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Candor Is Not The Enemy Of Love

January 14, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Candor Is Not The Enemy Of Love

By DONALD DeMARCO Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, in his book Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World, makes two most important points when he reminds all those who love life that “candor is not the enemy of love” and that “real hope begins in honesty.” Candor may disturb one’s complacency. It may seem rude and uninviting. Honesty, on the other hand, might be seen as a harbinger of the unacceptable. But there is more at stake in the world today than avoiding candor and honesty while acquiescing to the power elite. The avenues of communication must be repaired so that people can work together and so that civilization may flourish. The virtuous natures of…Continue Reading

No, This Is Not JFK’s Democratic Party

January 13, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on No, This Is Not JFK’s Democratic Party

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s House has more women, persons of color, and LGBT members than any House in history — and fewer white males. And Thursday, January 3, the day Rashida Tlaib was sworn in, her hand on a Koran, our first Palestinian-American congresswoman showed us what we may expect. As a rally of leftists lustily cheered her on, Tlaib roared, “We’re gonna impeach the (expletive deleted)!” Not only was no apology forthcoming, the host of the New American Leaders event where Tlaib spoke warmly endorsed her gutter language. Her remarks, said Sayu Bhojwani, “were raw and honest, and came straight from the heart . . . a refreshing break from the canned comments our elected leaders…Continue Reading

Are The Knights Of Columbus A Hate Group Now?

January 12, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Are The Knights Of Columbus A Hate Group Now?

By SHAUN KENNEY Democratic Senators Kamala Harris and Maize Hirono have chosen to make membership within the Knights of Columbus a variant of a hate crime. Judicial nominee Brian Buescher’s pro-life bona fides notwithstanding, his cardinal sin against the bureaucracy isn’t his judicial temperament, but rather the fact that he is a practicing Catholic. The post-Kavanaugh Democratic Party is showing few signs of remorse after the vicious slander of a good man on national television, an act that was more Salem witch trial than vetting process. Yet as if to remind us all that secular religions have more force today than sacred religions, Harris and Hirono have absolutely zero qualms about imposing a religious test on prospective nominees — provided…Continue Reading

The Quest Of The Magi And Our Own In 2019

January 11, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on The Quest Of The Magi And Our Own In 2019

By JAMES MONTI How truly fitting it is that the celebration of the Epiphany, the visit of the Magi, should come at the beginning of January. For just as the Magi set out on a quest “into the unknown” to find and pay homage to a Newborn King they as yet knew not, scarcely imagining that their journey would lead them to an encounter with the God of the Universe Incarnate, so too, the beginning of a new year in January sets us on a quest into the unknown, none of us really knowing for sure what the year will bring. In this new year there is heightened anxiety as the Church finds herself in particularly uncertain and dangerous waters.…Continue Reading

Too Little, Too Late: A Lesson In Border Security

January 10, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Too Little, Too Late: A Lesson In Border Security

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY (Editor’s Note: Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor in chief of CNSnews.com. Creators Syndicate distributes his column.) + + + Khalid al-Mihdhar landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City on July 4, 2001. This was his second trip to the United States, on his second visa, with the second Saudi passport he had used to enter this country in less than two years. Two months later, he boarded American Airlines Flight 77. Al-Mihdhar’s story revealed the imperfection of U.S. border security — at legal ports of entry. The Saudis had issued al-Mihdhar a new passport on April 6, 1999. The next day, in Jeddah, according to a staff report of the 9/11…Continue Reading

Rome’s Wishy-Washy Responses To Abuse Allegations Cannot Stand

January 9, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Rome’s Wishy-Washy Responses To Abuse Allegations Cannot Stand

By PHIL LAWLER (Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in CatholicCulture.org and was reprinted by LifeSiteNews. All rights reserved.) + + + “Now a bishop must be above reproach,” wrote St. Paul (1 Tim. 3:2). Apparently Bishop Alexander Salazar, whose resignation the Pope accepted December 19, was not above reproach. Yet he remained a bishop in active ministry, serving as an auxiliary in the largest archdiocese in the U.S., for more than a decade after the Vatican recognized a problem. Why? As usual the Vatican itself provided absolutely no information about the reasons for Bishop Salazar’s early resignation. It was left to an American prelate — in this case Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles — to offer an explanation.…Continue Reading

How The War Party Lost The Middle East

January 8, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on How The War Party Lost The Middle East

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “Assad must go, Obama says.” So read the headline in The Washington Post, August 18, 2011. The story quoted President Barack Obama directly: “The future of Syria must be determined by its people, but President Bashar al-Assad is standing in their way…the time has come for President Assad to step aside.” France’s Nicolas Sarkozy and Britain’s David Cameron signed on to the Obama ultimatum: Assad must go! Seven years and 500,000 dead Syrians later, it is Obama, Sarkozy, and Cameron who are gone. Assad still rules in Damascus, and the 2,000 Americans in Syria are coming home. Soon, says President Donald Trump. But we cannot “leave now,” insists Sen. Lindsey Graham, or “the Kurds are going…Continue Reading

2020: Year Of The Democrats? Maybe Not

January 7, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on 2020: Year Of The Democrats? Maybe Not

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN If Democrats are optimistic as 2019 begins, it is understandable. Their victory on November 6, adding 40 seats and taking control of the House of Representatives, was impressive. And with the party’s total vote far exceeding the GOP total, in places it became a rout. In the six New England states, Republicans no longer hold a single House seat. Susan Collins of Maine is the last GOP senator. In California, Democrats took the governorship, every state office, 45 of 53 House seats and both houses of the legislature by more than 2-to-1. In the Goldwater-Nixon-Reagan Golden State bastion of Orange County, no GOP congressman survived. Does this rejection of the GOP in 2018 portend the defeat…Continue Reading

Party Of The Rich . . . Democrats Hold The 20 Wealthiest Congressional Districts

January 6, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Party Of The Rich . . . Democrats Hold The 20 Wealthiest Congressional Districts

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY Each of the nation’s 20 wealthiest congressional districts, when measured by median household income, will be held by Democrats in the upcoming Congress. Republicans did not win one. These districts are not broadly dispersed. Only one is not on the East or West Coast. Seven are in or near New York City. Five are in the San Francisco Bay Area. Four are in suburbs of Washington, D.C. Two are in Southern California. One is near Boston. And another — the only one in the middle of the continent — sits west of Chicago. In the 115th Congress, which is about to expire, Republicans held four of these districts. In November’s midterm, they lost them all. California’s…Continue Reading

Power And The Community Of The Free

January 5, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Power And The Community Of The Free

By JUDE DOUGHERTY Some cultural historian of the future, some future Gibbon will record the decline and fall of a once great nation, how it lost contact with its founding documents and with the spiritual traditions which animated its growth and how it succumbed to the siren song of utopian leaders who led it to its dissolution in a visionary multicultural, borderless, universal democracy. As our nation faces a questionable future, we may turn to the past to determine in its light what the future portents. Yet as some cynic with reason once put it, “The only thing we learn from the past is that nobody learns from the past.” An often neglected cultural historian is Bertrand de Jouvenel. His…Continue Reading