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The Most Sinister Of All Our Present Illusions

May 5, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on The Most Sinister Of All Our Present Illusions

By DONALD DeMARCO Ambrose Bierce, noted for his cynical aphorisms, once asked why he should do anything for posterity since posterity never did anything for him. As Molly of old time radio would say to her usually misguided husband, “It ain’t funny, McGee.” There was a time when posterity preceded the likes of Ambrose Bierce. He is the beneficiary of an earlier time when people made their contribution to posterity. The past is prologue to the future. None of us can be isolated from the sweep of time. Two Boston College feminist authors have advised that a good mate would be a man who has vasectomy scars and a deceased mother. Whether or not this duo was trying to be…Continue Reading

Biden Plays The Race Card

May 4, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Biden Plays The Race Card

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN As he debated with himself whether to enter the race for the 2020 Democratic nomination, Joe Biden knew he had a problem. As a senator from Delaware in the 1970s, he had bashed busing to achieve racial balance in public schools as stupid and racist. As chairman of Senate Judiciary in the hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas in 1991, Biden had been dismissive of the charges by Anita Hill that the future justice had sexually harassed her. In 1994, Biden had steered to passage a tough anti-crime bill that led to a dramatic increase in the prison population. Crime went down as U.S. prisons filled up, but Biden’s bill came to be seen by…Continue Reading

Nicaraguan Bishops Lament Continued Suffering Under Ortega

May 3, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Nicaraguan Bishops Lament Continued Suffering Under Ortega

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (CNA) — The Nicaraguan bishops lamented May 2 that “the Nicaraguan family continues to suffer,” and called for no more “repressive actions and persecution.” Anti-government protests in Nicaragua began in April 2018. They resulted in more than 300 deaths, and the country’s bishops mediated on-again, off-again peace talks until they broke down in June. A new round of dialogue began in February. In a May 1 message, the Nicaraguan bishops said that “our faith in Jesus Christ who died and rose again for our salvation does not allow us to remain on the sidelines of world events, and for us, the cultural, political, economic, familial, and social situation in the country.” “To selfishly close yourself up in your…Continue Reading

Bishop Davies Of Shrewsbury Says . . . Easter Can Correct Society’s “Bitterness And Intolerance”

May 2, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Bishop Davies Of Shrewsbury Says . . . Easter Can Correct Society’s “Bitterness And Intolerance”

SHREWSBURY, England (CNA) — Easter is not a time for political debate, but is rather an opportunity to encounter the pinnacle of the faith — Christ’s death and Resurrection, Bishop Mark Davies of Shrewsbury said in his homily for the feast. At the April 21 Mass said at Shrewsbury Cathedral, Bishop Davies referred to increasing political bitterness and an indifference to Easter’s significance. “Everything rests on the witness given by those who, on that first Easter morning, came to ‘see and believe’; on the witness of the apostles and their successors who stand with Peter in testimony that ‘God raised Jesus to life’,” he said. “In Christ’s Resurrection, we see how human life is no longer destined for death but…Continue Reading

A Book Review… The World We Discover And The World We Make

May 1, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… The World We Discover And The World We Make

By JUDE DOUGHERTY Schall, James V. The Universe We Think In. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2019. Pp. ix + 208. The late Fr. James V. Schall, SJ, was an emeritus professor of government at Georgetown University, known to generations of students at Georgetown, simply, as Fr. Schall. In his retirement, he continued to write with all the verve of a young man amazed by what is going on in the world, as the title of this book suggests. The Universe We Think In is a collection of 14 essays, plus a conclusion that brings it all together. His last essay may be found in the April 2019 issue of the New Oxford Review, where he wrote under…Continue Reading

Good News From Africa

April 30, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Good News From Africa

(Editor’s Note: Below is a message sent to us from His Eminence Francis Cardinal Arinze, concerning some good news from his home Archdiocese of Onitsha in Nigeria. (This message reached us at the same time that Robert Cardinal Sarah’s latest book, Le soir approche et déjà le jour baisse [Evening is approaching and already the day is almost over], became available in French on Kindle. It will be available in English from Ignatius Press on September 1. (In this book — the third in his trilogy – Cardinal Sarah explores the depths of the crisis of Christianity in the West, hoping to reawaken it and locating much of the problem in a weak and traitorous clergy. (If the book doesn’t…Continue Reading

The Democrats Divide On Impeachment

April 29, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on The Democrats Divide On Impeachment

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN The release of the Mueller report has left Democrats in a dilemma. For consider what Robert Mueller concluded after two years of investigation. Candidate Donald Trump did not conspire or collude with the Russians to hack the emails of the DNC or John Podesta. Trump did not distribute the fruits of those crimes. Nor did anyone in his campaign. On collusion and conspiracy, said Mueller, Trump is innocent. Mueller did not say Trump did not consider interfering with his investigation. But the investigation went on unimpeded. Mueller’s document demands were all met. And Mueller did not conclude that Trump obstructed justice. On obstruction, then, not guilty, by reason of no indictment. We are told Trump ranted…Continue Reading

Fr. James V. Schall, SJ, RIP… The Pride Of Pocahontas

April 28, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Fr. James V. Schall, SJ, RIP… The Pride Of Pocahontas

By DONALD DeMARCO Pocahontas, Iowa, is a community of 1,693 people. It is the 181st largest city in the state of Iowa and the 11,683rd largest city in the United States. Its website boasts of three notables who were born in that fair town. The first is Larry Bittner (born 1945) who played 14 years as a first-baseman/outfielder for five different major league teams. Over that span of time, he hit 29 home runs. The second is Margaret (“Peg”) Mullen (1917-2009), an anti-war activist and writer who was motivated when her son was killed in Vietnam by “friendly fire.” The third notable is the subject of this essay’s tribute, James Vincent Schall, whom the Pocahontas website describes as a “prolific…Continue Reading

A Book Review . . . An Infinite Number Of Reasons For Being A Catholic

April 27, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review . . . An Infinite Number Of Reasons For Being A Catholic

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY Forty Reasons I Am a Catholic, by Peter Kreeft (144 pages, Sophia Institute Press, Paperback and Kindle). This book is billed as Forty Reasons I Am a Catholic, but as Peter Kreeft points out, the number of actual reasons are well-nigh infinite, since we are living in a universe created by an infinite God. His first reason, “Because I believe that Catholicism is true,” is probably the most important reason for any Catholic to take his or her faith seriously. As he says, “It seems obvious to me that to believe that something is true is the first and only honest reason for anybody to believe in anything.” Kreeft’s next answer is that he believes Catholicism…Continue Reading

Sri Lanka’s Cardinal Ranjith . . . Would Have Canceled Easter Mass If Bomb Warnings Had Been Passed On

April 26, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Sri Lanka’s Cardinal Ranjith . . . Would Have Canceled Easter Mass If Bomb Warnings Had Been Passed On

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (CNA) — The archbishop of Colombo says that government officials in Sri Lanka should be fired for failing to act on tips that terrorist attacks were imminent in the hours preceding Easter Sunday bombings in the country. “It’s absolutely unacceptable behavior on the part of these high officials of the government, including some of the ministry officials,” Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith said April 23 in response to reports that Sri Lankan officials did not pass on credible warnings in the hours before the April 21 attacks, including some that specified that Catholic Church would be targeted. Warnings reportedly came from the Indian government and from other intelligence sources, and said directly that churches could be targeted by Islamist…Continue Reading