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November, The Holy Souls, And Purgatory

November 20, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on November, The Holy Souls, And Purgatory

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY November is the month of the Holy Souls, and so this is an important time to remember our loved ones, and more generally the souls in Purgatory. But our concern for them should not be limited to just one month. We can also, at any time of the year and at any time or place, pray for them, or visit a cemetery and pray for particular souls, either vocally or mentally, so as to gain a partial indulgence on their behalf, using, for example this well-known prayer:“Eternal rest grant to them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.”We…Continue Reading

Living In Election Limbo

November 19, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Living In Election Limbo

By JOHN J. METZLER The experts got it wrong again. The pundits, the pollsters, and the mainstream media once again assured Americans of the predictable Trump and Republican rout on Election Day. An inevitable Biden Blue Wave from sea to shining sea looked plausible to those who instinctively know better and who magnified their genius by high tech social media platforms.Yet, despite giddily exuberant polls predicting massive Democrat Party gains on all levels, when the dust began to settle, the Republicans held the Senate, gained at least five seats in the House of Representatives, and added a GOP governor.The presidency would be tougher to hold, but Donald Trump was probably in his best position in the campaign with vibrant overflow…Continue Reading

Joe Biden’s Majority… Doesn’t Work Full Time, Stay Married, Or Go To Church

November 18, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Joe Biden’s Majority… Doesn’t Work Full Time, Stay Married, Or Go To Church

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY (Editor’s Note: Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor in chief of CNSnews.com. Creators Syndicate – creators.com — distributes his column.) + + A week after the 2020 presidential election, one thing is obvious about the United States of America: It is deeply divided.With 148 million votes counted, President Donald Trump trailed former Vice President Joe Biden by about 4.7 million votes.But, according to the exit polls, there were some demographic groups that did pick Trump over Biden.Who were they?For starters, according to the network exit poll published by ABC News, there was the divide between people who worked full time and those who did not.The exit poll asked the question: “Do you work full-time for pay?”Voters…Continue Reading

In Spain… Teen Martyred While Protecting The Eucharist Beatified

November 17, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on In Spain… Teen Martyred While Protecting The Eucharist Beatified

By COURTNEY MARES ROME (CNA) — A 19-year-old Spanish martyr who gave his life while protecting the Eucharist was beatified Saturday, November 7 at a Mass in the Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona.“Yesterday in Barcelona Joan Roig Diggle, a lay man and martyr killed at the age of 19 during the Spanish Civil War, was proclaimed blessed,” Pope Francis said in his angelus address November 8.“May his example arouse in everyone, especially the young, the desire to live the Christian vocation to the full,” the Pope said.Blessed Joan Roig Diggle was killed “in hatred of the faith” in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War. The young man was known for his devotion to the Eucharist at a time when churches…Continue Reading

Amid Constitutional Reform . . . Order Of Malta Opts To Elect A Lieutenant Of The Grand Master

November 16, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Amid Constitutional Reform . . . Order Of Malta Opts To Elect A Lieutenant Of The Grand Master

By COURTNEY MARES ROME (CNA) — The Order of Malta elected Fra’ Marco Luzzago as the lieutenant of the Grand Master on November 8 to serve a one-year term amid the order’s constitutional reform.Luzzago will lead the nearly 1,000-year-old institution until another election will take place next year to select the order’s Grand Master, a position that is traditionally held for life.Founded in Jerusalem in the year 1048, the Sovereign Order of Malta today operates mainly in the field of medical and humanitarian assistance as a primary body of international law and a lay Catholic religious order.The Order of Malta’s elective body, the Council Complete of State, met in Rome at the Magistral Villa on the Aventine Hill November 7-8.…Continue Reading

John Paul And The Nature Of Marriage

November 15, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on John Paul And The Nature Of Marriage

By DONALD DeMARCO Marriage is not an arbitrary arrangement made by the participants. We observe how marriage has been distorted to mean whatever the partners want it to mean. Some women, who have no interest in men, have married themselves. At the opposite end of the spectrum are polygamy and polyandry. In France, one can marry a deceased person as long as the approval of the president is secured. A woman in England has married her dog. A cowboy in the United States wants to marry his horse. Same-sex marriage is now legal in several countries. Vatican II refers to such distortions as “disfigurements” of marriage.The Catholic Church teaches that marriage is a definable reality. She is the guardian of…Continue Reading

Will Georgia Halt The Radicals’ Revolution?

November 14, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Will Georgia Halt The Radicals’ Revolution?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “In victory, magnanimity . . . in defeat, defiance.”That counsel about human conflict comes from Winston Churchill.And President Donald Trump, given all he has endured for five years from those piously pleading now for a “time of healing,” cannot be faulted for his defiant resolve to unearth any and all high crimes or misdemeanors committed in the counting of ballots in the election of November 3.Trump owes his people this, and he owes the establishment nothing.Yet, in making this his priority, Trump should be mindful of several realities. From what we have seen so far, the prospect that the decision in the battleground states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, or Georgia will be overturned does…Continue Reading

Joe Biden Wept For Joy… When Roe v. Wade Was Enshrined As Law Of Land

November 13, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Joe Biden Wept For Joy… When Roe v. Wade Was Enshrined As Law Of Land

By JONATHON VAN MAREN (Editor’s Note: This commentary first appeared at LifeSiteNews.com on November 2. All rights reserved.) + + (LifeSiteNews) — Once upon a time, in an America far, far away, Sen. Joseph R. Biden was considered to be “unreliable” by abortion-rights groups. He was one of those reluctantly pro-choice Democrats, the sort of guy who voted the right way some of the time, but went squeamish when it came to issues like late-term abortion. He even voted to overrule President Bill Clinton’s veto of the partial-birth abortion ban in the 1990s, and stated that while he would not impose his “beliefs” about abortion on America, America had no right to garnish the wages of her citizens to fund…Continue Reading

A Book Review… How To Combat Soft Totalitarianism

November 12, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… How To Combat Soft Totalitarianism

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY Donal Anthony Foley reviews Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher (Sentinel, 256 pages, Hardcover and Kindle). Live Not by Lies focuses on the ongoing Culture War in the West, which, Rod Dreher argues, faces the threat of a new “soft” totalitarianism, a movement which is making disturbing progress and which threatens our basic liberties.The book is divided into two parts. The first, entitled “Understanding Soft Totalitarianism” looks at how we have reached the present position, while the second, “How to Live in Truth,” examines what we can do to combat soft totalitarianism, whose advent Dreher sees as inevitable.The introduction touches on the idea that what we are seeing now, in…Continue Reading

The Battle For Souls . . . A Battle Unto Death And Eternal Life

November 11, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on The Battle For Souls . . . A Battle Unto Death And Eternal Life

By JAMES MONTI Recently, a young seminarian from Nigeria commented to me that the most crucial moment in our lives is the moment of our death, for it is the moment upon which our eternal fate hangs. Each and every time we recite the Hail Mary, we refer to it, and beg our Lady to intervene when that moment comes: “. . . pray for us sinners…at the hour of our death.” One’s entire life can be seen as an epic spiritual battle that climaxes in that critical point of departure from time into eternity. It is a battle that unfolds on multiple scales from the inner terrain of one’s own soul to warfare venues stretching across continents.Anyone who has…Continue Reading