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Growing Interest In Traditional Latin Mass… Archbishop Chaput Of Philadelphia Creates Quasi-Parish

April 24, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Growing Interest In Traditional Latin Mass… Archbishop Chaput Of Philadelphia Creates Quasi-Parish

PHILADELPHIA (CNA/EWTN News) — A new quasi-parish for Catholics interested in the Traditional Latin Mass will open in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia at a church that had been part of a 2014 parish merger. “In response to a growing interest, it has become timely to provide additional pastoral care for those wishing to participate in Divine Worship in the Extraordinary Form,” Archbishop Charles J. Chaput’s March 14 decree said. A quasi-parish is the equivalent of a parish under canon law, with some exceptions. It can later become a parish at the discretion of the local bishop. The new quasi-parish will be located at the site of the former St. Mary Parish in Conshohocken, a suburban Philadelphia borough in Montgomery County.…Continue Reading

Christendom Celebrates 40 Years With D.C. Gala

April 23, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Christendom Celebrates 40 Years With D.C. Gala

By ZACHARY SMITH Christendom College celebrated its 40th Anniversary with a gala dinner dance on April 14, hosting close to 500 guests at the historic Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. Joining special guests Sen. Rick Santorum, Francis Cardinal Arinze, His Imperial and Royal Highness Imre of Habsburg-Lorraine, Arlington Bishop Michael Burbidge, and radio personality Patrick Madrid, the guests enjoyed a spectacular night of dining and dancing, as they celebrated Christendom and its achievements in Catholic higher education over the past 40 years. During the dinner, Sen. Santorum presented a special message from Vice President Mike Pence to the college: “Christendom occupies a special place today in higher education, and I send my congratulations to President Timothy O’Donnell, the Board of…Continue Reading

Trump: Prisoner Of The War Party?

April 22, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Trump: Prisoner Of The War Party?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “Ten days ago, President Trump was saying ‘the United States should withdraw from Syria.’ We convinced him it was necessary to stay.” Thus boasted French President Emmanuel Macron on April 14, adding, “We convinced him it was necessary to stay for the long term.” Is the U.S. indeed in the Syrian civil war “for the long term”? If so, who made that fateful decision for this republic? UN Ambassador Nikki Haley confirmed April 15 there would be no drawdown of the 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria, until three objectives were reached. We must fully defeat ISIS, ensure chemical weapons would not again be used by Bashar Assad, and maintain the ability to watch Iran. Translation: Whatever…Continue Reading

Maria Gaetana Agnesi… A Beautiful Mind (And Spirit)

April 21, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Maria Gaetana Agnesi… A Beautiful Mind (And Spirit)

By RAY CAVANAUGH The math professor occupation is largely male even today. But back in 1750, when Maria Gaetana Agnesi was appointed as a mathematics professor at the University of Bologna, women in such a position were nonexistent. And yet Agnesi avoided what would’ve been a groundbreaking academic career, electing instead to focus on charitable works. This May 16 marks the 300th anniversary of her birth. Born in the northern Italian city of Milan, she entered a large and prosperous family. Her father, Pietro Agnesi, was a silk merchant. Some accounts say that he was also a mathematics professor, though other sources dispute this piece of information. Either way, he noticed something special in the intellectual gifts of his daughter…Continue Reading

A Salute To Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI On His 91st Birthday

April 20, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on A Salute To Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI On His 91st Birthday

(Editor’s Note: Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI quietly celebrated his 91st birthday on April 16. He spent the day in the Mater Ecclesia Monastery in the Vatican, where he lives. The material below comes from the Vatican’s websites.) + + + The day of Joseph Ratzinger’s birth has been seen by some as a sign of Divine Providence. It was certainly a sign of things to come. The future Pope Benedict XVI was born on Holy Saturday, April 16, 1927. His birthplace is Marktl-am-Inn, a tiny village less than an hour’s walk away from Altoetting, the most important Marian Shrine in Bavaria. 1927 was the year Charles Lindbergh completed the first-ever solo flight across the Atlantic. The Pope in Rome was…Continue Reading

A Book Review… Edith Stein’s Love Of Wisdom

April 19, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… Edith Stein’s Love Of Wisdom

By MITCHELL KALPAKGIAN Edith Stein: The Life and Legacy of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, by Maria Ruiz Scaperlanda (Sophia Institute Press: Manchester, NH, 2017), 221 pp.; paperback $15.95. Available from www.SophiaInstitute.com or 1-800-888-9344. An engaging, comprehensive introduction to the life, writings, thought, and martyrdom of a Jewish convert to the Catholic faith beatified in 1987 and canonized in 1998 by St. Pope John Paul II, this book provides ample information from many sources about a heroic saint who died in 1942 at Auschwitz with other Jewish victims slaughtered by Hitler’s anti-Semitic policies in his “Final Solution.” A gifted scholar who completed a Ph.D. in philosophy and specialized in phenomenology under the tutelage of Edmund Husserl at the University…Continue Reading

Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic… The Illusion Of Independent Thinking

April 18, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic… The Illusion Of Independent Thinking

By STEPHEN M. KRASON (Editor’s Note: Stephen M. Krason’s “Neither Left nor Right, but Catholic” column appears monthly [sometimes bimonthly]. He is professor of political science and legal studies and associate director of the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at Franciscan University of Steubenville. He is also co-founder and president of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists. Among his books are: Abortion: Politics, Morality, and the Constitution; The Transformation of the American Democratic Republic; Catholicism and American Political Ideologies, and an edited anthology The Recovery of American Education (in which the Schmitt and Lowenthal essays appear). This column originally appeared in Crisismagazine.com.) + + + In John G. West’s book of a decade ago, Darwin Day in America,…Continue Reading

A Book Review… The Interruption Of A Catholic Renaissance

April 17, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… The Interruption Of A Catholic Renaissance

By JUDE DOUGHERTY Douthat, Ross. To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2018. xvii + 234 pp. Available at Amazon.com. (Editor’s Note: Please also see James K. Fitzpatrick’s review of the Douthat book in The Wanderer, March 1, 2018, p. 1.) + + + The Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., has recently issued a 56-page, richly illustrated booklet entitled Joy of Love in Marriage and the Family: A Pastoral Plan to Implement Amoris Laetitia. His Eminence Donald Cardinal Wuerl has made it available to all parishioners in the archdiocese. The faithful are assured that the Church’s teaching on faith and morals has not changed, and that there is an objective moral order…Continue Reading

The Incredible Enlarging Child

April 16, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on The Incredible Enlarging Child

By DONALD DeMARCO Psychologists who study perception tell us that we interpret things against a background. We notice what is called the figure, but we interpret the figure in relation to a background which we do not notice. A candle is holy when set on an altar, romantic on a piano, eerie in a jack-o-lantern, and elegant on a table. Toys are clutter when strewn on the floor, but are treasured gifts under the Christmas tree. Against what kind of background to people interpret the unborn child? There are two competing backgrounds. One is “choice” and the other is the “sanctity of life.” How do we know which background gives us the truth of the unborn child? One interesting feature…Continue Reading

Has The War Party Hooked Trump?

April 15, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Has The War Party Hooked Trump?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN With his Sunday, April 8 tweet that Bashar Assad, “Animal Assad,” ordered a gas attack on Syrian civilians, and Vladimir Putin was morally complicit in the atrocity, President Donald Trump just painted himself and us into a corner. “Many dead, including women and children, in mindless chemical attack in Syria,” tweeted Trump, “President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad. Big price . . . to pay.” “Big price . . . to pay,” said the president. Now, either Trump launches an attack that could drag us deeper into a seven-year civil war from which he promised to extricate us the previous week, or Trump is mocked as being a man of bluster…Continue Reading