Politics

September 18, 2020

A Thomist’s Guide to the 2020 Election, by Daniel Waldow

By Daniel Waldow, Crisis Magazine - Aquinas’s understanding of politics is based upon his notion of the purpose of human life. Humans yearn for happiness. The natural happiness accessible to all people in this life consists in the exercise of the intellectual and moral virtues. In order to be virtuous, a person first needs to be alive. Then, the living person needs to have morally virtuous relationships with their neighbors, and especially with their spouse and children. Finally, they need to exercise the virtue of religion by worshiping God. Life, love of neighbor, and love of God are thus the three goods which humans need to be happy in this life...

September 18, 2020

Dear Bishop: Fr. Altman Deserves Your Praise, Not Threats, for Telling Catholics They Can’t Be Democrats, by Mary Ann Kreitzer

By Mary Ann Kreitzer, LifeSiteNews - Many of our members have watched and listened to the edifying sermons by Fr. James Altman and remarked on what a blessing he must be to his bishop for speaking the truth with clarity and charity about the moral obligation of Catholics, particularly our shepherds, to defend intrinsic moral issues.

September 18, 2020

U.S. Commission Urges Vatican to Prioritize Religious Freedom in Deal with China, by Thomas D. Williams

By Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D., Bretibart - The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has urged the Vatican to highlight religious liberty in its deliberations with China prior to renewing a 2018 deal on the naming of bishops in the country... “Communist China continues to persecute Chinese Catholics. USCIRF hopes any future deal between the Vatican & China is rooted in the protection of #religiousfreedom,” the Commission wrote on Twitter this week...

September 18, 2020

Non-Prophet Status, by Rodney Pelletier

By Rodney Pelletier, Church Militant - The U.S. Catholic bishops, for the most part, have abandoned the faithful. For decades they have been allowing heresy to flourish in parishes, seminaries and chanceries. They have chased good men away from the seminaries (calling them "rigid") and have allowed effeminate, worldly men to be the face of the Catholic Church... These same bishops abandoned the preaching of the gospel — using the canard of separation of Church and State to absolve themselves of abandoning their divinely instituted vocation.