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A Leaven In The World . . . Francis’ Agenda

November 19, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on A Leaven In The World . . . Francis’ Agenda

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK Catholics who believe the Faith should have practical consequences in their lives should prepare now to be completely disenfranchised. With the forced removal of Bishop Joseph Strickland, the former ordinary of Tyler, Texas, the purge of cardinals and bishops who speak with clarity about the current “crisis of the Magisterium,” as Robert Cardinal Sarah describes it, comes closer to us all.If they can do it to a cardinal or bishop, they can do it to you or me. But only if we let them.Yes, Francis can gradually and inexorably separate from office and governance in the Church any who insist on teaching faith and morals as the Church has always done, and which no Council…Continue Reading

Explanations Are In Order … Pope Francis … What Are You Doing?

November 11, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Explanations Are In Order … Pope Francis … What Are You Doing?

(UPDATE) In what seems to be a pattern emanating from the Eternal City, another outspoken orthodox prelate has been removed without explanation. A shepherd who has been forthright in proclaiming and defending Church teaching on marriage, life, and sexuality, and condemning all of the evils that are infecting our society and churches today. Bishop Strickland has been removed as bishop of Tyler personally by Pope Francis without explanation. The bishop deserves an explanation and so do the Catholic faithful. Not only is this an injustice to the good and holy bishop, but the immediate impact of this is scandalous and harmful to the Church. What is the message here, Pope Francis? Because the immediate inference — due to the lack…Continue Reading

Omnium Sanctorum… “Humility Is Essential To All Those Who Wish To Be Saved”

November 3, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Omnium Sanctorum… “Humility Is Essential To All Those Who Wish To Be Saved”

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK “Ecce ego Joánnes vidi álterum Angelum ascendéntem ab ortu solis, habéntem signum Dei vivi: et clamávit voce magna quátuor Ángelis, quibus datum est nocére terræ et mari, dicens: Nolíte nocére terræ et mari, neque arbóribus, quoadúsque signémus servos Dei nostri in fróntibus eórum” “In Paradise there are many Saints who never gave alms on earth: their poverty justified them. There are many Saints who never mortified their bodies by fasting, or wearing hairshirts: their bodily infirmities excused them. There are many Saints too who were not virgins: their vocation was otherwise. But in Paradise there is no Saint who was not humble” (Apo 7:2-3). God banished Angels from Heaven for their pride; therefore, how can…Continue Reading

After Three Weeks Of Drama . . . House GOP Chooses Speaker Who Doesn’t Look Dramatic At All

October 26, 2023 Frontpage, Uncategorized Comments Off on After Three Weeks Of Drama . . . House GOP Chooses Speaker Who Doesn’t Look Dramatic At All

By DEXTER DUGGAN If it takes the United States at least two years to elect a president, or maybe four years or longer, maybe it’s not catastrophic that it takes the members of the U.S. House of Representatives three weeks to choose their speaker.The campaign for the presidency has about become everlasting. No sooner has the quadrennial choice been finalized than strategists, prognosticators, and journalists cast their gaze ahead to the next one or even farther into the future.So perhaps it’s not disastrous that after Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) surprisingly was removed on October 3, it took until October 25 to consider other possibilities before unanimous first-ballot acceptance of a new speaker with the unremarkable-sounding name of Mike Johnson…Continue Reading

A Beacon Of Light… Pray The Rosary For World Peace

October 22, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on A Beacon Of Light… Pray The Rosary For World Peace

By FR. RICHARD D. BRETON, Jr. Recently, on October 7, the Church celebrated the Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary. This memorial was established by Pope St. Pius V on April 30, 1573. The creation of this celebration was in thanksgiving for the victory at Lepanto that took place on October 7, 1571. This celebration, along with many other Marian feasts and solemnities, provides us with an opportunity to reflect on many aspects of the Church’s Marian Traditions. In particular, we need to reflect upon the rosary and its powerful effect on world peace.Today, however, there is none more important to our times than the message of peace revealed at Fatima. On May 13, 1917, the Blessed Virgin Mary,…Continue Reading

A Leaven In The World… Remain In Truth While Synod Babbles

October 20, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on A Leaven In The World… Remain In Truth While Synod Babbles

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK This week I offer some key points from Raymond Cardinal Burke’s October 3 speech at “The Synodal Babel” international conference in Rome, courtesy of journalist Edward Pentin. Make use of these as a constant reference in the face of any Synod propaganda issuing this Fall from Rome which denies Revelation and the Deposit of Faith.“The whole synod process is presented as a work of the Holy Spirit who will guide all the members of the synod, but there is not a single word about the obedience due to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit that are always consistent with the truth of the perennial doctrine and the goodness of the perennial discipline that He has…Continue Reading

The Origins Of USCCB Political Authority

October 17, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on The Origins Of USCCB Political Authority

By CHRISTOPHER MANION Bishop David J. Malloy, chairman of the USCCB Committee on International Justice and Peace, writes a lot of letters to Congress. A lot of other bishops do too, and they usually identify themselves as the “Chair” of some conference committee or other. I recently ran across Bishop Malloy’s April 2023 letter to Congress regarding the Foreign Aid Appropriations bill. In it, Bishop Malloy identifies over a dozen funding categories, offering the USCCB’s official recommendation of specific amounts for each of them. For example, Bishop Malloy requests that Congress approve $2,728,500,000 for “USAID Malaria, TB, Global Health Security & other NTDs,” $4,725,000,000 for “DOS/PEPFAR HIV/AIDS,” and $1,600,000,000 for something called the “Green Climate Fund.” He adds: “The U.S. Bishops strongly…Continue Reading

A “New Synod To Make A New Church”?

October 6, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on A “New Synod To Make A New Church”?

By RAYMOND DE SOUZA, KM I prefer to let cardinals of the Church speak, instead of me. I simply quote from the study The Synod, a Pandora Box, published in eight languages and sent to each and every Catholic bishop of the world.Raymond Cardinal Burke wrote in the foreword, “Everyone who pays attention to the events of today in the Church sees that we are going through a great crisis, the most serious crisis in history. The coming synod on synodality (a new word that hardly any Catholic knows how to define with precision) reportedly aims to question the very structure of the Church. They propose to rethink the Church, transforming it into a new “constitutively synodal Church” by changing…Continue Reading

Watch Your Language!

October 2, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Watch Your Language!

By DEACON MIKE MANNO                 I don’t know if schools today put Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four on their reading lists or not. My guess is, probably not. But they should. If you have ever read it, you know it is known for two things: Big Brother, the omnipresent and all-powerful leader; and the language spoken, Newspeak.                 Setting Big Brother aside for a minute, I’d like to turn to Newspeak. If you recall, Newspeak was a language that was used to reinforce Big Brother’s thoughts and rules. The interesting thing about Newspeak was that it was not an entirely new language, it was a selective replacement of words and concepts that served to reinforce the teachings of Big Brother.                 In…Continue Reading

Visiting Boys Town… Where A World Of Care For Troubled Youngsters Rose On Nebraska Plains

September 26, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Visiting Boys Town… Where A World Of Care For Troubled Youngsters Rose On Nebraska Plains

By DEXTER DUGGAN By DEXTER DUGGAN OMAHA — An Irish-born priest in Phoenix once recalled that when he and a young friend from the seminary in the Emerald Isle were told they were being assigned to Arizona, they got out a map. One of them was being sent to Phoenix, the other young priest to Tucson.The two cities didn’t look far apart. The priests decided that on their days off, one of them could bike over to visit the other. They hadn’t noticed the scale of mileage on the map. Phoenix and Tucson are about 116 miles apart, hardly a distance for a morning’s quick bike ride, especially on a summer desert day.Following God’s will can bring surprises, as also…Continue Reading