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Don’t Let Hunter’s Plea Deal Distract From The Real Biden Problem: Ukraine

July 6, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Don’t Let Hunter’s Plea Deal Distract From The Real Biden Problem: Ukraine

By JOSH HAMMER In today’s America, it sure is nice to be a Biden.Presidential prodigal son Hunter Biden’s transparently sweetheart plea deal consummated this past week with his daddy’s Justice Department encapsulates, in many ways, the two-tiered system of justice that conservatives have been decrying at least since then-FBI Director James Comey let then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton off scot-free for her infamous email server because, in his words, “no reasonable prosecutor” would have brought the case. After a five-year Department of Justice criminal probe, which was rocked in recent months by an IRS whistleblower coming forward to sound the alarm on the feds’ all-too-predictable kid-gloves treatment of Hunter, the ex-crack addict and foreign influence-peddler will escape jail time and avoid…Continue Reading

Arizona Gov Thinks She Runs Everything . . . Dictatorial Katie Hobbs Teeters On The Left-Wing Of An Abyss

July 5, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Arizona Gov Thinks She Runs Everything . . . Dictatorial Katie Hobbs Teeters On The Left-Wing Of An Abyss

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Can a politician be a dictator and a prisoner at the same time? Arizona’s left-wing Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs shows how to do it — as well as how someone can behave who may have feared she was a useless loser but then gets power into her vindictive hands.In 2023 Hobbs was on the way to nearly tripling the number of vetoes ever cast by any Arizona governor against the state legislature’s actions during one year’s session while she also asserted she had broad powers over Arizona policies just because she issued executive orders saying so.She thereby acted as a dictator although she lacked any mandate from the voters while also being a prisoner of…Continue Reading

Pope Francis . . . Accepts Resignation Of Knoxville Bishop Stika

July 3, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Pope Francis . . . Accepts Resignation Of Knoxville Bishop Stika

By HANNAH BROCKHAUS VATICAN CITY (CNA) — Pope Francis on Tuesday, June 27 accepted the resignation of the embattled Bishop Rick Stika of Knoxville, Tenn.Stika, 65, was investigated by the Vatican for mismanagement of his diocese. He is also named in a 2022 lawsuit (refiled in 2023) accusing him of protecting a seminarian accused of multiple counts of rape.The lawsuit also claims Stika attempted to intimidate an alleged victim, a parish organist, into keeping quiet about the alleged sexual assault by Wojciech Sobczuk and of having accused the alleged victim of being the perpetrator.Pope Francis named Archbishop Shelton J. Fabre of Louisville, Ky., as the Diocese of Knoxville’s apostolic administrator until a new bishop is appointed.Stika has denied any wrongdoing.The…Continue Reading

Do I Love A Parade?

July 2, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Do I Love A Parade?

By DONALD DeMARCO As a Boy Scout I was proud to march in a parade. I was part, however small, of a civic celebration. The spectacle of drum majorettes twirling their batons, slowly moving and elaborately decorated floats, bands piping John Philip Sousa marches, and the town mayor waving to the crowd from a sleek automobile, were all in good fun. What could possibly be questionable about a parade? Fred Astaire and Judy Garland capitalized on the glamour in the parade in Easter Parade. Parades were not only fun, but joy filled.The parade, however, has become intensely controversial and is no longer a spectacle that allcan enjoy. As June gives way to July, many are relieved that the Pride Parades…Continue Reading

Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic . . . Liberal Authoritarianism

July 1, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic . . . Liberal Authoritarianism

By STEPHEN M. KRASON For some years now, things have been written about the increasing authoritarian attitudes and practice of American liberalism. Kim R. Holmes and James Kalb in recent years have written books about this. Holmes, who is a historian, says that even though liberalism through the twentieth century always made freedom of expression and speech a central concern, it is no longer the case. The only “truth” that liberalism embraces are liberal ideological positions. Kalb has written that liberalism’s present-day spokesmen view other — non-liberal — perspectives as an outright threat and a public danger.We have seen many examples of the authoritarian bent of liberalism. There was the IRS’s targeting of conservative organizations seeking tax-exempt status a decade…Continue Reading

Baltimore Police Release Video Of Attack On Two Elderly Pro-Lifers

June 30, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Baltimore Police Release Video Of Attack On Two Elderly Pro-Lifers

By TYLER ARNOLD WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNA) — The Baltimore Police Department released video surveillance of a May 26 attack in which a man allegedly beat two elderly pro-life activists outside of a Planned Parenthood facility in Baltimore City.In the video, which police released on June 15, a man can be seen tackling 80-year-old Dick Schafer into a planter. The video shows 73-year-old Mark Crosby rushing over to help Schafer, at which point the man shoves Crosby onto the ground, hits him in the face, and then kicks him in the face.The video shows the man walking away from the scene after the attack. Police have still not identified the man.“Baltimore Police Department’s Central District detectives need your help identifying [the]…Continue Reading

Pope Francis Approves Decrees . . . Fatima Visionary Sr. Lucia Declared Venerable

June 29, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Pope Francis Approves Decrees . . . Fatima Visionary Sr. Lucia Declared Venerable

By CHRISTOPHER WELLS VATICAN CITY (VaticanNews) — Pope Francis has approved decrees recognizing the heroic virtues of five servants of God, including Sr. Lucia de Jesus Rosa dos Santos, one of the visionaries of Fatima; along with the martyrdom of twenty martyrs of the Spanish Civil War.Carmelite Sr. Lucia de Jesus Rosa dos Santos, who, along with her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto witnessed a series of apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Fatima, has been declared venerable by the Church.The decree recognizing Sr. Lucia’s heroic virtues was promulgated on Thursday, June 22 with the approval of Pope Francis.In 1916, Lucia and her two cousins reported being visited by an Angel in the area of Fatima, Portugal. The following…Continue Reading

The Mass And The Salvation Of America

June 28, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on The Mass And The Salvation Of America

By GEORGE ANGELICH We must nourish ourselves to live. We must nourish our souls on the Bread of Life, the Holy Eucharist. Life is definite and in a certain place. The Eucharist consecrated and broken on the altar is, to paraphrase Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, like a nuclear reactor radiating energy, light, and heat. Our representative Republic is dying of hunger as it lives on the husk of relativism and needs objective moral truth to achieve the common good of this blessed nation virtuously.The freedom of this nation cannot be based on a liberal relativism that makes the government, its deep government employees, and the liberal media working to maintain their liberal ideology their own end rather than the practical…Continue Reading

A Book Review… Catholics Seeking God’s Mercy

June 27, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… Catholics Seeking God’s Mercy

By PEGGY MOEN Advocatus Diaboli: A Novel, by William Baer. Many Words Press: 2023. Softcover; available at Amazon.com; 212 pages. Advocatus Diaboli is the first in a series of Catholic-themed novels by William Baer, a recipient of the T.S. Eliot Award and many other honors. + + Part murder mystery, part romance, this book will also be a delight for devotees of family history, given the complex and sometimes mysterious relationships that underlie the story.Along with being an engaging read, Advocatus Diaboli [Devil’s Advocate] by William Baer is profoundly Catholic, with themes of repentance and forgiveness. Many of the characters are guilty of serious sin, as is detailed in the book, but rather than despairing they turn to seeking God’s…Continue Reading

Jim Caviezel Stars In New Film “Sound Of Freedom”

June 26, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Jim Caviezel Stars In New Film “Sound Of Freedom”

By FRANCESCA POLLIO FENTON DENVER (CNA) — Catholic audiences know actor Jim Caviezel for his iconic performances in movies such as The Passion of the Christ and The Count of Monte Cristo. His latest film, Sound of Freedom, which will be released by Angel Studios in theaters nationwide on July 4, is, in his view, among his best work.Caviezel plays Homeland Security agent Tim Ballard, who, after rescuing a young boy from traffickers, learns that the boy’s sister is still captive. He quits his job and puts his life at risk as he embarks on a dangerous journey through the Colombian jungle to save the little girl.In 2013, Ballard and a number of former government operatives left their jobs to…Continue Reading