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Ghana’s Bishops Offer A Model For The USCCB

April 13, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Ghana’s Bishops Offer A Model For The USCCB

By CHRISTOPHER MANION Last week we reported that, when Biden NSC spokesman John Kirby said that “LGBTQ+ rights are . . . a core part of our foreign policy,” he followed up by threatening to impose economic sanctions on the African nation of Uganda if that predominantly Christian country enacts an anti-LGBTQ identity law recently passed by Parliament.Well, this past Wednesday, the Catholic bishops of Uganda announced that they will reserve judgment until they are able to study the full contents of the proposed legislation. “As fathers of the Catholic Church, we will meet to discuss it and give the position of the Catholic Church in Uganda,” assured Archbishop Paul Ssemogerere of Kampala, according to reports from La Croix.At press…Continue Reading

The False Accusation Of “Divisiveness”

April 12, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on The False Accusation Of “Divisiveness”

By JAMES MONTI For many including myself, the Gospel of St. John is a favorite Gospel for a multitude of reasons, ranging from its more mystical ethos to its deeper emphasis upon the glory of our Lord’s divinity. But John’s Gospel also possesses a highly attenuated dramatic quality that takes us on a journey of linear ascent toward the Passion, death, and Resurrection of Christ, a linear ascent of growing confrontation between Christ and the Jewish elders out of which arises the plot to put our Lord to death. This is the reason why for many centuries the Church has assigned to the two weeks of Lent preceding Palm Sunday a series of Gospels drawn from John’s narrations of these…Continue Reading

A Beacon Of Light… Look Back To The Early Church

April 11, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on A Beacon Of Light… Look Back To The Early Church

By FR. RICHARD D. BRETON, Jr. On April 9, we entered the joyful season of Easter which celebrates the Resurrection of Christ. This season extends seven weeks and includes the Scripture passages of Jesus revealing Himself to the disciples. Looking deeper into the Easter Season we find an important aspect of the Church. We find the Church at the moments prior to her birth! We encounter Jesus, the Resurrected Lord, in the final moments as He gives the parting instruction to those He has chosen to lead the Church.Every year the Easter Season gives us the opportunity to journey with the Early Church. In the early hours of the morning of the Resurrection, the Church begins to “go into labor.”…Continue Reading

Divine Mercy

April 10, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Divine Mercy

                Much of what we discuss here deals with secular matters. Granted they all relate to our ability to worship, to live, and to evangelize according to our faith. Of course, our opponent, the Devil, is working overtime to defeat us both spiritually and legally. So, we fight, and we pray that God will protect us from Satan’s snare, especially right now as we enter into what should be the most joyful time of the year: Easter.                 But the weekend after Easter is, in my opinion, one of our most significant feasts: Divine Mercy Sunday. It was designated such by Pope John Paul II in the year 2000. It is based on the writings of a Polish nun, Sr.…Continue Reading

Democrats And Abortion In Montana

April 9, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Democrats And Abortion In Montana

By BARBARA SIMPSON                 Abortion is one of those subjects that separates the men from the boys, as it were. It is a subject that is difficult to consider and becomes even more difficult when the information is explicit in its presentation.                 The issue has gotten great attention in the Montana Legislature as that state has been hearing a series of pro-life bills — especially House Bill 721, which would ban dismemberment abortions that kill nearly fully formed, second-trimester unborn babies. The procedure would kill those unborn babies by pulling them apart while still alive and removing the body, in pieces, from the womb. (See Micaiah Bilger’s article on these developments in LifeNews.com of March 29, 2023.)                 Interestingly,…Continue Reading

Holy Week 2,000 Years Later… Followers Of Christ Still Persecuted, Along With Donald Trump

April 8, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Holy Week 2,000 Years Later… Followers Of Christ Still Persecuted, Along With Donald Trump

By DEXTER DUGGAN A video of people running to escape down a springtime village street, some wearing robes and carrying crosses about four or five feet long. The accompanying April 4 article in the major Madrid daily El Pais said a Holy Week reenactment of Jesus and Simon of Cyrene, who helped the Lord carry His cross, was under siege. The person playing Jesus and other participants were on the run from the enforcers of the far-left Sandinista government of Nicaragua. The article was headlined that Sandinista dictator “Daniel Ortega’s Police Hunt Nazarenes on the Streets of Nicaragua.” It said that religious observances were to be confined to churches and their immediate surroundings, even though “[t]he Holy Week processions are…Continue Reading

An Easter Reflection… The Fire At Notre Dame

April 7, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on An Easter Reflection… The Fire At Notre Dame

By HARLEY PRICE (Editor’s Note: This article is based on one of the 46 essays in Price’s new book, Give Speech a Chance: Heretical Essays on What You Can’t Say or Even Think, available from fgfbooks.com and amazon.) + + + Like a multitude of others, apparently, I was taken aback by the intensity of my reaction to the news of the fire at Notre Dame in Paris in 2019, which broke out, as it happened, at the beginning of Holy Week. Until it was ascertained that the great rose windows in the transepts and west front had been spared, Mrs. P. and I were on what was rather like a death vigil for an old friend. The 13th-century rose…Continue Reading

You Don’t Have To Be German… To Defy Humanae Vitae

April 6, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on You Don’t Have To Be German… To Defy Humanae Vitae

By CHRISTOPHER MANION As dissident voices in the fringes of the Church become more vocal, some welcome responses have emerged in defense of the fundamental truths of the Faith regarding marriage, the family, and children. “Synodality” has been a big thing for a while, and three years ago we reported on the “summary” of suggestions heard at “synodal” meetings held throughout the country. On prominent passage of that document expressed the “hope for a welcoming Church,” one that would “desire to accompany, with authenticity,…our LGBTQ+ brothers and sisters.” George Cardinal Mueller, the former head of the Vatican Congregation for the Faith, would have nothing of it. In an interview on EWTN, he rejected the notion outright: “The aim of this…Continue Reading

Bringing Our Values Back

April 5, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Bringing Our Values Back

By DEACON MIKE MANNO                 My little office in which I write this column has a nice window next to me through which I can see my front yard, the street in front of my house, as well as the plants and trees that inhabit my property. At least I think it’s my property; I haven’t checked with that place on TV that will tell me for sure. But I digress, maybe I can check later.                 Right now, I’m just enjoying a beautiful spring day through the window pane. Of course, it’s not warm out there; in Iowa spring comes wearing a winter coat. But it will get better, leaves will appear on my tree, and there will come…Continue Reading

Murders At Nashville Christian School… Ferocity From The Swamp Where Dem Party Chooses To Dwell

April 4, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Murders At Nashville Christian School… Ferocity From The Swamp Where Dem Party Chooses To Dwell

By DEXTER DUGGAN Fox News wouldn’t be regarded as a big admirer of Joe Biden, but it cut to the White House for a statement by him where he had been scheduled to greet a gathering for the Women’s Business Summit. A routine Biden ceremony wouldn’t receive that sort of Fox News attention, but he was expected to deliver remarks now on the shocking homicidal attack against a Christian elementary school in Nashville a little earlier on March 27. A Fox News “Alert” notice swept across the screen. Instead, Biden began with his customary jokes about being Dr. Jill Biden’s husband (at least, he didn’t say once again that Kamala Harris is president of the U.S.) and his love of…Continue Reading