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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

Beacon Of Light . . . The Kingdom Of Justice And Love

August 29, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Beacon Of Light . . . The Kingdom Of Justice And Love

By FR. RICHARD D. BRETON Jr. There was a father and a son who worked at a summer camp each year. Their family had run the summer camp for years and they had a large dog named Ivory. One day as the father and son were walking out of the camp office together, there was Ivory grinning her silly smile, as she expectantly thumped her big tail against the wall.The father challenged his son to a test, saying: “Let’s stop here and find out who Ivory really loves the most. You go north to the road, and I’ll go east to the woods. Whomever she follows will show her true allegiance.” The son reluctantly agreed to the father’s challenge. The…Continue Reading

Can Conservatives Get A Fair Trial In D.C.?

August 28, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Can Conservatives Get A Fair Trial In D.C.?

By DEACON MIKE MANNO Last week I posed the question whether pro-lifers could get a fair trial in Washington, D.C. I had not planned on a follow-up column, but recent political stories have changed my mind and my focus. No longer do I ask the question about pro-lifers, but now I ask it about conservatives and Republicans in general.And the closer I look at this, the more I have grave concerns about the state of justice in our Capitol City. The state of justice should be of concern for any American; after all, this is the land of fairness where Lady Justice wears a blindfold. But are we still sure?Just a couple of things from recent news coverage that should…Continue Reading

Minds Closed And Gates Welded Open . . . Critics See U.S. Weakened By Onslaught Of Leftist Compulsion

August 27, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Minds Closed And Gates Welded Open . . . Critics See U.S. Weakened By Onslaught Of Leftist Compulsion

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — The news that Joe Biden’s government permanently welded open 114 floodgates in the border wall in Arizona to make certain it was even easier for illegal immigrants to pour into the United States highlighted the image of Biden making this a doormat nation that anyone can tread on.An article posted August 21 at the New York Post said, “Each of the 114 gates in Arizona, which have been open for nearly two months, has 12-foot doors wide enough for a motorcycle to drive through. Smugglers drive busloads of migrants to the Mexican side of the border, where they get off and simply walk into the U.S.”Damning photos accompanied the article, which said that the Grand…Continue Reading