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Mayor Pete And The Crackup Of Christianity

April 24, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Mayor Pete And The Crackup Of Christianity

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so,” said Hamlet, who thereby raised some crucial questions: Is moral truth subjective? Does it change with changing times and changing attitudes? Or is there a higher law, a permanent law, God’s law, immutable and eternal, to which man’s law should conform? Are, for example, the Ten Commandments of the Old Testament, Christian teaching and natural law unchangeable and applicable to all men at all times? Or can some of the 10 be consigned to the dumpster of antiquated moral prohibitions? This question has been brought straight into the presidential primaries by Pete Buttigieg, breakout star of the spring of 2019. “Mayor Pete” is proudly…Continue Reading

What Happens Next After Notre Dame?

April 23, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on What Happens Next After Notre Dame?

By REY FLORES Like many of you last week, I was horrified by watching the news reports and videos of the grand old Notre Dame in Paris burning and collapsing. It reminded me of watching the World Trade Center Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, but thankfully no one died this time, and the church edifice was saved for the most part. While the initial reports from the investigators and the Paris fire department claimed that the fire was started accidentally, I have some serious doubts. I wonder why this happened at the start of Holy Week, for one thing. Perhaps I’m too jaded, but after the rash of vandalism across many Catholic churches in France and across the world,…Continue Reading

An All Too Familiar Tune

April 22, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on An All Too Familiar Tune

By MIKE MANNO A new drama is being played out in a federal courtroom near the Cleveland suburb of South Euclid, Ohio, that has all the notes we’ve heard sung before: “In the name of toleration you can’t practice your belief.” The story is simply a remake of stories we hear from all parts of the nation. A local city, town, school board — you pick the place — has decided that if you cannot support and embrace the new political morality that rejects traditional concepts of marriage and gender, you must be bad and need to be silenced or put out of business. The victim this time is a school, The Lyceum, which is described as “a classical religious…Continue Reading

He is not here, for He is risen, as He said. Come, and see the place where the Lord was laid

April 21, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on He is not here, for He is risen, as He said. Come, and see the place where the Lord was laid

Matthew 28: 28 And in the end of the sabbath, when it began to dawn towards the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalen and the other Mary, to see the sepulchre. 2 And behold there was a great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and coming, rolled back the stone, and sat upon it. 3 And his countenance was as lightning, and his raiment as snow. 4 And for fear of him, the guards were struck with terror, and became as dead men. 5 And the angel answering, said to the women: Fear not you; for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. 6 He is not here, for he is risen, as he said. Come, and see…Continue Reading

Recall Cartoonist’s Fanciful Distractions?. . . U.S. Being Run Like A Crazy Rube Goldberg Machine

April 21, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Recall Cartoonist’s Fanciful Distractions?. . . U.S. Being Run Like A Crazy Rube Goldberg Machine

By DEXTER DUGGAN Younger folks may be unfamiliar with the term, but beginning in the early twentieth century, a “Rube Goldberg machine” meant, as Wikipedia describes it, a series of simple devices that create a domino effect — sometimes including real dominoes — in which each device triggers the next one, achieving a basic goal only after complicated steps. Goldberg, a cartoonist and inventor, produced hilarious drawings of how the insanely fanciful devices would work. Activating his self-operating napkin, for instance, began with a diner raising a spoon to his mouth, which pulled a string that jerked a ladle that threw a cracker past a bird who jumped for it, allowing its perch to tilt, which upset seeds into a…Continue Reading

Benedict Emerges From The Shadows

April 20, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Benedict Emerges From The Shadows

By CHRISTOPHER MANION On April tenth, an essay by the Pope Emeritus appeared in print in several languages. Clear and candid, it was more coherent and perceptive than anything else that has appeared from the Vatican since Pope Benedict’s departure six years ago. The essay’s beginnings prompt more than a tad of curiosity. “After the meeting of the presidents of the bishops’ conferences was announced, I compiled some notes by which I might contribute one or two remarks to assist in this difficult hour,” Benedict writes. Perhaps he had in mind a brief address that he might deliver to the assembled prelates, many of whom he had named to their first see. However, as we now know, Benedict was not…Continue Reading

Good Friday… The “Hour” Of Christ’s Battle Against Satan And The Spirit Of The World

April 19, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Good Friday… The “Hour” Of Christ’s Battle Against Satan And The Spirit Of The World

By JAMES MONTI Each year the return of Holy Week brings with it a sense of entering into a loftier realm, a more sacred domain, the Holy of Holies surpassing any other liturgical season. From the middle of Lent onward, the daily readings from the Gospel of St. John at the weekday Masses have fostered within our souls a building sense of drama. Time and again in the pages of John’s inspired account, there appear the evocative words “hour” and “world.” Yet these are not mere literary inventions of the Evangelist; he has taken them from the lips of our Lord. And it is from the lips of Christ that the Church has learned to understand His Passion as the…Continue Reading

Pope Benedict: Hammer Of Heretics

April 18, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Pope Benedict: Hammer Of Heretics

By SHAUN KENNEY Pope Benedict XVI (emeritus) has issued what some have termed a post-papal encyclical identifying the rot at core inside the Catholic Church — and it is worth reading in full. One of the key highlights thus far? The source of the disease. Pope Francis, who not only signed off on the document but whom Benedict explicitly praised, has argued that the disease lies within a certain pernicious form of clericalism. What is clericalism, one might ask? No one is quite sure . . . but we are all very certain that it is very bad and we should all throw rocks at it this very moment. Alternatively, Benedict offers a rather simple answer that — once his…Continue Reading

St. John Paul’s Thought… Medical Workers Attend Program Of Reflection On Mystery Of Suffering

April 17, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on St. John Paul’s Thought… Medical Workers Attend Program Of Reflection On Mystery Of Suffering

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — St. John Paul II’s 1984 apostolic letter on redemptive suffering, Salvifici Doloris, was the focus of a Lenten program of reflection offered to members of the Catholic Medical Association of Phoenix (CMAP) by a young pastor of the Diocese of Phoenix. Fr. Dan Connealy, ordained in 2016 and recently appointed pastor of Phoenix’s St. Joan of Arc Parish, said St. John Paul “proposes the subject of suffering as a mystery,” not as a problem, which would have a practical solution to fix it. Connealy previously served at the Newman Center at Northern Arizona University, in the mountains of Flagstaff, Ariz., in addition to doing parish work there. The April 6 reflection, held at Phoenix diocesan…Continue Reading

Benedict XVI Analyzes Roots Of The Scandal

April 16, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Benedict XVI Analyzes Roots Of The Scandal

By BILL DONOHUE Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has released a lengthy essay on the roots of clergy sexual abuse that is illuminating and courageous. It is illuminating because he shows how forces inside and outside the Church came together to create the problem, and it is courageous because he speaks the truth about matters that are already causing an uproar. Benedict is no stranger to this subject. He previously condemned the “filth” in the Church that allowed for the scandal, and he did more to remove miscreant priests than either his Predecessor or Successor. He defrocked some 800 priests, including the notorious Fr. Marcial Maciel Degollado. Now he tackles the issue again, this time with a blend of sociological and…Continue Reading