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Of Faith And Formulas

July 21, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Of Faith And Formulas

By RAY CAVANAUGH Pope Francis just published an apostolic letter, Sublimitas Et Miseria Hominis (“The Grandeur and Misery of Man”), to mark the 400th anniversary of the birth of Blaise Pascal on June 19, 1623.The papal letter describes Pascal as “open to ever new and greater horizons” and “marked by a fundamental attitude of awe and openness to all reality.”This letter is not the first time Francis has acknowledged the French polymath who made important contributions to mathematics, physics, and philosophy. In a 2017 interview, Francis went so far as to say that Pascal “deserves beatification.”Born in central France, Pascal had two sisters. His mother died when he was just age three, and his father was a prominent lawyer with…Continue Reading

Preparing For The Marriage Feast Of Heaven At The Family Table

July 20, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Preparing For The Marriage Feast Of Heaven At The Family Table

By JAMES MONTI A few years ago, at a Traditional Latin Mass I was attending, the priest gave a homily about the frequent references to food in the New Testament. This was for me an entirely new idea, and at first seemed to be just a rather light-hearted observation. But a deeper reflection upon these different food references, particularly in the Four Gospels, reveals a sacred purpose that is far from trivial.We need to step back and consider how God made man in such a way that he would need to receive food and drink in order to live, especially since the fall of man, when the danger of death entered the world. We absolutely need food and drink to…Continue Reading

Time Passes For All Things . . . In The Meantime, Politics Is Always Ready To Keep Things Moving Along

July 19, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Time Passes For All Things . . . In The Meantime, Politics Is Always Ready To Keep Things Moving Along

By DEXTER DUGGAN Pictures of Joe Biden with King Charles at Windsor Castle in July as Biden traveled to the NATO summit showed two white-haired men who had long waited to attain their positions as president and king, respectively — Biden because voters had kept rejecting him and Charles because his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, had lived so long and didn’t step aside for him to succeed her.Elizabeth reigned as queen from early February 1952 until her death in early September 2022 at age 96, over 70 full years on the throne. Many people around the world were born, lived full lives, and died within the span of her queenship, which sometimes seemed would go on forever. And yet now,…Continue Reading

A Beacon Of Light… The Downward Spiral

July 18, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on A Beacon Of Light… The Downward Spiral

By FR. RICHARD D. BRETON, Jr. History is bound to repeat itself! And indeed, it has! Every day we are reminded that the world in which we live is plummeting into a downward spiral toward total chaos. From the news each day, we see and hear how society has been hurled into displays of protests, riots, and vandalism. Sadly, however, these incidents are not the only cause of our current situation. These problems find their roots in the origin of man, in particular, man’s lack of trust in God.Lack of trust in God is nothing new. We first encounter it in the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve pass on this defect of our human nature. God gave Adam…Continue Reading

Pets And Their People

July 17, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Pets And Their People

By DEACON MIKE MANNO As we move into the “dog days” of summer, I noticed an interesting report by the Pew Research Center. It found, unsurprisingly, that most pet owners see their pets as a part of their families. Now as a pet owner all my life, I decided to look into their research and do a little bit of my own on the subject.Now, I have to confess that I am a biased witness. I was fortunate enough to grow up in a suburb of Des Moines where we had a fairly large yard in which we could let a dog run. I don’t remember too much about my first dog, only that I named him Meat Ball (my…Continue Reading

More Turbulence From Extremists . . . When Dem Radicals Have Power, They Toss Away The Law

July 16, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on More Turbulence From Extremists . . . When Dem Radicals Have Power, They Toss Away The Law

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Francis Menton is a retired attorney and law partner in Manhattan’s West Village neighborhood, so he has a close view of the sheltered, rote thinking of the Manhattan liberal, one of the topics he addresses in his blog, “Manhattan Contrarian.”It’s a great place to live, he writes, with one exception: “We suffer from a stifling political and ideological orthodoxy. The central tenet of that orthodoxy is that all personal problems of the people in society can be solved by government taxing and spending.“The obvious corollary is that since all problems can be solved by taxing and spending,” Menton continues, “therefore they must be solved by taxing and spending, and anyone who stands in the way…Continue Reading

Supreme Court’s Opinion Will Have Profound Impact

July 15, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Supreme Court’s Opinion Will Have Profound Impact

By CHRISTOPHER MANION The Supreme Court’s decision on Affirmative Action came down two weeks ago, but the dust hasn’t settled yet.The case addressed lawsuits filed by Students For Fair Admissions, a coalition of students and parents that opposes the acknowledged discrimination against Asian applicants on the part of admissions departments at Harvard and North Carolina universities. Both schools, like thousands of others, had been openly using race as a factor in consideration of admission for years, favoring some races while disfavoring others.The practice has gone on so long, in fact, that today it pervades every aspect of American higher education and the wider culture as well.“Many universities . . . have concluded, wrongly, that the touchstone of an individual’s identity…Continue Reading

Questioning Authority, And Other Liberal “Ideals”

July 14, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Questioning Authority, And Other Liberal “Ideals”

By HARLEY PRICE (Editor’s Note: This article is one of the 46 essays in Price’s new book, Give Speech a Chance: Heretical Essays on What You Can’t Say or Even Think, available from fgfbooks.com and amazon.) + + According to the cliché, most of us are liberals at twenty, and conservatives by forty. By middle age, as the truism holds, we have been “mugged by reality.”Leaving aside the fact that reality is a concept over whose meaning ontologists have argued for millennia, whoever happens to employ this infelicitous metaphor — I’ve heard it most often, in fact, on the avuncular lips of conservatives themselves — “mugged by reality” is another expression of liberal condescension. It suggests that conservatives are exhausted…Continue Reading

Also In Europe, Or “Eurabia”. . . Plans Gone Awry Happening Not Only In U.S. To Biden-Backing Elite

July 13, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Also In Europe, Or “Eurabia”. . . Plans Gone Awry Happening Not Only In U.S. To Biden-Backing Elite

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Foreign foes watching the United States see not only a resident of the White House whose incompetence and confusion are both deplorable and laughable but also a corrupt U.S. establishment that had installed and protected keeping Joe Biden in power, no matter the continued danger to the U.S. and the world.After all, if his blunders and bedlam somehow allowed Biden to stumble into starting a nuclear war, it won’t be only the U.S. to suffer from it.But no matter how bizarre that the left-wing Biden’s brain got — including his notion that the U.S. needed to build futile railroad bridges for thousands of miles over the oceans — a left-wing establishment considered him far preferable…Continue Reading

What’s The Gospel All About, Anyway?

July 12, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on What’s The Gospel All About, Anyway?

By CHRISTOPHER MANION In July 1980, I was in Washington for the historic pro-family conference hosted by Paul Weyrich. Paul was the master coalition builder, and he was building a movement that was destined to change history.On July 6, I went to Mass at Holy Trinity, a parish run by the Jesuit Order that is located just off the campus of Georgetown University. At the time, I add only the highest of opinions of Georgetown, since two of my friends, Fr. Jim Schall, SJ, and Dr. George Carey, taught in the politics department there.The celebrant of the Mass, Fr. Francis X. Moan, SJ, took the occasion to preach a homily advocating the end of the death penalty. It was as…Continue Reading