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Churches In Six States Damaged By Violent Protests

June 8, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Churches In Six States Damaged By Violent Protests

By CHRISTINE ROUSSELLE WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNA) — Catholic churches and cathedrals in several cities were among the buildings damaged in the protests and riots that occurred nationwide over the past week. Church buildings in California, Minnesota, New York, Kentucky, Texas, and Colorado were attacked. Many of the defaced or damaged churches were cathedrals. The Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Denver sustained permanent damage. Vandals repeatedly struck the Denver cathedral on multiple nights of the protests and riots over the weekend. The church building and rectory were spray painted with the slogans “Pedofiles” [sic], “God is dead,” “There is no God,” along with other anti-police, anarchist, and anti-religion phrases and symbols. Gates surrounding the cathedral were damaged, and tear…Continue Reading

A Model Bishop

June 7, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on A Model Bishop

By DONALD DeMARCO Count Carlo Borromeo d’Arona is better known to Catholics as St. Charles Borromeo. He was born on October 2, 1538 in the castle of Arona on Lake Maggiore, approximately 36 miles from Milan, and he was a descendent of nobility. He passed from his earthly life on November 3, 1584. St. Charles is the patron saint of bishops, catechists, and seminarians. He was a leading figure in the Counter-Reformation in Italy along with St. Philip Neri and St. Ignatius. On Christmas Day, 1559, Borromeo’s uncle, Giovanni Angelo Cardinal Medici was elected Pope Pius IV. The following year, the newly crowned Pope made his nephew a cardinal. This act of nepotism originated in the Middle Ages and reached…Continue Reading

Assaulted And Vilified, The Cops Save The Cities

June 6, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Assaulted And Vilified, The Cops Save The Cities

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN On the fifth night of rioting, looting, and arson in Minneapolis, the criminal elements were driven from the streets. By whom? By the same cops who had been the constant objects of media derision and mob hatred. Without the thin blue line, far larger sectors of dozens of America’s cities would be in ruins, burned to the ground by the mobs that showered police and their vehicles with rocks, bricks, bottles, Molotov cocktails, and any debris that could be thrown at them. Because they were the first responders in these riots, the cops were the first targets of criminal assault and the last line of defense of the law-abiding. Wherever they had to draw back or…Continue Reading

Maryland County Lifts Ban On Communion

June 5, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Maryland County Lifts Ban On Communion

By CHRISTINE ROUSSELLE WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNA) — Howard County, Maryland, has reversed a policy that banned consumption of any food or drink during religious services, effectively preventing the licit celebration of Mass. A county spokesman told Catholic News Agency May 28 that the prohibition will be removed, and faith leaders will be consulted on future guidelines for church reopenings amid the coronavirus pandemic. On Tuesday, May 26, Howard County Executive Calvin Ball issued an executive order delineating reopening regulations and conditions for houses of worship and other entities deemed “nonessential” by the state of Maryland. “There shall be no consumption of food or beverage of any kind before, during, or after religious services, including food or beverage that would typically…Continue Reading

A Book Review… A Prompt To A More Serious Life Of Prayer

June 3, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… A Prompt To A More Serious Life Of Prayer

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY In Silence With God by Benedict Baur (Scepter Publishers, 250 pages, paperback). In Silence With God by Fr. Benedict Baur was originally published in the 1950s, when Fr. Baur was the archabbot of Beuron abbey in Germany, and begins with him asking the question, “What is the true purpose of our existence, our life as human beings and Christians?” He answers this question by pointing to the witness of the Scriptures, to the one great truth, that our calling and destiny is to “share in the rich beatitude of life in God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.” In short, our destiny lies in being lifted to the level of the divine, so that…Continue Reading

Biden To American Families… Don’t Earn More Than $125,000 Per Year

June 2, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Biden To American Families… Don’t Earn More Than $125,000 Per Year

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY (Editor’s Note: Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor-in-chief of CNSNews.com. Creators Syndicate distributes his column.) + + + They work hard, but they are not rich. He is a local police officer in a suburb of a Midwestern city. His annual salary is $67,620 — exactly the national average for his job, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. She is a registered nurse at the local Catholic hospital. Since their youngest joined his siblings in high school last fall, she has resumed working full time. Her annual salary is now $77,460 — also exactly the national average for her job. Where does their money go? The biggest chunk goes to the government. They pay federal…Continue Reading

UK Bishop Laments… “Sinister” Promotion Of At-Home Medical Abortions Amid Pandemic

June 1, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on UK Bishop Laments… “Sinister” Promotion Of At-Home Medical Abortions Amid Pandemic

  (CNA) — An English bishop has criticized the government for promoting at-home medical abortions during the coronavirus lockdown. Speaking at a Mass for workers on the pandemic’s front line May 21, Bishop Mark Davies suggested the country would have to face “searching questions” in the wake of the crisis. He said: “In the days to come we have some searching questions to ask as to how we valued the frailest members of society, whether the elderly dependent upon our care; or the unborn whose lives, and the well-being of whose mothers, were together assaulted by a sinister measure of the Department of Health to promote ‘do-it-yourself’ abortion in the first days of the crisis. Human life is truly valued…Continue Reading

Does Life Have Any Meaning?

May 31, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Does Life Have Any Meaning?

By DONALD DeMARCO W. Somerset Maugham was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930-40s. His most popular novel, The Razor’s Edge (1944), which was made into a most successful movie two years later, is about the search for meaning. It takes as its theme the Zen Buddhist notion that the passage to enlightenment is narrow and painful. The path to enlightenment, therefore, is as narrow and sharp as a razor’s edge. This bears an interesting contrast with Christ’s statement concerning the “narrow path” (Matt. 7:13-14). The protagonist, Larry Darrell, cannot abide the self-centered people who surround him and is driven to find a meaning to life other than the pursuit of…Continue Reading

Jinping Takes Up The U.S. Challenge

May 30, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Jinping Takes Up The U.S. Challenge

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Is the U.S. up for a second Cold War — this time with China? What makes the question newly relevant is that Xi Jinping’s China suddenly appears eager for a showdown with the United States for long-term supremacy in the Asia-Pacific and the world. With the U.S. consumed by the coronavirus pandemic that has killed 100,000 Americans and crashed our economy to depths not seen since the Great Depression, China’s dictator seems to be making his move. At the Communist Party conclave this May, China announced that it was seizing control of Hong Kong’s security. From now on, subversion, sedition, secession, and foreign meddling within the city will be crushed. Whatever sanctions the U.S. and its…Continue Reading

Man Who Smeared Wartime Pope Dies

May 29, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Man Who Smeared Wartime Pope Dies

By RONALD RYCHLAK (Editor’s Note: Ronald Rychlak is a distinguished professor of law at the University of Mississippi Law School. He also serves on the Board of Advisors of the Catholic League, which distributed this article on May 15.) + + + Rolf Hochhuth has passed away in Germany at the age of 89. He is best known as author of the 1963 play The Deputy (Der Stellvertreter), which first raised serious charges against Pope Pius XII and his leadership of the Catholic Church during the Holocaust. The play tried to make the case that Pius, if not actually pro-Nazi, at least feared Communism more than he feared Hitler. Prior to the play, Pius had been hailed as a hero…Continue Reading