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Are The Good Times Over For Biden?

July 17, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Are The Good Times Over For Biden?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Are the Democrats headed for their Little Bighorn, with President Joe Biden as Colonel Custer? The wish, you suggest, is father to the thought. Yet, consider.On taking office, Biden held a winning hand.Three vaccines, with excellent efficacy rates, had been created and were being administered at a rate of a million shots a day. The pandemic was at its peak but looking certain to turn down, and it did.This welcome news lifted national spirits, and the economy with it.And the new president was taking office in a brief era of good feelings produced by the departure of the party and president who had given us the January 6 Capitol riot.Thus did Biden begin his administration with…Continue Reading

Hungary Fines Distributor For Book Promoting Homosexuality To Kids

July 16, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Hungary Fines Distributor For Book Promoting Homosexuality To Kids

By RAYMOND WOLFE BUDAPEST, Hungary, July 8, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Hungarian authorities have fined a book distributor for selling a book without notifying customers that it promotes homosexuality to children.Citing rules on unfair trade practices, local officials fined an unnamed distributor of a book published by the Foundation for Rainbow Families. The book, titled What a Family, is a translation of books by an American LGBT activist and depicts same-sex couples with children in an attempt to normalize homosexual parenting.The government office of Pest County, a county surrounding Budapest, levied the fine of 250,000 forints, or roughly $830, Reuters said.“This book was placed among other books of fairytales and this way they breached the law,” Pest County Commissioner Richard Tarnai…Continue Reading

Pachamama Image Used As Monstrance In Mexican Parish

July 15, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Pachamama Image Used As Monstrance In Mexican Parish

By DAVID RAMOS GUADALAJARA, Mexico (CNA) — The “pachamama” or “mother earth” image which accompanied various activities during the 2019 Amazon Synod in Rome was recently used as a monstrance in a church in Mexico.Pictures posted by Fr. José Luis Gonzalez Santoscoy on Facebook, and later deleted, show the monstrance in the shape of the pachamama, a naked pregnant woman, carrying the Eucharist in her womb.The photos were taken inside St. John Macias Parish in Zapopan, immediately west of Guadalajara.Contacted by ACI Prensa, Catholic News Agency’s Spanish language news partner, Fr. Gonzalez said, “I have absolutely no comment,” adding that “the issue has already been discussed with my bishop, with my authorities.”The Archdiocese of Guadalajara has not issued a statement…Continue Reading

Cardinal Becciu And Nine Others… Why Has A Vatican Judge Ordered Them To Stand Trial?

July 14, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Cardinal Becciu And Nine Others… Why Has A Vatican Judge Ordered Them To Stand Trial?

By HANNAH BROCKHAUS VATICAN CITY (CNA) — The Vatican’s court announced Saturday, July 3 that it had indicted 10 individuals, including Angelo Cardinal Becciu, on charges including abuse of office, embezzlement, and fraud, and that a trial will begin July 27.What is the story behind the trial?And what are the backgrounds of the 10 people who have been charged?What is the trial about?The trial is the result of a two-year investigation by Vatican prosecutors into allegations of financial malfeasance, mostly in connection with an investment made by the Secretariat of State in a London property.According to prosecutors, during the Secretariat of State’s years-long purchase of the London building, people employed by the Vatican, or doing business with it, worked to…Continue Reading

Understanding The Anti-American Mind

July 13, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Understanding The Anti-American Mind

By PAUL KRAUSE It is no secret that America, and American culture — indeed, anything Western — is under assault. Everything from the rule of law manifested through law and order, American history, heritage, and culture, and Christianity are under the crosshairs of the anti-American left. Once upon a time, Americans were united in a common understanding of themselves despite their political and economic differences. What happened?The current zeitgeist of politics is moved by an idolatry of the perverse, the wicked, and the strange. This quasi-religious glorification of the other, which now permeates every level of American society and its institutions, is but the latest manifestation of the politics of negation. But this isn’t mere Marxism as all the hoopla…Continue Reading

Minnesota Abortions Drop In 2020 Pandemic Year

July 12, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Minnesota Abortions Drop In 2020 Pandemic Year

ST. PAUL — Abortions in Minnesota declined significantly in 2020, according to a report (https://www.health.state.mn.us/data/mchs/pubs/abrpt/abrpt.html) released July 1 by the Minnesota Department of Health. Last year’s total of 9,108 abortions marked an 8 percent decrease and the lowest figure since 1974.“Many pregnant women have faced difficult situations, especially during the last year. Yet more and more have met those challenges without the tragedy of abortion,” says MCCL Executive Director Scott Fischbach. “The work of pregnancy care centers, which compassionately offer alternatives to abortion, has been instrumental. And pro-life laws in Minnesota, such as Woman’s Right to Know and Positive Alternatives, continue to empower women and save lives. Today’s report is very positive news for mothers and children.”Abortions have dropped 52…Continue Reading

Has Christianity Failed?

July 11, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Has Christianity Failed?

By DONALD DeMARCO Whether Christianity has failed is a question that has resurfaced many times during its long history. To those who argued that Christianity has been tried and has failed, G.K. Chesterton responded by saying that “Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.” It is the easy road to Christianity that persists in failing, but not Christianity in its orthodox form.Perspective is most important in dealing with such a question. No doubt, Christianity has had its failures here and there, but over its 2,000-plus year history, it has succeeded splendidly. There is no other institution than the Catholic Church, for example, that has prevailed over this long a period of…Continue Reading

As America Recedes, China Rises

July 10, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on As America Recedes, China Rises

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN As our July Fourth celebrations were beginning, the U.S. quietly closed and abandoned Bagram Air Base, the largest American military base between the Persian Gulf and the South China Sea.Afghan looters were soon seen scavenging inside the base.The long retreat of the American Empire is underway, and this longest war is likely to end in bloody retribution for the Afghans who sided with us against the Taliban and are left behind.When the last American departed Bagram, The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. is making plans for “an emergency evacuation of the American embassy in Kabul amid concern that a worsening security situation in Afghanistan could imperil the remaining military and diplomatic corps.”Apparently, we are…Continue Reading

A Book Review… The Sacred Heart Of Jesus Is The Answer

July 9, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… The Sacred Heart Of Jesus Is The Answer

By REY FLORES Secrets of the Sacred Heart: Twelve Ways to Claim Jesus’ Promises in Your Life by Emily Jaminet. Visit www.avemariapress.com to order the book. Videos and additional resources can be found at WelcomeHisHeart.com. In the 1970s, as a little kid at my Catholic grade school in Chicago, I vaguely remember seeing a beautifully framed picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Even as a little first-grader, it touched my own heart in a very profound way. It was as if the images of Jesus and Mary themselves were speaking to my own heart and soul.The timelessness of God Himself and His glorious Catholic Church are devoutly presented in this recent book from…Continue Reading

VP Kamala: One Busy — And Ineffective — Leader

July 8, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on VP Kamala: One Busy — And Ineffective — Leader

By BARBARA SIMPSON (Editor’s Note: This commentary first appeared on WorldNetDaily on June 25.) + + It’s taken months since the president gave Kamala Harris the task of dealing with our border and the immigration issue. The only thing she has done was travel to Guatemala and Mexico and talk with officials. [She traveled to El Paso on June 26, which is not, however, the epicenter of the crisis.]How that gave her any insight into the problem the United States faces with the hundreds of thousands of people who cross our border with impunity and disappear into our heartland, remains unclear.When she was appointed to the task, word from Washington was that her team was “panicked” since it would put…Continue Reading