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Dobbs Hearings . . . Energizes Grass-Roots Pro-Lifers All Over U.S.

January 4, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Dobbs Hearings . . . Energizes Grass-Roots Pro-Lifers All Over U.S.

By ASHLEY BATEMAN (LifeSiteNews) — As the U.S. Supreme Court opened hearings for Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on December 1, pro-lifers across the country increased their presence on the ground. From three unborn lives saved in Cherry Hill, N.J., to a 100-person turnout in El Cajon, Calif., the potential for life-protective laws being passed cast a long shadow, triggering two-day vigils from coast to coast.About 200 cities participated in vigils around the opening day of hearings.According to 40 Days for Life, at least one baby was saved at the Dobbs hearing vigil. More were recorded in New Jersey and Georgia.Steve Karlen, 40 Days for Life campaign director, spoke in Jackson in front of Mississippi’s last remaining abortion facility…Continue Reading

A Book Review… The Hopeless Cause Of The Emperor Maximilian

January 3, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… The Hopeless Cause Of The Emperor Maximilian

By JAMES BARESEL The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World by Edward Shawcross. Basic Books, 2021. When Americans have heard of the 1864-1867 Mexican Empire of Maximilian, it is probably for one of two reasons: 1) Annual Mexican commemoration of the May 5 Battle of Puebla. 2) Use of Maximilian’s empire as background for plots in some unforgettable actors’ more forgettable movies.But the history of that empire is actually among the more unique stories of nineteenth-century North America — one that began with an attempt to create a conservative and Catholic monarchy and ended with Mexican liberals having a firm hold on power that has persisted with…Continue Reading

Stairway To The Stars

January 2, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Stairway To The Stars

By DONALD DeMARCO Sometime ago I wrote an article curiously titled, “Why There Are Stairs?” I gave it to my wife to proofread. Immediately, she thought there was a typo in the title. “You mean ‘why are there stars,’ don’t you? That would be a better topic.” I had succeeded in avoiding a typo in the title, but her question was understandable. At the same time, it awakened another thought in me. “There are stairs because there are stars,” I said. She smiled and felt that maybe I was on to something.In Gen. 28:12, Jacob, while fleeing from his brother, Esau, who wanted to kill him, had a prophetic dream in which he saw “a stairway resting on the earth…Continue Reading

How We Forfeited The Fruits Of Cold War Victory

January 1, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on How We Forfeited The Fruits Of Cold War Victory

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN As 1991 turned into 1992, America appeared to have arrived at the apogee of its national power and world prestige.President George H.W. Bush had just sent an army of half a million men to expel, in a 100-hour campaign, Saddam Hussein’s invading army from Kuwait. The world, including Russia, China, and Iran, had supported U.S.-led military action to overturn Iraq’s aggression.Our Cold War adversary, the Soviet Union, had just collapsed and disintegrated into 15 nations. The Warsaw Pact had dissolved. All of Eastern Europe was free. We were the sole surviving superpower.In the reviewing stand on Constitution Avenue for the victory parade of the troops of Desert Storm, the thought occurred: This is what it must…Continue Reading

Votive Mass Of Our Lady On Saturday In Advent… Grateful Prayers For All Who Implored The Lord On My Behalf

December 28, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Votive Mass Of Our Lady On Saturday In Advent… Grateful Prayers For All Who Implored The Lord On My Behalf

(Editor’s Note: His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke delivered the following homily at the Votive Mass of Our Lady on Saturday in Advent, December 11, 2021, at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The readings were Isaiah 7:10-15 and Luke 1:26-38.) + + In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.My heart is filled with deepest gratitude to almighty God Who, from August 10th last, has brought me, through a great suffering which seemingly would have ended in death, to offer today the Pontifical Holy Mass of Our Lady on Saturday in Advent, according to the More Ancient Usage of our beloved Roman Rite. In thanking God…Continue Reading

The First Christmas: Our Lady’s Perspective

December 28, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The First Christmas: Our Lady’s Perspective

By JOHN YOUNG When the angel Gabriel appeared to Our Lady at the Annunciation and delivered his startling message, it must have taken her some time to adjust to its implications. She who had intended to remain a virgin was told that she would bear a Son, and that He would be Divine!She was married to St. Joseph, but the implication is that they did not intend to have sexual relations. Otherwise her words to the angel when told she would have a Son, “I know not man,” would hardly make sense.They were not engaged; they were already married. There were two stages in a Jewish marriage, with the bride moving into the husband’s home after the second stage. Had…Continue Reading

A Time For Song

December 27, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on A Time For Song

By PAUL KRAUSE Christmas is the time for joyful singing. While we may often grow tired of the commercialized songs that sweep into our lives during the Christmas season, such songs and their longevity nevertheless speak to a truth that we should embrace about the Christmas season. Singing is an expression of joy and an essential component of Christianity; after all, the Psalms are replete with joyful expressions to the Lord.“Sing to the Lord, O ye His saints.”As a pilgrim people our hearts ought to be set to the good things the heavens hold in store for us. The want to sing is an expression of thanksgiving, a manifestation of the happiness and love in our lives thanks to God.…Continue Reading

The Joy Of Christmas

December 26, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Joy Of Christmas

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY Once again the season of Christmas is almost upon us, as we journey through the weeks of Advent in expectation of commemorating the birth of Jesus on Christmas Day. This should obviously be a cause of great joy for us, and in fact this very point was emphasized by the Angel who appeared to the shepherds on that wonderful night two thousand years ago.St. Luke, in chapter 2 of his Gospel, recounts how our Lady and St. Joseph had traveled to Bethlehem at Caesar’s command, and how Jesus was born in a poor cave, the only accommodation that was available because there was no room at the inn.But despite the poverty and obscurity of the birth…Continue Reading

Christmas With St. Augustine

December 25, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Christmas With St. Augustine

By JOANNE SADLER BUTLER St. Augustine, the bishop of Hippo, is widely known as the author of Confessions and The City of God. His sermons are less well known, but worthy also. As the fourth and fifth century Church limited the power to deliver sermons to bishops, devising and delivering sermons was an important part of his life.It’s estimated he preached thousands of sermons in his career, but we are left with merely several hundred. Some of them focus on the Nativity and as they were written for ordinary people, they are highly accessible today. Their clarity, wittiness, and soundness encourage examination.While Augustine had a famous conversion from paganism to the Catholic faith in AD 386, his clerical life is…Continue Reading

Sweet Memories Of Christmas

December 24, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Sweet Memories Of Christmas

By BARBARA SIMPSON As the days have drawn closer to December 25 — I can’t help but step back in my memories to my own Christmases past. That day, with both religious and secular activities, has always held an important place in our family and certainly in my life as I grew up and older.I was born and raised on the East Coast, and it was a rare winter that we didn’t have one or more blizzards. My parents hated them — roads blocked and driveways to shovel. But I loved them — all the kids did, and our dogs were in their glory.I remember one Christmas blizzard in particular when the snow was easily three feet deep in the…Continue Reading