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Speakers Examine . . . St. John Paul II’s Messages On Beauty, Arts, And Feminine Genius

April 29, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Speakers Examine . . . St. John Paul II’s Messages On Beauty, Arts, And Feminine Genius

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — “The first century Roman empire was just like now” with a culture of death, that women must lead the charge against, one of the speakers said during a morning presentation on St. John Paul II’s messages on beauty, arts, and the feminine genius.Systems need to be redesigned to be more loving, Simone Rizkallah said St. John Paul said. Rizkallah, an official of a program to educate women about their dignity, later said that the saint said women are more capable than men of paying attention to another person because of their capacity to be mothers, whether or not they’re biological mothers.Rizkallah is director of program growth for ENDOW, the acronym for Educating on the Nature…Continue Reading

Climate Follies… Kerry Leads The Way Back Into The Disastrous Paris Climate Accords

April 28, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Climate Follies… Kerry Leads The Way Back Into The Disastrous Paris Climate Accords

By STEVEN MOSHER (LifeSiteNews) — After fossil-fueling his way back and forth to Shanghai — expelling a few dozen tons of carbon dioxide into the upper atmosphere in the process — Climate Czar John Kerry announced that he had reached an agreement with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).Their joint statement about the “climate crisis” begins with:“The United States and China are committed to cooperating with each other and with other countries to tackle the climate crisis, which must be addressed with the seriousness and urgency that it demands. This includes both enhancing their respective actions and cooperating in multilateral processes, including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement. Both countries recall their historic contribution to…Continue Reading

U.S. Bishops . . . Commemorate “Horrific Tragedy” Of Armenian Genocide

April 27, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on U.S. Bishops . . . Commemorate “Horrific Tragedy” Of Armenian Genocide

WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNA) — The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a statement on Monday, April 19 recognizing the then upcoming anniversary of the Armenian genocide.“April 24 is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, marking the 1915 start of a campaign that resulted in the death of as many as 1.2 million Armenian Christians — victims of mass shootings, death marches to distant camps, torture, assaults, starvation, and disease,” stated Bishop David Malloy of Rockford, Ill., chair of the USCCB’s international justice and peace committee.“Thousands of Armenian children were torn from their families and forcibly converted,” he added. “This horrific tragedy was intended to eliminate the Armenian people and their culture in what has been called the ‘first genocide of the twentieth…Continue Reading

Liturgical Lessons In Time Of Plague

April 26, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Liturgical Lessons In Time Of Plague

By FR. MICHAEL P. ORSI The Church and all of us as believers have had a tough year, with so many adjustments made in response to the coronavirus “plague.” We’ve had to accept restrictions on Mass attendance. We’ve suspended congregational singing. Even funerals have been limited to only immediate family of the deceased.There’s no doubt it’s been challenging. It’s been frustrating. It’s been a time of trial, from which we haven’t yet fully emerged.But, this year has also provided opportunities to examine some of the sacramental and liturgical practices we usually don’t ponder too deeply. And it’s forced some creative thinking that may suggest positive ways of going forward, even when fears about contagion are finally behind us.At my parish…Continue Reading

Did Mary Fulfill Her Potential?

April 25, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Did Mary Fulfill Her Potential?

By DONALD DeMARCO The word “potential” has very broad implications. We all have a potential for doing both good and evil. And which potential for good we should follow can be difficult to discern. Over the course of my lifetime, I have turned down jobs as a factory worker, librarian, fund-raiser, high school teacher, encyclopedia salesman, and a piano player in a band. I suppose I had some potential for each of these enterprises. But I always thought that something more encompassing was at stake. It had to do with my destiny, and that would be worked out only in collaboration with God.At the same time, love must be an ever-present counterpart. I cannot say to another, “Sorry, I can’t…Continue Reading

Who Will Be The Next “America First” President?

April 24, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Who Will Be The Next “America First” President?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN When President Joe Biden announced he would withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, GOP hawks like Senators Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham responded predictably.“Grave mistake,” muttered McConnell.“Insane,” said Graham, “dumber than dirt and . . . dangerous.”Of more interest were the responses of conservative Republicans who commended the president. Among them were Senators Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and ex-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a group that contains several potential candidates for the GOP nomination in 2024.Donald Trump himself weighed in Sunday, April 18, saying Biden’s decision was “wonderful,” but Joe should have stuck to Trump’s May 1 deadline for withdrawal from Afghanistan.Adding a veteran’s voice to the broad…Continue Reading

The Coming War On Christian Education

April 23, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Coming War On Christian Education

By PAUL KRAUSE There is a war on excellence in America. Everything excellent, in this new dystopian woke universe, is a legacy of white supremacy, male privilege, and Christian bigotry. Look no further than recent assaults against private schools, grading standards, and academic selectivity which are guilty of all the “woke” sins. In the wake of these attacks, it won’t be long until the vandals turn their sights to Christian education.The vandalizing war for equality is really a veil to mask rage, hatred, and animosity against the deplorable and irredeemable class: white Americans, Christians, and men (and any woman who supports the patriarchy and Christianity). Rather than improve the lives and standards of all, the “woke” shock troops aim to…Continue Reading

A Child Of Mary Forever… Venerable Maria Teresa Quevedo (1930-1950)

April 22, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on A Child Of Mary Forever… Venerable Maria Teresa Quevedo (1930-1950)

By JAMES MONTI It was on Monday of Holy Week, April 14, 1930 that the Quevedo family of Madrid saw the birth of their third child, a girl who just twenty years later would be called to eternal life at the conclusion of Holy Week, on Holy Saturday, April 8, 1950. Within that narrow span our Lord and our Lady were to accomplish great things in the soul of Maria Teresa Quevedo, who would come to say of herself, “I am in a hurry to grow holy” (quoted in Sr. Mary Pierre, RSM, Mary was Her Life: The Story of a Nun: Sister Maria Teresa Quevedo, 1930-1950, New York, Benziger Bros. 1963, p. 67).As a toddler, Teresita, as her family…Continue Reading

Thoughts On My Summons… A Retired Catholic Physician Contemplates Dying

April 21, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Thoughts On My Summons… A Retired Catholic Physician Contemplates Dying

By JAMES ASHER, D.O. Part 3 (Editor’s Note: Dr. James Asher is a retired family physician. His practice experience has included family practice, emergency medicine, prison, military, and the Indian Health Service. He and his wife live in Phoenix where they are members of the Cathedral Parish of Saints Simon and Jude. They are parents of seven adult children, fourteen grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. He is a fourth degree Knight of Columbus and vice president of the Catholic Medical Association of Phoenix.(He has been an occasional contributor to The Wanderer. He is completing the book Searching for a Few Good Men, intended as a complement to mentors working with young men. He can be reached at: Grampa6101@gmail.com. Part 1 appeared…Continue Reading

Bishops In Democratic Republic Of The Congo . . . Worried About Killings, Forced Conversions In East

April 20, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Bishops In Democratic Republic Of The Congo . . . Worried About Killings, Forced Conversions In East

By JUDE ATEMANKE BUNIA, DR CONGO (CNA) — Renewed violence in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo that has resulted in the killing of civilians is a cause of concern, Catholic bishops in the central African nation said Thursday, April 8, appealing for an end to the bloodshed.In their statement, members of the Standing Committee of the National Episcopal Conference of Congo said, “War is the mother of all miseries, it affects all spheres of society and compromises the future of our children.”“To those who have taken up arms we say: ‘Stop killing your brothers’,” the bishops said.They invited those who are caught up in divisions to “know that it is through love and unity that evil…Continue Reading