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A Time For Reflection Upon What The Mass Is Really All About

April 28, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on A Time For Reflection Upon What The Mass Is Really All About

By JAMES MONTI It has been for several weeks now that for many of us life as we have known it has come to a grinding halt. It is a more silent world than most of us have ever known. This silence and stillness have descended upon nearly everything, from our places of work to our churches. The current pandemic has compelled many of us to step back from the onward rush of daily life and contemplate more intently the things that eternally matter. Strangely enough, in the agonizing absence of the public celebration of Holy Mass, there is an opportunity to come to a deeper understanding of the sacred liturgy, to a more profound penetration of its sacrosanct mysteries.…Continue Reading

Negative Headlines . . . Media Bias Is Palpable

April 27, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Negative Headlines . . . Media Bias Is Palpable

By BILL DONOHUE (Editor’s Note: Catholic League President Bill Donohue commented April 23 on bias in the media.) + + + President Trump is being slammed by pundits for accusing The Washington Post of media bias in a story about comments made by Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Trump is right and the pundits are wrong. Moreover, we at the Catholic League have experienced the exact same kind of palpable media bias on many occasions. The headline in The Washington Post story in question read, “CDC Director Warns Second Wave of Coronavirus Is Likely To Be Even More Devastating.” Redfield never said that. He said that a potential second wave later this year,…Continue Reading

Is Pandemic The Right Word?

April 26, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Is Pandemic The Right Word?

By DONALD DeMARCO We are certainly in the midst of a pandemic. That is a clear and undeniable fact. It is the word that the media use over and again to describe the spread of the coronavirus around the globe. What we do not hear, in the media’s extensive, round-the-clock coverage, is the word “chastisement.” Yet, that word, taboo for media journalists, may best describe the meaning of the pandemic. The Bible records numerous occasions when people felt the wrath of God as a consequence of abandoning Him. God will not be mocked. He will not allow His people to go on sinning on a grand scale indefinitely, living by their own rules as if God’s laws were no longer…Continue Reading

What Will Be The New American Cause?

April 25, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on What Will Be The New American Cause?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN After the Great Pandemic has passed and we emerge from Great Depression II, what will be America’s mission in the world? What will be America’s cause? We have been at such a turning point before. After World War II, Americans wanted to come home. But we put aside our nation-building to face the challenge of a malevolent Stalinist empire dominant from the Elbe River to the Barents Sea. And after persevering for four decades, we prevailed What, then, did we do with our epochal victory? We alienated Russia by moving our NATO military alliance into the Baltic and Black Seas. We launched bloody, costly crusades for democracy in the Middle East that, invariably, failed. We exported…Continue Reading

U.S. Supreme Court . . . To Hear Little Sisters Of The Poor Case By Phone

April 24, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on U.S. Supreme Court . . . To Hear Little Sisters Of The Poor Case By Phone

WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNA) — The Supreme Court announced on April 13 that it will hear oral arguments by phone next month. Justices will hear arguments from lawyers remotely across six dates in the first two weeks of May in an effort to keep the business of the court moving during the coronavirus outbreak. A statement from the Supreme Court, released April 13, said that ten cases would be assigned dates in the first two weeks of May. “The Court will hear oral arguments by telephone conference on May 4, 5, 6, 11, 12 and 13,” the statement said. “The following cases will be assigned argument dates after the Clerk’s Office has confirmed the availability of counsel.” “In keeping with public…Continue Reading

God’s, not gods

April 23, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on God’s, not gods

By DEACON JAMES H. TONER “By making idols for themselves from their silver and gold, they have brought about their own destruction” (Hosea 8:4). + + + Although the secular world tells us that we can be gods, Christians, by contrast, understand that our task is to be God’s servants. To behave as we believe, and to cling to God’s will rather than doing things “my way,” we must discern His divine mercy and perfect justice as well as call to mind His saving actions, which help us to order our lives wisely and well (Prov. 3:5-6). + + + We have the tripartite duty to know, to love, and to serve God. To fulfill that responsibility we must think,…Continue Reading

A Crying Cardinal At St. Peter’s… Shows Us The Need To Pray The Daily Rosary

April 22, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on A Crying Cardinal At St. Peter’s… Shows Us The Need To Pray The Daily Rosary

By MAIKE HICKSON (LifeSiteNews) — At the height of Italy’s coronavirus crisis, on April 3, during the daily rosary at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Angelo Cardinal Comastri repeatedly displayed deep emotion, with a breaking voice calling upon the Blessed Mother to help the world in times of distress. He will be remembered as an icon of the suffering of the Catholic Church in Italy, but also in the entire world. And he should inspire us to imitate him and to call upon the Blessed Mother in the rosary to help us. Cardinal Comastri is the archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica. As such he presided over the daily rosary at noon at St. Peter’s from the start of Italy’s shutdown…Continue Reading

Pelosi Would Curtail Religious Liberty Of Catholics

April 21, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Pelosi Would Curtail Religious Liberty Of Catholics

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has joined in an effort to curtail the religious liberty of Catholics. Specifically, she has joined an amicus brief arguing that the Supreme Court nullify a regulation the Trump administration issued under the Affordable Care Act that would allow organizations that have religious objections to buying health insurance plans that cover sterilizations, contraceptives, and abortifacients to buy health insurance plans that do not cover these things. Pelosi has condemned this regulation as “despicable.” Last week, she put out a statement explaining her outrage. “Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after joining a bicameral amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court in the cases of Trump v. Pennsylvania and Little Sisters of…Continue Reading

A Book Review . . . The Concept Of Personhood

April 20, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review . . . The Concept Of Personhood

By JUDE DOUGHERTY Rist, John M. What Is a Person?: Realities, Constructs, Illusions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 2020; vii + 188 pages. John M. Rist is an emeritus professor of the University of Toronto. Author of more than a dozen books and over one hundred articles on ancient philosophy, patristics, and ethics, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an Aquinas Medalist of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. The immediate origin of this book is a series of lectures he gave to the Graduate Faculty of the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America. He tells the reader up front that the book will make no claims about the immortality of the human soul…Continue Reading

Chastisement?

April 19, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Chastisement?

By DONALD DeMARCO The prophet Jeremiah is one of seven prophets whose images appear on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo depicts him as a mournful figure, in all likelihood, lamenting the fall of Jerusalem, covering his mouth and extending his index finger, an ancient gesture of silence signifying profound and esoteric knowledge. In his homily on Jeremiah, Origen, an early Christian theologian, states that you will not understand the prophet’s wisdom “If you do not listen in a hidden manner.” Yet, how many of us have the requisite silence to hear the words of a prophet? It is the bane of the prophet that people will not listen to him and follow his advice. Jeremiah struggles with his…Continue Reading