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A Beacon Of Light… Celebrate God’s Beauty During Advent

December 6, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on A Beacon Of Light… Celebrate God’s Beauty During Advent

By FR. RICHARD D. BRETON Jr. (Editor’s Note: Fr. Richard D. Breton Jr. is a priest of the Diocese of Norwich, Conn.) + + Advent is a season of anticipation in preparation to celebrate the beauty of the Incarnation. Through the Incarnation God’s love was made visible in the face of the Baby Jesus. Today, however, the existence of this “God-given beauty” is very much shrouded by the divisions plaguing society. When the fundamental issues surrounding the dignity of human life are no longer considered important, there exists an erosion of the beauty of God’s creation.This erosion, sadly, has found its way into the hearts of so many and is ruinous to society as a whole. Our ability to see…Continue Reading

Digging Up Vote Ideas From The Dead? . . . Arrogant Elites Insist On Their Way

December 5, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Digging Up Vote Ideas From The Dead? . . . Arrogant Elites Insist On Their Way

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Not bad work for a dead man.One of the current news items on November 30 at the website of metropolitan Phoenix’s KTAR Radio (92.3 FM) was headlined, “Former AG Grant Woods endorses Democratic candidate Tipirneni.”Considering that Woods died in 2021 and Hiral Tipirneni wasn’t a current congressional candidate, it was worth clicking on the headline to read more.The story said this former Arizona Republican attorney general was backing Tipirneni in her congressional bid against incumbent conservative Republican Cong. Debbie Lesko.And the date on the story was October 3, 2018.It must have been one of those strange errors you hear about sometimes, when a technician presses the wrong button and incorrect things happen, like resurrecting a…Continue Reading

Compassion . . . The Virtue That Is Most Misunderstood

December 4, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Compassion . . . The Virtue That Is Most Misunderstood

By DONALD DeMARCO Virtue is the moral strength to do the right thing under a variety of circumstances. Because it is admirable, it is also enviable. Thus, we have mercy killing, frontier justice, blind faith, and gracious living. The wise guy and the woman of easy virtue do not personify virtue. Vice pays tribute to virtue by wearing its name. Hence, virtue can be radically misunderstood and easily misused.Compassion seems to be on everyone’s lips these days. It is a beautiful sounding word and has an even more beautiful meaning. However, its proper meaning is stretched to the point where it includes what it does not mean. Compassion is the virtue that feels the pain and suffering of others. It…Continue Reading

Cardinal Zen’s Conviction Symbolizes Biden’s Capitulation

December 3, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Cardinal Zen’s Conviction Symbolizes Biden’s Capitulation

By CHRISTOPHER MANION Last Friday, November 23, a judge in Hong Kong ruled that Joseph Cardinal Zen, retired archbishop of Hong Kong, and five other defendants were guilty of failing to register a “protester relief fund,” now defunct, as a society. The defendants were fined between HK$2,500 and HK$4,000 (USD $300 – $500) each.Was justice done? I recall a passage from Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago: “The judge knows what verdict to give. Often he has already received a written order to give it. If he doesn’t know, he has a telephone. . . .”Pope Francis had signaled his own view in advance of the proceedings. “Cardinal Zen is going to trial these days, I think. And he says what he feels, and…Continue Reading

The GOP’s Hunter Biden Probe Is Legit

December 2, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on The GOP’s Hunter Biden Probe Is Legit

By DAVID HARSANYI As a tactical concern, the House GOP’s decision to open an investigation into Biden family corruption is questionable. It promises limited political return. It would serve Republicans, and the country, far better if the House focused on a hyper-politicized Justice Department that targets the political opposition, labels concerned parents “domestic terrorists,” and ignores violence aimed at pregnancy centers, for starters.None of that, however, means there isn’t sufficient circumstantial evidence suggesting President Joe Biden not only lied about knowing his son was favor-trading on the family name with corrupt autocracies but that he was a beneficiary of those business dealings. Indeed, precedent says we Republicans have a duty to “democracy” to investigate. Yet Greg Sargent over at The…Continue Reading

The Eternal Purity Of Heaven

December 1, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on The Eternal Purity Of Heaven

The Eternal Purity Of Heaven By JAMES MONTI God created man to be pure of heart; Adam and Eve came forth from the hand of God with pure hearts. And as they first gazed into each other’s eyes with love as the first husband and wife in human history, they did so with pure and chaste souls. It was their subsequent fall that changed everything; for no sooner had they disobeyed God by eating the forbidden fruit than the sight of each other no longer brought peace, for “they knew that they were naked” (Gen. 3:7).This did not go unnoticed by Satan; he knew that he now had a mighty weapon for leading souls to Hell, the temptation to lust.…Continue Reading

Serious Vote Problems In Arizona . . . Raise Question Of How Wide Were Similar Messes Elsewhere

November 30, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Serious Vote Problems In Arizona . . . Raise Question Of How Wide Were Similar Messes Elsewhere

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Questions about election integrity that stretched across the United States and even down to Brazil were embodied in the result of Arizona’s November 8 midterm elections, which were centered in scandal in the state’s most populous county, Maricopa.This was highlighted in the surprising alleged narrow loss of Arizona’s conservative Republican gubernatorial nominee, Kari Lake, to left-wing pro-abortion extremist Democrat Katie Hobbs.Lake, a dynamic and charismatic public speaker, was considered a national threat to leftist politics, a sort of female potential Gov. Ron DeSantis, of Florida. Hobbs, meanwhile, mainly sheepishly hid in her basement and absolutely refused to debate Lake even once.Even some liberal interviewers wondered how Hobbs thought she was ready to govern a state…Continue Reading

A Beacon of Light… Preparing For The Greatest Gift

November 29, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on A Beacon of Light… Preparing For The Greatest Gift

By FR. RICHARD D. BRETON JR. (Editor’s Note: Fr. Richard D. Breton Jr. is a priest of the Diocese of Norwich, Conn.) + + How many of us enjoy receiving gifts? Receiving a gift is another person’s way of showing their love or appreciation for us. But a gift can only be received, fully received, according to what is in the heart and soul of the one who receives it.That being said, this past Sunday we began the Season of Advent. Advent allows us to set aside some much needed time to prepare ourselves to receive the greatest gift ever. During the Advent Season we journey with John the Baptist who preaches a message urging us to prepare ourselves to…Continue Reading

Bits And Pieces

November 28, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Bits And Pieces

By DEACON MIKE MANNO Well, we’re on to Christmas having now survived the Midterm Elections and Thanksgiving, which sometimes turns out to be family bickering day if, in fact, siblings have now ended up on opposite political poles. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to solve the problem you may have with your pesky relatives who refuse to believe your logically particular ideology. I, at least, am satisfied that this column was able to duck political and legal issues for two weeks while we celebrated All Saints and Thanksgiving.But I can’t stay quiet about such things for too long, which is probably why my wife and I had to eat Thanksgiving dinner by ourselves. There’s not a whole lot I can…Continue Reading

Biden’s Border

November 27, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Biden’s Border

By BARBARA SIMPSON It’s hard to know just what to think about the whole issue of our border with Mexico. Some people — tongue in cheek, no doubt — even say there is no border because of the thousands of illegals who cross weekly. These people are not coming from Mexico — they are just using Mexico as their pathway to the U.S. border and entrance into our country. They are coming from countries all across the world — Cuba, Haiti, South America, and yes, even Asia.It’s estimated that there were at least 11.4 million illegal aliens in this country as of January 2018. Who knows what is it is now? According to a report in Breitbart, just last month,…Continue Reading