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Who Shall Inherit The Earth?

December 10, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Who Shall Inherit The Earth?

By DONALD DeMARCO Abortion means that aborted babies will not inherit the Earth. Herein is an unequivocal tragedy. But this notion of not being eligible to inherit the Earth is being extended even to those who oppose abortion. In one rather flagrant example, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in an interview with Jessica Chasmar, stated that “extreme conservatives who are right-to-life…have no place in New York, because that’s not who New Yorkers are” (The Washington Post, Sunday, January 19, 2014). This remark, outrageously inhospitable to a significant percentage of New York state residents, did not prevent him from being elected to a third term in 2018. Apparently many New Yorkers share their governor’s disdain for anyone who is pro-life. The…Continue Reading

Will Paris Riots Scuttle Climate Accord?

December 9, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Will Paris Riots Scuttle Climate Accord?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN In Katowice, Poland, all the signers of the 2015 Paris climate accord have gathered to assess how the world’s nations are meeting their goals to cut carbon emissions. Certainly, the communications strategy in the run-up was impressive. In October came that apocalyptic UN report warning that the world is warming faster than we thought and the disasters coming sooner than we thought. What disasters? More and worse hurricanes, uncontrollable fires, floods, the erosion of coastlines, typhoons, drought, tsunamis, the sinking of islands into the sea. In November, a scientific report issued by 13 U.S. agencies warned that if greater measures are not taken to reduce global warming, the damage could knock 10 percent off the size…Continue Reading

Amid Veto Threat… Ohio “Heartbeat Abortion” Bill Nears Senate Vote

December 8, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Amid Veto Threat… Ohio “Heartbeat Abortion” Bill Nears Senate Vote

COLUMBUS (CNA/EWTN News) — The Ohio Senate was expected to pass legislation banning abortion on an unborn baby after he or she has a heartbeat, and there could be enough votes to override Gov. John Kasich’s promised veto, amid questions over whether the proposal could withstand U.S. Supreme Court scrutiny. Republicans control the Senate with 24 votes to 9, and the “heartbeat abortion ban” only needs 20 votes to override a veto. House sponsor State Rep. Christina Hagan told The New York Times the legislation is designed to challenge the U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, claiming Ohio is “best positioned to send this through the circuit courts and to the federal Supreme Court.” She said she is confident…Continue Reading

Eleventh Circuit Court Of Appeals . . . EWTN Wins Lawsuit Over HHS Contraception Mandate

December 7, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Eleventh Circuit Court Of Appeals . . . EWTN Wins Lawsuit Over HHS Contraception Mandate

IRONDALE, Ala. (EWTN) — Following a legal battle that has lasted nearly seven years, EWTN Global Catholic Network has prevailed in its lawsuit against the U.S. government over what has become known as the “HHS Contraception Mandate.” In an order by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit published Thursday, November 29, 2018, the court vacated a June 2014 decision against the Network by U.S. District Court Judge Callie Granade. The ruling by the appellate court follows an October 5, 2018 settlement agreement between EWTN and the Department of Justice. Under terms of that settlement, the Network will not be required to provide contraception, sterilization, and abortifacients in its employee health plan, something EWTN found morally objectionable. “This…Continue Reading

Major Companies Take Action Against Porn

December 6, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Major Companies Take Action Against Porn

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Across the country, several major companies are taking action against pornography use. Tumblr, Starbucks, Comcast, and multiple hotel chains have all taken steps to reduce pornography access within their respective industry. These decisions come during a time of increasing awareness over the harms of pornography. “Companies are quickly realizing the harms of pornography create a serious liability against the well-being of their customers,” stated Dawn Hawkins, executive director of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) on December 4. “It is encouraging to see these companies recognizing their corporate responsibility to create safe environments and family-friendly products that focus on digital safety.” Tumblr announced that it would be removing all pornographic content from their site after child…Continue Reading

Marie Stopes International Is No Friend Of Africa

December 5, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Marie Stopes International Is No Friend Of Africa

By DEBORAH M. PIROCH (Editor’s Note: Deborah M. Piroch is the PR director for Human Life International. HLI posted this article at their website, www.hli.org, on November 30. It is reprinted here with permission.) + + + FRONT ROYAL, Va. — HLI is delighted that the government of Kenya has banned Marie Stopes International (MSI) from advertising or doing abortions within its borders, but stresses that the government must monitor compliance. Abortion is already illegal in Kenya except if the mother’s health is endangered, yet evidence exists that MSI has been performing illegal abortions in the country for at least 15 years. As MSI has already defied the law for some time, Fr. Samuel Gatimu, director of Human Life International…Continue Reading

Santa Fe Archdiocese To File For Bankruptcy

December 4, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Santa Fe Archdiocese To File For Bankruptcy

  SANTA FE, N.M. — At a press conference November 29, Archbishop John Wester said that filing for bankruptcy is an equitable way to meet its responsibility to sexual abuse victims. Wester said there are between 35-40 active claims against the archdiocese, which consists of more than 300,000 Catholics in northwestern New Mexico. The announcement came the day after New Mexico’s attorney general executed a search warrant on the archdiocesan chancery office in Albuquerque. The attorney general was seeking files related to two priests accused of sexual abuse, Marvin Archuleta and Sabine Griego. Archuleta was named on a list published by the archdiocese last year of priests credibly accused of sexual abuse. According to the Albuquerque Journal, a lawsuit settled…Continue Reading

The Immaculate Conception: A Light In The Darkness

December 3, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on The Immaculate Conception: A Light In The Darkness

By JAMES MONTI The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the celebration of our Lady’s sinlessness and total preservation from original sin from the first moment of her conception, has an added poignancy as we near the end of 2018. At the close of a year that has revealed just how deeply the corruption of grave sin has cast its horrible shadow over our world and our Church, the sinlessness of Mary and her virginal purity come anew as light overcoming the darkness. In a commentary on the Blessed Virgin’s title “Morning Star” given in a 1749 treatise on the Litany of Loreto, we read: “Was not the entire world, before the nativity of Christ, enveloped…Continue Reading

Are There Limits To Virtue?

December 2, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Are There Limits To Virtue?

By DONALD DeMARCO Many a distraught mother has said to an uncooperative son or daughter, “I am running out of patience with you!” This common phrase raises some interesting questions concerning virtue. Can we run out of virtue, the way a car can run out of gas? Are the limits to virtue? Can we lose hope, fall out of love, or cease to care? The saints, it appears, seemed to retain their virtue under the most severe circumstances. We think of the endurance of St. Isaac Jogues, the faith of St. Francis of Assisi, the unselfishness of St. Therese of Lisieux, and the hope of St. Monica. Mary, the Mother of God, did not despair at the foot of the…Continue Reading

The Real Second Vatican Council

December 1, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on The Real Second Vatican Council

By JOHN YOUNG Since the Second Vatican Council, which concluded in 1965, the Catholic Church has been plagued with doctrinal confusion, rebellion, and an increased degree of moral corruption. The Council itself, some Catholics claim, is the main cause of this disastrous situation. It is alleged that ambiguous language in the documents of the Council, inserted there through the efforts of modernist bishops and theologians, constituted a time bomb that would explode in the following years, leading to confusion and heresy. I believe, on the contrary, that the confusion following the Council would have been avoided had the explicit teachings and instructions in the Vatican II documents been followed after the Council. The documents themselves contain the necessary safeguards against…Continue Reading