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The Newborn Child’s Impact On The Family

February 28, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Newborn Child’s Impact On The Family

By DONALD DeMARCO The arrival of a newborn child in the world provokes a wide range of responses. The range extends from “it’s a blessing, a gift, a bundle of joy,” to “it’s an inconvenience, a burden, and utterly unwanted.” The child, of course, is not responsible for his parents’ reactions. The context or spiritual environment in which the child is born is completely determined by the relationship that exists between the husband and wife.In a Letter to the Family, Pope St. John Paul II states: “In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family” (1994, The Year of the Family, Gratissimam Sane). This statement does not apply uniformly in every case in which a child comes…Continue Reading

Biden: No New Cold Wars Or Democracy Crusades

February 27, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Biden: No New Cold Wars Or Democracy Crusades

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “What is America’s mission?” is a question that has been debated since George Washington’s Farewell Address in 1797.At the past week’s Munich Security Conference, President Joe Biden laid out his vision as to what is America’s mission. And the contrast with the mission enunciated by George W. Bush in his second inaugural could not have been more defining or dramatic.Here is Bush, January 20, 2005:“From the day of our Founding, we have proclaimed that every man and woman on this Earth has rights, and dignity, and matchless value, because they bear the image of the Maker of Heaven and Earth. . . .“Advancing these ideals is the mission that created our Nation . . . Now…Continue Reading

The Story Of Repentance Behind A Glorious Spanish Altarpiece

February 26, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Story Of Repentance Behind A Glorious Spanish Altarpiece

By JAMES MONTI “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you” (John 15:18). The Dutch city of Gorkum (Gorinchem) was to witness a unique fulfillment of these words on June 26, 1572. Zwinglian fanatics called zeegeuzen — “water pirates” — had stormed the city, targeting in particular Catholic places of worship and Catholic clergy. Fifteen priests and religious were captured, men of faith who thirteen days later would die for refusing to deny the doctrine of Transubstantiation — they together with four others would later come to be known as the Martyrs of Gorkum.But the water pirates were not only intent upon persecuting these disciples of Christ. They sought to get at the…Continue Reading

Keystone Pipeline Pipe Dreams?

February 25, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Keystone Pipeline Pipe Dreams?

By JOHN J. METZLER When the new Biden administration spoke grandly of “restoring America’s place in the world,” that bold new relationship with Canada restarted with an insult. Indeed, while the United States and Canada are among the world’s best neighbors, trading partners, and security allies, the governments in Washington and Ottawa have often not kept to the spirit of close friendship.In one of its first lengthy executive orders, the administration fired a hubristic salvo on climate policy; buried within pages of bromides was the news that the USA would cancel its part of the joint Canada/U.S. Keystone XL pipeline. The pipeline which had been mired in controversy since its start over a decade ago, was first blocked by the…Continue Reading

Reclaiming Love In A Loveless World

February 24, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Reclaiming Love In A Loveless World

By PAUL KRAUSE We our currently drowning in the language of love. This is ironic, for only a people rooted in the seed of Christianity talks so incessantly about love and nothing else. Especially now, during Lent, we ought to reclaim love from the vandals who speak a counterfeit to realities of Divine Love.Moderns seem to have become saturated with two prevailing notions of love, neither of which fit with the Christian understanding of love. Even many clerics speak of an abstracted and affirming love devoid of substance.The first love is related to romantic love rooted in sexual desire. Sexual desire is no love at all. Sexual desire is the manifestation of human nature, this is true, but the contemporary…Continue Reading

What Happened To The USCCB Working Group On Biden?

February 23, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on What Happened To The USCCB Working Group On Biden?

By MATT HADRO WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNA) — A source at the U.S. bishops’ conference (USCCB) has disputed the notion that a special working group formed to deal with new President Joe Biden was terminated prematurely this past week.Reports earlier this week at the National Catholic Reporter indicated that the USCCB’s working group on dealing with new President Joe Biden was “disbanded,” just three months after it was formed in November after the presidential election.According to a USCCB source with knowledge of the situation, however, it is “not really accurate to say ‘disbanded’” when referring to the working group — as the group was always intended to be temporary and had reportedly accomplished its assignment.Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles —…Continue Reading

Will The Radical Left Reunite The GOP?

February 22, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Will The Radical Left Reunite The GOP?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “Our historic, patriotic, and beautiful movement to Make America Great Again has only just begun.” So said Citizen Trump Saturday, February 13 on his acquittal by the Senate of the impeachment article of “incitement of insurrection” in the January 6 invasion of the Capitol.“I look forward to continuing our incredible journey together to achieve American greatness for all our people,” said Trump. “We have so much work ahead of us, and soon we will emerge with a vision for a bright, radiant and limitless American future.”Translation: Donald Trump is not going anywhere soon.The new Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, has another view.While he had voted to acquit Trump because he saw the Senate as acting outside…Continue Reading

Lincoln, Literacy, And Laughter

February 21, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Lincoln, Literacy, And Laughter

By DONALD DeMARCO President’s Day and President’s Weekend, which honor all the now 46 presidents that have served the United States as their nation’s chief executives, fail to do just honor to America’s greatest president. In fact, they have degenerated into an opportune time to purchase an automobile (preferably a Lincoln).February 12 was once set aside to pay special tribute to Abraham Lincoln, who is now overlooked so that all presidents — the good, the bad, and the mediocre — can be remembered (or forgotten) equally.This travesty no doubt would have amused Lincoln who had a great appetite for humor, even humor at his own expense. “I do generally remember a good story when I hear it,” he told a…Continue Reading

Dark Winter Of A Grand Old Party

February 20, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Dark Winter Of A Grand Old Party

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN It has been a dreadful three months for the Grand Old Party.On November 3, President Donald Trump seemed to have lost the White House by narrowly losing three crucial blue states he had won in 2016 — Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania — and Georgia and Arizona as well.Trump immediately mounted an acrimonious two-month campaign to prove the election had been “rigged” and “stolen,” enlisting virtually the entire party behind his claim.On January 5, after an intra-party battle between Trump and the Georgia Republican leadership, the GOP lost both of Georgia’s Senate seats and control of the U.S. Senate.On January 6, a mob, after storming the Capitol to block a formal vote to confirm the election of…Continue Reading

Cong. Chris Smith . . . Says Pro-Life Movement “Will Be Tenacious”

February 19, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Cong. Chris Smith . . . Says Pro-Life Movement “Will Be Tenacious”

By MATT HADRO WASHINGTON, D.C. — With a pro-abortion administration and a pro-abortion majority in the House, the pro-life movement will be “tenacious,” a leading pro-life member of Congress says.“We will be tenacious. We will respect even those with whom we have profound disagreements,” Cong. Chris Smith (R., N.J.) said in an interview with EWTN Pro-Life Weekly.Smith has co-chaired the House Pro-Life Caucus for decades. Now he will be facing a Democratic majority in the House and an effective Democratic majority in the Senate with 50 seats plus Vice President Kamala Harris available to cast a tiebreaking vote.In the House, “tragically, every Democrat, it would appear — maybe there might be one — are pro-abortion,” Smith said. In the Senate,…Continue Reading