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Don’t Fall For The Junipero Serra Con Game

September 22, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Don’t Fall For The Junipero Serra Con Game

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK Common sense tells us there are certain arguments that do not deserve a reasoned response, but are best met with an exasperated sigh and an impatiently muttered, “Give me a break.” I submit that the case being made against the canonization of Fr. Junipero Serra falls into that category. Fr. Serra’s adversaries are not looking for an honest give-and-take in search of the truth about his life; they are arguing dishonestly, making points that are a smokescreen for a hidden agenda. It is not that I object to those who are methodically countering the charges against Serra by citing the historical record. Fr. Robert Barron, recently named an auxiliary bishop for Los Angeles by Pope Francis,…Continue Reading

Culture Of Life 101 . . . “The Homosexual’s Intimidation Tactic”

September 21, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Culture Of Life 101 . . . “The Homosexual’s Intimidation Tactic”

By BRIAN CLOWES Part 2 (Editor’s Note: Brian Clowes has been director of research and training at Human Life International since 1995. For previous articles on the real homosexual agenda and the scientific arguments against homosexual “marriage,” e-mail him at bclowes@hli.org.) + + + After decades of propaganda from homosexual activists and their willing accomplices in the media, the average person sincerely believes that “gays” are frequently victimized by vicious hate crimes ranging from torture and murder to simple verbal harassment. We have seen that this is not true, but we should understand that there is a definite purpose for all of the hype. Social issues in democracies have traditionally been resolved through the participatory process of proposal, examination, discussion,…Continue Reading

A Book Review… The Synod And A Classic Study Of The Family

September 20, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… The Synod And A Classic Study Of The Family

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY Family and Civilization by Carle Zimmerman. (Edited and abridged by James Kurth, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2008, 425 pages). Available at isibooks.org The Synod of Bishops is meeting in Rome from October 4-25 to discuss the “vocation and mission of the family in the Church and in the contemporary world.” In the light of this extremely important gathering, it is worth noting Family and Civilization, a work by Carle Zimmerman, a sociologist who taught at Harvard University. Although he was not writing from a Catholic perspective, he was respectful of the Church and his findings are in line with Catholic thinking. This book was originally published in 1947, and it is fascinating to see how the author,…Continue Reading

The Balance Of Fear

September 19, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on The Balance Of Fear

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.) + + + There exists in America today what can be called a balance of fear, and it is nowhere better described — through the acts of young Christians who overcome it — than in Tony Perkins’ new book, No Fear: Real Stories of a Courageous New Generation Standing for Truth. In political relations between nations, there is a balance of power. It is the place where conflict ceases because one nation, or alliance of nations, has sufficient power to intimidate others from acting against it. Or: It is when one nation, or alliance of nations, has sufficiently…Continue Reading

Culture Of Life 101 . . . “The Homosexual’s Intimidation Tactic”

September 18, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Culture Of Life 101 . . . “The Homosexual’s Intimidation Tactic”

By BRIAN CLOWES (Editor’s Note: Brian Clowes has been director of research and training at Human Life International since 1995. For previous articles on the real homosexual agenda and the scientific arguments against homosexual “marriage,” e-mail him at bclowes@hli.org.) + + + “I have been struck, in my brief encounters over the years with a half-dozen prominent gay male activists, by the frightening coldness and deadness of their eyes. Behind their smooth, bland faces I saw the seething hatreds of Dostoevskian anarchists. Gay crusading, I concluded, was their way of handling their own bitter misanthropy, which came from other sources. I found these men more spiritually twisted than anyone I have encountered in my life” — Camille Paglia, on Salon.com,…Continue Reading

Cardinal Burke’s Simple Answer . . . What Do We Do If The Synod Takes A “Strange Turn”?

September 17, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Cardinal Burke’s Simple Answer . . . What Do We Do If The Synod Takes A “Strange Turn”?

By FR. BRIAN W. HARRISON (Editor’s Note: LifeSiteNews provided Fr. Harrison’s commentary on Cardinal Burke’s recent speech in St. Louis, Mo. All rights reserved.) + + + On Sunday, September 13 I had the honor to be one of the hosts for His Eminence, Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, here at a dinner/lecture in the Clayton Plaza hotel ballroom, sponsored by the St. Louis lay apostolate “Credo of the Catholic Laity,” to which I am the spiritual adviser. His Eminence was warmly welcomed and introduced by the retired auxiliary bishop of St. Louis, the Most Rev. Robert Hermann, and then spoke to an audience of over 300 about “The Truth of Christ in Marriage.” He discussed spiritual, social, doctrinal, and canonical…Continue Reading

The Family And Society

September 16, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on The Family And Society

By DONALD DeMARCO The proper and ultimate relationship between the individual and society is developed from a basis in nature, is cultivated over time, and is shaped through love. We are not born virtuous and our nature as human beings does not flower in isolation. Marriage and the family provide the indispensable matrix for the development of balanced persons and good citizens. This view, until recently, has held sway throughout the ages and has been broadly regarded as indisputable. A sampling from diverse sources over a long span of history exemplifies the fundamental and irreplaceable function of marriage and the family. First, let us consider a passage from the I Ching (or Book of Changes), which is the oldest of…Continue Reading

The Treason Of The Intellectuals

September 15, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on The Treason Of The Intellectuals

By ALICE von HILDEBRAND The infallible way to gauge the “health” of a nation is by checking upon its family life and its educational system. One need not be a keen observer of our society to perceive, to one’s grief, that both Western Europe and the United States are morally and socially decadent. Statistics tell us that the number of broken marriages, divorces, and homosexual relationships have increased in dramatic proportion in the course of the last 60 years, and possibly longer than that. The family is the very heart of a nation: a sound and lasting relationship between husband and wife, father, mother, and their progeny is the golden key to the health of any society. Today, alas, there…Continue Reading

Advancing Backwards

September 14, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Advancing Backwards

By DONALD DeMARCO A jet traveling at 500 miles per hour is an example of progress. But if it is running out of fuel, the next step is disaster. G.K. Chesterton once remarked that ‘“progress’ is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.” It does not matter where we are going, as long as we are getting there faster! But the larger question remains: Where are we going? The “superlative” is not a problem for Catholics. As St. John Paul II states in his encyclical Veritatis Splendor, “The moral life has an essential ‘teleological’ character, since it consists in the deliberate ordering of human acts to God, the supreme good and ultimate end (telos) of man.”…Continue Reading

Islam’s Conquest Of Europe

September 13, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Islam’s Conquest Of Europe

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide,” wrote James Burnham in his 1964 Suicide of the West. Burnham predicted that the mindless magnanimity of liberals, who subordinate the interests of their own people and nations to utopian and altruistic impulses, would bring about an end to Western civilization. Was he wrong? Consider what is happening in Europe. Serbia, Hungary, and Slovakia, small nations sensing they will be swamped by asylum seekers from the Muslim world, are trying to seal their borders and secure their homelands. Their instinct for survival, their awareness of lifeboat ethics, is acute. Yet they are being condemned for trying to save themselves. Meanwhile, the Pope calls on Catholics everywhere to welcome the…Continue Reading