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An Underground Priest In China Tells His Story

November 23, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on An Underground Priest In China Tells His Story

MADRID (CNA) — Fr. Joseph of Jesus is a Chinese priest, faithful to the Catholic Church. Life is not easy for Catholics in China. Those who adhere to Rome are persecuted by the Chinese government, which only grants freedom of worship to those belonging to the state-controlled Patriotic Church. Fr. Joseph recently shared his story on the In the Footsteps of the Nazarene program by the UK Mamie Foundation, run by the Home of the Mother of Youth congregation of religious sisters. His back faces the camera in the interview, and the precise details of his life in China, as well as his precise location — he is currently in Europe — are withheld for security reasons. Fr. Joseph described…Continue Reading

SCOTUS Will Hear California Forced Abortion Speech Law

November 22, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on SCOTUS Will Hear California Forced Abortion Speech Law

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court on November 13 agreed to review the California Reproductive FACT Act, which compels pro-life crisis pregnancy centers to post notices regarding the availability of free and low-cost abortions in their physical clinics, printed material and online. The court agreed to hear National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) v. Becerra, one of four cases brought by crisis pregnancy centers challenging the law as a violation of the First Amendment guarantees of free speech and free exercise of religion. Liberty Counsel’s case, Mountain Right to Life v. Becerra, and the other two cases, will be held at the court until it resolves the NIFLA case, likely in spring 2018. The ruling on the NIFLA…Continue Reading

A Book Review… The Sacred Heart Vs. Secularism

November 21, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… The Sacred Heart Vs. Secularism

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY Cor Jesu Sacratissimum, From Secularism and the New Age to Christendom Renewed, by Roger Buck (Angelico Press, 2016, 482 pages; $21.95 paperback, $10.12 Kindle). The Cor Jesu Sacratissimum of the title is the Latin for “Sacred Heart of Jesus,” and the premise of Roger Buck’s sizable volume is that the Sacred Heart is both the Heart of the World and the Heart of the Church. But as he points out, this fact has become more and more obscured in our age, and so he sees his mission as one of disclosing and addressing the forces that have brought this about. He particularly points to the New Age movement, our globalized secular culture — which grew out…Continue Reading

Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic… Questions In The Aftermath Of The Las Vegas Tragedy

November 20, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic… Questions In The Aftermath Of The Las Vegas Tragedy

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, and most recently Catholicism and American Political Ideologies. This column originally appeared in Crisismagazine.com. All rights reserved.) + + + While there is not so much mention of it in the media anymore, the American public is still reeling from the inexplicable massacre in…Continue Reading

A Movie Review… “The Star” Shines For Christmas

November 19, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on A Movie Review… “The Star” Shines For Christmas

By REY FLORES As children, many of us grew up watching television, particularly memorable special broadcasts of The Wizard of Oz, Rankin and Bass’ Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and of course, all the holiday-themed Peanuts animated specials. My favorite was A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving where Snoopy and his little bird friend Woodstock fix a Thanksgiving dinner of buttered toast, jellybeans, and popcorn, much to the dismay of Peppermint Patty. While we have certainly had our fill of animated movies from the likes of Disney Studios, movies like Finding Nemo, The Lion King, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, and so on, few animated films deal with Jesus. This holiday season, Sony, Columbia, and Jim Henson Productions among others have teamed up to…Continue Reading

Saints Francisco And Jacinta Of Fatima

November 18, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Saints Francisco And Jacinta Of Fatima

By FR. SEAN CONNOLLY (Editor’s Note: This is the tenth in a series of articles on the one hundredth anniversary of our Lady’s apparitions at Fatima. Fr. Connolly is a priest of the Archdiocese of New York.) + + + So far in this series of articles published in commemoration the centenary of our Lady’s apparitions at Fatima, we have reviewed the historical context of the Fatima event, as well as the three apparitions of the Angel of Peace and the six apparitions of the Mother of God. We will now review what happened to the three little visionaries, Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta, after the last apparition when the famed “Miracle of the Sun” occurred. As was foretold by our…Continue Reading

Mary Ann Glendon… A Voice For The Voiceless

November 17, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Mary Ann Glendon… A Voice For The Voiceless

By DONALD DeMARCO Mary Ann Glendon was born on October 7, 1938, in Dalton, Mass., a small town nestled in the Berkshire Hills. Her father was an Irish Catholic, her mother a Yankee Congregationalist. She learned a great deal from her mother’s religion about social organization and from her father, how Catholicism “enlarged the spirit, gave wings to the imagination, and lent meaning to suffering.” Catholic ceremonies, as she wrote, “spoke to me of a history before Plymouth Rock, and its liturgy linked me to every living Catholic on Earth.” This openness to the lessons of history and the dignity of all human beings set the tone for her subsequent career in comparative law and as an advocate of universal…Continue Reading

A Summary Of The Events… Centenary Renews Fatima Prophecies

November 16, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on A Summary Of The Events… Centenary Renews Fatima Prophecies

By JOHN BURKE (Editor’s Note: John Burke, a journalist in England, has followed Fatima’s centenary events since his mid-May visit there.) + + + The shrine at Fatima begins its pastoral year with Advent, so the centennial celebrations of the six Marian events in 1917 can now be reviewed. What will remain for Catholics the greatest hundredth anniversary of this century has not made as much impact worldwide as it should have, partly because some churchmen also focused on interdenominational commemorations of Luther’s revolt 500 years ago. Yet the apocalyptic message of Fatima is being passed on to another generation. That is thanks largely to the visits of various prelates to the Portuguese shrine; the Marian consecration of various dioceses;…Continue Reading

Josef Seifert Launches International Pro-Life Academy

November 15, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Josef Seifert Launches International Pro-Life Academy

By KEVIN JONES VATICAN CITY (CNA/EWTN News) — A former member of the Pontifical Academy for Life has launched an independent organization he claims will work to “unfold the splendor of truth about life and family.” Josef Seifert, president of the new lay-run John Paul II Academy for Human Life and Family, announced the academy October 18 in Rome at a conference on the topic of Blessed Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae. “The academy’s aim is to clarify, to teach, and to spread that part of the truth about man and about God that serves human life and the natural family, and, through serving these, serves and glorifies God,” said Seifert. Seifert, a philosophy professor from Austria, has taught at…Continue Reading

Red Lines & Lost Credibility

November 14, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Red Lines & Lost Credibility

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN A major goal of this Asia trip, said National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, is to rally allies to achieve the “complete, verifiable, and permanent denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.” Yet Kim Jong Un has said he will never give up his nuclear weapons. He believes the survival of his dynastic regime depends upon them. Hence we are headed for confrontation. Either the U.S. or North Korea backs down, as Nikita Khrushchev did in the Cuban missile crisis, or there will be war. In this new century, U.S. leaders continue to draw red lines that threaten acts of war that the nation is unprepared to back up. Recall President Obama’s, “Assad must go!” and the warning that…Continue Reading