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By DEACON MIKE MANNO, JD A couple of weeks ago I had to admit that I missed the mark in the recently decided Bostock v. Clayton. I thought for sure that the Supreme Court would not redefine the word “sex” to include “gay, transgender, lesbian,” and whatever else, for protection under the equal employment laws. I was wrong and next Lent I’m going to give up predicting legal outcomes — at least in print.However, giving the devil his due, as they say, I was right last February when I opined that a Montana case might become the death knell for what have become known as the Little Blaine Amendments. As a reminder, they were the state constitutional amendments adopted after…Continue Reading
BY JOE SIXPACK As we continue our look at the Sixth and Ninth Commandments, I’d like to dedicate this particular article to a topic that is very much in the news and national dialogue. I’m referring to homosexuality.It amazes me that so many Catholics actually support so-called homosexual rights, including same-sex “marriage.” Let me first state that being a homosexual is not morally wrong. If homosexuality is morally wrong, then by necessity heterosexuality must also be wrong. What’s morally wrong is homosexual acts, just like heterosexual acts outside of marriage are wrong. As long as the homosexual lives a chaste life, it’s no more immoral to be a homosexual than it is to be a heterosexual.“Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents…Continue Reading
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 begin our exploration of the sacraments as portals of Divine Light by looking at the first sacrament: Baptism.Have you ever had the experience of building a house? If you have, then you are aware of all the preliminary steps that must take place. First you meet with an architect and decide on the…Continue Reading
By PEGGY MOEN In an iconic photo, Brother Joseph Dutton emerges from an inside, U.S. flag-festooned doorway. Two boys, both wearing hats and both noticeably disfigured, are seated in the room Dutton is entering.The caption from the Hawaii State Archives says simply, “Brother Joseph Dutton, late in life.” Joseph Dutton (1843-1931) was a layperson, not a brother in the sense of belonging to a religious order. He did study to be a Trappist at Gethsemani in Kentucky, but decided he was meant for an active, not a contemplative, vocation. A convert to Catholicism, baptized in 1883 at age 40, at St. Peter’s Catholic Church, Memphis, Tenn., this divorced recovered alcoholic spent the latter half of his
By DEXTER DUGGAN More than one shell game is transpiring now.There’s the classic game where sleight of hand keeps the viewer confused about what he sees on the table while the con artist does his evasions. It’s the attempt to push through social revolution now when the public demand is negligible but it’s blasted out over carnival megaphones called dominant media.If you get 2,000 thugs massed for rioting in a metropolitan area of millions of people, that’s far fewer lawbreakers than peaceful folks who’d have gone out to the theater or restaurants on any night before the pandemic. But smashing windows gets more attention than gazing through a restaurant’s over coffee.Another game is to conceal that what’s presented as a…Continue Reading
By CHRISTOPHER MANION “If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle” — Sun Tzu, The Art of War. In 1979, the USCCB, “inspired” by the dissident “Call to Action” platform, declared that only whites could be racists, and most of us are.In the light of recent and fast-moving events, our bishops should apologize, profoundly and quickly.On June 28, Fr. Theodore Rothrock, pastor of St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church in Lafayette, Ind., published an article in his parish bulletin. “Reforms must be sweeping and immediate to crush the rising wave of racism,” he wrote. Noting the destruction and violence in the widespread rioting, Rothrock criticized Antifa’s “community organizers” and the Marxist leaders of Black Lives…Continue Reading
By GEORGE A. KENDALL If I never hear the expression “black lives matter” again, it will be too soon. When it comes to lives mattering, if we want a slogan, it should be: “human lives matter.” In a recent appearance on EWTN’s The World Over, Alveda King said repeatedly that there is only one race — the human race.So what is going on in the minds of people who endlessly repeat that “black lives matter? Does it mean that they think that white lives don’t matter? My guess is that this is precisely what the Antifa crowd thinks, along with similar groups. I have noticed that the anti-white propaganda coming today from leftists, including white leftists, blaming the white race…Continue Reading
By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Technology seems to have made life easier these days in some unexpected ways for bad folks. Organizing the “progressives’” riots, looting, and arson gets an assist when connecting through social media.On the other hand, for conservatives, being able to go electronically past the hammerlocks of dominant left-wing media gives them access to facts otherwise choked off. But what about the more ordinary parts of life? These have their frustrations, but it’s an easier step to Heaven if you don’t always have to be grinding your teeth. What I’m about to write probably will set many heads nodding in recognition. Take heart that at least we’re not alone — as if that’s any comfort.It used to…Continue Reading
By JOE SIXPACK A woman went to her priest to complain that her husband mistreated her. The priest knew the woman became angry at every little thing her husband did, and that she caused him to become angry with her nagging tongue. So Father concocted a little remedy for the situation.The priest handed the woman a bottle and said, “Here you are. Take this medicine, and it will cure your anger and quarreling.”“But what kind of medicine is it?” asked the woman.“It’s miraculous water.”“Miraculous water? What do I do? Sprinkle it on my husband?”“No, not at all. All you have to do is keep some in your mouth. As long as you do that, he’ll never feel any desire to…Continue Reading