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The America We Used To Have

April 2, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on The America We Used To Have

By MIKE MANNO Michael Voris made an interesting point about President Trump and his liberal opponents the other day. Voris, if you don’t know, is the president and founder of St. Michael’s Media, which produces videos for a website apostolate, Church Militant. Voris and Church Militant are strong promoters of traditional (read: orthodox) Catholicism which does not always endear them to the Church’s bureaucracy or to some in its hierarchy. Each morning he posts a video called The Vortex, which is a five-minute commentary on events, similar to those posted daily by radio host Dennis Prager as PragerU. In a Vortex episode just before Holy Week, Voris turned to the question of why the left hates Mr. Trump so much.…Continue Reading

War And Peace, Revisited

April 1, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on War And Peace, Revisited

By CHRISTOPHER MANION In 1916 my father was a graduate student at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. On election night that November, he stood outside the headquarters of the Democrat National Committee, leading a crowd that chanted, “We Want Peace, We Don’t Want War! We Want Wilson, Four Years More!” Woodrow Wilson had attracted Catholics like my dad with a simple slogan — “He kept us out of war.” When Wilson finally revealed, after his reelection, that he had actually intended to give us “the war to end all wars” all along, my father and his classmates did not dwell on Wilson’s prevarications. They dropped out of school, joined the U.S. Army, and went off to the Great War. Dad…Continue Reading

After Trump Fools Voters On Spending . . . Arizona Newspaper Lauds McCain Trickery

March 31, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on After Trump Fools Voters On Spending . . . Arizona Newspaper Lauds McCain Trickery

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Arizona’s largest daily newspaper editorially approved deceptive tough talk on border issues by the “moderate” candidates it favors in order to defeat conservatives. The editorial, representing The Arizona Republic’s official position and signed by “The Republic Editorial Board,” was published in the Sunday, March 25, edition and, including a photo of Arizona Cong. Martha McSally and the names of the editorial-board members, consumed the entire top half of the broadsheet-size page. The pro-establishment McSally is the Republic’s preferred candidate to win the GOP primary for the Senate seat being vacated this year by unpopular Sen. Jeff Flake, another of the politicians the newspaper is partial to. It’s okay for McSally to dissemble like Sen. John…Continue Reading

“Paradigm Shifts”: Time To Stand For The Truth

March 30, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on “Paradigm Shifts”: Time To Stand For The Truth

By FR. ROBERT ALTIER (Editor’s Note: This commentary is reprinted with permission from the March 4 bulletin of the Church of St. Raphael, Crystal, Minn.) + + + Over the past couple of weeks, I have seen statements by at least two cardinals of the Church regarding what they called a “paradigm shift” in the Church’s teaching. Some of these shifts are about sacramental and moral issues. For instance, there is the use of language which is vague, at best, and allows for interpretations of the basic teachings of the Church which are contrary to anything the Church actually teaches. We are seeing this in the presentation that what Jesus and the Church teach about marriage is merely an ideal.…Continue Reading

What Pope Benedict Really Said Was [Redacted]

March 29, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on What Pope Benedict Really Said Was [Redacted]

By SHAUN KENNEY Another day, another scandal hits the Vatican — this time in the form of the redacted and blurred contents of a letter regarding the theological background of Pope Francis. (See related articles in this week’s issue.) The letter — penned by Pope Benedict XVI (emeritus) — at first praises Francis’ theological formation, suggesting that it was silly talk to question its rigor. This was the part of the letter that was eagerly picked up by the media, and that was visible in the photo of it distributed to the media at a press conference on March 12, the eve of the fifth anniversary of Pope Francis’ election. The letter was a thank-you that Benedict XVI had written…Continue Reading

FEE Speaker Tells Young Eastern Europeans… Liberty Is Rare; Most Have Lived As Slaves Or Serfs

March 28, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on FEE Speaker Tells Young Eastern Europeans… Liberty Is Rare; Most Have Lived As Slaves Or Serfs

By DEXTER DUGGAN TEMPE, Ariz. — A champion of economic liberty urged some young Eastern Europeans who are studying entrepreneurship and free markets here to strive for achievement and leave the world a better place. Although “the common man” is a complimentary term, said Lawrence W. Reed, president of the Atlanta-based Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), parents don’t urge their children, “‘Johnny, if you work really hard, you can be common’. . . . Commonness is nothing special.” Reed was the main speaker during a March 14 evening program in this Phoenix suburb to raise funds to support participants in next year’s “Project Arizona,” which brings Eastern Europeans to the Grand Canyon State whose countries had suffered the debilitating effects…Continue Reading

The Marquette Warrior Meets Political Correctness

March 27, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on The Marquette Warrior Meets Political Correctness

By MIKE MANNO Dr. John McAdams was a professor at the Jesuit-run Marquette University for over 30 years. He was — as in he isn’t anymore. And he isn’t because of political correctness run amok at what is supposed to be a Catholic school. The upshot may be a court ruling that will either uphold traditional beliefs of academic freedom and free speech or deal them a near-death blow. What happens is now up to the Wisconsin Supreme Court when later next month McAdams will square off against Marquette. Professor McAdams’ story has the eerie hallmarks of a dozen such cases usually played out on a secular campus; but this one not only goes to the free speech issue, but…Continue Reading

Pray For Chicago’s Catholics And Clergy

March 26, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Pray For Chicago’s Catholics And Clergy

By REY FLORES I know how rough Chicago can be. Having been born and raised there, I learned my way around the block a long time ago, and it ain’t pretty. Having been a community and labor organizer, I also saw the inner workings of city hall, labor unions, housing projects, ghettos and barrios, the press and broadcast news media, and even the Archdiocese of Chicago, and many of its parishes and their own specific little worlds of parish politics. Two recent shakeups have left many people perhaps wondering if there is something tainting the holy water there. In 1965, the late radio legend Paul Harvey gave a fantastic soliloquy in one of his national radio broadcasts. It was titled…Continue Reading

An Unhappy Anniversary

March 25, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on An Unhappy Anniversary

By CHRISTOPHER MANION On the Ides of March, seven American servicemen were killed when their helicopter crashed in western Iraq. Their names: Captain Mark K. Weber; Captain Andreas B. O’Keeffe; Captain Christopher T. Zanetis; Master Sergeant Christopher J. Raguso; Staff Sergeant Dashan J. Briggs; Master Sergeant William R. Posch; and, Staff Sergeant Carl P. Enis. We pray for the repose of their souls. But honestly, did anyone, outside their loved ones, even know they were there? In fact, we now learn that there are currently 5,200 U.S. troops in Iraq. Why are they there? Does anybody know? Many of us have friends who served with honor in Iraq and Afghanistan. When asked to describe their mission, the most common reply…Continue Reading

Even D.C.’s Shallow Swamp . . . Has Deep, Dangerous Currents At Play Against Americans

March 24, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Even D.C.’s Shallow Swamp . . . Has Deep, Dangerous Currents At Play Against Americans

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — With the fourth blinding-snow nor’easter in a month slamming the U.S.’s shivering upper Atlantic Coast as spring officially began, the immediate weather picture here in the Southwest had a forecast high of near 90 degrees for Phoenix on March 22, before some cooling was to begin. Heat in Phoenix is no surprise. As for icicles poking through recurring blizzards for spring in the frosted left-wing castles of the northeast? That can be chief meteorologist God laughing at liberals’ grim but touching faith in “global warming,” er, “climate change,” er, maybe we should go back to the “global cooling” theories of the 1970s? In a nation thousands of miles wide, the weather can vary considerably on…Continue Reading