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n New Book… Cardinal Sarah Calls Catholic Priests To Spiritual Renewal

December 3, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on n New Book… Cardinal Sarah Calls Catholic Priests To Spiritual Renewal

By HANNAH BROCKHAUS ROME (CNA) — In a new book, Robert Cardinal Sarah calls priests to spiritual renewal, saying that it will not come through structural changes, but through rediscovering the priest’s mission and identity as the presence of Christ in the world.“Christ never created structures. Of course, I’m not saying they aren’t necessary. Organization is useful in society, but it is not first,” Sarah said in a November 16 interview with the Catholic French weekly Famille Chrétienne.“What is first is the very first word of Christ in the Gospel of Mark: ‘Convert and believe in the Gospel’.”The Vatican’s former liturgy chief published “Pour l’éternité: Méditations sur la figure du prêtre” (“For Eternity: Meditations on the Figure of the Priest”)…Continue Reading

City Of Philadelphia . . . To Pay $2 Million To Catholic Foster Care Agency In Settlement

December 2, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on City Of Philadelphia . . . To Pay $2 Million To Catholic Foster Care Agency In Settlement

By CHRISTINE ROUSSELLE PHILADELPHIA (CNA) — The city of Philadelphia will pay Catholic Social Services a $2 million settlement and reinstate their foster care contract after the Supreme Court unanimously found in June that the city had discriminated against the group due to their religious beliefs.Most of the money will be used to pay Catholic Social Services’ [CSS] legal fees, and CSS will receive $56,000.As part of the settlement, CSS will be exempt from Philadelphia’s nondiscrimination ordinance, and will receive a contract for $350,000 for foster care. Additionally, CSS will have to state on its website that, while it does not work with same-sex couples, it will refer them to an organization that will.Ken Gavin, a spokesperson for the Archdiocese…Continue Reading

This Season . . . Thank Private Property

December 1, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on This Season . . . Thank Private Property

By JOHN STOSSEL Happy Thanksgiving!But beware the “tragedy of the commons.” It almost killed off the pilgrims.Now, via Washington, D.C., it’s probably coming for us.Tragedy of the commons is a concept from an essay by ecologist Garrett Hardin. He wrote how cattle ranchers sharing a common parcel of land soon destroy that land. That’s because each rancher has an incentive to put cattle on the common. Soon, the extra animals eat all the grass. Shared grazing space is destroyed because no rancher has an incentive to conserve.If the ranchers put up a few fences and divide the land, each rancher has an incentive to limit grazing. That saves the grass and the cattle.Sharing things and “public” property sound nice, but…Continue Reading

Biden’s War On Religious Liberty Spikes

November 30, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Biden’s War On Religious Liberty Spikes

By BILL DONOHUE (Editor’s Note: Catholic League President Bill Donohue commented November 18 at catholicleague.org on the latest attacks on religious liberty.) + + Never has religious liberty been more seriously threatened than it is today. That the man responsible for this all-out assault professes to be a Catholic is all the more offensive. It is his Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that are leading the charge.News of Biden’s latest war on religious liberty was selectively leaked to the media this past week. A draft memo by OCR to HHS indicates the Biden administration is planning to revoke the Trump administration’s policies governing religious liberty, including conscience rights.HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, who…Continue Reading

The U.S. Bishops’ Statement: An Invitation To Disobedience

November 29, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The U.S. Bishops’ Statement: An Invitation To Disobedience

By PHIL LAWLER (Editor’s Note: This article is reprinted from CatholicCulture.org, November 18, 2021. All rights reserved.) + + After voting almost unanimously to approve a long-awaited statement on the Eucharist on November 17, the members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) gave themselves a hearty round of applause. I wonder if they noticed that not many other Catholics are clapping.What was it that prompted the bishops’ applause? Were they saluting each other for their courageous witness? No; this was not a courageous document. Were they congratulating themselves for the prudence that allowed them to avoid a contentious debate? Not likely; they have been sniping at each other for more than a year on this topic, and the…Continue Reading

The Revolution That Is Christmas

November 28, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Revolution That Is Christmas

By DONALD DeMARCO The word “revolution” has interesting and diverse shades of meaning. The simplest one refers to the action of a celestial body as it goes around an orbit. The Earth, for example, revolves around the sun and returns to its starting point. It is a revolution that takes one year to complete.The second meaning is very much the opposite of the first. It refers to the forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system. In this case, a revolution does not return to the starting point but fosters a radical change.Three major revolutions of this kind come to mind: the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, and the American Revolution. Such violent revolutions…Continue Reading

Playing With Fire On Russia’s Borders

November 27, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Playing With Fire On Russia’s Borders

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Belarusian autocrat Alexander Lukashenko has cleared out the encampment at his border crossing into Poland, where thousands of Middle Eastern migrants had been living in squalor.Last week, that border crossing was the site of clashes between asylum-seekers trying to push through the razor wire and Polish troops resisting with water cannons.While the crisis between Warsaw and Minsk has not ended, it appears to have been temporarily eased.Behind the clash was the recent election in Belarus that the European Union saw as fraudulent and Lukashenko’s interception of a commercial airliner to kidnap and imprison a critical journalist.Lukashenko brought in the migrants from the Mideast and moved them to the border, forcing the Poles to deploy security forces…Continue Reading

Wisconsin Parents Sue School District… For Shutting Them Out Of Children’s Name, Pronoun Changes

November 26, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Wisconsin Parents Sue School District… For Shutting Them Out Of Children’s Name, Pronoun Changes

MILWAUKEE — The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) and Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing two sets of Wisconsin parents have filed a lawsuit against the Kettle Moraine School District to challenge its policy that allows minor students to change their name and gender pronouns at school without parental consent.One of the Wisconsin couples suing the school district was forced to withdraw their 12-year-old daughter from the district to protect her mental health and preserve their parental role. The school district violated their constitutionally protected parental rights by using a male name and male pronouns to address their daughter at school without their consent and over their objections. Additionally, another couple has joined the lawsuit against the district to…Continue Reading

The End Of The Liturgical Year… Remembering That All Faith Is Local, In Our Hearts

November 25, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The End Of The Liturgical Year… Remembering That All Faith Is Local, In Our Hearts

By MOST REV. JOSEPH STRICKLAND (Editor’s Note: Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, delivered this homily on November 14, 2021, the Sunday before the USCCB Fall General Assembly. The text first appeared on the website of the St. Philip Institute on Catechesis and Evangelization.) + + The end is near. You might be thinking, “Oh, the bishop’s going to get really apocalyptic with us!” But I really just refer to the end of the liturgical year. This is the last Sunday — next Sunday is Christ the King — and then we wondrously start all over again. But I encourage us to listen deeply and reread these readings; they are powerful.And the Lord answers that question that many are asking,…Continue Reading

Kyle Rittenhouse, Both Right And Righteous

November 24, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Kyle Rittenhouse, Both Right And Righteous

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN In judging the actions of Kyle Rittenhouse, set aside for the moment Wisconsin law under which he is being tried, and consider the natural law, the moral law, the higher law written on the human heart.In terms of values demonstrated and the deeds done that night that Rittenhouse shot the three men who attacked him, who was on the righteous side?Consider what Rittenhouse did that night of August 25, 2020, and why.Watching on television the nightly riots in Kenosha, Wis., a town 20 miles from his home in Antioch, Ill., that he knew well, Rittenhouse decided to go to Kenosha to protect property that embattled police had been unable to defend during the riots. For protection,…Continue Reading