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A Book Review . . . How To Make Decisions In Keeping With The Will Of God

October 23, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review . . . How To Make Decisions In Keeping With The Will Of God

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY What Does God Want?: A Practical Guide to Making Decisions, by Fr. Michael Scanlan (Sophia Institute Press, 160 pages, paperback and Kindle. To order, please visit www.sophiainstitute.com or call 1-800-888-9344). Fr. Michael Scanlan sees this book as a distillation of all that he learned during his life about making decisions and helping others to make them. He expresses the hope that readers will be able to “let go of their lives and fall into God’s will,” and thus choose wisely. The book is mainly made up of a series of case studies of real-life decision-making, in which Fr. Scanlan goes through a process of discernment for each of these. The author begins by offering five tests…Continue Reading

Democratic Candidates Fail The Religion Test

October 22, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Democratic Candidates Fail The Religion Test

By BILL DONOHUE (Editor’s Note: Bill Donohue is president of the Catholic League. Below is his commentary on what Democratic candidates for president had to say about religious liberty in the October 10 televised debate. This article first appeared at www.catholicleague.org on October 11. All rights reserved.) + + + There was a time, not long ago, when people of faith felt equally at home with the Republican and Democratic Parties. The former was home to most Protestants, and the latter was home to most Catholics and Jews. A big change came in the early 1970s when Catholics (especially white Catholics) moved away from the Democratic Party; some became Republicans while others sided with independents. An even bigger change occurred…Continue Reading

The Brebeuf Prep Scandal And Jesuit Schismatics

October 21, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on The Brebeuf Prep Scandal And Jesuit Schismatics

By MICHAEL ARATA (See The Wanderer dated July 25, 2019, p. 1 for an earlier article on this topic by Michael Arata.) + + + “The instruction and education in a Catholic school must be grounded in the principles of Catholic doctrine; teachers are to be outstanding in correct doctrine and integrity of life,” and “no school is to bear the name Catholic school without the consent of competent ecclesiastical authority” (Canon Law 803, §2, §3). + + + Having taken some classes at Cincinnati’s Xavier University in the 1970s, I still receive periodic communications from the school. A recent Xavier notice announced “Alumni Weekend 2019,” including among “highlights” a gathering hosted by the “LGBTQIA+ Alumni Community.” The abbreviation stands…Continue Reading

Truth In Perspective

October 20, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Truth In Perspective

By DONALD DeMARCO All truths are interconnected, from the humblest to the holiest. I refer to the simplest of truths as those that can be answered by “yes” or “no.” “Tell the truth, now, did you chop down that cherry tree?” George Washington’s father asked his son. “Yes, I did; I cannot tell a lie,” George replied. The truth of the matter was stated by the simple response of “yes.” This affirmation represented the truth of what actually happened (at least in the tale told by Parson Weems). A lie would have represented a non-reality, although a very small one. Truth is intimately connected with reality; the lie has no connection with reality. In this regard, Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s remark that…Continue Reading

Is The Interventionists’ Era Over For Good?

October 19, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Is The Interventionists’ Era Over For Good?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN President Donald Trump could have been more deft and diplomatic in how he engineered that immediate pullout from northeastern Syria. Yet that withdrawal was as inevitable as were its consequences. A thousand U.S. troops and their Kurdish allies were not going to dominate indefinitely the entire northeast quadrant of a country the size of Syria against the will of the Damascus regime and army. Had the U.S. refused to vacate Syrian lands on Turkey’s demand, a fight would be inevitable, whether with Turkey, Damascus or both. And this nation would neither support nor sustain a new war with Turks or Syrians. And whenever the Americans did leave, the Kurds, facing a far more powerful Turkey, were…Continue Reading

Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic… American Criminal Justice In Disarray

October 18, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic… American Criminal Justice In Disarray

By STEPHEN M. KRASON (Editor’s Note: Stephen M. Krason’s Neither Left nor Right, but Catholic column appears monthly [sometimes bi-monthly]. He is professor of political science and legal studies and associate director of the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at Franciscan University of Steubenville. He is also co-founder and president of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists and a lawyer. Among his books are: Abortion: Politics, Morality, and the Constitution; Liberalism, Conservatism, and Catholicism; The Transformation of the American Democratic Republic; Catholicism and American Political Ideologies, and a Catholic political novel, American Cincinnatus. The views expressed here are his own. This column originally appeared in Crisismagazine.com.) + + + We hear a great deal nowadays about criminal justice…Continue Reading

What The Crucifix Tells Us

October 17, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on What The Crucifix Tells Us

By JAMES MONTI Recently, upon entering a church where “virtually perpetual” Eucharistic adoration was taking place not in a separate chapel, but rather at the main altar, I was struck by the compelling juxtaposition of the sanctuary’s exquisitely beautiful large crucifix, suspended from above, directly over the majestic monstrance that enclosed the Most Holy Sacrament. Even though the sanctuary was relatively simple, its classic Gothic features fashioned in wood, a traditional red sanctuary lamp, as well as subdued lighting conducive to recollection, together with a lovely statue of the Blessed Virgin at a side altar to the left with flickering blue candles (real votive candles, not electric) beneath our Lady’s feet, spoke powerfully, even irresistibly, to the heart. It reminded…Continue Reading

In France . . . Tens Of Thousands March Against A Bill Liberalizing IVF

October 16, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on In France . . . Tens Of Thousands March Against A Bill Liberalizing IVF

PARIS (CNA) — At least 42,000 people protested in Paris on Sunday, October 6 against a bill that would allow single women and lesbian couples access to IVF. Many French bishops have spoken against the bill. Police said there were 42,000 at the protests, while media-funded researchers estimated 74,000, and organizers 600,000. Speaking at the protest, former legislator Marion Maréchal said the French government is seeking “to voluntarily deprive a child of a father or to transform him and the mother who carries him into a consumer product.” Organizers of the protests said the move would weaken the family and thus society, and that it is unjust “to authorize the manufacture of children voluntarily deprived of a father.” Archbishop Michel…Continue Reading

Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic… American Criminal Justice In Disarray

October 15, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic… American Criminal Justice In Disarray

By STEPHEN M. KRASON (Editor’s Note: Stephen M. Krason’s Neither Left nor Right, but Catholic column appears monthly [sometimes bi-monthly]. He is professor of political science and legal studies and associate director of the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at Franciscan University of Steubenville. He is also co-founder and president of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists and a lawyer. Among his books are: Abortion: Politics, Morality, and the Constitution; Liberalism, Conservatism, and Catholicism; The Transformation of the American Democratic Republic; Catholicism and American Political Ideologies, and a Catholic political novel, American Cincinnatus. The views expressed here are his own. This column originally appeared in Crisismagazine.com.) + + + We hear a great deal nowadays about criminal justice…Continue Reading

Can Ruth Bader Ginsburg Make A Man Into A Woman?

October 14, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Can Ruth Bader Ginsburg Make A Man Into A Woman?

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.) + + + Judging by the argument that one lawyer made to Justice Neil Gorsuch, Tuesday, October 8 must have been an interesting day in the restrooms at the U.S. Supreme Court. “There are transgender lawyers in this courtroom today,” attorney David Cole told Gorsuch. “Of course, there are,” said Gorsuch. Cole was in the court to represent a biological male who decided in 2013 that he “identified” as a female — and who then fought a family-owned Michigan-based funeral home all the way to the Supreme Court because it fired him as a funeral director when he indicated that…Continue Reading