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Is Education Possible?

October 12, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Is Education Possible?

By DONALD DeMARCO It may seem odd to question whether education is possible. After all, is it not true that education is going on, if not flourishing, all over North America? The question, however, is not without merit for, in far too many instances, what passes for education is not really education at all. Relativism, skepticism, and deconstructionism, to cite just a few examples, are not forms of education, despite their broad popularity. I would like to delineate two major enemies to education in our present democratic society. The first is a strong sense on the part of the student of his liberties. Yet these liberties can come into conflict with the legitimate authority of the teacher. It has been…Continue Reading

A Movie Review . . . Giving Their Lives Over To “A Better Way”

October 11, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on A Movie Review . . . Giving Their Lives Over To “A Better Way”

By REY FLORES For the past year and a half since a young man named Mike Brown was gunned down in Ferguson, Mo., race relations in America have been going backwards. It wasn’t so much that the racism grew again in an organic manner, but seems to have been manufactured by the government and the lapdog news media using divisive tactics to better control the American population. Professional agitators caused civil disobedience in cities where similar incidents happened, when white police officers and African-American youths came to ugly confrontations leading to a few deaths and a lot of rioting and looting. I can honestly say that while there are isolated incidents where there are racial tensions between people of different…Continue Reading

“What Is Transgenderism?”

October 10, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on “What Is Transgenderism?”

By BRIAN CLOWES Conclusion (Editor’s Note: Brian Clowes has been director of research and training at Human Life International since 1995. For all of the previous Culture of Life 101 articles on homosexuality, e-mail him at bclowes@hli.org.) + + + “We psychiatrists should work to discourage those adults who seek surgical sex reassignment” — “sex-change” pioneer Dr. Paul McHugh in 2004. + + + As we have seen, “trans” activists do everything in their power to shout down, censor, and intimidate people who oppose so-called “sex change” surgery, in the same manner that homosexual activists censor opponents of special rights. As with homosexual activists, the rights of others simply do not exist for the trans activists. For example, in the…Continue Reading

War Party Targets Putin And Assad

October 9, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on War Party Targets Putin And Assad

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Having established a base on the Syrian coast, Vladimir Putin began air strikes on ISIS and other rebel forces seeking to overthrow Bashar Assad. A longtime ally of Syria, Russia wants to preserve its toehold on the Mediterranean, help Assad repel the threat, and keep the Islamic terrorists out of Damascus. Russia is also fearful that the fall of Assad would free up the Chechen terrorists in Syria to return to Russia. In intervening to save Assad, Putin is doing exactly what we are doing to save our imperiled allies in Baghdad and Kabul. Yet Putin’s intervention has ignited an almost berserk reaction. John McCain has called for sending the Free Syrian Army surface-to-air missiles to…Continue Reading

Biblical Types Of Our Lady

October 8, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Biblical Types Of Our Lady

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY A previous article looked at the role of Mary as the New Eve, and now we will look at some biblical types of our Lady, and see how the early Church fathers saw different types and prophecies concerning Mary in the Old Testament, that is, that particular incidents or artifacts pointed toward our Lady. This follows from the principle that many of the incidents in the Gospel accounts of Jesus have an Old Testament type to which they correspond. An example of this is the typological identification made between Abraham’s son Isaac, who carried the wood for his own sacrificial fire on his back, and Christ, who carried the wooden cross on His back to Calvary…Continue Reading

Culture Of Life 101 . . . “What is Transgenderism?”

October 7, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Culture Of Life 101 . . . “What is Transgenderism?”

By BRIAN CLOWES (Editor’s Note: Brian Clowes has been director of research and training at Human Life International since 1995. For all of the previous Culture of Life 101 articles on homosexuality, e-mail him at bclowes@hli.org.) + + + While those fortunate few who still possess a lingering sense of reality cringed at the bizarre photo of Bruce Jenner and the subtitle “Call Me Caitlyn” on the cover of Vanity Fair earlier this year, the press swooned over him and President Barack Obama phoned him personally to offer his congratulations for being so “courageous.” Apparently undergoing body modification surgery qualifies one as a “hero” these days. Definitions. Just as homophiles have deliberately attempted to confuse the terms “sex” and “gender”…Continue Reading

Liberty Counsel Says . . . Pope’s Words And Meetings Support Conscientious Objection

October 6, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Liberty Counsel Says . . . Pope’s Words And Meetings Support Conscientious Objection

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Liberty Counsel issued the following statement on October 2: Mat Staver, county clerk Kim Davis’ attorney, is the chairman of Liberty Counsel: + + + Despite a statement this morning by a Vatican official, the Pope’s own words about conscientious objection being a human right and his private meeting with Kim Davis indicate support for the universal right of conscientious objection, even for government officials. The meeting with Kim Davis was initiated by the Vatican, and the private meeting occurred at the Vatican Embassy in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, September 24. This meeting was a private meeting without any other members of the public present. Today a Vatican spokesman, [Fr.] Federico Lombardi, said the Pope’s meeting with…Continue Reading

A Book Review… The Ideal Artist

October 5, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… The Ideal Artist

By JUDE P. DOUGHERTY Santayana, George. The Life of Reason: Reason in Art. A critical edition, co-edited by M.S. Wokeck and M.A. Coleman. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2015. lvi + 276 pp. The Life of Reason is Volume VII, Book Four, of the Collected Works of George Santayana. Professor James Gouinlock of Emory University provides an insightful introduction to this volume. Santayana may be a master of the English language, but he is demanding of the reader, given the vast learning and experience he draws upon and his often poetic and somewhat oblique way of expressing his judgments. “Arts,” he tells us early on, “are instincts bred and reared in the open, creative habits acquired in the light of…Continue Reading

Why Isn’t Kim Davis A Hero To The Left?

October 4, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Why Isn’t Kim Davis A Hero To The Left?

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK I have been waiting for weeks now for the keepers of the flame in the liberal establishment to express some begrudging admiration for Kim Davis’ decision to go to jail, rather than violate her conscience by issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in Kentucky. Or at least some ambiguity over what happened to her. Did I really think that the liberals in the media and government would do that? Upon further consideration, I guess not. Selective indignation is the left’s stock in trade. But I was intrigued by the blatant double-standard. For my whole life, it has been the left that has championed civil disobedience, whether in the case of Socrates, Thoreau, Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther…Continue Reading

What’s In A Motto?

October 3, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on What’s In A Motto?

By DONALD DeMARCO Pope St. John Paul II’s 1998 encyclical Fides et Ratio is a thorough and thoughtful discussion of the harmony between “faith” and “reason.” It does not break new ground but reaffirms to a modern audience what St. Thomas Aquinas and more recent thinkers such as Jacques Maritain and Etienne Gilson have carefully explicated. The encyclical is timely inasmuch as the erroneous belief is widely held, especially in universities, that faith and reason, belief and science, knowledge and religion are and should be kept apart from each other. In January 2008, the faculty at La Sapienza University in Rome canceled an address that Pope Benedict XVI was slated to give because as one professor, speaking for many, put…Continue Reading