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Are You A Pervert?

February 18, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Are You A Pervert?

By JOE SIXPACK I thought that title would get your attention. No one likes to think of himself/herself as a pervert. When we hear the word “pervert,” images of some strange man with various sexual deviancies lurking in the shadows comes to our minds.At best, it’s uncharitable to call someone a pervert. These days, it’s also unimaginably politically incorrect to use the term pervert. However, perversions do exist and people who commit perversions are indeed perverts. Just because something is unpleasant in the way it sounds and in its usage doesn’t change the reality of what it is. For accuracy’s sake, though, we need to define exactly what perversions and perverts are.Let’s examine the physiological aspects of human nature and…Continue Reading

China: A Century Of Carnage

February 17, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on China: A Century Of Carnage

By STEVEN MOSHER (Editor’s Note: This article first ran at LifeSiteNews.com on July 1, 2021. LifeSiteNews is running it once again to kick off its series on Beijing’s human rights crimes during the 2022 Winter Olympics, as it is a striking encapsulation of the many abuses Chinese tyrants have foisted upon its populace over the past 100 years.(Steven Mosher is an internationally recognized authority on China and an acclaimed author.) + + (LifeSiteNews) — The Chinese Communist Party celebrated its 100th anniversary [on July 1, 2021] with a carefully choreographed display of nationalist fervor not seen since the heyday of the murderous Chairman Mao.Mao’s successor, General Secretary Xi Jinping, told the massive audience assembled with military precision on Tiananmen Square…Continue Reading

Shakespeare: Bard Of Love

February 16, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Shakespeare: Bard Of Love

By PAUL KRAUSE William Shakespeare is the greatest dramatist of all-time. I said it. Admittedly, as a student, I didn’t give much consideration to the Bard of Stratford-Upon-Avon. We read Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, and Macbeth, but the plays weren’t entirely meaningful to me as a high school student. Now, however, I see the great wisdom of Shakespeare and why we should read, and love, and wrestle with, the greatest bard who ever lived.If there is a single theme that Shakespeare’s many plays deal with, historical, tragic, and comedic, it is love. Perhaps it is unsurprising. We cannot go throughout our own lives without dealing with the reality of love in the world.It becomes clear, upon reading Shakespeare’s…Continue Reading

A Beacon Of Light… Life In Christ

February 15, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on A Beacon Of Light… Life In Christ

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.) + + Several weeks ago we began an exploration of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. In section one, we were invited to reflect upon our beliefs as Catholics. In particular we studied the Creed, or the profession of faith, which enabled us to better understand what we profess each Sunday at Mass.Then, having gained a better insight of our creedal faith, section two opened for us the door to the Church’s sanctifying power found in…Continue Reading

Allowing Non-Citizens To Vote

February 14, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Allowing Non-Citizens To Vote

By DEACON MIKE MANNO You would think that after the mini-civil war we had in the wake of the 2020 election, the winners would be content to leave well enough alone. Alas, that was not the case. New York City Democrats, as you know, have now changed the municipal code to allow non-citizens to vote in local elections.We might be led to wonder how many of those “night flights” that the Biden administration has been conducting from the Southern Border relocating those who have just crossed the Rio Grande might end up in the Big Apple. But, I digress.The new law applies only to those who are legally in the United States who meet all other voting requirements, and have…Continue Reading

Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic . . . Changing The Meaning Of Parent

February 13, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic . . . Changing The Meaning Of Parent

By STEPHEN M. KRASON Amidst the flood of cultural and legal changes — many, probably most, not good — that have swept over the country is a change, a broadening, of what it means to be a parent. Traditionally, of course, one became a parent upon the birth or adoption of a child and the man in a family was the father and the woman the mother. Now, people in other situations where there is a child are called “parents” and parental rights are being extended by courts to others.Such change is being driven by cohabiting couples who are having babies — in many cases, not wanting to bother with marriage — but it’s also the result of homosexual —…Continue Reading

The Crisis Of Church Abuse

February 12, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on The Crisis Of Church Abuse

The Crisis Of Church Abuse By CHRISTOPHER MANION Luxembourg Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, a Jesuit who leads the pan-European Catholic bishops’ conference, has called for a change in the Church’s teaching on homosexuality.The report appears in America Magazine, a Jesuit publication (James Martin, SJ, often criticized for his pro-homosexual views, is the magazine’s “Editor at Large.” He is not related to the late Fr. Paul Mankowski, SJ, the author of Jesuit at Large, a book which we recently reviewed in this space).In an interview with Germany’s Catholic News Agency (KNA), the president of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE), said he considered the Church’s assessment of homosexuality relationships as sinful to be wrong.“I believe that the…Continue Reading

Respecting Women

February 11, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Respecting Women

By JOE SIXPACK Time was, all practicing Catholic women held up Mary as a model to imitate in terms of virtue, modesty, and womanhood. They all saw her as a standard that was to be lived up to. Such an impact did that have on society and culture that nearly every non-Catholic woman wanted to be and live as a Catholic woman, because men of every stripe (especially Catholic men) would treat women as the special people they are.Men had such great respect and admiration for the fairer sex that they would tip their hats and open doors for women, something rarely seen today. Men saw women imitating Mary as desirable for marriage, and no young man would even consider…Continue Reading

The Church Cannot “Dialogue” With Satan

February 10, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on The Church Cannot “Dialogue” With Satan

By JAMES MONTI Recently, I was looking through a biography of St. Patrick (+461) penned by the nineteenth-century American prelate Bishop Michael O’Farrell (+1894) when I came across the following remarkable passage regarding what is considered to be the one and only likely encounter between Patrick and Ireland’s most illustrious woman saint, Brigid of Kildare (ca. 525). Brigid was still a child when Patrick died, so this incident would have transpired close to the end of his life. At the time, Brigid was a girl of about ten.As she was attending an instruction given by the bishop, she fell asleep and had a strange dream. When she awoke, Patrick, who by some inner light knew that she had just experienced…Continue Reading

Read ’Em And Weep

February 9, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Read ’Em And Weep

By DEACON JAMES H. TONER (Editor’s Note: Deacon James H. Toner, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of Leadership and Ethics at the U.S. Air War College, a former U.S. Army officer, and author of Morals Under the Gun and other books. He has also taught at Notre Dame, Norwich, Auburn, the U.S. Air Force Academy, and Holy Apostles College & Seminary. He serves in the Diocese of Charlotte, N.C.) + + The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops recently posted a message about the Church’s “synod on synodality,” promoting seven attitudes “we can all adopt as we continue our synodal journey together.” Readers were asked which of the seven attitudes inspired them the most. The ill-considered post was greeted, however, by an…Continue Reading