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Cardinal Burke . . . Had Grave Reservations About Changes In Annulment Process

September 12, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Cardinal Burke . . . Had Grave Reservations About Changes In Annulment Process

By JOHN-HENRY WESTEN (Wanderer Editor’s Note: At the beginning of this year, The Wanderer published a two-part interview with Raymond Cardinal Burke by our columnist Don Fier, issues of January 8 and 15, 2015. In that interview, Cardinal Burke commented on the annulment process and the calls to “streamline the process.” (Following this LifeSiteNews story, we reprint the relevant paragraphs from that interview, which appeared in our January 15, 2015 issue.) + + + STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (LifeSiteNews) — Speaking September 8 at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Raymond Cardinal Burke expressed grave reservations about the very proposals that were released the same day in Pope Francis’ motu proprio concerning annulments in the Catholic Church. Burke was addressing those proposals as outlined…Continue Reading

Who’s Correct On Illegal Immigration? . . . Pope Francis Or Donald Trump?

September 11, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Who’s Correct On Illegal Immigration? . . . Pope Francis Or Donald Trump?

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK Am I serious? Am I suggesting that Donald Trump’s views on illegal immigration deserve to be weighed seriously in comparison to those of Pope Francis? Yes. In fact, I would argue that there would be nothing morally problematic about Catholics serious about the faith agreeing with both Trump and the Pope. Bear with me. I am not looking for a way to equivocate for political purposes. Trump’s views on illegal immigration need little explanation. They have been in the newspapers and on the television talk shows more than the goings-on of the Kardashians. He wants to build a wall to keep the illegal immigrants out. He wants to round up and deport — at least temporarily…Continue Reading

Will GOP Congress Fund Group That Killed 327,653 Babies In One Year?

September 10, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Will GOP Congress Fund Group That Killed 327,653 Babies In One Year?

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.) + + + Go online and pull up Planned Parenthood’s latest annual report and you will see that the group plainly states how many unborn babies it kills in abortions and how much tax money it gets. In fiscal year 2013, the report says that Planned Parenthood performed 327,653 “abortion procedures.” That means it deliberately killed 327,653 innocent and defenseless unborn human beings. The same report says that during the year that ended on June 30, 2014, Planned Parenthood raked in $528.4 million in “government health services grants and reimbursements.” That means that you and everybody in your…Continue Reading

The Four Loves

September 9, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on The Four Loves

By DONALD DeMARCO A man had four friends whom he loved with varying degrees of intensity. His first love was nearly always on his mind and he served him with unwavering dedication. The second earned a different kind of love and elicited in him a strong sense of gratitude. Next came a weaker love because this third friend did not always reciprocate our protagonist’s affection. Finally, the least vigorous of his loves was directed to a friend who was more of a liability than an asset, one who gained more than he gave, received more than he returned. The day came when this man was called before the throne of the king to answer a complaint. He called upon his…Continue Reading

“I Saw A Tiny, Beating Heart”. . . Four Powerful Quotes From Abortionists Who Became Pro-Life

September 8, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on “I Saw A Tiny, Beating Heart”. . . Four Powerful Quotes From Abortionists Who Became Pro-Life

By CHRISTINA MARIE BENNETT (Editor’s Note: LifeSiteNews made this commentary available; it originated with LiveActionNews. All rights reserved.) + + + Abortionists leave the industry for a variety of reasons. Here are the powerful stories of four abortion doctors who had life-changing experiences that caused them to stop performing abortions and begin fighting to protect the lives of the preborn. 1) “And as I brought out the rib cage, I looked and I saw a tiny, beating heart.” Paul E. Jarrett Jr. was an abortionist in the 1970s. He recalls the 1974 operation that changed his mind about abortion forever. While doing a suction abortion, Jarrett realized the suction curette was obstructed by one of the baby’s torn-off legs. Jarrett…Continue Reading

Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic . . . Is The Church In America Prepared To Confront The Secular Culture?

September 7, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic . . . Is The Church In America Prepared To Confront The Secular Culture?

By STEPHEN M. KRASON (Editor’s Note: Stephen M. Krason’s Neither Left nor Right, but Catholic column appears monthly, sometimes bimonthly. He is professor of political science and legal studies and associate director of the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at Franciscan University of Steubenville. He is also cofounder and president of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists. (Among his books is The Transformation of the American Democratic Republic, along with two edited volumes, Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Child Protective System and The Crisis of Religious Liberty. His most recent book, which he edited, is Challenging the Secular Culture: A Call to Christians, forthcoming from Franciscan University Press. This column originally appeared in Crisismagazine.com.) + + +…Continue Reading

A Book Review . . . Eleven Cardinals Are An Essential Pre-Synod Voice

September 6, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review . . . Eleven Cardinals Are An Essential Pre-Synod Voice

By MAIKE HICKSON This fall, Ignatius Press (www.ignatius.com) is bringing out another important book dealing with topics of the upcoming October 2015 Synod of Bishops on the Family in Rome. The book is called Eleven Cardinals Speak On Marriage and the Family: Essays From a Pastoral Viewpoint and it represents a kind of pastoral counterpart to the well-known 2014 Five Cardinals Book (also published by Ignatius Press) which refutes the “Kasper proposal” on a more doctrinal and historical, as well as theoretical level. The Eleven Cardinals book will soon also appear in other languages, such as German and Italian. The eleven cardinals concentrate on the question of how to deal with the current crisis of marriage and the family without…Continue Reading

Dis-Integrating America

September 5, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Dis-Integrating America

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN The Wednesday morning murders of 24-year-old Roanoke TV reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward, 27, were a racist atrocity, a hate crime. Were they not white, they would be alive today. Their killer, Vester L. Flanagan II, said as much in his farewell screed. He ordered his murder weapon, he said, two days after the slaughter of nine congregants at the African-American AME church in Charleston, South Carolina. “What sent me over the top was the church shooting,” said Flanagan. To be sure, racism does not fully explain why Flanagan, fired from that same WDBJ7 station, committed this act of pure evil. Black and homosexual, he said he was the target of anti-gay slurs from…Continue Reading

Restoring The Sacred… A Champion of Fitting Worship

September 4, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Restoring The Sacred… A Champion of Fitting Worship

By JAMES MONTI On a recent visit to the chapel of a Catholic nursing facility I observed an elderly resident arriving with her walker to spend time in the presence of the Lord. With her infirmity she obviously could not be expected to offer anything more than a gentle nod toward the Tabernacle before transferring herself into a chair to begin her prayers. But for her this was not enough. Before going to her chair, she stopped directly in front of the Tabernacle, and slowly, carefully, with every fiber of her feeble frame, she lowered herself down upon both knees to worship her God with a genuflection. I thought to myself, “O woman, great is your faith!” (Matt. 15:28). Later,…Continue Reading

A Book Review . . . This Belongs On Every Catholic Pro-Lifer’s Bookshelf

September 3, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review . . . This Belongs On Every Catholic Pro-Lifer’s Bookshelf

By REY FLORES Redeemed by Grace — A Catholic Woman’s Journey to Planned Parenthood and Back by Ramona Trevino with Roxane Salonen. Ignatius Press: 2015; hardcover, $17.95; 157 pages. To order, visit ignatius.com or call 1-800-651-1531. Almost anyone who is either Catholic or involved in the pro-life cause has heard of Abby Johnson. Johnson, of course, has gained national attention as a former Planned Parenthood manager who now runs And Then There Were None, an organization she founded to help other abortion industry workers leave that industry and find not only redemption but a new job as well. While Johnson’s story is an important and compelling one, she is not alone. There are additional brave women who have followed in…Continue Reading