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Trump’s Words At The UN… Show Why His Frantic Media And Dem Foes Are So Worried

September 29, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Trump’s Words At The UN… Show Why His Frantic Media And Dem Foes Are So Worried

By DEXTER DUGGAN While the Democratic Party and its dominant-media allies launched yet another furious attack over nothing substantial against Donald Trump, this time concerning Ukraine, the president’s remarks at the United Nations in late September demonstrated why the left wing fears him so much. He not only rejects their crippling agenda. He resolutely fights against it. Trump doesn’t do so with the goal of spreading some kind of racist, fascist oppression, as his foes maniacally allege, but in hopes that other nations around the world can flourish by adopting or enhancing traditional U.S.-style ideals of freedom and faith. Not only did Trump include individual dignity and preborn babies in his 37-minute speech before the General Assembly on September 24,…Continue Reading

Faith And Logos In Peril

September 28, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Faith And Logos In Peril

By CHRISTOPHER MANION Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization (Samuel Gregg: Regnery Publishers, $19.92 on Amazon). “Western societies become unmoored whenever reason and faith drift away from each other,” writes Samuel Gregg, research director at the Acton Institute in Grand Rapids. And yet, “unless the West gets the relation between reason and faith right, it will be unable to overcome its inner traumas or defend itself from those who wage war against it in the name of particular ideologies.” Gregg modestly calls this work an intellectual history, but it’s more than that, because in the battle of ideas there are winners and losers. “Ideas have consequences,” wrote Richard Weaver — and bad ideas have very bad consequences. If…Continue Reading

Sex Education Since Grandma… From God-Given Family Rights To Downhill All The Way

September 27, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Sex Education Since Grandma… From God-Given Family Rights To Downhill All The Way

By DEXTER DUGGAN Young Catholics curious about what Grandma and Grandad were reading in the mainline U.S. Catholic media back in the early 1960s might discover the topics haven’t changed so much, although the milieu has. Discovered at random recently, the April 1962 issue of The Liguorian monthly magazine, published shortly before the Second Vatican Council was to open in October of that year, indicated that the family and male-female relationships were leading topics. In those pre-Internet days, The Liguorian was the type of magazine often available on the literature racks in Catholic churches, as well as through mail subscriptions, and there weren’t entire rows of periodicals under the steeple arguing over what should be fundamental Catholic belief — back…Continue Reading

None Dare Call It Schism

September 26, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on None Dare Call It Schism

By SHAUN KENNEY Pope Francis isn’t afraid of schism, he says. Such a statement was pulled out of the Holy Father with a question asking him to clarify what he meant in his critique of Americans — or better still, why being criticized by Americans who stereotypically think in crayon didn’t seem to bother him all that much. EWTN’s Edward Pentin quoted Francis specifically on his reasoning for not fearing schism, stating that “a morality of ideology, such as Pelagianism, to put it that way, makes you rigid and today we have many, many schools of rigidity inside the Church. They are not schism, but they are pseudo-schismatic Christian paths that in the end finish badly.” Yet Francis knows he…Continue Reading

A Book Review… The Novelist Who Is A Watchman

September 25, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on A Book Review… The Novelist Who Is A Watchman

By DONALD DeMARCO On the Edge of Infinity: A Biography of Michael D. O’Brien by Clemens Cavallin, Justin Press (Ottawa, ON: 2017), 412 pages. Michael O’Brien is a success, though not exactly famous and certainly not a celebrity. This profile suits him fine since he regards any kind of fanfare as alien to his temperament. He does not mind being relatively unknown. His concern is that his art will make Truth and Love better known He was born in 1948 in Canada’s national capital and is very much alive today. Why, then, a biography for a person who is not famous and is still alive? The answer is twofold. O’Brien deserves to be better known and appreciated by Catholics in…Continue Reading

The Left’s Kavanaugh Smear Implodes — Again

September 24, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on The Left’s Kavanaugh Smear Implodes — Again

By TUCKER CARLSON and NEIL PATEL Believe it or not, it was a year ago that a constellation of left-wing activist groups cooked up a series of outlandish lies designed to keep Brett Kavanaugh off the Supreme Court. The national news media, as you will remember, joined the smear campaign. They repeated and magnified the slurs. But in the end, it was to no effect. Kavanaugh was confirmed anyway. Why? Because not a single allegation against him was proven to be true. Not one. Their only lasting effect was to traumatize Kavanaugh’s wife and children. To this day, the left has never apologized for their dishonesty or their profound cruelty. They did not accept defeat. They never do. Why? Because…Continue Reading

Christian Videographers… Win A Free Speech Victory

September 23, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Christian Videographers… Win A Free Speech Victory

By DEACON MIKE MANNO, JD The operators of a small Minnesota media firm wanting to make pro-traditional marriage videos were given a legal victory against state authorities who claimed their business plans violated the state law. Carl and Angel Larsen, who operate a business called Telescope Media Group (TMG), which produces short films, commercials, and other videos, wanted to expand their business to include celebratory wedding videos that would promote their Christian beliefs in traditional one-man, one-woman marriage. The problem was that the state, relying on the Minnesota Human Rights Act (MHRA), cried, “Foul.” It seems that under the terms of the MHRA, Telescope Media Group falls into the category of a “public accommodation” and, as a result, the state…Continue Reading

Dominant Media Undercut Selves Again . . . The More Horror Grows, The More Reporting Falls Silent

September 22, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Dominant Media Undercut Selves Again . . . The More Horror Grows, The More Reporting Falls Silent

By DEXTER DUGGAN Do key players working at dominant media have a shred of conscience? The answer hasn’t been hopeful. How many more horrors will they routinely try to avoid reporting before their deceptions become unbearable, not only to a public that sees them as lying lackeys but also to their own battered sense of moral accountability? Day after day as September advanced, a San Francisco court hearing considered whether a trial was merited against pro-life investigators from the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) who could face prison time for exposing abortionists’ large-scale sale of aborted baby parts. Main media generally were averse to covering the proceedings, just as they reacted negatively to the CMP’s revelation of these horrors in…Continue Reading

Does The Left Even Believe Its Own Lies?

September 21, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Does The Left Even Believe Its Own Lies?

By CHRISTOPHER MANION Sixty years ago, James Burnham asked a simple question. “Do liberals really believe in liberalism?” Burnham had every right to ask. He’d been a leftist himself, even a fan of Leon Trotsky. He was thoroughly trained in the dialectic. But by 1960, he’d been a founding editor of National Review for five years. The time was ripe for Burnham to write a book describing what the Left was all about. His title succinctly described liberalism’s goal: The Suicide of the West. When it comes to liberals, or indeed to adherents of any ideological system, Burnham wrote, “very few . . . bother to inquire into the logical foundations of their day-by-day judgments and rules of conduct, nor…Continue Reading

Why The French-Ahmari Debates Matter

September 20, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Why The French-Ahmari Debates Matter

By SHAUN KENNEY For those of you attuned to such controversies, there was a debate little noticed by the media in general but widely panned within Catholic intellectual circles at The Catholic University of America two weeks ago. The aptly named “Thrilla at the Basilica” or the “Melee at CUA” brought over 600 attendees to the newly restored Heritage Hall — for alumni, that’s the old cafeteria at University Center East — featuring two heavyweights: Mr. David French of National Review and Mr. Sohrab Ahmari of the New York Post. The topic of the debate? Could have been cloaked in the language of Catholic integralism, but truly was centered more around civility in the public square. Let me set the…Continue Reading