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Where’s #MeToo For Women Killed By Botched Abortions?

July 12, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Where’s #MeToo For Women Killed By Botched Abortions?

By REY FLORES Women who die from botched abortions will never have the ability to do anything anymore, let alone use some stupid, trendy #MeToo hashtag on social media. Who speaks out against the abuse and death inflicted on women through abortion? Why aren’t the militant, pro-abortion feminists decrying one of the most heinous of crimes against women — botched abortions? Elisa Martinez, a strong leading pro-life activist based in Albuquerque, N.M., speaks out — that’s who. She runs the terrific organization New Mexico Alliance for Life. Recently Martinez and I spoke at length about Albuquerque’s notoriety as one of the nation’s hotspots for a late-term abortion. More specifically, we talked about the 2017 death of a healthy 23-year-old Albuquerque…Continue Reading

Catholic Activist… Challenges Organization’s Call For Women Deacons

July 11, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Catholic Activist… Challenges Organization’s Call For Women Deacons

By DEXTER DUGGAN ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An East Coast Catholic activist made his first trip to New Mexico to counter the call by a progressive priests’ organization for women Catholic deacons. Michael Hichborn, founder and president of the Lepanto Institute (lepantoinstitute.org), gave a June 25 talk here citing Scripture, history, and Church councils to illustrate there never was a recognized female equivalent to ordained male deacons. He spoke in a meeting room just down the hotel hall from the seventh annual national conference of the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests (AUSCP). AUSCP told The Wanderer it had asked the U.S. bishops formally to discuss the possibility of permanent women deacons. An outdoors rosary procession went around the hotel grounds before…Continue Reading

Fr. Weinandy Discusses “Gnosticism Today”

July 10, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Fr. Weinandy Discusses “Gnosticism Today”

By J.D. FLYNN DENVER (CNA) — Fr. Thomas Weinandy, OFM Cap., is a member of the Vatican’s International Theological Commission, an accomplished professor of theology, and a prolific author. His most recent book is Jesus Becoming Jesus: A Theological Interpretation of the Synoptic Gospels. Catholic News Agency Editor-in-Chief J.D. Flynn interviewed Fr. Weinandy about “Gnosticism Today,” an essay published in June at The Catholic Thing. + + + Q. Your essay, “Gnosticism Today,” says that the attitude commonly described as neo-Gnosticism has “little to do with its ancient antecedent.” What is Gnosticism? What is the origin of the Gnostic heresy? A. As I said in my essay, Gnosticism is basically the notion that one is saved by “knowledge” (gnosis). While,…Continue Reading

Out Of Body Experiences?

July 9, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Out Of Body Experiences?

By JOHN YOUNG It is often claimed that some people, when seriously ill, have had out of body experiences. People have testified that they seemed to be looking down on the operating theatre, seeing their body and the doctors and nurses. Some speak of bright lights and of a feeling of great peace. Others have allegedly reported accurately events outside the operating theatre, events which they could not have known naturally. These experiences are sometimes quoted as evidence that we are more than our bodies, that we have a spiritual component which survives death and which can know and love. The experiences are given as an argument against materialism. I believe this conclusion does not follow, and to put it…Continue Reading

Vatican Publishes Norms On Consecrated Virgins

July 8, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Vatican Publishes Norms On Consecrated Virgins

By HANNAH BROCKHAUS VATICAN CITY (CNA/EWTN News) — Almost 50 years after the Church published the new Rite of Consecrated Virginity, the Vatican has issued an instruction on the state of life, its discipline, and the responsibilities of diocesan bishops toward the vocation of consecrated virgins. The instruction was created in response to requests from bishops for clarity on the role and mission of consecrated virgins, especially following an increase in the number of women discerning the vocation since the revision of the Rite of Consecration, published in 1970 with the approval of Pope Paul VI. A consecrated virgin is a never-married woman who dedicates her perpetual virginity to God and is set aside as a sacred person who belongs…Continue Reading

The Ascent And Legacy Of St. Camillus De Lellis

July 7, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on The Ascent And Legacy Of St. Camillus De Lellis

By RAY CAVANAUGH Camillus de Lellis went from being a penniless gambling addict to the founder of the Ministers of the Infirm and an icon of medical charity. Canonized in 1746, his feast day is July 18. He was born on May 25, 1550, in Italy’s Abruzzo region, then part of the Kingdom of Naples. His mother, who was advanced in age at the time of his birth, died when he was 13. Camillus received little to no formal education. Instead, at a young age he followed his father into the mercenary soldier’s profession. Among other combat endeavors, Camillus fought on behalf of Venice against the Turks. The father soon suffered a violent death, but the son was unfazed. Camillus…Continue Reading

The Basis Of Morality

July 6, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on The Basis Of Morality

By DONALD DeMARCO A friend of mine informed me that she was assigned to teach a course on morality. While she was excited about this new responsibility, she was not sure where she should start. She solicited my advice. I was eager to comply, but not sure I could make myself understandable. Where does one start? How does one describe the starting point? Today, the subject of morality has been largely taken over by relativists, skeptics, and deconstructionists. Thus, morality is now on very shaky ground. Nonetheless, there is a firm basis for morality which is just as firm as the basis for our measuring instruments. The meter is used to measure lengths. But it is not an arbitrary measuring…Continue Reading

FRC Says . . . Justice Kennedy’s Retirement Will Turbocharge Evangelical Vote

July 5, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on FRC Says . . . Justice Kennedy’s Retirement Will Turbocharge Evangelical Vote

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Family Research Council President Tony Perkins on June 27 stated the following about the retirement of Justice Kennedy: “Following a series of 5-4 decisions regarding such fundamental freedoms as religious freedom and speech, today’s announcement of Justice Kennedy’s retirement will turbocharge this fall’s election. “In a closely divided U.S. Senate, every vote matters. If values voters needed a reason to engage in this election cycle — they certainly have it now. The American people are looking for yet another Supreme Court nominee in the mold of Justice Scalia as President Trump promised and delivered in Justice Gorsuch. “We are confident the president will choose a justice who simply decides the cases before them, as the Constitution intends.”

What’s Next For Cardinal McCarrick? How The Church Addresses Sex Abuse Allegations

July 4, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on What’s Next For Cardinal McCarrick? How The Church Addresses Sex Abuse Allegations

By ED CONDON (Editor’s Note: Ed Condon is a canon lawyer working for tribunals in a number of dioceses. Catholic News Agency published this story on June 21.) + + + WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNA) — The allegation that Theodore Cardinal McCarrick sexually abused a teenager is a bombshell for the Catholic Church in America. McCarrick has stepped down from active priestly ministry at the direction of the Holy See, after an initial investigation judged the allegation to be “credible and substantiated.” What does that mean, and what might be next for McCarrick? Any allegation of sexual abuse by a member of the clergy is a serious tragedy, but an allegation against a prominent cardinal, even a retired one, can be…Continue Reading

St. Patrick’s Answer To The Powers Of Hell — Then And Now

July 3, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on St. Patrick’s Answer To The Powers Of Hell — Then And Now

By JAMES MONTI Many of us, I’m sure, are still reeling from the evil outcome of the recent vote in Ireland that by overthrowing the legal protection of the unborn will effectively expose to a sentence of death countless innocent Irish children. Sixteen centuries ago, Ireland was likewise in the shadow of death, the nation under the sway of pagan Druids. But on a spring evening in Slane, in Ireland’s County Meath, a fire was lit on a hilltop to begin the Easter Vigil that night, lit by “a man sent from God” (John 1:6), whose name was Patrick. That light shone in the darkness, and the darkness was not able to overcome it (John 1:5). St. Patrick’s pivotal and…Continue Reading