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Trump’s Great Challenge — And Opportunity

November 11, 2016 Featured Today Comments Off on Trump’s Great Challenge — And Opportunity

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY (Editor’s Note: Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor-in-chief of CNSnews.com. Creators Syndicate distributes his column. All rights reserved.) + + + Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election was a historic upset that presents him and this nation with an historic opportunity. Our first president, George Washington, faced a great challenge. Trump, who will be our 45th, faces one, too. Washington took office in a new republic with an untested constitution. He was firmly committed to act only within its strict limits on federal power, to avoid amassing public debt, to engage in no unnecessary wars, and to recognize that American freedom was ultimately rooted in the moral and religious convictions of the American people. He…Continue Reading

The Bridgettine Order Elects New General Abbess

November 10, 2016 Featured Today Comments Off on The Bridgettine Order Elects New General Abbess

By ALBERTO CAROSA ROME — At the general chapter of the branch of the Bridgettine order, founded by St. Maria Elisabetta Hesselblad (1870-1957), at the Abbey of Farfa in late October, Mother Fabia Kattakayam was elected new general abbess. She succeeds Mother Tekla Famiglietti. Vatican Radio made the announcement on October 28. Indian-born Mother Fabia is 52 years old. She has worked in Italy for the last 30 years and for the past six years she has been prioress at St. Bridget’s Convent in Naples. Sr. M. Fabia Kattakayam was born at Angadikadavu, Kerala, in southwestern India, on May 31, 1962. She is the fourth daughter of Chandy (Alexander) and Aleykutty Kattakayam, a Catholic family belonging to Sacred Heart Parish.…Continue Reading

Culture Of Life 101 . . . “Human Suffering Does Have A Purpose”

November 9, 2016 Featured Today Comments Off on Culture Of Life 101 . . . “Human Suffering Does Have A Purpose”

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 23 of The Facts of Life, “Euthanasia,” e-mail him at bclowes@hli.org.) + + + “In this you rejoice, though now for a little while you may have to suffer various trials, so that the genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold which though perishable is tested by fire, may redound to praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ” (1 Peter 1:6-7). + + + Pope St. John Paul II knew about suffering. His mother, his father, and his only sibling, a brother, died before he was 20. (A sister…Continue Reading

Freedom First… Hungary Remembers 1956 Revolution

November 8, 2016 Featured Today Comments Off on Freedom First… Hungary Remembers 1956 Revolution

By JOHN J. METZLER (Editor’s Note: John J. Metzler is a United Nations correspondent covering diplomatic and defense issues. He’s the author of Divided Dynamism The Diplomacy of Separated Nations: Germany, Korea, China.) + + + UNITED NATIONS — Autumn brings falling temperatures, chill winds, and mournful memories which swirl like fallen leaves on the historic landscape. Darting shadows hide in the golden sunlight to reappear as the specter of the past in the late afternoons. History needs retelling as the calendar tells us it is late October. The cavernous UN General Assembly Hall, which echoed with poignant pleas to help the embattled Hungarians 60 years ago, today became the setting for a spectacular Hungarian musical concert, “Freedom First,” in…Continue Reading

Medicaid And CHIP Enrollees Outnumber Obama Voters

November 7, 2016 Featured Today Comments Off on Medicaid And CHIP Enrollees Outnumber Obama Voters

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY (Editor’s Note: Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor-in-chief of CNSnews.com. Creators Syndicate distributes his column. All rights reserved.) + + + Thirty-two years ago, the United States of America unified behind the re-election of Ronald Reagan as president, giving him an Electoral College victory of 525 to 13. Walter Mondale, Reagan’s opponent, only managed to win his home state of Minnesota and the federal government’s homeland of Washington, D.C. Reagan, according to the National Archives, won 54,455,075 popular votes in 1984 — more than any presidential candidate up to that point. Mondale won only 37,577,185. After Reagan’s 1984 landslide, the national population grew, but the popular and Electoral College vote totals of winning presidential candidates declined.…Continue Reading

Physician-Assisted Suicide . . . The D.C. City Council Will Answer To God

November 6, 2016 Featured Today Comments Off on Physician-Assisted Suicide . . . The D.C. City Council Will Answer To God

By MSGR. CHARLES POPE (Editor’s Note: Msgr. Charles Pope is the pastor of Holy Comforter-St. Cyprian, Washington, D.C. LifeSiteNews first published this editorial. All rights reserved.) + + + As you are surely aware, the City Council of the District of Columbia overwhelmingly voted for a bill that legalizes suicide for “terminally ill” people. Washington, D.C., is the sixth jurisdiction nationwide to approve this form of suicide. What makes D.C. unique is such a dramatic decision was not remanded to the voters in a plebiscite. Rather, 11 council members propose to impose this on us, preferring not to trust the voters. I am not even sure, in such a liberal and secular town as Washington D.C., if we would get the desired answer from the…Continue Reading

The Cassandra Syndrome And The Magical Elixir

November 5, 2016 Featured Today Comments Off on The Cassandra Syndrome And The Magical Elixir

By DONALD DeMARCO Cassandra is a figure from Greek mythology. She was a daughter of Priam, King of Troy, and endowed with exceptional beauty. Apollo provided her with the gift of prophecy. But when she rejected his romantic advances, he placed a curse on her ensuring that no one would ever believe her warnings. Cassandra’s frustration, therefore, was to know of dire events in advance of their occurring, but never to be able to convince anyone of their truth. A number of psychologists have employed the term “Cassandra Syndrome” to characterize patients who suffer a similar kind of frustration experienced by the mythological figure. Melanie Klein, for example, sees Cassandra as representing a moral conscience whose main task is to…Continue Reading

In Ireland… There Is Still Faith And Hope

November 4, 2016 Featured Today Comments Off on In Ireland… There Is Still Faith And Hope

By BRIAN CLOWES Fr. Shenan Boquet, president of Human Life International, and I arrived in Dublin September 23 to begin a whirlwind ten-day tour of the country. We would travel with Patrick McCrystal, head of HLI-Ireland, his daughters Esther and Mary Grace, Timothy O’Sullivan, William Smyth, Mairéad Bernal, Dennis Arnold, and Anthony O’Reilly to Dublin, Armagh, Waterford, and Cork spreading the Gospel of Life during our “Defending the Family, Building the Church” tour. As always, the Irish scenery was gorgeous, very neat and clean, even when seen at 60 miles an hour. This is usually the way we see it, as we drove nearly a thousand miles around the Emerald Isle. I had the honor of driving our nine-seater van,…Continue Reading

Culture Of Life 101 . . . “Ordinary And Extraordinary Means Of Treatment”

November 3, 2016 Featured Today Comments Off on Culture Of Life 101 . . . “Ordinary And Extraordinary Means Of Treatment”

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 23 of The Facts of Life, “Euthanasia,” e-mail him at bclowes@hli.org.) + + + When preparing our own advance medical directives, or when assisting others to do so, it is critically important for us to know precisely where ordinary means of treatment end and extraordinary means begin. Pro-euthanasia groups have made a lot of progress by lodging in the public mind the specter of power-hungry doctors “playing God” and squeezing every last agonizing second of life out of pain-wracked, pitiful bodies. This has allowed euthanasiasts to completely subvert the meaning of the term “extraordinary…Continue Reading

Luther 1517-2017… Five Hundred Years Of Heresy And Doctrinal Confusion

November 2, 2016 Featured Today Comments Off on Luther 1517-2017… Five Hundred Years Of Heresy And Doctrinal Confusion

By RAYMOND DE SOUZA, KM Part 12 (Editor’s Note: This is the twelfth installment in a series by Wanderer contributor Raymond de Souza on Henry VIII’s book defending the seven sacraments against Martin Luther. De Souza edited this updated version of Henry’s work, which is presented to readers on an occasional basis. The first part of this section on transubstantiation appeared in The Wanderer dated August 11, 2016, p. 8A. (We present an article on Luther here because of Pope Francis’ visit to Sweden for “a joint ecumenical commemoration of the Reformation,” as Vatican Radio described it. The Holy Father was set to arrive there on October 31.) + + + About Transubstantiation: Part 2 By Henry VIII It had…Continue Reading