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ADF Asks U.S. Supreme Court . . . Must Rescue Missions Choose Either Their Faith Or Accepting Parolees?

December 13, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on ADF Asks U.S. Supreme Court . . . Must Rescue Missions Choose Either Their Faith Or Accepting Parolees?

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing the former director of the Denver Rescue Mission filed a petition Friday, December 3 with the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to take his case and reverse a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit that threatens to force religious rescue missions to choose between adhering to their faith and offering help to parolees.Jim Carmack, while director of the Mission, accepted a parolee, Mark Janny, to be a resident as a favor to a parole officer because Janny needed a residence and had no other place to stay. The Mission’s free programs are designed to change lives in the name of Christ by sharing the Gospel and meeting…Continue Reading

The Ways Of Love

December 12, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Ways Of Love

By DONALD DeMARCO Children are not as handicapped as one might think in the ways they can express their love. They are not as restricted as grownups often are by an assortment of stifling rules and regulations. Their innocence and spontaneity give them a certain freedom of expression that is forbidden in the adult world. A friend of mine relates how her own little children surprised her with a moving and memorable image of love they had left for her to discover.Mommy informed her young ones that she would be on television that day. Arrangements were made so that the children could view their mother in this novel way. Things went according to plan. Back at home, and in some…Continue Reading

Putin to Biden: Finlandize Ukraine, Or We Will

December 11, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Putin to Biden: Finlandize Ukraine, Or We Will

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Either the U.S. and NATO provide us with “legal guarantees” that Ukraine will never join NATO or become a base for weapons that can threaten Russia — or we will go in and guarantee it ourselves.This is the message Russian President Vladimir Putin is sending, backed by the 100,000 troops Russia has amassed on Ukraine’s borders.At the Kremlin the past week, Putin drew his red line:“The threat on our western borders is . . . rising, as we have said multiple times. . . . In our dialogue with the United States and its allies, we will insist on developing concrete agreements prohibiting any further eastward expansion of NATO and the placement there of weapons systems…Continue Reading

Paris Archdiocese… To Present Plans For Notre-Dame’s Interior Amid Outcry

December 10, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Paris Archdiocese… To Present Plans For Notre-Dame’s Interior Amid Outcry

PARIS (CNA) — The Catholic Archdiocese of Paris will present its plans for the restoration of Notre-Dame Cathedral’s interior after it dismissed criticism that its proposals would turn the site into “a kind of theme park.”Officials will submit their proposals to France’s National Heritage and Architecture Commission on December 9 amid a new outcry over the restoration of the cathedral badly damaged by fire in 2019, reported AFP.The news agency said that the archdiocese denied foreign media reports that the celebrated French Gothic cathedral, built between 1163 and 1345, risked being transformed into a theme park or filled with jarring contemporary art.The Daily Telegraph, a British newspaper, reported on November 26 that critics feared the changes would turn the building…Continue Reading

More Beautiful Than The Sun: Mary Immaculate

December 9, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on More Beautiful Than The Sun: Mary Immaculate

By JAMES MONTI Each year on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, we hear at Mass the passage from the Book of Revelation that speaks of the “woman clothed with the sun” (Rev. 12:1), the Church presenting Mary to us in the mystery of her Immaculate Conception as clothed in the spotless and splendid light of absolute sinlessness. Yet this is not the only passage in the Bible where the Church has found Mary cast in this manner. For centuries, what was said in the Book of Wisdom concerning wisdom itself, personified as a woman “more beautiful than the sun,” has also been seen as a prophecy of the Blessed Virgin Mary:“For she is a breath of the power of…Continue Reading

In Mozambique . . . Diocese Begins Beatification Process For The Chapotera Martyrs.

December 8, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on In Mozambique . . . Diocese Begins Beatification Process For The Chapotera Martyrs.

VATICAN NEWS — Two Jesuit priests, Silvio Moreira, a Portuguese, and Joao de Deus Kamtedza, a Mozambican, aged 44 and 54 respectively, were assassinated in October 1985 at the mission of Chapotera, in the province of Tete, central Mozambique.In the hope that they will be proclaimed saints in the future, the Diocese of Tete has begun the process toward the beatification of the Jesuits killed in Chapotera.This past week, in a ceremony at the Diocesan Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, and presided over by Bishop Diamantino Guapo Antunes, IMC, the process toward beatification was explained to the people. The bishop said the first step was to verify the cause of their death.During the event, Fr. Giancarlo Sandro Faedi, a Missionary…Continue Reading

The Drills Of A Militant Church

December 7, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Drills Of A Militant Church

By FR. JOHN ZUHLSDORF (Editor’s Note: This essay by Fr. Zuhlsdorf first appeared at OnePeterFive.com on November 26, 2021.) + + The essence of a cliché is that it is unoriginal and often repeated. However, as the old Latin phrase goes, repetita iuvant…repeated things help. Allow me to get an initial cliché out of the way: With the First Sunday of Advent we begin a new liturgical year. There.But wait. Perhaps it isn’t cliché to begin in this way. The fact is that, year in and out, century in and out, millennia in and out, Holy Mother Church unfolds again and again the whole of salvation history and the mysteries of the life of our Savior through lovingly polished cycles…Continue Reading

Disserving San Francisco

December 6, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Disserving San Francisco

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY When I was a boy growing up in Marin County, just north of San Francisco, my mom enforced an unwavering wardrobe rule on my brothers and me: When we went downtown in the city, we had to wear a suit and tie.We did not have to dress that way in the suburbs or in the peripheral residential neighborhoods of the city. Nor did this dress code apply when we went to sporting events such as a 49ers or a Giants game, or to a high school football or basketball game.And, of course, it did not apply when we took walks along Ocean Beach or had picnics in Golden Gate Park.But it did apply when we ventured…Continue Reading

Why Do We Wrap Christmas Presents?

December 5, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Why Do We Wrap Christmas Presents?

By DONALD DeMARCO There are many reasons for wrapping Christmas presents. The obvious one is to make the packaged gift look attractive, decorated with colorful bows and wrapping paper that displays cheerful seasonal images.Another is to hide the present from view. A present should not reveal itself until the proper time.A third reason is to put the recipient in a state of wonder, which can also be a state of nervous anticipation.My favorite reason, and I dare to think the most important one, is so that the beneficiary can say “thank you” twice.The first thanks is for the gift, though yet unopened, and is an expression of confidence for the giver’s assumed generosity and thoughtfulness. The first thank you disposes…Continue Reading

Return Of The “Law And Order” Issue

December 4, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Return Of The “Law And Order” Issue

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN According to Gallup, on the issue of crime, President Joe Biden is 18 points underwater. While 57 percent of Americans disapprove of how he is handling crime, only 39 percent approve.Biden’s dismal rating was recorded before the verdict came in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial — not guilty on all five counts — a verdict Biden declared had made him “angry.”Biden’s rating also came before career criminal Darrell Brooks, free on $1,000 bail after running over his girlfriend, drove his Ford Escape into the Waukesha Christmas parade, killing six and injuring 60.Biden’s low rating on crime came before “flash mobs” of thieves in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York looted Louis Vuitton, Burberry, Bloomingdale’s, Nordstrom,…Continue Reading