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On Evangelization

April 1, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on On Evangelization

By JOE SIXPACK One of our two primary obligations is to share the faith. I get a real kick out of watching people’s reaction when I tell them that. You’d think I just told them they have to go into a terrorist camp and take out all the camp occupants with a broken, rusty bladed pocket knife and no backup. The idea of having to share the Catholic faith with other people is the stuff nightmares are made of for most folks.Evangelization is really not that difficult. Even if you’re a complete wallflower, you can still play a role in evangelization. I’ll save the various means of evangelization for next week, but for now I want to talk about just…Continue Reading

Judging In The Judiciary Committee

March 31, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Judging In The Judiciary Committee

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY When Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota questioned Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing on Tuesday afternoon, March 22, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont proved they have something in common in addition to being members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.Neither of them was in the hearing room.Yet that did not necessarily make them outliers on the committee.A number of senators on the committee did not stay in the room to personally witness Klobuchar’s questioning of Jackson.Democratic Senators Dianne Feinstein of California and Cory Booker of New Jersey were also out of the room. So, too, were Republican Senators Mike Lee of Utah, Josh…Continue Reading

Would Putin’s Death Solve It All?

March 30, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Would Putin’s Death Solve It All?

By CHRISTOPHER MANION “Is there a Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military? The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out” — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), March 3, 2022.“People are watching these images, alright, they’re seeing what’s happening there, and people being murdered and suffering, and it makes you angry, and you want something to happen. And you reach the conclusion, ‘oh wouldn’t it be great if someone internally just took this guy and eliminated it?’” — Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.), March 6, 2022.It always happens in war. Where truth and facts are always at a premium — and they always are — sentiment…Continue Reading

A Beacon Of Light . . . Teacher, What Must I Do To Have Eternal Life?

March 29, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on A Beacon Of Light . . . Teacher, What Must I Do To Have Eternal Life?

By FR. RICHARD D. BRETON JR. (Editor’s Note: Fr. Richard D. Breton Jr. is a priest of the Diocese of Norwich, Conn. He received his BA in religious studies and his MA in dogmatic theology from Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, Conn.) + + We begin by posing the following question: “Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?” The next section of the Catechism explains the importance of the Ten Commandments, not as tough laws we must follow, but as a way of life. The young man in the Gospel recognizes the necessity of doing “good deeds” to have eternal life.Jesus answers first by invoking the necessity to recognize God as the “One who…Continue Reading

Truck Of Horrors

March 28, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Truck Of Horrors

By DEACON MIKE MANNO I remember as a kid many of us would wait expectantly for the regular visit from the ice cream man. As soon as we heard the bells from the truck, and sometimes the music it was playing, we would stop what we were doing and run to the front yard and wave the truck down.Of course that was back in the day when it was safe to play outdoors all day, with our only curfew being when the street lights were lit, and our main concern was how many nickels and dimes were in our pockets so we might be able to get the really big bar.Unfortunately, many of those trucks have been retired now, and…Continue Reading

We Are Cutting Ourselves Off At The Roots

March 27, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on We Are Cutting Ourselves Off At The Roots

By DONALD DeMARCO C.S. Lewis received a complimentary copy of a textbook intended for “boys and girls in the upper forms of school.” He was grateful for the gift but found the philosophy contained therein sufficiently unsound and potentially damaging to students that he wrote The Abolition of Man as a corrective.The egregious error that the authors made is that they denied man’s natural and spontaneous response to a world they did not create. For example, they state that when a person refers to a beautiful waterfall as sublime, he is not making a remark about the waterfall, but only his own feelings — “I have sublime feelings.” In this way, the authors deny the human capacity to make realistic…Continue Reading

Child Porn? Biden Nominee Says No Big Deal

March 26, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Child Porn? Biden Nominee Says No Big Deal

By CHRISTOPHER MANION “I’ll appoint the first Black woman to the Court. It’s required that they have representation now — it’s long overdue,” Joe Biden announced during the presidential debates in March 2020.Even before Biden took office, the pro-abortion Left began hounding former Ted Kennedy staff director and Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. “Retire,” they shouted. “Make way for a younger pro-abortion Biden appointee!”Breyer announced his retirement in January, and in Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Biden’s nominee to replace him, they have found their hero. Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey is “settled law,” she told the Senate Committee on the Judiciary during her confirmation hearings this week. She cited similar observations by Justices Kavanaugh and Barrett, although…Continue Reading

On Becoming A Saint

March 25, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on On Becoming A Saint

By JOE SIXPACK Jesus told us in Matt. 5:48, “You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” You’ll notice by the language He used that this isn’t a suggestion, but a command by His use of the word must. He didn’t say it’s a goal to shoot for. He didn’t tell us to give it that old college try. He said we must become perfect. How perfect? As perfect as God the Father. And how perfect is God the Father? Infinitely perfect!Is it possible to become perfect? You bet! Perfection is the very definition of sainthood. All of the saints were perfect by the time they died. They perhaps didn’t achieve absolute perfection until they went through…Continue Reading

The “Loneliness” Of Our Lady: A Spanish Passiontide Tradition

March 24, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on The “Loneliness” Of Our Lady: A Spanish Passiontide Tradition

By JAMES MONTI In his book, Jaws of Death: Gate of Heaven, Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889-1977) describes in a most compelling manner the unparalleled sorrow of losing “a beloved person” to death. Visualizing what it is for a husband to lose his beloved wife, von Hildebrand writes:“Her eyes are closed, motionless. She has ceased to speak. Communication with her has become completely impossible. She cannot hear my voice, nor can I gaze into her eyes or strain to hear her voice. Her body is cold. The very hands that responded to my touch are lifeless. Her body is then committed to the earth, and I am surrounded by a dreadful emptiness, an unspeakable desolation” (Jaws of Death: Gate of Heaven,…Continue Reading

Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic . . . Trudeau’s Response To Canadian Truckers And The Implications For Civil Liberties

March 23, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic . . . Trudeau’s Response To Canadian Truckers And The Implications For Civil Liberties

By STEPHEN M. KRASON Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s response to the recent truckers’ protest had the ring of authoritarianism. Although firm governmental action in response to the truck blockades at crossing points into the U.S. may have been justified — actually, these mostly ended peacefully with the truckers agreeing to pull back — the action against the truckers’ protest in the capital of Ottawa pursuant to Trudeau’s invoking the Emergencies Act was excessive. Some actions of the police — carried out after a new Ottawa police chief ready to do Trudeau’s bidding was installed — bordered on brutality.The Emergencies Act was enacted to deal with wartime dangers or violent rebellion, not a peaceful protest like this one. It was…Continue Reading