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The Hand Of God At Work: St. Kateri Tekakwitha

October 14, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Hand Of God At Work: St. Kateri Tekakwitha

By JAMES MONTI Our Lord has an uncanny way of putting us precisely where we need to be, precisely when we need to be there, to accomplish His purposes for us. He often does this through seemingly insignificant incidents, or even events that seem to us sheer misfortunes.In 1675, the French Jesuit missionary Fr. Jacques de Lamberville, who was serving in the Mohawk Indian village of Caughnawaga (Gandawague), near what is now Fonda, N.Y., had good reason to believe he would be joining a fellow Jesuit at the Iroquois mission of Onondaga when, quite unexpectedly, he received his superiors’ command to remain in Caughnawaga.In fulfillment of this assignment, each day he led prayers and delivered a homily of catechetical instruction…Continue Reading

Democrats’ Ongoing Defense Of Child Sacrifice

October 13, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Democrats’ Ongoing Defense Of Child Sacrifice

By BARBARA SIMPSON (Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on WorldNetDaily on October 1. Barbara Simpson has a 20-year radio, TV, and newspaper career in the Bay Area and Los Angeles.) + + Abortion. It’s a battle that seems to have no end, neither in the realm of the law and the courts nor in the world of morality. It’s an issue filled with lies and deceptions cloaked in claims of self-righteousness.Advocates insist that abortion is the “right of women” — that if they find themselves pregnant, they have the absolute right to end the pregnancy. To them, it doesn’t matter how long into the nine-month gestation period she finds herself. Whenever she wants the “end” — she has the…Continue Reading

The Real Crisis Of Education… Virtue And Love Or Cynicism And Hate

October 12, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Real Crisis Of Education… Virtue And Love Or Cynicism And Hate

By PAUL KRAUSE The battles over schools and education are back in public attention. Not since the 1960s has the American public been so concerned over what is going on in America’s classrooms. As a graduate of Yale, I can say from experience that what you read in the news is worse on campus. Amid the battles over Critical Race Theory and anti-Americanism proliferating through schools, the real crisis of education is between the ideal of education as a training in virtue and love versus the spirit of cynicism and hate which aims at destruction.CRT is just the face of the manifestation of the spirit of cynicism and hate that now governs American education from kindergarten to university. Education was…Continue Reading

What Is A Canceled Priest?

October 11, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on What Is A Canceled Priest?

By FR. JOHN P. LOVELL (Editor’s Note: This article by Fr. John P. Lovell was first posted on OnePeterFive on October 4 and is reprinted here with permission.) + + This is the question I get asked the most by Catholics unfamiliar with cancel culture. To be honest, I find it surprising amidst the rash of cancelation in various forms that there is still so much confusion — especially after so many bishops closed churches due to COVID and made it seem as if the source and summit of our faith was not essential. While traditional Catholics are typically familiar with being pushed to the wayside both in society and by the hierarchy of the Church, many of the faithful…Continue Reading

Quarreling With God

October 10, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Quarreling With God

By DONALD DeMARCO I recall hearing a statement that a teenager made when a TV hostess asked her: “If there is one thing you could tell your parents, what would that be?”“I would tell them,” she replied, with an unmistakable air of confidence, “to be more lenient with us because the times have changed!” She gave the last four words strong emphasis as if her mom and dad were either hard of hearing or hard of thinking.It was a most revealing answer, if one is willing to read into it. At face value it may have been predictable. Teenagers are likely to love freedom more than discipline, the open road rather than the narrow path.Yet, it is far too simplistic…Continue Reading

Biden Becomes A Bernie Sanders Democrat?

October 9, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Biden Becomes A Bernie Sanders Democrat?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “We’ve got the president of the United States on our side,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders Sunday, October 3, on ABC’s This Week.“Got 96 percent of the members of the Democratic caucus in the House on our side. We got all but two senators at this point in the Democratic caucus on our side. We’re going to win this thing.”The socialist senator from Vermont may be overly optimistic about how the party deadlock on Capitol Hill unfolds. But about the balance of forces inside the party, and the direction where it is headed, Sanders is probably not wrong.Progressive Democrats won the week.President Joe Biden confirmed it by casting his lot with the liberal-left on the sequencing of…Continue Reading

German Catholic Bishop Suggests . . . “Synodal Way” Is Using Abuse Crisis To Reshape Church

October 8, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on German Catholic Bishop Suggests . . . “Synodal Way” Is Using Abuse Crisis To Reshape Church

REGENSBURG, Germany (CNA) — A German Catholic bishop suggested this week that the country’s “Synodal Way” is using the abuse crisis to reshape the Church on Protestant lines.Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer of Regensburg questioned why the German Catholic Church’s progress in tackling abuse was seldom acknowledged, reported CNA Deutsch, Catholic News Agency’s German-language news partner.He said: “The fact that interested parties now continue to pretend that nothing has actually happened so far, that without a valid comparison of institutions and without a historical classification of the cases of abuse, the peculiarities of the Catholic Church are systemically blamed for it, feeds my suspicion that the sexual abuse is being instrumentalized here in an attempt to reshape the Catholic Church along the…Continue Reading

Biden’s Afghanistan Disaster: Predictable And Not Over

October 7, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Biden’s Afghanistan Disaster: Predictable And Not Over

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY A Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Tuesday, September 28 put a bright spotlight on President Joe Biden’s imprudent withdrawal from Afghanistan.At one point, Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa asked Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, some simple yes-no questions about its consequences.“Has the military’s task to defeat terror threats from Afghanistan gotten harder?” Ernst asked.“Yes,” said Milley.“Does the Taliban and its other terror partners have more ability to train and prepare in Afghanistan now that we’ve left?” she asked.“More ability, yes,” said Milley.Ernst then cited an inexplicable statement Biden made on August 20 claiming al-Qaeda was gone from Afghanistan.“What interest do we have in Afghanistan at this point with al-Qaeda…Continue Reading

A Book Review… An Excellent Read, But Not Written From A Catholic Viewpoint

October 6, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… An Excellent Read, But Not Written From A Catholic Viewpoint

By JAMES BARESEL Lepanto 1571: The Madonna’s Victory by Nic Fields, Pen and Sword, 2020. Readers of the most informative history books are often forced to discriminate between the facts they contain and their authors’ attitudes toward religious, moral, and political matters. Lepanto is among such books. Its author, Nic Fields, is a former Royal Marine and a professor of history and archaeology. His ability to research and understand most of the military and nautical facets of a sixteenth-century naval campaign is superb. His presentation is engaging. His book also makes clear that his beliefs about religion are not in accord with Catholic teaching.That might be easy enough to ignore. So might inaccuracies in Fields’ digressions into matters ranging from…Continue Reading

The Problem: Biden’s Border Welcome Mat

October 5, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Problem: Biden’s Border Welcome Mat

By BARBARA SIMPSON (Editor’s Note: WorldNetDaily first published this article on September 24 and it is reprinted here with permission.) + + So! Who are you going to believe, me or your eyes? Or, as the Biden administration would say — “Your lyin’ eyes?”The people in charge of this country — read that: the Democrats in Congress and the White House — are selling us out every day, and it is a situation that is almost beyond description. It gets worse every day.You might call it a benign form of treason — though I wouldn’t argue that.The Biden administration let the world know that while they say the border isn’t open, the truth of the matter is, it is wide…Continue Reading