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A Football Hero Who Was an American Hero

December 6, 2014 Featured Today Comments Off on A Football Hero Who Was an American Hero

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY (Editor’s Note: Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor in chief of CNSnews.com. Creators Syndicate distributed this column. All rights reserved.) + + + As a halfback at Michigan, he ran for 33 touchdowns, threw for 16 more, won the Heisman Trophy, and was the first player picked in the NFL draft. But the hardest hits Tom Harmon ever took were not on a football field. They were in the Army Air Corps during World War II. Harmon came out of a big Catholic family in a small Midwestern town — and was proud of both. “Lou and Rose Harmon were good Catholics, and they were raising their family to have faith in the ‘Big Boss’ upstairs,”…Continue Reading

September 1914 . . . The Miracle Of The Marne

December 5, 2014 Featured Today Comments Off on September 1914 . . . The Miracle Of The Marne

By MARY O’NEILL (Editor’s Note: Mary O’Neill is a Catholic writer living in France. She notes that much of this story has been translated from the French from an article in l’Homme Nouveau, September 13, 2014. (There has as yet been no official decision from the Church concerning the authenticity of this apparition.) + + + The centenary of the outbreak of war in Europe in 1914 has brought to light many little-known or forgotten stories. The following story is one example. Historians speak of the “Miracle of the Marne,” when the German army suddenly retreated and turned back from Paris. But there may also be a supernatural reason for this retreat. At the beginning of September 1914, the German…Continue Reading

Reconnecting With Mary… Apparitions At L’Ile Bouchard

December 4, 2014 Featured Today Comments Off on Reconnecting With Mary… Apparitions At L’Ile Bouchard

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY Part 2 The previous article looked at the initial stages of the apparitions at L’Ile Bouchard, and now we can look at how things developed. Fr. Ségelle, the parish priest at L’Ile Bouchard had been asked to come to the church at 2 p.m. on the second day of the apparitions, but probably for reasons of prudence, refused to do this, and so Jacqueline, Jeanette, and Laura, with about 20 other children, and 30 adults, assembled in the church. After they had said ten Hail Marys, the Virgin and the angel appeared as before, out of the golden ball. She asked for hymns and prayers, before telling them to return each day at one o’clock, until…Continue Reading

A Book Review . . . Answering Distortions Of The Theology Of The Body

December 3, 2014 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review . . . Answering Distortions Of The Theology Of The Body

By JAMES LIKOUDIS The Dark Night of the Body, by Alice von Hildebrand. Roman Catholic Books, P.O. Box 2286, Fort Collins, CO 80520; phone 970-490-2735; $14.50 quality soft cover; 122 pages. On her recent 90th birthday, philosopher Dr. Alice von Hildebrand was invested a Dame Grand Cross of the Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great by Raymond Cardinal Burke in the name of Pope Francis. It was in honor of her exemplary personal witness as a philosopher, teacher, author, and leading Catholic voice on cultural matters, and one richly deserved for her many books and articles reflecting the teaching of her husband of revered memory, Dr. Dietrich von Hildebrand. It is in the sphere of Catholic anthropological doctrine that…Continue Reading

Rogue President

December 2, 2014 Featured Today Comments Off on Rogue President

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Asserting a legal and constitutional authority he himself said he did not have, President Obama is going rogue, issuing an executive amnesty to 4 to 5 million illegal aliens. He will order the U.S. government not to enforce the law against these 5 million, and declare that they are to be exempt from deportation and granted green cards. Where did Obama get his 4-5 million figure, not 2-4 million, or 5-7 million? Nowhere in law, but plucked out of his own mind, as to what he can get away with. Barack Obama just felt it was about right. Thus does our constitutional law professor-president “faithfully execute” the laws of the United States he has twice swore…Continue Reading

Culture Of Life 101 . . . “The Birth Control Pill As Therapy”

December 1, 2014 Featured Today Comments Off on Culture Of Life 101 . . . “The Birth Control Pill As Therapy”

By BRIAN CLOWES (Editor’s Note: Brian Clowes has been director of research and training at Human Life International since 1995. For an electronic copy of chapter 21 of The Facts of Life, “Contraception,” or any patient information pamphlet for birth control pills, e-mail him at bclowes@hli.org.) + + + The moral doctrine of the Church judges human behavior, but is silent on chemical compounds. Most people do not know that it is permissible for Catholic women to use the birth control pill under carefully defined conditions when the intent is not to impair their fertility. Sometimes a young woman will take the Pill for non-contraceptive purposes, such as clearing up severe cases of acne or reducing hirsutism (excess body hair…Continue Reading

A Follow-Up… Proclaiming And Explaining the Faith

November 30, 2014 Featured Today Comments Off on A Follow-Up… Proclaiming And Explaining the Faith

By PHILIP TROWER Earlier this year, The Wanderer published an article I wrote explaining the distinction the Magisterium is now making between the way the faith is or should initially be “proclaimed” to arouse belief and assent in people who have never heard of it before, and then is subsequently explained when the new believers start to ask questions — the two processes going under the names of kerygma and didache. The idea that such a distinction would be a useful contribution to the new evangelization arose in certain circles at the time of Vatican II and was later taken up by Popes Paul VI and St. John Paul II. An important text is Pope Paul’s Evangelii Nuntiandi. It was…Continue Reading

Spoiling The Case Against Evolution

November 29, 2014 Featured Today Comments Off on Spoiling The Case Against Evolution

By JOHN YOUNG The scientific evidence against macroevolution is so strong that evolutionists won’t face it impartially. Only some form of theistic evolution, with God-given laws guiding the process, is even possible, whereas materialistic evolution is totally impossible. According to the materialistic view the world as existing today arose from primitive elements by a process of natural selection, with no guiding intelligence. But that is to posit an effect without any proportionate cause, because science (and ordinary observation) shows a marvelous order throughout nature, from the most elementary elements to the most complex living things. Order demands an orderer as its explanation. The fossil record, supposedly a proof of evolution, is actually a compelling argument against it, for it illustrates…Continue Reading

EWTN Brings Soldiers Of Christ To The Screen

November 28, 2014 Featured Today Comments Off on EWTN Brings Soldiers Of Christ To The Screen

By REY FLORES When I was given the opportunity to review this terrific new program produced by the StoryTel Foundation for EWTN, I knew right away that I would be writing a favorable piece because of my personal experiences with this wonderful order of holy priests. According to some of the promotional materials on the program, liner notes tell us: “In a culture flooded with relativism, secularism, and consumerism, Miles Christi — translated ‘Soldier of Christ’ — fights to restore a Christ-centered life one soul at a time.” This couldn’t be closer to the truth. I attended a Miles Christi silent Ignatian retreat back in 2010 and it was one of the most spiritually edifying experiences I have ever had.…Continue Reading

Laws Of Association And Their Contravention

November 27, 2014 Featured Today Comments Off on Laws Of Association And Their Contravention

By JUDE P. DOUGHERTY Contra Thomas Hobbes and his fictional state of nature, it is the family that is nature’s first form of association, for only within the family can human life survive. It is within the context of the family that the infant is nourished and for years provided with his basic needs, food, shelter, and education. By virtue of kinship, families are united with others and bond to form a village. When I was a child, I lived in a small village in southern Indiana where it seemed that through my mother I was related to nearly everyone in town — well, maybe half the town, because the town was divided into Catholic and Protestant. In addition to…Continue Reading