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A Beacon Of Light… Living The Twelve Days Of Christmas

December 22, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off

By FR. RICHARD D. BRETON JR. (Editor’s Note: Fr. Richard D. Breton Jr. is a priest of the Diocese of Norwich, Conn. He is currently the parochial vicar of St. Andrew Parish in Colchester and St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Lebanon. He received his BA in religious studies and his MA in dogmatic theology from Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, Conn.) + + “And there were in the same country shepherds watching and keeping the night watches over their flock. And behold an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the brightness of God shone round about them; and they feared with a great fear. And the angel said to them: Fear not; for, behold, I…Continue Reading

Christmas: The Turning Point Of History

December 21, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off

By FR. JOHN A. HARDON, SJ (Editor’s Note: This historic Christmas commentary by the late Fr. John A. Hardon, SJ, appears on the website www.therealpresence.org/archives.) Most people take for granted that we number the years as we do. This year is 1990 AD. But behind the number is not only a fact of history; it is the turning point of history. It separates two ages in the annals of the human race: “Before Christ” (BC) and “in the year of the Lord” (AD), since the birth of Jesus Christ.There is more than passing value in asking ourselves, what do we mean when we say that Christmas Day literally divides two eras of mankind: the centuries before Bethlehem and the now…Continue Reading

Has A Chinese Virus Made Us More Like The People’s Republic?

December 20, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY Something that began in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 continues, a year later, to have a monstrous impact on the way Americans live their lives.We are less free today because a Chinese virus came our way — and because of the way some politicians have reacted to it.Start with the science: COVID-19 originated in China.“As COVID-19 began spreading in Wuhan, China, it became an epidemic,” says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Because the disease then spread across several countries and affected a large number of people, it was classified as a pandemic.”Specifically, as this column has reported before, the CDC confirmed that the first 11 cases of COVID-19 in the United States all traced…Continue Reading

Bishop Strickland . . . I Will Not Accept A COVID Vaccine Derived From Aborted Babies

December 19, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off

Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas has taken a strong stand on the possibility of a coronavirus vaccine containing fetal cell lines of aborted babies, according to a report from LifeSiteNews.As many COVID vaccines are beginning to be rolled out or have been already, His Excellency continued to caution Catholics in his diocese and elsewhere to look into these morally objectionable vaccines. In the latest episode of The Bishop Strickland Show, as well as in recent tweets, he addressed these concerns.“The bottom line for me is, does it [the vaccine] actually contain the markers, the DNA, of aborted children? If it does, I’m not going to accept it,” he declared.He expressed encouragement for others who will not accept such a…Continue Reading

All Roads Lead To Rome

December 18, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off

BY JOE SIXPACK A young Jew living in North Africa fell in love with a Protestant minister’s daughter and asked his permission to marry her. The minister told the young fellow he’d never give his daughter’s hand to an unbelieving Jew.Later, however, the minister told his daughter he’d give his consent to marriage, but only if she could convert the young man to Christianity. The Jewish lad accepted the challenge, and the young couple began an earnest study of religions. They compared books, discussed teachings, studied Scripture, and went as in depth as they could. In the end, both the boy and the girl converted . . . to the Catholic Church.A similar story involves Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman.…Continue Reading

The Fatherhood Of God

December 17, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off

By DEACON JAMES TONER There is nothing theologically mistaken in using the term “The Lord’s Prayer” (Matt. 6:9-13), but Catholics of my age were raised to refer to it as the “Our Father,” which I think is more comforting than the other term. What a blessing it is to be assured that we are all children of God, a truth which Catholics must always affirm. “I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me,” we are divinely told (2 Cor. 6:18; cf. Romans 8:16).This profound and covenantal truth is, in fact, the greatest and most powerful consolation we can have in this vale of tears (Psalm 83:6-7, 13 DRB). God loves us. God…Continue Reading

Speaker Recalls Life Of Jan Tyranowski . . . The Youth Leader Who Influenced Future Pope John Paul II

December 16, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Who knows how far the influence of a comment may go? A Polish priest’s remark in a homily in 1935 that “It’s not difficult to be a saint” ended up affecting the thinking of Karol Wojtyla, the young man who would become St. John Paul II, a speaker told a Zoom meeting of the Institute of Catholic Theology (ICT), headquartered here at St. Thomas the Apostle Church.The priest’s observation first changed the life of the Venerable Jan Tyranowski, an introverted Polish man born at the beginning of the twentieth century who was asked to become a Catholic youth leader and who passed on this outlook to Wojtyla, a member of his group, Simone Rizkallah in…Continue Reading

A Beacon Of Light… Rejoice In The Lord!

December 15, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off

By FR. RICHARD D. BRETON JR. (Editor’s Note: Fr. Richard D. Breton Jr. is a priest of the Diocese of Norwich, Conn. He is currently the parochial vicar of St. Andrew Parish in Colchester and St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Lebanon. He received his BA in religious studies and his MA in dogmatic theology from Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, Conn.) This past Sunday we celebrated the Third Sunday of Advent. The Introit Antiphon for the Mass is: “Gaudete in Domino semper: iterum dico, gaudete. Modestia vestra nota sit omnibus hominibus: Dominus enim prope est. Nihil solliciti sitis: sed in omni oratione petitiones vestrae innotescant apud Deum. * Benedixisti Domine terram tuam: avertisti captivitatem Jacob” (Missale Romanum).The…Continue Reading

It’s Up To Trump’s Fans . . . To Stop Beijing-Linked, Itchy U.S. Totalitarians

December 13, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off

By DEXTER DUGGAN The disgust is mutual.They think we’re backward, deplorable, superstitious, trouble-making, malign religious fools who must be suppressed for everyone’s good including our own.We know they’re lying, arrogant, vote-stealing, Beijing-linked, itchy totalitarians who’d like to make the United States into another hopeless Venezuela as long as they get the remaining goodies.Both of these groups can’t be correct. But one is.The Lord God and Fallen Angel Satan each can say the other one is evil, but they’re not both correct. It’s hardly that we’re as good as God, but their agenda comes from Satan.Massive, taxpayer-funded abortion, suppression of religious conscience and liberty, tight left-wing direction of educational bodies and entertainment, censorship of communications, race-obsessed regimentation, abhorrence of individual economic…Continue Reading

Amidst The Tumult . . . Christmas Offers Time For Reflection, Celebration

December 12, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off

By CHRISTOPHER MANION Events are moving quickly, and “instant analysis” will prove unsatisfactory. As we go to press, the Supreme Court will be hearing arguments in State of Texas v. Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania, State Of Georgia, State Of Michigan, And State Of Wisconsin. Now joined by 17 states, Texas asks the Supreme Court to “enjoin the use of unlawful election results” in those “Defendant” states.If successful, the selection of electors in the “Defendant” states would lie in the hands of the respective state legislatures. They are all controlled by Republican majorities. Should the Supreme Court decide in favor of Texas, et al., it’s possible that the legislatures in those states would name electors who would vote for President Trump when…Continue Reading

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