Two Things That Made Bernie Sanders Smile At The Impeachment Trial By TERENCE P. JEFFREY It looked like it might have been the happiest moment in the day for Sen. Bernie Sanders, as the House impeachment managers were making their unpersuasive case Wednesday, January 22 for removing President Donald Trump. A man rose up in the visitor’s gallery at the back of the Senate chamber. As loud as he could, he yelled the Lord’s name. As he attempted to speak further — in words I could not decipher — the police dragged him from the chamber. At the same moment, many of the reporters sitting in the press seats above the front of the chamber got up and quickly made…Continue Reading

French Senate Passes Controversial IVF Bill

PARIS (CNA) — The French Senate at the end of January passed a bill that would allow access to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) for single women and lesbian couples. The bill passed 160-116 on January 22 and is part of a larger bioethics law which cleared its first reading in the French National Assembly late last year. The Senate voted against part of the bill that would have funded IVF through French social security. The National Assembly had approved that provision of the legislation. Under the current law, IVF is only available to heterosexual couples who are unable to conceive or who may risk passing on a medical condition or sexually transmitted disease. The new bill has been applauded by LGBT…Continue Reading

The Disintegration Of Motherhood

By DONALD DeMARCO Mary, as Coventry Patmore has remarked, is “Our only Saviour from an abstract Christ.” Implied in this remark is a profound and original notion of motherhood that our present world is in danger of losing. Mary became a mother when she conceived Christ and her motherhood continues forever. She carried Christ under her heart and gave birth to Him. Through her flesh she endowed her Son with flesh. Her motherhood provided God with a human form through which He could grow and feel and suffer as other humans do. She permitted the transformation of a God that we could not see or touch into one who is palpably human and identifiably one with us. Nathaniel Hawthorne expressed…Continue Reading

ADF Says… Virginia Bills Erode Civil Rights

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor denounced a series of bills passed January 23 in the Virginia House of Delegates Housing/Consumer Protection Subcommittee: “Every Virginian deserves to be treated with dignity and respect. Unfortunately, laws that elevate sexual orientation and gender identity to protected classes have a proven record of undermining both fairness and freedom for all citizens. While Virginia’s delegates claim that their new legislation would stamp out such discrimination in public accommodations, housing, and employment, these bills actually promise to harm women and girls, undercut the First Amendment, and place a special burden on people of faith. “In states and local communities across the nation, laws similar to the proposals advancing in Virginia…Continue Reading

A Book Review . . . The Full Extent Of Democrats’ Nefariousness

By JAMES BARESEL Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig and Election and Destroy a Presidency by Andrew C. McCarthy, Encounter Books, 2019. Available at amazon.com On January 27, 1998, First Lady Hillary Clinton claimed in an interview with Matt Lauer that reportage and investigation of the relationship between President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky was the product of a “vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.” Of course some conservatives had spent years trying to dig up real dirt to demonstrate that Clinton’s character disqualified him for public office. A handful had even fallen into the trap of thinking that the end justifies the means, manipulating or manufacturing evidence…Continue Reading