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In Facebook Post . . . JPII Institute Defends Biden’s Abortion Record

February 8, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on In Facebook Post . . . JPII Institute Defends Biden’s Abortion Record

By ANDREA GAGLIARDUCCI ROME (CNA) — The John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences generated a flurry of controversy in the Italian Catholic blogosphere this past week, after its Facebook page defended Joe Biden’s support of legal abortion.The Pontifical Theological Institute’s Facebook page reposted an article published on January 20 in the Italian edition of the Huffington Post, titled “Joe Biden, a Catholic at the White House among the poisons of the American Church.”The article emphasized what it calls Joe Biden’s “Social Gospel” and presented a series of declarations by political scientists and theologians to support the theory that Biden’s election is complementary to Pope Francis’ election because both of them give a sort of new…Continue Reading

The Futility Of Slogans

February 7, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Futility Of Slogans

By DONALD DeMARCO Ted Koppel, who gained fame as the anchor for ABC’s Nightline, delivered a commencement address to the graduating class of Duke University in Durham, N.C. His presentation was not the usual politically correct palaver. Among his many trenchant remarks was this assertion: “We have actually convinced ourselves that slogans will save us.” Koppel’s address was in 1987. We have not yet weaned ourselves of this delusion. We continue to believe that slogans will save us.Koppel may have either disturbed or enlightened his audience by pointing out that moral truths are hard to come by and often looked upon with suspicion. “In its purest form,” he said, “truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is…Continue Reading

Who Are The True “Domestic Terrorists”?

February 6, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Who Are The True “Domestic Terrorists”?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “Never allow a good crisis (to) go to waste. It’s an opportunity to do the things you once thought were impossible.”Thus did chief of staff Rahm Emanuel advise Barack Obama on the financial crisis he inherited in 2009.Following the Capitol riot by a mob of pro-Donald Trump protesters, the left took Rahm’s counsel, seizing upon and exploiting the episode ever since to paint the right as America’s safe harbor for “domestic terrorism.”According to leftist columnists and commentators, going back to the 1960s, the real threat of domestic terrorism has always come from the right.That is not, however, how some of us remember those days.The most destructive acts of violence in the ’60s were the urban race…Continue Reading

Walk For Life West Coast Draws Thousands

February 5, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Walk For Life West Coast Draws Thousands

By PERRY WEST (CNA) — Despite pandemic restrictions, thousands of pro-life advocates showed their support at the Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco on Saturday, January 23.Eva Muntean, co-chair of Walk for Life, said she expected only a few hundred to attend the march because of the pandemic but was pleasantly surprised to walk alongside about 2,500 pro-life demonstrators.“That pro-lifers would show up, and in numbers beyond our hope, in the face not only of COVID but also of threats of political unrest, shows the unshakable commitment pro-lifers have to protecting the littlest and most defenseless among us,” she told Catholic News Agency.Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco and 12 priests began the event with the annual Walk…Continue Reading

Pro-Life Hero Leaves Us… He Hoped For A Place In Heaven, Not In History

February 4, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Pro-Life Hero Leaves Us… He Hoped For A Place In Heaven, Not In History

By DEXTER DUGGAN Reporters see individuals they cover from up close as well as from the distance that everyone else observes them on daily news reports. Sometimes the two images are congruent, and sometimes not.Longtime national pro-life leader Joe Scheidler seemed impressive from either perspective to me. I had a professional relationship with him, although I never was a coffee-break chum of his.I’d heard about Scheidler doing daily pro-life news updates via a telephone recording in the 1970s, back before there were emails and social media.They were a snappy dose of news that covered a spectrum of developments in short order. He barked them out like an excited radio announcer. I had a lot of those brief long-distance calls on…Continue Reading

Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic… The Left’s Suppression Of Free Speech

February 3, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic… The Left’s Suppression Of Free Speech

By STEPHEN M. KRASON We are currently witnessing an assault on free speech in the U.S. that is certainly the most extreme that I have witnessed in my lifetime. As even a cursory examination of the developments shows, the assault is coming almost completely from the left. The examples are too numerous to list.Some of the more outrageous ones are these: Certain Democratic officeholders, joined by their minions on social media, calling for conservative media such as Breitbart to be censored; the push to censor speech if people will be “offended” by it; a journalist on Yahoo calling for the banning of conservative journalists; the targeting of television cable companies for hosting conservative media outlets; certain Democratic politicians who want…Continue Reading

Jesus: Sex And Politics

February 2, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Jesus: Sex And Politics

By FR. MICHAEL P. ORSI Following the moral way of life prescribed by Jesus isn’t easy. Accordingly, many people — even some who think of themselves as Christians — don’t follow it in any meaningful way.Human nature being as it is, we tend to favor those moral points that don’t conflict with our self-interest, and to avoid thinking about the ones that make us examine our consciences.Or else, we assume that how we behave in life doesn’t really matter, since everyone will eventually go to Heaven anyway (a false idea, but an extremely popular one).There’s nothing new about any of this. In the Gospels we’re told that some who were initially attracted to Jesus eventually found His message too challenging…Continue Reading

George Weigel Says . . . Cardinal Cupich’s Criticisms Of Archbishop Gomez Are Baseless

February 1, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on George Weigel Says . . . Cardinal Cupich’s Criticisms Of Archbishop Gomez Are Baseless

(CNA) — Archbishop José Gomez, president of the USCCB, showed courage in releasing a statement on the day of President Joe Biden’s inauguration despite opposition from within the conference, said papal biographer and longtime Church observer George Weigel.Weigel said Gomez displayed “episcopal courage” at a time when others demanded “a reprise of the accommodationist approach to Catholic public officials long championed by Theodore McCarrick.”Weigel, a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Washington, D.C.’s Ethics and Public Policy Center, penned an essay published in First Things on Friday, January 22, commenting on the statement released by Gomez on Inauguration Day and the subsequent criticism from Blase Cardinal Cupich of Chicago.The statement from Gomez noted that Biden’s inauguration marks the first time in 60…Continue Reading

Remembering A Football Hero

January 31, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Remembering A Football Hero

By DONALD DeMARCO When we think of a football hero, we usually imagine extraordinary exploits on the gridiron. We might imagine the “Galloping Ghost,” Red Grange, cutting through the defense as if it were not there, or Joe Montana throwing pinpoint passes to a fleet and sure-handed Jerry Rice.This column, however, features a hero who gained his fame on the sidelines. There have been many legendary football coaches for whom the Catholic faith was the most important thing in their life. The names of Knute Rockne, Frank Leahy, Don Shula, George Halas, Chuck Noll, and others, spring to mind. But the one who seems to stand out apart from the others is Vince Lombardi, the son of an Italian butcher…Continue Reading

Coexistence Or Cold War With China?

January 30, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Coexistence Or Cold War With China?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “The United States acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China. The United States . . . does not challenge that position.”Thus did President Nixon, in the Shanghai Communiqué of 1972, accept China’s territorial claim to the island of Taiwan.In 1979, Jimmy Carter severed relations with Taiwan, recognized Beijing as the legitimate government and dissolved the U.S. mutual security treaty with the Republic of China on Taiwan.We ceased to be obligated to go to war to defend Taiwan.Fast-forward four decades to the first weekend of President Joe Biden’s administration. Saturday, January 23, China sent eight nuclear-capable bombers and four…Continue Reading