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Easter Sunday

April 4, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Easter Sunday

By DONALD DeMARCO Christmas may be the most popular of all Catholic feast days, but Easter is the most profound. The former may be more enjoyable, but the latter is more holy. The Nativity may be more ecumenical, but the Resurrection is more distinctly Christian. Santa Claus is more universal than the Easter Bunny. Hollywood has produced far more pictures about Christmas than about Easter. Nonetheless, Easter transcends Christmas in spiritual significance. If there were the Nativity but not the Resurrection, Christianity would have come to naught. St. Paul, whose conversion is connected with the Easter event, says: “If Christ has not been raised, our faith is in vain” (1 Cor. 15:14). As a result of sacrificing Himself, Jesus Christ…Continue Reading

Why Catholics Must Oppose Chai Feldblum’s EEOC Nomination

April 3, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Why Catholics Must Oppose Chai Feldblum’s EEOC Nomination

By JOANNE BUTLER In December 2017, President Trump nominated Chai Feldblum to another term on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (she was a Democrat appointee by President Obama). If confirmed, she will be on the EEOC until 2023. Those who oppose liberals who would destroy our religious liberty know Feldblum well. For that is exactly what she wants to do. A former Georgetown Law School professor, Feldblum not only is very knowledgeable in civil rights and employment law, but also in how to use Twitter and other social media to advance her homosexual agenda. She’s also a familiar face on the “gay rights” speaking circuit and the “gay employment” expert at personnel management conventions. And her views about “gay rights”…Continue Reading

A Movie Review… A Light In Darkness Arrives For Easter

April 2, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on A Movie Review… A Light In Darkness Arrives For Easter

By REY FLORES “My God’s not dead. He’s surely alive. He’s living on the inside, roaring like a lion” chorus lyrics from the song God’s Not Dead by The Newsboys. I have always wondered why atheists waste so much time and energy fighting against something they don’t believe exists. It’s written in the heart of every man that God does truly exist; do atheists fight that truth inside them instead of embracing it as we believers do? In the third installment of the successful God’s Not Dead film series from Pure Flix, we encounter yet another challenge from the angry, but weak secular forces who could never out force God, despite their hateful, intolerant, and persistent efforts. In this film,…Continue Reading

Hope For The Dead

April 1, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Hope For The Dead

By JUDGE ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO What is the connection between personal freedom and rising from the dead? When America was in its infancy and struggling to find a culture and frustrated at governance from Great Britain, the word most frequently uttered in speeches and pamphlets and editorials was not “safety” or “taxes” or “peace”; it was “freedom.” Two acts of Parliament assaulted freedom and broke the bonds with the mother country irreparably. The first was the Stamp Act, which was enforced by British soldiers, who used general warrants issued by a secret court in London to rummage through the personal possessions of any colonists they chose, ostensibly looking to see whether they had purchased the government’s stamps. These general warrants,…Continue Reading

In New Hampshire… How A “Moderate” Sacrificed His Political Principles

March 31, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on In New Hampshire… How A “Moderate” Sacrificed His Political Principles

By JACK KENNY Republican Gordon Humphrey, a former U.S. senator from New Hampshire, sacrificed a lot to support the election of Democrat Conor Lamb to Congress from a blue-collar Democrat district in Pennsylvania that went solidly for Republican candidate Donald Trump in the last presidential election. Humphrey trumpeted his support for the Keystone State Democrat in an article appearing in the New Hampshire Union Leader. He even boasted of making the maximum campaign contribution allowable. But as Ben Franklin said long ago, Humphrey “paid too much for his whistle.” He sacrificed more than the $2,700 he contributed to the Democrat’s campaign. The increasingly maverick — make that renegade or even apostate — Republican has sacrificed a good deal of his…Continue Reading

Is Trump Assembling A War Cabinet?

March 30, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Is Trump Assembling A War Cabinet?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN The last man standing between the U.S. and war with Iran may be a four-star general affectionately known to his Marines as “Mad Dog.” Gen. James Mattis, the secretary of defense, appears to be the last man in the Situation Room who believes the Iran nuclear deal may be worth preserving and that war with Iran is a dreadful idea. Yet, other than Mattis, President Donald Trump seems to be creating a war cabinet. Trump himself has pledged to walk away from the Iran nuclear deal — “the worst deal ever” — and reimpose sanctions in May. His new national security adviser John Bolton, who wrote an op-ed titled “To Stop Iran’s Bomb, Bomb Iran,” has…Continue Reading

Reducing Christ’s Perfection

March 29, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Reducing Christ’s Perfection

By JOHN YOUNG One sometimes hears, in homilies and elsewhere, that the Church has a greater appreciation of Christ’s humanity since Vatican II than previously. It is claimed that His Divinity was emphasized in a way that detracted from His humanity, but now we have a more realistic picture. According to this allegedly realistic view, Jesus was at first very much in the dark about His identity; He didn’t know He was God, perhaps becoming aware of this when He was baptized by John in the Jordan. It is also alleged that He made mistakes, apparently thinking, for example, that the end of the world was close. When He was touched by the woman with an issue of blood, He…Continue Reading

2017 Anglican-Oriental Orthodox Ecumenical Dialogue… The Anglicans Present A Disturbing Ecumenical Setback

March 28, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on 2017 Anglican-Oriental Orthodox Ecumenical Dialogue… The Anglicans Present A Disturbing Ecumenical Setback

By JAMES LIKOUDIS Since Vatican II’s encouragement for theological dialogues to take place between the different ecclesial confessions in order to determine the real dogmatic differences which impede the unity of Christians, there is no question that they have done much good in helping re-establish friendly contacts after centuries of polemics and in freeing theologians from mistaken views of the other’s doctrinal positions. There was always the hope that further theological study by participants might result in a convergence of views happily overcoming past misconceptions and prejudices. For example, recent theological dialogues have led to a welcome clarification by prelates of the Non-Chalcedon Oriental-Orthodox communion (not to be confused with the later Byzantine Schism of the Eastern Orthodox Churches), of…Continue Reading

Did Putin Order The Salisbury Hit?

March 27, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Did Putin Order The Salisbury Hit?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Britain has yet to identify the assassin who tried to murder the double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury, England. But Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson knows who ordered the hit. “We think it overwhelmingly likely that it was (Russian President Vladimir Putin’s) decision to direct the use of a nerve agent on the streets of the U.K.” “Unforgivable,” says Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov of the charge, which also defies “common sense.” On Sunday, March 18, Putin echoed Peskov: “It is just sheer nonsense, complete rubbish, to think that anyone in Russia could do anything like that in the run-up to the presidential election and the World Cup. . . . It’s simply unthinkable.”…Continue Reading

Rules, Commandments, And Obligations

March 26, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Rules, Commandments, And Obligations

By DONALD DeMARCO Professor Jordan Peterson, who teaches psychology at the University of Toronto and practices clinical psychology, has become a celebrity largely because he has refused to use ideological pronouns to address people who see themselves as neither male nor female. His notoriety has created a market for his recent book, 12 Rules for Life which the Spectator claims to be “one of the most important books to emerge on the world stage for many years.” It has been selling briskly through Amazon.com. His dozen bromides for a better life, which also serve as, according to the book’s subtitle, “An Antidote to Chaos,” are as follows: 1) Stand straight; 2) Obey the Golden Rule; 3) Choose your friends wisely;…Continue Reading