{"id":1850133,"date":"2023-02-16T16:34:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T21:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1850133"},"modified":"2023-02-16T16:35:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T21:35:25","slug":"signs-and-wonders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/signs-and-wonders\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs And Wonders"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">6<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsigns-and-wonders%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1850133&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>The following speech was modified and delivered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/show\/the-michael-knowles-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Knowles<\/a> At the Legatus National Summit Orlando, Florida on February 11, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>I am grateful for the opportunity to be here. It&#8217;s an honor for me to be here at Legatus. This esteemed and influential Catholic laymen and women organization is a great honour. But it isn\u2019t only the laity here with us today. I know that we are also joined by a number of priests, nuns, and \u2014 if news reports are to be believed \u2014 undercover federal agents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many Catholics are dismayed by the FBI memo that was leaked. It outlined plans to infiltrate certain Catholic parishes and monitor those that celebrate the traditional Latin Mass. According to the memo the traditional Mass attracts radical and violent extremists. I think that this is true. Anyone who has been to one of these parishes will know that it is crowded with toddlers. As the father to a two-year old and a seven month-old, I know that little boys can be some of the most extreme, violent, and radical people on earth.<\/p>\n<p>Many Catholics do not approve of surveillance. Quantico visitors are welcomed to my house. It\u2019s a great opportunity for evangelization. As far as I\u2019m concerned, anything that gets people through the doors of the church and into the pews is fine by me. The mysterious workings of Our Lord are amazing.<\/p>\n<p>This is the conference&#8217;s topic: \u2018Signs and Wonders.\u2019 This is coincidentally a subject that I am passionate about because it&#8217;s the very idea of \u2018signs and wonders\u2019 It played a crucial role in my return to faith. It was a small book called &#8220;The Book of Faith&#8221; after I spent about 10 years in a desert of atheism &#038; agnosticism. \u201cCoincidentally\u201d \u2014 coincidentally written by the former national chaplain of this organization, Fr. George Rutler \u2014 that impelled me, when I came upon it unexpectedly, to return to church. I could speak for probably an hour about the many improbable little signs and wonders that accompanied that moment \u2014 as well as the many more fantastical and improbable experiences that took place in the months that followed as I returned to the faith \u2014 but the attempt to convey the experience of these phenomena is a lot like trying to describe a dream to a friend: endlessly fascinating to the person who has had the experience and lexical chloroform to everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>The book \u201cCoincidentally\u201d The book is filled of wisdom about this topic, beginning at top of the front page, which contains an epitaph written by Alexander Pope. \u201cAll nature is but art unknown to thee; all chance, direction which thou canst not see.\u201d When one opens the cover, Fr. can be found on the inside flap. Rutler\u2019s more blunt observation: \u201cAn evil generation seeks signs and wonders, and I am not the first to say it. But a stupid generation ignores signs and wonders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Catholics can&#8217;t ignore signs and wonders. The Catholic vision is fundamentally semiotic. There is neither neutrality nor emptiness. Everything means something, and nothing means nothing. Even the most amazing miracles can seem like a coincidence to a modern man who lacks faith. A Catholic believes that there is no such thing as coincidence. No matter how small the event, God controls all things. We know God has the final say on everything.<\/p>\n<p>This is why the Catholic emphasis on history. A modern man without faith sees history as one more damned thing. History is allegory to a Catholic. Every moment in history has meaning. False religions or ideologies can distort history. For example, Hindus deny the linearity and view history as cyclical. Buddhists also deny that time exists objectively apart from the human mind. Modern progressives claim to be able to control both the movement and meaning of time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Only a few people watch \u201cMorning Joe\u201d on MSNBC will have observed this fact just the other day when Joe Scarborough\u2019s guest Nikole Hannah-Jones declared, \u201cThe arc of the universe doesn\u2019t bend one way or the other. We bend it.\u201d Nikole Hannah-Jones, for those of you fortunate enough to be unaware, is the progressive fabulist behind The New York Times\u2019s 1619 Project, which endeavors to reset America\u2019s founding away from 1776, when the Founding Fathers declared independence from Britain; and away from 1620, when the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Harbor; and away even from 1492 when Columbus sailed the ocean blue for gold and the glory of God. Jones wishes to reset America\u2019s founding at 1619, when the first slave ship arrived in Virginia, thereby recasting the American tradition as a rotten thing to be rejected.<\/p>\n<p>Hannah Joneses, a modern progressive, accepts the linearity of history. They\u2019re not Hindus or Buddhists; they emerge out of the Western tradition,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following speech has been adapted and was delivered by Michael Knowles at the Legatus National Summit in Orlando, Florida, on February 11, 2023. Thank you for having me! It is an honor to be here at Legatus, this esteemed and influential organization of Catholic laymen and laywomen. 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