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Why Pope Francis Doesn’t Like Americans (It’s Complicated)

September 10, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Why Pope Francis Doesn’t Like Americans (It’s Complicated)

By SHAUN KENNEY Much ink shall be spilled, and many trees condemned to the paper factory for Pope Francis’ quip that he enjoys being criticized by Americans, made aboard the papal plane en route to Mozambique. Not faithful Catholics, not pew-sitting Catholics, not conservative or liberal Catholics, neither progressive nor traditionalist Catholics mind you — but Americans. Ah yes, Pope Francis the Off-Color Interviewee strikes again, and much to the panicked chagrin of the Holy See Press Office who mysteriously allowed the recently formed and decidedly leftist La Croix International (a blog) to ask the Holy Father about a book published by Nicolas Seneze – who just so happens to not only work for La Croix but was allowed to…Continue Reading

To Disclose Or Not To Disclose… That Is The Political Question Of The Day

September 9, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on To Disclose Or Not To Disclose… That Is The Political Question Of The Day

By DEACON MIKE MANNO, JD Two weeks ago in this column we took up the issue of whether the public disclosure of those contributing to political candidates was, considering the adverse reaction against those persons, an infringement on their free speech rights. As was pointed out in that column, in today’s charged political environment, supporters of a political candidate or issues can easily have their First Amendment rights chilled, knowing that they could face public retribution for their donations. Coincidentally, as that issue was being published, an appeal was filed with the Supreme Court challenging California’s attempt to obtain the names of donors to certain nonprofit charities. While the issue in the California case is not exactly the same as…Continue Reading

Which Is More Damaging?. . . Do Hurricanes Build Abortuaries And Host Drag Queen Story Hours?

September 8, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Which Is More Damaging?. . . Do Hurricanes Build Abortuaries And Host Drag Queen Story Hours?

By DEXTER DUGGAN While Hurricane Dorian received emphatic round-the-clock news coverage as August swirled into September, a separate event that packed more long-range potential for damage hardly caused a ripple in national news. That was summed up in the revelation of a history of vicious tweets, including against Catholics, by a Democratic activist who was appointed to the Virginia Council on Women by that state’s strongly pro-abortion, former black-faced Democrat governor, Ralph Northam. Among her more-than-inflammatory tweets, Gail Gordon Donegan had said Catholic priests opposed abortion because “it results in fewer children to rape.” Virginia’s Richmond Times-Dispatch also reported on August 23 that, among other highly offensive public tweets, Donegan had reacted to a bumper sticker that said “You can’t…Continue Reading

Church Leaders Weigh In On Guns And Gaia

September 7, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Church Leaders Weigh In On Guns And Gaia

By CHRISTOPHER MANION The “Dog Days of August” are usually uneventful, with Congress out of session and millions of folks enjoying their vacations. But our hard-working hierarchy hasn’t missed a day at the office, and their work product is truly prodigious. God “offers creation to men and women as a precious gift to be preserved,” writes Pope Francis in his World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, released last week. “Tragically, the human response to this gift has been marked by sin, selfishness, and a greedy desire to possess and exploit. Egoism and self-interest have turned creation, a place of encounter and sharing, into an arena of competition and conflict,” he continued. It’s difficult to tell whether His…Continue Reading

Adventure Catholic… Offers Faith Formation And Leadership For Young Catholics

September 6, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Adventure Catholic… Offers Faith Formation And Leadership For Young Catholics

By REY FLORES When I first heard of Adventure Catholic, I thought it was some kind of new Catholic amusement park. Instead, it is a unique training method developed by Adventure Catholic founders Alan Migliorato and Darryl Dziedzic. Alan is an active youth minister, as well as Darryl who has been in ministry for over fifteen years now. Both men are fathers who also had the responsibility of helping minister to young people in various capacities in their own parishes, but they wanted to do more. Alan and Darryl were discussing a solution to one of the biggest problems that faces the Catholic Church today — the loss of members in young adulthood. They were brainstorming ways to fix this…Continue Reading

Hyperbole And The Magisterium

September 5, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Hyperbole And The Magisterium

By SHAUN KENNEY One of the best pieces of advice as a young politico I ever received was to interrogate every piece of information with two questions: 1) who benefits if I believe this, and 2) why am I being asked to believe this? Longtime observers of the Catholic media landscape understand the rivalry — if it can be called that — between some of our disparate publications. National Catholic Reporter (progressive with a p) squares off against National Catholic Register (God’s Marines with a g); incrementalists at LifeNews square off against absolutists at LifeSiteNews; traditionalists at Church Militant square off against the European social democrats at La Croix International — or at least, the Europeans try. Thankfully, I’m sure…Continue Reading

Will Bibi’s War Become America’s War?

September 4, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Will Bibi’s War Become America’s War?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN President Donald Trump, who canceled a missile strike on Iran, after the shoot-down of a U.S. Predator drone, to avoid killing Iranians, may not want a U.S. war with Iran. But the same cannot be said of Bibi Netanyahu. On August 24, Israel launched a night attack on a village south of Damascus to abort what Israel claims was a plot by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force to fly “killer drones” into Israel, an act of war. On August 25, two Israeli drones crashed outside the media offices of Hezbollah in Beirut. Israel then attacked a base camp of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command in north Lebanon. On August 26, Israel admitted…Continue Reading

Crackup In The Democratic Party

September 3, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Crackup In The Democratic Party

By TUCKER CARLSON and NEIL PATEL This past week, we were served some less-than-breaking news. Cong. Seth Moulton (D., Mass.) dropped out of the race for the Democratic nomination. If you’ve never heard of him, that’s OK. Few Democrats have. He served in the Marine Corps for four tours in Iraq, but other than that, he hasn’t done much. What’s interesting is why he’s being forced to drop out of the race. By any sane standards, Moulton is a thoroughly liberal Democrat. On every issue, he’s more left-wing than President Barack Obama was on the day he left office. Three years ago, Moulton would have been considered a liberal firebrand. But not anymore. By the lunatic standards of the modern…Continue Reading

Awash In Gender Confusion

September 2, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Awash In Gender Confusion

By DEACON MIKE MANNO, JD My wife came home a few weeks ago — actually she comes home every night, but you understand the figure of speech — with an interesting tidbit from work. She works for a large, nationwide financial organization. The company, she said, is now allowing employees to include their preferred pronouns on their business cards and email signatures. Interesting. Then the other day I was leading our parish men’s faith-sharing group and one of the guys mentioned that his company did the same thing. This is apparently a political correctness trend that hadn’t caught my eye, so I looked into it and it appears that it is a growing trend in the business world. And it…Continue Reading

A “Nest Of Saints” . . . Italy Celebrates Three Anniversaries For Blessed Diego Oddi

September 1, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on A “Nest Of Saints” . . . Italy Celebrates Three Anniversaries For Blessed Diego Oddi

By ALBERTO CAROSA VALLINFREDA — “Nest of saints”: This is the definition used by the Most Rev. Mauro Parmeggiani, bishop of the Diocese of Tivoli and Palestrina, to describe the Franciscan convent-retreat of Bellegra during his homily at the solemn Mass honoring Blessed Fra Diego Oddi of Vallinfreda. A charming village in the province of Rome overlooking the Piana del Cavaliere, Vallinfreda is the gateway to the Marsica, and therefore to Abruzzo, for those traveling along the old Tiburtina Valeria consular road or the more recent A-24 Rome-L’Aquila motorway. The Mass was celebrated in the parish church of San Michele Arcangelo in Vallinfreda within two weeks of celebrations from August 4 to 18 to commemorate three anniversaries of the blessed:…Continue Reading