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Pope Francis . . . Merges Two Alaska Dioceses Into New Archdiocese

May 28, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Pope Francis . . . Merges Two Alaska Dioceses Into New Archdiocese

(CNA) — Pope Francis merged two dioceses in Alaska on May 19, creating the new Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau which will cover a territory larger than Montana. The Pope appointed Bishop Andrew E. Bellisario as the metropolitan archbishop of the newly formed archdiocese in southern Alaska. The Diocese of Juneau, located on the Alaska’s southeastern panhandle, is spread across 500 miles of islands, peninsulas, fjords, and glaciers, whereas Anchorage is a city home to 42 percent of the population of Alaska. Merged together, the Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau will cover more than 175,000 square miles and a population of 560,000 people. The Vatican reports that the new diocese will have 55,000 Catholics, 34 diocesan priests, and 32 parishes, some of which are…Continue Reading

Does Pelosi Believe A Baby Has A Right To A Mother?

May 27, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Does Pelosi Believe A Baby Has A Right To A Mother?

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY (Editor’s Note: Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor in chief of CNSNews.com. Creators Syndicate distributes his column.) + + + When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appeared on CNN with Anderson Cooper on Monday, May 18, she started the interview with an effusive statement about Cooper’s “new baby.” “Well, first let me say how happy I am about your new baby. How lovely!” she said. “Thank you,” said Cooper. She then told him: “And as you now are a father, you see how important it is to keep the world safe, for the children.” How did she learn Cooper had become a father? Perhaps she had seen his announcement on national television. “As a gay kid, I…Continue Reading

Hillary, That Is!. . . President Clinton Is Doing The Two-Step

May 26, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Hillary, That Is!. . . President Clinton Is Doing The Two-Step

By R.T. NEARY (Editor’s Note: R.T. Neary is a Massachusetts pro-life activist, educator, and father and grandfather. Last year, he wrote “Has the Rainbow Flag Replaced the Cross? MetroWest Boston May Be a Good Indicator” for The Wanderer.) + + + There is absolutely no way in eternity (one is tempted to use the word Hades, but won’t) that Hillary and Bill Clinton would just fade away from the political scene. Hillary’s late-April endorsement of Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. to be the Democrat Party’s presidential nominee in 2020 was the latest move by these political masters on this year’s American chessboard. Her syrupy words were strictly for the mainstream media (MSM) to echo in their next day write-ups. They are…Continue Reading

A Book Review . . . Profiling The Priests The Church And The Faithful Need

May 25, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review . . . Profiling The Priests The Church And The Faithful Need

By REY FLORES The Priests We Need to Save the Church by Kevin Wells. Order from ThePriestsWeNeed.com or from sophiainstitute.com. Sophia Institute can also be contacted at 1-800-888-9344. The price is $17.95. When this book was delivered to me weeks ago, we were starting to hear about the Wuhan virus and Democrat politicians were telling us there was nothing to worry about, in opposition to President Trump banning travelers from China to the United States. Little did we know that very shortly we would be restricted from attending the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world. Members of our clergy have since been facing unprecedented challenges in serving their flocks. In The Priests We Need to Save the Church, Kevin…Continue Reading

St. John Paul II Turns 100

May 24, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on St. John Paul II Turns 100

By DONALD DeMARCO May 18, 1920 is the birthday of Karol Wojtyla, better known to the world as Pope John Paul II. That same day in 2020 marked his hundredth birthday. Of course, we know that John Paul passed away on April 2, 2005 and that only the deceased are eligible for canonization. Be that as it may, his spirit is still very much alive in the minds and hearts of the millions of people who were touched by his love and his wisdom. And he will continue his apostolate, though from afar well into the new millennium. St. John Paul, therefore, is a centurion in more ways than one. He is, according to the title of Jonathan Kwitny’s book…Continue Reading

Will Americans Submit To A Second Lockdown?

May 23, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Will Americans Submit To A Second Lockdown?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN On March 24, President Donald Trump said he wanted the country and the economy “opened up and just raring to go by Easter.” Easter came and went. And Trump was mocked for being aspirational and unrealistic. Yet, with Ascension Thursday at hand, 40 days after Easter, the president seems to have been ahead of his time. The country, as a whole, is, and has been, opening up. Sunday’s New York Times reports that, for weeks now, more than two-thirds of the states have been relaxing restrictions as Trump had urged. The reasons: weariness with the lockdown and sheltering in place, a growing belief that the worst of the pandemic is behind us, and undeniably positive news…Continue Reading

Fauci Vs. Trump — Who’s Right?

May 22, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Fauci Vs. Trump — Who’s Right?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “We have met the moment and we have prevailed,” said President Donald Trump on Monday, May 11, as he supported the opening of the U.S. economy before the shutdown plunges us into a deep and lasting depression. On Tuesday, May 12, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s leading expert on infectious diseases, made clear to a Senate committee his contradictory views. “If states reopen their economies too soon, there is a real risk that you may trigger an outbreak that you may not be able to control,” said Fauci. “My concern is that we will start to see little spikes that might turn into outbreaks of the disease (and) the inevitable return of infections.” Fauci is…Continue Reading

Italian Teen Who Died In 2009… Declared “Venerable” By Pope Francis

May 21, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Italian Teen Who Died In 2009… Declared “Venerable” By Pope Francis

By HANNAH BROCKHAUS VATICAN CITY (CNA) — Pope Francis on May 6 advanced the sainthood causes of five men and women, including an Italian teenager who died of a brain tumor in 2009, declaring them “venerable.” After a May 5 meeting with Angelo Cardinal Becciu, the prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, the Pope approved the heroic virtue of Italian priests Francesco Caruso (1879-1951) and Carmelo De Palma (1876-1961), as well as the Spanish Redemptorist priest Francisco Barrecheguren Montagut (1881-1957). Before becoming a priest, Barrecheguren Montagut was married (he was later widowed) and had a daughter, Maria de la Concepción Barrecheguren Garcia (1905-1927), who was also declared venerable by the Pope May 6. The fifth sainthood cause…Continue Reading

A Book Review . . . Discarnate Man And The Incarnate Church

May 20, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review . . . Discarnate Man And The Incarnate Church

By JOHN LYON Marshall McLuhan, The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock; 1999. Edited by Eric McLuhan and Jacek Szklarek. Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980) has long been known as one of the twentieth century’s most significant media analysts. At least since the publication of The Mechanical Bride (1951), he has been remembered popularly for the issuance of pithy, sometimes gnomic catch-phrases such as: “the medium is the message,” or that media change is “a kind of massacre of the innocents,” or that “electronic technology does not need words any more than the digital computer needs numbers,” or that “education is ideally civil defense against media fallout,” or that “skepticism is the very form of written…Continue Reading

Urge Attorney General To Enforce Laws… U.S. Bishops Warn Of Pornography’s Effects

May 19, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Urge Attorney General To Enforce Laws… U.S. Bishops Warn Of Pornography’s Effects

By BILL DONOHUE (Editor’s Note: Catholic League President Bill Donohue commented May 12 on a letter issued on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on the subject of pornography. The bishops’ letter is dated April 30 and it calls on Attorney General Bill Barr to enforce the laws against porn. (The full text of the April 30 bishops’ letter can be found at the USCCB website, www.usccb.org.) + + + On behalf of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Archbishop Paul Coakley, and Bishop David Konderla recently wrote to U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr asking him to vigorously enforce the obscenity laws. They also called upon him to launch an “investigation of pornography producers…Continue Reading