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Amid The Brawling . . . Substantial Amount Of Information Emerged At First Presidential Debate

October 4, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Amid The Brawling . . . Substantial Amount Of Information Emerged At First Presidential Debate

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — While there’ll be a different format for the next presidential debate on October 15 in Miami, using townhall-style questions, the first faceoff on September 29 in Cleveland drew attention for getting out of hand.Still, there was a substantial amount of information conveyed amid the verbal assaults and crosstalk. I filled more than 15 pages of a steno notepad during the 95-minute tussle that I watched during a viewing party after I received a media invitation to attend at Republican headquarters here.Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden showed he could be on his feet for more than 90 minutes without resurrecting some of his numerous serious errors including that, for instance, he’s running for the Senate, or…Continue Reading

Scandals And Scoundrels Abound

October 3, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Scandals And Scoundrels Abound

By CHRISTOPHER MANION It’s been quite a week. In the Vatican, Angelo Cardinal Becciu, a powerful Curia insider, has been fired and stripped of his privileges as a cardinal. George Cardinal Pell, exonerated of trumped-up charges by a unanimous supreme court in Australia, has returned to Rome. Joseph Cardinal Zen also arrived in Rome, hoping to persuade Pope Francis not to renew the Vatican’s secret agreement with Communist China that has fomented so much persecution of Catholics there. Pope Francis refused to meet with him, and a dispirited Zen returned to Hong Kong, which now suffers under tightening Communist rule.At the same time U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Rome to meet with his Italian diplomatic counterparts. He…Continue Reading

Stab Me In The Heart

October 2, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Stab Me In The Heart

BY JOE SIXPACK Rusty had a beautiful picture of the Mother of Sorrows above his bed. This image shows Our Lady with seven swords piercing her heart. Rusty used to look at the picture every night while he did his night prayers before going to bed, and he’d add three Hail Marys to the Blessed Virgin in her honor.One day Rusty committed a mortal sin of impurity. He was sorry for his sin, but still planned to go to Communion the next day without first going to Confession. That night as he prayed at his bedside, Rusty was ashamed to look at the picture because his conscience was bothering him. Then he heard a voice saying, “Rusty, why don’t you…Continue Reading

Two Heavy Weights Defending the Faith . . . Bishop Strickland . . . Fr Altman

October 1, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Two Heavy Weights Defending the Faith . . . Bishop Strickland . . . Fr Altman

Talk On Encyclical Examines How God Enables People To Find Truth About Him And Themselves

October 1, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Talk On Encyclical Examines How God Enables People To Find Truth About Him And Themselves

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — God didn’t create people with a yearning to know the truth but a lack of ability to find it.That was one of the points in a presentation by theology professor Ryan Hanning, Ph.D., on St. John Paul’s thinking in his 1998 encyclical Fides et Ratio, on the relationship between faith and reason.This isn’t some abstract topic, Hanning told a September 19 Zoom meeting of the Institute of Catholic Theology (ICT), based at St. Thomas the Apostle Church here.Instead, the earliest question a young person asks, Hanning said, is, “Where did I come from?” At first this is on the biological level, but expands to questions of ultimate purpose.God placed on the human heart the desire…Continue Reading

Lessons In Piety From A Great Catholic Artist

September 30, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Lessons In Piety From A Great Catholic Artist

BY JAMES MONTI The battle on earth between good and evil has always been a war fought not only on a global scale, but first and foremost within the depths of each human soul. In the lives of the saints, this battle concludes with an unqualified victory of good over evil, whether it be as the culmination of a lifelong progression in virtue or the mature fruit of a dramatic and blessedly irrevocable conversion after earlier years of vice. Our Lord has preserved His Church largely through the holiness and example of these extraordinary men and women of faith.Yet in His loving Providence Our Lord has also accomplished much of the evangelization and sanctification of the world through the lives…Continue Reading

Beacon Of Light… The Fourth Commandment: God’s Divine Plan

September 29, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Beacon Of Light… The Fourth Commandment: God’s Divine Plan

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.) + + Greetings in the Lord Jesus Christ! How are we doing on our daily examination of conscience? Are we taking 10-15 minutes daily to examine ourselves in word and deed? I know this experience has enhanced my own prayer life. It has also assisted me in my relationship with God and others.Today we will transition…Continue Reading

And If There Is No Winner?

September 28, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on And If There Is No Winner?

By DEACON MIKE MANNO, JD We’re going to have an election next month — I’m sure you heard of it, it’s been in all the papers. So what happens if on Election Day no one wins? Can that even happen?Short answer: You betcha! It not only can happen, but it has happened.First, a short civics primer. As everyone knows by now, when we vote on November 3, or send in an absentee ballot, we are not voting directly for president but for a slate of electors who will meet on December 14 to cast the official vote for president. Each state will choose electors to correspond to their representation in Congress. So, for example, my state Iowa has four congressman…Continue Reading

Change On Supreme Court . . . Latest Twist In A Traumatic Year Means Satan’s Power To Be Shackled?

September 27, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Change On Supreme Court . . . Latest Twist In A Traumatic Year Means Satan’s Power To Be Shackled?

By DEXTER DUGGAN Could the astounding confluence of evils in the United States in 2020 mean Satan is thrashing about in desperation because he knows his current power is about to be shackled, and a new age of blessings from Heaven is ready to arrive on Earth?True, that idea is unverified hopeful speculation, but a person also keeps in mind that God through the passage of particular decades eventually wearies of evils of that era inflicting themselves on His children and clamps down on devilish ills.Over the last half-century, one of the dominant powers imposing arbitrary, sinful rule on the U.S. has been an unaccountable Supreme Court thrusting its personal agenda on society, lacking legal precedent as well as some…Continue Reading

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, RIP

September 26, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, RIP

BY CHRISTOPHER MANION The current uproar engulfing Washington, also known as “mourning the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg,” proves once more that abortion is the issue, period. After all, if you can kill the most innocent, you can kill anybody.Those on the Left who are celebrating Mrs. Ginsberg’s “legacy” merely confirm the point: her “legacy” consisted solely of rubber-stamping Roe in the spirit of Margaret Sanger. “Frankly,” she told the New York Times in 2009, “I had thought that at the time that Roe was decided, there was a concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”Well, we know what Mrs. Ginsberg’s wailing eulogists don’t want too many of:…Continue Reading