Politics

September 30, 2019

State Can’t Close Catholic Adoption Agency That Wants to Place Kids With Mother and Father, by Steven Ertelt

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews - The state of Michigan has lost its attempt to close a Catholic adoption agency that wants to operate according to its religious beliefs… Catholic Charities West Michigan asked a court to stop officials from illegally targeting it and forcing it to close because of its religious beliefs. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services tried to enforce a new policy that targets the ministry’s policy prioritizing the placement of children in homes with a mother and father.

September 28, 2019

The Democrats Punish America for Voting Wrong. Bad Proles, BAD! by John Zmirak

By John Zmirak, The Stream - In the minds of our ruling classes, when Barack Obama got elected, that overturned everything. It was meant to be a permanent regime change in America, like the one the Democrats imposed on Libya… Recall how Obama promised that his job was “fundamentally transforming” the country? He wasn’t kidding, and his promise set expectations high. Remember the messianic fervor among the mainstream media and academia that greeted his win? And the prolonged, irrational hysteria that greeted Trump’s? Those two phenomena go together.

September 27, 2019

Amazon Synod Preparatory Document Steeped in Liberation Theology, by Stephen Wynne (Includes Video)

By Stephen Wynne, Church Militant - The impact of liberation theology on the upcoming Amazon Synod is coming into sharper view… Concerns over the Amazon Synod's Instrumentum Laboris are being compounded by an earlier preparatory document "Towards the Pan-Amazonian Synod: Challenges and Contributions from Latin America and the Caribbean."… Rife with heretical statements, the Bogotá document hails ex-priest Leonardo Boff, a leading advocate of liberation theology censured by the Vatican for his attacks on Catholic doctrine… The document scorns the salvific mission of the Catholic Church, asserting that there is no one, true faith — that all religions are capable of bringing salvation to their followers.

September 27, 2019

Climate Rhetoric Begets Child Abuse … and Suicide, by Jordan Candler

By Jordan Candler, Patriot Post - Then, at this week’s United Nations Climate Action Summit, she intoned, “You all come to us young people for hope. How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words, and yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is the money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.”… Ricochet editor-in-chief Jon Gabriel observes, “None of this is healthy, neither for Ms. Thunberg nor for anyone else. Especially other kids.” Indeed it’s not.