Politics

November 27, 2018

John Zmirak: Questions for Christians on the Immigrant Caravan

By John Zmirak, The Stream - The recent events on the U.S. border have been manipulated by media, and exploited by grandstanding politicians and pastors. So much so, that I am actually hesitant to make explicit statements. I feel as if that would almost be pointless, like meeting a person who’s deaf and simply shouting at him more loudly... Instead I would like to ask a series of questions.... When Barack Obama used tear gas against rock-throwing immigrants, media never complained. How are things different today?...

November 27, 2018

A Pact with a Thief, a Deal with the Devil: The Vatican’s Pending Agreement with China

By Chen Guangcheng, Public Discourse - What we currently know of the agreement is that the Vatican will cede selection of bishops in China to the Communist Party. In exchange, the CCP will recognize the pope as the official head of the Catholic Church, and regular relations between the two states will be renewed... The fact that the Vatican sees these terms as an acceptable basis for reconciliation with a brutal dictatorial regime is a slap in the face to millions of Catholics and other faithful religious people in China who have suffered real persecution under the CCP....

November 26, 2018

White House Invites Singing Nuns for Annual Christmas Tree Lighting

By Thomas D. Williams, PhD, Breitbart - The White House has invited a renowned group of Catholic nuns to sing at this year’s National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony along with other performers... The Dominican Sisters of Mary Mother of the Eucharist have released three Billboard and Amazon number-one, classical chart-topping recordings, including a holiday album titled Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring: Christmas with The Dominican Sisters of Mary.

November 26, 2018

Rod Dreher: The Dalitization Of Humanity

By Rod Dreher, The American Conservative - Well, you knew it was going to happen sooner or later. Now, China has done it.From MIT Technology Review: When Chinese researchers first edited the genes of a human embryo in a lab dish in 2015, it sparked global outcry and pleas from scientists not to make a baby using the technology, at least for the present... It was the invention of a powerful gene editing tool, CRISPR, which is cheap and easy to deploy, that made the birth of humans genetically modified in an in-vitro fertilization (IVF) center a theoretical possibility.