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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.) Today begins a series of articles on the seven sacraments and how each is a portal through which Divine Light shines!What is a sacrament? According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, a sacrament is: “An efficacious sign of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us…Continue Reading
By DEACON MIKE MANNO, JD It what appears to be foreshadowings of litigation to come, two cases have caught my attention recently.In the first, Pastor James Domen is the founder and president of Church United in California. Formerly a homosexual, after finding Christianity, he rejected that lifestyle, married a woman, and fathered three children.The purpose of Church United is to “equip faith leaders to positively impact the political and moral culture in their communities.” In his church’s online presence he talks about his past experience with homosexuality and how he overcame it.That was until his online hosting service, Vimeo, decided that his videos were hate speech and defamatory, and violated Vimeo’s standards which forbid any content that promotes Sexual Orientation…Continue Reading
By DEXTER DUGGAN Just to make sure they’re absolved of all their lurking racism and bigotry, will the former Dixie Chicks figure out they’ll have to rename themselves the Nancy Pelosi Chicks (or perhaps the Nancy Pelosi Old Hens), or maybe the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Birdies or Bernie Sanders Cluckers? (The Joe Biden Sick Man Chicks just won’t cut it.)Somehow for year after year the title Dixie Chicks was accepted effortlessly for the very successful Texas-bred female trio. The name was regarded as denoting the easygoing, sweet-home South.When the group became identified with opposing President George W. Bush’s Iraq war early in the new millennium and thereby won liberal plaudits, no lefties said the musicians couldn’t be real anti-warriors if they…Continue Reading
By CHRISTOPHER MANION The current wave of violence riots, and looting often bring quieter accomplices. These can include various forms of intimidation that corrupt social comity but suffer no consequences for doing so. Let’s consider an example from south of our border.In El Salvador, opening a business takes a lot of work. There’s a great sense of exhilaration when you open the doors on the first day.But not for long. Soon a youngster stops by and offers to “take care of” your place. Keep it “safe.”You laugh and tell him, “Everything’s OK, we already have insurance.”Then he comes back with an older companion who is not so nice. The tough guy explains that his informal syndicate provides a different kind…Continue Reading
By DEACON JAMES H. TONER Integralism: A Manual of Political Philosophy by Thomas Crean and Alan Fimister. Editiones Scholasticae, 2020; paperback, 290 pages. Available at amazon.com. One of Moliere’s characters — a certain M. Jourdain — is at once stunned and delighted to learn that he has spoken prose all his life. Practicing Catholics, similarly, should be stunned and delighted to learn that, by the grace of God, we have been integralists all our lives. In Christian Prayer, a volume used by many who pray the Liturgy of the Hours, there is a brief, but beautiful and meaningful, petition: “Form our lives in [Thy] truth, our hearts in [Thy] love” (p. 617).Integralism, as the cover of this new volume tells…Continue Reading
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
By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Life goes on at 110 degrees, this time every year.It was a normal sunny, low-humidity June day In Phoenix at 107 degrees by mid-afternoon, with the temperature to edge a few degrees higher before starting to come down with the evening. It’s what desert-dwellers here expect annually, and accommodate routinely.However, social temperatures had been turned sharply higher around the nation with violent leftist-incited tension by the time President Trump arrived here on June 23 to speak to cheering thousands of young people who Trump described as the future of the nation. KFYI Radio news (550 AM) said some of the attendees had lined up by 3 a.m. — more than 12 hours earlier.Was the social…Continue Reading
BY JOE SIXPACK A missionary priest who worked among the native people of the Himalayan Mountains used to tell of an astounding custom among the people. Since murder was considered the most horrible crime that could be committed, the punishment was always death.When a murder had been committed but no one knew who the murderer was, everybody in the village was obliged to pass by the victim’s body, which was placed in the main street, and as each person passed the body he placed his hand on the corpse and took a solemn vow that he had no part in the crime; an incredibly hard but fitting challenge for the guilty party.The Fifth Commandment is: You shall not kill. As…Continue Reading
By FR. RICHARD D. BRETON JR. Do you know what day it is? Do you know what month it is? Finding the answer to these questions is very simple. All we do is look at the calendar! What about if we asked these same questions, but asked them about the Church’s calendar? Do you know what day the Church is celebrating today? Do you know what season the Church is celebrating?The answer to these questions is very similar to the previous two questions. We look at the Church calendar!The Church’s calendar begins on the First Sunday of Advent and concludes with the celebration of the Solemnity of Christ the King of the Universe, which is usually the last weekend in…Continue Reading