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The Abortion Wars: Who’s Violent And Who’s Not?

July 31, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off

By DEACON MIKE MANNO Last month an online publication, Rewire News Group, published an article, “Anti-Abortion and Fascist Violence Are One and the Same,” by Garnet Henderson. Speaking of abortion clinics, the first sentence of the article sets the tone: “How can clinics stay safe as the anti-abortion movement — with its deep ties to white supremacy and Christian nationalism — becomes more aggressive?”Ms. Henderson goes on in her article conflating abortion protests, those protesters that enter abortion clinics, such as Red Rose Rescue, the January 6 riots, and true acts of violence against abortion clinics, such as the well-known abortion clinic bombings in the 1980s and suggests that they are all related to white supremacy and gun violence:“Given the…Continue Reading

Missing In Action . . . Who Displaced America’s Traditions And Replaced Them With Opposites?

July 30, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — It had been your dream to open an Italian restaurant in honor of your mother. You succeeded and everything went fine. Pleased customers spread the word and brought in more business for you.One day you hired a new head cook who suggested more Italian dishes to add to the menu, which you thought was a good idea. Business increased again. Then the cook proposed that you expand your appeal further by offering people books to read while they ate. He could set up a few shelves of volumes by the front door. You doubted doing this but figured it wouldn’t hurt to humor him.Every week, it seemed, he added some more books to the shelves.…Continue Reading

Happy Birthday, Humanae Vitae

July 29, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off

By CHRISTOPHER MANION Humanae Vitae turned 55 this July, but the controversy surrounding it began long before its promulgation in 1968. And there, once again, we find the University of Notre Dame and its president, Fr. Theodore Hesburgh, CSC, at the center of the story.On Laetare Sunday, March 20, 1966, Fr. Hesburgh conferred the University’s Laetare Medal on Patty and Pat Crowley, a Catholic couple from Chicago who had founded the Christian Family Movement (CFM) in 1949.The Medal, which Notre Dame describes as “The Most Prestigious Award Given to American Catholics,” has been conferred on various luminaries since 1883. Among past awardees are John F. Kennedy, Ed Muskie, Tip O’Neill, Joe Biden, and Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr.The…Continue Reading

In Illinois… Forced Rentals For Illegals

July 28, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off

By BARBARA SIMPSON Anyone who has paid any attention at all to the situation at our Southern border, knows that we, as American citizens, have a great problem with people entering this country illegally and taking advantage of the benefits due to American citizens.There are millions of them, and we have no idea where they are or what they are doing. It seems as though every day the situation gets worse, depending on how you look at it.The latest that I saw deals with the state of Illinois and how it interprets its Human Rights Act. There is a new law in the state which deals with landlords and their rights to rent or sell their properties.The new law is…Continue Reading

A Book Review… The True And Timeless England

July 27, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY Faith of Our Fathers: A True History of England by Joseph Pearce: Ignatius Press, 2023; Ignatius.com. Joseph Pearce’s Faith of our Fathers: A True History of England, is a fascinating and informative survey of the history and literature of England — the ancient Albion — in the light of the Catholic faith, with a view to discovering the “True and Timeless England,” of which figures like Alfred the Great, St. Edward the Confessor, St. Thomas More, Shakespeare, and St John Henry Newman, are the best exemplars.The book begins with the idea expressed in William Blake’s poem, Jerusalem, that according to legend, the Christ Child came to England with St. Joseph of Arimathea. While, as Pearce says,…Continue Reading

You Think It’s Hot Here?… Limitless God Sets Limits On What Badly Sinful Leaders Get Away With

July 26, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Mid-July’s heat wave blazing in locations around the globe including Phoenix recalled one day and night I spent in Death Valley’s Furnace Creek, Calif., which reportedly had set marks for the highest recorded daytime, ground-surface and nighttime temperatures in the world — although none of these at the time I was there.Other locations never went as high as 134 degrees (Furnace Creek) or 122 degrees (Phoenix), but people elsewhere still knew how enveloping high-pressure systems made them feel.I was in a group making a walk to call attention to the pro-life cause more than 40 years ago. And we spent the night in a modern, Western-style hotel at Furnace Creek with a breakfast buffet, not…Continue Reading

Hooray For Hollywood

July 25, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off

By CHRISTOPHER MANION The current labor unpleasantness in the film and media industries is nothing new. It calls to mind how strikes, rumors of strikes, and similar union operations work on the ground.Fifty years ago, I was working my way through grad school as a roadhouse musician when the South Bend Country Club asked me if I’d be interested in entertaining at a private party on St. Patrick’s Day.As a loyal Son of the Old Sod, I quickly agreed.But members of the local musicians union — as I recall, the “American Federation Of Musicians” — were not my big fans, because I performed as a single act and was I was making more than any of their members were, so…Continue Reading

Defamation By The Defamers

July 24, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off

By DEACON MIKE MANNO There are two interesting defamation lawsuits working their way through the judicial system that become interesting in whom each names as a defendant; in both cases it is someone who holds themselves up as the pure anti-hate people.One involves an old favorite punching-bag of ours, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and the other is the attorney general of the state of New York, Letitia James.The SPLC, as you may recall, was once an honored civil rights organization that was in the forefront of equal protection under the law. Sometime after the enactment of strong civil rights legislation — on both state and federal levels — followed by favorable results from the courts, the organization turned…Continue Reading

Corruption Heaped Up . . . Time Is Ripe Again To Cast Off Rule Of Kings, Breathe Freely

July 23, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Founding Fr. Patrick Henry’s anti-royalist exhortation to “Give me liberty or give me death!” doesn’t sound in tune with our betrayed current times, which seek to give us surcease from sacrifice and personal worry, to give us equity and transgenderism, to force us into little locked-down urban apartments hemmed in by mass transit.The welfare state is being succeeded by the “Shut up and obey” state. Which is the next step down the line of whatever government thinks it can do to you once you’re dependent on it, then prostrate before it.Back in the days when kings ruled, they inherited the title regardless of abilities. Well, in that sense we’re in the days when the time…Continue Reading

An Unhappy Anniversary

July 22, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off

By CHRISTOPHER MANION In 1974, I attended a meeting in Chicago designed to probe the possibilities of rescuing Catholic education from the nebulous but ubiquitous “Spirit of Vatican II” that was already raging at the time. At lunch, I joined Fr. Christopher O’Toole, CSC, and my own bishop, Most Rev. Leo Pursley, DD, who had confirmed me years before.Why were these two retired luminaries interested in supporting efforts to preserve orthodox Catholic education for the next generation of college students?Their answer was blunt. “I’m doing penance,” said Fr. O’Toole, somberly.Bishop Pursley nodded in agreement.Penance? Penance for what?Well, Fr. O’Toole explained, as the superior general of the Congregation of the Holy Cross throughout the 1960s, he had not done enough to…Continue Reading

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