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Exercising The Funny Bone

August 9, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Exercising The Funny Bone

By DONALD DeMARCO These are, indeed, times that try men’s souls. Our spirits are weighed down by the COVID-19 pandemic together with the horrifying spectacle of our cities being vandalized, churches being ravaged, statues being desecrated, stores being looted, bad Supreme Court decisions being delivered, and sporting events being closed to spectators.Keeping one’s spirits up is most challenging. My thoughts turn to St. John Paul II and what he had to endure, even before he assumed the papacy. Both his mother and father died when he was young. His sister Olga died a few days after she was born. His brother, Edmund, who had obtained a degree in medicine, died at age 26 while serving his internship. John Paul had…Continue Reading

The Biden Rule: ‘No Men Need Apply!’

August 8, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on The Biden Rule: ‘No Men Need Apply!’

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN There is a real possibility that, this coming week, Joe Biden will be selecting the 47th president of the United States.For the woman Biden picks — he has promised to exclude from consideration all men, black, brown, white, or Asian — has a better chance of succeeding to the presidency than any vice-presidential nominee in U.S. history, other than perhaps Harry Truman.In 1944, the Democratic establishment engineered the dumping of radical Henry Wallace from Roosevelt’s ticket. They could see from FDR’s physical deterioration that he would not last through a full fourth term.There are other reasons the woman Biden chooses in August may become our 47th president.If Biden wins, he will be 78 when he takes…Continue Reading

Nantes Cathedral Fire… Altar Server Charged With Arson

August 7, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Nantes Cathedral Fire… Altar Server Charged With Arson

By COURTNEY MARES ROME (CNA) — A church volunteer has admitted to starting the fire at Nantes Cathedral and was charged with arson on Saturday, July 25.The 39-year-old Rwandan refugee — who had been detained and released by the police immediately following the July 18 fire at the Gothic cathedral — was arrested again and indicted July 25 on “charges of destruction and damage by fire,” according to the Nantes public prosecutor.The prosecutor Pierre Sennes said in a statement that the volunteer had confessed to the examining magistrate on July 25 to lighting three fires in the cathedral, Le Figaro reported.“My client is today consumed with remorse and overwhelmed by the magnitude of the events,” Quentin Chabert, the lawyer of…Continue Reading

Vatican II And The Work Of The Spirit . . . His Has Been A Severe-Grace, But Also A Beneficent-Grace

August 6, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Vatican II And The Work Of The Spirit . . . His Has Been A Severe-Grace, But Also A Beneficent-Grace

By THOMAS G. WEINANDY, OFM, Capuchin (Wanderer Editor’s Note: This was printed in Inside the Vatican magazine and it is reprinted here with permission. Below is an introduction to the article from Inside the Vatican, followed by the full text of Fr. Weinandy’s essay.) + + (This essay today is by Fr. Thomas Weinandy, OFM Capuchin [the Capuchins are a reformed branch of the Order of St. Francis, the Order of Friars Minor, begun in 1525 by Matteo de Bascio].(Weinandy is a distinguished Catholic scholar and a man of profound intellectual integrity. He is the author of many books and essays, and Pope Francis gave him the prestigious Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice [“For the Church and the Pontiff”] award in 2013 for…Continue Reading

Fr. Pavone . . . Defends His Role In The Trump Campaign

August 5, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Fr. Pavone . . . Defends His Role In The Trump Campaign

TITUSVILLE, Fla. — Fr. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, called out the hypocrisy of media outlets this morning regarding their coverage of his relationship to the Trump Campaign.“I am advocating for the re-election of President Trump. That is not primarily a political advocacy, but a moral one. There are numerous reasons why neither I nor any other believer or patriot can vote for Democrats in this election. And I will be more loud and clear about that in these next 99 days, when my fulltime work will be to communicate that moral message.“Because I am a priest in good standing, and was told recently by the Congregation for Clergy that as a priest I am not supposed…Continue Reading

Turkey’s Erdogan… Sparks Controversy In Hagia Sophia Conversion

August 4, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Turkey’s Erdogan… Sparks Controversy In Hagia Sophia Conversion

By JOHN J. METZLER (Editor’s Note: John J. Metzler is a United Nations correspondent covering diplomatic and defense issues. He is the author of Divided Dynamism: The Diplomacy of Separated Nations; Germany, Korea, China.) + + Its very name Hagia Sophia evokes the ancient mysteries of Byzantium. Its setting along the Golden Horn on the majestic Bosporus joining Europe and Asia in itself serves as a beacon for uniting world religions. Yet this magnificent church which has weathered the march of time and the shift of empires has now fallen victim to a very contemporary crisis: a crass political/religious move by Turkey’s authoritarian leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan to return the historic structure into a mosque.Constructed in AD 537 by the…Continue Reading

Our Problem Is Not Too Many Babies, But Too Few Babies

August 3, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Our Problem Is Not Too Many Babies, But Too Few Babies

By STEVEN MOSHER (Editor’s Note: Steven W. Mosher [@StevenWMosher] is the president of the Population Research Institute and the author of Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream Is the New Threat to World Order. LifeSiteNews first published this commentary on July 27.) + + (LifeSiteNews) — Amidst all the gloom and doom about overpopulation, occasionally someone actually takes a hard look at the numbers and accurately reports what they see. This is what a team of researchers at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and evaluation did. Their findings, newly published in The Lancet, are eye-popping.First, the UW researchers noted that family sizes have been dropping for decades. Whereas in 1950 women worldwide had an average of 4.7…Continue Reading

Is Dialogue Possible Any Longer?

August 2, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Is Dialogue Possible Any Longer?

By DONALD DeMARCO The meaning of the word “dialogue” is to speak across (dia) the “logos.” The “logos” refers to the source of reason that makes it possible for people to see the same thing. Reason unites because it is the common reality that binds people together. For Catholics, the “logos” is the “Word,” and the Word was made flesh. The “Word,” therefore, is the objective center of things, the source of reason that allows people who may initially differ, to come together in agreement. “Dialogue” is a word rich in implication and bright with hope.Unfortunately, in this hour of mayhem, there is no center which can unite people. The Irish poet, William Butler Yeats, described the situation quite accurately…Continue Reading

American “Stormtroopers” — A Bright Shining Lie

August 1, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on American “Stormtroopers” — A Bright Shining Lie

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN With the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse under nightly siege from violent radicals, and Portland’s police hard-pressed to protect it, President Trump sent in federal agents to secure the building.The reaction from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi:“The use of Stormtroopers under the guise of law and order is a tactic that is not appropriate to our country in any way.”Majority Whip James Clyburn endorsed the speaker’s equating of the U.S. law enforcement officers to Ernst Rohm’s SA thugs being deployed to do the dirty work of Adolf Hitler.“Nobody asked the federal government to come into Portland. Nobody asked them to come to Seattle,” ranted Clyburn. “This is something that’s made up of whole cloth…Continue Reading

Who’s Standing Up For Him? Now They’re Targeting God

July 31, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Who’s Standing Up For Him? Now They’re Targeting God

By BARBARA SIMPSON (Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on WorldNetDaily, www.wnd.com, July 17. All rights reserved. Barbara Simpson has a 20-year radio, TV, and newspaper career in the Bay Area and Los Angeles.) + + Just in case people haven’t noticed, probably because mainstream media ignore or downplay them, there’s been a rash of attacks in this country on the symbols of the Catholic Church — buildings and scores of statues across the country.Statues of Fr. Junipero Serra, the Virgin Mary, and other saints that were in public outside of churches and schools and in parks were defaced with paint and graffiti, beheaded and often just cut down. Of course, with most of this, there is no way to…Continue Reading