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The Catholic Mind

January 2, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on The Catholic Mind

By JUDE P. DOUGHERTY A Catholic mind is one formed by the Hebrew Scriptures, the Gospels, and the Fathers of the Church as commented upon through the ages. But there is another sense in which “the Catholic mind” is to be understood. The Catholic mind is one that is historically conscious, one conscious of origins. So constituted it provides a forum that allows the ancients, no less intelligent than we, to speak to us across the ages. They can teach us much about the moral order, human nature, and political organization, wisdom that is experience based and otherwise unavailable. So oriented, we can feel at home with Plato and Aristotle, understand the Stoics, appreciate the dilemma faced by Justin Martyr,…Continue Reading

Elite’s Bipartisan Festivity . . . Ryan And Pelosi Celebrate Christmas With Herodian Budget Deal

January 1, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on Elite’s Bipartisan Festivity . . . Ryan And Pelosi Celebrate Christmas With Herodian Budget Deal

By DEXTER DUGGAN Massive abortion for Christmas. Another half-billion taxpayer dollars sent to the slaughterhouse gang that still was fresh in everyone’s mind for being exposed for cutting out the brains, hearts and other organs of defenseless aborted infants for money. Just before the celebration of the birth of the baby Savior, the Republican Party’s congressional elite exchanged a bloody handshake with the Democratic Party of Death to ensure that the privately operated Planned Parenthood got another big gift in 2016 from unwilling taxpayers through the year-end Omnibus spending bill. Deck the halls with dismemberment, provided by PP as well as ISIS terrorists. Everyone’s hands get dirty. Now newly elevated U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R., Wis.), a Catholic, could…Continue Reading

Goodbye 2016, Hello 2017!

January 1, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on Goodbye 2016, Hello 2017!

By REY FLORES 2016 was a heck of a year and what a wild rollercoaster ride indeed it was. I think most of us aged at least a couple of years in that one year alone, not to mention how many more grey hairs accumulated upon many of our heads. The thing that made it worth going through was that after eight years of the worst president the United States has ever had to endure, we finally elected a grown-up. In Trump we have a savvy, successful businessman who in only six weeks after the general election has accomplished much more in terms of the economy and foreign relations than Obama did in eight years. I am also grateful that…Continue Reading

A Movie Review . . . “Yellow Day” Like A Good Day At Sunday Mass

December 31, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on A Movie Review . . . “Yellow Day” Like A Good Day At Sunday Mass

    By REY FLORES When it comes to movies today, I am no more a fan of most of computer-generated animation films than I am of the standard bland storylines which lack imagination, attached to them. This past Christmas, Yellow Day changed all of that. Because of the glut in any quality entertainment coming out of Hollywood these days, be it religious or secular; never has there been a greater need for films to recalibrate the moral compass of a nation the way a mainstream movie can. No, I’m not talking about the latest Star Wars film, complete with race and gender politics of today’s messed up world. I’m talking about Yellow Day which is a lighthearted, yet refreshing…Continue Reading

History Is Shaped Like An X

December 27, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on History Is Shaped Like An X

By DONALD DeMARCO The sentence “History is shaped like an X” belongs to Msgr. Ronald Knox and expresses his estimation of the historical significance of Christmas. Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (1888-1957) was ordained a Catholic priest in 1918, a year after he resigned his ministry in the Anglican Church. He distinguished himself as a theologian, an author of detective stories, a regular writer and broadcaster for BBC Radio, and a re-translator of the Latin Vulgate Bible into English. In addition to penning many books, he also served in an Army Intelligence role during World War I. What did he mean by this cryptic phrase? For one thing, he was not referring to the “X” as it appears in the word “Xmas.”…Continue Reading

Restoring The Sacred . . . The Sacred Night Of Christmas Eve

December 26, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Restoring The Sacred . . . The Sacred Night Of Christmas Eve

By JAMES MONTI Christmas Eve has about it a certain air of mystery and wonder. This “mystique” of the night of Christ’s birth transcends national boundaries, with each Catholic culture expressing it in its own distinctive manner. In his classic work A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens has famously evoked this perception of Christmas Eve as a night when almost anything miraculous can happen, a concept that has a long history. The ancient Carol of the Birds, a Christmas song of Catalonian Spain said to date back to the ninth century, tells of the sparrow, the eagle, and the robin coming from afar “when rose the eastern star” to rejoice together at the birth of the Savior. Legends about Christmas Eve…Continue Reading

Christmas From A Child

December 25, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Christmas From A Child

By DEREK BECHER Christmas has always been a magical time for me. Growing up in a large family, I experienced Christmases with much laughter, fun, love, giving, receiving, singing, and enjoyable get-togethers that eventually became traditions that would last throughout my youth. While some of these traditions have changed into my adulthood, I’ve been blessed so far with 13 nieces and nephews who, in their own imaginative and genuine ways, reignite in me the true spirit of Christmas every year, because of the sincerity and hope that I’ve seen in the hearts and the imaginations of each of them, at one point or another. Most recently, I was touched by the heartfelt and innocent comment of my dear nephew Vance.…Continue Reading

An Unforgettable Christmas Lesson From My Mother

December 24, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on An Unforgettable Christmas Lesson From My Mother

By REY FLORES Christmastime is a time to reflect upon the birth of our Lord and to rejoice in His presence in our lives. That seems simple enough, but the world keeps pushing and pushing us toward celebrating materialism, greed, gluttony, and drunkenness. We must do everything we can to always stay away from a secularized Christmas, especially if you are a parent. One lesson I learned from my mother a long time ago is one that I have never forgotten. That one moment on a quiet morning in Cuernavaca, Mexico, set a pattern for the rest of my life. It was one of the best gifts my mother ever gave me. As was common back then in the early…Continue Reading

In A Politicized Time . . . We Remember That The Savior’s Kingdom Is Not Of This World

December 23, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on In A Politicized Time . . . We Remember That The Savior’s Kingdom Is Not Of This World

By JOANNE SADLER BUTLER By this time next year, we Americans will be recovering from two years of non-stop presidential politics. As we enter 2016 and the presidential contests become more heated, Christmas 2015 is an excellent time to step back and reflect on how our Savior was not a political person. Could He have been? Yes, but He chose another route — that of a human of low status in a nation conquered by pagans. As St. Matthew carefully tells us (Matt. 1:1-17), Jesus in His human nature was a direct descendent of King David by 24 generations. However, the Gospels record that He never referred to Himself in this way. He never commanded attention in the synagogues or…Continue Reading

Can Christmas Survive Multiculturalism?

December 22, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Can Christmas Survive Multiculturalism?

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK I hesitate to bring up a gloomy topic during the Christmas season, which should be a time of glad tidings of great joy. But the wave of Muslim migrants pouring into Europe and the reaction of the European governments to the incursion forces one to ponder the fate of Christmas in a multicultural society. It is a topic we must deal with if we want the Christmas season as we know it to endure. I was struck by a curious paradox this past Halloween: I saw politically correct multiculturalists and a leader on the religious right coming together to attack Halloween revelry. I am not talking about the dark and bizarre forms of exhibitionism that take…Continue Reading