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How To Solve The Dilemma Of Pro-Abortion Catholic Pols

July 7, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on How To Solve The Dilemma Of Pro-Abortion Catholic Pols

By CHRISTOPHER MANION On June 18, a group of sixty Catholic Democrats currently serving in the House of Representatives published a “Statement of Principles” in defense of their support for abortion.“As Catholic Democrats in Congress, we are proud to be part of the living Catholic tradition — a tradition that unfailingly promotes the common good, expresses a consistent moral framework for life, and highlights the need to provide a collective safety net to those individuals in society who are the most vulnerable,” they write.Yes, the Statement was probably plagiarized from the USCCB’s website, where “Social Justice” — North America’s version of Liberation Theology — has been celebrated for decades.Consider:“We are committed to making real the basic principles that are at…Continue Reading

The Greatest Act Of Courage

July 6, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Greatest Act Of Courage

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY Master Sergeant Leo P. Day, who had served 16 years in the U.S. Army and was then stationed at the Presidio, went out that evening after dinner.He stood on the cliff overlooking Baker Beach and surveyed the scene with his binoculars.To his right stood the Golden Gate Bridge and the majestic headlands of Marin. To his left, the posh neighborhood of Sea Cliff spread along the shore.It had been an unusually hot day for May in San Francisco, and now, not surprisingly, two teenagers were swimming in the blue ocean waters just off the beach that sits just beyond the bay.Then it happened.“I trained my glasses on them and saw the boy thrashing about madly in…Continue Reading

EU To Orban: Back Gay Rights Or Get Out!

July 5, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on EU To Orban: Back Gay Rights Or Get Out!

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Respect LBGT rights or get out of the EU, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte instructed Hungary’s Viktor Orban at last week’s gathering of the European Union in Brussels.According to Reuters, attendees described it as the “most intense personal clash among the bloc’s leaders in years.”What caused the clash?Hungary just passed a law that bans schools from using materials seen as pro-homosexuality. According to the AP, the new law “prohibits sharing content on homosexuality or sex reassignment to people under 18 in school sex education programs, films or advertisements.”Rutte eagerly related details of his confrontation with Orban: “It was really forceful, a deep feeling that this could not be. It was about our values; this is what…Continue Reading

The Truth Will Get You Fired

July 4, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Truth Will Get You Fired

By DONALD DeMARCO The United States leads the world in the number of mass homicides. Why this is the case is both disturbing and perplexing. After each of these recurring horrific episodes, a civic leader will step to the microphone and express his deep sorrow for the victims and his compassion for their friends and relatives. “This must stop,” he will say, but he also confesses that he cannot begin to comprehend why this senseless violence continues to take place.“Our prayers and sympathies are with all those affected by this tragedy,” he will add. There are no new insights here, but a script that has been repeated often enough to become a standard response. It is accepted because it is…Continue Reading

Boris Johnson Defies Vladimir Putin’s Claim To Crimea

July 3, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Boris Johnson Defies Vladimir Putin’s Claim To Crimea

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN About that clash between a British destroyer and Russian warplanes and warships in the Black Sea last week there are conflicting versions.The Kremlin version is the more dramatic.HMS Defender, says Moscow, entered the Black Sea, made port in Odessa, Ukraine, and then sailed for Batumi on the coast of Georgia.However, the British warship traversed Russia’s territorial waters at the tip of the Crimean peninsula, near Sevastopol, Russia’s principal naval base on the Black Sea.The destroyer, say the Russians, had to be diverted by shellfire from a patrol boat and bombs dropped in its path by Sukhoi fighters.London’s version: Defender sailed through waters off Crimea that belong to Ukraine. Russian gunfire was far off and unthreatening. No…Continue Reading

Will Bishops Deny Biden Communion?

July 2, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Will Bishops Deny Biden Communion?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Last week, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops voted 168-55, more than 3-1, to provide new guidance for receiving Holy Communion.Behind the decision?Bishops’ alarm that the public religious practice of President Joe Biden is conveying a heretical message to the faithful and the nation.At Sunday Mass, Biden regularly receives Communion. Yet he not only supports Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to have an abortion, but his new administration also provides ample funding of abortions.Restrictions that existed in the Trump era, such as the Hyde Amendments that prohibit taxpayer-funding of abortions, are about to be lifted in the Biden presidency.If the “teaching document” the bishops are expected to produce is consistent with traditional doctrine, a…Continue Reading

Christian Flag Goes To U.S. Supreme Court

July 1, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Christian Flag Goes To U.S. Supreme Court

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Liberty Counsel on June 21 filed a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Boston resident Hal Shurtleff and his Christian civic organization, Camp Constitution, arguing that the city of Boston violated the First Amendment by censoring a private flag in a public forum merely because the application form referred to the flag as a “Christian flag.”Despite the clear evidence presented at trial, the First Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the city of Boston’s censorship of the Christian viewpoint on the public forum, a place designated as a “public forum” by Boston’s written policy and confirmed by its unbroken practice during which it never censored private speech — until Camp Constitution’s application. The Court…Continue Reading

President Biden’s Failure To Lead On Crime… Is Going To Slam Democrats At The Polls

June 30, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on President Biden’s Failure To Lead On Crime… Is Going To Slam Democrats At The Polls

By NEIL PATEL In the ongoing battle between Republicans and Democrats over who can scare away regular Americans more, the Democrats are going all in with their policies and rhetoric on violent crime. Left-wing Democrats have scared the hell out of regular Americans with their “defund the police” rhetoric and even more with actual cuts to funding for many big-city police departments and their refusal to prosecute many crimes.After a multi-decade decline, crime rates are way up. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that voters are not happy about this. After months of largely ignoring the problem, President Joe Biden realized he had to address it.In essence, Biden’s response pins the entire violent crime rise on access to guns. His solutions focus…Continue Reading

Bishop Batzing Says . . . Pope Francis Encourages Us To Continue On “Synodal Way”

June 29, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Bishop Batzing Says . . . Pope Francis Encourages Us To Continue On “Synodal Way”

VATICAN CITY (CNA) — Pope Francis encouraged the German Catholic Church to continue on its controversial “Synodal Way,” Bishop Georg Batzing said after a private audience at the Vatican.Batzing, the chairman of the German bishops’ conference, said June 24 that he assured the Pope that “rumors” that the German Church was seeking to diverge from the worldwide Church were untrue, reported CNA Deutsch, Catholic News Agency’s German-language news partner.“I informed the Pope in detail about the status of the Synodal Way and made it clear that the rumors that the Church in Germany wants to go its own way are not true,” he said in a statement on the German bishops’ conference website.“Pope Francis encouraged us to continue on the…Continue Reading

Defend The Rights Of People Like Jack Phillips… Or We May Soon Lose The Same Rights For Ourselves

June 28, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Defend The Rights Of People Like Jack Phillips… Or We May Soon Lose The Same Rights For Ourselves

By PHIL LAWLER (Editor’s Note: This commentary is reprinted with permission from CatholicCulture.org, where it appeared on June 22.) + + (CatholicCulture.org) — St. Thomas More, whose feast we celebrated on Tuesday, June 22, was put to death because he would not affirm what he did not believe. His witness should be an inspiration to the many Christians who are today facing the same unreasonable demands: demands that they embrace a lie.“Live not by lies,” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn exhorted us, in a powerful essay, released on the day that he was arrested in 1974. He knew the power of the lies that propped up the Soviet regime. And the leaders of that regime, in turn, recognized the power of the witness…Continue Reading