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Having Kicked Voters Around . . . Sleepy Joe’s Party Gets Kicked Awake Before Sunrise On November 3

November 7, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Having Kicked Voters Around . . . Sleepy Joe’s Party Gets Kicked Awake Before Sunrise On November 3

By DEXTER DUGGAN Just after Halloween, as many people probably thought to themselves, the mask came off the Democrats.Conservatives already knew that the false face of Democrat “moderate Joe” actually concealed the grimace of outright socialist U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders. But other voters who had been confused or in doubt eventually decided before the polls closed on November 2 that Goofy Grandpa Biden was a disguise for hard-left politics demanding subjugation and revolution.Meanwhile, many Democrat Party defenders still kept kidding themselves that the real reason for their deep losses was some evil like “white supremacy” — even when victorious Republicans were non-whites — instead of Dem leaders’ actual contempt for voters’ concerns.Just stay wrapped up in your self-comforting delusions, conservatives…Continue Reading

Bishops Endorse Biden And Bernie’s Welfare State Agenda

November 6, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Bishops Endorse Biden And Bernie’s Welfare State Agenda

By CHRISTOPHER MANION It’s been a busy week for bishops preparing for their annual meeting in Baltimore late this month, and a pertinent question arises: Are they getting ready to apply Canon 915, or to ignore it?Here is the canon’s pertinent text:“Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.”Both Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden have recently found occasion to visit Pope Francis to receive a “harm handshake” for Nancy and a “keep on being a good Catholic” for Joe (Biden doesn’t speak Spanish or Italian, but he’s quite sure that the Pope told him to keep receiving…Continue Reading

Fr. Tim Bannes

November 5, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Fr. Tim Bannes

By JOE SIXPACK I want to tell you about a man who truly epitomized the holy priesthood. At this writing, it has been a mere three weeks since his untimely and early death — the death of my friend Fr. Timothy Bannes. Most everybody rightly called him Fr. Bannes, but he was Fr. Tim to me. The things I write herein could have been rightly said during his life, but must be said now that he’s gone.Fr. Tim graced this earth only 52 years. Well, you may as well add another year to that, as he died three days shy of his 53rd birthday. And he was only at our parish — Gildehaus Church (how the parish got the name…Continue Reading

USCCB Chairmen… Protest Removal Of Hyde Amendment Provisions

November 4, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on USCCB Chairmen… Protest Removal Of Hyde Amendment Provisions

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The chairman of the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Appropriations released the text of several appropriations bills which, like their House counterparts, currently exclude several longstanding, bipartisan provisions like the 46-year-old Hyde Amendment and the Weldon Amendment. That release took place on October 22.Eliminating these provisions would force taxpayers to pay for elective abortions and would have the effect of forcing healthcare providers and professionals to perform and refer for abortion against their deeply held beliefs, as well as forcing employers and insurers to cover and pay for abortion.Timothy Cardinal Dolan of New York, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee for Religious Liberty, and Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City in Kansas, chairman…Continue Reading

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema A Rare Democrat . . . Who Tries Edging, But Not Rushing, To The Right

November 3, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Sen. Kyrsten Sinema A Rare Democrat . . . Who Tries Edging, But Not Rushing, To The Right

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Politics, like life itself, has a way of thrusting up the unknown person and dumping the famous. Who nationally had heard of Georgia politician Jimmy Carter in 1975? Who wanted to hear of fumbling ex-President Jimmy Carter after 1980?Empowered U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.), much in the headlines these days, is an example of being on the ascent.Not that star power necessarily lasts. Just ask a bygone movie sensation. Indeed, the iconic 1950 film Sunset Boulevard told the tragic tale of a silent-film star plotting her return.Still, being a U.S. senator is to belong to a club of only 100 people in the nation, with, as Sinema currently has, the power that rumbles from…Continue Reading

A Beacon Of Light . . . Celebrating The Christian Mystery

November 2, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on A Beacon Of Light . . . Celebrating The Christian Mystery

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.) + + I would like to begin this week’s column by responding to a reader’s concern regarding my article of October 7, 2021, entitled, “Lord, The Giver of Life.”Here is what the reader questions: “Fr. Breton writes in error when he states that: ‘We see this during the epiclesis at Mass when the priest lays his hand over the bread and wine as the Holy Spirit transforms them into the Sacred Body and Blood of Christ.’“Fr.…Continue Reading

Dear Bishops… Stand Up For Conscience Rights

November 1, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Dear Bishops… Stand Up For Conscience Rights

By DEACON MIKE MANNO I have been writing this column since September of 2017 and have hosted a radio program, Faith On Trial, since May of 2013. Of all that I have written and broadcast, there is one common theme that runs through it all: threats to religious liberty.Now sometimes it may seem that we’ve gone a little beyond that simple platform, but I think if you reread or listen to our prior broadcasts you will always see some type of nexus to a potential threat to religious liberty.My first columns here were about slanted media, frozen embryos, and free speech issues; on the radio they were about babies killed after surviving a botched abortion, young teen girls in school…Continue Reading

Society Split Down The Middle . . . Jab Your Arm, Poke Your Conscience, Sting Future Life Of United States

October 31, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Society Split Down The Middle . . . Jab Your Arm, Poke Your Conscience, Sting Future Life Of United States

By DEXTER DUGGAN Americans have been told so many conflicting things since the coronavirus arrived from Communist China — or maybe it came from Europe — that they can be forgiven their skepticism. You don’t have enough fingers and toes to count them all.You don’t need a mask and can enjoy yourself in San Francisco’s bustling Chinatown.You should avoid public places. You should lock yourself in your house. If you don’t, the authorities will come to punish you.You do need a mask. You need multiple masks. At home and outdoors.Development of a successful vaccine would be far off. Oh, different types of it already have been developed at lightning speed.Just get your shots and you’re safe, and you can ditch…Continue Reading

“Gender” Uproar Threatens Democrats In Blue Virginia

October 30, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on “Gender” Uproar Threatens Democrats In Blue Virginia

By CHRISTOPHER MANION As Joe Biden and Barack Obama traveled to Virginia in support of Terry McAuliffe, the Democrats’ controversial “gender agenda” has blown up in their face.In recent years, Northern Virginia’s Loudoun County has become one of the richest jurisdictions in the United States thanks to the growth of the federal government. So, of course, it’s full of Democrats. Virginia’s Washington suburbs voted overwhelmingly for Biden a year ago.But today Loudoun County has become a focal point in the battle mounted by parents against the racist and morally perverted agendas promoted by radical school boards, not only in Virginia, but across the country.Loudoun resident Scott Smith’s ninth-grade daughter was raped last May by a boy in a skirt who…Continue Reading

Catholic Is More Than Just A Word

October 29, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Catholic Is More Than Just A Word

By JOE SIXPACK If you read last week’s installment, you saw where my wife was having a conversation with a friend who is an anti-Catholic Protestant Fundamentalist, and her conversation inspired the last article. This article is also inspired by a conversation with her.It seems that my wife was trying to share the Catholic Gospel message with this lady. When my wife mentioned to her that the one true Church founded by Christ is the Catholic Church, the lady replied (in her typical arrogantly self-assured and dismissive manner), “Catholic is just a word.”Is Catholic just a word? Well, sure it is. It’s an English word derived from the Greek word “katholikos.” It means “universal.” Of course, it also explicitly applies…Continue Reading