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Cuomo Gets His Abortion Dream . . . While Culture Of Death Shrieks For Catholic Students’ Blood

January 27, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Cuomo Gets His Abortion Dream . . . While Culture Of Death Shrieks For Catholic Students’ Blood

By DEXTER DUGGAN Radical New York pro-abortionist Gov. Andrew Cuomo used Manhattan’s One World Trade Center as a symbolic towering torch for national abortion freedom shortly after pro-life Kentucky teenagers were targeted for murderous rage from raving left-wingers looking for any excuse to rip apart Catholic defenders of preborn babies who also admired President Trump. Terrorist fanatics had destroyed Manhattan’s Twin Towers in 2001 with hijacked jetliners. Whoever could have thought that the soaring symbol of freedom constructed to replace them would be used by Cuomo as 2019 began with its spire lit in pussycat pink to hail still more massive slaughter by permissive abortion? Blogger Thomas Peters tweeted on January 23 that the sharp spire “looks just like the…Continue Reading

How Do They Hate Us? Let Me Count The Ways

January 26, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on How Do They Hate Us? Let Me Count The Ways

By CHRISTOPHER MANION The real news from the March for Life in Washington came with President Donald Trump’s stunning, historic promise to the crowd: “Today, I have signed a letter to Congress to make clear that if they send any legislation to my desk that weakens the protection of human life, I will issue a veto.” This bombshell should have led the news for days. It warned the Democrat House majority that any legislation championing their flagship issue — abortion — would be, in Ronald Reagan’s terms, “Dead on Arrival.” But the media left couldn’t let abortion be the headline on a story on the March for Life. That would be too . . . honest. So they cooked up…Continue Reading

In Praise Of Buchanan

January 25, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on In Praise Of Buchanan

By SHAUN KENNEY Having yet read Steve Kornacki’s The Red and the Blue, it is difficult to comment more broadly on the differences between two protagonists in his short repackaging of politics in the 1990s — Pat Buchanan and Donald Trump. Indeed, Kornacki takes to the social media via Twitter and places square aim at both men, lumping in Trump’s critiques of Buchanan as being somewhat contrary to Trump’s present position on issues such as border security and the like. I am far less interested in Kornacki’s characterization of the president, though I would agree that Trump’s shift from Democrat to Republican was more opportunistic than conversion. Rather, I am far more interested in the defense of a much-maligned public…Continue Reading

The Crisis: Nothing New?

January 24, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on The Crisis: Nothing New?

By GEORGE A. KENDALL In the terrible crisis our Church is struggling with today, we have an obligation, at the very least, to try to understand what is happening, not just spout clichés. A cliché that particularly irritates me is this one: “The Church has been through many things like this, and survived. This is nothing new.” This is delusional. This crisis is unique, differing in crucial ways that make it an order of magnitude greater than any previous crisis. By my reading of the Church’s history, we have been through four truly major crises, plus quite a number of lesser ones. First, the Arian crisis, which threatened to put an end to Christianity in both the Western and Eastern…Continue Reading

Archbishop Kurtz Tells Red Mass… Threat To Catholics By Politicians, Judges “Is Real”

January 23, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Archbishop Kurtz Tells Red Mass… Threat To Catholics By Politicians, Judges “Is Real”

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — The founder of an internationally active organization defending religious conscience and the chairman of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ Committee on Religious Liberty both warned of the growing threat to Catholics during ceremonies here commemorating St. Thomas More, the Lord High Chancellor of England who was executed for fidelity to his faith. Alan Sears, founder of the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) in 1994, recalled that the Catholic More was put to death in 1535 for two reasons — defending the traditional definition of marriage, and for exercising his freedom of conscience in the resulting dispute. More refused to recognize King Henry VIII’s divorce and the king’s claim to be head of the Church in England which…Continue Reading

A Sense Of The Supernatural Lost And Regained

January 22, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on A Sense Of The Supernatural Lost And Regained

By JAMES MONTI The apostles had a knack for running into trouble on the Sea of Galilee. St. Mark tells of the apostles encountering a very rough sea on the night following Christ’s miracle of feeding five thousand. At the sight of Jesus walking on the water, the apostles panicked; but He reassured them, “Take heart, it is I; have no fear,” and as soon as He entered their boat, the wind ceased. At this, Mark notes, “. . . they were utterly astounded, for they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened” (Mark 6:47-52). Mark’s point is rather clear: The apostles were stunned to see Christ’s divine power over the sea and the wind, because…Continue Reading

Out Of Spite?. . . New York Acts To Ban A Christian Adoption Agency

January 21, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Out Of Spite?. . . New York Acts To Ban A Christian Adoption Agency

By MIKE MANNO The state of New York, while doubling down on abortion rights, is also trying to drive adoption agencies that adhere to traditional values from its boundaries. Of course, the big headlines today are being made by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is demanding an expansion of abortion rights from his legislature before he will sign a budget bill, and is pledging to enshrine those rights into the state constitution. But what is being overlooked in the governor’s headline-grabbing are the actions of his Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) to ensure that all state adoption agencies must provide for adoptions by unmarried and same-sex couples. The actions by OCFS have triggered a federal lawsuit against it by…Continue Reading

As U.S. Worries At Illegal Entry . . . Look How Far Catholic Dem Leaders Have Strayed From Moral Path

January 20, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on As U.S. Worries At Illegal Entry . . . Look How Far Catholic Dem Leaders Have Strayed From Moral Path

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Announced as the next speaker at the annual assembly of Maricopa County Republican precinct committeemen here, Cong. Andy Biggs received a standing ovation before he reached the microphone. These GOP foot soldiers apparently appreciated Biggs’ frequent, straightforward media appearances standing up for Republican principles. He’s a conservative pro-lifer whose Fifth Congressional District covers the southeastern portion of the Phoenix metropolitan area. Trump supporters across the nation likely were voicing the same thoughts he expressed. Addressing the partial federal government shutdown caused by Democrats’ adamant refusal to reach agreement on necessary border security, Biggs told about 770 Maricopa County precinct committeemen on January 12, “It’s a Democrat shutdown. You know that?. . . Are we going…Continue Reading

Death, Always In The Distance

January 19, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Death, Always In The Distance

By CHRISTOPHER MANION In years past, death was part of Catholic life. “Memento Mori.” “Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.” “St. Joseph, Patron of departing souls, pray for us.” After all, “if I die before I wake” didn’t frighten us as children, it comforted us. In our current era, many don’t appear to find the prospect of death so comforting. In fact, many Catholics approaching old age (or in it) seem determined to ignore the Four Last Things altogether. In particular, it is striking how so many advocates of abortion in public life cling to their frayed fabric of fantasy and repeat the mantra — “I’m personally opposed but. . . .” Long after…Continue Reading

Education And The Transmission Of Culture

January 18, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Education And The Transmission Of Culture

By SHAUN KENNEY Education is the transmission of culture, so it has been argued. For myself, I definitely concur with the statement. Once upon a time, America had an education system worthy of the name that was supremely confident in its ability to absorb people from all over the globe: Ireland, Germany, Poland, Italy, China, India, Russia, and so forth. I mention this because of a conversation this past week about a certain piece of legislation wandering through the halls of the Virginia General Assembly that would require a commission to supervise a determinate and politically charged process. Of course, processes are good. If one is an avowed Burkean and a true Virginian, traditions are not only the democracy of…Continue Reading