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Book Review . . . Motherhood Redeemed: How Radical Feminism Betrayed Maternal Love

January 9, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Book Review . . . Motherhood Redeemed: How Radical Feminism Betrayed Maternal Love

By REY FLORES “The pain of motherhood is a cleansing fire. I experience this each time I birth a child, a true phenomenon of hanging on the precipice between life and death. In one moment, I’m recalling the pain and horror of being cast out of the Garden of Eden as my body trembles in the pain of childbirth. In the very next moment, as I hold my newborn child, I’m being ushered into the sweet relief of heavenly glory.”The above is the introduction of author, blogger, and pod-caster Kimberly Cook’s most recent TAN Books publication Motherhood Redeemed: How Radical Feminism Betrayed Maternal Love.I’m not sure how many of you men reading this responded or may respond upon reading these…Continue Reading

Although Trump Had Seemed To Like Barr… Eventually President Couldn’t Wait Until January To Boot Attorney General

January 8, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Although Trump Had Seemed To Like Barr… Eventually President Couldn’t Wait Until January To Boot Attorney General

By DEXTER DUGGAN Presidents replacing their Cabinet members isn’t unusual. Republican Donald Trump seemed to have selected an attorney general who could earn his trust, William Barr, after Trump’s rocky relationship with the attorney general he began his administration with, Jeff Sessions. Sessions was a traditionalist conservative but apparently an inept administrator.The Catholic Barr seemed likely to stand up for the traditional values that Trump wanted his administration to champion, and previously had served as attorney general under GOP President George H. W. Bush in the early 1990s.In October 2019 Barr while attorney general gave a speech on religious liberty at the University of Notre Dame’s Law School. The following month, the conservative Heritage Foundation posted an article saying that…Continue Reading

Congregation For Divine Worship . . . Stresses Importance Of Sunday Of The Word of God

January 7, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Congregation For Divine Worship . . . Stresses Importance Of Sunday Of The Word of God

VATICAN CITY (CNA) — The Vatican’s liturgy congregation issued a note on Saturday, December 19 encouraging Catholic parishes around the world to celebrate the Sunday of the Word of God with new vigor.In the note, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments suggested ways that Catholics should prepare for the day devoted to the Bible.Pope Francis instituted the Sunday of the Word of God with the apostolic letter Aperuit Illis on September 30, 2019, the 1,600th anniversary of St. Jerome’s death.“The purpose of this Note is to help reawaken, in the light of the Sunday of the Word of God, an awareness of the importance of Sacred Scripture for our lives as believers, beginning with its…Continue Reading

A Book Review . . . Tribal Catholics Vs. Faithful Catholics

January 6, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review . . . Tribal Catholics Vs. Faithful Catholics

By JAMES BARESEL It would be easy for a reader of Leslie Woodcock Tentler’s American Catholics: A History (Yale University Press: 2020) to see it as mixture of nostalgic regard for a lost past with dissident liberal theology that might be useful for those able to discriminate between its factual information and the theological viewpoint of its author.More perceptive readers will see in it a mixture of nostalgic regard for a lost past with dissident liberal theology packed full of subtle clues as to just how in the world people can arrive at such a combination of beliefs and attitudes.The more straightforward reason for this apparently bizarre phenomenon, one perhaps predictable to some and shocking to others, provides the book…Continue Reading

So What Does It Take To Get Excommunicated?

January 5, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on So What Does It Take To Get Excommunicated?

By RAY CAVANAUGH He was neither the first nor the last to receive excommunication. But Martin Luther’s banishment from the Church, which took effect when Pope Leo X issued the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem on January 3, 1521, was probably the most notable.Though excommunication is indeed a serious matter, it is largely meant as a warning by the Church, instead of a final judgment. The Catholic Encyclopedia relates that excommunication is “a medicinal rather than a vindictive penalty, being intended, not so much to punish the culprit, as to correct him and bring him back to the path of righteousness.”Those with the authority to excommunicate have consisted of Popes, papal councils, papal legates, bishops, and prelates of religious orders. A regular priest…Continue Reading

An American Hero Then — And Forever

January 4, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on An American Hero Then — And Forever

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY The Great War had been over nine days when Hobey Baker took off in his Spad airplane to explore some of the territory the Allies had seized back from the Germans.“On the way home my engine suddenly went dead and I had to land on the side of a hill only ten kilometers from Metz,” he wrote in a letter to his father. “Had my engine stopped the same way any time during my work over the lines when the war was on I would have been a prisoner.”Hobey was one of the first pilots America sent to France in 1917. While there, he regularly wrote to his father, who then lived in Princeton, where both…Continue Reading

Reflections Of An Old Priest At Christmas

December 28, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Reflections Of An Old Priest At Christmas

By FR. MICHAEL P. ORSI This is my twentieth Christmas outside of Lower Cape May County. Over these years I have written an annual Christmas reflection on the special people and holiday moments during my ministry at Wildwood Catholic High School, St. Paul, Stone Harbor, Star of the Sea, Cape May, and St. Ann, Wildwood.Like most old people, I reflect on the past, and I realize how good God has been to me. Some of you may have read that I retired this past July. Well, yes and no. I retired from the Diocese of Camden, N.J., but remain very active in the Diocese of Venice in Florida. Having dual citizenship made no sense.I often regale the folks here with…Continue Reading

King Of The Ocean

December 27, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on King Of The Ocean

By JOE SIXPACK Catholic spirituality is vital to the growth of the soul. The reason I specify Catholic spirituality instead of Christian spirituality is that any sort of spirituality that comes from outside the Catholic Church is not approved by the Church. Besides, with 2,000 years under our belt, there isn’t anything anyone else has to teach us on spiritual matters anyway. So from time to time, I’ll be writing about Marian apparitions, sacramentals, and means of spiritual growth the Church has approved. Church approval is very important for such things, because Christ established the Church for the benefit and protection of our souls.It amazes me that Catholics often turn to spiritual things that are not in conformity with Catholic…Continue Reading

Giving Joe The “Dickens” . . . Ghost Of Winter Solstice Yet To Come Says No Damnation Worries For Biden

December 26, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Giving Joe The “Dickens” . . . Ghost Of Winter Solstice Yet To Come Says No Damnation Worries For Biden

By DEXTER DUGGAN Joe Robbingnette Biden was sitting uneasy on the bags of coins in his basement. Most people would find the hard metal uncomfortable as a cushion, but Joe had long since accustomed himself to that, just like the hard things digging into his mind every day that he barely noticed anymore. Still, he pondered.Here are just two new moneybags for him from Ukraine. “With big love to the Big Guy,” the attached note said. Those misers better stop being so stingy and hand over more! And three large boxes of fresh moneybags from pals in Beijing. Well, it’s not as if Joe hasn’t done plenty for them in return. C’mon, man, have you seen the size of their…Continue Reading

Again I Say, Rejoice!

December 24, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Again I Say, Rejoice!

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY Despite all the changes and upheavals the modern world is going through, Christmas still retains its ability to lift our spirits to a higher realm. Perhaps this is due to childhood memories of happy Christmases, of going to midnight Mass, of Christmas cribs and crèches, of Nativity plays, carol singing, presents given and received, or of family reunions.Or perhaps at a deeper level it is a realization of the incredible implications of the Incarnation, that God should actually have become man, and not just man, but a tiny baby in order to become our Savior.Whatever the reason, Christmas definitely seems to bring out the best in people, even non-religious people, who seem more prepared to give…Continue Reading