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Cardinal Arinze Explains Why Belgian Bishops Can’t Bless Same-Sex Couples

October 4, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Cardinal Arinze Explains Why Belgian Bishops Can’t Bless Same-Sex Couples

By KEVIN J. JONES DENVER (CNA) — The Belgian bishops’ introduction of blessing ceremonies for same-sex couples has drawn rebuke from Francis Cardinal Arinze, the former head of the Vatican’s liturgy office. The cardinal said Belgium’s bishops have taken an erroneous and pastorally flawed approach.“Human beings have no power to change the order established by God the Creator,” Arinze said in a September 24 message included in the email newsletter of Vatican journalist Robert Moynihan.“Even if the aim is to be pastorally helpful to homosexual couples, this is an error on the part of the bishops,” Arinze said.The Nigerian-born cardinal, now 89 years old, served as the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship from 2002 to 2008. Even in…Continue Reading

Ron DeSantis Found A Way . . . To Get People To Focus On The Open Border Catastrophe

October 3, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Ron DeSantis Found A Way . . . To Get People To Focus On The Open Border Catastrophe

By NEIL PATEL What’s been happening at America’s southern border is so crazy and so out of control that it’s almost hard to comprehend. As with all national issues, the power of the corporate media to set the narrative for the massive (but shrinking) number of Americans who still rely on them exclusively to stay informed has also played a role.The media are not interested in the border story. Sure, they cover it when they absolutely must, but they have been downplaying the catastrophe from the start. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott are changing all that. They are creating a story that even the corporate media can’t ignore. In the process, Americans…Continue Reading

A World Without Humor

October 2, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on A World Without Humor

By DONALD DeMARCO In traveling one meets many interesting people. Years ago, I met Frank Layden who was coaching the Utah Jazz at the time, on the concourse of Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. Having seen him on TV several times, it was easy enough to recognize him. He was most agreeable and we chatted amiably as I walked with him, though for me, I did not mind walking for a while in the wrong direction.I admired Layden for his ability to ease tensions and defuse controversy, qualities that serve an NBA coach very well. He was awarded NBA’s Coach of the Year in 1984 and, in that same year, won the NBA’s Executive of the Year. When Dennis Rodman of the…Continue Reading

Biden Commits U.S. To War For Taiwan

October 1, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Biden Commits U.S. To War For Taiwan

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN If China invades Taiwan to unify it with the mainland, the United States will go to war to defend Taiwan and send U.S. troops to fight the invaders.That is the commitment made the past week by President Joe Biden.Asked by CBS’s Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes if the U.S. would fight in defense of Taiwan if China invaded, Biden replied, “Yes, if, in fact, there was an unprecedented attack.”Pelley followed up: “So, unlike Ukraine, to be clear, sir, U.S. forces — U.S. men and women — would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion.”“Yes,” Biden responded.As Aaron Blake of The Washington Post reports, this is “a U.S. president firmly committing to go to war.”…Continue Reading

UN Human Rights Report On Nicaragua . . . Cites Repression, “Attacks On Catholic Church”

September 30, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on UN Human Rights Report On Nicaragua . . . Cites Repression, “Attacks On Catholic Church”

By ZELDA CALDWELL (CNA) — The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) released a report September 13 that condemned the regime of Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, citing a “deterioration of the human rights situation.”The report included a compilation of recent incidents in which the Nicaraguan government has attacked and repressed the Catholic Church.Ortega, who took office in 2007, has become increasingly authoritarian since his re-election in November 2021. A brutal crackdown on protesters in 2018, the arrest and imprisonment of political opponents before the presidential election, and the repression of the Church prompted a UN resolution to further monitor the country.The report, introduced before the 51st session of the UNHRC in Geneva, documented…Continue Reading

Thousands Of People . . . March In Ireland To Demand End To Abortion

September 29, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Thousands Of People . . . March In Ireland To Demand End To Abortion

DUBLIN (LifeNews) — Thousands attended the March for Life in Dublin on September 19. Marchers walked from St. Stephen’s Green to Leinster House to call on the government to address the huge increase in the number of abortions taking place, and to stop keeping women in the dark about positive alternatives to abortion.Eilis Mulroy of the Pro-Life Campaign said: “Today, we are uniting with pro-life Oireachtas members to demand that the government address Ireland’s spiraling abortion rate and make way for positive alternatives to abortion to be promoted.“In the first three years since the new abortion law was introduced, 20,718 Irish abortions have taken place. This is a national tragedy that demands urgent action to ensure that women contemplating abortion…Continue Reading

Who Makes More Money In America?

September 28, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Who Makes More Money In America?

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY The money earned by American households has grown enormously since 1967, when President Lyndon Baines Johnson was still in office and the hippie generation was celebrating its so-called Summer of Love.The median household income in the United States that year was $50,803 in constant 2021 dollars, according to the Census Bureau’s newly released annual income report.Last year, according to the Census Bureau, the median household income was $70,784 in constant 2021 dollars (after dropping from the pre-pandemic high of $72,808 it hit in 2019).In the 54 years from 1967 to 2021, inflation-adjusted median household income in this country grew by $19,981 — or 39.3 percent.It is true, however, that not all American households have benefited equally…Continue Reading

An Attack On Human Life . . . Pope Benedict Condemns “Intrinsic Evil” Of Abortion

September 27, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on An Attack On Human Life . . . Pope Benedict Condemns “Intrinsic Evil” Of Abortion

By STEVEN ERTELT (LifeNews) — During his time as the leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict was a consistent pro-life voice condemning the evil of abortion. In comments posted on Twitter the morning of September 21, Benedict XVI reminded people that abortion is evil and an attack on human life.He made it clear that children are a blessing and a treasure.“Children truly are the family’s greatest treasure and most precious good. Consequently, everyone must be helped to become aware of the intrinsic evil of the crime of abortion,” the former Pontiff said. “In attacking human life in its very first stages, it is also an aggression against society itself.”His comments come just one week after the latest remarks from…Continue Reading

Biden Is Losing The Race For The Cure

September 26, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Biden Is Losing The Race For The Cure

By STEPHEN MOORE President Joe Biden recently announced, with great fanfare, his Cancer Moonshot initiative. Biden used soaring and promising rhetoric about, at last, finding a cure for one of the world’s leading killers.Speaking at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston on September 12, the president declared:“Beating cancer is something we can do together, and that’s why I’m here today.”For perhaps the first time in his presidency, Biden seemed to cross the aisle and reach out for Republican support by saying: “Cancer doesn’t discriminate red and blue; it doesn’t care if you’re a Republican or a Democrat.”Biden is right that the race for the cure is and should always be bipartisan. After all, who doesn’t want…Continue Reading

Becoming Pro-Life The Hard Way

September 25, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Becoming Pro-Life The Hard Way

By DONALD DeMARCO “Aujourd’hui Maman est morte. Ou, hier, peut-etre; je ne sais pas.” (Today my mother died. Or was it yesterday, I don’t know.) + + This is the celebrated opening of Nobel Laureate Albert Camus’ novel, The Stranger. It immediately establishes the main character as a person who, being emotionally unmoved by the death of his own mother, is indifferent to life.This indifference to life and death was brought to me in a memorable way one rainy night in October after I had given a pro-life talk. It would be a 20-mile trip to get back home and I was eager to get started. Before I could get into my car, however, I heard someone calling me. From…Continue Reading