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A Book Review… A Providential Role In Rescuing Bella Dodd From The Devil

April 26, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… A Providential Role In Rescuing Bella Dodd From The Devil

By JIM MARK VALOIS One of the most astounding accounts of survival against all odds became known as the Endurance Expedition. It was named after the ship bound for Antarctica. The voyage was led by an intrepid leader named Sir Ernest Shackleton of Britain. Early on in the journey, the Endurance became locked in an ice floe. Together the explorer and his men faced fierce cold, hunger, and thirst as supplies dwindled. After several attempts to get across the ice floe, the crew was forced to return to the ship.In time, the ice floe caused the Endurance to sink and the crew had to take the heavy lifeboats and remaining supplies in search of open sea. When they finally found…Continue Reading

Pro-Life Leaders Warn . . . Colorado’s New Pro-Abortion Laws Will Cost Countless Lives

April 25, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Pro-Life Leaders Warn . . . Colorado’s New Pro-Abortion Laws Will Cost Countless Lives

By KEVIN J. JONES DENVER (CNA) — Catholic and pro-life leaders lamented Colorado Gov. Jared Polis’ final approval of three strongly pro-abortion bills on Friday, April 14, objecting that they prioritize abortion “at the cost of countless children’s lives.”The new laws ban abortion-pill reversal treatments, greatly restrict advertising for pro-life pregnancy resource centers, require insurance providers to pay for abortions, and remove parental notification for minors seeking an abortion, among other measures.Bella Health and Wellness, a pro-life, Catholic-founded healthcare clinic that provides abortion pill reversal, quickly filed a legal challenge to the abortion pill reversal ban, with the backing of the religious liberty legal group Becket. If it continues to offer and advertise progesterone for abortion pill reversal, the clinic…Continue Reading

Can Biden Tell A Boy From A Girl?

April 24, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Can Biden Tell A Boy From A Girl?

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY “She is the first woman in history to win the 100 and 200 meters in back-to-back Olympics.”That is how USA Today summarized the performance of Elaine Thompson-Herah, the Jamaican sprinter who dominated women’s track events in the COVID-delayed 2021 Olympics.Thompson-Herah won a third gold medal in Tokyo that year as the first runner on Jamaica’s 4×100 meter relay team.In the 100-meter race, she not only won gold for the second Olympics in a row but set an Olympic record by running the race in 10.61 seconds.That was the second-fastest 100 meters any woman has ever run in any competition, according to the Mirror. The only woman who ever ran faster was Florence Griffith-Joyner, an American, who…Continue Reading

Beyond Reason

April 23, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Beyond Reason

By DONALD DeMARCO Gordon W. Allport, author of the landmark study, The Nature of Prejudice, states: “A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.” Reason and appropriate evidence may correct a misconception. But prejudice runs deep and involves more than what the mind conceives. In Herman Melville’s classic, Moby Dick, Captain Ahab says to his crew: “I do not give reasons; I give orders.” Benito Mussolini said to the world, “I don’t want advice; I want applause.” When the ego excludes reason, prejudice loses its only liberating factor. The two examples, one drawn from fiction, the other from nonfiction, epitomize how deeply entrenched prejudice can be.The world seems to be of one…Continue Reading

The Only Way Out Is Through

April 22, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on The Only Way Out Is Through

By JOSH HAMMER In 2017, my friend Rod Dreher published his popular book, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation. Dreher’s basic prescription, already intimately familiar to Orthodox Jews, is a localist focus on the cohesive formation of tight-knit, virtuous, religious communities as the best way of enduring the cultural onslaught of progressivism and secularism.There is nothing at all wrong with Tocquevillian localism, and surely it is part of the survival strategy for America’s more traditionally inclined. But further extrapolated to its logical conclusion (something Dreher doesn’t do in his book, to be very clear), the strongest-possible version of this argument — a singular emphasis on retreat to communal redoubts at the expense of the public…Continue Reading

In 2022 America Imported $78.8 Billion . . . In “Cell Phones And Other Household Goods” From China

April 21, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on In 2022 America Imported $78.8 Billion . . . In “Cell Phones And Other Household Goods” From China

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY In 2020, the year that the COVID pandemic — which originated in the People’s Republic of China — hit the United States, Americans imported $61,689,114,229 in “cell phones and other household goods” from that country.In 2021, Americans imported $75,104,920,094 in Chinese-made cell phones and other household goods.In 2022, the Census Bureau reported last week, Americans imported $78,766,814,842 in Chinese-made cell phones and other household goods.In the three years since COVID hit, the United States has increased its annual imports of “cell phones and other household goods” from China by $17,077,700,613 — or approximately 27.7 percent.The only import that Americans spent more money on last year than Chinese cell phones and other household goods was Canadian crude…Continue Reading

A Former Political Prisoner Explains . . . Why Did Bishop Alvarez Refuse To Leave Nicaragua?

April 20, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on A Former Political Prisoner Explains . . . Why Did Bishop Alvarez Refuse To Leave Nicaragua?

By WALTER SANCHEZ SILVA MATAGALPA (CNA) — Felix Maradiaga, a former political prisoner and presidential candidate who now lives in exile in the United States, explained why he believes that Bishop Rolando Alvarez, who was sentenced to 26 years and four months in prison, decided to stay in Nicaragua and not be deported to the United States when he had the chance to leave.In a recent interview with EWTN and ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner, Maradiaga said he was edified by “seeing the example of a bishop who has given absolutely everything for the freedom of his people.”Alvarez was sentenced on February 10 after he was unjustly accused of being a “traitor to the homeland” due to his criticism…Continue Reading

Broglio Blasts Military Hospital . . . For Putting For-Profit Firm In Charge Of Catholic Pastoral Care

April 19, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Broglio Blasts Military Hospital . . . For Putting For-Profit Firm In Charge Of Catholic Pastoral Care

By SHANNON MULLEN WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNA) — A top U.S. military hospital ended its contract with a community of Franciscan friars just before Holy Week, putting a for-profit firm in charge of Catholic pastoral care, according to the Archdiocese of the Military Services.Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, the head of the archdiocese, blasted the move by Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., calling it “incomprehensible.”The medical center ended its contract with the friars of Holy Name College in nearby Silver Spring, Md., on March 31, the archdiocese said in a statement. The friars have ministered at the medical center for nearly two decades, the archdiocese said.The archdiocese, which serves U.S. military personnel and veterans and their beneficiaries at…Continue Reading

Unquenchable Thirst For Profit… Drives The Manufactured Popularity Of Transgenderism

April 18, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Unquenchable Thirst For Profit… Drives The Manufactured Popularity Of Transgenderism

By DOUG MAINWARING (Wanderer Editor’s Note: Doug Mainwaring is a journalist for LifeSiteNews, an author, and a marriage, family, and children’s rights activist.) + + (LifeSiteNews) — Over the last decade, Christian conservatives have watched in horror and disbelief as novel ideas, once embraced only by those on the fringes of society, have quickly, seemingly inexplicably, captured “mainstream” Western minds, leading to a rapid degradation and deformation of a now increasingly unrecognizable Western culture.The odd notion of same-sex “marriage,” established as law across the nation in 2015, threw open the door to the even odder notion of transgenderism. Both ignore and trample over observable, immutable truths about the complementarity of the sexes, untethering the meanings of man and woman, father…Continue Reading

For St. Paul-Minneapolis Archdiocese… Fr. Michael John Izen Ordained An Auxiliary Bishop

April 17, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on For St. Paul-Minneapolis Archdiocese… Fr. Michael John Izen Ordained An Auxiliary Bishop

(From combined sources) ST. PAUL — The massive Cathedral of St. Paul was packed for the episcopal Ordination of now-Auxiliary Bishop Michael John Izen, the pastor of the Churches of St. Michael and St. Mary in Stillwater, Minn., the parochial administrator of the Church of St. Charles in Bayport, and the canonical administrator of St. Croix Catholic school. The crowd capacity of the Cathedral of St. Paul is 3,000, and some of attendees stood in the aisles for the episcopal Ordination of a priest who has served the St. Paul-Minneapolis Archdiocese for about 18 years. The Ordination took place on Tuesday, April 11, a welcomed warm day in the Twin Cities after a cold and snowy winter. According to the…Continue Reading