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The Angelic Warfare Confraternity… Protecting Ourselves From The Modern Deluge Of Immoral Material

November 28, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on The Angelic Warfare Confraternity… Protecting Ourselves From The Modern Deluge Of Immoral Material

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY One of the biggest problems now confronting Catholics — men and boys in particular, but also women and girls to a lesser extent — is the explosion in the availability of pornography. It’s not so long ago that if someone wanted to view pornography they had to go to some effort, be it buying magazines, or videos, or whatever. But now, pornography of all sorts is openly available on the Internet and only a mouse click away. Apart from that, quite often material which if not fully pornographic is at least salacious or indecent can be seen on TV, and more so in movies; and there is also the matter of billboards and advertising generally, as…Continue Reading

University Curricula Are Changing (And Not For The Better)

November 27, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on University Curricula Are Changing (And Not For The Better)

By SHAUN KENNEY Keep your eyes out for a new trend on college campuses across America. No — I am not talking about music or Title IX tribunals or any newfangled fad. Rather, a curriculum change is coming that we should collectively lift our eyes toward and begin asking tough questions. There is a dirty secret among academics that many of the “soft sciences” cannot replicate their studies. Thus whenever you read an article arguing “scientists say,” you should reasonably be skeptical of the claims. Eggs are good for you, bad for you, good for you again…the same is even truer with sociological and psychological claims. In short, barely 1 in 3 of these studies can be replicated. Replication is…Continue Reading

Napoleon And The Pope

November 26, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Napoleon And The Pope

By JOE SIXPACK One of the most mighty rulers of the world was the first Napoleon. All of Europe was at his feet. The year 1804 was set for his coronation as emperor, and he invited Pope Pius VII to do the crowning. He tried to persuade the Pontiff to move the papal throne to Paris. With high-sounding language and energetic gestures, the conqueror set before the Holy Father the advantages of such a change. “How well you act comedy,” the Pope remarked. Angered by this remark, Napoleon snatched up a drawing of St. Peter’s Basilica at Rome, tore it to bits and exclaimed, “This is what I will do to the Church! I will completely crush her.” “Now you…Continue Reading

The USCCB Fall Assembly… What Were The 69 Thinking?

November 25, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on The USCCB Fall Assembly… What Were The 69 Thinking?

By DEACON MIKE MANNO, JD This week is Thanksgiving and my original intention was to write an uplifting column about those things for which we are all thankful. But, as I prepared, something happened involving an issue that is close to my heart and thus “uplifting” went out the window. I’m speaking of an issue that came before the bishops at this month’s meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in Baltimore. It concerned the bishops’ document, Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizens. At issue was a letter based on the document which stated that abortion, the slaughter of the unborn, remains the “pre-eminent” social justice issue. Personally, I didn’t see a problem with that. I had been…Continue Reading

A Book Review… Healthy Marriages: Persevere In The Vows Made To God

November 24, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on A Book Review… Healthy Marriages: Persevere In The Vows Made To God

By REY FLORES Habits for a Healthy Marriage: A Handbook for Catholic Couples by Richard Fitzgibbons (Ignatius: 2019), 280 pages; paperback and e-book. Order at Ignatius.com, or call 1-800-651-1531. In today’s throwaway culture, we are witnessing an increasing and alarming rate of divorce among Catholics. This is truly a grave scandal and tragedy. The one institution of society that all else is based upon can now be just some unimportant, frivolous formality and ritual where spouses who tire of each other can walk away, children be damned. Thankfully, we have people like Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons who is the founder of The Institute for Marital Healing and the author of the new book, Habits for a Healthy Marriage: A Handbook for…Continue Reading

New Sins For Old

November 23, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on New Sins For Old

By CHRISTOPHER MANION Anyone who’s been on the front lines in the battle for life knows how often the laity have had to go it alone. It’s not that America’s bishops aren’t interested, it’s just that they’ve had more pressing priorities for the past fifty years. And business consultants will tell you that, if you haven’t finished priority number one, it’s likely that you’ll never get around to priority number two. Take contraception. In the 1960s, long before Humanae Vitae, the bishops’ conference decided not to oppose federal taxpayer support for programs that provided contraception and sterilization. Of course, it’s quite possible that many prelates didn’t really object to contraception at all. But the fact is clear: They were up…Continue Reading

McElroy And Cupids Clumsy Coup

November 22, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on McElroy And Cupids Clumsy Coup

By SHAUN KENNEY One of the great allures of the Catholic tradition is that we have one teaching office: the Magisterium. Not one of many magisteria…but a single, cohesive, traditional, biblical teaching office that reaches back from God’s first utterance through Christ and to the present day. Now in a colloquial sense, one might suggest there is a magisterium of work that one might collect over time. The magisterium of Pope Pius XII contains over 1,600 manuscripts, speeches, and notes collected over the course of his lifetime. It’s an odd phrase, but an intended one. The reformers of the Second Vatican Council used the phrase “magisterium of Pius XII” in reference to the corpus of work that the Holy Father…Continue Reading

A Film Review . . . Don’t Miss This Presentation Of Cardinal Mueller’s Manifesto Of Faith

November 21, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on A Film Review . . . Don’t Miss This Presentation Of Cardinal Mueller’s Manifesto Of Faith

By REY FLORES Merriam-Webster defines the word “manifesto” as “a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, views of its issuer.” It goes on to say that it is a word rooted in Latin, and that both the words “manifest” and “manifesto” derive ultimately from the Latin noun manus (“hand”) and festus, a combining form that is related to the Latin adjective infestus meaning “hostile.” Well, there is certainly an internal hostility against the Church herself today and we are called to defend her. On February 8, 2019, His Eminence Gerhard Ludwig Cardinal Mueller released his controversial Manifesto of Faith. Mueller has been a strong voice for traditional orthodox Catholics, and with the recent controversial Amazon Synod, he started raising…Continue Reading

Priest-Activist Tells Brunch… Reign Of Abortion Could Topple Like Berlin Wall Did

November 20, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Priest-Activist Tells Brunch… Reign Of Abortion Could Topple Like Berlin Wall Did

By DEXTER DUGGAN SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — If the Berlin Wall could fall overnight, the end of abortion could happen as suddenly, said a priest who pressured his girlfriend to abort their twin babies long before he discerned his religious vocation and entered the seminary. Speaking at the annual fund-raising brunch of Phoenix’s First Way Pregnancy Center on November 9, Fr. Stephen Imbarrato said it was exactly 30 years earlier that the Communist wall came down in 1989, even though many people back then thought such a momentous event never could happen in their lifetimes. Pointing to comments that President Trump made to a reporter just after the 2018 midterm elections, Imbarrato told the diners here that he could see such…Continue Reading

The One True Church

November 19, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on The One True Church

By JOE SIXPACK Last week, we began our examination of how Christ established the Catholic Church. This week, we are going to take it a step further . . . perhaps several steps further. The most telling point about the divine origins of the Church is the papacy. Non-Catholics — particularly those who are not exactly friends of the Catholic Church — all tell us there’s nothing in the Bible about the papacy or St. Peter being the first Pope. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Biblical evidence for the papacy is overwhelming. Following the logical presentation of Karl Keating in his modern classical work Catholicism and Fundamentalism, we find the evidence to be irrefutable. Keating notes first that…Continue Reading