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How Bush Empowered Obama To Erode The Constitution

June 14, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on How Bush Empowered Obama To Erode The Constitution

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.) + + + In 2002, President George W. Bush signed a law he did not intend to fully obey. Thus, a Republican president set in motion a chain of events that allowed a Democratic president to claim, and an activist liberal Supreme Court to affirm, that the president has a unilateral power in foreign policy that the Framers did not envision and that is not consistent with representative government. When he took office in 2001, Bush placed his hand on a Bible and swore to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.” Article 2, section 3 of that Constitution…Continue Reading

Lies The Government Is Telling You

June 13, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Lies The Government Is Telling You

By ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO This past week, Republicans and Democrats in Congress joined President Barack Obama in congratulating themselves for taming the National Security Agency’s voracious appetite for spying. By permitting one section of the Patriot Act to expire and by replacing it with the USA Freedom Act, the federal government is taking credit for taming beasts of its own creation. In reality, nothing substantial has changed. Under the Patriot Act, the NSA had access to and possessed digital versions of the content of all telephone conversations, emails, and text messages sent between and among all people in America since 2009. Under the USA Freedom Act, it has the same. The USA Freedom Act changes slightly the mechanisms for acquiring…Continue Reading

Cultural Cleansing Of Christian Males

June 12, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Cultural Cleansing Of Christian Males

PATRICK J. BUCHANAN (Editor’s Note: Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of the new book The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority. Creators Syndicate distributes the Buchanan column. All rights reserved.) + + + The culture war against Christianity is picking up speed. Last week came word St. Louis University will remove a heroic-sized statue of Fr. Pierre-Jean De Smet, SJ, from the front of Fusz Hall, where it has stood for 60 years. The statue depicts Fr. De Smet holding aloft a crucifix as he ministers to two American Indians, one of whom is kneeling. Historically, the statue is accurate. Fr. De Smet, “Blackrobe,” as he was known, was a 19th-century missionary…Continue Reading

Culture Of Life 101 . . . “The Homosexuals’ American Psychological Association Coup”

June 11, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Culture Of Life 101 . . . “The Homosexuals’ American Psychological Association Coup”

By BRIAN CLOWES (Editor’s Note: Brian Clowes has been director of research and training at Human Life International since 1995. For electronic copies of previous articles on homosexual “marriage,” the special rights agenda and the role of homosexuality in the Church crisis, e-mail him at bclowes@hli.org.) + + + Homosexual activists often mention that the medical profession — specifically psychiatrists and psychologists — believe that homosexuality is a “normal human sexual response.” In support of this assertion, they talk about how the American Psychological Association officially removed homosexuality from its list of “mental disorders” in 1973, and that the American Psychiatric Association also classifies homosexuality as normal. What they do not mention, of course, is that these organizations did not…Continue Reading

The Importance Of Philosophy

June 10, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on The Importance Of Philosophy

By JOHN YOUNG “The corruption of the best is the worst.” That truth is verified by a look at philosophy at its best compared with philosophy as so often presented today. This is of crucial importance because most of the problems afflicting society have their roots in errors made by philosophers. Philosophy as historically understood is the study of fundamental truths insofar as human reason can know them. It deals with the nature of the material world, the nature of man, the existence of God. It defends our capacity to know the truth, it explores the transcendentals of truth, goodness, and beauty, it shows the way of life that rational beings should follow. In the study of logic, it prepares…Continue Reading

A Book Review… A Guidebook On How To Live Your Life

June 9, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… A Guidebook On How To Live Your Life

By REY FLORES Finding True Happiness — Satisfying Our Restless Hearts by Fr. Robert Spitzer, SJ. Ignatius Press: 2015. Paperback; 320 pages. Available at Ignatius.com; $19.95. “For thou hast made us for thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in thee” — St. Augustine. Summertime is almost here and one of the best things about the season is finding a good book and either taking it to the beach with you, reading it on a plane as you travel, or enjoying it while relaxing on a hammock in your backyard. This latest offering from Fr. Robert Spitzer, SJ, Ph.D., is titled Finding True Happiness — Satisfying Our Restless Hearts, and it is not a tome for the timid.…Continue Reading

Phoenix Mosque Rally . . . What Dangers To Society Lurked Here?

June 8, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Phoenix Mosque Rally . . . What Dangers To Society Lurked Here?

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Interstate 17, the Black Canyon Freeway, heads north from this metropolitan area toward Mother Nature’s Arizona Disneyland. That includes Sedona, the Grand Canyon, Painted Desert, Petrified Forest, Meteor Crater, and southern Monument Valley. As on any trip, the surroundings change as your vehicle moves up the highway. However, you also could stay in just one place and watch the surroundings change as time speeds past, as in H.G. Wells’ 19th-century science-fiction novel that goes into the far future, The Time Machine. And sometimes substantial change takes only decades to arrive around you, not centuries or millennia. Welcome to social and religious transformation and globalization. Discomfort and raw edges. Consider northwest Phoenix’s Orangewood Avenue setting, bisected…Continue Reading

Bishop Dewane Says . . . Families Have “Right to Know” Which Theology Professors Have Mandatum

June 7, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Bishop Dewane Says . . . Families Have “Right to Know” Which Theology Professors Have Mandatum

By JUSTIN PETRISEK (Editor’s Note: This article first appeared May 28 in Catholic Education Daily, an online publication of The Cardinal Newman Society. All rights reserved.) + + + If a Catholic college cannot ensure that its theology professors are imparting the truths of the faith, then families should look to more faithful Catholic institutions, suggested Bishop Frank Dewane of Venice, Fla., in an interview with The Cardinal Newman Society. Sound theology is the heart of Catholic higher education; it helps students direct their learning, explore the beauty of the faith, and better understand their relationship with God and the Church. Therefore the Church provides the academic mandatum, an acknowledgment by the local bishop of a “professor’s commitment and responsibility…Continue Reading

Three Bishops . . . Pen New Hard-Hitting Book To Clear Up Synod Confusion

June 6, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Three Bishops . . . Pen New Hard-Hitting Book To Clear Up Synod Confusion

By LISA BOURNE and JOHN-HENRY WESTEN ROME (LifeSiteNews) — “The Synod is a solely consultative assembly that has no Magisterial weight in and of itself.” “Neither the Synod of Bishops nor any other Church authority has the competence to change the doctrine of the Church.” Those are a couple of the hard-hitting quotes in a newly released book penned by three bishops and endorsed by another four, one of whom is a retired Vatican cardinal. LifeSiteNews has obtained a copy of the book, which is available in several languages and will be sent to all of the world’s bishops. Preferential Option for the Family — 100 Questions and Answers Relating to the Synod was authored by Bishop Robert Vasa of…Continue Reading

A Book Review . . . Comprehensive Visions Of The Good

June 5, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review . . . Comprehensive Visions Of The Good

By JUDE DOUGHERTY Simpson, Peter L.P. Political Illiberalism. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2015. Pp. xi + 236. The book gets its name as a contra-positive to the political liberalism of John Rawls and his followers. Simpson’s illiberalism is grounded in the conviction that the human good can be identified, that politics is primarily about the promotion of the human good, and about securing the wisest government that reason is capable of achieving. Politics is necessarily about what Simpson calls “comprehensive visions of the good.” Finding his roots in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Politics, it is axiomatic for Simpson that the good of any being is the completion of its nature. From that viewpoint, not all conceptions of human nature…Continue Reading