a sensation in secular media. In Minsk, Belarus, on May 17, to celebrate International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, Britain’s embassy…Continue Reading