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Culture Of Life 101… “How To Organize A Pro-Family Group”

December 2, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Culture Of Life 101… “How To Organize A Pro-Family Group”

By BRIAN CLOWES (Editor’s Note: Brian Clowes has been director of research and training at Human Life International since 1995. For the complete guide to organizing an effective pro-family group, e-mail him at bclowes@hli.org.) Part 2 When organizing a pro-family group for the purpose of fighting the homosexual “special-rights” agenda, you will eventually reach “critical mass” — you will think you have enough people to begin activism. But you must resist the urge to jump into action immediately and instead take certain steps to prepare. If you go into action too soon and fail, you will do nothing more than embolden the special-rights movement in your area and make the pro-family movement appear weak and insignificant. No matter how desperate…Continue Reading

What To Be Thankful For?

December 1, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on What To Be Thankful For?

By ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO What if the government’s goal is to perpetuate itself? What if the real levers of governmental power are pulled by agents and diplomats and bureaucrats behind the scenes? What if they stay in power no matter who is elected president or which political party controls Congress? What if the frequent public displays of adversity between the Republicans and the Democrats are just a facade and a charade? What if both major political parties agree on the transcendental issues of our day? What if the leadership of both major political parties believes that our rights are not natural to our humanity but instead gifts from the government? What if those leaders believe that the government that gives…Continue Reading

Notre Dame Professor . . . Forced To Leave Project Aimed At Faithful Catholic Education

November 30, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Notre Dame Professor . . . Forced To Leave Project Aimed At Faithful Catholic Education

By JUSTIN PETRISEK (Editor’s Note: Catholic Education Daily, an online publication of the Cardinal Newman Society, published this report on November 24. All rights reserved.) + + + In an unexpected turn of events, University of Notre Dame professor Fr. Bill Miscamble, CSC, has been forced to disassociate himself with a new project recommending Notre Dame professors supportive of the university’s Catholic identity and mission, an unfortunate development which reflects poorly on the university, William Dempsey, chairman of the Notre Dame alumni group Sycamore Trust, told The Cardinal Newman Society. Earlier in November, Fr. Miscamble helped unveil NDCatholic.com, a website which gives detailed recommendations to students who are seeking an authentic Catholic education during their time at Notre Dame. The…Continue Reading

Conversion To Pro-Life

November 29, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Conversion To Pro-Life

By DONALD DeMARCO Before Roe v. Wade, but when the abortion issue was being hotly contested, certain pro-life leaders in Canada, as well as in the United States, told me that once people realized what abortion entails, the controversy would be settled solidly in favor of life. The plausible assumption in the minds of these leaders was that people based their moral decisions purely on the basis of information. Abortion, however, involving, as it does, life, parenthood, responsibility, and personal liberty, is far too profound an issue to be settled on the basis of information alone. And although all the information pertinent to abortion is on the side of life, the will can be a formidable opponent when it comes…Continue Reading

How An Americanist/Modernist Continued To Undermine Catholic Teaching

November 28, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on How An Americanist/Modernist Continued To Undermine Catholic Teaching

By JAMES LIKOUDIS The author of Pilgrim Church: A Popular History of Catholic Christianity (Revised & Expanded; Twenty-Third Publications, 1989) that continues to circulate in Catholic parishes is Fr. William J. Bausch, who may be remembered by veterans of the sex education battles of the 1970s for his book A Boy’s Sex Life when he was director of Cana Conferences for the Diocese of Trenton, N.J. In that work, the reader was confronted by the graphic manner in which the author wrote about sexual intercourse and his sanctioning of both masturbation and contraceptive birth control. Regarding the latter, married couples “do not sin. Contraception for them is building their love . . . to strengthen their initial commitment.” As a…Continue Reading

The End Of Obamaworld

November 27, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on The End Of Obamaworld

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN In denouncing Republicans as “scared of widows and orphans,” and castigating those who prefer Christian refugees to Muslims coming to America, Barack Obama has come off as petulant and unpresidential. Clearly, he is upset. And with good reason. He grossly, transparently underestimated the ability of ISIS, the “JV” team, to strike outside the caliphate into the heart of the West, and has egg all over his face. More critically, the liberal world order he has been preaching and predicting is receding before our eyes. Suddenly, his rhetoric is discordantly out of touch with reality. And, for his time on the global stage, the phrase “failed president” comes to mind. What happened in Paris, said President Obama,…Continue Reading

The Fictional Islamic State

November 26, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on The Fictional Islamic State

By JUDE DOUGHERTY There is reason to believe that the so-called “Islamic State” is a fictional being rather than a reality. A state has borders, a central government, and a bureaucratic structure. None of this has been claimed for ISIS, although some have spoken of ISIS as a proto-state. What we have in fact is an armed, slash-and-burn military force seeking control of ever-expanding territory. “U.S. Misjudged Islamic State Reach” is the heading The Wall Street Journal gave to a front-page report on November 16. There is evidence that the reach was not from abroad, but from a home-grown, shared vision of Islam itself and its long-range plan to conquer Europe. In the words of Anthony Browne, “Islam really does…Continue Reading

Culture Of Life 101 . . . “How To Organize A Pro-Family Group”

November 25, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Culture Of Life 101 . . . “How To Organize A Pro-Family Group”

By BRIAN CLOWES Part 1 (Editor’s Note: Brian Clowes has been director of research and training at Human Life International since 1995. For the complete guide to organizing an effective pro-family group, e-mail him at bclowes@hli.org.) + + + Our problem: Many people are concerned about the homosexual special rights agenda, and are amazed at how quickly it has advanced over the past two decades. Its rapid strides have caused anxiety and a feeling of helplessness in many people who value the natural family. Anxiety is caused by uncertainty, and uncertainty is caused by a lack of knowledge. A feeling of helplessness is caused by a lack of power, and a lack of power is caused by disorganization. Therefore, the…Continue Reading

Cardinal Burke . . . Marriage Catechesis Should Be Priority For Catholic Schools

November 24, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Cardinal Burke . . . Marriage Catechesis Should Be Priority For Catholic Schools

By ADAM CASSANDRA (Editor’s Note: This article is reprinted from the November 16 Catholic Education Daily, an online publication of The Cardinal Newman Society. All rights reserved.) + + + Sound catechesis on marriage is “a great, great responsibility” for Catholic schools and colleges, Raymond Cardinal Burke told a representative of The Cardinal Newman Society on Sunday, November 15, following an address on “Sacred Liturgy and Holy Matrimony” in London, England. Cardinal Burke, patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and ecclesiastical adviser to the Newman Society, was speaking at the annual conference of Centre International d’Etudes Liturgiques (CIEL) UK, a group dedicated to the study of sacred liturgy and its effects on the culture. Following his comments, the…Continue Reading

Drug Smugglers Flow Across Our Border, Syrian Christians Don’t

November 23, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Drug Smugglers Flow Across Our Border, Syrian Christians Don’t

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY (Editor’s Note: Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor-in-chief of CNSnews.com. Creators Syndicate provided this column. All rights reserved.) + + + Whom should Americans see as worthier candidates for entering our country? Syrian Christians fleeing persecution — and possible beheading by the Islamic State — or smugglers moving drugs across our Mexican border? Under existing U.S. law, a Christian fleeing from regions in Syria threatened or controlled by the Islamic State could claim asylum here. A smuggler moving drugs across our border has no justification at all. Yet the way our federal government operates today, drug smugglers routinely cross our border while Christian refugees from Syria almost never do. A recent report and a data set…Continue Reading