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America’s Catholic bishops are giving President-elect Donald Trump a mixed reception ahead of his second term. Following Trump’s overwhelming victory in Tuesday’s election, Archbishop Timonthy Broglio, head of the Military Archdiocese and president of the U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Conference (USCCB), issued a statement congratulating the 45th and 47th President on his victory. [T]he USCCB would do well to familiarize themselves with the Catholic Church’s moral teachings on immigration throughout the centuries. “I congratulate President-elect Trump, as well as the national, state, and local officials who campaigned to represent the people. Now, we move from campaigning to governing. We rejoice in our ability to transition peacefully from one government to the next,” Broglio wrote. He added, “Let us pray for President-elect Trump, as well as all leaders in public life, that they may rise to meet the responsibilities entrusted to them as they serve our country and those whom they represent.” (READ MORE from S.A. McCarthy: Kamala Harris’s Anti-Catholic Bigotry on Display) In a subsequent interview, Broglio noted, “No matter who occupies the White House or holds the majority on Capitol Hill, the Church’s teachings remain unchanged.” So far so good, although the USCCB made little enough mention of the Church’s perennial moral teachings on abortion during outgoing President Joe Biden’s term, even though Biden is a self-described Catholic. “Let us ask for the intercession of our Blessed Mother, the patroness of our nation, that she guide us to uphold the common good of all and promote the dignity of the human person, especially the most vulnerable among us, including the unborn, the poor, the stranger, the elderly and infirm, and migrants,” Broglio said. Ah, there it is. The Catholic Church has, since the first century, reaffirmed and reiterated the inherent human dignity of the human person, especially the unborn innocents, and ferociously, unequivocally condemned the grave moral evil of abortion. While the Church’s moral teachings do also address such issues as poverty and migration, those issues were never placed on a par with abortion — at least, not until Trump came on the scene in 2016. To his credit, Broglio did insist that the USCCB’s “preeminent concern” is “the dignity of the human person. We like the phrase that the human person is created in the image and likeness of the Almighty from womb to tomb. So that’s a primary concern.” He called abortion “a form of violence in our society” that “cheapens the dignity of the human person.” However, the archbishop quickly followed that up by saying that the U.S. is a “wealthy nation” and, as such, has “a responsibility to address … the concerns of the poor, those who are on the margins of society. It’s distressing to see in some of our major cities the number of people who are without homes, without shelter.” Again, fair enough: care for the poor has always been a concern of the Church’s — it’s one of the reasons so many American Catholics were once Democrats. But it would be erroneous to place it on a par with abortion. Poverty is an unfortunate reality, one which might be alleviated; abortion is an unnecessary brutality, one which cruelly ends the life of an innocent unborn child, an evil which demands to be opposed at every turn. Catholic Doctrine and Immigration Broglio followed that concern, however, by noting that USCCB leaders “have advocated for reform of the immigration laws in this country for decades. And this is really the time I hope that something can be done to rectify a system that is broken and to try and make it more responsive to the needs of people.” He added, “Coupled with that would be our responsibility to help those nations from which people are migrating, because often they’re migrating because of poverty and other difficult situations in their home countries.” The Catholic Church has, contrary to the claims of progressive bishops, long been a proponent of national sovereignty and advocate of justified border control measures. Pope Pius XII once declared, “It is quite legitimate for nations to treat their differences as a sacred inheritance and guard them at all costs.” Yes, Christians have an obligation not to treat immigrants — legal or otherwise — uncharitably, but we also have an obligation to love our nation, our national heritage and culture, and to protect and preserve those things. Enforcing laws that uphold the common good is a matter of justice. It was largely on the grounds of this particular issue, closely following concerns over the economy, that Trump was handed the sweeping mandate — the electoral college, the popular vote, the House, and the Senate — that he was, even after nearly a decade of mainstream media and Democratic politicians smearing him as a fascist, a Nazi, and even Adolf Hitler. The American people, in accord with our laws, placed Trump in office a second time. He has a responsibility — to the American people, to the U.S. Constitution, and even to Catholic moral teaching — to protect and preserve the nature and identity of the country. (READ MORE: Trump, McDonald’s, and the Lost Art of Noblesse Oblige) Broglio’s devotion to pro-life principles, to defending the lives of the unborn innocents who have been so callously and wantonly slaughtered in this country, is admirable. However, he and the rest of the USCCB would do well to familiarize themselves with the Catholic Church’s moral teachings on immigration throughout the centuries. Particularly given the USCCB’s complicity in the ongoing illegal immigration crisis, it might be best for the bishops to sit this one out and focus their efforts on protecting the unborn. The post Catholic Bishops Stumble on Immigration appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Those who wish to govern must sacrifice their freedom. It is not only the grinding demands of a campaign, with its enormous demands on the body and the spirit as well as on the finances. It is, when the campaign has been won, that the greatest demands come.  The greatest of our leaders were true public servants and gave us examples of power harnessed to responsibility. We speak of those in government as public servants. Sometimes, that term expresses only a hope. While Harry Truman left the White House in much the same financial shape as when he came in, we have become inured to folks like the Clintons, Obamas, and Bidens for whom a lifetime in government turned out to be immensely rewarding financially.  But we see that the charm of living vicariously through glam politician/celebrities has worn thin. The promise of our American democracy has been that it is the ordinary free citizen who is free to make a life as celebrated and glorious and enriching life as that of the glittering elites. (READ MORE from Shmuel Klatzkin: Unity Is a Common Goal, Often Abused) This last election was largely about the working American casting off the enchantment of the elite classes and seeing that instead of doing good, dedicating themselves to the good of the country, they have concentrated far more effectively on doing well for themselves. They spoke at the polls and told would-be public servants: serve us well or we will remove you. The country wants as its public servants those who realize that the only proper use of power is in service to those who have voted to grant it to him — or her. Good governance is responsible, meaning capable of responding, through its power, to the genuine needs of Americans people: protection from enemies, without and within, ensuring a free market and fair trade, and good at responding to disasters that are beyond the resources of private citizens to address adequately by themselves. One of the illusions of those who fancy themselves the governing class has been that Americans have a great desire to be perennially free of such responsibility. They have used the addictive joys of irresponsibility the way a dealer uses drugs — to enrich themselves irresponsibly, little caring for the destructive effects on the people whom they have hooked. And there is an addictive attraction to power with no responsibility, and it allows us to plan lives around money we need not pay back, devotion to ourselves that we may take for granted, and an imagined unlimited ability to satisfy every craving with no consequence of ill health. A permanent childhood, endlessly gratifying.  To the degree we have fallen for this bait and that our culture has turned towards such an ethos, we elect leaders who reflect this irresponsibility in a variety of ways in their own lives. We are blessed, however, with powerful counterexamples of what politicians can be. The greatest of our leaders were true public servants and gave us examples of power harnessed to responsibility. We were blessed at the start with George Washington and his conscious attempt to establish an ethos of selfless duty as the main requisite of the job of head of the American federal union. Adams left a quiet legacy of doing what was right for the country even if it meant political defeat. Lincoln gave his own life in ridding our nation of the obscenity of slavery. In a later age, Truman was famous for the attitude expressed by the sign on his Oval Office desk: The Buck Stops Here. Ronald Reagan had a motto on his desk as well: “There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit,” teaching that empowerment depends not on enhancing one’s glory but on dedication to what needs to be done. But our own times provide counter examples as well. One of Rush Limbaugh’s most acute criticisms of Obama’s presidency was 44’s proclivity to always speak as the perennial candidate, always free to lecture and criticize, and never accountable for the results of his own use of power. He wanted us to believe as well that the government was something outside him and for which he was not responsible. Judge me on utopian promises, he was saying, and not on what I deliver in the world of action in which you, my subjects, live. On the other hand, one can equally evade responsibility by claiming the opposite: to be power incarnate, and thus reducing to zero the standing of anyone to question him. Dr. Fauci famously showed that attitude when, subject to increasingly telling criticism, he fulminated, “Attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science,” dimly echoing the phrase famously attributed to Louis XIV: “I am the state.”  In either the Fauci way or the Obama way, the same result follows — the one exercising the power is trying to exempt himself from any accounting. He wishes to be free to act with impunity in the future, either by denying the power he holds (Obama’s way) or denying any accountability for it (Fauci’s way). The problem of responsibility is shared by every free individual. Genesis tells that God gave the human being enough power to rule all other beings, but within a framework: “To work it and to protect it.” The message is that we are responsible for protecting the world over which we have been given power. We are part of a commonwealth that will prosper if we act within the bounds of care and accountability. In the wake of the disastrous results of their narcissistic exercise of power, Obama and his proxies under Biden peddled the excuse that all blame lay elsewhere. They peddled the malignant Woke construct of an always-guilty oppressor class, identifiable by ethnicity and designated from birth to be forever responsible for all that goes wrong in society. Eventually, this metastasized into one great enemy, to whom all blame was always appropriate — Donald Trump as Emmanuel Goldstein. (READ MORE: Created in God’s Image: Where Human Greatness Lies) Existentially fearsome, eternally threatening, his menace justified every abrogation of the traditions of our politics that has kept our Republic from following the Greek democracies into a suicidal plunge into oblivion. But now, by the grace of Providence, the citizens awarded political power to us. What will we do with it? We have had plenty of people to blame for their misuse of power. The drama of Trump overcoming the brute force of a coordinated political attack that aimed to censor, censure, impoverish, isolate, criminalize, and imprison him — certainly inspired some to attempt to assassinate him — is an epic for the ages — yeuge! Time to Deliver for Every American But now we will have the power, and we will be rightly measured by our use of it. Lincoln realized this and tried to turn America towards a new birth rather that into a settlement of old scores once the rebellion had been defeated. It is up to us to as well provide an example for the ages about what American good governance really should look like. The first time around Trump delivered a fine economy and a world more peaceful than in any other administration of this century. All was overwhelmed by the monstrous lies of the impeachment campaigns, which have at last been dealt their mortal blow by an American public that has had years to make up its mind and consider. Now it is up to us to deliver. No excuses, no fear. Just as Trump has put together in this winning campaign a memorable coalition from all parts of America, each bringing their talents to bear for the cause, so must we continue. The path we take must command and excite the best and the brightest, must encourage a path forward in which we welcome merit, ability, and devotion to our national cause and in the cause of freedom. It must look towards what we can all be together, and only in the most egregious and criminal of cases, look backwards towards what we now as a country leave behind. Trump’s comeback is legendary. Now for a legendary presidency, filled with the knowledge he has expressed so movingly of being spared by divine providence from the assassin’s bullet. Let his term of office be galvanized by that knowledge of purpose. May we all welcome in a renewed sense of an American Covenant, an embrace of our responsibility to each other, to the world, and above all, to the One in whom we find our oneness and whose blessings on us all we humbly entreat. The post We Must All Renew the American Covenant appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Donald Trump’s historic election victory has completed the realignment of American politics. The GOP has emerged as the party of the working class, while the Democrats are now the party of financial and cultural elites. Trump won 31 of the 50 states, and his stunning popular vote victory brought the Senate under GOP control and appears to have enabled Republicans to keep control of the House. But to consolidate that political realignment, Trump will have to keep the promises he made to the American people during the campaign. And those promises can be grouped under the broad heading of “America First.” He has effectively pledged to go not abroad in search of monsters to destroy but to be the champion only of America’s liberty. Despite the Democrats and mainstream media’s attempts to portray “America First” as a version of Nazism at home and isolationism  abroad, the American people decisively rejected that narrative. Beginning with Barack Obama, the elite left and neoconservative right sought to convert the word “nationalism” into something dark and dangerous. The Obama-led left understood that nationalism stood in the way of their desire for global governance. Denigrating nationalism was part of what Obama meant when he promised to fundamentally transform America. Recall that one of Obama’s first undertakings in 2009 was to go on an international tour where he apologized for America’s past sins. He also publicly downplayed the notion of American exceptionalism. Part of the left’s strategy here was to persuade Americans that appeals to nationalism were xenophobic, racist, misogynist, intolerant, and un-American. When businessman and entertainment personality Donald Trump entered the political arena in 2015 and embraced nationalism, the left, who previously liked  Trump or at least found him to be tolerable, suddenly vilified him. Trump’s greatest sin in their eyes was that he appealed to the uneducated, unwashed Americans who, in Obama’s words, clung  to their religion and guns. Trump’s audience for his “America First” mutterings were the people that Hillary Clinton called “deplorables” and Joe Biden called  “garbage.” Soon, the Obama-left added the words “white Christian” to “nationalism” in describing dangerous Trump supporters. Many Christians, after all, opposed abortion on demand and favored the overruling of Roe v. Wade, and abortion had by then became sacrosanct for Democrats and the left in general. And Donald Trump in his first term had made the end of Roe possible by appointing constitutionalist Supreme Court Justices. White Christian nationalists became enemies of the state. Exit polls showed that the two most important issues in the 2024 election were the economy/inflation and the crisis at the southern border. Trump repeatedly addressed both of those issues and promised voters he would cut taxes and carry out mass deportations of illegal aliens (especially those with criminal records). Trump said he would remove taxes on tips, overtime pay, and social security benefits. He also promised to lower inflation and restrain government spending. And Trump said he would threaten and use tariffs and penalize American companies who sent manufacturing jobs overseas while incentivizing domestic manufacturing to protect American workers. With a compliant GOP-led Congress, Trump should be able to accomplish some, if not all, of those things. Trump will need to ensure that his tax cuts — as he promised — are targeted first and foremost at the working class. During the 2024 campaign Trump characterized the crisis at our southern border as an “invasion.” He pointed out that many of the illegals that crossed the border were dangerous criminals — an assertion later confirmed by the Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security. Trump blamed the Biden administration’s open border policies for the crisis, and apparently most voters agreed. Belated attempts to pass a flawed border control bill failed in Congress and the left’s effort to blame Trump for the bill’s defeat was unpersuasive. Trump promised mass deportation of illegals, and polls showed that most voters approved. If Trump was to flip-flop on this issue, he would alienate a sizeable portion of his “America First” supporters. Trump also promised to return the United States to energy dominance by promoting oil exploration, fracking, nuclear power, and renewable energy sources. This issue resonated in states like Pennsylvania — so much so that Kamala Harris flip-flopped on this issue, even though Trump commercials showed her previous remarks in which she promised to end fracking. The “America First” voters don’t want to be forced to drive electric vehicles, and they don’t want their sons and daughters fighting wars in the Middle East to maintain access to foreign energy sources when we have plenty of energy sources at home. The Realist Promise “America First” also has a national security component that supports a more restrained “realist” approach to the world instead of the neoliberal/neoconservative interventionist policies of the past three decades. Trump promised voters that he would end the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and focus on deterring China in the western Pacific. Trump also wants our European and Asian allies to contribute  more toward their own defense — something that most American presidents supported in the past, and something that also resonates with most Americans. Trump has vowed not to waste American lives and resources fighting peripheral wars to spread democracy throughout the world. Americans have had their fill of costly nation-building efforts. Trump is not, as he is often depicted by the neoliberals and neoconservatives, an isolationist; he is a foreign policy realist in the tradition of George Washington and John Quincy Adams. He has effectively pledged to go not abroad in search of monsters to destroy but to be the champion only of America’s liberty. Whether the Trump-led realignment of the political parties is solidified will depend on how many of these promises Trump will keep. Stay tuned. READ MORE from Francis P. Sempa: Would Bush’s Endorsement Help Harris? 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I understand that people are very upset that the angonoka turtles are disappearing, but what has me on edge is the slow extinction of blondes. For years, blondes have been the last hope for joy in a declining world. I have no intention of disparaging brunettes and redheads, but without blondes, the West is dying, this time for real. These are days of trenches, thick scarves, and camaraderie. Of friends, steamy bars, and good love. Some say it’s a seasonal thing. Everything changes at this time of the year. With the cold, girls parade their beauty wrapped in large plaid scarves, thick jackets, and delicate trench coats, while men favor long dark coats, hanging down above feet, laced in rain shoes. Eyes become dense and bright, and smiles float strangely complicit in the night time gloom. With the cold, the tyranny of good taste and elegance returns to the city, and somehow takes us back to one of the oldest setbacks in the history of mankind: how to respond to the freezing inclemency? The ancients invented bonfires and braziers, and then we spoiled it with electrical appliances that smell of short circuits, and are just as good at warming your hands as grilling steaks. But anyway, with this early morning breeze, sharp as crystal shards, the festival of exposed flesh that has given us so many misfortunes this summer is over, and the cities receive the best news possible: people are getting dressed again. Let us toast to celebrate that we will once again see artists painting murky canvases of streets, full of puddles, but with her appearing in black and white, a foreground of surprise and beauty, protecting herself under a borrowed umbrella, with him, a picture of the classic gentleman, hand inside the pocket of that black coat and an urgent cigarette between his lips. Everything in November could be a happy work of art, were it not for the fact that we miss the golden reflection of the sun’s mane. There is a whole theology of weather about which little has been written. Heat calls for bad taste, and I suppose vice, while cold encourages virtue. The author’s theory does not meet with ecclesiastical approval, perhaps because it is based on the apocryphal moral principle of exposed toes: a time of year that encourages men to show their toenails can only be related to sin, while a season that encourages covering up, seclusion, and closing one’s mouth, is an impulse towards contemplation and ascetic struggle. The cold prods us towards the fervor of friendship, towards an embrace, balustrade love, and the best red wine. It also invites us to read a good book under thick blankets, to watch embers crackle in the fireplace for hours, or to visit those coffee shops that seem suddenly aged, and that, behind dense and foggy windows, hot chocolate is served while nutritionists drink carajillos at the back of the bar, asking themselves where their impeccable business plans have gone wrong. A wet Paris blooms in every neighborhood and so we know that October is already bending its promises of eternity. It succumbs, like everything else. November arrives on the horizon carrying a cruise ship of cement overhead, a gray and deceptive sky, like that pre-Christmas weather so very ours, so Galician, which seems to hesitate between raining and raining, or raining again. It comes full of moray eels and that is the only thing that makes me uneasy. Finally, hair gets darker. November is a month of few blondes. And of going gray. November is the month of many gray-haired men. It’s all part of the same deal, to rent our Mediterranean and colorful soul, and become, for a while, one of those capitals where it snows like any Christmas in a Frank Capra movie. And how beautiful it is to be alive on those days, when the photos of couples come out as if trapped in the 1920s, when winter love was a sparkle in sepia and two intertwined glances, telling each other things in silence for many pages of the kitchen almanac. These are days of trenches, thick scarves, and camaraderie. Of friends, steamy bars, and good love. Of cursed poets, old books, and big families, swirling around the stew pot, among the kitchen vapors that have seen us grow up. Here beside the sea a soft sadness is painted, while joy sprouts inside homes and those restaurants that overflow with meat, laughter, and wine. The seaside on the other hand, cold, sparse and discreet, only shelters lonely poets, lunatics and lovers, who if we are to be honest, during this hour of tremor and storm, are the same thing, the same brown cat in the infinite night of the incipient winter, which arrives again with its hands full of good taste and beauty. Everything is, I suppose, perfect, except for the extinction of the blondes who, with their jovial, augustian look and their sixties striped bikinis, saved us from the festival of bad taste that is summer. READ MORE from Itxu Diaz: A Long Letter of Condolence to All the Losers Musk, Spain Is Calling You The post November Brings Disturbingly Few Blondes appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.