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Headlines Deal Hudson: A Hill Worth Dying On By Deal W. Hudson | February 18, 2014 Like that of Socrates, St. Thomas More's dilemma is easily translated to the challenges facing Catholics who enter politics in the 21st century. For 50 years, Catholic politicians have been required to make a choice between life and death; first the abortion issue, then the abortifacient contraception issue, and soon it will be euthanasia. Voting records tell the tale of who chose life and, in doing so, chose to risk losing elections rather than putting principle aside (usually to some deep, dark hole in their private conscience). Those Catholics in politics who ask whether "this is a hill worth dying on" are usually reluctant to die on any hill, much less recognize the moral high ground in the first place. When "electability" trumps all other considerations, defeat on election day doesn't leave the candidate lying on a hill representing the principles she fought for. No, she is simply forgotten, because there is nothing left to remember. Those who compromise and lose leave no legacy, no inspiration, their loss has no afterlife of gain. Continue Reading... Obianuju Ekeocha: Africa and the Totalitarian Approach of the Almighty Social Engineers By Obianuju Ekeocha | February 18, 2014 Africans should be alarmed at this point in our post-colonial history. We are seeing long standing universal morals and values being redefined by the wealthiest and most powerful nations in the world who are somehow able to push for the right to kill unborn babies on the same page as the right to homosexual marriage.To them a free woman is one who can decide to kill her own child before birth and a free adult is one who can form a family unit with a person of the same sex. Continue Reading... The Twenty-First Century War Against Judgment: The Loser is Not Only the Individual, but Society By Deacon F. K. Bartels | February 18, 2014 My daughter, whose duties include saving the lives of children, recently posted on Facebook the content of a conversation she had with another, unnamed nurse who works at Planned Parenthood. While my daughter is engaged in saving young people's lives, the other nurse is engaged in ending them. The comments that ensued displayed a serious lack of understanding with regard to proper, charitable judgment ordered toward fraternal correction, the good of another, as well as the good of society collectively.  FREE Gift Offer From Catholic Online - How can you receive your FREE Catholic Team Global T-shirt! By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | February 17, 2014 Catholic Online is giving everyone a cool opportunity to receive a free 'Catholic Team Global' T-shirt (valued at $19.99) with select donations of food they send to alleviate world hunger. Right now, every four-pack of Vita-Meal will earn you a free T-shirt. Continue Reading... Gossip 'fills the heart with bitterness and also poisons us,' Pope Francis says By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | February 18, 2014 Pope Francis' Sunday Angelus message emphasized the importance of avoiding all forms of slander in living a Christian life. Continue Reading... Planned Parenthood is An Evil Organization That Takes the Lives of Children By Deacon Keith Fournier | February 18, 2014 There is no moral distinction between what Planned Parenthood does and the intentional killing of a child outside of the womb. In addition, the time thresholds of "viability" under the insane and indefensible structure forced upon us by the Supreme Court's Roe and Doe decisions keep getting pushed back as our technology reveals the truth about our smallest neighbors. Science has confirmed what our consciences have known all along, every procured abortion kills a child. Our positive or civil law has rejected the Natural Law Right to Life and its prohibition against these intentional homicides committed against our youngest neighbors through procured abortions. Until the positive law is changed to reflect the truth, our tax dollars must no longer be used to engage in this evil. Continue Reading... Charles Carroll of Carrollton: A Catholic Legacy By Maureen Adams | February 17, 2014 Charles Carroll did not know he was to become a signer of the Declaration of Independence when, writing to his father from France, told him, "I trust in the mercy of God not my own merits, which are none, & hope he will pardon my daily offences. . . . I love him though far less than his infinite goodness deserves & I could wish to do". Carroll would go on to become the first Catholic political leader in the colonies and the only Catholic to sign the Declaration. Continue Reading... Ugh! Here we go again. Pope Francis speaks, the media jumps to conclusions. Now you don't HAVE to go to Mass, really? By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | February 13, 2014 Pope Francis has made a startling statement, but it's not surprising when viewed in the proper context. Pope Francis has said that people do not need to go to Mass, but it doesn't mean what people assume. Continue Reading... Dare We Hope All Are Saved? When Do We Abandon Hope? By Andrew M. Greenwell, Esq. | February 17, 2014 The question of whether we may reasonably hope all men are saved--a theory espoused by the Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar among others--must be analyzed with reference to the Church's teaching on the particular judgment which occurs immediately upon an individual's death. It is the Church's teaching that the eternal fate of that soul is then sealed: either Heaven directly (or indirectly via Purgatory) or Hell. A soul in the state of sanctifying grace obtains the former judgment. The unfortunate soul who dies in mortal sin obtains the latter. Von Balthasar's theory, therefore, cannot be applied to souls that have been judged by God in the particular judgment immediately following death without running afoul of the Church's teaching. Souls condemned to Hell in the particular judgment are past salvation, and it is not reasonable to hope for their salvation. Continue Reading...
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