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A Book Review . . . A Jurist Of First Rank

July 3, 2016 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review . . . A Jurist Of First Rank

By JUDE DOUGHERTY Murphy, Bruce Allen. Scalia: A Court of One. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014. xii +641 pp. This is an excellent biography of an extraordinary man, a jurist of first rank, an exemplary Catholic, and a devoted family man, not to mention his exceptional talent as a pianist and tuba player. The opening pages of the book provide an account of the Old World origins of the Scalia family. Antonin Gregory Scalia was the only child of Salvatore Eugene Scalia and Catherine Panaro Scalia. In the Sicilian tradition he was named after his paternal grandfather. Salvatore Eugene Scalia was born in 1903 in Sicily, where his father was a mechanic in Palermo. Salvatore arrived at Ellis Island…Continue Reading

Pro-Abort Supreme Court Majority . . . Protects Gosnells Around The Country

July 2, 2016 Featured Today Comments Off on Pro-Abort Supreme Court Majority . . . Protects Gosnells Around The Country

By RYAN BOMBERGER (Editor’s Note: Ryan Bomberger and his wife, Bethany, founded The Radiance Foundation.) + + + (LifeSiteNews) — Maybe it’s the robes that give five people the misimpression that they’re magicians. Who needs the Constitution when a handful of supremely powerful justices can magically create their own laws, conjuring up legislation in the guise of a judgment? In Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, Justice Breyer invokes the word “Constitution” 103 times in the majority opinion, yet ignores the founding document in this ruling that protects Gosnells around the country. Legalized abortion started as a lie in Bryan/College Station in Texas. In order to challenge the state’s law protecting unborn human life, Norma McCorvey (Roe in Roe v. Wade)…Continue Reading

Restoring The Sacred . . . “Put On The Whole Armour Of God”

July 1, 2016 Featured Today Comments Off on Restoring The Sacred . . . “Put On The Whole Armour Of God”

By JAMES MONTI At the beginning of the Memorial Day weekend last year (2015) I had the privilege of watching a flyover of the U.S. Air Force F-16 Thunderbird squadron as they traveled up the Hudson River and back. A thin wisp of cloud in a clear blue sky was the first sign of the squadron’s approach, produced by the contrails of the jets as they rapidly advanced. The planes turned their wings perpendicular to the earth as they made a majestic banking U-turn over the river in close formation. On a second pass the Thunderbirds dropped altitude and flew low directly over me. This peaceful manifestation of military skill has remained in my mind as a powerful metaphor of…Continue Reading

Culture Of Life 101… “The Second Time Around: Euthanasia In The Netherlands”

June 30, 2016 Featured Today Comments Off on Culture Of Life 101… “The Second Time Around: Euthanasia In The Netherlands”

By BRIAN CLOWES Part 1 “The ease with which destruction of life is advocated for those considered either socially useless or socially disturbing instead of educational or ameliorative measures may be the first danger sign of loss of creative liberty in thinking, which is the hallmark of a democratic society” — Leo Alexander, MD. + + + Holland: The Future Of Euthanasia People on all sides of the issue sincerely wonder what the future holds regarding euthanasia. However, there is really no need to speculate, because history has given us two clear examples of the progress of euthanasia, both of which point to the same conclusion — that death is highly contagious. The first predictor, of course, is Nazi Germany.…Continue Reading

Parenthood In An Age Of Surrogacy . . . Legal Battles And The “Ownership” Of Babies

June 29, 2016 Featured Today Comments Off on Parenthood In An Age Of Surrogacy . . . Legal Battles And The “Ownership” Of Babies

By FR. JOHN FLYNN, LC (Editor’s Note: Fr. John Flynn, LC, wrote this commentary for ZENIT News Agency. Fr. Flynn, a regular ZENIT contributor, holds degrees from the University of New South Wales and from the Pontifical Gregorian University. All rights reserved.) + + + The ever-widening use of IVF and surrogate mothers is continuing to create legal disputes and to expand the definition of parenthood. Some of the latest news is about so-called three parent babies, with the latest experiments promising to lead to an imminent expansion of this technique. According to a June 8 news report on the New Scientist website the first babies from this method could be born in a couple of years. The aim of…Continue Reading

The Canizares Case In Spain Is A Litmus Test For Pope Francis

June 28, 2016 Featured Today Comments Off on The Canizares Case In Spain Is A Litmus Test For Pope Francis

By MAIKE HICKSON (Editor’s Note: This article below reprinted from the June 17 OnePeterFive.com; all rights reserved. (On June 20, the Catholic Herald also reported: (“Prosecutors in Spain have said they are investigating a Spanish cardinal for possible criminal hate speech because of remarks he made recently about the gay community. (“Valencia’s provincial prosecutor’s office said on Friday [June 17] that it was studying a recent speech made by Cardinal Antonio Canizares, the archbishop of Valencia, in which he said ‘powers such as the gay empire’ promoted the rise of movements against the Christian family.”) + + + As has been recently reported in several media outlets, Antonio Cardinal Canizares Llovera, the archbishop of Valencia, Spain, is now under harsh…Continue Reading

The First Canonized Saint . . . A Milestone In The Saintly Process

June 27, 2016 Featured Today Comments Off on The First Canonized Saint . . . A Milestone In The Saintly Process

By RAY CAVANAUGH When asked to name a few saints, chances are that “Ulrich” will be overlooked. St. Ulrich (also known as Udalric) of Augsburg is an obscure figure, and, as far as saints go, there isn’t anything especially compelling at this point about his life as a 10th-century Bavarian bishop. Ulrich — whose feast day is July 4 — is extraordinary, however, in that he was the first saint canonized by a Pope. Born in Zurich in 890, Ulrich entered a family of noble background. His education took place at a monastery in what is now Switzerland. In 924, he was consecrated as bishop of Augsburg, largely because he had the right family connections. In fairness, though, he did…Continue Reading

The Fine Art Of Gibberish

June 26, 2016 Featured Today Comments Off on The Fine Art Of Gibberish

By DONALD DeMARCO Gibberish is not restricted to merely speaking unintelligibly. It can be fine-honed into the art of saying something that seems to make sense, but makes no sense whatsoever. The success of gibberish depends on how the mere sound of words can have a mesmerizing effect on the listener, even though they do not pass from the ear to the brain. It is the hypnotic sound of the words, not their meaning, which is the final test of artful gibberish. Gertrude Stein was a pioneer in the art of gibberish. In her book, Tender Buttons, a work that is more discussed than read, she offers innumerable examples of her curious craft. One citation is sufficient to make the…Continue Reading

“No Fly, No Buy” Means No Freedom

June 25, 2016 Featured Today Comments Off on “No Fly, No Buy” Means No Freedom

By JUDGE ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO The people in the government who want to control our personal choices are the enemies of freedom. And the enemies of freedom can be very clever and seductive. This past week, these folks, manifesting their lust to keep us dependent upon the government by rejecting the natural right to self-defense, coined a clever phrase: “No fly, no buy.” It sounds rational, yet it rejects core American values. The phrase was pounded home to average Americans during a one-sided 15-hour televised marathon on the floor of the Senate orchestrated by the gun control crowd. The essence of the argument was that stricter laws regarding gun sales would have prevented the massacre at the Pulse nightclub in…Continue Reading

Islam & The West: Irreconcilable Conflict?

June 24, 2016 Featured Today Comments Off on Islam & The West: Irreconcilable Conflict?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN On Saturday night, June 11, Omar Mateen was a loner and a loser. Sunday, he was immortal, by his standards, a hero. Mateen had ended his life in a blaze of gunfire and glory. Now everybody knew his name. He had been embraced by ISIS. His face was on every TV screen. His 911 call to Orlando police identifying with the Islamic State and the Tsarnaev brothers of the Boston Marathon massacre was being heard across America. He was being called the most successful Islamist terrorist since 9/11. A hater of homosexuals, Mateen had, all alone, massacred more than four dozen patrons at a gay Florida nightclub, wounded 53, and driven deeper the wedges breaking up…Continue Reading