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Are Biden Democrats Holding A Losing Hand?

May 12, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Are Biden Democrats Holding A Losing Hand?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “Sometimes nothing is a real cool hand.”In the movie classic Cool Hand Luke, the convict Luke, played by Paul Newman, explains that to his fellow inmates after winning the pot in a hand of poker without even a pair of deuces.President Joe Biden should take notice. For, right now, “nothing” is the hand he is looking at going into the 2022 election.With the economy the predominant issue, the last business day of April brought disquieting news for Democrats.“Nasdaq Caps Worst Month Since 2008,” blared the April 30 lead headline in The Wall Street Journal. “Dismal Data Fuel Stagflation Fears,” ran the top headline in the Financial Times.“Market Plunge Reflects Alarm of Pain Ahead,” blared The New…Continue Reading

Joseph Dutton . . . Deserves To Have His Life Known Accurately

May 11, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Joseph Dutton . . . Deserves To Have His Life Known Accurately

Joseph Dutton . . .Deserves To Have His Life Known Accurately By PEGGY MOEN The sainthood cause of Joseph Dutton keeps marching forward, step by step. Two other Catholic servants of the leprosy patients on the Kalaupapa Peninsula — Fr. Damien DeVeuster (canonized in 2009) and Sr. Marianne Cope (canonized in 2012) — have somewhat overshadowed him. But now Dutton is coming in to his own.As his fame grows and his sainthood cause moves forward, two errors about his life have been reported consistently. One is the claim that he was a Trappist monk; the other is that he died of leprosy.As to the first claim, it is best to review his young life, before he undertook his long journey…Continue Reading

Solving An Enigma

May 10, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Solving An Enigma

By DONALD DeMARCO Veteran author and columnist Rex Murphy, in assessing what is going on in the world of politics, offers both an insight and a challenge to his readers. “How,” he writes, “a wild politics which shuns reality and punishes and attacks those who support it, has taken hold of so many sad minds is truly an enigma.”“It is the besetting sin of the idealist,” wrote Christopher Dawson, “to sacrifice reality to his ideals; to reject life because it fails to come up to his ideals; and this vice is just as prevalent among religious leaders as secular ones.”There may be a market today for “I Support Reality” buttons.Enigmas, like the enigmatic smile of Mona Lisa, are both baffling…Continue Reading

Key Bishops Remain Silent On Texas Hero’s Death

May 9, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Key Bishops Remain Silent On Texas Hero’s Death

By CHRISTOPHER MANION Two weeks ago as this is written, Texas National Guardsman Specialist Bishop Evans died in a heroic attempt to save two illegal aliens who were drowning in the Rio Grande River near the town of Eagle Pass.This past Saturday, Specialist Evans was laid to rest in his hometown of Arlington, Texas.Mr. Evans, a veteran who had experienced danger in Kuwait and Iraq, did not attempt to avoid danger at home. His heroism truly reflects the words of Christ: “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).Specialist Evans didn’t even know the men whose lives he was trying to save. But strangers in danger were friends indeed,…Continue Reading

Shots We All Need

May 8, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Shots We All Need

By BARBARA SIMPSON The news has been full of controversy concerning the vaccinations for COVID. Good or bad? Safe or not? Healthy or deadly? The controversy has spread across the country, with the result that while many people have had the shots, many others have not and, in fact, refuse to do so.Various states have passed regulations that put a physician’s license in danger if he or she speaks of the possibility that the COVID shots might be dangerous. They are legally not allowed to have an opinion on the issue – – even though there is evidence that, in fact, there are legitimate questions about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine.That puts us in a dangerous situation in…Continue Reading

Democrats Declare Perpetual War For Perpetual Abortion

May 7, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Democrats Declare Perpetual War For Perpetual Abortion

By CHRISTOHER MANION The recent publication of a stolen Supreme Court draft opinion has received widespread attention.Chief Justice John Roberts has confirmed the text’s veracity as the opinion on the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization drafted by Justice Samuel Alito for the majority. That revelation has boosted the spirits of millions who have worked and prayed for half a century to send Roe v. Wade to the dustbin of history.The Left, however, is not pleased.For years, pro-abortion elites have endeavored to make abortion on demand America’s new Mount Rushmore. Their target has always been the most helpless. Ever since Margaret Sanger waged war against “blacks and browns” a hundred years ago, they have lived by the slogan pinned on…Continue Reading

Quanta Cura II?

May 6, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Quanta Cura II?

By DEACON JAMES TONER “No one who lives in error is free” — Euripides (c.480-406 BC). + + On December 8, 1864, Blessed Pope Pius IX issued the encyclical Quanta Cura, expressing “great care” about the moral errors and evil of the day. In the attached Syllabus of Errors, the Holy Father enumerated 80 such errors, warning Catholics and all people of good conscience against the soul-searing, pernicious falsehoods and fallacies of those times. Is it well past time for Quanta Cura II? I think so.There is, however, an even larger question. Were we to receive the gift of another “syllabus of errors,” condemning the corrosive delusions of our day, would we have the mental and moral acuity to understand…Continue Reading

Will Putin Submit To U.S.-Imposed “Weakening”?

May 5, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Will Putin Submit To U.S.-Imposed “Weakening”?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory — not prolonged indecision.”So said Gen. Douglas MacArthur in his April 1951 address to Congress after being fired by President Harry Truman as commander in chief in the Korean War.And what is now America’s goal with our massive infusion into the Ukraine war of new and heavier NATO weapons?Said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on his return from a Sunday, April 24 meeting in Kyiv with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy:The United States wants “to see Russia weakened to the point where it can’t do things like invade Ukraine.”“Russia,” said Austin,…Continue Reading

Heartbreaking Abortion Stories In The Media . . . Are Intended To Normalize “Compassionate Eugenics”

May 4, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Heartbreaking Abortion Stories In The Media . . . Are Intended To Normalize “Compassionate Eugenics”

By JONATHON VAN MAREN (LifeSiteNews) — Last November, I observed a growing trend in mainstream media: heartbreaking stories of parents who, after their preborn child was diagnosed with a disability or life-limiting condition, decided to have an abortion.In almost every story, the writer made clear that the child was wanted; in every story, the abortion was portrayed as an act of love — a heartbreaking decision made not to avoid facing a child with a disability or a short life, but for the child’s own good. I referred to this trend as “compassionate eugenics,” and it is no accident that we are seeing a flurry of these stories as we approach a possible overturn of Roe.These stories are heartbreaking but…Continue Reading

The Gospel According To Art… Russ Ramsey’s “Rembrandt Is In The Wind”

May 3, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on The Gospel According To Art… Russ Ramsey’s “Rembrandt Is In The Wind”

By PAUL KRAUSE “Our wounds are not beautiful in themselves; the story behind their healing is.” Beauty is one of the three transcendentals long identified by philosophers and theologians. We all know goodness and truth. We even try to live by those standards in the multiplicity of ways that we understand goodness and truth. Beauty, however, often draws the short stick.This ought not to be the case, Russ Ramsey argues in his new book Rembrandt is in the Wind. He writes, “In my experience, many Christians in the West tend to purse truth and goodness with the strongest intentionality, while beauty remains a distant third.”While one might quibble that few Christians pursue the aesthetic life and neglect the power of…Continue Reading