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Church Leaders Weigh In On Guns And Gaia

September 7, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Church Leaders Weigh In On Guns And Gaia

By CHRISTOPHER MANION The “Dog Days of August” are usually uneventful, with Congress out of session and millions of folks enjoying their vacations. But our hard-working hierarchy hasn’t missed a day at the office, and their work product is truly prodigious. God “offers creation to men and women as a precious gift to be preserved,” writes Pope Francis in his World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, released last week. “Tragically, the human response to this gift has been marked by sin, selfishness, and a greedy desire to possess and exploit. Egoism and self-interest have turned creation, a place of encounter and sharing, into an arena of competition and conflict,” he continued. It’s difficult to tell whether His…Continue Reading

Adventure Catholic… Offers Faith Formation And Leadership For Young Catholics

September 6, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Adventure Catholic… Offers Faith Formation And Leadership For Young Catholics

By REY FLORES When I first heard of Adventure Catholic, I thought it was some kind of new Catholic amusement park. Instead, it is a unique training method developed by Adventure Catholic founders Alan Migliorato and Darryl Dziedzic. Alan is an active youth minister, as well as Darryl who has been in ministry for over fifteen years now. Both men are fathers who also had the responsibility of helping minister to young people in various capacities in their own parishes, but they wanted to do more. Alan and Darryl were discussing a solution to one of the biggest problems that faces the Catholic Church today — the loss of members in young adulthood. They were brainstorming ways to fix this…Continue Reading

Hyperbole And The Magisterium

September 5, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Hyperbole And The Magisterium

By SHAUN KENNEY One of the best pieces of advice as a young politico I ever received was to interrogate every piece of information with two questions: 1) who benefits if I believe this, and 2) why am I being asked to believe this? Longtime observers of the Catholic media landscape understand the rivalry — if it can be called that — between some of our disparate publications. National Catholic Reporter (progressive with a p) squares off against National Catholic Register (God’s Marines with a g); incrementalists at LifeNews square off against absolutists at LifeSiteNews; traditionalists at Church Militant square off against the European social democrats at La Croix International — or at least, the Europeans try. Thankfully, I’m sure…Continue Reading

Will Bibi’s War Become America’s War?

September 4, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Will Bibi’s War Become America’s War?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN President Donald Trump, who canceled a missile strike on Iran, after the shoot-down of a U.S. Predator drone, to avoid killing Iranians, may not want a U.S. war with Iran. But the same cannot be said of Bibi Netanyahu. On August 24, Israel launched a night attack on a village south of Damascus to abort what Israel claims was a plot by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force to fly “killer drones” into Israel, an act of war. On August 25, two Israeli drones crashed outside the media offices of Hezbollah in Beirut. Israel then attacked a base camp of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command in north Lebanon. On August 26, Israel admitted…Continue Reading

Crackup In The Democratic Party

September 3, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Crackup In The Democratic Party

By TUCKER CARLSON and NEIL PATEL This past week, we were served some less-than-breaking news. Cong. Seth Moulton (D., Mass.) dropped out of the race for the Democratic nomination. If you’ve never heard of him, that’s OK. Few Democrats have. He served in the Marine Corps for four tours in Iraq, but other than that, he hasn’t done much. What’s interesting is why he’s being forced to drop out of the race. By any sane standards, Moulton is a thoroughly liberal Democrat. On every issue, he’s more left-wing than President Barack Obama was on the day he left office. Three years ago, Moulton would have been considered a liberal firebrand. But not anymore. By the lunatic standards of the modern…Continue Reading

Awash In Gender Confusion

September 2, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Awash In Gender Confusion

By DEACON MIKE MANNO, JD My wife came home a few weeks ago — actually she comes home every night, but you understand the figure of speech — with an interesting tidbit from work. She works for a large, nationwide financial organization. The company, she said, is now allowing employees to include their preferred pronouns on their business cards and email signatures. Interesting. Then the other day I was leading our parish men’s faith-sharing group and one of the guys mentioned that his company did the same thing. This is apparently a political correctness trend that hadn’t caught my eye, so I looked into it and it appears that it is a growing trend in the business world. And it…Continue Reading

A “Nest Of Saints” . . . Italy Celebrates Three Anniversaries For Blessed Diego Oddi

September 1, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on A “Nest Of Saints” . . . Italy Celebrates Three Anniversaries For Blessed Diego Oddi

By ALBERTO CAROSA VALLINFREDA — “Nest of saints”: This is the definition used by the Most Rev. Mauro Parmeggiani, bishop of the Diocese of Tivoli and Palestrina, to describe the Franciscan convent-retreat of Bellegra during his homily at the solemn Mass honoring Blessed Fra Diego Oddi of Vallinfreda. A charming village in the province of Rome overlooking the Piana del Cavaliere, Vallinfreda is the gateway to the Marsica, and therefore to Abruzzo, for those traveling along the old Tiburtina Valeria consular road or the more recent A-24 Rome-L’Aquila motorway. The Mass was celebrated in the parish church of San Michele Arcangelo in Vallinfreda within two weeks of celebrations from August 4 to 18 to commemorate three anniversaries of the blessed:…Continue Reading

A Marriage On The Rocks

August 31, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on A Marriage On The Rocks

By CHRISTOPHER MANION In the 1980s, a globe-trotting philanthropist from Palm Beach told me about life in Argentina. She had married two Argentinos (one at a time), so she had what we might call a less than sanguine view. Naturally, she had a lot of stories about Argentine men. One Argentine friend of hers, a socially prominent woman who lived in a palatial home, had a problem: Her husband had acquired a mistress. Apparently the paramour had virtually taken up residence on the third floor, availing herself of a separate entrance to come and go. Of course our prominent matriarch was the last to know, but when she found out that the hussy had virtually moved in, she confronted her…Continue Reading

The Apocalyptic Anti-Human Vision That Inspired Title X

August 30, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on The Apocalyptic Anti-Human Vision That Inspired Title X

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY Can you guess which future president expressed these views in 1970? “No one can honestly say how many people this earth of ours, with its finite resources, can accommodate,” he said. “But, it seems to me a fair judgment to say that the present rates of population growth and demand for resources have proved too rapid for our technology to improve the quality of life that we in America expect for all our citizens.” “We, in America, have our own population problems and the time for facing up to these problems is now,” he said. “Our cities are decaying, too many American lack proper food and nutrition, our transportation facilities are failing to meet the demands…Continue Reading

Back To School Isn’t What It Used To Be

August 29, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Back To School Isn’t What It Used To Be

By REY FLORES Back to school used to mean a lot to us kids back in the day. Whether it was a good thing or bad, we all experienced those butterflies in our stomachs as we returned to classes each fall. I recall going shopping with my mom for new school supplies at the local discount store. A new backpack, pens, pencils, sharpeners, a ruler, a brand-new box of Crayola crayons, and the rest of the things we were required to bring to school, depending on what grade we were entering that year. Yes, even back then we had our problems in our inner-city Catholic school. One girl ended up dropping out of our eighth-grade class before graduation because she…Continue Reading