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December 14, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Christmas Hope

By ONA M. LANG The day I found out I suffered my third miscarriage was supposed to be happy. My husband and I had been trying for six years to add an additional child to our family. We never had any luck, and we accepted that maybe it wasn’t in God’s plan at the moment. But it never felt like the permanent answer would be no. It was a Friday in November and we had to our total shock found out that I was pregnant about a month before.Because I had already had two previous miscarriages, I felt deep in my soul that this was finally the one we had been waiting for. Our son would finally have a sibling…Continue Reading

Marriage Bill Passes, Undermines Truth, Natural Law

December 13, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Marriage Bill Passes, Undermines Truth, Natural Law

By FR. SHENAN J. BOQUET (Editor’s Note: Fr. Shenan J. Boquet was ordained in 1993 and is a priest of the Houma-Thibodaux Roman Catholic Diocese in Louisiana, his home state, where he served before joining HLI in August 2011. This commentary appeared at hli.org on December 5 and is reprinted here with permission.) + + A couple of weeks ago I warned that it looked as if the deceptively titled “Respect for Marriage Act” was likely to pass in the U.S. Senate.Unfortunately, that’s exactly what happened. In a 61-36 vote Tuesday, November 29, the bill received final approval in the Senate. It then went to the U.S. House for a final vote, and it passed easily as expected, going to…Continue Reading

A Book Review . . . Silence And Beauty Will Uplift Us For Christmas And Beyond

December 12, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review . . . Silence And Beauty Will Uplift Us For Christmas And Beyond

By PEGGY MOEN Dr. Wilfred G. Chen, MD, has written another book for his Coffee Table Collection, and his timing couldn’t have been better.His direct, concise, and beautiful poems make great reading for people living in a time marked by agnosticism, paganism, and noise. The book’s title, Listening in Silence, God Speaks, says it all. The accompanying paintings by Rembrandt deepen the reader’s understanding of what Dr. Chen is saying about the need for quiet and for meditation, and the importance of beauty in our lives.As an example, here is Dr. Chen’s poem entitled These Troubling Times: In these Troubling Times,We Stand HereOn these Hills,Seeing Beyond the Sea Line,Pondering Our Being,And Beyond.Time is only a Flicker,A Second,Disappearing Into Eternity.Thank You…Continue Reading

Recollections Of Early Childhood . . . The Innocence Of The Child

December 11, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Recollections Of Early Childhood . . . The Innocence Of The Child

By DONALD DeMARCO The child has no interest in politics. This is a great blessing. Nor does he have any interest in public opinion or social conventions. These are also blessings. The child is free to be himself, though this can be a matter of concern for his parents. Using the living-room wall for his crayon mural, or experimenting with food from his highchair, do not meet with parental approval.Obviously, the child must grow up and take his rightful place in the practical world.Because the child is innocent of adult conventions, he looks at life solely through his own eyes. A weed is not something to be removed, but a spectacle to be enjoyed. A bug is not to be…Continue Reading

No, America Does Not Owe The World Climate “Reparations”

December 10, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on No, America Does Not Owe The World Climate “Reparations”

By STEPHEN MOORE I’ve made the case in previous columns that the climate change movement is mostly a climate change hustle. Let’s be real. None of this is about changing the temperature of the Earth. Even the most naive environmental activist can’t really believe that building windmills and driving Teslas is going to cool the planet.This is all about money. Hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars of government handouts.That was never more blatantly transparent than at this year’s sham COP 27 climate conference in Egypt, which was attended by more than 20,000 delegates and activists from more than 100 countries. The only agreement that the delegates could reach was a hollow “commitment” from the rich Western nations — by…Continue Reading

If Parliament Approves It… Malta President Refuses To Sign Pro-Abortion Bill

December 9, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on If Parliament Approves It… Malta President Refuses To Sign Pro-Abortion Bill

By MICAIAH BILGER (LifeNews) — The president of Malta has said he will resign if forced to sign a bill legalizing the killing of unborn babies in abortions, sources close to him told the Times of Malta in late November.President George Vella, a medical doctor by profession, made the comment in response to legislation moving through Parliament that pro-life leaders warn would legalize abortion on demand by “stealth.”Although lawmakers say the intent of the bill is to clarify that abortions are allowed when the mother’s life is at risk, pro-life leaders say the language is too broad and elective abortions also would be allowed. Malta is one of the few countries in Europe that protects unborn babies’ right to life.Vella,…Continue Reading

After Passage Of Abortion Initiative… Detroit Bishop Calls For Penitential Advent

December 8, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on After Passage Of Abortion Initiative… Detroit Bishop Calls For Penitential Advent

WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNA) — The archbishop of Detroit is calling on Michigan Catholics to spend the first two weeks of Advent doing penance following the passage of a ballot initiative that amended the state constitution to allow abortion on demand.Archbishop Allen Vigneron addressed a letter to all parishioners the day after Proposition 3 passed with 56.7 percent of the vote.“Abortion is now legal in Michigan at an unprecedented level, and millions of lives are at stake. We must pray and ask God for His mercy upon us for allowing this evil to happen in our state,” Vigneron wrote.“For this reason, I want to invite all the faithful to join me in the first two weeks of Advent, from November 27…Continue Reading

One-Sided Propaganda . . . Traumatic Executions Vs. Therapeutic Abortions

December 7, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on One-Sided Propaganda . . . Traumatic Executions Vs. Therapeutic Abortions

By TIM GRAHAM When National Public Radio appeals for donations, it explains its mission is “to create a more informed public — one challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of events, ideas and cultures.”That’s fancy talk for one-sided propaganda. NPR listeners aren’t “challenged and invigorated” by two sides of a controversial issue. They’re pushed to a “deeper understanding” of how conservatives are dead wrong . . . subsidized by taxpayers.NPR calls its evening newscast All Things Considered, a title that’s a nightly lie. Consider their crusading November 16 story, carrying the online headline “Carrying out executions took a secret toll on workers — then changed their politics.” It was a one-sided exploration of how some execution workers…Continue Reading

Abortion Clinics Just Sell Abortions . . . While Pregnancy Centers Actually Help Women

December 6, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Abortion Clinics Just Sell Abortions . . . While Pregnancy Centers Actually Help Women

By JEFF BRADFORD and HERBIE NEWELL (LifeNews) — The abortion industry is an enormous, profitable machine devoted to the systematic neglect and deception of American women.Even abortion advocates seem to admit its cruelty and indifference: Democratic Missouri Cong. Cori Bush recently told a reporter that her second abortion was performed despite her active protest. She wasn’t ready, and she told the nurse so. The abortionist ignored her and killed the child anyway.This pattern is repeated millions of times in abortion clinics across America. Each one is a deeply personal variation of the same tragic and largely untold story of desperation and suffering.Pro-abortionists proclaim that abortion access is “justice,” that it’s freedom, that it’s empowerment — all while working to make…Continue Reading

Book Review . . . Hope Among The Ruins Of American Society

December 5, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Book Review . . . Hope Among The Ruins Of American Society

By JEFF KOLOZE Stephen M. Krason’s Family and Sexual Morality Issues is 61 pages documenting how damaged American society has become because of feminism and leftist ideologies, yet Krason’s work suggests hope despite the frightful state of American culture. (See http://www.catholicsocialscientists.org/book-series.html.)Key ideas after reading this book are: for men, maintain sexual self-control until you’re married with a woman, have sex with your wife, make babies with her, work hard, and raise them well; for women, do the same with your husbands.The above paragraph is not a simplistic reduction of solutions for the vast problems destroying American life. Heterosexual normativity and morality worked throughout human history, and no propaganda from feminist zealots, abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood, or the Democratic Party…Continue Reading