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A Beacon Of Light… Signs Of Christ’s Second Coming

July 11, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on A Beacon Of Light… Signs Of Christ’s Second Coming

By FR. RICHARD D. BRETON, Jr. In today’s column we will look at another of the parables of Jesus. This week we focus our attention on the Parable of the Budding Fig Tree. Matthew’s Gospel presents us with this parable: “Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door. Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away” (Matt. 24:32-35).The Parable of the Budding…Continue Reading

Victory For The First Amendment… Misinformation From The Bench

July 10, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Victory For The First Amendment… Misinformation From The Bench

By DEACON MIKE MANNO “The First Amendment envisions the United States as a rich and complex place where all persons are free to think and speak as they wish, not as the government demands” — Justice Neil Gorsuch, 303 Creative v. Elenis, June 30.It was a great victory for free speech and the First Amendment. While the case was not framed as a religious liberty case, the echoes of this decision will ring throughout the world of religious rights. But, as if it was intended to go hand-in-hand with the result, was a stinging and misleading dissent.First some background. In Colorado, where First Amendment rights and religious liberty are looked upon with suspicion, a web designer, Lorie Smith, who owns…Continue Reading

The Logic Of “Liberation” Marches On

July 9, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on The Logic Of “Liberation” Marches On

By CHRISTOPHER MANION “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” — John Adams, Letter to Officers of the Massachusetts Militia, October 11, 1798.  + + This month we will celebrate the 55th anniversary of Humanae Vitae. In this courageous and prophetic encyclical, Pope Paul VI both defended the truths of the Faith and predicted how their rejection would lead to moral and cultural chaos.As we make our way through the wreckage wrought by the emphatic and prideful denial that followed, it’s worth noting a few steps along the road that got us here.In 1960, most adult Americans were married. Divorce and illegitimacy were rare, while abortion and sodomy were…Continue Reading

Dem Arrogance In Arizona . . . Danger To Be Far Out Over Skis, Now That Snow Is Gone

July 8, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Dem Arrogance In Arizona . . . Danger To Be Far Out Over Skis, Now That Snow Is Gone

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Katie Hobbs and her crew including fellow Democrat extremist Kris Mayes are getting out too far over their skis this summer, even while the skiing season in Arizona’s snowy mountains has passed and those high elevations aren’t close to the State Capitol here in the Sonoran Desert anyway.After a springtime of arrogance, both Hobbs, who goes by the title of governor of Arizona, and Mayes, her state attorney general, are asserting powers they simply don’t have.The Grand Canyon State is a contrast with politics in California, where liberal Democrats control state government, and Florida, where conservative Republicans do. Here, both chambers of the state legislature have narrow GOP majorities while left-wing Democrats hold the major…Continue Reading

From Stonehenge To Canterbury To…

July 7, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on From Stonehenge To Canterbury To…

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY It is not a tremendous distance from Stonehenge to Canterbury — less than 150 miles by modern roads — but these two locations in southern England mark a tremendous advancement in the art of architecture.Stonehenge is a simple, rough-hewn structure with a design dictated by the sun.“Stonehenge was carefully designed to align with the movements of the sun,” Dr. Susan Greaney, a historian for English Heritage, explains in an essay posted on the British Museum website. “The enormous sarsen stones and smaller bluestones, set up in the center of the site in about 2500 BC, were precisely arranged to frame two particular events in the year: the sunrise at summer solstice, and the sunset at winter…Continue Reading

Forget The Blasphemous Drag “Nuns”. . . MLB Teams Should Honor Mother Teresa’s Sisters Who Cared For Men Dying Of AIDS

July 6, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Forget The Blasphemous Drag “Nuns”. . . MLB Teams Should Honor Mother Teresa’s Sisters Who Cared For Men Dying Of AIDS

By DOUG MAINWARING (LifeSiteNews) — Major League Baseball (MLB) must rectify the great injustice it created when the Los Angeles Dodgers chose to celebrate the self-styled “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” (SPI) on “Pride Night” while continuing its decades-long neglect of the true religious heroes of the AIDS scourge: Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity.In a stunningly wrong-headed move, the great American Pastime struck out by officially recognizing the blasphemous, hideously costumed “Sisters” whose major contribution to fighting AIDS involved promoting the use of condoms, quilting, and meager fundraising efforts. And while the scourge of AIDS was claiming the lives of multitudes of homosexual men, the SPI somehow deemed it smart to use the deadly epidemic as an opportunity to destigmatize gay…Continue Reading

The Parable Of The Good Shepherd

July 5, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on The Parable Of The Good Shepherd

By FR. RICHARD D. BRETON Jr. Jesus proposed another parable to teach the people about the unconditional love God has for us. This parable is of the Good Shepherd, and it is referred to in both of the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Luke. Jesus told them this parable:“Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’ I tell you that in…Continue Reading

Happy Birthday USA . . . How Many More Will There Be?

July 3, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Happy Birthday USA . . . How Many More Will There Be?

By DEACON MIKE MANNO This week we celebrate the Fourth of July, the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. I guess you might say that I’m a patriotic guy: I easily tear-up when a band strikes up America the Beautiful,” and I joined my college ROTC program after landing 344 in the draft lottery — they would have taken candidates with seeing-eye dogs first!Unfortunately, I wasn’t very much of a soldier; I couldn’t read a map or climb a rope — you know, those kinds of things that soldiers should be able to do well. I did have one accomplishment during my lackluster military career: training as an artillery spotter, the shot I called in actually made…Continue Reading

After Wagner, Is Putin Better Or Worse off?. . . The Russian Bear In His Lair Leaves ’Em Guessing

July 2, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on After Wagner, Is Putin Better Or Worse off?. . . The Russian Bear In His Lair Leaves ’Em Guessing

By DEXTER DUGGAN The Soviet Union as a lumbering bear was one symbol that had emerged of the vast, Communist-oppressed territory by the second half of the twentieth century — dangerous but slow on its feet, as epitomized by its elderly, ashen dictators.Western observers called “Kremlinologists” or “Sovietologists” offered their insights, such as they were, into the bear’s ways — insights that often were establishmentarian and neither predicted nor desired a sudden upset and end to the cunning beast’s domineering rule.After all, you have to be realistic and not perturb favored expectations during afternoon tea, some thought.It likely would have been considered at least irresponsible if not amazing by the foreign-policy elite in, say, 1978 for a Sovietologist to foresee…Continue Reading

Should Catholic Bishops Go On Strike?

July 1, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Should Catholic Bishops Go On Strike?

By CHRISTOPHER MANION Historian Peter Brown finds many occasions in the late Roman Empire illustrating the truism that power comes with the bestowing of gifts. In the late fourth century, with these gifts “both the state and the clerisy [were] able and willing to celebrate hubristically their superiority and generosity,” he writes.Of course, Catholics don’t need Lord Acton to know that power corrupts: We knew that already from John’s First Letter and from Augustine’s City of God. What Lord Acton added was the dimension of absolute power, which “corrupts absolutely,” he wrote. “Great men are almost always bad men…[and] despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.”Sixty years ago, there were few men who would call Lyndon Johnson a…Continue Reading