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Manchester And Modernism

June 6, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Manchester And Modernism

By SHAUN KENNEY (Editor’s Note: Shaun Kenney is a former executive director of American Life League, a former executive director of the Republican Party of Virginia, an an op-ed writer and ghostwriter for various publications and personalities in Washington, D.C.) + + + One has to be rather encouraged at the outpouring of response to events in Manchester, most notably in the tone of first responders and the Manchester community itself. Listening in on BBC Radio, one is particularly taken by a Sikh cab driver who put it upon himself to deliver meals — he was not asked, he merely responded. All of this happens in multicultural Britain, whose reflections of empire and tradition are now enmeshed in a sea…Continue Reading

The Wide-Ranging Culture Of Death

June 5, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on The Wide-Ranging Culture Of Death

By REY FLORES We often hear about the culture of death and for many practicing Catholics, the term usually evokes thoughts of abortion, contraception, euthanasia, eugenics, assisted suicide, and possibly homosexuality. Within a more secular mindset, the term “culture of death” would more than likely be associated with the death penalty, gun violence, and war; but I wouldn’t put it past secularists to also include the killing of animals for hunting and food, and the “killing” of the environment as aspects of their version of a “culture of death.” It is doubtful, however, that they would ever admit that there was a culture of death, let alone use that term. I would argue that our “culture of death” truly encompasses…Continue Reading

Hitchcock Gives Himself Away… Let’s Take Another Look At Historian’s Distortions About Coverage

June 5, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Hitchcock Gives Himself Away… Let’s Take Another Look At Historian’s Distortions About Coverage

By DEXTER DUGGAN I’m not bragging. Please stay with me a little and I’ll explain. After the third presidential debate between candidates John McCain and Barack Obama on October 15, 2008, my front-page story in The Wanderer dated for October 23 was headlined, “In Battle Against Infants, Obama Is The Warrior, McCain The Medic.” At that debate, I reported, McCain aggressively tackled Obama on the Democrat’s record against providing medical care to abortion-surviving babies, but Obama tried to squirm away. I wrote in a long story: “Once again, Obama simply — there is no other word for his deception — lied about his record in fighting to deny care to abortion-surviving babies. Obama keeps lying about this shameful and wretched record…Continue Reading

Per Capita Taxes Have More Than Doubled Since JFK

June 4, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Per Capita Taxes Have More Than Doubled Since JFK

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY (Editor’s Note: Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor in chief of CNSnews.com. Creators Syndicate distributed this column.) + + + Real federal taxes per capita have more than doubled since John F. Kennedy served as president — and argued for lower taxes. In 1961, the fiscal year Kennedy was elected, the federal government collected about $94.388 billion in taxes, according to the Office of Management and Budget. The population that year was about 183,691,481, according to the Census Bureau. That meant federal tax revenues equaled about $514 per capita — or $4,121 in 2016 dollars. By 1965, the fiscal year Lyndon Johnson beat Barry Goldwater, the federal government collected about $116.817 billion in taxes from a…Continue Reading

Trump In Saudi Arabia

June 3, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Trump In Saudi Arabia

By JUDE P. DOUGHERTY President Donald Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia on May 21 is worth revisiting. It was an honest and thoughtful speech. Upon being received, and after an exchange of greetings among the officials present, Trump said, addressing King Salman, “I stand before you as a representative of the American people to deliver a message of friendship and hope.” He went on to express America’s interest in the peace, security, and prosperity in the region and in the world. “Our goal is a coalition of nations who share the same aim of stamping out extremism and providing our children with a hopeful future that does honor to God.” Trump noted that later in the day he would participate…Continue Reading

St. Edith Stein… A True Feminist

June 2, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on St. Edith Stein… A True Feminist

By DONALD DeMARCO Most Catholics are familiar, more or less, with the outline of Edith Stein’s life. She was the youngest of 11 children born on October 12, 1891 in Breslau, Germany, to devout Jewish parents. Her mother knew about life’s hardships, having lost four children during the early years of her marriage. Frau Auguste Stein was the formative influence in Edith’s development. Nonetheless, between the ages of 13 and 21, as Edith confessed, she could not believe in a personal God. Through many twists and turns, Edith became a Catholic and eventually a Carmelite nun, taking the name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. Because of her Jewish heritage, she was arrested by the Nazis and taken to Auschwitz where…Continue Reading

Fr. Jacques Hamel . . . Process Of His Beatification Is Now Opened

June 1, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Fr. Jacques Hamel . . . Process Of His Beatification Is Now Opened

By MARINA DROUJININA ROUEN, France (ZENIT) — The first audience of the process in view of the beatification of Fr. Jacques Hamel was held on Saturday, May 20, in the Chapel of Aubigné of the archbishop of Rouen, France, according to a press release from the archdiocese. Some 50 people — families, witnesses of the murder, parishioners, and Muslim friends of St. Etienne du Rouvray — gathered under the presidency of the archbishop, the Most Rev. Dominique Lebrun. The meeting, which lasted an hour, was organized by the postulator, Fr. Paul Vigouroux. Fr. Vigouroux asked officially for the archbishop’s approval of the opening of the process in view of the recognition of the martyrdom of Fr, Hamel. The tribunal was set up, with a delegate…Continue Reading

USCCB To Hold Spring General Assembly In Indianapolis

May 31, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on USCCB To Hold Spring General Assembly In Indianapolis

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) will gather for its annual Spring General Assembly, June 14-15, in Indianapolis. During the assembly, the full body of bishops will address issues of immigration and refugees, religious freedom at home and abroad, as well as healthcare policy developments. The bishops will also begin consultation on the upcoming Ordinary Synod of Bishops being convened by the Holy Father in 2018. Bishop Oscar Cantú of Las Cruces, N.M., chairman of the Committee on International Justice and Peace, will lead a presentation on religious persecution, genocide, and human rights violations in the Middle East. The bishops will receive a briefing from their working group on immigration and hear from outside experts. Archbishop…Continue Reading

Consumers Rather Than Producers

May 30, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Consumers Rather Than Producers

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK In the April 6 edition of First Teachers we featured a letter from a reader who contended there was a “need to combat the socialist bias that exists in many of our schools, including our Catholic schools.” He called upon educators to inform their students of how “the private property rights found in capitalism guarantee the individual the ability to survive economically without government ‘connections’ to the political party in power.” Our correspondent went on to write favorably of the careers of several of the pioneers of American capitalism, such as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. Some of our readers disagree. They call upon us to be more critical in our analysis of modern capitalism. J.M. of Arizona,…Continue Reading

Fr. John Paul Erickson… Calls On Catholics To Live The Cardinal Virtues

May 29, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Fr. John Paul Erickson… Calls On Catholics To Live The Cardinal Virtues

By PEGGY MOEN MINNEAPOLIS — “There was always something,” Fr. John Paul Erickson told his audience of 150 at the Church of St. Helena on May 18. “Always a struggle between light and darkness” ever since Adam and Eve took the apple and we’ve never had “a golden era.” With gender ideology and other aberrations, we are undergoing some “strange struggles,” he said, but every age has had to fight its battle against evil. Fr. Erickson, pastor of Blessed Sacrament Church in St. Paul, was addressing “An Evening Affirming Human Life and the Family,” a joint venture of St. Helena’s and the Office of Marriage, Family, and Life of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. The “Evening,” an annual…Continue Reading