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A Book Review . . . Justice And The Law Revisited

June 17, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review . . . Justice And The Law Revisited

By JOHN LYON Thomas Sowell, The Quest for Cosmic Justice. New York: The Free Press; 1999. At the heart of the argument set forth in this significant and engaging book stands the author’s account of what may appear a disconcerting exchange between Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and Judge Learned Hand. “Do justice, sir, do justice,” Hand enjoined his departing friend. “That is not my job,” Holmes replied. “It is my job to apply the law.”The disjunction between “justice” and “the law” as set forth in the Holmes-Hand passage may initially shock our puritanical and literal sensibilities. Nevertheless, it lies at the basis of Sowell’s contention. Law, in our tradition, is process-oriented. It is an attempt to work within given human…Continue Reading

Kamala’s Four Assignments From Joe… How Are They Working Out?

June 16, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Kamala’s Four Assignments From Joe… How Are They Working Out?

By BARBARA SIMPSON (Editor’s Note: This editorial first appeared on WorldNetDaily on June 4.) + + In the real world, you would think that being vice president of the United States would be enough of a full-time job — but hey, this is 2021. This is the presidency of Joe Biden — so Kamala Harris finds herself the recipient of jobs Joe doesn’t handle and those he doesn’t have anyone else to foist them on.After all, Kamala is there and she certainly doesn’t have the wherewithal to say “no.” It wouldn’t look good!So now she has been assigned four — count ’em — four jobs in addition to normal vice-presidential duties.Biden’s most recent “assignment” came in Tulsa, during his recent…Continue Reading

Will Biden Nullify This Founding Principle?

June 15, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Will Biden Nullify This Founding Principle?

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY Who should control taxation in America? The American citizens who live and work here or politicians who live somewhere else?That question seemed to be settled in 1783 when Great Britain ended its war to stop the United States from becoming an independent nation.Our revolution was precipitated by the British Parliament’s repeated efforts to impose taxes on the American people even though the American colonies were not represented in Parliament.The Parliament, for example, passed the Stamp Act in 1765.“The provisions of the Bill required certain goods to bear a revenue stamp, similar to those already used in Great Britain, and for which a fee was payable to the government for such ‘stamping’,” says an explanation of the…Continue Reading

Pride Month Shows… Christians Must Opt Out Of Mainstream Culture In America

June 14, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Pride Month Shows… Christians Must Opt Out Of Mainstream Culture In America

By JONATHON VAN MAREN (LifeSiteNews) — Nothing highlights the extent to which the Overton Window has shifted away from Judeo-Christian values to those of the sexual revolution like children’s entertainment during “Pride Month.” Those of you who follow the culture updates posted in this space will be aware that the queering of children’s entertainment has been moving at a rapid clip for some time; but in June, things tend to speed up. There was the Blue’s Clues jingle for kids sung by the drag queen, and new kid’s content for Pride is being pumped out almost daily.There’s plenty of swag being advertised, too. Nickelodeon is pushing shoes for kids that sport Sponge Bob SquarePants with the Pride rainbow and the…Continue Reading

The End Of Ethics

June 13, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The End Of Ethics

By DONALD DeMARCO There are two solutions on the horizon to our present national crisis. The first is a purely political one, which seeks to impose a way of life on people in the form of a set of arbitrary rules. We see this today with the widespread imposition of political correctness. The second is not primarily political but Christian, specifically ethics based on the natural law. Insofar as the latter urges people to live by love of God and neighbor, its appeal is to the inner person.The purely political solution, as history teaches us, consistently fails to bring about what it promises. The Christian solution will succeed, but only when people decide to live in accordance with their inalienable…Continue Reading

What Is America’s Cause In The World?

June 12, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on What Is America’s Cause In The World?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “Take away this pudding; it has no theme,” is a comment attributed to Winston Churchill, when a disappointing dessert was put in front of him.Writers have used Churchill’s remark to describe a foreign policy that lacks coherence or centrality of purpose.For most of our lifetimes, this has not been true of the United States. The goal of our foreign policy has been understandable and defined.From 1949-1989, it was Cold War containment of the Soviet Empire and USSR.Ronald Reagan believed in a “rollback” of Communism, once telling an aide that his policy might be summed up as: “We win. They lose.”At the Cold War’s end, George H.W. Bush said America would now lead mankind in the creation…Continue Reading

Christianity, The Soul Of The World

June 11, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Christianity, The Soul Of The World

By FR. DENIS WILDE, OSA One of the most concise yet revealing statements identifying Christianity in the ancient pagan Roman world is from the Letter to Diognetus: “A Christian is to the world what the soul is to the body.” All of these four nouns themselves prompt a certain definition, to be sure, but the analogy is rather immediate. The entire letter spells this out with balance, clarity and sensible, metaphoric insight. But whether a Christian looks at that statement to remind oneself, or whether the outsider is just curious amidst a plethora of other competing notions, as did the Athenians, enticed but measuring St Paul’s challenging oration (Acts 17:16-34), the statement defines today as much as ever.Take workouts, or…Continue Reading

The Holy Eucharist, The Passion, And The Priesthood

June 10, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Holy Eucharist, The Passion, And The Priesthood

By JAMES MONTI On May 29 I had the privilege of attending in New York the Ordination of ten men to the priesthood at St. Patrick’s Cathedral — six men for the Archdiocese of New York and four for the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal.Even with all the dire news of current evils besetting our country and the Church, an Ordination remains a powerful reason for hope. By the end of the morning there were ten more priests in our world, ten more priests to celebrate countless Masses over the decades to come, to heal the spiritually ill and raise the spiritually dead in the confessional, to witness and bless Catholic marriages, to baptize untold numbers of babies, and to…Continue Reading

Our Lady Of Fatima . . . The June 13 Apparition: “Don’t Lose Heart”

June 9, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Our Lady Of Fatima . . . The June 13 Apparition: “Don’t Lose Heart”

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY The June 13, 1917 saw the second apparition of Our Lady of Fatima to the young shepherds, Jacinta, Francisco, and Lucia. The message given by the Blessed Virgin on that day is a very important one, indeed vital, but it has been somewhat overshadowed by what she said during the first apparition, on May 13, and by what happened during the third apparition, on July 13.During the May apparition, our Lady told the children that they would go to Heaven, and also asked them if they were willing to offer themselves to God and bear all the sufferings He willed to send them, as an act of reparation for the conversion of sinners.When Lucia replied in…Continue Reading

Biden Plans To Reduce The Deficit — In 2030

June 8, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Biden Plans To Reduce The Deficit — In 2030

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY Americans, President Joe Biden’s budget proposal suggests, should not worry that he plans to significantly increase federal deficits over the next eight years.Why? Because he intends to begin reducing them — but not eliminating them — nine years from now.Of course, even if the now 78-year-old Biden were to run for reelection in 2024 and win the presidency again, he would be out of office in nine years.Page 26 of Biden’s budget proposal carries a profoundly ironic subhead. It says: “Putting the Nation on a Fiscally Responsible Path.”“The Budget charts a fiscally responsible path for delivering a stronger, more prosperous economy,” it says.“In response to the Nation’s longer-term fiscal challenges, the Budget’s proposals would reduce the…Continue Reading