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Bethlehem Bustling . . . Uncredentialed Pretender Obamus To Be Replaced By New Kings In Town

December 16, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on Bethlehem Bustling . . . Uncredentialed Pretender Obamus To Be Replaced By New Kings In Town

By DEXTER DUGGAN “I’ve never seen the roads so crowded, Joseph. I can’t believe that the census could account for so many travelers.” “I agree, Mary. Strange things are going on. Did you notice those Roman soldiers with feather dusters instead of swords in their scabbards?” “I couldn’t believe it, Joseph. We know the Romans are our oppressors, but how could Caesar hope to repel a bloodthirsty enemy if there’s no more than that to protect us?” “There’s an inn, Mary. I’ll engage the proprietor in conversation. Please wait here with the donkey while I go inside.” “I’ll be glad for a pause, Joseph.” (Joseph enters the inn.) “Hello, traveler! You look more than a little dusty. I’d invite you…Continue Reading

Will Trump Defy McCain & Marco?

December 15, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on Will Trump Defy McCain & Marco?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN When word leaked that Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, a holder of the Order of Friendship award in Putin’s Russia, was Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of state, John McCain had this thoughtful response: “Vladimir Putin is a thug, a bully, and a murderer and anybody else who describes him as anything else is lying.” Yet, Putin is something else, the leader of the largest nation on Earth, a great power with enough nuclear weapons to wipe the United States off the face of the Earth. And we have to deal with him. McCain was echoed by the senior Democrat on foreign relations, Bob Menendez, who said naming Tillerson secretary of state would be “alarming and absurd…Continue Reading

The Computer And Home-Schooling

December 14, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on The Computer And Home-Schooling

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK D.R.K. of Sheridan, Ore., writes to comment on the November 11 edition of First Teachers, which centered on an article in America magazine by Charles Zech, the director of Villanova University’s Center for Church Management and Business Ethics. In his article, Zech offered three alternative proposals to save Catholic schools. D.R.K. contends “none of them is viable. Two rely heavily on financial support from the government, which always results in secular interference in the faith. The third requires large continuing sums of money from hard-strapped parents, which would be difficult to maintain for any length of time.” What D.R.K. proposes instead is that we “dump the whole concept of brick-and-mortar schools.” He argues these schools “are becoming…Continue Reading

True And False Ecumenism

December 13, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on True And False Ecumenism

By JOHN YOUNG “When you take the protest out of Protestant, there’s not much left.” I read that statement by a renowned Catholic apologist many years before Vatican II, a priest who was a convert from Anglicanism and who was instrumental in bringing many people into the Catholic Church. If his statement were made today it would be seen as grossly offensive; when it was actually made it probably caused little offense. But was it true? We’ll come back to that. In discussing Catholicism and Protestantism we must neither gloss over the differences nor exaggerate them. If there was a tendency in the past to exaggerate the differences, the fault today is in the opposite direction: obscuring the differences by…Continue Reading

Conservative Catholics . . . React To San Diego Bishop’s Order Against Priest’s Bulletin Column

December 12, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on Conservative Catholics . . . React To San Diego Bishop’s Order Against Priest’s Bulletin Column

By DEXTER DUGGAN Conflicting views emerged after the bishop of the San Diego Catholic Diocese, Robert McElroy, told a locally well-known orthodox priest, Richard Perozich, not to present his thoughts in a column in the parish bulletin of Immaculate Conception Church, where he is pastor, in the historic “Old Town” neighborhood. With the November 8 election approaching, Perozich had listed major evils afflicting society in the October 30 bulletin including abortion, embryonic experimentation, punishment for opposing “same-sex marriage,” cloning to combine human and animal DNA, euthanasia, and silencing Christians who express their faith in public. Perozich went on to list other negative influences, including “the importation of immigrants whose religious values are to eradicate every belief except those of their…Continue Reading

Patriotism Applies To Business, Too

December 11, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on Patriotism Applies To Business, Too

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY It is your hometown. You have lived there for decades and raised your children there. A few blocks from your house, in an open-air shopping center, two restaurants sit next door to each other. One is an outlet for a massive chain that is a subsidiary of a public-stock multinational corporation. It has unisex bathrooms and willfully hires immigrants here illegally to clean them — and serve food. The top managers of the corporation that owns the chain have never visited your hometown — and never will. The other restaurant is owned by a family that lives in town. They worked and saved for years to collect the capital to start their own business. At least…Continue Reading

Donald Trump And The Elephant In The Room

December 10, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on Donald Trump And The Elephant In The Room

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK We are being hit with a deluge of articles attempting to explain Donald Trump’s victory in his run for the presidency. Some of the most insightful are appearing in the online edition of National Review, whose editors and contributors led the right-wing campaign against Trump. They were proud Never Trumpers. They are eating their crow in an admirably honest manner. Rich Lowry and Jonah Goldberg have been especially impressive. They still don’t like Trump, but they are making a sincere effort to understand why so many on their side of the ideological fence voted for him. It would be well worth your time to spend some time examining the website (nationalreview.com) on the days immediately following…Continue Reading

Obama, Trump Face Their Futures . . . While Dishonest Media Stories On Church Prove Trump’s Point

December 9, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on Obama, Trump Face Their Futures . . . While Dishonest Media Stories On Church Prove Trump’s Point

By DEXTER DUGGAN What is to become of Barack Obama? Much news coverage now is focused on the incoming Donald Trump administration, but Obama may be planning more political activism and playing less golf than when he was expected to do his job in the Oval Office. And part of Obama’s future probably will aim at thwarting Trump’s. Obama’s life largely has been spent as an Alinskyite organizer, rubbing resentments and upending expectations as ordinary people just tried to live their busy lives. That’s Obama’s résumé. Why should he be expected to learn a different trade past age 50? That’s just for older guys who’ve been thrown out of work by the steely cogs of Obama’s globalist corporatist friends. Trump,…Continue Reading

Is Trump Calling Out Xi Jinping?

December 8, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on Is Trump Calling Out Xi Jinping?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Like a bolt of lightning, that call of congratulations from Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen to President-elect Donald Trump illuminated the Asian landscape. We can see clearly now the profit and loss statement from more than three decades of accommodating and appeasing China, since Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger made their historic journey in 1972. What are the gains and losses? Soon after Nixon announced the trip in July 1971, our World War II ally, the Republic of China on Taiwan, was expelled from the UN, its permanent seat on the Security Council given to the People’s Republic of China’s Chairman Mao, a rival of Stalin’s in mass murder. In 1979, Jimmy Carter recognized the regime in…Continue Reading

Ideas Have Consequences

December 7, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on Ideas Have Consequences

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK We continue this week with the discussion begun by our readers in last week’s edition of First Teachers. The discussion centers on whether Catholics with traditional views deserve to be charged with hypocrisy for opposing politically correct professors and administrators who prohibit conservative speakers and right-to-life representatives on campus, when we call for Catholic college administrators to not permit pro-abortion politicians such as President Obama and Joe Biden to speak on campus and call for an end to performances of The Vagina Monologues. In other words, how do we answer the charge that our side opposes censorship by the politically correct academics of today only because they disagree with us, but that we are fine with…Continue Reading