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Beware The Pandemic Power Play

July 30, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Beware The Pandemic Power Play

By CHRISTOPHER MANION The World Health Organization (WHO), the “specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health,” is planning a Pandemic Treaty that would bestow unprecedented worldwide power on the unelected organization.Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus, director general of the WHO, is a devoted lackey of Communist China. After his January 2020 visit with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping, he obediently refused to blame China for covering up the outbreak of the virus in Wuhan. And he made no complaint when China refused to allow a WHO team to investigate the Chinese military’s bioweapons research facility there.While the Chinese Communist Party hid the outbreak of the virus, Tedros played lapdog, lauding China’s “new standard for outbreak control.”Xi had “bought the world time, even…Continue Reading

Practical Apologetics

July 29, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Practical Apologetics

By JOE SIXPACK Part 1 I’m going to begin sharing with you the little bit I know about apologetics — both the how-to’s of argument, what to argue, and research. I hope you enjoy it!Almost everyone has been through one of these three scenarios.You hear someone knocking at the door, usually at the most inconvenient time, so you answer the knock and a man outside on your porch is standing there with an open Bible and a wide grin. As soon as you ask him what he wants, he says, “Are you saved, friend?”You tell the man you’re a Catholic, hoping that will scare him off, but he opens the satchel on his shoulder and pulls out several Bibles. He…Continue Reading

The Left Is About To Pay For Their Energy Insanity

July 28, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on The Left Is About To Pay For Their Energy Insanity

By NEIL PATEL Most politicians and activists have strong views on every political issue. Those views grow from their fundamental political philosophies and beliefs. The best politicians know how to balance their political ideals with a keen watch on how they affect the lives of everyday Americans — those who voted them into office. Go too far with your ideological preferences in the face of evidence that it’s hurting the American people, and you will not go far in politics.The Democratic Party seems poised to take a beating for forgetting this fundamental maxim when it comes to energy and climate change. They feel so strongly about the issue that many have lost touch with reality. They have entered a sort…Continue Reading

A Sacred Patrimony That Cannot Be Repudiated

July 27, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on A Sacred Patrimony That Cannot Be Repudiated

By JAMES MONTI What should be the Church’s relationship with her past? Is it a past that she can continue to build upon and draw nourishment from, or is it a past that she ought to put aside and even repudiate? Clearly there are efforts underway to do the latter in an ever more decisive way, not only with regard to divine worship, but even with regard to the Church’s moral teachings.One cannot help but fear that the increasingly absolutist tone of the movement to make the Church break away from her past is intended to clear the ground for the imposition of a radical new theology and ecclesiology. And yet the Church cannot repudiate her past, for her past…Continue Reading

A Beacon Of Light… The Tradition Of Prayer

July 26, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on A Beacon Of Light… The Tradition Of Prayer

By FR. RICHARD D. BRETON JR. (Editor’s Note: Fr. Richard D. Breton Jr. is a priest of the Diocese of Norwich, Conn. He received his BA in religious studies and his MA in dogmatic theology from Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, Conn.) + + Last week I ended our column by saying that we were going to begin to explore the Lord’s Prayer. I need to place that on pause, because I inadvertently overlooked two important sections on prayer that pertain to the Tradition of Prayer and the Life of Prayer. In order to fully understand the importance of the Lord’s Prayer, we must first look at these two sections. After we have completed these sections, then we…Continue Reading

There’s No Business Like “Know” Business

July 25, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on There’s No Business Like “Know” Business

By DEACON MIKE MANNO From the “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up” department:Last September, President Biden nominated one Saule Omarova to be the Comptroller of the Currency. The Comptroller is to ensure safety and soundness of the national banking system. It is a pretty important position in the government and to say otherwise would be an understatement.There was just a few problems with Omarova’s credentials for the job: her alma mater was Moscow (as in Russia) State University and she had no previous banking — or even business — experience. She also believed that the government should assume the role of the private banking system and had called for the bankruptcy of the U.S. oil and gas industry. Comptroller of…Continue Reading

On The Road To Nihilism

July 24, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on On The Road To Nihilism

By DONALD DeMARCO Given the upheaval following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, let us imagine a classroom teacher trying to ascertain the mindset of his students by giving them a multiple-choice test.The first question: Why do you think the five justices reversed Roe v. Wade?a) Because they are all Catholic and cannot think for themselves.b) Because they are right wing fanatics.c) Because they are anti-woman and opposed to women’s rights.d) Because they are extremely conservative and against progress.e) Because they recognized that the Constitution had no provision for abortion.If you answered “a,” “b,” “c,” or “d,” what response should be made?a) Abort the Constitution.b) Vandalize Catholic Churches and pregnancy centers.c) Pack the Court with pro-abortionists.d) Assassinate the five justices.e)…Continue Reading

Humanae Vitae: It’s Up To Us

July 23, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Humanae Vitae: It’s Up To Us

By CHRISTOPHER MANION This week we celebrate the fifty-fourth anniversary of Humanae Vitae, the brave and beautiful encyclical of Blessed Paul VI promulgated on July 25, 1968.Brave? Absolutely. This eloquent articulation of the teaching of the Church and the fundamentals of the Natural Law constituted a direct challenge to what Pope Benedict called “the spirit of the age.” And the reaction of that decadent and resentful age demonstrates just how brave Humanae Vitae was — Francis Cardinal Stafford, a young Baltimore priest in 1968, describes the pain suffered by the defenders of the faith that year as “Gethsemane.”And beautiful? How could it not be? The gentle, clear, but firm unfolding of the mystery of sacramental marriage and its role in…Continue Reading

The Laity’s Mass Obligations

July 22, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on The Laity’s Mass Obligations

By JOE SIXPACK Part 3 Okay, so we’ve established that Jesus gave His Church the authority to tell us how we are to worship God in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. So let’s finish this by covering what I think (my opinion) is the worst abuse commonly committed during Mass.I’d like to begin by quoting the General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM) again. Attention must therefore be paid to what is determined by this General Instruction and by the traditional practice of the Roman Rite and to what serves the common spiritual good of the People of God, rather than private inclination or arbitrary choice (General Instruction of the Roman Missal, chapter 2, n. 42. Emphasis mine.). The…Continue Reading

Roe Is Reversed But The Battle Continues

July 21, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Roe Is Reversed But The Battle Continues

By THOMAS TAKASH June 24, 2022 was a day all pro-lifers have prayed for since January 22, 1973. It was a day that five courageous judges decided that the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision was a contrived bit of magic, finding a “right to privacy” in our Constitution that never existed. One that could justify a right to kill one’s own unborn child. It had no basis in fact whatsoever.Threats of extreme violence had erupted weeks before the actual decision was officially released, due to a leaked draft copy of the reversal. The hope was that these same five could be intimidated into backing down, but instead they rejected the fabricated “right” that had been imaginatively found within the Fourteenth…Continue Reading