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Hillary Puts Bernie Into Her Basket of Deplorables

January 28, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Hillary Puts Bernie Into Her Basket of Deplorables

  By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician.” So says Hillary Clinton of her former Senate colleague and 2016 rival for the Democratic nomination, Bernie Sanders. Her assessment of Sanders’ populist-socialist agenda? “It’s all just baloney and I feel so bad that people get sucked into it.” Does that assessment still hold with Sanders now running strong in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada, and having emerged, according to The New York Times, as “the dominant liberal voice in the 2020 race”? “Yes, it does,” said Clinton, who left open the possibility she might not support Sanders if he became the nominee. In her interview with…Continue Reading

A Book Review . . . Malachi And The Mass As Sacrificial Worship

January 27, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review . . . Malachi And The Mass As Sacrificial Worship

  By JAMES BARESEL The Eucharist Foretold by Mike Aquilina, Emmaus Road Publishing, 2019; available at amazon.com in Kindle and hardcover versions. It seems that no matter how much time goes by and no matter how much evidence for the truth of the Catholic faith I encounter, I still consistently find myself pleasantly surprised by the additional supports for Catholic orthodoxy which seem to be constantly either rediscovered or discovered for the first times by faithful scholars. Mike Aquilina’s The Eucharist Foretold: The Lost Prophecy of Malachi was, however, a double surprise. I do not recall having had any conscious expectations as to what the book’s contents would be, vaguely and not fully consciously having assumed it would explain how…Continue Reading

Cardinal Sarah Explains… The Critical Importance Of Prayer

January 26, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Cardinal Sarah Explains… The Critical Importance Of Prayer

By DONALD DeMARCO Robert Cardinal Sarah’s new book, The Day Is Now Far Spent (2019, translated by Michael J. Miller), is precisely the strong and sane message the Church needs in our twilight zone of confusion and desertion. The title is faithful to the French, in which the book was originally penned: Le soir approche et déjà le jour baisse. (The night is approaching, but already the day is nearly gone.) In either language the meaning is clear: We had better get going for time is running out. Nonetheless, though his book is severely critical of the waywardness in the Church and in the world, it is essentially hopeful because the author understands the efficacy of God’s grace as well…Continue Reading

Is Mass Civil Disobedience Our Future?

January 25, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Is Mass Civil Disobedience Our Future?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN On the holiday set aside in 2020 to honor Martin Luther King, the premier advocate of nonviolent Gandhian civil disobedience, thousands of gun owners gathered in Richmond to petition peacefully for their rights. King had preached that there was a higher law that justified breaking existing laws that mandated racial segregation. When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the front of the bus in Montgomery, when Freedom Riders integrated bus terminals, when black students sat at segregated lunch counters in North Carolina, they challenged state law in the name of what they said was a higher law. And Virginia gun owners believe their moral obligation to protect families, friends, and themselves in a…Continue Reading

Mindong’s Bishop Guo Will Sleep On The Street

January 24, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Mindong’s Bishop Guo Will Sleep On The Street

By FR. BERNARCO CERVELLERA ROME (AsiaNews) — Bishop Vincenzo Guo Xijin, former ordinary bishop of Mindong (Fujian), is now homeless and sleeping on the doorstep of his curia and clergy house in Luojiang, following the January 15 arrival of an eviction order for him and for the priests who work and live with him. To speed up his eviction, all electricity and water supplies were cut from the building. Officially, the eviction is dictated for security reasons. A sign placed in front of the curia explains that the building — built with all permits over ten years ago — does not respect the fire regulations and must therefore be closed. In reality, the police operation is a sign of official…Continue Reading

The Facts… About The Controversial New Book By Both Cardinal Sarah And Benedict XVI

January 23, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on The Facts… About The Controversial New Book By Both Cardinal Sarah And Benedict XVI

  By FR. JOHN T. ZUHLSDORF (Editor’s Note: Fr. John T. Zuhlsdorf posted the following on his January 15 blog at https://wdtprs.com/. It is reprinted here with permission. Please visit his blog for the links he mentions in his text.) + + + Edward Pentin has posted at the National Catholic Register [blog dated January 14] a summary of the facts surrounding the controversial new book from Cardinal Sarah and Pope Benedict XVI. As you know, as soon as the book was announced, the attacks began to pour in from the liberal left. Insinuations were made that Benedict was being used, that Sarah lied, that Benedict is too weak to write anything, that they were attacking Francis, etc., etc. As…Continue Reading

An NFL Owner’s Final Victory

January 22, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on An NFL Owner’s Final Victory

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY (Editor’s Note: Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor-in-chief of CNSnews.com. Creators Syndicate, www.creators.com, distributes his column.) + + + Fr. Bill McGuire was sitting in the upper level of the press box at Kezar Stadium watching his hometown team play the Chicago Bears. Things were not going well. The 49ers fumbled the opening kickoff, and the Bears swiftly scored. Less than two minutes into the game, the Niners were down 7-0. Chicago then forced a punt and scored again. Now, it was 14-0. In the lower level of the press box, Tony Morabito, founder and principal owner of the 49ers, sat with his wife, Josephine, and his brother and partner, Vic. He could not have been…Continue Reading

Seth Meyers Likes Neo-Nazi Tactics

January 21, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Seth Meyers Likes Neo-Nazi Tactics

By BILL DONOHUE (Editor’s Note: Catholic League President Bill Donohue commented on remarks made January 13 by Seth Meyers on his NBC show.) + + + Brooklyn has been hit with a wave of anti-Semitic attacks, and no one uses this as a pretext to make light of them. A Catholic church in Brooklyn was vandalized on January 12 — a man interrupted Mass and desecrated the altar with red juice — and Seth Meyers took the occasion to make fun of it. “A Brooklyn man was arrested at a Catholic church on Sunday for allegedly pouring juice on the altar and splashing it at the priest. Wow, that’s crazy, a crime in a Catholic church that led to an…Continue Reading

Bishop Sheen Comes To My Home Town

January 20, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Bishop Sheen Comes To My Home Town

By DONALD DeMARCO The 1960s counterculture movement did much to undo many traditional social values, especially those regarding personal relationships and human community. It served as a kind of stage rehearsal for the 1970s, which Tom Wolfe aptly dubbed “The Me Decade.” Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, launched the decade which gave us, in 1973, the infamous Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision on abortion. It was perhaps the best of times and the worst of times for Bishop Fulton J. Sheen to arrive in our fair town of Kitchener, Ontario, to remind us of higher values. In retrospect, Sheen’s appearance was a blessed event. This could not have been known at the time. Many viewed Sheen…Continue Reading

A Book Review . . . Learning The Little-Known Life Story Of Bishop Schneider

January 19, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review . . . Learning The Little-Known Life Story Of Bishop Schneider

By JAMES BARESEL Christus Vincit: Christ’s Triumph Over the Darkness of the Age by Bishop Athanasius Schneider and Diane Montagna, Angelico Press, 2019. Available at amazon.com. It would be all too easy for a reviewer of Bishop Athanasius Schneider’s Christus Vincit: Christ’s Triumph Over the Darkness of the Age to limit himself to predictable reflections on some of the most high-profile, controversial, and pressing issues of the day. These are, after all, the topics with which much of Christus Vincit is concerned, often making points with which I could not agree more, now and then making ones which I would dispute. But while a 300-page volume can address such topics either with some originality or some comprehensiveness, a book review…Continue Reading