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Cincinnati Archbishop… Anticipates Vatican Investigation Into Handling Of Abuse Case

September 23, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Cincinnati Archbishop… Anticipates Vatican Investigation Into Handling Of Abuse Case

By ED CONDON CINCINNATI (CNA) — Archbishop Dennis Schnurr of Cincinnati has submitted a report to Rome, following criticism of the archdiocese’s handling of allegations of sexual abuse against a local priest. Archdiocesan officials told Catholic News Agency on September 17 that a complete file on the case of Fr. Geoff Drew has been sent to the apostolic nuncio in Washington, D.C., for transmission to the relevant curial departments, expected to include the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. A spokesperson for the archdiocese told CNA that a “full report” was sent to Rome via the nuncio on August 30, and that Archbishop Schnurr “anticipates that the Vatican may order a full investigation” into the handling of the case.…Continue Reading

Getting Things Straight

September 22, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Getting Things Straight

By DONALD DeMARCO One of the most bizarre features of the modern world is that ad men and retailers try to make products out to be more than they are, while certain lawyers and philosophers are at pains to make human beings out to be less than they are. One has to fight against the current of culture in order to have a fighting chance to get things straight. A “permanent” hair treatment is temporary; “Joy” does not make dishwashing a joyful experience; “5-Day Deodorant” does not last for five days; and a certain aftershave lotion does not cause a bevy of adoring females to materialize out of thin air. We should remember that it is man who makes the…Continue Reading

Buttigieg Needs To Man Up

September 21, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Buttigieg Needs To Man Up

By BILL DONOHUE (Editor’s Note: Catholic League [www.catholicleague.org] President Bill Donohue commented September 19 on Pete Buttigieg’s decision to weigh in on the abortion controversy in his backyard.) + + + Abortionist Ulrich Klopfer has legally killed thousands of babies in South Bend, Ind., home to its mayor and presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg. After refusing to speak to the latest news — 2,246 fetal remains were found in Klopfer’s home — Buttigieg has finally spoken about this story. But his remarks show that he still refuses to man up. Buttigieg has previously said that abortion is “obviously a tough issue for a lot of people to think through morally.” That certainly includes him. To be sure, he is every bit…Continue Reading

Maine Bishop… Laments Failed Challenge To Assisted Suicide, Abortion Laws

September 20, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Maine Bishop… Laments Failed Challenge To Assisted Suicide, Abortion Laws

PORTLAND, Maine (CNA) — Bishop Robert Deeley of Portland, Maine, has expressed his disappointment at the failure of efforts to force a public vote on the legalization of physician-assisted suicide and taxpayer-funded abortion in the state. “I am saddened to learn that despite great opposition in the public to physician-assisted suicide and taxpayer-funded abortion, these issues will not be sent to a statewide vote,” said Deeley in a statement released on September 18. Deeley, who leads the state’s only diocese, said that the two laws, which will now go into effect as written, will have “tragic consequences” and “contribute to a further deterioration of the common good.” The separate campaigns each failed to attract enough signatures from registered voters to…Continue Reading

The Divine Invitation

September 19, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on The Divine Invitation

JAMES MONTI Those who have seen the classic religious film Song of Bernadette (1943) often enough to notice some of the subtler details of this compelling adaptation of Franz Werfel’s 1941 historical novel of the same name will recall that in the final scene, as the saint and visionary of Lourdes is speaking her last words on her deathbed, the voice of a priest can be heard in the background reciting the beautiful verses from the Song of Solomon, “My beloved speaks and says to me: / ‘Arise, my love, my fair one, / and come away; / for lo, the winter is past, / the rain is over and gone…. O my dove, in the clefts of the rock,…Continue Reading

K Of C State Council . . . Helps Sponsor Cardinal Burke’s Upcoming Detroit Address

September 18, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on K Of C State Council . . . Helps Sponsor Cardinal Burke’s Upcoming Detroit Address

The State Council of Knights of Columbus made a generous donation to help Call to Holiness bring Raymond Cardinal Burke to speak at a dinner on October 26 outside Detroit. The cardinal’s celebration of Mass on the following day will contain all of the ceremony appropriate for a prince of the Church. Cardinal Burke was formerly the archbishop of St. Louis, founded the Guadalupe Shrine in La Crosse, Wis., while bishop there, and is a member of the Apostolic Signatura in Rome. He was one of the cardinals who signed the Dubia requesting clarification from Pope Francis on the question of divorce, remarriage, and eligibility of receiving Holy Communion, stemming from Amoris Laetitia. At the Call to Holiness Dinner, to…Continue Reading

A Book Review…. Falling In Love With God

September 17, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review…. Falling In Love With God

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY Awakening Your Soul to the Presence of God: How to Walk with Him Daily and Dwell in Friendship with Him Forever, by Kilian J. Healy (Sophia Institute Press, 127 pages, paperback). Available at www.sophiainstitute.com or call 800-888-9344. This version of Awakening Your Soul to the Presence of God is a reprint of a book originally published in 1948. It was written by Fr. Kilian J. Healy (1912-2003), a Carmelite priest who rose to become the prior general of his order, and was also a voting member at the Second Vatican Council. In essence, the book is a call for all believers to respond to God’s love by seeking to live in His presence, in the light…Continue Reading

Pope Francis In Mauritius: Do Not Pit Economy Against Environment, Poor

September 16, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Pope Francis In Mauritius: Do Not Pit Economy Against Environment, Poor

PORT LOUIS, Mauritius (CNA) — Do not let economic development in Mauritius be at the expense of the country’s young, poor, and environment, Pope Francis told authorities, civil society, and diplomats. “Since its independence, your country has experienced a steady economic development that should certainly be a reason to rejoice, but also to be on guard,” the Pope said September 9, at the presidential palace in the capital city of Port Louis. “In the present context,” he said, “it appears that economic growth does not always profit everyone,” especially the young. “That is why I would like to encourage you to promote an economic policy focused on people and in a position to favor a better division of income, the…Continue Reading

When The Obvious Is No Longer Obvious

September 15, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on When The Obvious Is No Longer Obvious

By DONALD DeMARCO The late Fr. James Schall, SJ, was a great admirer of Samuel Johnson and, by his own admission, read something from Boswell’s Life of Johnson almost every day. Dr. Johnson was one of the most formidable figures of literature and life of the eighteenth century. He made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. What was it that so attracted Fr. Schall to this literary giant? “These truths are too important to be new,” Johnson wrote. It is an aphorism that Fr. Schall held close to his heart. Novelty is ephemeral, truth is everlasting. As a philosopher, James Schall drank from the same well of truth that energized his literary…Continue Reading

After Bolton, Trump Goals Remain Unrealized

September 14, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on After Bolton, Trump Goals Remain Unrealized

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN The sudden and bitter departure of John Bolton from the White House was baked in the cake from the day he arrived there. For Bolton’s worldview, formed and fixed in a Cold War that ended in 1991, was irreconcilable with the policies Donald Trump promised in his 2016 campaign. Indeed, Trump was elected because he offered a foreign policy that represented a repudiation of what John Bolton had advocated since the end of the Cold War. Trump wanted to call off Cold War II with Russia, to engage with Vladimir Putin, and to extricate us from the Middle East wars into which Bolton and the neocons did so much to plunge the United States. Where Trump…Continue Reading