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A New Pew Study… Marriage Vs. Cohabitation

November 18, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on A New Pew Study… Marriage Vs. Cohabitation

By DEACON MIKE MANNO, JD On the heels of a report on religious participation (see my November 7 column), the Pew Research Center has released a report, Marriage and Cohabitation in the U.S. It finds that as more and more adults are delaying, or even forgoing, marriage, the share of adults who have lived with an unmarried partner is on the rise, but not by as much as you might expect. Overall, it found that marriage rates have declined, particularly among younger adults. “Today, 18 percent of adults younger than 30 are married, compared with 31 percent in 1995. Among adults ages 30 to 49 and those 50 and older, 62 percent are married — down somewhat from 1995, when…Continue Reading

Defining “Safe Space” . . . A Place For Leftists To Hide From Their Own Hate And Damage

November 17, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Defining “Safe Space” . . . A Place For Leftists To Hide From Their Own Hate And Damage

By DEXTER DUGGAN The passage of a half-century or more can bring on considerable change in a technological era, but new decades being born don’t invert physical laws. The principles of flight remain the same, although biplanes getting off the ground applied them differently than spacecraft leaving the stratosphere. Communication connects people with each other and events, but an early electrical telegraph had a world of difference with electronically based twenty-first century social media. On the other hand, left-wing political causes have a way of going from one point to its exact, conflicting polar opposite, but all in the same name of some brand of justice or equality. Consider how the Berkeley, Calif., so-called Free Speech Movement that began to…Continue Reading

Familiar Issues Arise At USCCB Annual Meeting

November 16, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Familiar Issues Arise At USCCB Annual Meeting

By CHRISTOPHER MANION The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops held its fall meeting this past week, and it was designed to be uneventful. New officers were elected, new chairmen were assigned, various reports were accepted. “Many bishops express their strong support and to continue the moment[um] from last year,” read the USCCB notice on Twitter as the meeting opened. Of course, last year any momentum they might have had was ground to a halt by Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich, who abruptly shut down the bishops’ discussion of the then-Cardinal McCarrick investigation, leaving them little else to do but go home. Several bishops insisted on addressing McCarrick and the charges made by former Papal Nuncio Carlo Maria Viganò. But Cupich would…Continue Reading

Planned Parenthood… Gave Virginia Governor Infanticide Talking Points

November 15, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Planned Parenthood… Gave Virginia Governor Infanticide Talking Points

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam used Planned Parenthood abortion and infanticide talking points to run his press operations last January. Gov. Northam did a public radio interview after he and Democratic Virginia Delegate Kathy Tran introduced HB 2491, known as The Repeal Act, which would repeal restrictions on third trimester abortions all the way up to 40 weeks. This includes killing the child during or after delivery. The Repeal Act removes hospital requirements on clinics and providers, laws that mandate informed consent, a combination of mandatory ultrasounds, literature, the 24-hour waiting period for abortions in Virginia, and additional doctor requirements for late-term abortions. Northam tried to defend infanticide when he said, “If a mother is in labor, I…Continue Reading

Boring Catechesis Produces Boring Catholics

November 14, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Boring Catechesis Produces Boring Catholics

By SHAUN KENNEY One of our readers raised a concern about a Catholic evangelization program for teenagers entitled ChristLife, which is designed as a supplement or substitute for your more traditional CCD programs. Specifically, there is a section that includes the “Romans Road” so often used by Protestants to convert Catholics that ends with a recitation of the Sinners Prayer — a non-biblical prayer used by proponents of Sola Scriptura to advocate for non-scriptural dogmas such as Sola Scriptura. Now if one wants a truly Catholic program? Look no further than the Culture of Life Studies Program sponsored by American Life League, either as a supplement or a curriculum entirely devoted to promoting the dignity of human life. I am…Continue Reading

Not Just Another Cheap Imitation

November 13, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Not Just Another Cheap Imitation

By JOE SIX-PACK When talking about religion, I find it sad when I hear people say things like “The only thing that matters is that we all believe in the same God” or “One Christian religion is just as good as another” or “Let’s just agree to disagree.” These comments are saddening because they all demonstrate a scandal of Christianity. There are so many Christian religions to choose from that people have become indifferent to the whole idea of thinking about which church is the right one to belong to. But we Catholics can honestly and should assertively say, “Jesus established one Christian religion, and that religion is the Catholic Church!” The ecumenical movement of the 70s did far more…Continue Reading

A Potpourri . . . “Refounding” The Institute, Pachamama, And Other Matters

November 12, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on A Potpourri . . . “Refounding” The Institute, Pachamama, And Other Matters

By GEORGE A. KENDALL I wrote this in the last days (Thank God) of what some might call the Satanic Synod, known to others as the Amazonian Synod. As the dust settles, I would like to offer one thought in particular on the subject of the synod’s obsession with inculturation, and with it the notion that we need to help the “indigenous peoples” to keep their traditional “spiritualities” (a word that I am coming to have an allergic reaction to). This is one of those partial truths that cry out for qualification and clarification, not the confusion the synod perpetrators seemed so bent on. Yes, there are many truths in the pagan religions, among them the sense of cosmic order…Continue Reading

The Little Sisters Of The Poor Refuse To Buckle

November 11, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on The Little Sisters Of The Poor Refuse To Buckle

By DEACON MIKE MANNO, JD Well, I guess there is nothing stopping the Tolerant Left from trying to force the Little Sisters of the Poor into violating their religious beliefs by providing contraception, abortion, and sterilization coverage, among other evils. In fact, there is a decided effort by the left to eviscerate the conscience rights of anyone who does not embrace the left’s high sacrament styled as “reproductive freedom.” This issue, of course, arises out of the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare. Interestingly, the ACA does not require coverage of the above-mentioned sacrament. It does, however, authorize the executive branch to provide for “such additional preventive care and screenings” as deemed necessary, which it did.…Continue Reading

As Mormon Families Drove By… Here’s Why Cartel Assassins Were In Northern Mexico

November 10, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on As Mormon Families Drove By… Here’s Why Cartel Assassins Were In Northern Mexico

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Like the lawbreaker who reputedly shrugged that he robbed banks because that’s where the money is, vicious Latino criminals gather just south of the Southwestern United States because that’s the porous entryway for their booming illicit businesses. On November 4, the month of Thanksgiving and the month before Christmas, three mothers and six children, including two infants, were slaughtered and other youngsters in a three-vehicle caravan were wounded when their innocent drive through northern Mexico, not far from Arizona, ran afoul of terrorist-like gunmen. Open borders has been the poisoned holy grail of vote-hungry U.S. Democrats, big-business Republicans, and Catholic Church bureaucrats for far too long. This deadly drink led to still more deaths in…Continue Reading

The Chronicles Of Pachamama

November 9, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on The Chronicles Of Pachamama

By CHRISTOPHER MANION The “Amazon Synod” has finally ended. For three weeks a raft of advocacy, pageantry, heterodoxy, even idolatry, paraded through the Holy City’s streets and churches. While the synod was described as an opportunity to reflect on the Church’s mission to the region’s indigenous peoples, its stage managers quickly shifted to their desired narrative: women deacons, married priests, and the diluting of the Church’s teaching in order to accommodate the pagan religions of the region, as well as the worship of their gods and goddesses. To put it bluntly, the synod’s cast of characters was stacked with theological and political leftists, steeped in the language of Liberation Theology. Many participants weren’t interested in theology at all. Consider: Former…Continue Reading