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Vatican Diplomat… Accused Of Corruption And “Romantic” Relationship While At UN

March 25, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Vatican Diplomat… Accused Of Corruption And “Romantic” Relationship While At UN

By ED CONDON and J.D. FLYNN NEW YORK (CNA) — An archbishop who served as the Holy See’s permanent observer to the United Nations is accused of financial and managerial mismanagement, including the use of Vatican staff and influence to assist and support financially a woman with whom he had a romantic relationship. Sources say that although Vatican officials were informed of the man’s conduct, he was quietly reassigned to a new diplomatic post without facing sanctions. Archbishop Francis Chullikatt, 65, now apostolic nuncio to Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan, is alleged to have maintained an inappropriate romantic relationship with a woman during his time as the Holy See’s permanent observer to the United Nations in New York, a post he…Continue Reading

Listening To The Word Of God

March 24, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Listening To The Word Of God

By DONALD De MARCO Aristotle, in his treatment of animals (On the Soul 421a22), makes the observation that there is a relationship between softness of skin and intelligence. Those animals with harder skin are less intelligent than those with softer skin. “That is why,” he concludes, “man is the most intelligent of all animals.” With due apologies to the jellyfish, Plato’s most renowned student has a point. Man’s softness of skin in tandem with its discriminatory exactness of touch has no peer among other animals. And this softness allows intelligence to operate more effectively. Knowledge of the world impresses itself more thoroughly in the human being than it does on any other animal. Along with soft skin and intelligence, however,…Continue Reading

Who Spawned The Christchurch Killer?

March 23, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Who Spawned The Christchurch Killer?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN On Friday, March 15 in Christchurch, New Zealand, one of the more civilized places on Earth, 28-year-old Brenton Tarrant, an Australian, turned on his cellphone camera and set out to livestream his massacre of as many innocent Muslim worshipers as he could kill. Using a semi-automatic rifle, he murdered more than 40 men, women and children at one mosque, drove three miles to another, and there killed seven more. Dozens more remained wounded, suffering, and dying. An atrocity and act of pure evil by a man with a dead soul. Yet, predictably, within 48 hours, the president of the United States was being publicly indicted as a moral accomplice. Donald Trump, it was said, used a…Continue Reading

Among U.S. Military… Ban On Gender Transition To Take Effect In April

March 22, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Among U.S. Military… Ban On Gender Transition To Take Effect In April

By CHRISTINE ROUSSELLE WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNA) — Troops enlisting and serving in the U.S. military will have to serve as their biological sex and are forbidden from transitioning to another gender, a new Department of Defense policy states. The policy was announced in a memo that was obtained by the Associated Press March 12. The policy will go into effect April 12. While not a ban on transgender persons in the military altogether, the new policy will presumably result in many transgender troops being discharged from the military if they wish to serve under a different sex, seek cross-sex hormones, or gender transition surgeries. The new policy has additional rules regarding gender dysphoria, a condition where someone identifies as a…Continue Reading

Medical Ethics: “Who’s Next?”

March 21, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Medical Ethics: “Who’s Next?”

By BARBARA SIMPSON (Editor’s Note: This column first appeared on WorldNetDaily, March 1, 2019.) + + + It’s really getting out of control. The headlines and news reports are filled with life and death. Not war. Not accidents. No, these news stories are about how and when our medical system can, and will, legally kill us. Have no doubt, it’s a fact. Right to life — for whom? Euthanasia — giving people, other than the patient, the right to say when that patient should die, how, and when. Keep in mind, this can include patients of any age, from children to the elderly. In vitro fertilization involving living embryos and issues dealing with the ethics of freezing the eggs and…Continue Reading

A Dark Night Finally Turns To Day

March 20, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on A Dark Night Finally Turns To Day

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY (Editor’s Note: Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor in chief of CNSnews.com. Creators Syndicate distributes his column.) + + + They could have just kept going, but they didn’t. It was another cold South Dakota day on February 28, 1981, when Lee Litz went out with a friend to test-drive a Jeep. They picked up another friend on the southeast side of Sioux Falls and drove out a ditch-lined road through barren cornfields. Litz was 30 and married with four children. His wife, who was pregnant, was back at home confined to bed — a precaution taken to make sure she could bring their unborn child to term. As Litz and his friends approached Sycamore Avenue,…Continue Reading

My Reply… An Eastern Orthodox Writer’s Attempt To Justify Divorce And Remarriage

March 19, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on My Reply… An Eastern Orthodox Writer’s Attempt To Justify Divorce And Remarriage

By JAMES LIKOUDIS An Eastern Orthodox correspondent has taken issue with Catholic teaching rejecting adultery as a legitimate ground for divorce and remarriage. His arguments stem from ill-digested readings drawn from both Catholic and Eastern Orthodox sources. The writer, in effect, rejects Catholic doctrine regarding the absolute indissolubility of sacramental marriage. That doctrine, based on the teaching of Holy Scripture, the Fathers of the Church representing the voice of Apostolic Tradition, and magisterial pronouncements, does not permit Catholics to divorce and remarry another person and does not permit divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to receive Holy Communion (that sacrament which is a sign of the indissoluble unity of Christ with His one Church, the Catholic Church). The sexual relationship of…Continue Reading

How Middle America Is To Be Dispossessed

March 18, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on How Middle America Is To Be Dispossessed

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN In all but one of the last seven presidential elections, Republicans lost the popular vote. George W. Bush and Donald Trump won only by capturing narrow majorities in the Electoral College. Hence the grand strategy of the left: to enlarge and alter the U.S. electorate so as to put victory as far out of reach for national Republicans as it is today for California Republicans, and to convert the GOP into America’s permanent minority party. In the Golden State, Democrats control the governors’ chair, every elective state office, both U.S. Senate seats, 46 of 53 U.S. House seats and three-fourths of each house of the state legislature in Sacramento. How does the left expect to permanently…Continue Reading

Love And The Virtue Of Love

March 17, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Love And The Virtue Of Love

By JUDE DOUGHERTY At some time in the last century, perhaps due to the influence of John Dewey and other influential academics in this country, the concept “the values we hold dear” came to replace the notion that we may be accountable to a moral order quite independent of ourselves. Politicians, educators, and journalists commonly favor the term — Heaven forbid that anyone say something ought to be done or avoided. The term is usually employed without any reference to where those values came from or how they may be defended. Those trained in the classical tradition do not have to look far for their defense. Moral rules for the good life and its pursuit are to be found in…Continue Reading

Support Abortion?… Then You Better Know How It’s Done

March 16, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Support Abortion?… Then You Better Know How It’s Done

By BARBARA SIMPSON (Editor’s Note: This column first appeared on WorldNetDaily, March 1, 2019.) + + + Anyone following the ongoing controversy about late-term abortions should be aware of the grisly descriptions of the procedure. While the media do their best to keep that kind of information or photographs of those abortions away from the public, the Internet has broken through that wall of secrecy. When you hear or see a medical doctor who does those abortions describe with clinical coolness how the about-to-be-born infant is dismembered in the womb, taken out piece by piece, and how the doctor must keep count of all the parts to be certain nothing is left inside the mother — you will never forget…Continue Reading