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Archbishop Chaput . . . Discusses New Book, Cultural Challenges, Biden Administration

March 30, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Archbishop Chaput . . . Discusses New Book, Cultural Challenges, Biden Administration

PHILADELPHIA (CNA) — Archbishop Charles Chaput, OFM Cap., who retired as archbishop of Philadelphia last year, has released a new book taking a look at how Catholics can ground their life in “right loyalties” in order to remember the things that are really important.Catholic News Agency recently spoke with Archbishop Chaput about Things Worth Dying for: Thoughts on a Life Worth Living, published March 16 by Henry Holt and Co.During the conversation, the archbishop discussed how Catholics can hold fast to their faith in an often-hostile world, and how remembering one’s death can help focus and orient one’s life.He also touched on recent changes in American culture, challenges in U.S. politics, and his life since retiring as archbishop of Philadelphia…Continue Reading

Who Will Keep Our Liberties Safe?

March 29, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Who Will Keep Our Liberties Safe?

By JUDGE ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO What if liberty and democracy are opposites? What if the principle underlying liberty is to restrain the government to maximize individual autonomy? What if the principle underlying democracy is to unleash the government to give the people whatever they want?What if personal liberty is an individual birthright because we are created in the image and likeness of God? What if just as God is perfectly free, we are perfectly free? What if our personal liberties are integral to our humanity? What if personal freedom — which we are free to abuse — is God’s greatest gift, after life itself? What if, without freedom, we would not be fully human but subservient to whoever or whatever…Continue Reading

The Power Of Words

March 28, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Power Of Words

By DONALD DeMARCO The adage that the pen is mightier than the sword is a testament to the power of words. The right words can change a person’s life and place him on a better course. Scripture is replete with powerful verbal phrases that can inspire comfort, courage, and confidence. Consider the following five-word phrases culled from the Bible: “I will be with you” (Isaiah 43:2); “My peace I give you” (John 14:27); “I will not forget you” (Isaiah 49:27); “I will give you rest” (Matt. 11:28); “You are precious and honored” (Isaiah 43:4).Words can be an inspiration on an everyday level for ordinary people. But they can also be an important inspiration for those who are well known.A young…Continue Reading

Why Is Biden Creating His Own Crises?

March 27, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Why Is Biden Creating His Own Crises?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Our mainstream media largely ignored it, the world media did not.Ascending the stairs of Air Force One on Friday, March 19 to fly to Georgia, President Joe Biden slipped and stumbled. Getting up, he slipped again and then fell. The scene was jolting and disquieting.Adversaries abroad will use it as a metaphor for the decline of the last superpower to emerge from the Cold War.And while our major media may scoff at it, there is talk all over this town about what appears to be the visibly declining physical and mental capacity of this oldest of American presidents at 78.Biden’s press conference Thursday, March 25 — after the longest delay before a first full presidential press…Continue Reading

Virginia Governor… Signs Abortion Coverage Expansion Into Law

March 26, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Virginia Governor… Signs Abortion Coverage Expansion Into Law

WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNA) — Virginia’s governor on Friday, March 12, signed a bill into law expanding abortion coverage in the state, prompting a rebuke from the state’s bishops.Gov. Ralph Northam (D) signed the legislation, House Bill 1896 and Senate Bill 1276, which allows abortion coverage to be included without limits in health plans on the state exchanges. The health plans often receive subsidies, which means that taxpayers would be funding abortions under the law.“Gov. Northam has crossed yet another tragic threshold by inserting abortion without limits into Virginia’s health benefits exchange,” stated Bishop Michael Burbidge of Arlington and Bishop Barry Knestout of Richmond on March 12.“We decry the enactment of this deplorable policy, which is built on the destructive lie…Continue Reading

Congregation For The Doctrine Of The Faith . . . Catholic Church Cannot Give Blessings To Same-Sex Unions

March 25, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Congregation For The Doctrine Of The Faith . . . Catholic Church Cannot Give Blessings To Same-Sex Unions

VATICAN CITY (CNA) — The Vatican’s doctrinal office on Monday, March 15 clarified that the Catholic Church does not have the power to give liturgical blessings of homosexual unions.Answering the question, “does the Church have the power to give the blessing to unions of persons of the same sex,” the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith responded, “negative.”In an accompanying note, the doctrinal office explained that blessings are sacramentals, and “consequently, in order to conform with the nature of sacramentals, when a blessing is invoked on particular human relationships, in addition to the right intention of those who participate, it is necessary that what is blessed be objectively and positively ordered to receive and express grace, according to the…Continue Reading

The Equality Act . . . A Most Discriminatory Piece Of Legislation

March 24, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Equality Act . . . A Most Discriminatory Piece Of Legislation

By JOHN LYON “The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General” — Harrison Bergeron, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1961). + + It is possible that we shall have to wait another sixty years (120 years from Vonnegut’s publication of this story) to get these Amendments passed, but there are more expeditious means to this goal,…Continue Reading

Cardinal Burke Issues Statement . . . On Offering Holy Mass In The Pa

March 23, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Cardinal Burke Issues Statement . . . On Offering Holy Mass In The Pa

(Editor’s Note: Raymond Cardinal Burke issued this March 13 commentary about a new Vatican document concerning the offering of Mass in Saint Peter’s Basilica. The text of Cardinal Burke’s commentary is found at www.cardinalburke.com/presentations.(Cardinal Burke expressed a number of concerns about the document, regarding both its form and its contents. For example:(“The document imposes concelebration upon priests who wish to offer the Holy Mass in Saint Peter’s Basilica, which is contrary to universal Church law and which unjustly conditions the primary duty of the individual priest to offer the Holy Mass daily for the salvation of the world (can. 902).”(And: “With regard to the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, which the document falsely calls the Extraordinary Rite, the document…Continue Reading

A Book Review… A Gateway To Devotion To St. Joseph

March 22, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… A Gateway To Devotion To St. Joseph

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY Consecration to St. Joseph: The Wonders of Our Spiritual Father, by Fr. Donald Calloway (Marian Press, Paperback and Kindle). In writing Consecration to St. Joseph: The Wonders of Our Spiritual Father, Fr. Donald Calloway has produced a much needed work in which he succeeds in bringing out the immense significance for Catholics of St. Joseph, the foster father of Christ and husband of our Lady.The book is divided into three parts — the first of these deals with a 33 Day preparation for Consecration to St. Joseph which parallels the similar De Montfort Consecration to Our Lady. The second part is entitled, “The Wonders of our Spiritual Father,” and has numerous readings about the saint which…Continue Reading

Getting Beyond Transgenderism

March 21, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Getting Beyond Transgenderism

By DONALD DeMARCO The current obsession with transgenderism in America has created a great deal of confusion. Are there no longer two distinct sexes? Is Genesis no longer a reliable authority? Or is it the case that sex is fluid and the sexes are interchangeable? Is one’s sex simply a matter of choice? Is sex change a “right,” even for minors?In addition to disseminating a confusing message, transgenderism intimidates any dissenters. People have lost their jobs for insisting that there are but two sexes — male and female. Transgenderism is now the official doctrine. Those who argue against it do so at their own peril. President Biden’s nominee for Secretary of Health is a man who has transgendered to a…Continue Reading