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Catholic Journalist George Neumayr Dies In Africa

February 2, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Catholic Journalist George Neumayr Dies In Africa

By CLAIRE CHRETIEN (LifeSiteNews) — George Neumayr, an author and journalist who fearlessly exposed corruption in the Catholic Church, died of malaria on January 19. He was 50.He had been in Africa since December 26, 2022, studying Christianity there and “what the Church in the West could learn from it, both good and bad,” according to his journalism fund updates and several articles he wrote from the former French colony.Neumayr, who was once famously banned from entering Washington, D.C.’s Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception over his reporting on its rector, was a senior editor at The American Spectator and the author of The Political Pope: How Pope Francis Is Delighting the Liberal Left and Abandoning Conservatives…Continue Reading

How DC Can Vote In Federal Elections

February 1, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on How DC Can Vote In Federal Elections

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY When the Massachusetts Ratification Convention was debating whether to approve the U.S. Constitution in January 1788, Dr. John Taylor, a delegate from Worcester County, asked a pointed question about the language in the draft that called for creating a new and independent city to house the federal government.“Dr. Taylor asked, why it need be ten miles square, and whether one mile square would not be sufficient,” said the records of the convention.Caleb Strong, who had been a delegate at the Constitutional Convention (and would later serve as a U.S. senator from Massachusetts), provided Taylor with an answer.As reported in the records of the Massachusetts Ratification Convention: “Hon. Mr. Strong said, Congress was not to exercise jurisdiction…Continue Reading

The Greatest Sin

January 31, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on The Greatest Sin

By DEACON ANTHONY BARRASSO Many words have lost their meaning and impact in our age of defining all things with the paint-brush of personal freedom. Gender is what I choose it to be, murder has become the right of a pregnant woman if she so chooses, homosexual relationships are called marriage, police who choose to enforce the law are now the criminals, and abortion factories are called clinics. Some churches no longer mention the word sin out of fear of offending a sinner like me — but sin does exist, and today the greatest sin of all has raised its head.Some time ago, an individual came to me with a very serious moral problem. This happened where we worked. I…Continue Reading

Harrison Bergeron Redux

January 30, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Harrison Bergeron Redux

By DEACON MIKE MANNO One of the hardest jobs a weekly columnist has is to find something fresh to write about each week. Some weeks it’s like pulling out your hair to find a topic you’ve not written about before yet you know something about. That “pulling out your hair” part is — more often than not — one of the biggest problems I have. The “know something about” part is where I really fail.But it’s not just finding a topic that I know something about, it also should be something I care about. There’s too much nonsense out there to care about, so being a semi-wiz at “Trivial Pursuit” doesn’t help much either.But what does help is when something…Continue Reading

Friendship And The Affirmation Of Truth

January 29, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Friendship And The Affirmation Of Truth

By DONALD DeMARCO Friendship is a paradox. Although it expresses a relationship between one person and another person, it requires a third factor. C.S. Lewis expands upon this third factor in his book, The Four Loves. In order for friendship to take place, two people must see the same truth. Only when the question “Do you see the see the same truth? is affirmed, according to Lewis, can friendship be formed. It is the truth that supplies the context for friendship. In friendship people meet, and this meeting is what embraces them and makes them friends.When I board an airplane, I am a passenger. This modest status refers to my relationship not to another person but to the airplane that…Continue Reading

Why Johnny Might Finally Learn To Read

January 28, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Why Johnny Might Finally Learn To Read

By MONA CHAREN If you’re a parent with kids in public school, you are doubtless aware of the roiling controversies about the teaching of critical race theory and about policies governing the participation of trans athletes in sports. Those things are not trivial, but you’re probably not hearing much about a far more consequential matter: how schools are failing to teach kids to read.That’s right — failing badly. Even before the dramatic learning loss caused by COVID, only one-third of American fourth and eighth graders were reading at grade level. How is that not a massive scandal? If only one-third of traffic lights were working properly, or one-third of army tanks could fulfill their mission, or one-third of firefighters knew…Continue Reading

Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic . . . Bold Steps Needed To Address Illegal Immigration

January 26, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic . . . Bold Steps Needed To Address Illegal Immigration

By STEPHEN M. KRASON One of the ways in which the rule of law has been utterly flouted by the Biden administration has been its unwillingness to seriously enforce U.S. immigration law. In fact, the current crisis at the southern border is largely due to Biden’s signaling, as soon as he took office, that people were essentially free to come across. Not only did he stop the construction of the border wall and end the “Remain in Mexico” policy, but he made it clear that “open borders” was now the rule of the day. The result, of course, is that there are now millions of people in the U.S. who have no right to be here. They have violated federal…Continue Reading

McCarrick’s Lawyers Say He’s Not Competent To Stand Trial

January 25, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on McCarrick’s Lawyers Say He’s Not Competent To Stand Trial

By JOE BUKURAS MDEDHAM, Mass. (CNA) — Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick is in “significant” mental decline and may not be fit to stand trial for allegedly sexually abusing a 16-year-old boy, his attorneys say in a new court filing. The legal team for the 92-year-old ex-prelate said it plans to file a motion to dismiss the case, citing a neurological exam conducted by Dr. David Schretlen, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The exam took place on December 5, 2022, at a facility in Missouri where McCarrick is living.The results show McCarrick to be suffering from “significant neuropsychological deficits” that “appear to have started relatively recently, to be worsening rapidly, and to…Continue Reading

Pregnancy Is Not A Disease… No One Could Observe This In Contemporary America

January 24, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Pregnancy Is Not A Disease… No One Could Observe This In Contemporary America

By R.T. NEARY “Follow the science” has been the mandate since 2019 in this once-united nation that is still officially entitled The United States of America. “Experts” have been featured on TV screens voicing this as Gospel.Public dialogue has centered on the reality of a threat posed by a living organism present in our environment. It is a deadly virus that can be carried by human beings — and it is transmissible. The organism in shape has little resemblance to us, but its threat is that it has been considered a dangerous killer of a human when carried by one of our species. Every individual in our global human society has been deemed vulnerable. This fact has caused the situation…Continue Reading

Death Of Cardinal George Pell

January 23, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Death Of Cardinal George Pell

By RAYMOND CARDINAL BURKE With the sudden death of Cardinal George Pell, the Church has lost the earthly company of a wise, loving, joyful, and courageous shepherd. I have lost the earthly company of a good friend and example in the Sacred College of Cardinals. Having visited at length with Cardinal Pell on the afternoon before his hospitalization for hip-replacement surgery, I have a lively sense of his ardent love of Christ and of His Bride the Church.Cardinal Pell was a tireless and fearless defender of the truths of the faith, beginning with the fundamental precepts of the moral law regarding the inviolability of innocent and defenseless human life, the integrity of marriage and its fruit in the family, and…Continue Reading