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Infanticide Defender Atul Gawande . . . Is This The Best Biden Can Do For Health Post Nominee?

November 3, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Infanticide Defender Atul Gawande . . . Is This The Best Biden Can Do For Health Post Nominee?

By BILL DONOHUE (Editor’s Note: Catholic League President Bill Donohue commented October 22 at catholicleague.org on Biden’s nominee for a Bureau of Global Health post.) + + If credentials were sufficient grounds for holding a position in the Biden administration, Atul Gawande would merit a unanimous vote. He is a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, a graduate of Harvard Medical School, a Rhodes Scholar, a distinguished author, and the former CEO of a healthcare organization. This is surely why President Biden has nominated him to be assistant administrator of the Bureau for Global Health at the U.S. Agency for International Development.There are very good reasons, however, why Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) sounded the alarm on Gawande. He…Continue Reading

The Scandals Surrounding A Key Papal Ally

November 2, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Scandals Surrounding A Key Papal Ally

By PHIL LAWLER (Editor’s Note: This commentary first appeared October 19 on CatholicCulture.org and is reprinted here with permission.) + + More than six months have passed since the publication of a book that raises damaging questions about the integrity of Oscar Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga.More than three years have passed since Cardinal Maradiaga’s auxiliary, vicar general, and right-hand man, Bishop Juan José Pineda Fasquelle, resigned following an investigation into charges of sexual and financial misconduct in the Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa, Honduras.More than three years have also passed since Cardinal Maradiaga himself marked his 75th birthday, and was required by canon law to submit his resignation to Pope Francis.Today Cardinal Maradiaga remains in office — not only as archbishop of Tegucigalpa,…Continue Reading

Infanticide Defender Atul Gawande . . . Is This The Best Biden Can Do For Health Post Nominee?

November 1, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Infanticide Defender Atul Gawande . . . Is This The Best Biden Can Do For Health Post Nominee?

By BILL DONOHUE (Editor’s Note: Catholic League President Bill Donohue commented October 22 at catholicleague.org on Biden’s nominee for a Bureau of Global Health post.) + + If credentials were sufficient grounds for holding a position in the Biden administration, Atul Gawande would merit a unanimous vote. He is a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, a graduate of Harvard Medical School, a Rhodes Scholar, a distinguished author, and the former CEO of a healthcare organization. This is surely why President Biden has nominated him to be assistant administrator of the Bureau for Global Health at the U.S. Agency for International Development.There are very good reasons, however, why Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) sounded the alarm on Gawande. He…Continue Reading

The Personal Quality Of Giving Thanks

October 31, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Personal Quality Of Giving Thanks

By DONALD DeMARCO It was the summer of 1964 when a friend and I attended an outdoor concert at the Hatch Memorial Shell on the esplanade along the banks of Boston’s Charles River. Great music is elevating. Therefore, it is fitting that it be played under a canopy of stars.The featured work that July evening was the popular Tchaikovsky First piano concerto. At the piano was a seventeen-year-old prodigy by the name of Eugen Indjic. He performed brilliantly and won high praise even from members of the orchestra. The myriad of music lovers, sitting on the grass or on blankets, filled the night air with rapt heartfelt applause.My companion and I, hoping to meet the pianist, went to the back…Continue Reading

Can Poland Be Poland — And Stay In The EU?

October 30, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Can Poland Be Poland — And Stay In The EU?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “Let Poland be Poland!”That was the call of American conservatives, four decades ago, when the Solidarity movement of labor leader Lech Walesa arose in the port city of Gdansk to demand their freedom of the Communist system imposed upon Poland by the Soviet Union after World War II.A decade later, Poland broke free of the Soviet Bloc and Warsaw Pact, and later joined the European Union and NATO.The question that has arisen today also has to do with issues of Polish identity and independence.Specifically, can Poland be Poland — and still remain in the EU?In recent years, the ruling Law and Justice Party has revised its governmental structures. The judiciary has been subordinated, brought under greater…Continue Reading

The Church’s Battle Against Satan . . . As Expressed In The Sacred Liturgy

October 29, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Church’s Battle Against Satan . . . As Expressed In The Sacred Liturgy

By JAMES MONTI Time and again during His public ministry, our Lord speaks of His mission as a battle against Satan. As St. John declares, “The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8). That this battle will continue until the end of the world is made manifest in the Book of Revelation.Across the centuries, from the days of the early Church Fathers onward, the reality and scope of this battle with Satan has been vividly expressed not only in the Church’s teachings and the homilies of her pastors but also in the words and actions of the sacred liturgy.From the 1960s onward, there have been those within the Church who…Continue Reading

School Spending Up, Test Scores Down

October 28, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on School Spending Up, Test Scores Down

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY Thirteen-year-old children in American public schools were not quite as good at math and reading in 2019 and 2020 as they were in 2012.This is despite the fact that American taxpayers invested more money per pupil in the nation’s public schools in each of the last two fiscal years than they did in 2012.Bottom line: Increased spending on public education did not pay off.In fiscal 2012, according to the Census Bureau, the United States spent $10,608 per pupil in its public elementary and secondary schools. In fiscal 2020, in the 35 states and the District of Columbia that have so far reported their totals to the Census, the per pupil spending was $14,455.In fiscal 2019, the…Continue Reading

Stifling . . . California’s Avalanche Of New Laws

October 27, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Stifling . . . California’s Avalanche Of New Laws

By BARBARA SIMPSON (Editor’s Note: This editorial first appeared in WorldNetDaily on October 15 and is reprinted here with permission.) + + I know I should be used to it — I’ve lived in California for too long not to have noticed — but the flood of new laws here every year is astonishing.With the progressive governor we have — Gavin Newsom, who just beat a recall — and the Democratic majority in the legislature, it should come as no surprise that Newsom just faced some 700 bills that needed his signature. His deadline was Sunday, October 10, and those laws covered everything from education, health, housing to just about every other policy area you can think of.Remember, those senators…Continue Reading

The Universal And Unchanging Law

October 26, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Universal And Unchanging Law

By JOHN YOUNG According to British philosopher Bertrand Russell disagreements about moral values are really about differences of taste. If one person says oysters are good and another says they are bad, each is expressing his personal taste. “The chief ground for adopting this view is the complete impossibility of finding any arguments to prove this or that has intrinsic value” (Religion and Science, p. 238).That subjective view of values is very prevalent today, at least implicitly. And closely associated with it is Epicureanism, named after the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus. He held that pleasure is the highest good and that “…it is with reference to it that we begin every choice and avoidance” (Quoted by Diogenes Laertes, X, 139).If…Continue Reading

School Spending Up, Test Scores Down

October 25, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on School Spending Up, Test Scores Down

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY Thirteen-year-old children in American public schools were not quite as good at math and reading in 2019 and 2020 as they were in 2012.This is despite the fact that American taxpayers invested more money per pupil in the nation’s public schools in each of the last two fiscal years than they did in 2012.Bottom line: Increased spending on public education did not pay off.In fiscal 2012, according to the Census Bureau, the United States spent $10,608 per pupil in its public elementary and secondary schools. In fiscal 2020, in the 35 states and the District of Columbia that have so far reported their totals to the Census, the per pupil spending was $14,455.In fiscal 2019, the…Continue Reading