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A Thought For Advent . . . Christmas Is Revolutionary

December 8, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on A Thought For Advent . . . Christmas Is Revolutionary

By DONALD DeMARCO When people refuse to acknowledge bad things that come into their lives, we call it denial. By that we imply that the bad things are indeed real but it is the deniers who are being unrealistic. On the other hand, when people are confronted with exceedingly good things — things that are “too good to be true,” so to speak — they often find a way to reduce them to something trivial. The cynic, in this case, might call such people realistic while he dismisses the exceedingly good things that occur as unrealistic. So often, in the face of either great hardship or great good, people are less than realistic. The greatest good that was ever brought…Continue Reading

Is Africa Being Colonized Again?

December 7, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Is Africa Being Colonized Again?

By CHRISTOPHER MANION In Target Africa (Ignatius Press), Obianuju Ekeocha vividly describes the twenty-first century’s version of ideological colonialism. These new, rabid colonialists never give up, and last month some ten thousand of them gathered in Nairobi, Kenya. The stated occasion was the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo in 1994. The real reason was their fear that their crusade to wipe out the next generation of Africans was losing steam. And they were mad, very mad. The 1994 conference, held under the auspices of the United Nations, featured pro-abortion forces (including the Clinton administration) arrayed against a coalition of pro-life Third World countries. A delegation representing the Holy See…Continue Reading

Maryland Counseling Ban Appealed

December 6, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Maryland Counseling Ban Appealed

GREENBELT, Md. — Liberty Counsel has filed the opening brief asking the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse the district judge’s decision to dismiss the lawsuit seeking a preliminary and permanent injunction against Maryland’s harmful counseling ban. The court issued an opinion dismissing Liberty Counsel’s lawsuit against Maryland’s law prohibiting minors from receiving voluntary counseling from licensed professionals to reduce or eliminate unwanted same-sex attractions or gender confusion. However, U.S. District Judge Deborah Chasanow acknowledged the Supreme Court overturned both original cases that upheld similar counseling bans, but then refused to apply the precedent. In Doyle v. Hogan, Liberty Counsel represents Christopher Doyle, a licensed professional counselor in Virginia and Maryland. Doyle is challenging Maryland’s SB 1028, which was…Continue Reading

Let’s Not Forget… The Beauty And Virtue Of Advent Before Christmas

December 5, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Let’s Not Forget… The Beauty And Virtue Of Advent Before Christmas

By REY FLORES Once upon a time, there were many sad little pine trees, cut down from their roots before their time. Christmas was coming, so people demanded and wanted their Christmas trees. Thanksgiving Day dinner had not even been served, but Christmas was coming, and we must have our Christmas trees. It used to be that the Friday after Thanksgiving Day was the first day to start doing your Christmas shopping, but now whenever the retailers can get away with it, they’ll start their Christmas promotions right after Halloween. Black Friday they call it, because it’s the most profitable day of the year for retailers. In business terms, being “in the black” is much better than the negative profits…Continue Reading

Hemlock Or Kool-Aid… The Advent Of Christ The King

December 4, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Hemlock Or Kool-Aid… The Advent Of Christ The King

By JACK KENNY “Where is he that is born King of the Jews?” In the Church calendar, the days of holy feasts and solemnities go by with dizzying speed. And sometimes the chronology seems disordered. We might wonder, for example, why the Slaughter of the Innocents on December 28 comes before the Epiphany on January 6. And the short span of time from the end of the Christmas season to the beginning of Lent is, again, dizzying. And we are hardly absorbing the meaning of Good Friday before late afternoon on Saturday brings us to the Vigil Mass for Easter Sunday. But the arrangement of the Church calendar to end one liturgical year with the Feast of Christ the King…Continue Reading

The Queen And The Farmer

December 3, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on The Queen And The Farmer

By JOE SIXPACK Queen Elizabeth of England, whom the British called Good Queen Bess because she regularly oppressed Catholics, was out in the English countryside with her hunting party when she came upon a venerable old farmer working his field. She soon discovered that the old man was a fervent Catholic, faithful to the old religion. The Queen tactfully tried to win the old man over to the religion of her father, King Henry VIII. The old farmer listened attentively and respectfully as she spoke, even nodding his head and smiling occasionally. And as she continued to speak he thoughtfully stroked his rather full and impressive beard. The Queen concluded by asking him, “Well, will you convert and join us?”…Continue Reading

Becket Says… Religious Freedom Survives Culture Wars

December 2, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Becket Says… Religious Freedom Survives Culture Wars

By DEACON MIKE MANNO, JD Readers of this column have come across the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty numerous times during the past few years. Becket is a leading public interest legal and educational organization dedicated to protect the free expression of all faiths. It has been instrumental in numerous legal battles, including representation of the Little Sisters of the Poor in the ongoing legal battle over whether or not the nuns can be forced to provide contraceptives and abortifacients for their employees. Late last month Becket released the results of its first religious freedom index to track trends on American views of religious freedom. It is being used to measure trends in six dimensions of religious freedom. It is…Continue Reading

Roger Stone, Jeffrey Epstein . . . And The Crackup Of America’s Leadership

December 1, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Roger Stone, Jeffrey Epstein . . . And The Crackup Of America’s Leadership

By TUCKER CARLSON AND NEIL PATEL Roger Stone was recently convicted in federal court on seven felony charges, stemming from the since-closed Russian collusion investigation. Stone’s main crime was lying to Congress about who he had, or had not, spoken to about Russia. By the time Stone’s trial began in Washington, nobody was talking about WikiLeaks anymore. Nobody cared. Yet prosecutors continued as if it were 2017. For lying about something now irrelevant, they argued that Roger Stone should spend up to 50 years in prison, the rest of his life. At the very moment prosecutors were making that case — that Stone’s misstatements ought to be a death penalty offense — Cong. Adam Schiff was busy lying to the…Continue Reading

The Contraception Conundrum

November 30, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on The Contraception Conundrum

By CHRISTOPHER MANION In recent years, surveys have indicated that a large majority of Catholics approve of contraception. Apparently many bishops don’t consider that a problem — at least they don’t spend so much preaching and teaching time on the subject as they do about guns, global warming, and other items on the Democrats’ policy agenda. Now the question arises, what would happen if our bishops and priests made teaching Humanae Vitae their truly first priority? How would the laity react? I’m sure the bishops have asked that question as well. Is our possible reaction that’s making them reluctant? A few years back, in Adam and Eve After the Pill (Ignatius Press), social critic Mary Eberstadt identified a pathology that…Continue Reading

Thought, A Journal Revisited

November 29, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Thought, A Journal Revisited

By JUDE P. DOUGHERTY Thought was the title of a highly respected Fordham University quarterly, published from 1926 to 1992. During that period, its website tells us, it published 267 issues containing over 5,000 English language contributions by philosophers, theologians, literary intellectuals, and others. Among its well-known contributors were Dietrich von Hildebrand, Bernard Lonergan, Jacques Maritain, Walker Percy, and Karl Rahner. The journal was named appropriately for it carried essays that could not be classified strictly as theology or as philosophy, given the nature of their subject matter, and others that fell short of the scholarly apparatus demanded by technical journals such as The Modern Schoolman or Speculum. As a student, I valued my subscription and many years later I…Continue Reading