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A Tale Of Two Koreas

July 26, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on A Tale Of Two Koreas

By RAY CAVANAUGH This July 27 marks the 70th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice Agreement. The war, which lasted for just over three years, is technically unfinished. It has essentially been on pause since 1953.At the time of the armistice, the battle line became the dividing line between North and South Korea, and each side agreed to pull back about one mile, thereby creating a demilitarized zone (DMZ).This rather narrow division separates one of the world’s highest-functioning countries from the closest thing this world has produced to a pure dystopia.While South Korea is now one of Asia’s Christian strongholds, the dystopian North Korea, land of the tyrannical Kim dynasty, is quite possibly the world’s most inhospitable place for the…Continue Reading

A Book Review . . . Blessed Carlo Acutis And His “Highway To Heaven”

July 25, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review . . . Blessed Carlo Acutis And His “Highway To Heaven”

By JIM VALOIS It was eye-opening that the premier week of the independent film Sound of Freedom grossed more than 40 million. Action packed, the movie dealt with the horrific subject of the sex trafficking of innocent children in a non-political and tastefully done drama.The gripping fact-based story generated an explosion of interest as it told of the dangerous journey of Homeland Security special agent Tim Ballard to rescue two young children. Racing against time, Ballard understood the inestimable dignity and value of the two little ones — saving them and reuniting them with their father.The unexpected surge in interest in the movie correlated with another unlikely tsunami of interest in a compelling true story that happened a few years…Continue Reading

Why I’m Thankful For Dobbs

July 24, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Why I’m Thankful For Dobbs

By RYAN BOMBERGER (Editor’s Note: This essay first appeared in LifeNews. Ryan Bomberger is co-founder and chief creative officer of the Radiance Foundation.) + + I’ll never forget where I was on June 24, 2022. I was alone in our Radiance Foundation offices. My kids were at summer camp for the week. My wife, Bethany, and our staff were at the Pro-Life Women’s Conference.The phone rang. It was my wife crying as she tried to get out the words: “They did it. They did it. Roe was overturned!” It was an insanely surreal moment. I created a video for Instagram to announce the landmark Supreme Court ruling. I was so overwhelmed. With tears flowing, I tried to express my joy…Continue Reading

How Many Sexes Are There?

July 23, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on How Many Sexes Are There?

By DONALD De MARCO According to Genesis there are two sexes, male and female. They have the inherent capacity to form a two-in-one-flesh intimacy in marriage in which they complement each other. They are, to their offspring, mother and father. Together, parents and children form a family which is the basic unit of society. Male and female are, in the words of St. John XXIII. “Equal in dignity, complementary in mission.” This view of the polarity and complementarity of the sexes has been regarded universally as the norm.The fact that in all cultures throughout history, the human person is identified as either male or female (or man and woman) demonstrates the fundamental importance society attaches to distinguishing the sexes. At…Continue Reading

Refocusing America’s Attention

July 22, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Refocusing America’s Attention

By LAURA HOLLIS America is struggling.While this country and its people have faced their share of difficulties — including the Great Depression, several wars, terrorist attacks and countless devastating natural disasters — we seem to be losing a key attribute of our national identity: our confidence in our ability to solve problems and achieve what was once considered “impossible.”That confidence was born of at least three widespread attributes — initiative, gratitude, and humility — which are sorely lacking at present.Initiative is what’s behind every single aspect of America’s political and economic success throughout the nearly two and a half centuries of our existence. Initiative is tied to individual effort. It is born of optimism and the fundamental belief that one…Continue Reading

Actor Eduardo Verástegui . . . May Run For President Of Mexico

July 21, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Actor Eduardo Verástegui . . . May Run For President Of Mexico

By DAVID RAMOS ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 8, 2023 / 04:00 am Actor, producer, and Catholic activist Eduardo Verástegui, who is considering running for president of Mexico, said in a July 5 video that the National Action Party (PAN), traditionally identified as a pro-life, pro-family conservative party “is dead.”U.S. moviegoers may recognize Verástegui as the producer of Bella, Little Boy, and the recent box office success, The Sound of Freedom.In a statement to ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner, last month Verástegui asked for prayers to discern whether or not to run for president, and explained some of the reasons that would drive him to make this decision, which included the sad state of Mexico and the hope for meaningful…Continue Reading

FACE Act Charges Brought Against College Student In Ohio Pregnancy Center Attack

July 20, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on FACE Act Charges Brought Against College Student In Ohio Pregnancy Center Attack

By JOE BUKURAS BOSTON (CNA) — Federal charges have been filed against a 20-year-old college student in Ohio for allegedly vandalizing a pro-life pregnancy center in April with graffiti that included the pro-abortion calling card “Jane’s Revenge.”A student at Bowling Green State University, Whitney Durant — who goes by the name Soren Monroe — was charged with a misdemeanor under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Northern District of Ohio said July 5.The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, known as the FACE Act, prohibits “violent, threatening, damaging, and obstructive conduct intended to injure, intimidate, or interfere with the right to seek, obtain, or provide reproductive health services.”The act of vandalism…Continue Reading

Plato And Aristotle Are Relevant Today

July 19, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Plato And Aristotle Are Relevant Today

By JOHN YOUNG It has been said, with a degree of truth, that everyone is either a Platonist or an Aristotelian. It has also been said that all the big questions of philosophy are contained, at least implicitly, in Plato’s philosophy. So, they are well worth examination, especially in contrast with the philosophy of Aristotle.G.K Chesterton compares our knowledge of the past thinkers with democracy: It is the democracy of the dead. The democrat, he says, takes notice of the opinion of a good man even if he is your groom; the believer in tradition takes notice of the opinion of a good man even if he is your father.So let us look at the thoughts of two of our…Continue Reading

Biden’s Biology

July 18, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Biden’s Biology

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY When President Joe Biden issued a proclamation on the last day of February in honor of Women’s History Month, which was then about to commence, he made abortion one of its central themes.In doing so, he employed a misleading euphemism that has become a common cliché used by pro-abortion politicians: “their own bodies.”“Last year,” said Biden, “the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, stripping away a constitutional right from the American people and the ability of millions of women to make decisions about their own bodies, putting their health and lives at risk.”This was not the first time Biden used the term “their own bodies” while advocating for abortion.Last August, for example, Biden issued a proclamation…Continue Reading

“Whose Prayer?”

July 17, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on “Whose Prayer?”

By BARBARA SIMPSON Those who are concerned about disagreements among Roman Catholics concerning their Church don’t realize how there are even more problems facing members of the Church of England. What is described as the “latest assault on the tenets of the religion” is the statement by the Archbishop of York concerning the “Lord’s Prayer.”It was during a meeting of the General Synod, the governing body of that Church, that the Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, called into question the use of the Lord’s Prayer, calling it “problematic” that we say, “Our Father….”He referenced the fact during an interview with GB News, noting that many people have had difficult, destructive, and abusive experiences in life with their “earthly father” and…Continue Reading