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K Of C State Council . . . Helps Sponsor Cardinal Burke’s Upcoming Detroit Address

September 13, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on K Of C State Council . . . Helps Sponsor Cardinal Burke’s Upcoming Detroit Address

The State Council of Knights of Columbus made a generous donation to help Call to Holiness bring Raymond Cardinal Burke to speak at a dinner on October 26 outside Detroit. The cardinal’s celebration of Mass on the following day will contain all of the ceremony appropriate for a prince of the Church. Cardinal Burke was formerly the archbishop of St. Louis, founded the Guadalupe Shrine in La Crosse, Wis., while bishop there, and is a member of the Apostolic Signatura in Rome. He was one of the cardinals who signed the Dubia requesting clarification from Pope Francis on the question of divorce, remarriage, and eligibility of receiving Holy Communion, stemming from Amoris Laetitia. At the Call to Holiness Dinner, to…Continue Reading

New Divorce Bill In The UK… The Case Against No Fault Divorce

September 12, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on New Divorce Bill In The UK… The Case Against No Fault Divorce

By PIERS SHEPHERD On June 13, 2019, the British government published the Divorce, Dissolution, and Separation Bill. The purpose of this legislation is to remove the concept of “fault” from the divorce process, effectively allowing divorce on demand, subject to a six-month waiting period, and taking away any right of either party to contest the dissolution of their marriage. Current UK law allows divorce on grounds of the “irretrievable breakdown” of marriage. This breakdown has to be demonstrated by reference to one or more of five facts — adultery, desertion, unreasonable behavior, separation of two years with consent, or five years without consent. While the current law is deeply flawed, it does at least maintain the idea that a marriage…Continue Reading

What Happened To The Concept Of “Person” In American Legal Theory?

September 11, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on What Happened To The Concept Of “Person” In American Legal Theory?

By JUDE DOUGHERTY In a sense, there is no such thing as American legal theory. Like science, theory transcends national boundaries. The legal theory in the United States has deep roots in classical and medieval philosophy and more immediately in the British common law. To seek the roots of the current legal meaning of “person” is to open the history of Western political thought, for it is the political theory of a given period that gives flesh to the term. In fact, the Greek and Roman sources of the Western concept of person are well known. Boethius’ famous definition has been repeated ever since the sixth century when in the context of a discussion of the Trinity, he defined person,…Continue Reading

Human Respect Trumps Justice In Persecution Of Cardinal Pell

September 10, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Human Respect Trumps Justice In Persecution Of Cardinal Pell

By JOSEPH SHAW (Editor’s Note: LifeSiteNews published this commentary on September 3. All rights reserved. Joseph Shaw is the chairman of the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales and secretary of Una Voce International.) + + + (LifeSiteNews) — As I have written before, the conviction of George Cardinal Pell, despite being upheld on appeal, is difficult to understand. On the one hand, as Pell’s legal team painstakingly explained, it was essentially impossible for Pell to have abused two choristers (as alleged) in a sacristy, while still vested, without anyone noticing, at a time when he would actually have been outside the front of the cathedral talking to Mass-goers. On the other hand, the only evidence against him is…Continue Reading

From The Bottom Up

September 9, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on From The Bottom Up

By DONALD DeMARCO Labor Day weekend always brings to mind the final vacation of a fading summer. It also brings to mind the notion of labor and, for Catholics, the great papal encyclicals on this theme. St. John Paul II turned his attention to labor and its ancillary relationships with the rights of the person and the order of government and produced Centesimus Annus in 1991. He began this important document with a tribute to Pope Leo XIII’s monumental encyclical, Rerum Novarum (written one hundred years earlier). Pope Leo had accurately predicted the collapse of socialism on the basis of its fundamental error concerning the nature of the human person. That error, compounded with Communist atheism, brought about a great…Continue Reading

Controversy Ensues… Pope Francis Names Thirteen New Cardinals

September 8, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Controversy Ensues… Pope Francis Names Thirteen New Cardinals

(From combined sources) VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis announced September 1 that he will create 13 new cardinals, from every part of the world, in a consistory October 5. Among them are 10 who are eligible to vote in a future conclave, according to a Catholic News Agency report by Hannah Brockhaus. As these newly named cardinals come from North America, Central America, Africa, Europe, and Asia, Pope Francis said September 1 that “their origin expresses the missionary vocation of the Church, which continues to proclaim the merciful love of God to all people on Earth.” Among those to be elevated to cardinal is Canadian Jesuit Fr. Michael Czerny, the head of the Migrants and Refugees section of the Dicastery…Continue Reading

Let Them Howl, Boris!

September 7, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Let Them Howl, Boris!

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Facing a parliamentary majority opposed to a hard Brexit — a crashing out of the EU if Britain is not offered a deal she can live with — Boris Johnson took matters into his own hands. He went to the Queen at Balmoral and got Parliament “prorogued,” suspended, from September 12 to October 14. That’s two weeks before the October 31 deadline Johnson has set for Britain’s departure. The time his opposition in Parliament has to prevent a crash out of the European Union has just been sliced in half. His adversaries are incensed. The speaker of the House of Commons called Johnson’s action “a constitutional outrage.” Johnson’s Tory Party leader in Scotland resigned. Labor Party…Continue Reading

In Rare Interview… McCarrick Maintains His Innocence

September 6, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on In Rare Interview… McCarrick Maintains His Innocence

SALINA, Kans. (CNA) — In an August interview with Slate staff writer Ruth Graham, Theodore McCarrick said he doesn’t believe he committed the acts of which he has been accused. McCarrick, 89, has been in public disgrace since June 2018, when credible allegations of sexual abuse of a minor were made known. He was dismissed from the clerical state in February 2019, after an administrative penal process by which the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith found him guilty of solicitation in the confessional, and sexual abuse of minors and adults, aggravated by abuse of power. “I’m not as bad as they paint me,” McCarrick told Graham August 14 at the St. Fidelis Friary in Victoria, Kans. (about 90…Continue Reading

A Book Review… Hesburgh: Devout And Delightful, But Sadly A Dissenter

September 5, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… Hesburgh: Devout And Delightful, But Sadly A Dissenter

By JOHN LYON (Editor’s Note: John Lyon holds a doctorate in history from the University of Pittsburgh and has taught at seven colleges or universities, as well as at Providence Academy in La Crosse, Wis.) + + + Wilson D. Miscamble, CSC. American Priest: The Ambitious Life and Conflicted Legacy of Notre Dame’s Father Ted Hesburgh. New York: Image Books; 2019 Leaving Sacred Heart Church on the Notre Dame campus after his Ordination to the priesthood on June 24, 1943, Fr. Theodore Martin Hesburgh, CSC, paused to consider the bas-relief sculpture and inscription on the East Portal, dedicated to those from the university who served in World War I. The inscription read simply: “God. Country. Notre Dame.” To that trinity,…Continue Reading

The Relics Of St. Therese’s Parents Visit Cambodian Catholics

September 4, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on The Relics Of St. Therese’s Parents Visit Cambodian Catholics

PHNOM PENH (AsiaNews) — Cambodia’s small Catholic community took part in solemn Masses, processions, songs, and prayers in order to accompany with joy and devotion the pilgrimage in their country of the relics of Saints Louis and Marie-Azélie Martin, parents of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the first married couple to achieve sainthood. Pope Francis canonized them in 2015. The saints’ relics, which arrived in Cambodia from France on August 26, will be exhibited to the public first in the parishes of the Apostolic Vicariate of Phnom Penh, followed by the Apostolic Vicariates of Kompong-Cham and Battambang. Finally, they will return to the capital on September 16 before their return journey to Europe. “In 2017, the Cambodian Church began a three-year…Continue Reading