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A Beacon Of Light . . . Portals Of The Divine: Anointing Of The Sick

August 11, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on A Beacon Of Light . . . Portals Of The Divine: Anointing Of The Sick

By FR. RICHARD D. BRETON JR. (Editor’s Note: Fr. Richard D. Breton Jr. is a priest of the Diocese of Norwich, Conn. He is currently the parochial vicar of St. Andrew Parish in Colchester and St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Lebanon. He received his BA in religious studies and his MA in dogmatic theology from Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, Conn.) Until now we have examined the sacraments of initiation and one of the sacraments of healing, namely, the Sacrament of Penance. Today we will discuss the second sacrament of healing which is Anointing of the Sick.The Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick finds its origins in the ministry of Jesus. As Jesus journeyed with His disciples,…Continue Reading

How Risky Is Vote-By-Mail?

August 10, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on How Risky Is Vote-By-Mail?

By DEACON MIKE MANNO, JD As I’ve written before, once upon a time I was heavily involved in political activity. Although my interest in politics has never waned, my involvement has and my political activities now are pretty much limited to voting and watching from the stands.But watch I do. And as I watched I’ve noted that either I have moved too far to the right (evolved, they would say) or the party has moved too far to the left; further away from not only my political views, but my moral center as well.It has always bothered me that the party of my former allegiance never seemed too concerned about ballot integrity, going so far as to oppose any form…Continue Reading

Come On, Man . . . Bleary Biden Dems Shouldn’t Count His Chickens Before They’re Scratched

August 9, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Come On, Man . . . Bleary Biden Dems Shouldn’t Count His Chickens Before They’re Scratched

By DEXTER DUGGAN The Justice Democrats is a relatively new Dem wing that lets us know the old wing by default must be the Injustice Democrats.The Justice Ones boast such shimmering sights as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Of whom it was truly said that someone who attacks alleged colonialists, as AOC just did by sliming Catholic saint Damien De Veuster, the martyr to leprosy of Hawaii, shouldn’t have Cortez (as in the Spanish conqueror) as part of her name.Blatant racist AOC looked at European-born St. Damien’s skin color, perhaps in an earlier old nineteenth-century photo, before his flesh had grown so blotched, he who traveled across half the world to serve the abandoned and dying, and AOC knew he deserved some denouncing…Continue Reading

A New Challenge — And Opportunity — For Parents

August 8, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on A New Challenge — And Opportunity — For Parents

By CHRISTOPHER MANION “Going to school” used to be pretty routine, but it’s an uncertain prospect these days. Amidst the widespread uncertainty, many parents are discovering a new dimension of their God-given vocation as their children’s first teachers.Holy Mother Church has defended this parental role for centuries, and she reaffirms it once more in Vatican II’s Declaration on Christian Education: “Parents who have the primary and inalienable right and duty to educate their children must enjoy true liberty in their choice of schools,” the Church fathers taught.As the sexual revolution raged, St. John Paul II was a faithful defender of parents as we faced the secular culture’s assaults on the family. In Familiaris Consortio, John Paul highlights the Church fathers’…Continue Reading

A Great Artist’s Tribute To The Faith Of Suffering Catholics

August 7, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on A Great Artist’s Tribute To The Faith Of Suffering Catholics

By JAMES MONTI In 1653, a young Dutchman of Delft named Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), the son of Calvinist parents, married the daughter of a devout Catholic widow. It is clear from the circumstances of the marriage that Vermeer also made the life-changing decision of embracing the Catholic faith. His first two sons were given distinctly Catholic names, Ignatius and Franciscus, and one son for a time studied for the priesthood.Vermeer’s earliest known painting is expressly Catholic in its subject matter, a depiction of a virgin saint of second-century Rome, Praxedis, in the act of collecting a martyr’s blood as a relic, doing so with a crucifix in her hand.Over the years that followed, Vermeer was to develop a highly successful…Continue Reading

Has Drudge Report Flipped?… Conservatives Sensing A Bad Apple Turn To Alternate News Aggregators

August 6, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Has Drudge Report Flipped?… Conservatives Sensing A Bad Apple Turn To Alternate News Aggregators

By DEXTER DUGGAN As 2020 began, Iran shot down a Ukrainian passenger jetliner. Before January had expired, basketball luminary Kobe Bryant, one of his daughters, and a few family friends died in a California helicopter crash.As August starts, how far in the past those shocking events already seem. What was on the crest of the wave, as a poet once wrote, quickly recedes. But the news cycle rolls on, day after day, year after year.The guy who dispenses the news always is in business. It’s like the grocer who keeps selling you food. Last week’s apples in your sack aren’t this week’s apples, so you buy some more. And the news hawker never runs out of a product.For more than…Continue Reading

This Weeks . . . The Bishop Strickland Hour . . . A Message For Our Time

August 5, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on This Weeks . . . The Bishop Strickland Hour . . . A Message For Our Time

Getting Specific

August 5, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Getting Specific

By JOE SIXPACK Last week, we began looking at the Seventh and Tenth Commandments. Well, actually we only covered the Seventh Commandment partially, but they’re treated together because both have to do with other people’s property. So this week we’ll finish up the Seventh Commandment with a look at specific obligations, the irresponsible use of money and goods, and then a brief look at desiring things that belong to others — the Tenth Commandment.If you recall, I mentioned last week that cheating is one of the most common ways we sin against the Seventh Commandment, and now we’ll look at a couple of more specific ways this is done. The first deals with employees and employers.Employees must conscientiously provide quantitative…Continue Reading

A Beacon Of Light . . . The Sacrament Of Penance: An Encounter With Christ

August 4, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on A Beacon Of Light . . . The Sacrament Of Penance: An Encounter With Christ

By FR. RICHARD D. BRETON JR. (Editor’s Note: Fr. Richard D. Breton Jr. is a priest of the Diocese of Norwich, Conn. He is currently the parochial vicar of St. Andrew Parish in Colchester and St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Lebanon. He received his BA in religious studies and his MA in dogmatic theology from Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, Conn.) + + We continue our reflection on the Sacraments as Portals of Divine Light. Today we will begin our discussion of the two sacraments of healing. These two sacraments are Penance and the Anointing of the Sick. This week we will focus on the Sacrament of Penance.After the fall of Adam, humanity would be forever tarnished…Continue Reading

ACLU, Dem AGs… Try To Force Catholic Medics To Sin

August 3, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on ACLU, Dem AGs… Try To Force Catholic Medics To Sin

By DEACON MIKE MANNO, JD Of all the outrages being committed by the progressive left these days, few would compare with the attempts by a coalition of Democratic state attorneys general and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to force Catholic hospitals and health-care workers to perform elective hysterectomies for women seeking to “transition” to men, to perform “trans” surgeries, and to require all to perform abortions.The party of death and its secular arm, the ACLU, have filed two federal lawsuits to strip away from Catholic hospitals and medical personnel their right to decline to perform certain medical procedures as a matter of faith or conscience.“The last thing anyone should want right now is fewer hospitals. And yet, that may…Continue Reading