‘Unprecedented … is control of so much speech in the hands of a few private parties’ Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas raised eyebrows over a statement appearing to warn social media companies that their rights to censor objectionable speech might be curtailed soon.POLL: What scares you the most? Thomas made his thoughts known in a 12-page concurrent opinion on a Supreme Court decision that considered whether former President Donald Trump had acted unconstitutionally when he banned several people from following his now-defunct Twitter account. That lawsuit was ruled moot because Trump had been permanently banned. Thomas mused that the argument from the plaintiffs were …
Democrat Florida Mayor Says ‘60 Minutes’ Report On DeSantis ‘Intentionally False’
APRIL 5, 2021 By Tristan Justice. Tristan is a staff writer at The Federalist focusing on the 2020 presidential campaigns. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Democrat Mayor of Palm Beach County Dave Kerner railed against CBS’s “60 Minutes” Monday after the flagship program broadcast a special on Florida’s vaccine efforts where it manipulated interviews to amplify a manufactured narrative. The program charged the state’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis with engaging in political patronage to prioritize vaccine distribution through Publix, the most widespread chain in Florida, which donated to his 2018 campaign. Kerner said the special was “not just based on bad information …
Fear of Being in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time
By Renee Rasmussen Renee Rasmussen is a student at The Catholic University of America. I grew up near Los Angeles and now I live in Washington, D.C. So I have had my fair share of city experiences. Last year, I was on the Washington metro with a friend when a fight broke out, and we were caught in the middle. I’ve been on a train where two men have threatened to rape a friend sitting next to me. Most recently, I have been screamed at by a stranger as she threatened to shoot me. I do not write this to victimize myself …
Is Mary Co-Redeemer?
By David McPike David McPike is a husband, father of six, and aspiring market gardener near Calgary, Alberta. In addition to an engineering degree, he earned a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Ottawa examining and defending Thomas Aquinas’s account of transubstantiation in relation to the critique of another important thirteenth-century Dominican master of theology, Dietrich of Freiberg. He blogs occasionally at davidmcpike.blogspot.com. Recently, Pope Francis declared that the Blessed Virgin Mary is the one “to whom Jesus entrusted us, all of us; but as a Mother, not as a goddess, not as co-redeemer (non come dea, non come corredentrice): as Mother.” This comment …
Survey: Two-thirds of Catholics say Biden should be able to receive Communion
Washington D.C., Mar 31, 2021 / 04:00 am (CNA).- Two-thirds of U.S. Catholics say that President Joe Biden, who has contradicted Church teaching on abortion, marriage, and gender ideology, should be allowed to receive Communion. According to a Pew Research Center survey released on Tuesday, 67% of U.S. Catholics say that Biden should be allowed to receive Communion at Mass, while fewer than one-third (29%) believe he should not be allowed to receive. Beliefs on Communion fell somewhat along party lines, with 55% of Catholic Republicans – or those who lean Republican – saying that Biden should be denied Communion, …
The Sixth Death of the Church
Lauren Enk Mann obtained her B.A. in English Language and Literature from Christendom College. An avid fan of G.K. Chesterton, she writes about film, pop culture, literature, and the New Evangelization. The Church’s “summer of shame” has devastated the faithful. The McCarrick revelations, the Pennsylvania grand jury, and the Viganò testimony have sent reverberations of scandal right through the highest clerical ranks. Catholics in the pews feel betrayed and abandoned, in solidarity with the victims who have suffered so much. Each new day has brought to light fresh wounds, and it seems as if the Church is hemorrhaging, bleeding to death …
Four basic truths about Genesis and Creation
Reverend Peter M.J. Stravinskas is the editor of The Catholic Response, and the author of over 500 articles for numerous Catholic publications, as well as several books, including The Catholic Church and the Bible and Understanding the Sacraments. Editor’s note: The following homily preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., on February 12, 2019, at the Church of the Holy Innocents, Manhattan. Beginning yesterday and for the next couple of weeks, at daily Mass the Church will be treating us to passages from the Book of Genesis. This afternoon, I shall limit myself to the first two chapters, given that this is …
Manchester, London, and the goals of Islam
James V. Schall, S.J. taught political philosophy at Georgetown University for many years until retiring in 2012. He was the author of numerous books and countless essays on philosophy, theology, education, morality, and other topics. One of his last books was On Islam: A Chronological Record, 2002-2018 (Ignatius Press, 2018). He died at the age of 91 on April 17, 2019. Visit his site, “Another Sort of Learning”, for more about his writings and work. “In Islam and the Qur’an there is everything. Parts that actually speak of peace are mixed with outrageous claims that run in the opposite sense, especially with regard to those who …
Ohio bishop: “We cannot allow scandals to impede our sharing of the Good News”
Jim Graves is a Catholic writer living in Newport Beach, California. Bishop Jeffrey Monforton, 55, is head of the Diocese of Steubenville in southeastern Ohio. He grew up in the Detroit suburbs, the oldest of three sons in a practicing Catholic family. His father was a claims adjuster for AAA Michigan. He recalled, “We were an average, middle-class family with no questions about our Catholicity.” Bishop Monforton’s two grandmothers first suggested he consider the priesthood when he was in the eighth grade. He eventually visited the seminary, “but didn’t see it in my future.” Five years later, however, he changed his mind and …
Looking into the Future Through His Eyes: John Paul II, the Catholic Church, and the Crisis of the West
George Weigel is a Distinguished Senior Fellow of Washington’s Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he holds the William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies. He is the author of over twenty books, including Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II (1999), The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II—The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy (2010), and The Irony of Modern Catholic History: How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform. His most recent books are The Next Pope: The Office of Peter and a Church in Mission (2020), and Not Forgotten: Elegies for, and Reminiscences of, a …