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Killing Babies

January 23, 2016 Featured Today Comments Off on Killing Babies

By ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO In one week during January 1973, President Richard M. Nixon was inaugurated to his second term, former President Lyndon B. Johnson died, the United States and North Vietnam entered into the Paris Peace Accords, and the Supreme Court legalized abortion. Only the last of these events continues to affect and haunt the moral and constitutional order every minute of every day. The court’s decision in Roe v. Wade is arguably its most controversial in the post-World War II era. Its effect has been as pernicious to human life as was its 19th-century intellectual progenitor, Dred Scott v. Sanford, in which the Supreme Court ruled that African-Americans are not persons. Roe declares that the states may not…Continue Reading

Save The Shrine Of Christ The King In Chicago

January 22, 2016 Featured Today Comments Off on Save The Shrine Of Christ The King In Chicago

By REY FLORES It has been a few months now since members of the Shrine of Christ the King endured their latest setback in restoring their church. The 92-year-old edifice suffered a fire that took 150 firemen to put out. Now the Archdiocese of Chicago has made the recommendation to demolish the church building because it says that restoring the damaged edifice would be “cost prohibitive.” It’s not the first time the building has been in the crosshairs of the wrecking ball. Back in 1976 when it used to be St. Gelasius, there was also a fire which did shutter the church, but it survived demolition. The building may not be so fortunate this time around. The sad part is…Continue Reading

Nancy Pelosi . . . Claims She’s “With The Catholic Church” On Abortion

January 21, 2016 Featured Today Comments Off on Nancy Pelosi . . . Claims She’s “With The Catholic Church” On Abortion

By BEN JOHNSON WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — After decades as a crusader against any restriction or regulation of abortion, Democratic Cong. Nancy Pelosi said January 12, “I don’t believe in abortion on demand.” The House Minority Leader, who regularly earns a zero percent rating from the National Right to Life Committee, told Roll Call that she is “with the program” of the Catholic Church when it comes to abortion. “I don’t believe in abortion on demand, I don’t believe in abortion on demand,” she said, repeating herself, during a videotaped interview with Melinda Henneberger. “I don’t even like to use the word.” However, NARAL Pro-Choice America slammed the former speaker’s comments as “troubling,” “disappointing and ill-advised.” “The [House] leader should…Continue Reading

Cardinal Wuerl Says… Firing Dissident Employees Protects Catholic School’s Mission

January 20, 2016 Featured Today Comments Off on Cardinal Wuerl Says… Firing Dissident Employees Protects Catholic School’s Mission

By KIMBERLY SCHARFENBERGER (Editor’s Note: This article is reprinted from Catholic Education Daily, an online publication of The Cardinal Newman Society [www.cardinalnewmansociety.org]. All rights reserved.) + + + Catholic schools have “an obligation” to terminate employees who actively oppose Church teaching and whose conduct “undermines the Church’s ability to fulfill her mission,” Donald Cardinal Wuerl of Washington, D.C., recently wrote in a blog post addressing the firing of a Church employee found to be in a same-sex marriage. “The purpose of our parishes, schools, ministries, and other Catholic entities — ‘and the task of those who work for them — is to lead people to Jesus’,” explained Cardinal Wuerl, citing his May 2015 pastoral letter Being Catholic Today: Catholic Identity…Continue Reading

He Created Them Male And Female (Or Did He?)

January 19, 2016 Featured Today Comments Off on He Created Them Male And Female (Or Did He?)

By DONALD DeMARCO Jorge Cardinal Medina Estevez, former prefect for the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, began his book, Male and Female He Created Them (Ignatius Press: 1997), by stating the following: “No human institution is so deeply rooted in nature and in the heart of man and of woman as marriage and the family.” The distinction that human beings are male and female — rooted as it is in Scripture, nature, and in the human heart, as well as recorded in history and codified in law — would seem to be so firmly established that it could never be denied. Moreover, if it were denied, it would seriously undermine the very basis of society since sexual identity,…Continue Reading

Culture Of Life 101… “How Dissenters Attack The ‘Oneness’ Of The Church”

January 18, 2016 Featured Today Comments Off on Culture Of Life 101… “How Dissenters Attack The ‘Oneness’ Of The Church”

By BRIAN CLOWES Part 3 (Editor’s Note: Brian Clowes has been director of research and training at Human Life International since 1995. For an electronic copy of the book Call to Action or Call to Apostasy, consisting of a detailed description of the current forms of dissent and how to fight them, e-mail him at bclowes@hli.org.) + + + We have seen that the “Charter of the Rights of Catholics in the Church,” drawn up by the dissenting group Association for the Rights of Catholics in the Church, calls for the supremacy of conscience in moral decision-making, the ordination of women, and the freedom to dissent (unless, of course, liberals are in power). That charter goes on to propose a…Continue Reading

Same-Sex Marriage Threatens Religious Freedom

January 17, 2016 Featured Today Comments Off on Same-Sex Marriage Threatens Religious Freedom

By FR. JOHN FLYNN (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.) + + + One of the big events of 2015 was the decision by the United States Supreme Court in the Obergefell v. Hodges case that upheld the decision to allow same-sex marriage. The decision’s consequences were examined in the recent book Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom, by Ryan T. Anderson (available at amazon.com). The Supreme Court’s decision has brought the sexual revolution to its apex, Anderson commented in his introduction. Anderson, a research fellow…Continue Reading

A Book Review . . . A Gripping Adventure Tale For Young Catholics

January 16, 2016 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review . . . A Gripping Adventure Tale For Young Catholics

By JAMES LIKOUDIS The Secret of Glaston Tor, by Donal Foley; 2015; 238 pages. Available from Amazon.com as well as theotokos.org.uk for $11.99 plus shipping. Do Catholic parents know what their young teenagers (especially those in the 11 to 15-year-old range) are reading? Judging by the educational standards in too many of our schools and the obsession of too many youngsters with their fantasy worlds on iPhones and iPads, and their fixation on morally questionable movies and decadent celebrities, such parents often find themselves helpless. They see their young children bombarded by a secular culture which has lost its moral moorings and now glorifies every perversity and evil. The transformative power of great and good literature inspired by the truths…Continue Reading

Should Old Aquinas Be Forgot?

January 15, 2016 Featured Today Comments Off on Should Old Aquinas Be Forgot?

By DONALD DeMARCO The secular world is so preoccupied with being up-to-date that it forgets, as C.S. Lewis reminds us, that “all that is not eternal is eternally out of date.” To suggest that the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas is “quaint” and not relevant to our modern age is a curiosity. The man who labors to be in step with his times dooms himself to be out of step with the times that follow. Why do people sacrifice themselves on the altar of irrelevancy? Aquinas endures because of his common sense, and because he sought the truth of things. These two traits are evident in his Commentary on Matthew where he states: “Life comes before learning: for life leads…Continue Reading

What Bernie & The Donald Portend

January 14, 2016 Featured Today Comments Off on What Bernie & The Donald Portend

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN At this writing, it is three weeks out from the Iowa caucuses, and clarity emerges. Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee, is in trouble. Polls show her slightly ahead of Socialist Bernie Sanders in Iowa, but narrowly behind in New Hampshire. And the weekend brought new revelations about yet more classified and secret documents sent over her private email server when she was secretary of state. Between now and November, she will be traversing a minefield, with detonations to be decided upon by FBI investigators who may not cherish Clinton, and might like to appear in the history books. Clinton’s charge about Donald Trump’s alleged “penchant for sexism” brought a counterstrike — her being the “enabler”…Continue Reading