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What’s Behind Our World On Fire?

November 23, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on What’s Behind Our World On Fire?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN When the wildfires of California broke out across the Golden State, many were the causes given. Negligence by campers. Falling power lines. Arson. A dried-out land. Climate change. Failure to manage forests, prune trees, and clear debris, leaving fuel for blazes ignited. Abnormally high winds spreading the flames. Too many fires for first responders to handle. So, too, there appears to be a multiplicity of causes igniting and fueling the protests and riots sweeping capital cities across our world. The yearlong yellow vest protests in Paris, set off by fuel price hikes that were swiftly rescinded, seemed to grind down this past weekend to several thousand anarchic and violent die-hards. The riots in Chile were started…Continue Reading

A Book Review… A Detailed And Engaging Account Of Walsingham

November 22, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… A Detailed And Engaging Account Of Walsingham

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY Walsingham: Pilgrims and Pilgrimage, by Fr. Michael Rear (Gracewing, 398 pages, Paperback). Available at amazon.com. Walsingham: Pilgrims and Pilgrimage is a lengthy, large format softcover book with numerous illustrations, a good number of them in color. The author, Fr. Michael Rear, has had a lifelong association with the shrine at Walsingham, and actually lived and worked there for twenty years, and so he is well qualified to write this work. It is a comprehensive account of the origins, growth, decline, revival, and general significance of Walsingham as a shrine of our Lady. These themes are set against the overall historical background, including the conversion of England to Christianity, and events such as the Anglo-Saxon invasions, the…Continue Reading

Abortionist’s Arraignment Set On Gun-Pointing Charge

November 21, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Abortionist’s Arraignment Set On Gun-Pointing Charge

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — A Phoenix abortionist accused of pointing a gun at a pro-lifer is scheduled for arraignment November 25 on two counts of aggravated assault, a spokesman for the Maricopa County Superior Court told The Wanderer. A pro-lifer made a video of Ronald Yunis, MD, driving out of the parking lot at the Acacia Women’s Center abortion clinic in midtown Phoenix on October 10, where he works, pointing what clearly appeared to be a handgun at Elvis Kesto, a member of Apologia Church, as Yunis drove over the sidewalk onto Osborn Road, near North 16th Street. The non-Catholic church, located in suburban Mesa, regularly has congregation members on the sidewalk witnessing for life at the abortuary. The…Continue Reading

Climate Change Reconsidered

November 20, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Climate Change Reconsidered

By DEACON ANTHONY BARRASSO (Editor’s Note: Deacon Barrasso serves in a Maryland parish.) + + + Aristotle (384-322 BC) wrote that “time is the measure of change” (Physics IV, 10-13). We who live in time are certainly aware of change. The seasons, our own age and development, and many other things remind us of time and change. Climate change is also a reality that we experience every day, but it is not the reality of doom as portrayed by some scientists, many who govern, and a misinformed citizenry. Climate is a condition of the weather at any given time. It has to do with nature which is defined by Webster’s (1979) as “the inherent character or basic constitution of a…Continue Reading

A Boy Is A Boy!

November 19, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on A Boy Is A Boy!

By BARBARA SIMPSON (Editor’s Note: This article first appeared November 9 on World Net Daily [www.wnd.com] and is reprinted here with permission. All rights reserved.) (Barbara Simpson has a 20-year radio, TV, and newspaper career in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. She is frequently quoted in Dexter Duggan’s articles.) + + + It’s ironic — and I admit more than a bit bizarre — that just as the Senate and the House voted to pass the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act, making animal cruelty and torture on federal property or in interstate commerce an enforceable crime as well as cracking down on the sexual abuse of animals, child abuse has hit the headlines. There already is a federal…Continue Reading

News That Is Not News

November 17, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on News That Is Not News

By DONALD DeMARCO Back in 1973, when the Roe v. Wade decision was handed down, The New York Times editorialized that the Supreme Court had brought “an end to the emotional and divisive public argument.” In retrospect, this oracular statement appears not only completely wrong-headed, but actually somewhat comical. If anything, the divisiveness of the abortion issue has greatly intensified over the past several decades. Nonetheless, the Times seems to be clinging to its prediction of 46 years ago by refusing to report on the hundreds of thousands of people who have participated in the annual March for Life over that span of time. Like so many other newspapers, the Times is not really delivering the news of the times,…Continue Reading

Bernie Leads His Party To Open Borders

November 16, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Bernie Leads His Party To Open Borders

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Some 100 members of an American Mormon community in northern Mexico, nine of whom — women, children, toddlers — were massacred weeks ago on a lonely stretch of highway, just crossed over into Arizona. Other family members who have lived there for decades will follow. The atrocity was the work of one of the cartels battling for control of the drug traffic into the United States. In Mexico’s Sinaloa state in October, an arrest of Ovidio Guzman Lopez, son of “El Chapo,” who sits in a New York prison, brought a military-style cartel attack on the state capital, Culiacan, followed by a surrender to the cartel gunmen by national guard and army troops, and a release…Continue Reading

U.S. Bishops’ Pro-Life Chair… Supports Dignity For Aborted Children Act

November 15, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on U.S. Bishops’ Pro-Life Chair… Supports Dignity For Aborted Children Act

WASHINGTON, D.C. (ZENIT) — Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee for Pro-Life Activities, sent a letter on October 31, 2019, to members of the U.S. Congress in support of S. 2590 and HR 4934, the Dignity for Aborted Children Act. In the letter, Archbishop Naumann cited the recent discovery of careless retention of fetal remains in the state of Illinois by a recently deceased abortion doctor, as well as other instances of shameful and disrespectful disposal of bodies discarded in toilets or cardboard medical waste boxes. Such actions make “people on both sides of the abortion debate uncomfortable, sad, angry,” he said, and that this is not surprising, given every culture and…Continue Reading

Cardinal Pell . . . Objected To Controversial Vatican Hospital Loan

November 14, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Cardinal Pell . . . Objected To Controversial Vatican Hospital Loan

By ED CONDON VATICAN CITY (CNA) — A 50 million euro loan request to secure the purchase of a bankrupt hospital was vetoed by George Pell Cardinal Pell and financial authorities at the Institute for Works of Religion, commonly called the Vatican Bank, before it was approved by the Holy See’s central bank, APSA, where the loan breached international regulatory agreements. According to several Vatican officials, in late 2014 two cardinals requested that the IOR, the Vatican’s commercial bank, grant a 50 million euro loan to a for-profit partnership between the Holy See’s Secretariat of State and a religious order, which intended to purchase a bankrupt Italian hospital, then in government-administered bankruptcy. The hospital, the Istituto Dermopatico dell’Immacolata (IDI), had…Continue Reading

Reverence: The Ultimate Form Of “Active Participation” In The Sacred Liturgy

November 13, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Reverence: The Ultimate Form Of “Active Participation” In The Sacred Liturgy

By JAMES MONTI Over the decades since the Second Vatican Council, a lot has been said and debated concerning the concept of “active participation” in the Mass and how this should properly be defined. There has been a growing recognition and consensus that active participation is not about inventing external roles for everyone to play during the Mass, but rather a disposition of the soul whereby we become first and foremost interiorly engaged in the Holy Sacrifice as an act of worship. A further question arises as to what this interior participation in the Mass specifically means. Is it simply a matter of following the words of the Mass, or is it something far more? That “something far more” is…Continue Reading