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Underground Bishop Peter Shao Zhumin Seized By Police

April 20, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Underground Bishop Peter Shao Zhumin Seized By Police

By FR. BERNARDO CERVELLERA ROME (AsiaNews) — The bishop of Wenzhou (Zhejiang), the Most Rev. Peter Shao Zhumin, was seized by police and taken to an unknown location. The incident occurred April 12. Public security agents, however, have allowed the faithful to bring them some clothes to hand them over to the prelate, a sign that his kidnapping will be long term. Bishop Shao is a bishop of the underground Church, recognized by the Holy See as an ordinary bishop of the diocese, after the death of his predecessor, Bishop Vincenzo Zhu Weifang, on September 7. The kidnapping of Shao came just hours before the start of the Easter Triduum. One priest believes the bishop’s detention was precisely to prevent…Continue Reading

Despite Deadly Attacks . . . Pope Francis Will Still Go To Egypt

April 19, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Despite Deadly Attacks . . . Pope Francis Will Still Go To Egypt

By HANNAH BROCKHAUS VATICAN CITY (CNA/EWTN News) — The Vatican confirmed Monday, April 10 that Pope Francis’ trip to Egypt at the end of the month will go on as planned, despite terrorist attacks which killed more than 43 people during Palm Sunday celebrations in the country. The director of the Holy See Press Office, Greg Burke, told journalists April 10 that “the Pope’s trip to Egypt proceeds as scheduled.” The Pope himself also confirmed that the trip will take place, according to Franciscan Fr. Marco Tasca. During a meeting April 10 with General Ministers of the Franciscan Order, Francis “very firmly confirmed his trip to Egypt,” Fr. Tasca said, adding that he is “very informed.” Pope Francis plans to…Continue Reading

Attorney General Visits Arizona . . . Sessions Jumps Over Barricades Of Open-Borders Evasions

April 18, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Attorney General Visits Arizona . . . Sessions Jumps Over Barricades Of Open-Borders Evasions

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — No matter how high the proposed Trump barriers will be, the mere fact of border laws being enforced strongly for a change seems to be an impediment too towering for many cowed potential boundary violators. In his first official visit to the border as Republican President Donald Trump’s attorney general, Jeff Sessions in his prepared remarks told U.S. law enforcers on April 11 in Nogales, Ariz., which is about a three-hour drive south of Phoenix: “From January to February of this year, illegal crossings dropped by 40 percent, which was unprecedented. Then, last month, we saw a 72 percent drop compared to the month before the president was inaugurated. That’s the lowest monthly figure for…Continue Reading

Culture Of Life 101… Transhumanism: The Final Frontier

April 17, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Culture Of Life 101… Transhumanism: The Final Frontier

By BRIAN CLOWES (Editor’s Note: Brian Clowes has been director of research and training at Human Life International since 1995. For an electronic copy of chapter 24 of The Facts of Life, “Eugenics,” e-mail him at bclowes@hli.org.) + + + “And when everyone’s super — no one will be!” — The villain “Syndrome” in The Incredibles. Introduction In 2009, the World Transhumanist Association’s website posted the Transhumanist Declaration. It summarized the goals of transhumanism by saying that “humanity stands to be profoundly affected by science and technology in the future. We envision the possibility of broadening human potential by overcoming aging, cognitive shortcomings, involuntary suffering, and our confinement to planet Earth.” Max More, in his work Principles of Entropy, provided…Continue Reading

Catholics In Today’s Society… Whither Thou Goest?

April 16, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Catholics In Today’s Society… Whither Thou Goest?

By LAWRENCE P. GRAYSON America is in transition from being a nation in which Christian principles guide public actions to one in which religion has no place in the public square, from a country where governmental policies allow free expression of religion to one in which government can force individuals and institutions to violate Church teachings. The more wholesome tone of society that existed in the 1950s and early 1960s has changed and continues to change. In 1965, there were 10,600 Catholic elementary schools, the Legion of Decency, Hello Dolly on Broadway, and singer Julie Andrews; today, there are 5,200 Catholic elementary schools, the Freedom from Religion Foundation, The Vagina Monologues, and Lady Gaga. Culture, whither thou goest? Catholics, who…Continue Reading

And By Their Names… By Their Fruits You Shall Know Them

April 15, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on And By Their Names… By Their Fruits You Shall Know Them

By FR. SHENAN J. BOQUET (Human Life International [hli.org] first published this article on April 8 and it is reprinted here with HLI’s kind permission. Fr. Boquet is HLI’s president. All rights reserved.) + + + Sometimes a name really is revealing. The United Nations Population Fund, or UNFPA, is one organization whose name says a great deal about its true concern. It was, well, born during the overpopulation panic codified in the publication of Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb in the late 1960s, but before the widespread abuses of population control became public. Like the abortion- and contraception-pushing Population Services International (1970), and the older eugenics-based Population Council, which was started by the Rockefellers in 1952, the UNFPA’s original…Continue Reading

Bishop Conley Says… Eucharistic Adoration Can Transform Our Church

April 14, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Bishop Conley Says… Eucharistic Adoration Can Transform Our Church

LINCOLN, Neb. (CNA/EWTN News) — Eucharistic adoration offers a powerful chance to encounter Christ’s love in silence and humility, and that experience can transform our hearts, both individually and as a Church, said Bishop James D. Conley of Lincoln, Neb., in a new pastoral letter. “Love is selfless sacrifice, and sacrifice is the language of love. Love is the gift of ourselves to our beloved. And Christ made a gift of himself — he gave us his body and blood — poured himself out for our salvation, when he conquered death by dying and rising again,” Bishop Conley said. “Christ gave us his body and blood, as an act of love, so that we could know the love of God.”…Continue Reading

The Long Road To Conversion

April 13, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on The Long Road To Conversion

By DONALD DeMARCO One fine day in October of 1978, I boarded a train that would take me from Waterloo, Ontario, to Toronto. A kindly looking lady shared my compartment. To facilitate conversation, she told me about her enthusiasm for the writings of Malcolm Muggeridge, regarded by many as one of the greatest journalists of the 20th century. She could not have ventured a more appropriate opener. “I am on my way to an editorial meeting in Toronto where I will be speaking with the very same Malcolm Muggeridge,” was, from her point of view, my surprising response. God-incidences like this must happen for a purpose. Here was “St. Mugg,” as he was called, in full panoply, famous enough to…Continue Reading

Moses After The Bulrushes

April 12, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Moses After The Bulrushes

By PHILIP TROWER As I am sure the majority of my readers know, one of the most hotly debated subjects among Scripture scholars over the last two hundred years or so has been the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch. How much if any of it did Moses write? And how much, if any, dates from his time? Outside the Catholic Church, as discussion and debate proceeded, so did skepticism, until it reached a high point with the theories of Julius Wellhausen (1844-1914). The Church tackled the situation in two stages. The first culminated in the decrees of the Pontifical Biblical Commission of 1906 which concentrated on repudiating the more negative propositions in current critical thinking. The second, which took a…Continue Reading

Culture Of Life 101 . . . The Racism Of Eugenics

April 11, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Culture Of Life 101 . . . The Racism Of Eugenics

By BRIAN CLOWES (Editor’s Note: Brian Clowes has been director of research and training at Human Life International since 1995. For an electronic copy of chapter 24 of The Facts of Life, “Eugenics,” from which these articles are drawn, e-mail him at bclowes@hli.org.) + + + “At the moment, it is probable that the indirect effect of civilization is dysgenic instead of eugenic; and in any case it seems likely that the dead weight of genetic stupidity, physical weakness, mental instability, and disease-proneness, which already exist in the human species, will prove too great a burden for real progress to be achieved” — Julian Huxley, UNESCO: Its Purpose and Its Philosophy, 1946. We have seen that eugenicists in general focus…Continue Reading