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The Pandemic Of Groupthink

June 1, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on The Pandemic Of Groupthink

By CHRISTINE KRAUTMANN Herd immunity, frequently discussed in relation to Covid-19, describes the indirect protection members of a society receive from an infectious disease when a sufficient percentage of the population has become immune, either through infection or vaccination. Once the herd immunity threshold has been reached, the disease gradually disappears from a population.While the U.S. struggles to reach herd immunity to Covid-19, a metastasizing herd mentality is reaching critical mass in obliterating free speech and independent thought. The free and open exchange of ideas is met with fear, scorn, and retaliation by a herd that considers dissent a disease, and whose goal is domination.Herd or mob mentality exists when people are influenced by their peers to adopt behaviors based…Continue Reading

Restraining The Protectors

May 31, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Restraining The Protectors

By DEACON MIKE MANNO The problem of sexually grooming kids is becoming widespread, and we spent the column of several weeks ago discussing the issue. Included in the column were comments by Heritage expert Dr. Jay Richards that he made on my radio program about the issue, how it started with adults, sometimes teachers or social workers suggesting to impressionable children that they might be transgender, then behind the backs of the parents they would continue to groom the child until a full transition to the opposite sex could be started.Well, the state of Alabama decided to do something about it, although probably not as a result of this column. Anyway, the state passed a new law, SB184, which sought…Continue Reading

Full Text Of Archbishop Cordileone’s Letter… A “Grave And Clear Obligation To Oppose” Any Law That Attacks Human Life

May 30, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Full Text Of Archbishop Cordileone’s Letter… A “Grave And Clear Obligation To Oppose” Any Law That Attacks Human Life

WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNA) — Catholic News Agency Editor’s Note: Below is the full text of San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone’s notification to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, informing her that she should not receive Holy Communion in her home archdiocese, the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Cordileone made the following letter publicly available on Friday, May 20. NOTIFICATION To the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress Nancy PelosiThe Second Vatican Council, in its Decree on the Church in the Modem World, Gaudium et spes, reiterated the Church’s ancient and consistent teaching that “from the first moment of conception life must be guarded with the greatest care while abortion and infanticide are unspeakable crimes” (n. 51).…Continue Reading

Pelosi Slapdown

May 29, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Pelosi Slapdown

By BARBARA SIMPSON Congresswoman and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is used to having the last word. Also the first word, as well, on any subject she prefers.Her obstinacy about any of her political positions has finally gotten the public attention of San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone. She openly defies Catholic teaching on abortion and as a result, the archbishop has banned her from receiving Communion in any church in the San Francisco Archdiocese until she repents, and goes to Confession.He wrote her a letter outlining his position on the issue and made the letter public last week. He said he had made numerous attempts to talk with her privately about the situation, but she never responded to his…Continue Reading

Will Midterms Be Biden’s Last Hurrah?

May 28, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Will Midterms Be Biden’s Last Hurrah?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN For half a decade now, America’s media elite have been obsessed with former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s conversion to Trumpism.Press and TV are daily consumed with his actions and prospects and the future of the party he captured in 2016.Perhaps it is time to consider the prospects of President Joe Biden and the political future of his embattled presidency.What are the odds that Biden, like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama before him, will run again in 2024, win re-election, serve out a second term and transfer his office to the 47th president on January 20, 2029?My guess: The odds of that happening are roughly the same as the odds that last-minute entry Rich…Continue Reading

Cardinal Zen May Be In Hong Kong Court Again

May 27, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Cardinal Zen May Be In Hong Kong Court Again

DENVER (CNA) — Joseph Cardinal Zen Ze-kiun is scheduled to appear in court May 24, according to a report by the British daily The Guardian.“A source close to him said the cardinal was set to appear in court on May 24, adding it was possible that he would be further detained, should charges be laid,” Sum Lok-kei wrote in a May 16 article in The Guardian.Cardinal Zen was arrested May 11 under China’s national security law with at least four others for his role as a trustee of the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund, which helped pro-democracy protesters in the special administrative region of Hong Kong to pay their legal fees.He was released on bail later that day.Cardinal Zen, who was…Continue Reading

TLM Altar Boys Implore Cardinal . . . Consider Our Love For The Latin Mass

May 26, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on TLM Altar Boys Implore Cardinal . . . Consider Our Love For The Latin Mass

By JOE BUKURAS WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNA) — Six Latin Mass altar servers in a Washington, D.C., parish have written an impassioned letter to the archbishop of Washington, Wilton Cardinal Gregory, imploring him to consider their positive experiences in the Traditional Latin Mass when implementing the Vatican’s new guidance on the Extraordinary Form.“For us, the Latin Mass is a refuge,” the May 4 letter, posted on the parish’s Facebook page, says. “A refuge where the evils of the world and the struggles of life cannot penetrate. We believe it is the closest thing to Heaven on Earth and we would love to see it continue.”Pope Francis issued a motu proprio in July 2021 called Traditionis custodes that includes new guidance and…Continue Reading

Justice Alito . . . Says Supreme Court Not Intimidated By Pro-Abortion Violence

May 25, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Justice Alito . . . Says Supreme Court Not Intimidated By Pro-Abortion Violence

By STEVEN ERTELT WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeNews) — Radical abortion advocates across the country are engaging in violence, firebombing pro-life groups, vandalizing and disrupting churches, forcing pregnancy centers to close and staging intimidating protests outside the homes of members of the Supreme Court.But Justice Samuel Alito, author of the draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, says he and his colleagues will not be intimidated.From a secure location to protect him, Alito spoke the night of May 12 to a crowd at the Antonin Scalia School of Law at George Mason University, according to Tyler O’Neil at Fox News.A member of the audience asked a question about the current violent environment following his draft.“I think it would just be really helpful for…Continue Reading

Are These Schools Worth It? Liberate D.C. Children From Government Schools

May 24, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Are These Schools Worth It? Liberate D.C. Children From Government Schools

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY In the 2018-2019 school year, the government-run schools in Washington, D.C., beat the government-run schools in every state in the union in at least one measurable category: They spent the most money per pupil.That year, according to Table 236.75 published by the National Center for Education Statistics, the public elementary and secondary schools in our nation’s capital spent a total of $29,925 per pupil.None of the 50 states came close to that.New York came in second place in the 2018-2019 school year with $26,799 in per pupil spending — $3,126 behind the District of Columbia.Connecticut placed third ($22,831); New Jersey placed fourth ($22,814); and Vermont placed fifth ($21,982).This month, the NCES published a new report on…Continue Reading

St. Ephrem The Syrian . . . A Militant Poet Of The Early Church

May 23, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on St. Ephrem The Syrian . . . A Militant Poet Of The Early Church

By RAY CAVANAUGH Heresies abounded in the early centuries AD, threatening to lead a nascent Church astray. Fortunately, the Church had an apt watchdog in St. Ephrem the Syrian. Writing in his native Syriac language, he composed hymns warning the faithful about aberrant doctrines. Using melodies from heretic songs, he would then add lyrics that promoted correct Christian teachings.Roman Catholics celebrate Ephrem’s feast day on June 9. He also receives commemoration from Orthodox Catholics (January 28) and Episcopalians (June 10).Scant biographical facts are known about Ephrem, who was likely born in the year 306 AD in the Mesopotamian city of Nisibis (now part of southeastern Turkey). Based on a line in one of his hymns, some scholars have concluded that…Continue Reading