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Mary: The Model Of Motherhood

March 13, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Mary: The Model Of Motherhood

By DONALD DeMARCO Mary, the Mother of God, as Coventry Patmore has reminded us, is “Our only Savior from an abstract Christ.” There is implied in this remark an understanding of motherhood that is being challenged in today’s world where motherhood is being eviscerated by politics and redefined by reproductive technology.Mary conceived Christ, carried Him under her heart, and gave birth to Him. Through her flesh she gave her Son flesh. Her act of mothering provided Christ with a human form, one through which He could grow and feel and suffer as other humans do. She permitted the transformation of a God that we could not see or touch into one who is palpably human and identifiably one of us.…Continue Reading

U.S. Policy . . . Cheer Ukrainians On — And Keep Us Out!

March 12, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on U.S. Policy . . . Cheer Ukrainians On — And Keep Us Out!

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN After the Friday, March 4 NATO summit refused to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said the allies’ failure to “close the skies” to Russian military aircraft gives “a green light for further bombing of Ukrainian cities.”“All the people who will die starting from this day will…die because of you,” said Zelensky to NATO, “because of your weakness.”Zelensky’s indictment of NATO for cowardice came after NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg ruled out a no-fly zone:“NATO is not party to the conflict. NATO is a defensive alliance. . . . We don’t seek war, conflict with Russia. . . . We should not have NATO planes operating over Ukrainian airspace or NATO troops on…Continue Reading

Chemical Abortions Are Now Majority Of U.S. Abortions

March 11, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Chemical Abortions Are Now Majority Of U.S. Abortions

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute on February 24 released data revealing that chemical abortions accounted for the majority of all abortions for the first time in U.S. history in 2020. Liberty Counsel reported on the development.Every three years, Guttmacher surveys all known abortion providers in America. In 2020, abortion pills accounted for 54 percent of all U.S. abortions, an increase from 44 percent in 2019. Chemical abortions accounted for 39 percent of all abortions in 2017, an increase from 29 percent in 2014.The abortion drug, sold under the brand name Mifeprex, is a two-drug treatment that is approved to terminate a pregnancy up to 10 weeks gestation or less when the baby has a beating heart and arms…Continue Reading

Archbishop Gomez Offers Prayers . . . In Message To Los Angeles’ Ukrainian Catholic Community

March 10, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Archbishop Gomez Offers Prayers . . . In Message To Los Angeles’ Ukrainian Catholic Community

LOS ANGELES (CNA) — Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles wrote Sunday, February 27 to the city’s Ukrainian Catholic parish, assuring them of his solidarity and the prayers of the Catholics of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.“Please know that your Roman Catholic brothers and sisters in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles will always be near to you in solidarity and prayer. We are praying for a swift end to the evil of this war,” Archbishop Gomez wrote to Fr. Ihor Koshyk, pastor of Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church in Los Angeles. The parish is part of the Ukrainian Eparchy of St. Nicholas of Chicago.“We ask Jesus Christ, the Lord of Peace, to touch the hearts of…Continue Reading

After Backlash . . . Beijing Tones Down Support For Moscow

March 9, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on After Backlash . . . Beijing Tones Down Support For Moscow

By JOHN AI ROME (AsiaNews) — As the conflict between Russia and Ukraine intensifies, Chinese authorities are growing more cautious in their propaganda and lowering their profile to avoid a backlash to their image. Beijing abstained in the UN Security Council vote against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In the meantime, as of February 28, the Chinese authorities have remained silent on Russia’s aggression, while refraining from expressing support for Moscow.In a phone call with Vladimir Putin, President Xi Jinping said that “China determines its position on the Ukrainian issue according to its own interests.”The Chinese ambassador to Kiev, Fan Xianrong, announced that he would remain in his post. Fan suggested that Chinese citizens in Ukraine should understand the feelings…Continue Reading

Literature And Lent

March 8, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Literature And Lent

By PAUL KRAUSE Books have the power to change your life. They can make you a better human, a better lover, a better Christian. We have a great treasure for our personal and spiritual nourishment. And in this Lenten season, reconnecting with the love and transfiguring power and beauty of literature should be a priority for all Christians.One of the great tragedies of modern Christianity, especially Catholicism, has been the gradual decline and fall of the artistic and literary tradition that was so essential to our identity and consciousness.The forsaking of high art and literature has impoverished our souls, our Church, and our culture. Yet the evidence for the enduring power and grace offered by art and literature endures. Countless…Continue Reading

Ukraine Crisis . . . Brinksmanship To Blitzkrieg?

March 7, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Ukraine Crisis . . . Brinksmanship To Blitzkrieg?

By JOHN J. METZLER Vladimir Putin has rolled the dice. And now he has moved militarily into Ukraine.Significantly, shortly after the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Putin began his dismemberment of Ukraine in the Donbas then Crimea. Washington watched but did little. It appears that the Russian despot is following the same script by supporting pro-Russian stooge regimes inside Ukraine’s territory: Donetsk and Luhansk “republics.”As UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned, “The decision by the Russian Federation to recognize the so-called ‘independence’ of certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk is a violation of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine.”He added, “It is time for restraint, reason, and de-escalation.”But during a late-night emergency meeting of the Security Council, Putin struck. Jolted…Continue Reading

The Terror Threat

March 6, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on The Terror Threat

By BARBARA SIMPSON Who would have imagined as we celebrated the New Year in January, that just weeks later, we would be confronted with a war that could escalate to match World War II and along with it, the real possibility of a worldwide nuclear contamination.Those of a certain age remember when students in schools were practicing “duck and cover” under their desks, in case of “THE BOMB.”In those days, the fear was the atomic bomb, and while children ducked, many of their parents had bomb shelters built on their property, with hope for protection if the worst came to pass.Thank God, it never did and the fears subsided as the war ended.But the dangers of nuclear contamination remained and…Continue Reading

Is Putin Considering Using Nukes On NATO?

March 5, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Is Putin Considering Using Nukes On NATO?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN From his principal avenues of attack on Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin began this war with three strategic goals.Send an army south from Belarus to capture Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and replace the government. Send forces into northwest Ukraine to capture its second largest city, Kharkiv, with 1.4 million people.Third, extend the Donetsk enclave westward to establish a land bridge to Crimea and give Russia full control of the Sea of Azov and most of the Ukrainian coast along the Black Sea.This last objective is almost achieved. Yet, as of Monday evening, February 28, neither Kyiv nor Kharkiv had fallen, though Russia had committed most of the troops it had assembled for the invasion.Putin needs to get…Continue Reading

U.S. Supreme Court To Hear Case . . . Artist Threatened Under “Orwellian” Law

March 4, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on U.S. Supreme Court To Hear Case . . . Artist Threatened Under “Orwellian” Law

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday, February 22 to take the case of a Denver-area website designer subject to a Colorado state law that censors and coerces the speech of creative professionals whose religious beliefs do not conform to state orthodoxy.Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing the designer, Lorie Smith of 303 Creative, asked the High Court to review a 2 to 1 decision by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit that ruled in favor of Colorado’s coercive law. The law, referred to by the dissenting 10th Circuit judge as an “Orwellian diktat,” is the same one that continues to threaten Colorado cake artist Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop.“The government doesn’t have…Continue Reading