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Headlines Beauty in Culture and the Salvation of Souls By Deal W. Hudson | January 22, 2014 What did Fyodor Dostoevsky mean in The Idiot when one of his characters asserts, "Beauty will save the world?" Taken at face value, it's a claim that beauty plays a role in the salvation of us all. It also contains the implication that the culture surrounding us, as the platform where much of the world's beauty is displayed, fits into the plan of our salvation.Our unending delight is found in the beauty of God, in His presence to our souls. Yet beauty is also part of the journey, not just the destination. Continue Reading... Roe v Wade: After 41 Years and 56 Million Dead Children, the Evil of Legalized Abortion Must End By Deacon Keith Fournier | January 22, 2014 Without recognizing this first Right to Life there can be no recognition of any other derivative human rights. In fact, the entire infrastructure of human rights is placed at risk. All true Human Rights are goods of human persons. When there is no human person there can be no rights endowed upon them or exercised by them. All the other rights talk in the world will not change that. Every procured abortion is intrinsically immoral. It takes an innocent human life. Our position concerning the objective truth that every procured abortion is intrinsically immoral requires a public action. It is not simply a matter of personal opinion. Children are dying. Not opposing that horror and seeking to bring it to an end never serves the common good. Continue Reading... Comfortable in His Catholic Skin: The Ecumenical Courage of Cardinal Seán Patrick O'Malley By Deacon Keith Fournier | January 22, 2014 Some Catholics are heating up the blogosphere, making deeply uncharitable comments about Cardinal Seán Patrick O'Malley. They all center on his humble act of asking Anne Robertson, a Methodist Minister, to pray for him. The simple prayer of blessing involved the use of water, to symbolize our common Baptism as Christians. I assert that it showed the humble heart of a Franciscan Friar, priest, Bishop and Cardinal who is comfortable in his Catholic Skin. It took courage and humility. It should be admired and imitated, not criticized. Continue Reading... The Catholic Church: The Last Institution By Deal W. Hudson | January 22, 2014 Empires have come and gone, as have epochs - the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Romantic Age, and the Modern - but the Catholic Church has remained, and now it's arguably the Last Institution. The only certain bedrock in our culture is the natural law, and the Catholic Church is the only institution that believes in it. Those who rail against institutionalized religion have not thought seriously about the temporal nature of human existence. The passing of time does not destroy the wisdom of the past, rather it stores it away. A vision suddenly disclosing itself in time does not necessarily fade into a corrupted shadow of itself. Therefore, time may seem fluid, but it carries truth into the future. Time and eternity are not like oil and water - they cannot be mixed. That's where you will find the Catholic Church and all who are Her members. Continue Reading... Dr. Denton Weiss on Beautiful Living: Winter Blues, Weight Gain and the Need for GOOD Sleep By Dr Denton D. Weiss, M.D. | January 21, 2014 I receive a lot of questions about winter blues and difficulty sleeping this time of year. Many of those who write, or whom I meet in my medical practice, simply express what is so very common this time of year - It is winter and I am tired, why? Some express exasperation over not even being able to sleep. Even more express their concerns over that winter weight gain which seems to accompany the entire pattern! They are often all connected. As the winter seems to just drag on, let us consider once again the connections between that extra weight, winter blues and the need for good sleep. Continue Reading... Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's Dream Must Include Our Youngest neighbors in the Womb By Deacon Keith Fournier | January 21, 2014 Today and every day we should honor the memory and sacrificial life and death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - and help to fulfill his unfulfilled dream - by defending the first and fundamental human right, the Right to Life. Remember his own words, "Now is the time to make justice a reality to all of God's children". That includes our youngest neighbors in the womb. Defending them is the human rights, solidarity and equality cause of our age. Continue Reading... Obianuju Ekeocha: 12 Years A Slave, My Personal Reflective Movie Review By Obianuju Ekeocha | January 21, 2014 Who knows, just as I sat in the cinema last night to watch this movie titled "12 Years A Slave" , my own descendants might one day sit in a cinema to watch a movie titled "9 Months A Foetus" ! My prayer is that on that day, they will hold up their heads because you and I would have succeeded in establishing the just Law that protects (without discrimination) all human beings during their 9 months in the womb be they black, white, blond, blind or downs! Continue Reading... Culture, Its Delights and Distractions: The Culture of Celebrity By Deal Hudson | January 20, 2014 But the Kardasians and Reality TV! Need I say more? I sincerely hope not. There's something wrong in a culture when so much time, attention, and interest is directed towards banality. This is not to say that some genuine talent has been unearthed, fortunately, by putting so many quirky, high energy personalities on TV. Ah, but it's "just entertainment," you say? Our experiences of entertainment are among the most malleable, because we open ourselves in a particularly vulnerable way to laughter, tears, anger, hatred, admiration, and the reflection that goes with those intense emotions. We learn a great deal about a people and their culture from its major forms of mass entertainment. Continue Reading... In Stunning Homily Pope Francis Ties Abuse Scandal to Clergy who have No Relationship with God By Deacon Keith Fournier | January 20, 2014 Reports concerning this blunt homily are beginning to circulate through media sources around the world. It was a strong message to Catholic clergy who have lost their first love, by losing their intimate relationship with Jesus Christ. There have been other times in the history of the Church when the clergy have been corrupted by sin. God seems to begin His Spring cleaning in His own house. Perhaps, as the Apostle Peter wrote to the Church of the first millennium during another great missionary age: " the time has come for judgment to begin with the House of God." (1 Peter 4:17) Continue Reading...
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