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In Brilliant Sunshine And Biting Cold . . . MCCL March Draws Thousands Of Hopeful Pro-Lifers

January 30, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on In Brilliant Sunshine And Biting Cold . . . MCCL March Draws Thousands Of Hopeful Pro-Lifers

By PEGGY MOEN ST. PAUL — The night before the Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life rally at the state capitol, I watched EWTN’s coverage of the January 21 national March for Life in D.C. Several commentators observed that this could be the last March, given pro-life hopes that the U.S. Supreme Court will strike down Roe in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case. A decision is expected by late June.I thought about that, already feeling nostalgic and thinking that it would be strange not to attend another March for Life after half a century.The next morning, however, I drove up to the Cathedral of St. Paul for the Prayer Service for Life. After crossing snowy, icy Selby Avenue…Continue Reading

Look Out — Here Comes The Tranny Tyranny

January 29, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Look Out — Here Comes The Tranny Tyranny

By CHRISTOPHER MANION During a home football game at Notre Dame Stadium in the late 1960s, an unscheduled event was featured at halftime. In those days, games didn’t take 4 1/2 hours, most of that filled with endless TV advertising breaks. Halftime was 30 minutes long, and it went pretty fast, given the required trips downstairs from the seats to the quick-run stands and other facilities at Gate 14.Games starting at 1:30 generally ended before 3:30, and the rest of the afternoon was spent wandering around campus, listening to the band playing on the porch of Sorin Hall, and in later years, lingering at the tailgate parties, a tradition pioneered by my sister Marilyn in the 1950s.On weekends — especially…Continue Reading

I Need A Drink…While You Fix My Car

January 28, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on I Need A Drink…While You Fix My Car

By JOE SIXPACK An odd way of thinking has crept into the minds of Catholics over the last 45 or 50 years . . . one that is decidedly not Catholic. Actually, there are several philosophies most certainly not Catholic that have gained ground in our thinking in recent decades, but there is one we should all find disturbing because it has eternal implications.The thinking I’m talking about here is what happens immediately after our death; that is, the four last things: death, judgment, Heaven, and Hell. Traditionally we refer to only these as the four last things, but they actually imply much more — as is the case with a summary of most of the Church’s teaching.Just so you…Continue Reading

Archbishop Viganò Vs. The Novus Ordo Liturgy

January 27, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Archbishop Viganò Vs. The Novus Ordo Liturgy

By FR. BRIAN W. HARRISON, OS Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former papal Nuncio to the United States, has been for the last three-and-a-half years a courageous voice speaking out against moral, financial, and doctrinal corruption at very high levels on the Catholic Church. However, in recent times he has unfortunately made some increasingly exaggerated and unfair attacks on the reformed post-Vatican II liturgy (the Novus Ordo), and against Vatican Council II itself. Unfortunately, this is having the effect of seriously diminishing his stature and credibility at the very time when the Church most needs judicious and well-balanced criticisms of the current crisis coming from highly placed prelates such as His Excellency.A recent example is Archbishop Viganò’s response to the new…Continue Reading

Alice Von Hildebrand, 1923-2022: A Personal Remembrance

January 26, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Alice Von Hildebrand, 1923-2022: A Personal Remembrance

By JAMES MONTI The passing of Dr. Alice von Hildebrand on January 14, 2022 is a loss that touches the lives of so many that it is rightly eliciting a wave of wonderful tributes to what this very faithful daughter of the Church achieved in the service of God during a life spanning nearly ninety-nine years. What I would like to add to this great chorus of gratitude to “Dame Alice” is something far more modest, my own personal memories of this “valiant woman” (Proverbs 31:10, Latin Vulgate) who championed the faith with all her heart in a world hostile to truth.It was in the late spring of 2018 when Dr. von Hildebrand had suffered a health crisis from an…Continue Reading

A Beacon Of Light… Marriage — The Sacrament Of Service To Each Other

January 25, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on A Beacon Of Light… Marriage — The Sacrament Of Service To Each Other

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.) + + There are two sacraments devoted to service. The Sacraments of Marriage and Holy Orders are ordered toward the service of others. Today we will discuss the Sacrament of Marriage.The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines marriage as: “The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life, is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of…Continue Reading

Mea Culpa And Navy Seals

January 24, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Mea Culpa And Navy Seals

By DEACON MIKE MANNO I’m a bigot.Yes, it must be true and I’m as surprised as you are. But alas, I’m trying to come to grips with my own white supremacy.In my defense I don’t live in a compound, I’m not a member of any conspiracy group, I don’t fly the Confederate flag, and I don’t have a cache of weapons hidden in my basement.And once in a while I take the American flag down and fly a team flag for an important game. Had it up for the Eagles, but I had to put it at half-staff after the game.But, of course, if 52 U.S. senators can be bigots, I guess I could be one, too; but no one…Continue Reading

Alice Von Hildebrand . . . The Passing Of A Legendary Catholic Woman And Scholar

January 23, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Alice Von Hildebrand . . . The Passing Of A Legendary Catholic Woman And Scholar

By PEGGY MOEN Early in the morning of January 14, John Henry Crosby, president and founder of the Hildebrand Project, emailed to us and others a “Farewell to Alice von Hildebrand (1923-2022).” It read:“With sadness suffused by joy, I write to share that our beloved friend and sister Alice von Hildebrand went home to the Lord at 12:25 a.m. this morning. She died peacefully at home after a brief illness.“Those who knew Lily often heard her say that the wick of her candle was growing ever shorter. In fact, she yearned for death — to see the face of Our Lord, to be reunited at last with her husband Dietrich, her parents, her dearest friend Madeleine Stebbins — with the…Continue Reading

The Hard Slog Gets Longer

January 22, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on The Hard Slog Gets Longer

By CHRISTOHER MANION Five years ago this week, Vice-President Joe Biden could have made a graceful exit from public life as the Obama-Biden administration drifted quietly into history.He didn’t, and today, one year into his presidency, his increasingly ungraceful performance bears all the marks of a bitter failure.This has caused a historic drop in Biden’s polls, prompting many Republicans to indulge in prognostications that are typical of even-numbered years in the U.S. election cycle.They cheer as over two dozen Democrat members of the House of Representatives announced their retirements, with more coming every week. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy talks about what he’ll do as Speaker a year from now — whom he will appoint to chair key committees, what…Continue Reading

Take My Son…

January 21, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Take My Son…

BY JOE SIXPACK I got the following in an email from a Joe Sixpack reader the other day, and I liked it so much I thought it should be shared with all of you:A wealthy man and his son loved to collect rare works of art. They had everything in their collection, from Picasso to Raphael. They would often sit together and admire the great works of art.When the Vietnam conflict broke out, the son went to war. He was very courageous and died in battle while rescuing another soldier. The father was notified and grieved deeply for his only son.About a month later, just before Christmas, there was a knock at the door. A young man stood at the…Continue Reading