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Cardinal Burke Praises President Trump’s Pro-Family Initiatives

October 31, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Cardinal Burke Praises President Trump’s Pro-Family Initiatives

By PEGGY MOEN ROME – Raymond Cardinal Burke’s book Hope for the World was published months before Donald Trump won the presidency. In that book, Burke condemned the anti-life and anti-family policies of the Obama administration. Asked by The Wanderer if he sees more hope with the present administration, Burke replied, “I do,” pointing to “the fact that the president spoke live to the March for Life” and to his appointments of judges who “seem to have a solid commitment to the moral law.” Cardinal Burke also sees Trump’s efforts to improve the economy and help create jobs as pro-family initiatives. Additionally, Trump “seems very sensitive to the concerns of Christians.” “There’s no question, character-wise, he’s an original person,” said…Continue Reading

Does The Church Have A Teaching On “Classical Education”?

October 30, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Does The Church Have A Teaching On “Classical Education”?

By ARTHUR HIPPLER One of the more remarkable trends in the past five years in Catholic education is the noticeable increase of schools embracing a “classical education.” Ten or twenty years ago, the Catholic classical school was a start up by disgruntled laity. Now one can find here and there whole diocesan school systems that have embraced the classical model. But does this classical model somehow make the school more “Catholic”? Does the teaching authority of the Church somehow endorse one curricular approach over others? As a matter of historical fact, for centuries “classical” and “education” were nearly synonymous. The books that were read varied by time and place, but generally the curriculum included epic poets such as Homer and…Continue Reading

Novelty And Frivolity

October 29, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Novelty And Frivolity

By DONALD DeMARCO Novelty is a momentary release from boredom. In the words of British writer John Wyndham, “novelty is a wonderfully short-lived thing.” We cannot build a life on novelty or bequeath it to our descendants. Yet, it can have an intoxicating effect on us and therefore it is something that is ardently desired. American historian Shelby Foote knew something of this effect when he remarked that “Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.” Beauty, truth, justice, and other attributes of being that belong to the gallery of great ideas cannot be determined either…Continue Reading

It’s The Election, Stupid

October 28, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on It’s The Election, Stupid

REY FLORES Politics, politics, politics. Can’t live with them, can’t live without them. Love them or hate them, they are a necessary evil in our world, and I do not say this with any levity. 2016 brought us somewhat of a cure for the political eight-year illness we suffered as a nation. While we had certainly been politically sick for at least twenty years before that; 2008 to 2016 had us all on life-support. Enter 2016 and the tide turns in the complete opposite direction. Exit the Socialist-in-Chief Barack Hussein Obama, and enter President Donald J. Trump. While Obama bowed to the leaders of all other inferior nations, President Trump demands and commands respect. Now the world once again bows…Continue Reading

Time for Trump To Cut The Prince Loose?

October 27, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Time for Trump To Cut The Prince Loose?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Was the assassination of JFK by Lee Harvey Oswald still getting as much media coverage three weeks after his death as it did that first week after November 22, 1963? Not as I recall. Yet, three weeks after his murder, Jamal Khashoggi, who was not a U.S. citizen, was not killed by an American, and died not on U.S. soil but in a Saudi consulate in Istanbul, consumes our elite press. The top two stories in Monday’s Washington Post were about the Khashoggi affair. A third, inside, carried the headline, “Trump, who prizes strength, may look weak in hesitance to punish Saudis.” On Sunday, the Post put three Khashoggi stories on Page 1. The Post’s lead…Continue Reading

Identical Tweets: Russians And Kamala Harris On Late-Term-Abortion Ban

October 26, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Identical Tweets: Russians And Kamala Harris On Late-Term-Abortion Ban

By TERENCE JEFFREY The New York Times was outraged, and so was Sen. Kamala Harris of California. Back on January 24, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell submitted a cloture motion for the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. The act, which passed the House last fall, would have prohibited killing “unborn children 20 weeks or older.” McConnell’s call for cloture meant that on Monday, January 29, the Senate would vote on whether to end debate on the bill and move to a vote on the bill itself. But that would need a 60-vote majority. On Sunday, January 28, The New York Times editorialized in favor of maintaining the legality of killing unborn babies who are 20 weeks or older. The editorial…Continue Reading

Thomas Aquinas College… Receives Approval From State Board Of Higher Education For Branch Campus In Western Massachusetts

October 25, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Thomas Aquinas College… Receives Approval From State Board Of Higher Education For Branch Campus In Western Massachusetts

SANTA PAULA, Calif. — Thomas Aquinas College announced on October 23, that it has received unanimous approval from the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education to operate a branch campus in Northfield, Massachusetts, and to award the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts. This approval comes as the result of a thorough and rigorous application process conducted by the board’s legal and academic affairs staff at the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education (DHE). The board’s grant of authority is subject to stipulations, the most important of which requires the college to submit annual status reports during its initial five years of operation, providing narrative and statistical information on the institution’s ongoing compliance with the board’s standards. “This is a great…Continue Reading

Is Washington State Pro-Life?

October 24, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Is Washington State Pro-Life?

By BILL DONOHUE (Editor’s Note: Catholic League President Bill Donohue commented October 11 on life and death policies in the state of Washington as follows. We note that everyone might not agree, without qualification, that the Catholic Church opposes the death penalty.) + + + Washington State’s Supreme Court on October 11 unanimously declared that the death penalty was unconstitutional. It cited the “arbitrary and racially based” manner in which the death penalty was invoked as grounds for its ruling. Does this make Washington State pro-life? After all, its position on the death penalty is shared by the Catholic Church. But to qualify as truly pro-life, it would have to share the Church’s opposition to abortion as well. It does…Continue Reading

Declare San Francisco Critical Habitat For Grizzly Bears?

October 23, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Declare San Francisco Critical Habitat For Grizzly Bears?

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY Drive through San Francisco on any given day and you are likely to see more than a few grizzly bears. No, they will not be soiling sidewalks in the Tenderloin or chasing high-tech billionaires down Market Street. But they will be flapping in the wind above City Hall and other public buildings. The grizzly, you see, is California’s state animal and adorns its state flag. Yet not a single wild grizzly has been seen in the state in nearly a hundred years. What did California do to its state animal? In 1962, the state published “An Historical Review of the Wildlife Resources of the San Francisco Bay Area.” It conceded that grizzlies once lived almost everywhere…Continue Reading

Gosnell Movie Reviews Pour In… “Brave, Groundbreaking, Shrewd”

October 22, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Gosnell Movie Reviews Pour In… “Brave, Groundbreaking, Shrewd”

By CALVIN FREIBURGER (LifeSiteNews) — The new movie about Philadelphia late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell has finally been released, leaving viewers across the country shaken but impressed. Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer depicts Gosnell’s arrest, trial, and conviction for the first-degree murder of three born-alive babies and the involuntary manslaughter of patient Karnamaya Mongar. It’s based on a similarly titled book by the film’s producers, investigative journalists Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer. According to the 280-page grand jury report, Gosnell killed hundreds of newborns who survived abortion in his blood-stained clinic by cutting their spinal cords with scissors. Witnesses described infants who survived initial abortion attempts as “swimming” in toilets “to get out.” He is currently serving a…Continue Reading