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Jacob’s Gift

December 23, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Jacob’s Gift

By DEREK BECHER For an eight-year-old child, Christmas can be a time of wonder and excitement. With holiday music in every shop and in the wonderfully decorated homes of the neighborhoods, sparkling wreaths attached to street lampposts, strangers greeting each other with warm smiles, and, of course, dreams of Santa Claus, there is a magic in the air. And for little Jacob, in the country village of NobleTown, with December flurries laying a soft white blanket throughout the gently rolling hills and woods, and modest decorations adding a colorful presence to the stores on Center Street, it was no different. Still, having saved ten dollars he had earned from clearing sidewalks and delivering the town newspaper, Jacob had something else…Continue Reading

Away In A Manger… Orange-Capped King Comes With Coupons To Offer His Respect

December 22, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Away In A Manger… Orange-Capped King Comes With Coupons To Offer His Respect

By DEXTER DUGGAN The Three Kings were about to leave the Holy Family in the stable for the evening, to return the next day for further adoration, when a great banging sound arose at the entrance. There was a flash of what appeared to be a strange orange cap on the new arrival’s royal head. Profuse apologies flowed in a foreign accent. “I’m unimpeachably sorry to be late. Please forgive me. I not only hadda travel thousands of miles to get here but also across thousands of years. And my many enemies did all they could to throw stumbling stones to block my path. And my own life had a lot of potholes to fix first. But here I am.”…Continue Reading

The Last Dream

December 21, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on The Last Dream

By DEREK BECHER Sixty-two Christmases he spent alone, after the year that his parents died, leaving him as an orphan. Each Christmas passed like just another day, another page falling endlessly from the calendar of his life. And all the while, in the privacy of his mind and his weakening heart, he hoped for something more, wished for something better. But with no family and nary a friend, he found it difficult to be touched by the wonder of the Christmas season, unable to even imagine how it would feel to spend the holidays with love. And so, with Christmas morning again less than twelve hours away, and his life’s days now surely numbered, he arranged the loose papers to…Continue Reading

Soros Money… Means Legal Trouble For Amnesty’s Ireland Abortion Campaign

December 20, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Soros Money… Means Legal Trouble For Amnesty’s Ireland Abortion Campaign

By KEVIN JONES DUBLIN (CNA/EWTN News) — Amnesty International is in no position to oppose an Irish law against foreign political funding now that it is under scrutiny for taking money from U.S. financier George Soros’ Open Society Foundations to target the country’s abortion restrictions, Irish pro-lifers have said. “The arrogance they have shown in the past few days on this issue is staggering. They are now trying to argue that they have a ‘human right’ to take money from billionaires to push to have abortion legalization in Ireland, while they also argue that preborn children should not have the most basic human right of all — the right to life,” Niamh Ui Bhriain, a spokesperson for the Irish-based Life…Continue Reading

Pope Born On Christmas: Pius VI At 300

December 19, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Pope Born On Christmas: Pius VI At 300

By RAY CAVANAUGH Though Christmas will always commemorate first and foremost the divine Child of Nazareth, another holy man with a December 25 connection is Pope Pius VI. He was born as Gianangelo Braschi exactly 300 years ago this Christmas Day. A native of Cesena in northern Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region, Braschi was the eldest of eight children in a family that lacked wealth but belonged to the nobility. He received his early education in a Jesuit institution in his hometown, and at the mere age of 17, he earned a doctor of laws degree. He proceeded to work as a secretary to Tommaso Cardinal Ruffo. The Holy See eventually began taking notice of Braschi’s aptitude, and following Ruffo’s death in…Continue Reading

G.K. Chesterton And Christmas

December 18, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on G.K. Chesterton And Christmas

By JOHN YOUNG It is not surprising that G.K. Chesterton wrote a great deal about Christmas, because he was fascinated by the wonder of childhood, and Christmas is about the wonder of a Divine Child. Chesterton was a realist, and he saw realism exemplified in the outlook of the child, for no child doubts the reality of the world. Innocence, too, shines forth in the child. The child is fascinated by reality, a fascination that lessens as the child grows older. As Chesterton puts it, a seven-year-old is thrilled if you tell him that Tommy opened a door and saw a dragon; but a three-year-old is thrilled if you tell him that Tommy opened a door. Unlike most of us,…Continue Reading

But Christmas Overcomes… No Room At Inn For Babies Threatened By Alabama Pro-Abort Win

December 17, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on But Christmas Overcomes… No Room At Inn For Babies Threatened By Alabama Pro-Abort Win

By DEXTER DUGGAN A new permissive abortion extremist Democrat destined for the U.S. Senate after the December 12 special election in Alabama isn’t much of a gift to commemorate the Christmas birth of a child. But situations seemed bleak at some other Christmases, too, including the first, when there was no room at the inn for eventually triumphant Him. Exactly 36 years ago, on December 13, 1981, the Communist government of Poland declared martial law, hoping to abort people’s defiance of Marxist totalitarianism. The defiance had begun concretely the previous year with the conception of the unprecedented independent trade-union movement Solidarity. Under martial law, Solidarity leaders including already famous workingman Lech Walesa quickly were arrested and isolated. By shortly after…Continue Reading

What A Year!

December 16, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on What A Year!

By CHRISTOPHER MANION A year ago, Barack Hussein Obama was in the White House, Hillary Rodham Clinton was secretary of state, the fabric of the rule of law was tattered and tearing, and America’s Catholic bishops were in a panic. During the 1916 presidential campaign, our beloved shepherds — most of them, anyway — had certainly not been strong supporters of Hillary Clinton. Nonetheless, like most members of the Establishment, they clearly expected her to win. They were bracing themselves for four more years of government attacks on religious freedom, on the unborn, on life at all stages, and on the taxpayer (who was funding abortion at home and abroad through various federal programs), even as they looked forward to…Continue Reading

What Should We Fight For?

December 15, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on What Should We Fight For?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “We will never accept Russia’s occupation and attempted annexation of Crimea,” declaimed Rex Tillerson last week in Vienna. “Crimea-related sanctions will remain in place until Russia returns full control of the peninsula to Ukraine.” Tillerson’s principled rejection of the seizure of land by military force — “never accept” — came just one day after President Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and pledged to move our embassy there. How did Israel gain title to East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Golan Heights? Invasion, occupation, colonization, annexation. Those lands are the spoils of victory from Israel’s 1967 Six-Day War. Is Israel being severely sanctioned like Russia? Not quite. Her yearly U.S. stipend is almost $4 billion, as…Continue Reading

MCCL Scores Gov. Dayton’s Appointment Of Tina Smith

December 14, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on MCCL Scores Gov. Dayton’s Appointment Of Tina Smith

MINNEAPOLIS — Leo LaLonde, president of Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life (MCCL), reacted on December 13 to Gov. Mark Dayton’s appointment of Lt. Gov. Tina Smith to Al Franken’s U.S. Senate seat: “Gov. Mark Dayton’s appointment of Tina Smith to represent Minnesota in the U.S. Senate is overwhelmingly disappointing to the state’s pro-life majority. An abortion industry insider, Ms. Smith is a former vice president of Planned Parenthood in Minnesota. The choice of Ms. Smith is particularly egregious to Minnesota’s pro-life citizens, who will have no representation in the Senate. “Most Minnesotans are pro-life. They support protections for unborn human beings throughout their development. Minnesotans need someone who will fight for justice for the most vulnerable among us, the unborn.”…Continue Reading