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A Marriage On The Rocks

August 31, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on A Marriage On The Rocks

By CHRISTOPHER MANION In the 1980s, a globe-trotting philanthropist from Palm Beach told me about life in Argentina. She had married two Argentinos (one at a time), so she had what we might call a less than sanguine view. Naturally, she had a lot of stories about Argentine men. One Argentine friend of hers, a socially prominent woman who lived in a palatial home, had a problem: Her husband had acquired a mistress. Apparently the paramour had virtually taken up residence on the third floor, availing herself of a separate entrance to come and go. Of course our prominent matriarch was the last to know, but when she found out that the hussy had virtually moved in, she confronted her…Continue Reading

The Apocalyptic Anti-Human Vision That Inspired Title X

August 30, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on The Apocalyptic Anti-Human Vision That Inspired Title X

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY Can you guess which future president expressed these views in 1970? “No one can honestly say how many people this earth of ours, with its finite resources, can accommodate,” he said. “But, it seems to me a fair judgment to say that the present rates of population growth and demand for resources have proved too rapid for our technology to improve the quality of life that we in America expect for all our citizens.” “We, in America, have our own population problems and the time for facing up to these problems is now,” he said. “Our cities are decaying, too many American lack proper food and nutrition, our transportation facilities are failing to meet the demands…Continue Reading

Back To School Isn’t What It Used To Be

August 29, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Back To School Isn’t What It Used To Be

By REY FLORES Back to school used to mean a lot to us kids back in the day. Whether it was a good thing or bad, we all experienced those butterflies in our stomachs as we returned to classes each fall. I recall going shopping with my mom for new school supplies at the local discount store. A new backpack, pens, pencils, sharpeners, a ruler, a brand-new box of Crayola crayons, and the rest of the things we were required to bring to school, depending on what grade we were entering that year. Yes, even back then we had our problems in our inner-city Catholic school. One girl ended up dropping out of our eighth-grade class before graduation because she…Continue Reading

On Cardinal Pell’s Glass Martyrdom

August 28, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on On Cardinal Pell’s Glass Martyrdom

By SHAUN KENNEY In the Catholic tradition, there are two sorts of martyrdom. The one that most of us are familiar with is the martyrdom of the saints killed by Romans, Tudors, Nazis, and Communists. These men and women spilled their blood, hence the term “red martyrdom” and the color worn by the princes of the Church — the cardinals — as a sign of willingness to do likewise. There is another sort of martyrdom that is not often discussed, and that is a white martyrdom where blood is never shed. St. Jerome would describe it as the ascetic life pursued in the monk’s cell, the choice to die away to oneself so as to embrace Christ. Yet there is…Continue Reading

A College Education… But No “Free Exchange Of Ideas”

August 27, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on A College Education… But No “Free Exchange Of Ideas”

By DONALD DeMARCO A friend of mine related a memorable experience he had while visiting the campus of Smith College in Northampton, Mass. Smith was founded in 1871, established, according to its Mission Statement, on “the free exchange of ideas.” Its motto, translated from the Greek, is “In Virtue [One Gains] Knowledge.” What my friend discovered, however, was not an affirmation, but actually a contradiction to the college’s founding principles. At the time of my friend’s visitation, Dr. Alice von Hildebrand was scheduled to speak. Her topic: “Feminism, Abortion, and Motherhood.” She would attempt to explain to her audience how abortion is an affront to women. Her presence was an occasion for student protest. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), a heralded…Continue Reading

Transparency And Free Speech… Can They Coexist?

August 26, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Transparency And Free Speech… Can They Coexist?

By DEACON MIKE MANNO, JD I live in a state that is being invaded by hordes of Democratic presidential wannabes, all aiming for an electoral boost from next February’s first in the nation Iowa caucuses. So I’m almost immune by now to the constant drumbeat against President Trump, his family, and his supporters, or, as they are oft referred to, the deplorables. I understand politics. I understand that the Democratic candidates need to show their partisans that if given the party’s presidential nomination, they can go toe-to-toe with Mr. Trump. Politics is hardball and the fainthearted need not apply. But this year things have gone terribly wrong and it mimics what has gone wrong with our social discourse. We no…Continue Reading

$3 Million For Firing . . . “Trust Women”? What If Women Know Better Than To Trust PP?

August 25, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on $3 Million For Firing . . . “Trust Women”? What If Women Know Better Than To Trust PP?

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Amid Planned Parenthood’s challenges, from trying to hire a national president it won’t quickly fire like Leana Wen to opposing President Trump’s pro-life administration’s regulations, add this one: Worrying that its own workers it thinks are obediently steadfast can instead be a whistle-blowing liability to its swaggering role as the largest provider of permissive abortion in the U.S. What goes on inside those walls may not stay inside. Pro-lifers who have prayed outside abortion clinics can recount unfortunately memorable experiences. I recall one day here at an abortuary that competed against PP when one shaken young woman emerged staggering and in need of physical support because she no longer seemed able to walk on her…Continue Reading

The Left Vindicates A Pro-Life Scholar

August 24, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on The Left Vindicates A Pro-Life Scholar

By CHRISTOPHER MANION “Remember Stanford scholar Steven Mosher?” asks Monica Showalter in American Thinker. Her question is prompted by a new documentary on Communist China’s savage forced-abortion policy, begun in 1980 and slightly modified in 2015. The film, One Child Nation, which opened in theaters earlier this month, won the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The Left loved it. But that hasn’t always been the case. Just ask Steven Mosher. “Way back in the 1980s,” Showalter writes, “the man was reviled in scholarly circles for exposing these brutal realities about China. Instead of being praised for adding to the scholarly body of knowledge, he was abused, slandered, accused of process crimes, and eventually kicked out of his…Continue Reading

A Book Review . . . Viganò Revisited And Reaffirmed

August 23, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on A Book Review . . . Viganò Revisited And Reaffirmed

By PEGGY MOEN Viganò vs. the Vatican by Marco Tosatti; published in 2019 by Sophia Institute Press, www.sophiainstitutepress.com. Paperback; $14.95. Order on the publisher’s website – use code WA25 and save 25%. How will historians of the future write about this troubled period in Church history, especially the 2018 Summer of Shame, darkened by the removal from public ministry of “credibly accused” Theodore McCarrick, the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report, and Archbishop Carlo Viganò’s testimony on the McCarrick cover-ups? What will they unearth and what will they conclude? These future historians will do well to begin with Marco Tosatti’s just published Viganò vs. the Vatican. The book encompasses all three Viganò missives: the best-known 11-page first letter, dated August 22, 2018, the…Continue Reading

What Are You Doing To Make The Presence Real?

August 22, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on What Are You Doing To Make The Presence Real?

By SHAUN KENNEY The Catholic bishops are shocked — just shocked! — that only 1 in 4 of the faithful believe in the Real Presence. What is more astonishing is that their bewilderment actually seems genuine…which is horrifying to the rest of us insofar as we have been warning about this problem for the better part of five decades. Let us start with what is most obvious. Much like our public education system, Catholic parents writ large have sloughed off their responsibilities to DREs and youth ministers. What is a DRE, you ask? In all honestly, I have no clue. Supposedly they are to direct the religious education of young Catholics, but how often do they have them? What are…Continue Reading