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Football Remains America’s Most Popular High School Sport

September 8, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Football Remains America’s Most Popular High School Sport

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY There were 436,465 American high school boys who played soccer in the 2021-2022 school year and 481,004 who played baseball.More than half a million — 521,616 to be precise — played basketball, while 569,262 competed in track and field.These participation numbers made soccer, baseball, basketball, and track among the most popular sports in which American high school boys chose to compete in that school year.But 11-man tackle football beat them all.In the 2021-22 school year, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations, 973,792 American high school boys played that game — making it by far the most popular high school sport when measured by the number of students who participated in it.(The most…Continue Reading

The Paths Forward For The GOP Presidential Field

September 7, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on The Paths Forward For The GOP Presidential Field

By JOSH HAMMER The August 23 much-anticipated first Republican presidential primary debate came and went without an obvious “winner” or dominant figure. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the onstage front-runner given the conspicuous absence of former President Donald Trump, performed ably with numerous compelling and substantive answers, but pre-debate expectations were high enough — and his national horse-race polling deficit with Trump wide enough — that it was left unclear whether such a performance might suffice.Some of the second-tier candidates, such as former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, likely outperformed; some, such as Haley’s fellow South Carolinian, Sen. Tim Scott, likely underperformed. And there was the glib charlatan Vivek Ramaswamy, whose egomania and insufferably grating nature were finally…Continue Reading

How Did We Get Here, And How Do We Get Back?

September 6, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on How Did We Get Here, And How Do We Get Back?

By TOM TAKASH Heard repeatedly in a popular science fiction television series from the 1960s, the request “Beam me up, Scottie” was a command to transport characters via a beam of light back to their spaceship from another location, usually a planet below. The command was from a series called Star Trek, and it came immediately to my mind when I read about a guide published earlier this month on CNN. (My wife, Beth, says CNN must stand for “Competency Not Necessary.” She knows phonies when she sees them.)The guide purports to explain various neopronouns used by “nonbinary and trans people.” The desire to remove myself from such nonsense was almost overwhelming. Oh, if only such a “transporter” did exist!The…Continue Reading

Dangerous Weather… More Flames — More Destruction

September 5, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Dangerous Weather… More Flames — More Destruction

By BARBARA SIMPSON It seems no matter where you read the news, the headlines deal with out-of-control wildfires.The biggest story of the past few weeks dealt with the devastation on the Hawaiian island of Maui. The ancient town of Lahaina, former capital of the Hawaiian aristocracy, was destroyed in addition to thousands of businesses and homes of Hawaiian citizens. The dollar estimation of the losses is estimated to be in the billions.The total death count isn’t even known at this point, as the search for human remains continues. The death toll as of August 26 was 115. Whether the dead are adults or children, the horror of the devastation is indescribable.In his homily for August 13, Bishop Larry Silva of…Continue Reading

Parents Beware: California Is Out To Marginalize You!

September 4, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Parents Beware: California Is Out To Marginalize You!

By DEACON MIKE MANNO By now most have heard about California’s lawsuit against a local school district that refuses to keep parents in the dark about the sexual proclivities of their children. Under state law school officials are prohibited from telling parents that their child might be living a “double life,” a boy at home and a girl in school.It’s called transgenderism and it’s becoming very popular in some circles. It is where a child — yes, child is the correct word — has occasion to believe that he or she was born in the wrong body and is confused about which sex he or she is. And for some kids they claim they are neither, the term is gender…Continue Reading

Like Lewis And Clark Expedition . . . Americans Can Set Out For A New Frontier As 2024 Vote Approaches

September 3, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Like Lewis And Clark Expedition . . . Americans Can Set Out For A New Frontier As 2024 Vote Approaches

By DEXTER DUGGAN OMAHA — The modernistic Kiewit Luminarian interactive science museum here near downtown Omaha’s high-rises overlooks the Missouri River and the historic landing site of the Lewis and Clark Expedition very early in the nineteenth century, after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 gave the early United States possession of vast new territories of 828,000 square miles, stretching from Louisiana to Canada, covering most of the Mississippi River’s drainage basin west of that river.Whether or not Americans think much today of that purchase which helped set the U.S. further along the trail to becoming a world power, one of those steps was taken as the adventurers passed through here.Commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson, explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark…Continue Reading

The Ugly Underside Of Trafficking And Abuse

September 2, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on The Ugly Underside Of Trafficking And Abuse

By CHRISTOPHER MANION According to Denise George, the attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands, the notorious New York financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused and trafficked young women and girls, some as young as 13, for over twenty years. She labeled Epstein’s operation as an “expansive scheme of human trafficking and sexual abuse.”Epstein was facing 45 years in prison for child trafficking when he was found dead in a New York prison four years ago this month. The jury is still out on the cause of his death: Suicide? Perhaps he was despondent. After all, he was a multi-millionaire who had been coddled by law enforcement for years, suddenly stuck in a prison cell.Or perhaps not. Countless members of America’s…Continue Reading

“We Did A Lot Of Praying”… Catholic Family Narrowly Escapes Hawaii Wildfires

September 1, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on “We Did A Lot Of Praying”… Catholic Family Narrowly Escapes Hawaii Wildfires

By JONAH McKEOWN ST. LOUIS (CNA) — A Catholic family visiting Hawaii from California barely escaped with their lives after being trapped for a time by the recent deadly wildfires on Maui in what they said was a “nightmare” experience.As of Wednesday, August 9, more than 100 people had been confirmed dead on Maui, with the toll expected to rise, after fast-moving wildfires ripped through the island beginning around August 8. The damage encompassed hundreds of structures, including numerous historic buildings and churches.Angel and Ana Cardenas and their three children, of Sacramento, have been visiting Maui annually on family vacations for the past decade. Angel Cardenas, 46, who works in video production, told Catholic News Agency that the family had…Continue Reading

Fortifying Our Faith By Embracing The Church’s Past

August 31, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Fortifying Our Faith By Embracing The Church’s Past

By JAMES MONTI By now all of us are deeply aware of the grave crisis for the Church that is likely to arise from the upcoming Synod on Synodality, which is just two months away. The Church’s most faithful prelates, in particular Gerhard Cardinal Mueller, Raymond Cardinal Burke, Robert Cardinal, Sarah and the late George Cardinal Pell, Bishop Athanasius Schneider and Bishop Joseph Strickland, and others as well, have very courageously and forthrightly warned us of the dangers that we will be facing as a purposefully selected cadre of the Church’s most notorious dissenters and enemies will be given privileged places of power and influence at the table of the synod to decide the future fate of the Church.It certainly…Continue Reading

The Revolution Destroys Nicaragua’s Jesuit University

August 30, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on The Revolution Destroys Nicaragua’s Jesuit University

By CHRISTOPHER MANION On May 17, 1981, Fr. Ted Hesburgh invited President Ronald Reagan to deliver the Commencement Address at Notre Dame University, my alma mater.“The years ahead are great ones for this country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization,” the President told us. “The West won’t contain Communism, it will transcend Communism. It won’t bother to dismiss or denounce it, it will dismiss it as some bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written.”Outside, thousands of demonstrators disagreed. They had been permitted to camp out on campus for days.How could a Catholic school welcome a president who opposed the Sandinista Communists, they asked? Why, Daniel Ortega’s Sandinista Junta includes two…Continue Reading