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Who And What Killed George Floyd?

March 20, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Who And What Killed George Floyd?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN George Floyd was not choked to death. He was not asphyxiated. He was not killed by Chauvin’s knee on the side of his neck. An autopsy showed Floyd’s neck muscles were not even bruised.Friday, March 12, as the jury was being empaneled for the trial of fired police officer Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis City Council voted 13-0 to approve a record $27 million civil settlement with the family of George Floyd over his death in police custody.The jury will not likely miss this message sent by the city fathers:I.e., an atrocity was perpetrated by our police, and we are admitting our responsibility and doing our duty by offering these reparations for Floyd’s cruel and unjustified death…Continue Reading

Biden Administration Asks… Supreme Court To Toss Out Abortion Funding Case

March 19, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Biden Administration Asks… Supreme Court To Toss Out Abortion Funding Case

WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNA) — The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to throw out a challenge to restrictions on federal funding of pro-abortion groups, signaling it intends to roll back the restrictions.In 2019, the Trump administration issued the Title X Protect Life Rule, clarifying that recipients of Title X family planning grants could not refer for abortions and could not be co-located with abortion facilities. Rather than comply with the rule, Planned Parenthood announced its withdrawal from the program later that year, forfeiting an estimated $60 million in annual Title X funding.The Baltimore mayor and city council, as well as a number of states and pro-abortion groups, challenged the rule in court. While the Fourth Circuit court in September…Continue Reading

Gunmen Abduct Schoolgirls In Nigeria

March 18, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Gunmen Abduct Schoolgirls In Nigeria

VATICAN CITY (Vatican News) — In a sign of the total breakdown of security in the north of Africa’s most populous country, unidentified gunmen kidnapped a number of schoolgirls from the town of Jangebe in northwest Nigeria early on Friday, March 5, a Reuters report has said. A state spokesman confirmed the abductions, the second such kidnapping in little over a week.Sulaiman Tanau Anka, the information commissioner for Zamfara state, told Reuters that it was not immediately clear how many children had been seized. Some reports say the number of abducted students might be as many as 300.According to the information commissioner, the kidnapping took place about midnight.“Unknown gunmen came shooting sporadically and took the girls away,” Anka said.†“Information available…Continue Reading

A Book Review… Of God, Man, Sin, And Monsters

March 17, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… Of God, Man, Sin, And Monsters

By REY FLORES Immortal Combat: Confronting the Heart of Darkness by Fr. Dwight Longenecker (Sophia Institute Press: Manchester, N.H., 2020), 122 pages. To order, visit www.SophisInstitute.com or call 800-888-9344. Fr. Dwight Longenecker’s latest book is titled Immortal Combat: Confronting the Heart of Darkness. It is an aptly titled book given that Fr. Longenecker literally takes the reader into the dark, frightening labyrinth of our own hearts and minds.The better part of it is that Fr. Longenecker also helps provide the necessary weaponry and tools for us to fend off the attackers, the monsters who lurk about this book and our lives, whose only mission is to cause us to sin and turn our backs on God.It is the timeless battle…Continue Reading

The Year Of St. Joseph . . . Consecration To Redemptoris Custos

March 16, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Year Of St. Joseph . . . Consecration To Redemptoris Custos

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY Pope Francis proclaimed a Year of St. Joseph last December, and this runs until December 8, 2021. To mark this event, he issued an apostolic letter entitled Patris Cordes (“With a Father’s Heart”). The letter marks the 150th anniversary of Blessed Pope Pius IX’s declaration of St. Joseph as Patron of the Universal Church in 1870. This declaration was made regarding St. Joseph because of his position as the foster father and guardian of Christ, a position which is paralleled in the economy of salvation such that he, with regard to the Body of Christ, that is the Church, exercises a spiritual paternity.Even before the 1870 declaration, Pope Pius IX, had, in 1847, extended the feast…Continue Reading

What Caliber Is Face Paint?… Even As Democrats Scheme On, God Laughs

March 15, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on What Caliber Is Face Paint?… Even As Democrats Scheme On, God Laughs

By DEXTER DUGGAN The remarkable English detective Sherlock Holmes, created by author Arthur Conan Doyle, solved cases with small but significant clues like “the dog that didn’t bark.” A famous racehorse was stolen, but the watchdog didn’t bark, leading the cool Holmes to conclude that the thief was known to the dog, who felt at ease with this nighttime intruder.One characteristic we expect from crime-scene and emergency personnel is emotional distance. That’s a necessary protective mechanism for themselves and the public they’re speaking to. Even if, say, 150 people were just killed in a plane crash, we don’t expect to hear police or fire officers gasping or moaning when they face the microphones.And when they’re communicating with each other in…Continue Reading

The Truth Will Make You Flee

March 14, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Truth Will Make You Flee

By DONALD DeMARCO “The truth will make you odd,” wrote Flannery O’Connor. For Ralph Waldo Emerson, God has given us a choice between truth and repose. We cannot have both. “Truth is incontrovertible,” stated Winston Churchill. “Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.” Truth is the first casualty of war. In contrast with these remarks, Christ reminds us that “the truth shall set you free” (John 8:32).With regard to solving the race problem, it appears that the truth, which is resented, derided, and distorted, makes people flee. Renowned surgeon Dr. Ben Carson has pointed out an unpalatable truth, namely, that the media are relentlessly promoting white guilt along with black victimization.…Continue Reading

The Emerging Existential Crisis At The Border

March 13, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Emerging Existential Crisis At The Border

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN During a Democratic debate in 2020, the candidates were asked if their health-care plans would cover “undocumented immigrants.”Each raised his or her hand, including front-runner Joe Biden.From that stage, the message went forth: If the Democrats win this election, then it is amnesty for all and open borders in America.The message was reinforced by repeated Democratic praise for sanctuary cities, by calls to “abolish ICE” and end deportations, by pledges to stop work on Donald Trump’s wall, if not to tear it down.Message sent to Mexico, Central America, and the Third World:If the Democrats win and you make it across the border into the United States, under President Joe Biden, you will not be sent back.…Continue Reading

Who Really Imperils The Republic?

March 12, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Who Really Imperils The Republic?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “That attack, that siege” of the Capitol, FBI Director Chris Wray told Congress, “was criminal behavior, plain and simple, and it was behavior we at the FBI view as domestic terrorism.”“Domestic terrorism,” said Wray, echoing his boss.For what had been President-elect Joe Biden’s reaction to the Capitol riot?“Don’t dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob. Insurrectionists. Domestic terrorists. It’s that basic. It’s that simple,” said Biden.Yet, the phrase domestic terrorism conjures up events from our past far graver than a four-hour occupation of the Capitol. Nat Turner’s rebellion. John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harper’s Ferry. Timothy McVeigh and Oklahoma City.The near assassination of Harry Truman at Blair House by Puerto Rican nationalists, November 1,…Continue Reading

Cardinal Tobin… Appointed Member Of Vatican’s Congregation For Bishops

March 11, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Cardinal Tobin… Appointed Member Of Vatican’s Congregation For Bishops

By HANNAH BROCKHAUS VATICAN CITY (CNA) — Pope Francis on March 4 appointed the archbishop of Newark, Joseph Cardinal Tobin, a member of the Congregation for Bishops.Pope Francis also named Sergio Cardinal da Rocha, archbishop of Sao Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, a member of the same 25-member Vatican congregation.As a member, Cardinal Tobin joins another American, Blase Cardinal Cupich of Chicago. Donald Cardinal Wuerl, archbishop emeritus of Washington, D.C., was also a member of the Congregation for Bishops until aging out in November 2020 at the age of 80.The Congregation for Bishops is responsible for overseeing the selection and appointment of bishops. It also deals with the erection and suppression of dioceses, oversight of bishops, and the preparation for and…Continue Reading