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Some Gifts In Strange Packages From 2019

January 17, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Some Gifts In Strange Packages From 2019

By MSGR. CHARLES POPE (Editor’s Note: Msgr. Charles Pope is the pastor of Holy Comforter-St. Cyprian Parish in the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. This commentary first appeared on his blog dated January 1, 2020. It is reprinted here with Msgr. Pope’s kind permission. All rights reserved.) + + + It is hard to describe 2019 in glowing terms for the Church, both in the United States and around the world. I will not recite every gory detail here but this year saw a further unfolding of the drama of sexual abuse, the coverup of sexual abuse, and the deposing of several bishops and other clergy for this reason, and with more likely to follow in the year to come. All…Continue Reading

The President Has The Authority To Repel Attacks, Not Start Wars

January 16, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on The President Has The Authority To Repel Attacks, Not Start Wars

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY (Editor’s Note: Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor-in-chief of CNSnews.com. Creators Syndicate, www.creators.com, distributed this column.) + + + House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s understanding of the constitutional authority of the president when it comes to using military force seems to depend on the party affiliation of the president in question. Pelosi supported former President Barack Obama — a Democrat — using military force against the Libyan regime of Moammar Qadhafi without prior congressional authorization. But she opposed President Donald Trump — a Republican — using military force in Iraq to kill the leaders of two State Department-designated terrorist organizations: Gen. Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Quds Force, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, leader of Kata’ib Hezbollah. On…Continue Reading

Texas’ Concealed-Carry Law Prevented Mass Murder

January 15, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Texas’ Concealed-Carry Law Prevented Mass Murder

By DAVID HARSANYI The same weekend that Orthodox Jews in Monsey, N.Y., were fighting off another knife-wielding anti-Semite thug with chairs and coffee tables — they were fortunate that the perpetrator hadn’t brought a firearm, like the killer who targeted a yeshiva in Jersey City only a few weeks earlier — Jack Wilson, a 71-year-old congregant and security volunteer at West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas, took mere seconds to stop a potential mass murderer. Earlier in the year, to the dismay of the usual suspects, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott had signed a bill making it explicitly legal for Texans with concealed-carry licenses to bring their weapons into places of worship. These kinds of protections allowed Wilson…Continue Reading

Indiana Attorney General Pledges Decent Burials… Says The Thousands Of “Fetal Remains” Are Not Identifiable

January 14, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Indiana Attorney General Pledges Decent Burials… Says The Thousands Of “Fetal Remains” Are Not Identifiable

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (CNA) — After an Indiana abortion doctor hoarded more than 2,400 sets of unborn babies’ remains dating back nearly 20 years, the state’s attorney general has pledged to secure them a decent burial. He said the case shows the need for strong laws regulating the bodies of aborted babies. “The troubling discovery of 2,411 fetal remains from Indiana abortion clinics was a shock to our state and our nation alike, and my office is proud to lead the investigation of this horrific situation to bring answers and closure to all those impacted,” Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill said in the December 2019 preliminary report put out by his office. “My office continues to work diligently on the…Continue Reading

A Book Review… Time To Revisit Michael Rose’s Goodbye, Good Men

January 13, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… Time To Revisit Michael Rose’s Goodbye, Good Men

By JEFF KOLOZE Rose, Michael S. Goodbye, Good Men: How Liberals Brought Corruption Into the Catholic Church. Regnery, 2002. Available at amazon.com. Why read a book that’s 18 years old? Because Pope Francis makes it relevant for 2020. Friends recommended that I read Michael S. Rose’s book years ago, but I never “got around to it.” Unfortunately, what Rose has to say about the aggressive gay and lesbian lobby’s activity within Catholic seminaries and the Church at large is still relevant, mainly because the leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, often uses the word “rigid” when referring to his priests who are young and orthodox. If he fears these priests so much to disparage them by calling them rigid,…Continue Reading

From The 1980s . . . Lawsuit Charges Bishop Trautman, Buffalo Diocese With Abuse Cover-Up

January 12, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on From The 1980s . . . Lawsuit Charges Bishop Trautman, Buffalo Diocese With Abuse Cover-Up

By KEVIN J. JONES BUFFALO, N.Y. (CNA).- A lawsuit against the Diocese of Buffalo and retired Bishop Donald Trautman claims they covered up a New York priest’s sex abuse of a 10-year-old boy in the mid-1980s, though the bishop has previously denied accusations he has ever covered up abuse. Trautman, now 83, retired as bishop of Erie in 2012. He served in various roles in the Buffalo Diocese under Bishop Edward Head, including chancellor and vicar general. He was ordained an auxiliary bishop for the diocese in 1985. He had been bishop of Erie since 1990. Trautman told the Erie Times-News January 2 that he had not been served with the lawsuit. As regards the alleged abuser, Fr. Gerard A.…Continue Reading

If Baghdad Wants Us Out, Let’s Go!

January 11, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on If Baghdad Wants Us Out, Let’s Go!

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Fifteen years after the U.S. invaded Iraq to turn Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship into a beacon of democracy, Iraq’s Parliament, amid shouts of “Death to America!” voted to expel all U.S. troops from the country. Though nonbinding, the expulsion vote came after mobs trashed the U.S. embassy in an assault that recalled Tehran 1979. What provoked Iraq’s Parliament into demanding the ouster of all U.S. troops? First, the five December U.S. strikes on Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces in retaliation for a dozen Kataib Hezbollah rocket attacks on U.S. bases, which killed a contractor and wounded four U.S. soldiers. Then came President Donald Trump’s decision to launch a drone-strike and kill Iranian General Qassem Soleimani at Baghdad International…Continue Reading

Looking Ahead To 2020; What To Expect In The New Year

January 10, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Looking Ahead To 2020; What To Expect In The New Year

By JOHN J. METZLER NEW YORK — Peering into the crystal snow globe, it’s time to predict, prognosticate, and presage into the year ahead. Without a pun we need the proverbial 2020 vision to decipher the political and security landscape that awaits us in the new year with both long running static conflicts and newly unpredictable crises. Here are among the things we can expect. Static Conflicts Syria’s devastating civil war enters its 9th year with no clear end in sight but continuing as a churning humanitarian Hell for millions. Few can imagine the sanguinary killing zone that has slogged on since 2011. The UN Security Council remains dangerously deadlocked by a superpower standoff and thus even humanitarian concessions for…Continue Reading

A Trojan Horse In The Pontifical Biblical Commission

January 9, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on A Trojan Horse In The Pontifical Biblical Commission

FR. GERALD E. MURRAY (Editor’s Note: The following article first appeared in TheCatholicThing.org. on December 26, 2019, and is reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.) + + + In his 1967 classic defense of the Catholic Faith against modern errors, Trojan Horse in the City of God, Dietrich von Hildebrand wrote: “With a religion the only question that can matter is whether or not it is true. The question of whether or not it fits into the mentality of an epoch cannot play any role in the acceptance or the rejection of a religion without betraying the very essence of religion.”  He continues: “Even the earnest atheist recognizes this. He will not say that today we can no longer believe in…Continue Reading

Topics We Aren’t Allowed to Talk About

January 8, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Topics We Aren’t Allowed to Talk About

  By TUCKER CARLSON and NEIL PATEL Throughout the impeachment drama, the press repeatedly told you that the president was a liar. They said his lies are why he had to be impeached. Donald Trump is a salesman; he is a talker, a booster, a compulsive self-promoter. If Trump hadn’t gotten rich in real estate, then he could’ve made a fortune selling cars. Most people know this. So is lying really the reason the left despises Trump? Or could the problem be, as is so often the case, the exact opposite of what they claim? What drives them completely crazy are those moments when Trump dares to tell the truth. Think back over the last four years to when the…Continue Reading