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A Movie Review . . . This Film Is A Victory For The Pro-Life Movement

March 26, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on A Movie Review . . . This Film Is A Victory For The Pro-Life Movement

By REY FLORES It is finally here. After a few years of rumors and speculation, fundraising, and some resistance from the filmmaking industry, Unplanned made its world premiere at the historic Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. We must see this as a huge victory for the pro-life movement in the sense that despite all of the secular culture’s love of abortion, here we are in 2019, premiering an anti-abortion film in the Devil’s own backyard. As with her book, the movie tells the true story of Abby Johnson, a young woman who herself had gone through a difficult relationship, a relationship that included two abortions. She also played a number of roles at Planned Parenthood, everything from a volunteer, to…Continue Reading

Washington State… Does It Again And Gets Sued

March 25, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Washington State… Does It Again And Gets Sued

By MIKE MANNO Well, the folks who run the State of Washington are up to their old tricks again. You might remember that one of our last visits there was to write about the a local florist, Barronelle Stutzman, proprietor of Arlene’s Flowers whom the State Supreme Court found had violated the law when she refused to provide arranged flowers for a “gay wedding” ceremony. Her problems started when a friend and longtime customer, Robert Ingersoll, asked her to provide flowers for his same-sex wedding. Barronelle, citing her religious beliefs about marriage, declined to provide arranged flowers, but did offer to sell Ingersoll any flowers he wanted. She would sell the flowers; she just wouldn’t arrange them for him. Ingersoll…Continue Reading

Balanced Between Darkness And Light . . . People Moving, Illegally And Legally, To Change Our Future

March 24, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Balanced Between Darkness And Light . . . People Moving, Illegally And Legally, To Change Our Future

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — It didn’t look like a beach ripe for an invasion force to land at the intersection of North 16th Street and East Bethany Home Road here the afternoon of March 20, the spring equinox, the day the world balances between equal times of darkness and light. The TexAz Grill, a Texas-themed steakhouse for Arizonans, was on the northeast corner, just across from a Starbucks coffee shop on the southeast. Luci’s Healthy Marketplace occupied the northwest spot, just east of where Richardson’s New Mexican Cuisine used to be, where President George W. Bush once dined, before a fire forced the eatery to move a little northward. Offering fast food on the southwest corner was a Dunkin’…Continue Reading

CRS: Catholic Charity? Or Secular Government Agency?

March 23, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on CRS: Catholic Charity? Or Secular Government Agency?

By CHRISTOPHER MANION For the past five years, Michael Hichborn’s Lepanto Institute has done the hard lifting. His investigations of the USCCB agencies advertised as “charities” have revealed many operations that aren’t very “Catholic” at all. In fact, some of them are downright un-Catholic. They’ve endorsed immoral programs, cooperated with pro-abortion coalitions, and even donated the faithful’s contributions to groups whose activities defy the truths of Humanae Vitae. One such agency, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), is a subsidiary of the USCCB. However, it receives a majority of its funding — hundreds of millions of dollars — from the federal government. That is also the case with countless other “Non-Governmental Organizations” (NGOs) that work in foreign countries. The trouble arises when,…Continue Reading

Amidst Scandal, Live The Gospel Fearlessly

March 22, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Amidst Scandal, Live The Gospel Fearlessly

By SHAUN KENNEY The Wall Street Journal wrote about the condition of the Catholic Church today, most notably the weakening of faith among those Catholics who consider themselves culturally identified with the Church, but not faithful attendees at Mass. Specifically, the connotation here is that Catholics who were teetering are now tipping away thanks to the scandals plaguing the Church. In 2002, only 22 percent of all Catholics indicated they were considering leaving the Catholic faith as a result of the sexual abuse scandals. The foxes rushed into the henhouse declaring themselves lord and protector of these lands, and the result? In 2018, the bad memories came rushing back in a flood, with McCarrick having already won the game by…Continue Reading

Reverence As A Way Of Life In Church And Beyond

March 21, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Reverence As A Way Of Life In Church And Beyond

By JAMES MONTI In a previous essay, we looked at reverence as an overriding principle of fitting sacred worship. Here we return to the subject of reverence to consider some specific ways by which it is expressed in the sacred liturgy and in other aspects of life as well. Lent is a particularly opportune time to reflect upon reverence, for it is a season of serious soul-searching, a season beginning and concluding with solemn rites that bring us to a hushed standstill before awesome events and mysteries. It begins with a rite that literally writes the remembrance of death on our faces, the imposition of ashes, and as it draws to a close we enter Jerusalem with Christ on Palm…Continue Reading

Are We Facing The Complete Loss of Innocence?

March 20, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Are We Facing The Complete Loss of Innocence?

By REY FLORES It’s Girl Scout Cookie time again as I write this, but this column isn’t about cookies. It’s about how we as individuals and as a society have made the country an almost completely unsafe and dangerous place for children. We have failed our children in so many respects, and as Christians, we all know about that millstone around our necks. With every generation that comes, we have lowered the bar every time, almost as if we were enjoying the downward spiral as if it were some kind of twisting waterslide. The thing about this whirlpool is that it is the flushing of our entire civilization down the toilet. When I see those little girls and their parents…Continue Reading

Longtime Physician Says . . . Conference In Rome Will Explore “The Fallacies Of ‘Brain Death’”

March 19, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Longtime Physician Says . . . Conference In Rome Will Explore “The Fallacies Of ‘Brain Death’”

By DEXTER DUGGAN How the practice of medicine viewed patients began to change in 1968, when “brain death” was proposed as a shift in medical thinking in order to obtain healthy organs for transplant, a longtime physician who helped plan a conference in Rome on brain death scheduled in May told The Wanderer in a telephone interview. “I question whether Roe v. Wade would have happened” in 1973, when the Supreme Court legalized nationwide permissive abortion, without the brain-death proposal in 1968, Paul Byrne, MD, a former president of the national Catholic Medical Association, said in a March 4 interview. It was an intoxicating period of time when some physicians reconsidered whom they were primarily serving, the patient or “certain…Continue Reading

Where Has Our Sense Of Humor Gone?

March 18, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Where Has Our Sense Of Humor Gone?

By MIKE MANNO “Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners” — George Carlin. + + + The best humor, they say, is based in reality. If that’s true, then George Carlin hit one out of the park. For the last several years I’ve noticed that we’ve stopped laughing at — or with — one another. What was once a great American sense of humor, especially involving current events, has apparently been replaced by systematic dowdiness. We used to be able to poke fun at ourselves and others in a friendly sort of way like we do with our families and close friends. So what has happened? Well, my guess is that our overreliance on mandated political correctness as well…Continue Reading

Meghan McCain… Intensifies Her National Profile For Defending Preborn Babies

March 17, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Meghan McCain… Intensifies Her National Profile For Defending Preborn Babies

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — If the late Sen. John McCain ever used his local branch library here, it would have been Century Library at 1750 E. Highland Ave. McCain’s high-rise condo was a few blocks to the east. The morning of Tuesday, March 12, one of that city library’s workers carried some newspapers that had arrived over the weekend over to the newspaper reading racks. One of them was the March 11 Wall Street Journal, whose opinion pages included a column that McCain’s daughter Meghan co-authored with Sen. Ben Sasse (R., Neb.). It was headlined, “America’s Extremist Abortion Industry.” Meghan’s pro-life views already were well known. She had been vocal about them on the ABC television daily program The…Continue Reading