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Returning To Maturity In Immature Times

March 25, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Returning To Maturity In Immature Times

By SHAUN KENNEY School shootings are very nearly always a tragedy in real time, one that grips the attentions of readers and viewers. The suffering of children is always a magnet for the do-gooders of the world who scream “Do something!” when at times, there is nothing to be done. Facts are, you are more likely to hit the lottery or be hit by a bolt of lightning than be involved in a mass shooting, schools or otherwise. Violent crime has gone down since the 1990s, firearm ownership has gone up. Of the 50,000 deaths by firearms each year, over 60 percent of them are due to suicide — a mental health issue if there ever was one. Of course,…Continue Reading

A Book Review… Catherine Of Siena: Ambassador Of The Lord

March 24, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… Catherine Of Siena: Ambassador Of The Lord

Catherine of Siena, by Sigrid Undset, translated by Kate Austin-Lund (Ignatius Press: San Francisco, 2009), 335 pp. Available from www.ignatius.com or call 1-800-651-1531. By MITCHELL KALPAKGIAN A reprint of the English translation of the original Norwegian edition of 1951 issued in 1954 by Sheed and Ward, Inc., Sigrid Undset’s comprehensive biography captures the magnetism, holiness, and heroism of a great mystic who communed with Christ in ecstatic visions and lived an active public life devoted to the cause of ending schism in the Church during the fourteenth century when temporal and spiritual powers clashed in power struggles and when both Avignon and Rome competed for the residence of the Holy Father. The inspiring story of this fourteenth-century mystic, however, remains…Continue Reading

A Book Review… The Dominion Of Man Over The Rest Of Things

March 23, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… The Dominion Of Man Over The Rest Of Things

By JUDE DOUGHERTY Brague, Rémi. The Legitimacy of the Human. Translated by Paul Seaton. South Bend, Ind.: St. Augustine Press, 2018. xiii + 177 pp. The present work is based on a series of lectures given at the Catholic University of Louvain when Rémi Brague occupied the Cardinal Mercier Chair in 2011. Reflections initiated there were further developed in two subsequent works, Eccentric Culture (2012) and On the God of the Christians and One or Two Others (2013). The focus of these works is the character of European civilization, its formation, development, and challenges. “European culture,” Brague declares, “was formed by Christianity, the religion of the Creative Logos.” Today that culture is on the defensive. What took centuries to construct…Continue Reading

A Movie Review… St. Paul: From Persecutor To Apostle

March 22, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on A Movie Review… St. Paul: From Persecutor To Apostle

By REY FLORES It is said that to know God is to love Him. It is also said that to truly embrace our faith, we must know our faith. The stories of the apostles in their efforts to establish the one true Church founded by Jesus Christ are so very important for us to know. While the daily readings or just making the effort to read our Bible or works of the Church fathers are certainly important, films like this one can be a great way to introduce ourselves to the founding of our Church. The incredible faith and the sufferings of Jesus’ most ardent followers are stories to be learned, shared, treasured, and cherished. It is with great joy…Continue Reading

How Should We Regard Pope Francis?

March 21, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on How Should We Regard Pope Francis?

By JOHN YOUNG Some Catholics think laypeople have no right to criticize Pope Francis. He is the Vicar of Christ and is guided by the Holy Spirit, so he must know better than we do what should be taught and done. Even cardinals and bishops, they assert, have no right to publicly disagree with the Pope. On the other hand, some Catholics are very vocal in their criticisms, and Pope Francis is condemned as a heretic and an antipope, with an agenda that would destroy the Church. Things are so drastic, they think, that we may be approaching the end of the world. I believe that here, as in other matters, we should seek the truth: Intellectual honesty requires that.…Continue Reading

Make A Church Post Satan’s Phone Number?

March 20, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Make A Church Post Satan’s Phone Number?

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.) + + + Jerry Brown once said he saw “the killing of the unborn as crazy.” This was just after the once-and-future pro-abortion governor of California returned to the United States in 1988 after spending three weeks working at Mother Teresa’s Home of the Pure Heart in Calcutta. The fact that “this country and Europe see the need to kill so many unborn does not seem justified,” Brown told the National Catholic News Service in an article published February 19, 1988, in the newspaper of the Miami Archdiocese. “It is just that we’ve organized society to be anti-life,” he said.…Continue Reading

A Decision From Outer Space

March 19, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on A Decision From Outer Space

By DONALD DeMARCO A number of science-fiction movies, especially those from the 1950s when the threat of an atomic attack loomed, revolved around a decision made by highly intelligent beings from outer space to destroy all human life on planet Earth. The usual reasons put forth for the destruction were that human beings were violent, warmongering, and irreformable. Besides, they were polluting their gene pool as well as their own habitat. Moreover, the planet was viewed as little more than an inconvenient speck set within a vast if not limitless cosmos. I would be remiss if I did not mention the 1945 motion picture, The Horn Blows at Midnight, in which angel Athanael, played by Jack Benny, is sent to…Continue Reading

Globalists & Nationalists: Who Owns The Future?

March 18, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Globalists & Nationalists: Who Owns The Future?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Robert Bartley, the late editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal, was a free trade zealot who for decades championed a five-word amendment to the Constitution: “There shall be open borders.” Bartley accepted what the erasure of America’s borders and an endless influx of foreign peoples and goods would mean for his country. Said Bartley, “I think the nation-state is finished.” His vision and ideology had a long pedigree. This free trade, open borders cult first flowered in 18th-century Britain. The St. Paul of this post-Christian faith was Richard Cobden, who mesmerized elites with the grandeur of his vision and the power of his rhetoric. In Free Trade Hall in Manchester, January 15, 1846, the…Continue Reading

The Stoneman Douglas Shootings And Divine Providence

March 17, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on The Stoneman Douglas Shootings And Divine Providence

By C.F. MONTESANO (Editor’s Note: C.F. Montesano is vice president with a maritime trade association in Virginia. He serves as a lector at the Cathedral of St. Matthew in Washington, D.C. Last summer, he was selected by Signum University to be a presenter at its annual “Mythmoot” conference for enthusiasts of J.R.R. Tolkien.) + + + The overwhelming response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School tragedy has been: What is to be done? How that question came to be asked, however, appears to be less important than it being asked. As the cameras roll, the spotlights shine, and social media crackles with opinions, nothing has changed the incontrovertible truth that 17 children were murdered — and that the families…Continue Reading

Key Abuse Charge Against Cardinal Pell Withdrawn

March 16, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Key Abuse Charge Against Cardinal Pell Withdrawn

By HANNAH BROCKHAUS MELBOURNE, Australia (CNA/EWTN News) — An Australian prosecutor on March 2 withdrew a charge of abuse against George Cardinal Pell, who is currently undergoing a trial in Australia for accusations of past sexual abuse. The charge was dropped by Prosecutor Mark Gibson March 2 after its key complainant died in January. It is only one of the charges brought against Pell, though the total number of charges and details is not yet public. The next stage of the case began March 5, with a four-week long preliminary hearing in Melbourne. The hearing, at which Pell will be present, will determine whether prosecutors have enough evidence to hold a jury trial for the charges of abuse brought against…Continue Reading