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The Problem With Love

May 9, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Problem With Love

By DONALD DeMARCO Love is the will to promote the good in another. Because love operates on the plane of reality, it needs the truth of the other in order to do its work effectively. Love is not blind; its guiding light is the truth about the one who is loved. “Love is not blind,” as G.K. Chesterton reminds us, “that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.”Love binds one person to another in a way that is intended to benefit the other. Love has little meaning as an abstraction floating in isolation. Therefore, love is ineffective as long as it is unaccompanied by truth. This…Continue Reading

Biden Vs. Biden On “Is America A Racist Country?”

May 8, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Biden Vs. Biden On “Is America A Racist Country?”

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “Hear me clearly: America is not a racist country.”So declared Sen. Tim Scott, a Black Republican, in his televised rebuttal to Joe Biden’s address to Congress.Asked the next day what he thought of Scott’s statement, Biden said he agrees. “No, I don’t think the American people are racist.”Vice President Kamala Harris also agreed with Scott, “No, I don’t think America is a racist country.”What makes these rejections of the charge of racism against America significant is that Biden and Harris both seemed to say the opposite after Derek Chauvin was convicted.Biden had called George Floyd’s death “a murder (that) ripped the blinders off for the whole world to see the systemic racism . . . that…Continue Reading

Pope Francis To Hold Consistory . . . Last Step Before Canonization Of Blessed Charles de Foucauld

May 7, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Pope Francis To Hold Consistory . . . Last Step Before Canonization Of Blessed Charles de Foucauld

By HANNAH BROCKHAUS VATICAN CITY (CNA) — The Vatican announced on April 26 that Pope Francis will hold an Ordinary Public Consistory, the last step before the canonizations of seven men and women, including Blessed Charles de Foucauld, can take place.The consistory is set for 10:00 a.m. on May 3, after the praying of Terce, or mid-morning prayer, from the Liturgy of the Hours.At the consistory, cardinals will vote to approve the canonizations of seven beatified men and women. This vote is the last step in the canonization process and allows a date to be set for a Mass of canonization.Only cardinals resident or present in Rome will take part in the consistory, which will be held in the consistory…Continue Reading

America Did Not Transform Afghanistan

May 6, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on America Did Not Transform Afghanistan

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY President George W. Bush stood before the U.S. Capitol in 2005 and delivered an Inaugural Address in which he declared his utopian vision that the United States had a mission to change the world.He was wrong. History has now proved it.“The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands,” Bush said. “The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.”“So, it is the policy of the United States,” he said, “to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.”One place Bush was referring…Continue Reading

Biden Did Not Speak To The Faithful

May 5, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Biden Did Not Speak To The Faithful

By BILL DONOHUE (Editor’s Note: Catholic League President Bill Donohue commented at catholicleague.org on President Biden’s April 28 speech.) + + In his address to the Congress, President Biden spoke to many of his constituents, mostly in the way of promising an expansion of existing government programs or starting new ones. He did not address the concerns of religious Americans.Over the past year, the faithful have had their religious rights abridged, if not eviscerated, by COVID restrictions. There were several court battles, reaching to the U.S. Supreme Court. Biden said nothing about these First Amendment restrictions. Nor did he mention the words “religion” or “religious liberty” in his speech.The president did, however, speak to the rights of men who think…Continue Reading

High School Female Athletes Appeal Ruling Against Them

May 4, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on High School Female Athletes Appeal Ruling Against Them

HARTFORD, Conn. — Four Connecticut female athletes will appeal a federal district court ruling issued Sunday, April 25 that dismisses their legal challenge to a Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference policy allowing biological males who identify as female to compete in girls’ athletic events.Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing the athletes in Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools will continue to challenge the policy before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Since 2017, boys have consistently deprived Selina Soule, Chelsea Mitchell, Alanna Smith, and Ashley Nicoletti of honors and opportunities to compete at elite levels.Mitchell, for example, would have won the 2019 state championship in the women’s 55-meter indoor track competition, but because two males took first and second…Continue Reading

A Book Review… A Needed In-Depth Look At Rome Under Nazi Occupation

May 3, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… A Needed In-Depth Look At Rome Under Nazi Occupation

By JAMES BARESEL Rome, City in Terror: The Nazi Occupation, 1943-44 by Victor Failmezger, Osprey Publishing, 2020. Pius XII and the Second World War by Fr. Pierre Blet, SJ. Hitler, the War and the Pope by Ronald Rychlak. The Myth of Hitler’s Pope by David Dalin. Most readers will be familiar with these titles. Many have probably read at least one of them. But all of them — from the most introductory to the most exhaustive — omit by necessity quite a bit of information about just what was going on in Rome during the year between the fall of Benito Mussolini and the Allied liberation of the city, the year of the Nazi occupation.Why? Because they look at the…Continue Reading

What Is First Is Foremost

May 2, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on What Is First Is Foremost

By DONALD DeMARCO I came across an anonymous remark that stirred my imagination: “We don’t need farms anymore, we buy our food from grocery stores.” Whether the author of this gem was being facetious or whether he was a candidate for the Naiveté of the Year Award did not matter to me. It was the implications of his words that set my mind spinning.Philosophy began when certain individuals realized that there is something beyond appearances. A stick appears to bend when placed below the surface of the water line. In reality, however, it does not bend. Appearance and reality are not identical. This insight (which is truly an “in-sight”) inaugurated the philosophical quest for truth.What is it that causes us…Continue Reading

Is America Led Today By Anti-Americans?

May 1, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Is America Led Today By Anti-Americans?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN How can America unite again to do great things if we are led by people who believe America suffers from a great sickness of the soul, an original sin that dates back to her birth as a nation?Consider.After his long night of prayer for “the right verdict” to be pronounced — Derek Chauvin was convicted on all three counts — Joe Biden stepped before the White House cameras to tell us what it all meant.George Floyd’s death, said Biden, “was a murder in the full light of day, and it ripped the blinders off for the whole world to see the systemic racism… that is a stain on our nation’s soul — the knee on the…Continue Reading

Book Review . . . A Memorable Book On Those “Not Forgotten”

April 30, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Book Review . . . A Memorable Book On Those “Not Forgotten”

By JIM M. VALOIS Not Forgotten by George Weigel (Ignatius Press, San Francisco: 2021); available in paperback and as eBook. Order at Ignatius.com or call 1-800-651-1531. I once had the pleasure of hearing Academy Award-winning actor Charlton Heston give a riveting speech in the Ohio Valley steel town of Steubenville. Heston recalled how he had to really stretch to play the roles of some of the great men of history: Moses, John the Baptist, Sir Thomas More, and El Cid.George Weigel wields his sharp pen as an effective tool to share with us some of the great men and women of the twentieth century. And he goes one step further by sharing many lesser known luminaries that have touched our…Continue Reading