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Canadian Bishops Condemn New Assisted Suicide Law

April 19, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Canadian Bishops Condemn New Assisted Suicide Law

WINNIPEG (CNA) — Canada’s Catholic bishops have condemned the country’s new assisted suicide law, and are asking for people to pray and to contact their elected officials in opposition to it.“At this point, it is important to become informed, to renew our involvement wherever we live, and to partner with members of our parish or other faith groups and organizations to continue lobbying our elected officials about these matters,” stated an April 9 letter by the president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic BishopsThe bishops have long opposed euthanasia and other forms of assisted suicide, Archbishop Richard Gagnon of Winnipeg said in his letter to the country’s Catholics, on behalf of his brother bishops.“Our position remains unequivocal. Euthanasia and assisted…Continue Reading

Philosophy And The Unexamined Life

April 18, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Philosophy And The Unexamined Life

By DONALD DeMARCO The prospect of undergoing a medical examination can be a source of acute anxiety. Who knows what fearful things the doctor might find! Nonetheless, ignorance is not bliss and medicine provides great potential benefits for everyone. We should look upon the medical profession with benevolence, not anxiety.Socrates was not a medical doctor. He did, however, strongly advocate examinations. “The unexamined life is not worth living,” is perhaps his most celebrated phrase as well as his most important directive. Putting one’s life on the examination table, however, may be a more fearful thing than submitting to one that is purely physical.As a philosophy teacher, I assume the role of Socrates. I operate without stethoscope or scalpel. My approach,…Continue Reading

Putin & Xi Have Red Lines, Too

April 17, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Putin & Xi Have Red Lines, Too

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN What are Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping up to?In recent days, Russian tanks, artillery, armor, trucks, and troops have been moving by road and rail ever closer to Ukraine, and Moscow is said to be repositioning its 56th Guards Air Assault Brigade in Crimea.Military sources in Kyiv estimate there are now 85,000 Russian troops between six and 25 miles from Ukraine’s northern and eastern borders.“I have real concerns about Russia’s actions on the borders of Ukraine. There are more Russian forces massed on those borders than at any time since 2014 when Russia first invaded,” said Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the April 11 Meet the Press. Blinken added this warning:“President Biden’s been very clear…Continue Reading

Priesthood: Penance, Anointing, And You

April 16, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Priesthood: Penance, Anointing, And You

By FR. MICHAEL P. ORSI It may seem strange to say it, but this past year of pandemic has brought blessings in unexpected ways.For one thing, it’s provided a time for thinking and reevaluating. We’ve been given a unique opportunity to reflect on our relationships — with our families, with our friends — and so to gain a new appreciation for how important those we care about really are.Many of us were unable to visit relatives, even when the need for personal contact was urgent.In my own case, my sister advised me to reconsider my plan for a visit home to New Jersey, unless I was prepared to stay two full weeks. If I tried to leave the state prior…Continue Reading

California! Who Needs It?

April 15, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on California! Who Needs It?

By DEACON MIKE MANNO Ahhh, California. A place where Americans used to look to for innovation, culture, and that yearning to live and breathe free. Its air was clean and its beauty and climate were a magnet for the rest of the country. We used to sing about “California Girls” and “Cable Cars” as if they were national treasures, and its agriculture was celebrated as coming from “the land of fruit and nuts.”Well, it’s still the land of fruit and nuts, but not the agricultural kind. The political kind. The California legislature is full of it, fruits and nuts, that is. They have considered and adopted more than their fair share of crazy ideas that they seriously consider in the…Continue Reading

The Tyranny Of The Majority

April 14, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Tyranny Of The Majority

By ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO “Which is better — to be ruled by one tyrant three thousand miles away, or three thousand tyrants one mile away?” — Rev. Mather Byles (1706-1788).Does it really matter if the instrument curtailing liberty is a monarch or a popularly elected legislature? This conundrum, along with the witty version of it put to a Boston crowd in 1775 by the little-known colonial-era preacher with the famous uncle — Cotton Mather, addresses the age-old question of whether liberty can survive in a democracy.Byles was a loyalist, who, along with about one-third of the American adult white male population in 1776, opposed the American Revolution and favored continued governance by Great Britain. He didn’t fight for the king…Continue Reading

Only A Few Months Since His Inauguration . . . What Happened To Biden’s Unity Agenda?

April 13, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Only A Few Months Since His Inauguration . . . What Happened To Biden’s Unity Agenda?

By NEIL PATEL Less than three months ago, President Joe Biden stood in front of the U.S. Capitol in the wake of the January 6 riots and delivered his inaugural address. He called for unity, and Americans who see a politically fractured country welcomed it. He could have then put together an agenda that would have accomplished many of his goals while also helping heal the country.On COVID-19, infrastructure, and other matters, there was a road to garnering massive bipartisan support. We focus a lot on disagreements, but in each of these areas, average citizens share a broad consensus that Biden could have reached.Oddly, after dedicating his inauguration to national unity, Biden has abandoned the pursuit entirely.Biden pushed through a…Continue Reading

Should Government Track The Miles You Drive?

April 12, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Should Government Track The Miles You Drive?

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY One American gets up in the morning, gets in his car and drives down a congested highway to work.Another wakes at noon and rides a subway to a saloon.Which of these two — if America’s future takes a wrong turn — would pay what might be called the “Buttigieg tax”?CNBC’s Kayla Tausche asked Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in a March 26 interview what sort of taxes he perceived as possible ways to pay for infrastructure projects.“First, a gas tax,” she asked. “You called it old-fashioned to raise the gas tax. Do you still believe that? Could that go up?”“Well,” said Buttigieg, “the gas tax has traditionally been part of how we fund the Highway Trust Fund,…Continue Reading

The Plight Of The Author

April 11, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Plight Of The Author

By DONALD DeMARCO Our parish bazaar was in its second day. Most of the more attractive items were gone on the opening day when crowds of treasure seekers stormed the church basement. Our pastor urged us to sweep clean any trinkets that remained. And so, after Mass, my wife and I made the short journey downstairs to inspect what others had passed over. My expectations were low. Nevertheless, while I was rummaging through the book section I found, to my chagrin, two of my own books. They were clean, unmarked, and presumably unread.Hilaire Belloc would have been grievously disappointed. The great essayist had said, though with tongue firmly planted in cheek, “When I am dead, I hope it may be…Continue Reading

Joe Biden’s Bid To Remake America

April 10, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Joe Biden’s Bid To Remake America

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN If Joe Biden’s American Jobs Program, outlined in Pittsburgh, is enacted, then the federal government will take a great leap forward toward irreversible control of the destiny of the Republic.To finance this leap, to subsidize this giant stride toward socialism, U.S. corporations are to be forced to turn over to the government a far larger slice of their earnings. The corporate tax rate is to be raised from 21 to 28 percent. And that is only the first of the new or added taxes to come — on incomes, capital gains, and estates.The bait to lure Republicans into embracing this $2.3 trillion in Great Society II and Green New Deal spending is the modest fraction to…Continue Reading