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41.7 Percent Of Federal Criminal Cases In 5 Districts On U.S.-Mexico Border

July 14, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on 41.7 Percent Of Federal Criminal Cases In 5 Districts On U.S.-Mexico Border

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY According to data released by the U.S. Justice Department, 41.7 percent of the federal criminal cases that U.S. attorneys filed in U.S. district courts in fiscal 2014 were in the five U.S. attorneys’ districts that sit along the U.S.-Mexico border. In fact, the five districts that sit along the border — those for southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, western Texas, and southern Texas — were the top five in the country for criminal cases filed in U.S. district courts. The office of the U.S. attorney for western Texas led the nation last year in filing criminal cases in U.S. district court, according to the United States Attorneys’ Annual Statistical Report for Fiscal 2014. During the fiscal…Continue Reading

Trump And The GOP Border War

July 13, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Trump And The GOP Border War

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN In the 2016 race, June belonged to two outsiders who could not be more dissimilar. Bernie Sanders is a socialist senator from Vermont and Donald Trump a celebrity capitalist and legendary entrepreneur and builder. What do they have in common? Both have tapped into what the bases of their respective parties believe is wrong with America. Bernie is the Willie Nelson of national politics, a leftist voice of a working class whose jobs and factories have been exported and whose wages have stagnated as banksters and the Davos-Doha crowd amass mammoth fortunes by playing games of three-dimensional Monopoly. The 73-year-old Sanders may have no chance of beating Hillary. But the size of his crowds testifies that…Continue Reading

Becket Fund Attorney Predicts . . . Catholic Education “Going to Win” HHS Mandate Suits

July 12, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Becket Fund Attorney Predicts . . . Catholic Education “Going to Win” HHS Mandate Suits

By JUSTIN PETRISEK (This article is reprinted from the July 8 Catholic Education Daily, an online publication of The Cardinal Newman Society. All rights reserved.) + + + All the evidence suggests that Catholic schools and colleges are going to win their challenges to the Obama administration’s HHS mandate, attorney Mark Rienzi of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty told The Cardinal Newman Society. In a summary of lawsuits compiled by the Newman Society with information from the Becket Fund, at least 22 Catholic schools and 11 Catholic colleges have challenged the mandate in federal courts. Two of the schools — Pius X Catholic High School in Lincoln, Neb., and Rhodora J. Donahue Academy in Ave Maria, Fla. — are…Continue Reading

At The End Of Africa . . . The People Need Faith And Family

July 11, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on At The End Of Africa . . . The People Need Faith And Family

By BRIAN CLOWES The Devil was smoking again today. People who live in Cape Town, South Africa only have to look at Devil’s Peak, looming over the city next to Table Mountain, to see if it is going to rain that day. If the Peak has a “cloud cap,” they say that the Devil is smoking and there will be rain. Sure enough, it rained all week. But the weather has never been an obstacle to Human Life International’s pro-life missionary corps. HLI President Fr. Shenan Boquet and I had just endured 18 hours of flying from Washington, D.C., to Cape Town, to be joined by Emil Hagamu, our regional director for Anglophone Africa, and our host Colette Thomas. Our…Continue Reading

Titus Brandsma . . . A Contemporary Patron Of Catholic Journalists

July 10, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Titus Brandsma . . . A Contemporary Patron Of Catholic Journalists

By RAY CAVANAUGH St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622) is quite well-known as the patron of writers and journalists. But Catholic journalists have a more recent patron in Blessed Titus Brandsma, whose feast day is July 27. Brandsma, a Dutch native, became a priest, professor, and journalist who spoke out against the rising tide of Nazism in his day. He was born Anno Sjoerd Brandsma on February 23, 1881, in the Friesland Province in the northwestern part of The Netherlands. He grew up in a village where his family operated a dairy farm. Though most people who lived in their area belonged to the Calvinist faith, the Brandsmas were a devout and ardently Catholic family. After attending Franciscan-run schools, Brandsma entered…Continue Reading

Culture Of Life 101 . . . “Is Homosexuality Really As Healthy As Heterosexuality?”

July 9, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Culture Of Life 101 . . . “Is Homosexuality Really As Healthy As Heterosexuality?”

By BRIAN CLOWES (Editor’s Note: Brian Clowes has been director of research and training at Human Life International since 1995. For a more extensive description of this obituary survey, to include an Excel spreadsheet with details on all of the obituaries, e-mail him at bclowes@hli.org.) + + + Despite the scientific evidence to the contrary, pro-homosexual groups tend to insist that living the homosexual “lifestyle” is just as healthy as heterosexuality. Some of the claims made by pro-homosexual groups are ridiculous on their face. For example, in its comically misnamed Intelligence Report, the Southern Poverty Law Center recently claimed: “Myth #4: LGBT people don’t live nearly as long as heterosexuals. “The Argument: Anti-gay organizations want to promote heterosexuality as the…Continue Reading

The Popes, Marian Devotion, And The New Evangelization

July 8, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on The Popes, Marian Devotion, And The New Evangelization

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY Part 4 This is the final article in a series which looks at Marian devotion, and the New Evangelization, in the light of the teaching of recent Popes. Pope Benedict XVI issued a call for evangelization and holiness on his visit to Fatima in May 2010. In his address to the bishops of Portugal, he said: “The times in which we live demand a new missionary vigor on the part of Christians, who are called to form a mature laity, identified with the Church and sensitive to the complex transformations taking place in our world….[In this situation] what is decisive is the ability to inculcate in all those engaged in the work of evangelization a true…Continue Reading

A Book Review . . . Serving The Cause Of Dissent And Division

July 7, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review . . . Serving The Cause Of Dissent And Division

By MITCHELL KALPAKGIAN The Coup at Catholic University, by Peter M. Mitchell (Ignatius Press: San Francisco, 2015), 311 pages; $19.95. Available through www.ignatius.com. Can Catholics be American and remain Catholic, rendering to Caesar the things that belong to him and rendering to God what is due to the Lord? Can Catholic universities be both bona fide centers of higher education and faithful to the Magisterium, reconciling the standards of the American University of University Professors with the Oath of Fidelity to the Church? This compelling book recreates the dramatic events of 1967 at Catholic University with scrupulous documentation from all the available records of personal papers, correspondence, and committee reports that represented the views and arguments of both sides of…Continue Reading

Quo Vadis, America?

July 6, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Quo Vadis, America?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “Natural law — God’s law — will always trump common law,” said Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and a Christian leader in her own right, “God will have the final word in this matter.” But, for now, Justice Anthony Kennedy has the final word. Same-sex marriage is the law of the land, as the right of gays and lesbians to marry is right there in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which was ratified in 1868. We just didn’t see it. Tony Kennedy spotted what no previous court had detected. The absurdity of the decision aside, it represents another stride forward for the revolution preached by Antonio Gramsci. Before we can capture…Continue Reading

So Now Is It “Hate Speech” To Deplore The Obergefell Decision?

July 5, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on So Now Is It “Hate Speech” To Deplore The Obergefell Decision?

By PHIL LAWLER (Editor’s Note: LifeSiteNews reprinted this article from CatholicCulture.org with permission. All rights reserved.) + + + The ink was barely dry on last week’s Supreme Court ruling when Fr. James Martin, SJ, began scolding Catholics who were, from his decorous perspective, too strident in denouncing the decision. “No issue brings out so much hatred from so many Catholics as homosexuality,” Fr. Martin told his Facebook followers. He repeated the same message several times throughout the day, warning commenters that they must not indulge in “homophobia” and suggesting that someone who questioned whether we were all expected to sing Kumbaya was illustrating his point. So is sarcasm now prima facie evidence of hatred? In my own surfing through…Continue Reading