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The Pelosi Principle

March 21, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on The Pelosi Principle

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY (Editor’s Note: This column was released March 15, one day before the House Budget Committee narrowly approved the Republican health-care bill.) + + + Suppose the federal government confiscated 90 percent of the income of every private sector worker who earned more than the poverty level. Then suppose the government used some of that confiscated money to pay government workers and the rest to provide benefits to people who do not work or earn less than the poverty level. Would that be a transfer of wealth? If so, would that transfer of wealth go from those whose money the government confiscated to those who received it? Or from those who received it to those forced to…Continue Reading

Jacques Maritain . . . On The Person Of The Church And Her Personnel

March 20, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Jacques Maritain . . . On The Person Of The Church And Her Personnel

By JUDE DOUGHERTY At a time of when strong ecclesiastical leadership is warranted as the West drifts further from its historical anchorage, the voice of Church seems to be muted or confused. With reason, Pope Francis has been accused of deliberate ambiguity, given that he has not responded to repeated calls for clarification of his teaching in Amoris Laetitia, and now as reported in the pages of this newspaper [see story by LifeSiteNews, The Wanderer, March 2, 2017, p. 1], the new head of the Jesuit Order, Fr. Arturo Sosa Abascal, seems to call into question the literal meaning of Christ’s teaching on the indissolubility of marriage (Matt. 19:3-6). “The words of Jesus must be contextualized,” he has said in…Continue Reading

Should Some People In Irregular Unions Receive Communion?

March 19, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Should Some People In Irregular Unions Receive Communion?

By JOHN YOUNG A Catholic couple living in an adulterous relationship are not necessarily subjectively in a state of mortal sin. Objectively their state of life is mortally sinful, but there is such great ignorance today about marriage and sexual relationships that we can’t presume that these people are subjectively guilty of mortal sin, and are therefore headed for Hell. So it is possible for a Catholic, or a Catholic couple, to believe they are not doing wrong, or at least nothing gravely wrong, when in fact the relationship, objectively considered, is mortally sinful. They may tell themselves they are choosing the lesser of two evils, particularly if they have children who would suffer if they separated. As for living…Continue Reading

The Peasant Philosopher

March 17, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on The Peasant Philosopher

By DONALD DeMARCO When his beloved wife and collaborator, Raissa, died in 1960, Jacques Maritain withdrew to a secluded life of silence and prayer, living in a hut with the Little Brothers of Jesus near the Garonne River at Toulouse, France. There, at age 85, he produced what he claimed to be his final work: The Peasant of the Garonne. The image pays tribute to the peasant who dares to call a spade a spade. Philosophy is a journey to wisdom, but one must honor the common sense of the peasant in order to begin such a journey. In this respect, he was true to his mentor St. Thomas Aquinas. In his delightful book on St. Thomas, G K. Chesterton…Continue Reading

ADF Files Suit Defending Freedom Of Wisconsin Photographer

March 16, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on ADF Files Suit Defending Freedom Of Wisconsin Photographer

MADISON, Wis. — Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a Madison photographer and blogger filed suit March 7 against city and state officials in a Wisconsin court. The lawsuit challenges a sweeping local ordinance and a state law that force commissioned creative professionals to promote messages that violate their beliefs. For example, a Madison-based speechwriter who opposes President Trump would be subject to severe punishment if he or she refused to write a speech for him. Under these same laws, Amy Lawson and her company, Amy Lynn Photography Studio, are required to create photographs and blog posts promoting pro-abortion groups and same-sex marriages if she creates content that promotes pro-life organizations or that celebrates the marriage of one man and one…Continue Reading

A Book Review… The Soul Of A Great Saint Who Plumbs The Heart Of Reality

March 15, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… The Soul Of A Great Saint Who Plumbs The Heart Of Reality

By MITCHELL KALPAKGIAN I Burned for Your Peace: “Augustine’s Confessions Unpacked,” by Peter Kreeft (Ignatius Press: San Francisco, 2016), 234 pages; $17.95. Available at www.ignatius.com or call 1-800-651-1531. Citing as the predominant theme in both Augustine’s The City of God and the Confessions the drama of “God’s providential design and man’s free choices” in human history and in individual lives, Dr. Kreeft revisits this spiritual classic by quoting important selections and offering commentary and exegesis on those passages. Because of its riches as a great book, the Confessions always invites more study and further exploration in plumbing its depths. As a classic renowned for its universality in depicting the human condition, fallen human nature, and the mysterious hand of God’s…Continue Reading

Culture Of Life 101 . . . The Eugenics Philosophy

March 14, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Culture Of Life 101 . . . The Eugenics Philosophy

By BRIAN CLOWES (Editor’s Note: Brian Clowes has been director of research and training at Human Life101 International since 1995. For an electronic copy of more than a thousand pro-eugenics quotes, including those by Margaret Sanger, e-mail him at bclowes@hli.org.) + + + “It is unjust to cut short the days of a well-shaped person. It is not unjust, I say, to prevent the arrival in the world of a being who will certainly be useless to it” — The Marquis de Sade. + + + Despite all of the posturing and lofty theorizing of modern-day eugenicists, there stands one immutable, diamond-hard rule: We must not dispose of innocent human life. It is sacred, it has great dignity, and it…Continue Reading

Despite Hostile Trios Howling… Trump Tries To Put Together Triumphant American Renewal

March 13, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Despite Hostile Trios Howling… Trump Tries To Put Together Triumphant American Renewal

By DEXTER DUGGAN Many of the good ideas in new President Donald Trump’s February 28 speech to a joint session of Congress could be thwarted by just three numbers. And that’s not even taking into account the trio of the hostile media, bureaucracy, and judiciary. Or the hostile worlds of entertainment, academia, and globalism. Nor would it involve impeachment or imprisoning Trump or devising some other grotesquerie that inflamed left-wingers babble about as methods to vacate the Oval Office. Left to the elite, Trump would have maybe 30 votes from the Electoral College instead of the commanding 304 he received. Rush Limbaugh said on his March 6 national radio program that he’s confident the president is holding up all right…Continue Reading

Why Ireland’s “Mass Grave” Story Is A Hoax

March 12, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Why Ireland’s “Mass Grave” Story Is A Hoax

By BILL DONOHUE (Editor’s Note: Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, on March 6 commented as follows on why Ireland’s “mass grave” story is a hoax.) + + + The big news about the discovery of a “mass grave” outside the Mother and Baby Home run by the Bon Secours Sisters in Tuam is bunk. I just got the chance to explain why when interviewed by Dublin’s Newstalk, the only exclusively talk-radio station in Ireland. The interviewer was cordial but clueless. I will discuss this matter further later today on BBC radio and other Irish radio stations. Almost all of the media in the U.S., the United Kingdom, and elsewhere are promoting a fake…Continue Reading

This Disastrous Papacy

March 11, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on This Disastrous Papacy

By PHIL LAWLER (Editor’s Note: LifeSiteNews reprinted this essay from CatholicCulture.org on March 2. Philip F. Lawler is editor of Catholic World News, the first English language Catholic news service operating on the Internet, which he founded in 1995. He is the author or editor of a dozen books on religious and political topics. All rights reserved.) + + + Something snapped last Friday [February 24], when Pope Francis used the day’s Gospel reading [Mark 10:1-12] as one more opportunity to promote his own view on divorce and remarriage. Condemning and the “logic of casuistry,” the Pontiff said that Jesus rejects the approach of legal scholars. True enough. But in his rebuke to the Pharisees, what does Jesus say about…Continue Reading