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What Is The Worst Thing In The World?

April 6, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on What Is The Worst Thing In The World?

By DONALD DeMARCO Given all the horrors that have plagued the world since the beginning of time, the very worst thing must be unimaginably horrible. Yet, it is quite common and is often regarded as acceptable and even worthy of promotion. This lack of sensitivity to the worst thing in the world ensures that it will stay with us and continue to torment us. In an October 1946 Radio Message to the Participants in the National Catechetical Congress of the United States in Boston, Pope Pius XII, who knew only too well about the horrors of war, declared: “Perhaps the greatest sin in the world today is that men have begun to lose the sense of sin.” Bishop Fulton Sheen…Continue Reading

Nancy Pelosi — “Professional Catholic”

April 5, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Nancy Pelosi — “Professional Catholic”

By BARBARA SIMPSON Nancy Pelosi may have given up the gavel as “House Speaker” — but she hasn’t relinquished what she sees as her duty to publicly “interpret” Catholicism. Pelosi has long been a supporter of “a woman’s right to abortion.” She speaks openly about it and has never supported the teaching of the Church on the issue — her Church — the Roman Catholic Church. She claims to be a devout Catholic and openly brags that she has given birth to “five children in six years and one week.” She recently spoke at an event at Georgetown University, a Jesuit-run facility. The program was sponsored by the school’s Center on Faith and Justice. During her presentation to the group,…Continue Reading

A Book Review… An Antidote For The Sexual Revolution

April 4, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… An Antidote For The Sexual Revolution

By JIM M. VALOIS                 The Sexual Revolution by the Most Rev. Peter J. Elliott, auxiliary bishop emeritus of Melbourne, Australia. Visit Ignatius.com for ordering information. Jonathan Roumie starred in the popular new movie, The Jesus Revolution. Currently it has grossed over 49 million. The movie is based on a true story and takes place in California when the sexual revolution exploded onto the scene. It was the 1960s. In the story, one of the largest faith awakeningsin American history is brought to the silver screen. Hippies throughout the nation were converting to Christ. They were finding freedom from drugs and immoral lifestyles through a relationship with Christ. This movement crossed major denominational lines and provided an antidote to the…Continue Reading

Cardinals Mueller, Burke . . . Rebuke German Bishops Over Same-Sex Union Blessings

March 31, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Cardinals Mueller, Burke . . . Rebuke German Bishops Over Same-Sex Union Blessings

By TYLER ARNOLD WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNA) — A synod of German bishops overwhelmingly approved Church blessings of same-sex unions and unions between divorced and remarried Catholics, but the move has faced harsh criticism from some members of the Catholic hierarchy who have accused the German bishops of abandoning the faith.German Cardinal Gerhard Mueller and American Cardinal Raymond Burke rebuked the German bishops and called on them to be sanctioned in an interview on EWTN’s The World Over With Raymond Arroyo, which aired on Thursday night, March 16.“There must be a trial and they must be sentenced and they must be removed from their office if they are not converting themselves and they are not accepting the Catholic doctrine,” Mueller said…Continue Reading

Book Review… A Book To Help The Church Regain Its Bearings

March 30, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Book Review… A Book To Help The Church Regain Its Bearings

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY Gethsemane, by Giuseppe Cardinal Siri; available at Sophia Institute Press, Nashua, N.H.: sophiainstitute.com. Gethsemane: The Origins and Rise of the Intellectual Revolution in the Church, by Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, is a powerful book, and one whose message remains relevant for the Church in the twenty-first century.Giuseppe Siri (1906-1989), was an Italian theologian and cardinal, who was elevated to that role by Pope Pius XII. He was regarded as papabile at the time of the death of Pius in 1958, and also during the conclaves for his Successors up to the time of Pope John Paul II. He was very much in the conservative mold and opposed to modernism in all its forms.The title of the book,…Continue Reading

Jane’s Revenge Tactics . . . New York Pregnancy Center That Was Set On Fire Is Hit Again

March 29, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Jane’s Revenge Tactics . . . New York Pregnancy Center That Was Set On Fire Is Hit Again

By JOE BUKURAS Boston (CNA) — A New York pro-life pregnancy center that was seriously damaged in an arson attack in June 2022 was vandalized again Thursday, March 16 with pro-abortion graffiti.The destruction of property at CompassCare Pregnancy Services in Amherst, N.Y., is the latest in a wave of attacks against pro-life pregnancy centers across the country, which began after a May 2022 leak from the Supreme Court indicating that the justices were poised to overturn Roe v. Wade.Roe, the 1973 landmark case that legalized abortion nationwide, was overturned that June.There have only been two reported arrests in the more than 60 acts of vandalism on pro-life pregnancy centers across the country. Amid heavy criticism from the pro-life community, the…Continue Reading

Building Spiritual Strength . . . Lent Isn’t The Only Time To Grow By Practicing Mortifications

March 28, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Building Spiritual Strength . . . Lent Isn’t The Only Time To Grow By Practicing Mortifications

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Practicing spiritual discipline is good throughout the year, not only during Lent, although it may be on people’s minds more during the pre-Easter penitential season.Still, if a person wants to develop muscles, he doesn’t exercise only during 40 days in a year. On the other hand, he doesn’t exercise to the exclusion of every other activity.“Mortification is a very Catholic word,” a local theology teacher told the March 11 session of theInstitute of Catholic Theology (ICT) about self-denial. The ICT is an evangelization program based here at St. Thomas the Apostle Church.Speaker Rob Drapeau contrasted following God’s will with placing one’s own will over God’s.Drapeau has a B.A. in Religious Studies from the University of…Continue Reading

DeSantis Team Releases Ad . . . Shows Brutal Reality Of Trans Surgeries In Response To Biden

March 27, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on DeSantis Team Releases Ad . . . Shows Brutal Reality Of Trans Surgeries In Response To Biden

By ASHLEY SADLER TALLAHASSEE (LifeSiteNews) — Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ team released a powerful ad Tuesday, March 14 showing the horrific reality of mutilating transgender surgeries after U.S. President Joe Biden suggested on national television that Florida’s moves to protect minors from such interventions are “close to sinful.”In a minute-long video posted to social media on March 14, Gov. DeSantis’ team juxtaposed a clip of Biden decrying Florida’s position on transgender interventions for kids as “cruel” alongside tragic images of the butchered forearms and torsos of young people who have had so-called “gender-affirming” surgeries.“Biden thinks it’s ‘cruel’ that Florida is NOT allowing experimental sex change operations for kids,” DeSantis’ team said in the tweet, flagging their own video with…Continue Reading

Abortion And The Ongoing Questions Surrounding It

March 26, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Abortion And The Ongoing Questions Surrounding It

By BARBARA SIMPSON “Abortion” — that word that raises the emotions and hackles of people on every level of life. It doesn’t matter what the occupation or the educational background of the individual bringing up the subject. It is bound to get a huge reaction and, for the most part, all kinds of disagreement.Is it good or bad? Is it required or not? Who should get an abortion? Why or why not? In fact, is getting an abortion legal or not and who decides? Exactly what IS an abortion?These are questions faced daily across the country, and since Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court, those questions are more important than ever.No matter what the individual woman does…Continue Reading

In Fiscal 2022… More Caught Illegally Crossing Southern Border Than During Entire Trump Presidency

March 25, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on In Fiscal 2022… More Caught Illegally Crossing Southern Border Than During Entire Trump Presidency

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY “Our top priority is to keep terrorists and their weapons from entering the United States.”So says the website of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.The same webpage that makes this declaration includes a table that provides some relevant data for the fiscal years from 2017 to 2023. It lists how many individuals on the Terrorist Screening Dataset (commonly known as the terrorist watchlist) were encountered by the Border Patrol as they were trying to illegally sneak into the United States between the ports of entry on our southern border.The Terrorist Screening Dataset, says the webpage, “originated as the consolidated terrorist watchlist to house information on known or suspected terrorists (KSTs) but has evolved over the last decade…Continue Reading