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Vote For Candidates Who Support Parental Choice In Education

June 18, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Vote For Candidates Who Support Parental Choice In Education

By MOST REV. JOSEPH STRICKLAND One of the experiences which accompanied the COVID 19 Shelter at Home Orders was that all parents became “home-school” parents. But, in a sense, all parents already were “home-school parents.” Some simply choose to share that educational mission with others outside of the home as their children mature. I say that because parents are the “first teachers” of their children. That very phrase is a part of the Baptismal Rite. The teaching of the Catholic Church on the primacy of parents in the educational mission is clear. After all, the primacy of marriage — and the family founded upon it — as the first cell of society, the first church, first government, first school, first…Continue Reading

A Great Comeback

June 17, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on A Great Comeback

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY (Editor’s Note: Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor in chief of CNSNews.com. Creators Syndicate distributes his column.) + + + Two things — a war and a virus — almost stopped Americans from playing football in 1918. Both failed. The Brooklyn Daily Standard Union ran a piece at the top of its sports page on September 13, 1918 that summed up the war situation. “With Gen. Pershing,” it said, “leading our brave American boys in a triumphant march to Berlin . . . while a second army of over 13,000,000 red-blooded Americans was being formed at home yesterday to back up the boys who have started what will be the final end of the Kaiser and…Continue Reading

A Book Review… Miracles And Marvels, The Great Works Of The Saints

June 16, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… Miracles And Marvels, The Great Works Of The Saints

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY Mysteries, Marvels, and Miracles in the Lives of the Saints by Joan Carroll Cruz (TAN Books, 606 pages, paperback). Mysteries, Marvels, and Miracles is a hefty paperback work running to over 600 pages, which is full of fascinating accounts of incidents from the lives of the saints, and which is both illuminating and edifying. It covers various aspects of the miraculous in the lives of those Catholic holy men and women closest to God, ranging from bilocation, through prophecy, the stigmata, and incorruptibility, along with numerous other mysterious supernatural phenomena. Many saints were gifted with the power of levitation — that is, being raised from the ground, often when they were in an ecstasy of prayer,…Continue Reading

A Book Review . . . How God Made Earth Our Home

June 15, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review . . . How God Made Earth Our Home

By REY FLORES In the Beginning: A Catholic Scientist Explains How God Made Earth Our Home by Dr. Gerard Verschuuren, Sophia Institute Press. To order, visit www.sophiainstitute.com, or call 1-800-888-9344. When I was asked to read and review this book, my first impression was that it was going to be more of a scientific book than a theological one. While the title itself borrows from Genesis in the Bible, the subtitle immediately lets us know that the author is a scientist, therefore making it a science book, or at least in my quick judgment. The coolest thing? He’s a Catholic scientist. Just because a scientist wrote the book doesn’t make it all science, does it? This book instead offers a…Continue Reading

Economic Recovery Or Moral Reform?

June 14, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Economic Recovery Or Moral Reform?

By DONALD DeMARCO Jack Benny entertained American audiences for more than three decades as the reigning comedian of radio and television. His most memorable and hilarious bit involved his delayed response to a gunman who presented him with an ultimatum — “Your money or your life!” After a dramatic pause, the inveterate skinflint answered — “I’m thinking it over! What was considered those many years ago a joke is now a matter of serious deliberation. Given the COVID-19 pandemic, how do we decide between a “sick society” and a “healthy economy”? Government leaders continue to crow about the importance of an economic recovery even though it might come at the price of a sicker society with its inevitable rise in…Continue Reading

The Left’s Coming War On Cops

June 13, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on The Left’s Coming War On Cops

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Newly painted in huge yellow letters on 16th Street, just north of the White House, is the slogan: “Defund the Police.” That new message sits beside the “Black Lives Matter” slogan, also in huge letters, painted there at the direction of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser. She renamed that section of 16th Street “Black Lives Matter Plaza.” Still, the messages are less ominous than the chants of protesters in New York after the takedown that resulted in the death of Eric Garner. Protesters then chanted of the NYPD: “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want it? Now!” While this sudden campaign to defund and dismantle city police forces seems an absurdity, it is actually…Continue Reading

Assessing The Value Of Religion

June 12, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Assessing The Value Of Religion

By JUDE DOUGHERTY As I write in the midst of the Wuhan epidemic scare, the secular media have carried numerous stories of people being comforted by religious faith. We read of couples and families being drawn closer by their common faith as they face the epidemic. The tone of most of these articles is condescending. One may expect such treatment, given that from a secular perspective, religion is irrational, a fetish. If it helps get you get through a troubling period, so much for its supporting value. The denigration of religion in its modern form may date to Voltaire and to the Jacobians in the period of the French Revolution. In the twentieth century, we find Marx declaring religion to…Continue Reading

A Book Review… Byzantium And Belief In Divine Providence

June 11, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… Byzantium And Belief In Divine Providence

By JUDE DOUGHERTY Briel, Matthew C. A Greek Thomist: Providence in Gennadios Scholarios. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Press, 2020. Pp. xv + 270. This book could be read as a theological treatise, except that Matthew Briel, a philosophy professor at Assumption College, wants to show how Greek metaphysics shaped the future Bishop Scholarios’ understanding of Byzantine Orthodoxy. We are told that the study of modern Hellenism usually begins with the fall of Constantinople in 1453. But from the perspective of Greek culture, the starting point is not 1453 but 1354 when Demetrios Kydones translated into Greek the Summa Contra Gentiles of Thomas Aquinas. So relates Briel when interpreting Orthodoxy’s spiritual nature. He takes his lead from another Byzantine…Continue Reading

Honoring Two Hearts In The Month Of June

June 10, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Honoring Two Hearts In The Month Of June

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY The Feast of the Sacred Heart falls on June 19, and June is the month which has been traditionally devoted to the Sacred Heart. The following day, June 20, is the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. So the two feast days are right next to each other, which is appropriate given the closeness of the Two Hearts of Jesus and Mary, both on Earth and in Heaven. This theme of the Two Hearts was emphasized at Rue du Bac in Paris in 1830, when our Lady appeared to St. Catherine Labouré and showed her the design for the new Medal of the Immaculate Conception, which before long, due to the marvels associated with it,…Continue Reading

President Trump, Arizona Attorney General . . . Push Back Against Social-Media Giants

June 9, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on President Trump, Arizona Attorney General . . . Push Back Against Social-Media Giants

By DEXTER DUGGAN Social media have assumed a power of their own, as anyone has noticed who didn’t just wake up from a hundred-year nap. They can be not merely information tools but also brawny propaganda engines. And they may trace your every move so as to amass an understanding of, among other possibilities, what advertising to pitch to you online. And what else may be in their bag of tricks? Recently, from out of the blue, when I’m reading political articles, not entertainment or gossip sites, which I avoid anyway, I started receiving pop-ups graphically advertising young women’s underwear. I’ve never even searched online for men’s outerwear or men’s underwear, much less women’s! And the pitches kept coming no…Continue Reading