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Colorado Designer To Appeals Court . . . Halt Law Forcing Her To Promote Same-Sex Weddings

October 4, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Colorado Designer To Appeals Court . . . Halt Law Forcing Her To Promote Same-Sex Weddings

DENVER — Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys and allied attorneys representing a Colorado graphic designer, who challenged a state law forcing her to promote same-sex ceremonies, are appealing a September 1 ruling against her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Issued by a federal judge, the ruling refused to temporarily halt the law that also prohibits her from publicly expressing her Christian belief in marriage between one man and one woman. The judge then placed her legal challenge on hold until the U.S. Supreme Court rules in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, a separate and distinct challenge. ADF attorneys represent Lorie Smith and her studio, 303 Creative. A federal judge ruled that Smith and her…Continue Reading

Cardinal Parolin… Cheers Nineveh Plain Reconstruction Project

October 3, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Cardinal Parolin… Cheers Nineveh Plain Reconstruction Project

ROME (ZENIT) — Below is an address by Pietro Cardinal Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, to participants in the Conference “Return to the Roots: Christians in the Nineveh Plains,” organized by the Pontifical Foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) on September 28, 2017, in Rome’s Pontifical Lateran University. It was provided to ZENIT by ACN. + + + Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Friends: Allow me, first and foremost, to express my thanks to the Pontifical Foundation Aid to the Church in Need for organizing this gathering and for extending me an invitation to take part. I cordially greet all present, and in particular His Beatitude Louis Raphael I Sako, Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon, His Excellency…Continue Reading

In Conflict With Modern Denials… Moral Education From The Birmingham Jail

October 2, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on In Conflict With Modern Denials… Moral Education From The Birmingham Jail

By ARTHUR HIPPLER (Editor’s Note: Dr. Hippler is chairman of the religion department and teaches religion in the Upper School at Providence Academy, Plymouth, Minn.) + + + In an age of moral confusion, Martin Luther King’s Letter From a Birmingham Jail offers welcome clarity. Its rhetoric still has power today, with memorable phrases like “justice too long delayed is justice denied” and “human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability.” But the heart of his argument, that man-made laws are just only if based on the moral law, conflicts with modern denial of a “moral law.” For man today, morality is seen as cultural or emotional or utilitarian — “moral law” is the leftover of outdated religion. But…Continue Reading

Fr. James Martin’s Exit Ramp

October 1, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Fr. James Martin’s Exit Ramp

By SHAUN KENNEY I have tried unsuccessfully to communicate with Fr. James Martin, SJ, regarding some of the thoughts in his controversial book Building a Bridge, whose topic is supposed to deal with how the Catholic Church can engage with the LGBT community. Martin’s career has mirrored the path of those Catholic priests who have mastered the fine art of social media. Fr. Barron from Word on Fire was recently appointed an auxiliary bishop for his efforts, and Martin’s advancement from within the Archdiocese of New York to Vatican spokesman within the United States has been heralded by the political left inside the Catholic Church as a victory. One truly has to wonder why they feel this way. For one,…Continue Reading

Amateur Football Is Better Than Professional

September 30, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Amateur Football Is Better Than Professional

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY From the earliest days of American football, there was a fear that professionalization could ruin the game. In 1882, shortly after the founding fathers of this sport — all of whom were students — negotiated the most significant rule changes in the history of the game, the New York Daily Tribune ran contrasting stories reflecting on its emerging popularity. The first — announcing the fall schedule of games between Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton — began on a sarcastic note. “The game of football is exciting a livelier interest this year than ever before, and the indications thus far point to more interesting contests, better playing, and a brighter prospect that football teams will come out…Continue Reading

FRC Praises The Trump Tax Plan As A Big Win For Families

September 29, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on FRC Praises The Trump Tax Plan As A Big Win For Families

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Family Research Council on September 28 praised the GOP tax reform framework — released by the White House, Leader Mitch McConnell, Speaker Paul Ryan, Chairman Orrin Hatch, and Chairman Kevin Brady — noting the plan will increase the child tax credit, eliminate the death tax, and provide a tax credit for caring for dependents, like ailing elderly parents, among other proposals. This tax reform framework rightly is designed to provide tax relief for families. Family Research Council President Tony Perkins released the following statement: “The antiquated and burdensome tax code hinders the ability of American families to reach their full potential, and any tax reform package must directly provide relief to families and children. The GOP…Continue Reading

October’s Other Great Marian Centenary… The Founding Of The Militia Of The Immaculata

September 28, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on October’s Other Great Marian Centenary… The Founding Of The Militia Of The Immaculata

By JAMES MONTI This month of October the Church throughout the world will be commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the culminating apparition of Our Lady of Fatima and the miracle of the sun that accompanied it, witnessed by tens of thousands. What has received far less attention is that this month of October will also mark the centenary of another milestone of Marian devotion. On the evening of October 16, 1917, just three days after the Fatima apparition, seven Franciscan friars quietly assembled in a room at Rome’s International College of the Franciscan Fathers. Gathering around a table before a statue of our Lady flanked by two lit candles, this tiny “band of brothers” deliberated to consider the “war plan”…Continue Reading

A Book Review .. Virtuous Or Charitable Friendships Dispel Loneliness

September 27, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review .. Virtuous Or Charitable Friendships Dispel Loneliness

By MITCHELL KALPAKGIAN The Catholic Guide to Loneliness, by Kevin Vost, Psy.D. (Sophia Institute Press: Manchester, NH, 2017), 161 pp. $16.95. Available through www.Sophia institute.com or 1-800-888-9344. This timely book addresses a universal problem that all persons suffer at some point in their life but one that has become a matter of grave concern for social scientists in this century. While “It is not good for man to be alone” as God declared in Genesis when He instituted marriage, man at various stages in the course of a lifetime needs to prevent, overcome, and alleviate the burden of loneliness that oppresses the human spirit and robs life of its joy. However, as many recent studies have shown, the problem has…Continue Reading

Abortion and Immigration

September 26, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Abortion and Immigration

By DONALD DeMARCO Abortion is a wall that prevents immigrating unborn children from entering the world. It has the approbation of Hollywood, the Media, and all those who baptize themselves as “liberal.” Nowhere in the world is border security so tight. Approximately one million such potential immigrants are killed each year in America alone. Opposition to this procedure is widely condemned as “anti-choice,” “backward thinking,” and “ultra-conservative.” Immigrants from foreign countries can be documented; the unborn cannot. Compassion is restricted to the outsider. On the other hand, loosening border security to allow a flood of immigrants from other countries to enter the United States is regarded as respectful of their dignity and a sterling example of social justice. Blogger Matt…Continue Reading

Trump’s Tightening Legal Noose

September 25, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Trump’s Tightening Legal Noose

By JUDGE ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO The Donald Trump I know is a smart guy who often thinks a few steps ahead of those whose will he is trying to bend. But I lately wonder whether he grasps the gravity of the legal peril that is beginning to show up around him. In the past week, we learned of an unfiltered public confession of frustration and weakness among his lawyers and we learned that his former chief confidant and campaign manager is about to be indicted. This is very bad news for President Trump. Here is the back story. Trump has hired two experienced Washington criminal defense lawyers to represent him in dealings with Robert Mueller, the independent special counsel who…Continue Reading