Tuesday 30th April 2024

Home » Featured Today » Recent Articles:

The Sacred Liturgy And Time

July 25, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on The Sacred Liturgy And Time

By JAMES MONTI Throughout the Sacred Scriptures, from the first page of the Book of Genesis to the concluding words of the Book of Revelation, we find God prefacing the great events of salvation history with times of preparation. The creation of man comes at the conclusion of the six days of creation. When God punishes the world with a flood, the rain lasts forty days and forty nights, at the end of which Noah, his family, and the animals he has taken emerge from the ark to “restart” life on Earth. The odyssey of the people of Israel from bondage in Egypt to the Promised Land proves to be a journey of forty years. And it is after three…Continue Reading

The Patron Saint Of Gamblers

July 24, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on The Patron Saint Of Gamblers

By RAY CAVANAUGH Whether one views it as fun or as a reckless waste of money, gambling has long been a popular activity the world over. In fact, gamblers even have their own patron saint, Cajetan (also known as Gaetano). August 7 is his feast day. He was born in 1480 in Vicenza in the Veneto region of northeastern Italy. Raised in an aristocratic family, as a young man he studied theology and law at the University of Padua, from where he obtained degrees in both civil and canon law. He proceeded to work as a diplomat on behalf of Pope Julius II. In 1513, Cajetan resigned from his position and devoted the next three years to preparing for the…Continue Reading

The Amazon Synod’s Instrumentum Laboris . . . On The Concept Of Revelation As Found In It

July 23, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on The Amazon Synod’s Instrumentum Laboris . . . On The Concept Of Revelation As Found In It

By GERHARD CARDINAL MUELLER (Editor’s Note: Below is the full text of Gerhard Cardinal Mueller’s critique of the Instrumentum Laboris for the Amazon Synod, translated by Maike Hickson and presented by LifeSiteNews. Cardinal Mueller, former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, began his treatise with this quotation: “For any other foundation no man can lay, but that which is laid; which is Christ Jesus” (1 Cor. 3:11). + + + 1. On the method of the Instrumentum Laboris (IL): Nobody would question the goodwill of those who are involved in the preparation and implementation of the synod for the Church in the Amazon and with their intention to do everything possible in order to promote the…Continue Reading

Trump Fuels A Tribal War In Nancy’s House

July 22, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Trump Fuels A Tribal War In Nancy’s House

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN President Donald Trump’s playground taunt July 14 that “the Squad” of four new radical liberal House Democrats, all women of color, should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came,” dominated headlines the morning of July 15. Yet those headlines smothered the deeper story. The Democrats are today using language to describe their own leaders that is similar to the language of the 1960s radicals who denounced Democratic segregationist governors like Ross Barnett and George Wallace. Consider what the four women have been saying. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has accused Speaker Nancy Pelosi of attacking “newly elected women of color.” Was she calling Pelosi a “racist”? “No!” protested AOC. But it…Continue Reading

The Pope Vs. Pop Culture

July 21, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on The Pope Vs. Pop Culture

By DONALD DeMARCO The late Antonin Scalia, speaking at a prayer breakfast in 1998, made reference to America’s consistent belief in God, but one that is not a national belief in a particular religion. His address has been reprinted in First Things (April 9, 2019) on the occasion of its inclusion in On Faith: Letters From an American Believer, a collection of reflections on Scalia’s own faith. At the root of this tradition are the words of George Washington found in his Farewell Address in which he stated that religion and morality are “indispensable supports” of “political prosperity” and that we should indulge “with caution the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.” But we have come a long…Continue Reading

One Federal Department Now Spending $100 Billion Per Month

July 20, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on One Federal Department Now Spending $100 Billion Per Month

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY (Editor’s Note: Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor-in-chief of CNSnews.com. Creators Syndicate, www.creators.com, distributes his column.) + + + For the first time in our nation’s history, there is now a federal department spending an average of more than $100 billion per month. No, it is not the Department of Defense, which is charged with the core federal responsibility of defending us from foreign enemies. It is the Department of Health and Human Services, which, if Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont has his way, will run the “Medicare for All” program. As it now stands, HHS runs Medicare for many and Medicaid for more. “In 2019, the program will cover an estimated 61 million persons…Continue Reading

In Troubled Times… Be Open To The Divine Assistance Of Heaven

July 19, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on In Troubled Times… Be Open To The Divine Assistance Of Heaven

By REY FLORES As I was developing ideas for this week’s column, it occurred to me that there are countless current events to write about, be it the political chaos, the recent Jeffrey Epstein child sex-trafficking case, yet another local Catholic parish shutting down in Chicago — all dismal. I figure that we have enough of those stories beating us up each day, so instead I thought about a seemingly minor observation which I normally would have dismissed. It is this: The uglier things get in the world, the more I instinctively seek beauty. Call it instinct, or perhaps our souls sometimes kick in subconsciously to survival mode. I don’t know, but I’m glad this kind of thing happens for…Continue Reading

Sage Advice… On Winning The Continuing Struggle For Souls

July 18, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Sage Advice… On Winning The Continuing Struggle For Souls

  By LAWRENCE P. GRAYSON Every day the media bring new stories of the depravity that is permeating our nation. There are two dozen announced candidates for the Democratic nomination to run for president. Each one, including those who claim to be Catholic, supports federal funding for abortions to the moment of birth. An increasing number of public libraries are holding “drag queen story hours,” in which men preposterously dressed as women read “gender-fluid” books to very young children. In an editorial in last week’s Wanderer, Rey Flores called for an end to “Drag Queen Story Hour” in our public libraries, noting that it “has become a thing among liberals who have bought into the Godless culture.” Homosexuality, as well…Continue Reading

Lawmakers Tell HHS . . . End Hidden Abortion Surcharge In Affordable Care Act

July 17, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Lawmakers Tell HHS . . . End Hidden Abortion Surcharge In Affordable Care Act

WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNA) — Over 125 members of Congress and other pro-life leaders have asked the Trump administration to clarify how abortion coverage is listed in health-care plans under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). A letter signed by over 100 House members and 25 senators was sent July 2 to the Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar. It asked him to finalize a rule that would require separate payments and accounts for elective abortion coverage in health plans offered under the ACA, in accordance with the original text of the law. The signatories, led by Cong. Michael Cloud (R., Texas) and Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R., Miss), called the proposed rule “an important step in providing transparency and awareness,” and pro-life…Continue Reading

Archbishop Sheen To Be Beatified

July 16, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Archbishop Sheen To Be Beatified

By COURTNEY GROGAN VATICAN CITY (CNA) — Pope Francis approved the miracle attributed to Archbishop Fulton Sheen on July 5, making possible the American television catechist’s beatification. The Congregation for the Causes of Saints promulgated the decree approving Sheen’s miracle on July 6. The miracle involves the unexplained recovery of James Fulton Engstrom, a boy born apparently stillborn in September 2010 to Bonnie and Travis Engstrom of the Peoria-area town of Goodfield, Ill. He showed no signs of life as medical professionals tried to revive him. The child’s mother and father prayed to Archbishop Sheen to heal their son and received a miracle. A seven-member panel of medical experts advising the Congregation for the Causes of Saints unanimously approved of the…Continue Reading