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Can There Be Christian Literary Criticism?

May 19, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Can There Be Christian Literary Criticism?

By PAUL KRAUSE Our current times have afforded Christians across America a rare opportunity to reclaim education from the mouthpieces of secular and liberal propaganda. Now Christians can ask themselves: What is the Christian’s relationship to literature and what should the Christian glean from literature? This may seem like a foreboding question to ask and answer, but it is one that is necessary and demands an answer. Can there be a Christian literary criticism to stand against the prevailing Marxist, feminist, and genderist theories that have polluted the well of our cultural patrimony? Perhaps the best place to start is with St. Paul. As he wrote to the Romans, the human knowledge — or quest — for truth is integral…Continue Reading

Lion, Lamb and Light: On the Centenary of the Birth of Pope St. John Paul II

May 18, 2020 Frontpage, Uncategorized Comments Off on Lion, Lamb and Light: On the Centenary of the Birth of Pope St. John Paul II

Deacon Keith Fournier   Today, May 18, we commemorate the Centenary, the 100-year anniversary of the birth of Pope St. John Paul II. I offer this article I wrote years ago when he passed to the Fathers House. I also rededicate myself to doing everything I can to keep his beautiful legacy alive during these difficult years in the Church which he loved and served with such beauty. —– I was not alone on that day. It seemed as though the whole world was joined with me, watching and weeping, as the servant of the servants of God, the polish Pope who began his stunning and historic pontificate as a lion, went home to the Heavenly Father as a lamb.…Continue Reading

Plural Marriage?. . . Is This The Next Barrier To Fall?

May 18, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Plural Marriage?. . . Is This The Next Barrier To Fall?

By DEACON MIKE MANNO, JD In his dissent in the 2015 same-sex marriage decision, Obergefell v. Hodges, Chief Justice John Roberts warned that changing the traditional definition of marriage to include two persons of the same sex would be a slippery slope toward legalizing polygamy. He wrote: “One immediate question invited by the majority’s position is whether states may retain the definition of marriage as a union of two people. Although the majority randomly inserts the adjective ‘two’ in various places, it offers no reason at all why the two-person element of the core definition of marriage may be preserved while the man-woman element may not. Indeed, from the standpoint of history and tradition, a leap from opposite-sex marriage to…Continue Reading

Obama Plot, Media Spin, Economic Wreck . . . It’s Not Only Coronavirus That’s Sickening America

May 17, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Obama Plot, Media Spin, Economic Wreck . . . It’s Not Only Coronavirus That’s Sickening America

By DEXTER DUGGAN Not only did the world have to worry about mutations of the mysteriously birthed coronavirus, but the pandemic also had political offshoots — as well as coincidentally occurring events that should make a person gasp for breath not from disease but from shock. It was bad enough that the dangerous germ appeared to have come from a Communist Chinese coverup, and even perhaps bacteriological-warfare planning that benefited Beijing all the way from quelling Hong Kong dissenters to potentially finishing off the pro-America-first Trump administration. Add to this the fact that reasonable questions about Americans’ physical health and survival were being denounced by elitists as far-right extremism in the same way that any defense of Donald Trump had…Continue Reading

Is Safety Humanity’s Only Goal?

May 16, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Is Safety Humanity’s Only Goal?

By CHRISTOPHER MANION Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a pediatrician, exudes a genial bedside manner as he advocates infanticide, winks at his blackface past, and commandeers the churches of the Commonwealth. “I represent 8.5 million Virginians as governor of this great Commonwealth,” he says. “That’s who I’m focused on when I come to work every day, and that’s why I will continue to do everything I can to keep people safe.” Northam doesn’t define “safe”; and yet, the term longs for a definition. After all, the governor employs it to defend the extraordinary powers he has assumed in order to enforce his statewide lockdown. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, “to define” means “to set limits.” A word means this, and…Continue Reading

A Book Review . . . Helping Our Youth Find Passion And Purpose In Their Lives

May 15, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on A Book Review . . . Helping Our Youth Find Passion And Purpose In Their Lives

By REY FLORES Philip Rivers: Passion and Purpose by Joan Rivers and Patrice Lappert. Available at www.SophiaInstitute.com, or by calling Sophia Institute Press at 1-800-888-9344. Passion and purpose. Those two words alone should be engraved in our minds as we take on the challenges of everyday life. Passion for doing what we do with a true sense of purpose. In this aptly titled book, we examine the passion and purpose of eight-time Pro Bowl NFL quarterback Philip Rivers, who has made his love and passion for his Catholic faith and upbringing part of his success all the way from a high school athlete, to a college player, and ultimately reaching the NFL. I felt a little funny reading and reviewing…Continue Reading

No Time For Weekend Relief . . . “Entertainment” Journalism Pushes Prevailing Propaganda

May 14, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on No Time For Weekend Relief . . . “Entertainment” Journalism Pushes Prevailing Propaganda

By DEXTER DUGGAN It used to be said that students were propagandized by left-wing ideology when they entered college or even during high school. But the portside true believers never tire of imposing ideological lockdown on their captives the sooner the better. Now it’s taken for granted that “drag queen story hours” to fasten dysfunction onto the minds of little kids at public libraries are fine. Lo and behold, the first gender-bender book aiming to flout morality and capture children’s thinking goes back to 1979, titled When Megan Went Away, about two lesbians and a preteen girl, according to Wikipedia. A baby born back in those days already would be 41 years old. Megan predated by a decade the better-known…Continue Reading

The Epitaph

May 13, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on The Epitaph

BY JOE SIXPACK Doc Bracket served as a doctor for years in a small country town, but made little money. That was because Doc was always taking care of poor people who had no money. He’d get up in the middle of the coldest nights and drive twenty miles to care for a sick woman or child, or patch up someone who got hurt. Everyone knew that Doc’s office was over a clothing store. A sign at the foot of the stairs said: DR. BRACKET — OFFICE UPSTAIRS. Doc Bracket never married. He was once supposed to marry the town banker’s daughter, but on his wedding day he got a call to go out into the country to take care…Continue Reading

Moral, Social Damage Done By Pill Still Disturbing

May 12, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Moral, Social Damage Done By Pill Still Disturbing

By FR. GEORGE WELZBACHER (Editor’s Note: This article by Fr. George Welzbacher, a retired St. Paul, Minn., pastor and professor, first appeared in The Catholic Spirit, the archdiocesan newspaper, on August 31, 2000. This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the coming of the birth control pill.) + + + Forty years have passed since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration first authorized physicians to prescribe a drug that would subvert the institution of motherhood. May 9, 1960, was the day on which the authorization was granted; it was, by ironic coincidence, the day after Mothers’ Day. The drug, of course, was Enovid, a/k/a “the pill.” Developed by Dr. Gregory Pincus and Dr. John Rock and manufactured by the Searle…Continue Reading

Bishop Strickland . . . True And False Ecumenism And Religious Relativism

May 11, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Bishop Strickland . . . True And False Ecumenism And Religious Relativism

By MOST REV. JOSEPH STRICKLAND The Catholic Church proclaims that, in and through Jesus Christ, and by the power of the Holy Spirit, authentic unity with God the Father — and with one another — is the plan of God for the entire human race. That plan has begun through the Redemption brought about by the voluntary offering of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, on the cross on our behalf. It is sin which separated us, from God and from one another. The Church birthed from the wounded side of the Savior on Golgotha is the way toward realizing that unity. We should want to walk toward that unity and not fear it. The Church is meant to become the home…Continue Reading