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Catholic Laity Welcome Pence . . . While Bishops Seem To Miss Obama

June 12, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Catholic Laity Welcome Pence . . . While Bishops Seem To Miss Obama

By CHRISTOPHER MANION Vice-President Mike Pence addressed the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington on June 5, and received a resounding welcome from over a thousand Catholic leaders from across the country. The audience cheered as he reiterated President Trump’s defense of religious liberty, Christian victims of Muslim terrorism, and especially the helpless targets of the Culture of Death. “President Donald Trump stands with the most vulnerable — the aged, the infirm, and the unborn,” he told the gathering, to thundering applause. “I couldn’t be more proud to serve as vice president to a president who stands without apology for the sanctity of human life. . . . Since day one of this administration, President Donald Trump has been keeping…Continue Reading

Happy Father’s Day

June 11, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Happy Father’s Day

By REY FLORES According to History.com: “The nation’s first Father’s Day was celebrated on June 19, 1910, in the state of Washington. However, it was not until 1972 — 58 years after President Woodrow Wilson made Mother’s Day official — that the day honoring fathers became a nationwide holiday in the United States.” For those persons who have lost their father or been abandoned by their biological father, who were conceived through rape or for any other reason grew up or are growing up without a father in their lives, this can be a tough holiday for them. For those of us blessed enough to have, or have had, fathers in our lives, we should be grateful for the experience.…Continue Reading

Their Consciences Troubled . . . But Democrats Prefer Nursing Anger To Healing Their Broken Morals

June 10, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Their Consciences Troubled . . . But Democrats Prefer Nursing Anger To Healing Their Broken Morals

By DEXTER DUGGAN Could a remarkable television performance by an armless Romanian teenager give Democrats an idea of how they could restore their political party and pull it away from its anger, desperation, and culture of death? On June 6 LifeSiteNews.com posted a story and video about 14-year-old Lorelai Mosnegutu, born lacking both her arms and the upper part of her leg bones, so she’s short. The lovely teenager wowed the “Romania’s Got Talent” European audience in March, moving them to tears with her beautiful singing voice as she played a piano with her toes. The impressive performance might have recalled Scottish Susan Boyle’s surprising debut on “Britain’s Got Talent” in 2009, singing I Dreamed a Dream — except Boyle…Continue Reading

Is Afghanistan A Lost Cause?

June 9, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Is Afghanistan A Lost Cause?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “We are there and we are committed” was the regular retort of Secretary of State Dean Rusk during the war in Vietnam. Whatever you may think of our decision to go in, Rusk was saying, if we walk away, the United States loses the first war in its history, with all that means for Southeast Asia and America’s position in the world. We face a similar moment of decision. On May 31, a truck bomb exploded near the diplomatic quarter of Kabul, killing 90 and wounding 460. So terrible was the atrocity that the Taliban denied complicity. It is believed to have been the work of the Haqqani network. This “horrific and shameful attack demonstrates these…Continue Reading

The Soul Of Western Societies And The Threat Of Its Extinction

June 8, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on The Soul Of Western Societies And The Threat Of Its Extinction

By ALBERTO PIEDRA (Editor’s Note: Dr. Piedra is the David E. Bentley Professor of Political Economy at The Institute of World Politics.) + + + “Let all of you then live together, come in mind and heart, mutually giving honor to God in yourselves, whose temples you have become” — St. Augustine. Recently the video A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing was aired on EWTN, a co-producer of the film. The video documents the rise of community organizing as it began to take hold in our country under the influence of Marxist sympathizers such as Saul Alinsky. In an article in The Wanderer of May 11, Dexter Duggan reports that at a “‘Faith Not Fear Summit,’ held at a Catholic church…Continue Reading

Hiring Catholic Professors At Catholic Colleges

June 7, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Hiring Catholic Professors At Catholic Colleges

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK I can’t remember any non-Catholics who taught me as an undergraduate at Fordham in the early 1960s. It was a different time. Over half my professors were Jesuits; the others were men I simply assumed to be Catholics, except for an Indian mathematics professor. Thinking back, I guess he was Hindu. But I never thought about it one way or the other. During the years I spent at St. John’s University working on my master’s degree, I had two professors who were not Catholic. One was Jewish, the other a Hegelian who gave no indication that he took revealed religion seriously. His idea of Hegel’s “Geist” was not God the Father. But they were two of…Continue Reading

How The Clintons Beat The Rap

June 6, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on How The Clintons Beat The Rap

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK If I remember correctly it was Bob Dole who first exclaimed, “Where’s the outrage!” to describe his amazement over how Bill and Hillary Clinton avoided public condemnation for their unethical and illegal activities. Many other Republican and conservative commentators made the same point in different words, rattling off instance after instance of shady dealings by the Clintons. If asked for the best examples of those shady dealings, I would point to the mysterious appearance of the missing Whitewater files on a desk in the White House, the pardon of the fugitive financier Marc Rich after his wife’s donation of $450,000 to the Clinton Library, and the 33,000 destroyed emails from Hillary’s private email server. No doubt, you could…Continue Reading

Cash-Strapped Bishops Declare War On Trump Budget

June 4, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Cash-Strapped Bishops Declare War On Trump Budget

By CHRISTOPHER MANION On May 19, five of the USCCB’s leading bishops sent a letter to every senator and representative, denouncing President Trump’s proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2018 as “profoundly troubling.” Invoking “moral criteria” and the “common good,” the bishops insist that Congress abandon Trump’s cuts in federal welfare programs. In a bow to fiscal responsibility, they endorse cuts in defense spending instead. Essentially, the bishops are calling on Congress to preserve the spending priorities that prevailed during the Obama administration. Apparently that includes Obama’s support for full funding of Planned Parenthood, which the letter does not mention. And curiously, while the bishops express a new-found affection for “diplomacy,” they don’t mention President Trump’s unprecedented move to protect unborn…Continue Reading

As Trump Darkness Descends On Them . . . Worried Political Liberals Gather At Catholic Hall For Hope

June 3, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on As Trump Darkness Descends On Them . . . Worried Political Liberals Gather At Catholic Hall For Hope

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — The U.S. senator was blunt about the serious problems of massive illegal immigration. With the facts so plain, the senator said “that we all agree on the need to better secure the border, and to punish employers who choose to hire illegal immigrants. You know, we are a generous and welcoming people here in the United States, but those who enter the country illegally and those who employ them disrespect the rule of law, and they are showing disregard for those who are following the law. “We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, and lawfully to become…Continue Reading

Breakup Of The West?

June 2, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Breakup Of The West?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN By the time Air Force One started down the runaway at Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily, to bring President Trump home, the Atlantic ahad grown markedly wider than it was when he flew to Riyadh. In a Munich beer hall Sunday, May 28, Angela Merkel confirmed it. Europe must begin to look out for itself, she said, “take our fate into our own hands….The times in which we could rely fully on others, they are somewhat over.” Merkel’s apprehensions are understandable. A divorce could be in the cards. During his visit to NATO in Brussels and the G-7 in Sicily, Trump, with both his words and body language, revealed his thinking on who are friends…Continue Reading