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AWOL Conservatives Desert The Culture Wars

February 22, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on AWOL Conservatives Desert The Culture Wars

By JACK KENNY While fiscal conservatives are still reeling from the latest spending spree sanctioned by another congressional budget-be-damned continuing “irresolution,” social conservatives may be suffering a similar sense of betrayal over a recent decision to ban an exhibit by MassResistance at the Conservative Political Action Conference this week in the Washington, D.C., suburb of National Harbor, Md. What should be troubling to those engaged on the conservative side of the culture wars is that MassResistance is being excluded not in spite of, but apparently because of, its active and resolute opposition to public acceptance and promotion of the “lifestyle” and activities of self-proclaimed lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders (LGBT). CPAC is an annual event, running this year from February…Continue Reading

Youth’s Predicament… The Longing For Love And Meaning

February 21, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Youth’s Predicament… The Longing For Love And Meaning

By GEORGE A. KENDALL Living in a nursing home has had an unexpected effect on my life — putting me in more contact with young people than I have been used to since I was young myself (about a hundred years ago). I am talking about the nurse’s aides who provide the day to day “up close and personal” care for us. Once you have lived a few months in one of these places, you get to know these young people. In many ways, I am impressed. Many are kind and compassionate, seeming to genuinely care about the people in their care, doing work most of us would find gross and disgusting (like the bedpan detail). I enjoy talking to…Continue Reading

Notre Dame Professor… Criticizes University’s Provision Of “Simple Contraceptives”

February 20, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Notre Dame Professor… Criticizes University’s Provision Of “Simple Contraceptives”

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (CNA/EWTN News) — After the University of Notre Dame announced it would fund “simple contraceptives” in its insurance plan, one Notre Dame professor has criticized the move, calling it “a giant leap into immorality.” “Now the University [of Notre Dame] is to be sole funder and proprietor of a contraception giveaway,” wrote Notre Dame law professor Gerard V. Bradley in an essay published February 8 at Public Discourse. “What is solemnly declared for years to be morally impossible is, suddenly, the substance of Notre Dame’s free choice,” Bradley wrote. In a February 7 statement, Notre Dame’s president, Fr. John I. Jenkins, CSC, announced that while the insurance plan at the university will not provide abortifacients, the school…Continue Reading

Fulton Sheen’s Final Resting Place Not Yet Final

February 19, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Fulton Sheen’s Final Resting Place Not Yet Final

NEW YORK (CNA/EWTN News) — Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s niece has said her uncle’s remains belong in Peoria, Ill., but a lawsuit seeking his internment there has been returned to a lower court for further consideration. “I just hate that this is dragging on and on and on,” Joan Sheen Cunningham said, according to The New York Times. Cunningham, a Yonkers, N.Y., resident now aged 90, has suggested Sheen’s body be divided into relics. “Let it go to Peoria for a few months, and then bring back some of the relics to New York and leave some in Peoria,” she said. “It’s just too bad it can’t just be settled without all this fuss.” In 2016 she filed a legal complaint…Continue Reading

Blessed Paul VI Revisited

February 18, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Blessed Paul VI Revisited

By DONALD DeMARCO Unlike the daily news, papal statements are news that stay news. On January 1, 1977, Pope Paul VI delivered a Day of Peace message entitled, If You Want Peace, Defend Life. The need to conjoin peace with life is more relevant today than it was better than forty years ago and warrants reiteration. The now beatified Pontiff enjoined the world not to regard his message as either “superfluous” or “boring.” Indeed, what he had to say was profound and therefore captivating. “There is no civilization without peace,” he reminded his listeners. He could not have captured the importance of peace more concisely. It is the very bedrock of a civilization. “The pyramid of peace,” he avers, “should…Continue Reading

President Trump Bans U.S. Aid for International Abortions

February 17, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on President Trump Bans U.S. Aid for International Abortions

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Within a week of taking office on January 23, 2017, President Trump reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy, now called the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance, which bans U.S. funding for abortions overseas. The expanded policy prohibits $9 billion in U.S. taxpayer money from funding foreign organizations that perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning, according to Liberty Counsel. The pro-life policy applies global health assistance funding for international health programs, such as those for HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, malaria, global health security, and family planning and reproductive health, but not for abortion. Government grants to 733 organizations were up for renewal, and the organizations had to demonstrate compliance with…Continue Reading

Approval Of Miracle Opens Door To Paul VI’s Canonization

February 16, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Approval Of Miracle Opens Door To Paul VI’s Canonization

By HANNAH BROCKHAUS VATICAN CITY (CNA/EWTN News) — The Congregation for the Causes of Saints has approved the second miracle needed for the canonization of Blessed Pope Paul VI, allowing his canonization to take place, possibly later this year. According to Vatican Insider, the Congregation for the Causes of Saints approved the miracle by a unanimous vote February 6. The next step is for Pope Francis to also give his approval, with an official decree from the Vatican. Then the date for the canonization can be set. The miracle attributed to the cause of Paul VI is the healing of an unborn child in the fifth month of pregnancy. The case was brought forward in 2014 for study. The mother,…Continue Reading

Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic… A Catholic Reaction To Trump And The Media

February 15, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic… A Catholic Reaction To Trump And The Media

By STEPHEN M. KRASON (Editor’s Note: Stephen M. Krason’s Neither Left nor Right, but Catholic column appears monthly [sometimes bimonthly] in Crisis. 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 cofounder and president of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists. Among his books are The Public Order and the Sacred Order; The Transformation of the American Democratic Republic; Liberalism, Conservatism, and Catholicism; and Catholicism and American Political Ideologies. This column originally appeared in Crisismagazine.com. All rights reserved.) + + + It is not an overstatement to say that the time of the Trump presidency has been one of protracted…Continue Reading

Priest Says… Excommunicate 14 Catholic Senators Who Voted Against Late-Term Abortion Ban

February 14, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Priest Says… Excommunicate 14 Catholic Senators Who Voted Against Late-Term Abortion Ban

By LISA BOURNE (Editor’s Note: LifeSiteNews ran this story on February 5.) + + + A Catholic priest is calling on bishops to excommunicate the 14 Catholic-identifying U.S. senators who voted two weeks ago against banning late-term abortions. He is also calling on priests to deny the Catholic pro-abortion senators Holy Communion. “Today is the day for their bishops to issue a formal statement acknowledging that these men and women have publicly denied their Catholic faith, and if not formally, then have informally excommunicated themselves,” Fr. Dwight Longenecker wrote in a recent blog post. Many bishops often refuse to publicly correct pro-abortion politicians who say they are Catholic. Of these, a small number prefer to be more “pastoral,” handling the…Continue Reading

Limbo And Eastern Orthodoxy

February 13, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Limbo And Eastern Orthodoxy

By JAMES LIKOUDIS The centuries-old theological debate concerning the existence of Limbo for unbaptized babies (the limbo puerorum as a state of natural happiness) led to the 2007 publication of the document The Hope of Salvation for Infants Who Die Without Being Baptized by the International Theological Commission (ITC). The commission concluded there are “serious theological and liturgical grounds for hope that unbaptized infants who die will be saved and enjoy the beatific vision.” There immediately followed misleading and erroneous press reports that the Catholic Church had “abandoned” or “abolished” the notion of Limbo. Such statements which disturbed many Catholics were belied by statements in the document which admitted: “The Church does not have sure knowledge about the salvation of…Continue Reading