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U.S. Ran $310.8 Billion Pandemic-Year Trade Deficit With China

February 18, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on U.S. Ran $310.8 Billion Pandemic-Year Trade Deficit With China

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY The United States ran a merchandise trade deficit of $310.8 billion with the People’s Republic of China in 2020, according to data released Friday, February 5 by the Census Bureau.That was the largest merchandise trade deficit the United States ran with any country last year.It was also the ninth straight year this nation’s merchandise trade deficit with China (in non-inflation-adjusted dollars) has exceeded $300 billion.A nation where, as the State Department puts it, “the Chinese Communist Party is the paramount authority” persistently and dramatically beats the United States in the exchange of goods for money.China hauls in all of this money from the United States, year after year, at the same time it denies the God-given…Continue Reading

The Communion Controversy . . . Could Be Far Greater Than Just Pro-Abort Politicians

February 17, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Communion Controversy . . . Could Be Far Greater Than Just Pro-Abort Politicians

By MATT HADRO WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNA) — Once again, U.S. bishops are debating whether to apply the canonical penalty of denying Communion to unrepentantly pro-abortion Catholic politicians.While this conversation has been occurring for years within the conference, what is new is that some bishops are now framing this discussion within the broader topic of general worthiness to receive Holy Communion. Catholics in general, they argue — not just pro-abortion politicians — need to be more aware of the Church’s requirements for reception of Holy Communion, most importantly not being conscious of grave sin.If the conference as a whole chooses to address this broader topic, it could carry great implications for sacramental practice in the U.S., but could also provoke a…Continue Reading

A Book Review… The Long Shadow Of Grace Portrayed

February 16, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… The Long Shadow Of Grace Portrayed

By PEGGY MOEN The Thief Who Stole Heaven by Raymond Arroyo; Sophia Institute Press (Manchester, NH: 2021); illustrated; 21 pages. Order from https://www.amazon.com/Thief-Stole-Heaven-Raymond-Arroyo/dp/1644132389/. Once, in the 1970s, I attended the Christian Commonwealth Institute, associated with Triumph magazine. Held in San Lorenzo, Spain, every summer, the Institute featured a number of theology classes, some taught by Lorenzo Albacete (1941-2014). I remember one class in particular when he talked about the Good Thief, and the thief’s last-minute absolution, telling us, “Don’t count on something like that happening to you!”The story of the Good Thief reminds us of the infinite and amazing mercy of God, and also of the need for conversion. We know of many who we hope will experience late conversions…Continue Reading

The Danger Of Joe Biden’s Empty Catholicism

February 15, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Danger Of Joe Biden’s Empty Catholicism

By FRANK CANNON (LifeSiteNews) — Joe Biden is a man of many epithets. There is Joe Biden of Scranton, the blue-collar guy who understands the plight of the working class. There is Joe Biden the Sufferer, whose life story has granted him supreme empathy for every person on the face of the Earth. But perhaps no title figures more prominently in the Biden mythology, or has proven more useful, than that of Joe Biden the Devout Catholic.That title has been especially ubiquitous since his ascendance to the presidency just weeks ago. Following Biden’s inauguration, paeans to his Catholicism were numerous throughout the media.“Joe Biden has been back in Washington for six days, and already he has attended Catholic Mass twice,”…Continue Reading

Does The Apple Belong To The Apple Tree?

February 14, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Does The Apple Belong To The Apple Tree?

By DONALD DeMARCO Wherever there is a movement, there are sure to be extremists. Environmentalism offers us a case in point. Perhaps the most outlandish of the environmentalist extremist groups is the one founded by the pseudonymous Les U. Knight. It is called the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT).The philosophical principle that undergirds this group is the notion that the Earth would be better off without humans. Therefore, humans should stop breeding. Its homepage reads as follows: “Phasing out the human race will allow Earth’s biosphere to return to good health.” Human beings, consequently, should “unite,” not to breed, but to become extinct.Members of VHEMT prefer to read Genesis backwards, moving from the first human beings back to an unpopulated…Continue Reading

Of Rioters, Protesters & Patriots

February 13, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Of Rioters, Protesters & Patriots

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN To Parliament, in the London of George III, the Boston Massacre of 1770 and the Tea Party of 1773 were not seen in the same light as they were by the Sons of Liberty in the Massachusetts colony.To Parliament, this was mob violence, and the shooting and killing at Lexington and Concord were acts of insurrection and treason.But because we won the Revolution, those events are portrayed and remembered differently. For when it comes to riots and revolutions, all depends on who writes the narrative of history. It is the winners.“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past,” said George Orwell in his novel 1984.To the media, the long hot…Continue Reading

The Argument From Order

February 12, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Argument From Order

By JOHN YOUNG A popular argument for the existence of God through the ages has been from the order we find in the universe. But since the theory of evolution has become popular this argument is often dismissed on the grounds that the apparent order in the world can be explained through evolution, with no intelligence guiding the process.Actually the argument is stronger today than in the past because of our present understanding of the almost unbelievable complexity of even the smallest particles of matter. That these could form by blind evolution the almost unimaginably complex universe shown by science is out of the question. Even the tiniest cell is immensely complicated, and each cell has its own tiny part…Continue Reading

A Book Review… Things You Didn’t Know About “The Church And The Modern Era”

February 11, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… Things You Didn’t Know About “The Church And The Modern Era”

By REY FLORES The Church and the Modern Era, written by David M. Wagner and edited by Mike Aquilina; published by Ave Maria Press. Please visit https://www.avemariapress.com/series/Reclaiming-Catholic-History for ordering information on this book and others in the Reclaiming Catholic History Series. The Church and the Modern Era (1864-2005) — Pius IX, World Wars, and the Second Vatican Council — by author David Wagner and series editor Mike Aquilina is the latest in an ongoing series of books documenting the history of the Catholic Church “beyond myth, misinformation, and missing pieces.”Aquilina has collaborated with a number of authors, whose books include The Early Church, The Church and the Roman Empire, The Church and the Middle Ages, the latest being The Church…Continue Reading

Thoughts On My Summons… A Retired Catholic Physician Contemplates Death

February 10, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Thoughts On My Summons… A Retired Catholic Physician Contemplates Death

By JAMES ASHER, D.O. Part 2 In the late summer of 2020, after receiving a full dose of radiation and more chemotherapy in April, it became apparent that I was going to lose the battle against pancreatic cancer. This battle began in November of 2017 with a Whipple surgery followed by chemotherapy. At first I did really well, and far better than most. People congratulated me on “surviving” and on the marvelous way I was handling my diagnosis. It seems everyone knows about the lethality of pancreatic cancer.In the back of my mind, there remained the grim reality of my extreme — and temporary — good fortune. It would not last, that much I knew. I tried to be grateful…Continue Reading

Is Cardinal Cupich On His Way To The Vatican?

February 9, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Is Cardinal Cupich On His Way To The Vatican?

By CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY STAFF VATICAN CITY (CNA) — On January 30, Pope Francis met with Blase Cardinal Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, who was in Rome for a meeting of the Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops.The Holy See Press Office did not release any information on the meeting other than that it took place, and much of the press speculated that the meeting was probably to discuss what happened 10 days before, when the cardinal publicly criticized the U.S. bishops’ official statement on the inauguration of President Joe Biden.But sources in Rome who spoke to CNA on background said that Cupich met the Pope not to speak of what happened in the recent past, but what may happen in the near…Continue Reading