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Trump’s Winning Ways . . . Georgia Special Election Deals New Blow To Dem “Resistance” Dreams

April 22, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off

By DEXTER DUGGAN The 12-month calendar on your kitchen wall probably didn’t have space enough on the little square for the 18th of April to enter everything happening that day to help the conservative agenda of Donald Trump. Not only did the president underline his positive pro-American economic agenda by traveling to a Kenosha, Wis., manufacturer to speak, but also the anti-Trump media’s swooning love song for a liberal political hopeful in Georgia hit a sour note when Democrat Jon Ossoff was forced into a June runoff election for a U.S. House seat. The same day, an unfortunate double reminder of the dangerous times of terrorism that Trump fights against occurred when a gunman with a Muslim name and rhetoric…Continue Reading

A Book Review . . . A German Cardinal Focuses On Hope

April 21, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off

By CHRISTOPHER MANION “Bob was a hopeful man. Of course, he wasn’t an optimist” — Fr. Paul Scalia, presiding at the funeral of Judge Robert Bork (December 22, 2012). + + + As prefect for the Congregation of the Faith, Gerhard Cardinal Müller bears the responsibility of defending the truths of the Magisterium from error. In recent years, that task has become more difficult, for reasons addressed in The Cardinal Müller Report (Ignatius Press, $17.95: visit www.ignatius.com, or call 1-800-651-1531), which appears this month. First, some background. In 1985, Ignatius published the powerful Ratzinger Report, an extended interview by Vittorio Messori with the then-cardinal prefect of the same congregation. The Müller Report follows the same format, as an interview with…Continue Reading

Will Christianity Perish In Its Birthplace?

April 20, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” (My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?) Those are among Jesus’ last words on the cross that first Good Friday. It was a cry of agony, but not despair. The dying Christ, to rise again in three days, was repeating the first words of the 22nd Psalm. And today, in lands where Christ lived and taught and beyond where the Christian faith was born and nourished, the words echo. For it is in the birthplace of Christianity that Christians face the greatest of persecutions and martyrdoms since the time of Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin. President Donald Trump, outraged by pictures of infants and children who had perished in the…Continue Reading

In Mali . . . Four Arrested In Kidnapping Of Nun

April 19, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off

BAMAKO, Mali (CNA/EWTN News) — Four people have been arrested in Mali in connection with the February kidnapping of a nun who remains missing. According to the Associated Press, a judge in the country charged four individuals the first week of April. Sr. Cecilia Argoti Narvaez was originally from Colombia but worked in Mali until she was kidnapped earlier this year. Her fate is still unknown. Armed men kidnapped Sr. Cecilia in the southern Mali city of Karangasso on February 7. The men forced Sr. Cecilia to hand over the keys to the community’s ambulance. The vehicle was later found abandoned. Three other sisters were present at their house but escaped. A member of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate,…Continue Reading

Mike Pence And Sr. Mary Francis

April 18, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK One of the topics that comes up frequently on social media is the high school dances chaperoned by the nuns back in the 1950s and 1960s. You frequently see comments about how the nuns would roam the dance floor making sure that couples were not dancing too close during the slow dances, instructing them to “leave some room for the Holy Ghost.” I am not sure if these comments are made good-naturedly in fond recollections of the innocent days of the past, or in criticism of the “prudish” attitudes of the nuns. Probably both perspectives are in play. I must say, though, that when I see these comments, I can’t help but wonder what the people…Continue Reading

The Great Divorce… Vladimir Putin And The American Left

April 17, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK I never thought I would see anything like the hostility between the American left and Vladimir Putin. For my entire life I have listened to liberal Democrats, academics, and journalists criticize Americans who harbored an “irrational fear” of the former Soviet Union, who “saw Communists under every bed,” who suspected their fellow Americans of being “Communist sympathizers” without credible evidence. That was Joseph McCarthy’s great sin, we were told, what made him a man “without decency” and a threat to our democratic values. Yet now the leading liberals are saying the same things about Russia and Putin. They charge him with undermining our elections, of suborning operatives in the Trump campaign for the presidency, of manipulating…Continue Reading

The Not-So-Friendly Skies

April 16, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off

By REY FLORES Being merciful and practicing charity are both easier said than done. Anyone who travels through airports and on airplanes knows this all too well. It is one thing for passengers to be impatient, rude, and ornery, but when any professional staffers at an airport or on an airplane get heavy-handed, that’s a whole new ballgame. You have probably already heard all about the United Airlines passenger who was asked to deplane last week because the airline needed seats for four of its employees. When the passenger refused to exit, he was literally dragged off the plane, kicking and screaming. This whole fiasco was caught on video and of course spread virally online. In the video captured by…Continue Reading

Not A Butterfly World . . . Will Trump’s New Foreign Path Follow Ruts Of Others’ Failures?

April 15, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off

By DEXTER DUGGAN Walking to church for evening stations of the cross on a Lenten April 7, I saw two tiny white butterflies playfully circling each other as I waited for the stoplight before crossing a busy street. Like my sister, I think of a butterfly sighting as a little reminder from God for carefree trust, often hard to attain in a world shuddering under the Devil’s thrusts. Regardless of whatever is actually in the colorful bug’s minuscule mind, its fluttering from flower to flower in apparent abandonment to the moment suggests faith and assurance. And this Friday sighting was even better because there were two of the little fellas in tandem. Fanciful thoughts occurred of a boyfriend and girlfriend…Continue Reading

Nixon, LBJ & The First Shots In The Judges’ War

April 14, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN The Democrats’ drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch was the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the Supreme Court — a war that began with a conspiracy against Richard Nixon by Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justice Abe Fortas, and Lyndon Johnson. By June 1968, Nixon, having swept his primaries, was cruising to the nomination and probable victory in November. The establishment was aghast. Warren’s bitterness toward Nixon dated to their California days. Sen. Nixon had worked behind the scenes for Ike’s nomination in 1952, though Gov. Warren was California’s favorite son. Warren had been crushed and humiliated — but Nixon was rewarded with the vice presidency. Now, 16 years later, the chief justice was…Continue Reading

Easter And The End Of The World

April 13, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off

By JAMES MONTI From the early days of the Church onward into the Middle Ages, there existed a popular tradition among the faithful that imparted to the solemn liturgy of the Easter Vigil an incomparable splendor, creating an overwhelming sense of eager anticipation. For it was believed that when Christ came again to judge the living and the dead He would come during the Easter Vigil. Early Christians especially were captivated by the thought that there would eventually come an Easter Vigil like no other — that just as Holy Mother Church was donning her festal attire to celebrate the Resurrection, unveiling anew the splendors of her sanctuary in the blazing light of the Paschal candle, the tapers of the…Continue Reading

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