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Freedom Of Choice And The Lure Of The Potential

February 12, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Freedom Of Choice And The Lure Of The Potential

By DONALD DeMARCO No one can fulfill all of his potential. The potential is like an ocean compared with the few drops of water that can be actualized. Choosing in the presence of an infinity of choices can be daunting. We are, so to speak, condemned to be free. We have no other choice than to choose. Even despair is a choice.How do we narrow the range of our choice so that we know what choices are best for us? There are three factors that make our choices realistic.The first is “ability.”We should not choose anything for which we have no ability. A person who is tone deaf cannot become a concert pianist. A blind person cannot be a baseball…Continue Reading

They’re “Promoting Human Sacrifice”… Tucker Carlson Blasts Democrats On Abortion

February 11, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on They’re “Promoting Human Sacrifice”… Tucker Carlson Blasts Democrats On Abortion

By STEVEN ERTELT WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeNews) — Fox News host Tucker Carlson didn’t mince any words February 8 when it comes to Democrats and their love for abortion.Carlson said on that Wednesday’s edition of his nightly show that Democrats are “ghouls” who believe in “human sacrifice” because the party supports killing babies up to birth and literally wore lapel pins saying they love abortion.“There’s not a seal in the ocean or even at SeaWorld who would wear an ‘I love abortion’ pin. That is too low even for marine mammals. They may eat live fish, but they’re not ghouls. Congressional Democrats, by contrast, are ghouls.“Take a look at this pin, which has replaced the American flag on their lapels. Notice…Continue Reading

Pope Francis Accepts Ouellet’s Resignation . . . Appoints American To Lead Dicastery For Bishops

February 10, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Pope Francis Accepts Ouellet’s Resignation . . . Appoints American To Lead Dicastery For Bishops

By COURTNEY MARES ROME (CNA) — Pope Francis on January 30 named an American as the next prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Bishops to succeed Marc Cardinal Ouellet.Bishop Robert Francis Prevost will lead the Vatican office responsible for evaluating new members of the Catholic Church’s hierarchy, the Vatican announced.Prevost, 67, has served as a bishop of the Diocese of Chiclayo in Peru since 2015. He is a member of the Order of St. Augustine and led the Augustinian order as prior general from Rome for more than a decade after serving as a missionary priest for the order in Peru in the 1990s.Born in Chicago in 1955, Prevost entered the Augustinian order as a novice at the age of…Continue Reading

McElroy: Communion For Ideological Sinners In Denial?

February 9, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on McElroy: Communion For Ideological Sinners In Denial?

By DR. JEFF MIRUS (Editor’s Note: Dr. Mirus is a cofounder of Christendom College and the founder of Trinity Communications. This article first appeared at CatholicCulture.org and is reprinted here with permission. All rights reserved.) + + I’ve waited a few days to comment, but Cardinal Robert McElroy’s observations on “radical inclusion” for LGBT people and women in the Church is so full of Catholic misunderstanding that it is difficult to credit it to a bishop (see Cardinal McElroy on “radical inclusion” for LGBT people, women, and others in the Church). For example, McElroy says that the question of ordaining women to the priesthood “will be one of the most difficult questions confronting the international synods in 2023 and 2024.”…Continue Reading

The Government Of Jesus, And The “Separation Of Church And State”

February 8, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on The Government Of Jesus, And The “Separation Of Church And State”

By HARLEY PRICE It tells you something about the times that when you Google “Jesus Christ” one of the first suggestions that pops up in the auto-fill menu is Jesus Christ Superstar. As a ubiquitous phenomenon of popular modern culture, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical has been one of the most effective forces for the infantilization of the Western mind of the past half-century, and it is entirely typical that, after “Joseph and his Technicolor Dream-Coat,” Webber’s second blockbuster hit amounted to a vocalized version of The Idiot’s Guide to Christology.Like other liberals in the early seventies, in Jesus Christ Superstar, Webber essayed to redeem Our Lord as a revolutionary hero, along the lines of those other revolutionary heroes (Mao,…Continue Reading

Says She’s In Fight To Win . . . Arizona’s Lake Gives Blunt Warnings To Corrupt Establishment Pols

February 7, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Says She’s In Fight To Win . . . Arizona’s Lake Gives Blunt Warnings To Corrupt Establishment Pols

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Kari Lake was blunt about how she views Maricopa County’s corrupt political establishment in a talk she gave the day before Arizona’s new left-wing Democrat secretary of state asked the state’s new left-wing Democrat attorney general to investigate Lake for potential violations of state law.Lake, a veteran television news anchor who was endorsed by Donald Trump for her 2022 race for Arizona governor, is beginning to resemble Trump not only in the establishment’s frothing opposition to her but also now in legal maneuverings trying to suppress her.On January 30 new Secretary of State Adrian Fontes asked new Attorney General Kris Mayes to investigate Lake for showing 16 mismatched voter signatures in a tweet about lack…Continue Reading

Heidegger And The Evening Visitors

February 6, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Heidegger And The Evening Visitors

By JOHN LYON Long have we media-ended our days, with virtual Mass attendance daily at 7:45 a.m., and reading aloud to each other sometime after 7:00 p.m. from various sources, including fiction, history, philosophy, physical science, theology, and poetry.We sat that November night as was our wont, celebrating a long-shared life at end of day, my wife knitting, and I reading aloud. The year was 11/12ths gone, the day the same, my life likewise at least. The woodstove ineffectually attempting to warm my cold feet, our border collie curled in upon herself on the front porch behind us, hot tea steaming in mugs beside us, we slowly entered into our pursuit of the meaning of fragments of the thought of…Continue Reading

The Power Of Cultural Trends… At The Drop Of A Hat

February 5, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on The Power Of Cultural Trends… At The Drop Of A Hat

By DONALD DE MARCO Someone said that I can write an article at the drop of a hat. I cannot take credit, however, for possessing such an ability. Nonetheless, I think I can write an article about “the drop of the hat.” I am speaking of the soft hat that once was part of a person’s attire and has pretty much vanished from the scene.Why did it vanish, and what has replaced it?When I was a tenderfoot, my mother took me to a store that specialized in hats. My parents were poor, but they understood that hats were a social necessity and found enough cash in their piggy bank to furnish me with a stylish fedora. It was made of…Continue Reading

Democrats Represent The 40 Congressional Districts With Highest Home Values

February 4, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Democrats Represent The 40 Congressional Districts With Highest Home Values

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY The 40 congressional districts in the 116th Congress that had the highest median values for their owner-occupied homes were all represented by Democrats.In fact, during that Congress, only 10 of the 100 congressional districts with the highest median owner-occupied home values were represented by Republicans.The U.S. Census Bureau released data last week from its American Community Survey that included the “median housing value of owner-occupied housing units” in each of the nation’s 435 congressional districts from the 116th Congress (which ended in January 2021).Twenty-seven of the 40 districts that had the highest median home values were in California. Another seven were in New York; three were in Washington state; two were in Hawaii and one was…Continue Reading

Second Bystander . . . Ensnared By English Ban On Prayer Outside Abortuaries

February 3, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Second Bystander . . . Ensnared By English Ban On Prayer Outside Abortuaries

By KEVIN J. JONES DENVER (CNA) — Amid continuing controversy over strict limits on behavior outside abortion facilities in some English cities, a man faces a fine for praying silently outside one such clinic in memory of his dead son.“I would never have imagined being in a position to risk a criminal record for praying silently,” Adam Smith-Connor said, according to the legal group supporting him, Alliance Defending Freedom UK.Smith-Connor had approached a British Pregnancy Advisory Service abortion facility in Bournemouth, in the southwest English county of Dorset. He intended to pray for his unborn son, who had died in an abortion he helped procure at a similar facility more than two decades ago.Smith-Connor stood silently with his back to…Continue Reading