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The Angel Of Peace At Fatima

June 16, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on The Angel Of Peace At Fatima

By FR. SEAN CONNOLLY (Editor’s Note: This is the third 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.) + + + Lesser known but still integral to the Fatima event are the three apparitions of the Angel of Peace to the young visionaries Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta which took place in 1916. The apparitions of the angel were preparatory in nature. Beginning about one year prior to our Lady’s first apparition to these same children on May 13, 1917, the Angel of Peace came to prepare the children for the mission entrusted to them by the Mother of God who would…Continue Reading

Iowa High Court Recognizes “Wrongful Birth” Claims

June 15, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Iowa High Court Recognizes “Wrongful Birth” Claims

By DEACON MIKE MANNO In a 6-1 ruling early in June, the Iowa Supreme Court recognized wrongful birth as a cause of action in the state. The case involved a married couple, Pamela and Jeremy Plowman, who had two children ages four and three when Pamela became pregnant with her third child, identified by the court as “Z.P.” At approximately 22 weeks into her pregnancy, Pamela had an ultrasound to assess fetal growth. A report from the ultrasound found that Z.P. displayed head abnormalities and recommended a follow-up. For some reason the physicians involved did not relay the severity of the report to the Plowmans, only saying that the head measurements were slightly below normal. According to the court, “Pamela…Continue Reading

A Very Popular Pope, But Not Among The Bishops

June 14, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on A Very Popular Pope, But Not Among The Bishops

By SANDRO MAGISTER (Wanderer Editor’s Note: This commentary by Sandro Magister, a longtime Vatican reporter, first appeared in L’Espresso, May 28, on Magister’s Settimo Cielo page. Matthew Sherry translated the article into English. LifeSiteNews reprinted the commentary on May 31. All rights reserved.) + + + (Sandro Magister) — Appointments are a key element in the strategy of Jorge Mario Bergoglio. It should suffice to look at how he is reshaping in his image the College of Cardinals, which in the future will elect his Successor. After the latest batch of cardinals, announced one week ago for the end of June, chances are slimmer that the next Pope could mark a return to the past. Italy aside, however, winning the…Continue Reading

Corpus Christi: An Opportunity To Re-Evangelize Ourselves

June 13, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Corpus Christi: An Opportunity To Re-Evangelize Ourselves

By JAMES MONTI On a visit to the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia last summer, I observed that although the Holy Eucharist is at present reserved on the high altar, and rightly so, the side chapel that had originally been built as a place of reservation for the Most Blessed Sacrament had been fully preserved. What is most striking about this chapel is its imposing tabernacle, a massive, magnificent architectonic temple somewhat resembling the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica, flanked by two adoring angels in stone. The design conveys the unmistakable message that this edifice was built to be a throne of divine majesty, an abode of the living God that was intended to breathe forth the…Continue Reading

Pope Benedict XVI… An Apostle Of Truth

June 12, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Pope Benedict XVI… An Apostle Of Truth

By DONALD DeMARCO Joseph Aloysius Ratzinger was born to a devout Catholic family on April 16, 1927 in the village of Marktl am Inn, in Bavaria. He came into the world on Holy Saturday on the feast day of Benedict Joseph Labré, who was canonized in 1883 by Pope Leo XIII. When he was five years old Joseph declared that he wanted to become a priest. In 1933 Hitler came into power and ushered in a reign of horror. A cousin of Joseph’s had Down syndrome. In 1941, Nazi officials came and took the boy, who was roughly the same age as Joseph, away for “therapy.” He never came back. He was murdered as part of the Action T4 campaign…Continue Reading

On “Tourist” Visa… UA 93 Hijacker Entered U.S. 7 Times

June 11, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on On “Tourist” Visa… UA 93 Hijacker Entered U.S. 7 Times

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY (Editor’s Note: Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor in chief of CNSnews.com. Creators Syndicate distributed this column.) + + + You could still see his mouth and his chin, but only the right side of his face from the nose up. The rest of the photo and the document on which it was printed — except for the man’s first and last name and a broken series of numbers — was charred or burnt away. Investigators searching the area in Pennsylvania where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed on September 11, 2001, found this telltale piece of evidence. It was the tourist visa that let Ziad Jarrah enter the United States from Germany. On the face of…Continue Reading

A Book Review . . . The Order Of Nature And The Good Life

June 10, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review . . . The Order Of Nature And The Good Life

By JUDE P. DOUGHERTY Redpath, Peter. The Moral Psychology of St. Thomas Aquinas. St. Louis: Enroute Books, 2017; 795 pp. Cloth, $64.95. Peter Redpath is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of the Great Ideas (Chicago). He has taught philosophy for over 44 years, principally at St. John’s University, Jamaica, N.Y. During that period he has authored 12 books, served as an officer in nearly a dozen organizations, and cofounded the Etienne Gilson Society to perpetuate the work of that historian. He calls himself a “Ragamuffin Thomist.” Well, disheveled, or tweedy perhaps, compared with the impeccably groomed Mortimer Adler, whom he took early on as a mentor. The moral psychology that Redpath develops is as much that…Continue Reading

How Can There Be Climate “Accord” Without Protection Of The Unborn?

June 9, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on How Can There Be Climate “Accord” Without Protection Of The Unborn?

By JUDIE BROWN (Wanderer Editor’s Note: LifeSiteNews reprinted this column from the American Life League website, where it first appeared on June 6. Judie Brown is the president and co-founder of ALL.) + + + In the 1995 encyclical Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life), St. John Paul II made two profound statements about the environment and the obligations of man. In section 9 he said: “Murderous violence profoundly changes man’s environment. From being the ‘garden of Eden’ (Gen. 2:15), a place of plenty, of harmonious interpersonal relationships and of friendship with God, the earth becomes ‘the land of Nod’ (Gen. 4:16), a place of scarcity, loneliness, and separation from God.” And in section 42 he said: “As one called…Continue Reading

Francis Says Of Pius XII… By Hiding Jews, He Carried Out Works Of Mercy

June 8, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Francis Says Of Pius XII… By Hiding Jews, He Carried Out Works Of Mercy

By SERGIO MORA VATICAN CITY (ZENIT) — Practice works of mercy, not only for one’s conscience, but to participate in others’ suffering, also risking one’s life if necessary — as Pius XII did in hiding Jews, to avoid their being deported or killed — because it was a work of mercy to save those people’s lives. So said Pope Francis during his June 5 homily at his daily morning Mass, Casa Santa Marta. The Holy Father began from the day’s readings, when the Jews were deported to Assyria. Tobit helped secretly to bury the Jews killed with impunity. Thus to carry out the 14 works of corporal and spiritual mercy means not only to share what one has, but also…Continue Reading

Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic . . . Nostra Aetate And The Catholic Response To Islam

June 7, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic . . . Nostra Aetate And The Catholic Response To Islam

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 co-founder and president of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists. Among his books is Abortion: Politics, Morality, and the Constitution, The Transformation of the American Democratic Republic, and the forthcoming Catholicism and American Political Ideologies. (This column originally appeared in Crisismagazine.com and is reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.) + + + I have encountered serious Catholics who have invoked the Vatican II document Nostra Aetate (Declaration on the…Continue Reading