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Civil War 2019 . . . Day And Night Fight It Out: Both Can’t Win

June 2, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Civil War 2019 . . . Day And Night Fight It Out: Both Can’t Win

By DEXTER DUGGAN The UK Guardian posted a news story that there was “outcry and a debate” in Virginia because a woman’s will specified that her healthy pet dog be killed, cremated, and the ashes buried with her. This was an “unusual death,” the May 23 report said — unusual enough for a news story. Animal-shelter workers reportedly had “spent two weeks trying to talk the executor of the woman’s estate out of the plan” because a new home easily could have been found for the healthy dog, named Emma, which was a human being-type name. The story added, “Larry Spiaggi, the president of the Virginia Funeral Directors Association, said he found the practice of euthanizing a healthy dog and…Continue Reading

What Really Bugs The Democrats

June 1, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on What Really Bugs The Democrats

By CHRISTOPHER MANION On an early Italian morning in 1975, I had the entire Etruscan Museum in Viterbo to myself. Filled with luscious gold and jewels, it was quiet as a tomb (in fact, a tomb was a major exhibit), until I approached a small office near the entrance. There I thought I heard a familiar voice. I couldn’t believe my ears. It was Bugs Bunny. Yes, the security guard was on duty, and he was watching a Bugs Bunny cartoon on a small television set on his desk. He was chuckling, and so was I — the cartoon’s sound track was English, the subtitles were French, and the guard protecting all of these treasures was very, very Italian. Only…Continue Reading

Credibility Again . . . Missing in Action At The Vatican

May 31, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Credibility Again . . . Missing in Action At The Vatican

By JOSEPH MATT It is said that time reveals all truth, the passing of which has brought another vindication of Archbishop Viganò (see Maike Hickson’s article, “Former Aide Details how McCarrick Ignored Benedict’s Sanctions,”). The evidence which has come forth since Archbishop Viganò issued his original allegations against the Vatican bureaucracy and clerical cover-up in the McCarrick case continues to verify and vindicate his statements. The “ever merciful” Vatican and its “transparency” happy talk are once again faced with a case of having to shoot the messenger or face the reality of dealing with the cover-up. The latest revelations put forth by the former aide to the now Mr. McCarrick provide more evidence and confirmation of a massive abuse of…Continue Reading

The Future: Bleak Or Bright?

May 30, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on The Future: Bleak Or Bright?

By JOHN YOUNG Looking at conditions in society today, and in the Catholic Church, it is easy to become pessimistic. Are we heading for a long dark age with civilization giving way to barbarism? Or is the end of the world near, to be preceded by the final great battle between good and evil? In the area of sexuality views are being pushed which a generation ago would have been seen as insane. Common sense, backed up by biological science, accepts the obvious truth that there are two complementary sexes. But not only is common sense flouted, people who disagree with the insane and unscientific assertions being pushed are in danger of losing their jobs or even going to prison.…Continue Reading

Pro-Abortion Thinking… Just As Mangled As The Bodies Of Its Infant Victims

May 29, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Pro-Abortion Thinking… Just As Mangled As The Bodies Of Its Infant Victims

By DEXTER DUGGAN Amid the controversy over whether the growing organisms in mothers’ wombs should be allowed to live long enough to become human beings by anybody’s reckoning, even permissive abortion’s strongest supporters might wonder how much longer they can live with their own crying consciences. Their ever-increasing unease and extremism demonstrate consciences in turmoil, no matter how much they’ll try to shrug off the growing presence inside themselves of moral discomfort, gnawing pain over what they intuit is deeply wrong. These worried partisans seek a desperate numbing by becoming ever more radical on how late and how much abortion is acceptable to them, even while scientific development and knowledge have kept shoving them to ever more uncomfortable corners to…Continue Reading

One Man’s Journey From Darkness Into Life

May 28, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on One Man’s Journey From Darkness Into Life

By REY FLORES Part 1 As a columnist, I sometimes get the opportunity to meet some really interesting people and listen to some very moving and powerful stories. In this week’s column, I’d like to share the story of one man’s journey out of the darkness and into the light of God. His name is Kurt Filla and he is now running a terrific new company which is very much what I have said the pro-life movement needs. Since his testimony is somewhat lengthy, I am sharing here part one of two in a two-week series. Here is Kurt’s story. “I grew up Catholic in Washington, Mo., a small town just outside of St. Louis. I was adopted as an…Continue Reading

Does Gender Identity Trump Religious Freedom?

May 27, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Does Gender Identity Trump Religious Freedom?

By DEACON MIKE MANNO, JD Last week we looked at a couple of cases before the Supreme Court that could clarify a question that has troubled legal observers for some time: Does the word “sex” in the Civil Rights Act include gender identity or sexual orientation? An affirmative answer would open the doors for a slew of successful lawsuits from gender-confused individuals against churches, adoption agencies, wedding vendors, and school locker-room rules, among others. But any decision by the court may be short lived if congressional Democrats have their way. In the House, the majority Democrats have introduced something called “The Equality Act” whose purpose is to not only give an affirmative answer to the above question, but to also…Continue Reading

Pro-Life Reform Efforts . . . Make Abortion Backers Squirm Like Unborn Baby Headed Into Abortuary

May 26, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Pro-Life Reform Efforts . . . Make Abortion Backers Squirm Like Unborn Baby Headed Into Abortuary

By DEXTER DUGGAN Imagine that you went to a rally of new-car salespeople urging themselves on to market their merchandise. You stood nearby and held up your irrelevant poster of a 50-year-old junker labeled “Our latest model.” The poster was so pointless that no salesperson paid any attention, and you drifted away. Now imagine that your placard showed as nifty a model as anything they had in stock, but yours was labeled, “$12,000 lower-priced if you come to my showroom.” Now you’re threatening their business, and they couldn’t block your message fast enough. The conservative PJ Media website (pjmedia.com) posted a video longer than an hour on May 21 showing courageous pro-life “Activist Mommy” Elizabeth Johnston (see her on Facebook)…Continue Reading

Washington Welcomes Its New Archbishop

May 25, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Washington Welcomes Its New Archbishop

By CHRISTOPHER MANION On Tuesday, May 21, Archbishop Wilton Gregory was installed as the new ordinary of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. He succeeds Donald Cardinal Wuerl, who had served as administrator of the archdiocese since he retired last year. Archbishop Gregory has long been a leader in the U.S. bishops’ conference, having served as its president in the crucial years surrounding the explosion into public view of the abuse and coverup scandals in 2002. In June of that year, the USCCB adopted its now infamous Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. As USCCB president, then-Bishop Gregory worked with then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick to ensure that the rules of the Charter, which were rigorous, even onerous, for priests…Continue Reading

Has The Day Of The Nationalists Come?

May 24, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Has The Day Of The Nationalists Come?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN A week from the day this column was written, Europeans may be able to gauge how high the tide of populism and nationalism has risen within their countries and on their continent. For all the returns will be in from three days of elections in the 28 nations represented in the European Parliament. Expectation: Nationalists and populists will turn in their strongest performance since the EU was established, and their parliamentary group — Europe of Nations and Freedom — could sweep a fourth of the seats in Strasbourg. Nigel Farage’s new Brexit Party is predicted to run first in the British elections, winning two to three times the votes of the ruling Tory Party of Prime…Continue Reading