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Five Evil Things Biden Plans To Do As President

November 30, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Five Evil Things Biden Plans To Do As President

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY Are the policies Joe Biden plans to pursue as president good or evil?As the nation’s second Catholic president, will he act in a way that is consistent with the teachings of his faith?Will he follow the natural law and protect the God-given rights to life and liberty?At least five things candidate Biden promised to do as president can fairly be described as evil.The first is to enact a federal law to “codify” a “right” to kill unborn children.The Catholic Church has correctly called such killing murder.“The moral gravity of procured abortion is apparent in all its truth if we recognize that we are dealing with murder,” Pope John Paul II wrote in his encyclical letter Evangelium…Continue Reading

Kamala Harris And Julius Caesar

November 29, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Kamala Harris And Julius Caesar

By DONALD DeMARCO Kamala Harris made the following statement during the October 7 vice-presidential debate: “The issues before us couldn’t be more serious. There is the issue of choice, and I will always fight for a woman’s right to make a decision about her own body. It should be her decision and not that of Donald Trump and the vice-president, Michael Pence.”She makes the now common mistake of giving “choice” primacy. In the moral order, we discover what is good first and then choose it. When we raise “choice” to a level of primacy, we lose sight of what is good and open choice to any kind of immorality. In this regard, Harris’ view is preposterous, for it puts first…Continue Reading

Is Trump Exiting Afghanistan — To Attack Iran?

November 28, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Is Trump Exiting Afghanistan — To Attack Iran?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN With the Pentagon’s announcement that U.S. forces in Afghanistan will be cut in half — to 2,500 — by inauguration day, after 19 years, it appears the end to America’s longest war may be in sight.The Pentagon also announced a reduction of U.S. troop levels in Iraq to 2,500 by mid-January. In 2003, we invaded and occupied Iraq to remove a perceived threat from Saddam Hussein and to disarm that nation of weapons of mass destruction we discovered it did not have.No WMD were ever found, and the war George W. Bush launched to find and destroy them has been called the greatest strategic blunder in U.S. history.These two wars, Iraq and Afghanistan, cost us some…Continue Reading

The View From Nowhere

November 27, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on The View From Nowhere

By JUDE DOUGHERTY “The view from nowhere” is a phrase made famous by Thomas Nagel in a book he published in 1986 by that name. Nagel spoke of the negative effect of reporting that claimed to be neutral, where opposing views, or persons are granted equal validly or deemed equally of a hearing. Supposed impartiality is believed to give the “balanced” report universal or moral legitimacy, denied to anyone who dares to defend a particular point of view.Failure to recognize truth in the pursuit of impartiality is particularly egregious in discussions of sexual morality. Pretending that a homosexual union is morally equivalent with a procreative union prevents one from addressing the question of the good or purpose of sexual activity.Aristotle…Continue Reading

A Book Review . . . Resurrection

November 26, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review . . . Resurrection

By JOHN LYON Vodolazkin, Eugene, The Aviator. London: One World Publications; 2018. Translated by Lisa C. Hayden. Available at Amazon.com. “Exceptional.” “Amazing.” “Masterful.” “Captivating.” When one reads such summary praise on the dustjacket of a book, one suspects sheer puffery in their placement and disappointment in the anticipated reading. Not so here. The puffery may be inevitable, but at times there is substance to puff about. That is the case here. The adjectives are more accurate than this reader suspected.The protagonist of this novel is one Innokenty Petrovich Platonov: the innocent (that is, causing no harm) son of Peter, of Plato’s clan…about whose personal name we learn something of significance only near the end of the book. Briefly and blandly…Continue Reading

Bishop Daly Of Spokane . . . Says Catholic Schools Must Teach The Faith

November 25, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Bishop Daly Of Spokane . . . Says Catholic Schools Must Teach The Faith

By JONAH McKEOWN DENVER (CNA) — The U.S. bishops’ new chairman-elect for Catholic education says he hopes to bring his experience as a Catholic school teacher and president, as well as pastor of two parishes, into his new position.In an increasingly secular society, when people’s lives seem more and more to lack meaning, “our schools remind us of Christ’s love . . . a dignity of the human person that is beyond the mindset of the present moment, or the latest educational trend,” Bishop Thomas Daly of Spokane told Catholic News Agency November 17.Daly’s fellow bishops on November 16 elected him to serve as chairman of the Committee on Catholic Education for the USCCB, which provides guidance for the educational…Continue Reading

“I Couldn’t Fix Myself . . .” Bishop Conley Talks About His Mental Health Recovery

November 24, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on “I Couldn’t Fix Myself . . .” Bishop Conley Talks About His Mental Health Recovery

By MARY FARROW DENVER (CNA) — In December 2019, Bishop James Conley of the Diocese of Lincoln, Neb., announced he was going on a medical leave of absence.Citing diagnoses of depression and anxiety, as well as chronic insomnia and debilitating tinnitus (a constant ringing of the ears), the bishop said in a public statement that he would be receiving psychological as well as medical treatment.It had taken him months to get to a point where he realized he needed help.“It really goes back to the summer of 2018, so, long before I finally got to the point where I asked for some time off,” Conley told Catholic News Agency.“There were the difficulties in the Church with regard to the misconduct…Continue Reading

In Interview With Raymond Arroyo . . . Viganò Denies Accusations From McCarrick Report

November 23, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on In Interview With Raymond Arroyo . . . Viganò Denies Accusations From McCarrick Report

(CNA) — Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who served as apostolic nuncio to the United States from 2011 to 2016, has denied claims in the Vatican’s McCarrick Report that said he failed to act on instructions to investigate Theodore McCarrick.In a November 12 interview with Raymond Arroyo, host of EWTN’s The World Over, the former nuncio said he was not interviewed or asked to share his perspective as the report was being compiled, but was mentioned more than 300 times in the final report, often in a negative light.On November 10, the Vatican released a long-awaited report on former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was in 2018 acknowledged to have been credibly accused of sexually abusing a minor. McCarrick was subsequently accused…Continue Reading

Giving Thanks To The Pilgrims

November 22, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Giving Thanks To The Pilgrims

By DONALD DeMARCO I grew up in eastern Massachusetts, close enough to Plymouth Rock so that our family could travel to that historic spot, pay our respect, and get back home in time for supper. The legacy of the voyage of those stout-hearted pilgrims takes on special importance this year as we recall and celebrate that momentous event which took place exactly four hundred years ago.The crossing of the Atlantic did not go according to plans. Originally, the pilgrims hoped to reach America in early October of 1620 using two ships. Delays and various complications, however, meant that they could use but one ship, The Mayflower. Their intended destination was the Colony of Virginia. Storms blew them off course, north…Continue Reading

Beijing Sends Biden A Warning

November 21, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Beijing Sends Biden A Warning

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Because of Donald Trump, Vice President Joe Biden thundered during the campaign, the U.S. “is more isolated in the world than we’ve ever been . . . America First has made America alone.”Biden promised to repair relations with America’s allies. And he appears to have gone some distance to do so in the congratulatory phone call he received from Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga of Japan.According to Suga, during the brief call, Biden said Article V of the U.S.-Japan Mutual Security Treaty of 1960 covers the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, islands Japan controls but China claims as its own.“President-elect Biden gave me a commitment that Article 5 of the US-Japan security treaty applies to…Continue Reading