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No Room In Inn For “Comfort And Joy”. . . Wisconsin Makes More National News, While Writer OKs Biden Defiance

November 28, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on No Room In Inn For “Comfort And Joy”. . . Wisconsin Makes More National News, While Writer OKs Biden Defiance

By DEXTER DUGGAN The last thing fun-seeking Wisconsin families would have thought of as they headed to a local Christmas parade the Sunday before Thanksgiving was destruction and death. But that’s the wild milieu of an unrestrained society that left-wing radicals have set loose around the world, including in some recent Christmas seasons.A maroon SUV driver raced down the street where the Waukesha, Wis., parade was in progress on the late afternoon of November 21, injuring dozens of adults and children, some critically. By November 23, a total of six died, including an eight-year-old boy. Police said the driver’s maneuvers showed he intended to hit people, then fled the scene.The Waukesha Chamber of Commerce had posted a page online to…Continue Reading

Where’s The Outrage?

November 27, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Where’s The Outrage?

By CHRISTOPHER MANION Bob Dole’s challenge during the last days of the 1996 presidential campaign echoes in the public memory. After rattling off a brief selection of the multitude of crimes committed by Bill and Hillary Clinton, he asked 100 million viewers of the last televised debate, “Can you imagine former President Bush doing one of those things? And you never imagine Bob Dole doing one of those things, either. So where’s the outrage?”To add another quarter-century of perspective to the question of the Senior Senator from Kansas, we turn to his predecessor as Senate Majority Leader, Tennessee’s Howard Baker, who famously quipped, “That door doesn’t swing both ways.”This past week Wisconsin has seen two classic illustrations of the Bob…Continue Reading

What Is Truth?

November 26, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on What Is Truth?

BY JOE SIXPACK What Is Truth was a number 3 song for the late Johnny Cash (RIP) in 1970. Even though I was just an adolescent (and this really tells my age), I knew he borrowed the title from a line out of the Gospel of St. John. This famous question came from an exchange between Jesus and Pontius Pilate at Jesus’ judgment.Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice.” Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” (John 18:37-38).Pilate was asking…Continue Reading

Remembering Dallas In 1963 . . . Thanksgiving A Blessing, But Not Always A Happy Time

November 25, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Remembering Dallas In 1963 . . . Thanksgiving A Blessing, But Not Always A Happy Time

By DEXTER DUGGAN The final months of every year have some of the best holidays, many people think, from Halloween to Christmas, and then New Year’s Day to turn over a new leaf.As the last month of 1941 arrived, Catholics looked forward to the Feast of St. Nicholas on December 6, the Immaculate Conception on December 8, Our Lady of Guadalupe on December 12, then Christmas.But just after the sainted early Christian bishop had returned to Earth to leave treats in children’s house shoes, the following morning of December 7 brought the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that thrust the United States into hostilities already underway elsewhere and turned the U.S. upside down through 1945, and longer.What did U.S.…Continue Reading

The Jesuit Who Didn’t Fit In

November 24, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on The Jesuit Who Didn’t Fit In

By CHRISTOPHER MANION The late Fr. Paul Mankowski, SJ, grew up in the 1960s a couple of miles from Notre Dame’s campus. He worked his way through the University of Chicago working in Gary’s steel mills, and joined the Jesuit order shortly after graduation. When I finally met him personally in Boston thirty years later, he was already a classically trained Scripture scholar (an expert on pre-Semitic languages with copious publications on philology). His random ruminations about the state of the clergy, the Church, and the secular world were a virtual fountain of precision in critique and hilarity.Fr. Mankowski died suddenly last fall — young, too young, in the somber view of his bereaving friends and admirers.Fr. Mankowski’s intellectual forays…Continue Reading

A Beacon Of Light… Who Celebrates The Liturgy?

November 23, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on A Beacon Of Light… Who Celebrates The Liturgy?

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.) + + Welcome back to our survey of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. In our previous articles, we learned how the liturgy connects us to the Blessed Trinity and how the liturgy is the dispensary, or economy, of salvation. In this way the meaning and the purpose of the liturgy have been revealed for us.As we move forward, today’s article will give us a deeper look into the sacraments themselves, especially what is common to…Continue Reading

Biden’s Truly Reckless Spending Will Likely Be His Undoing

November 22, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Biden’s Truly Reckless Spending Will Likely Be His Undoing

By NEIL PATEL (Editor’s Note: Please continue to pray for Mike Manno’s recovery and return to good health. In place of his usual column, we’re presenting a commentary by Neil Patel, cofounder of The Daily Caller, one of America’s fastest-growing online news outlets, which regularly breaks news and distributes it to over 15 million monthly readers. Patel also co-founded The Daily Caller News Foundation, a nonprofit news company that trains journalists, produces fact-checks, and conducts longer-term investigative reporting. Creators.com distributes Patel’s column.) + + News flash: Prices are going up. They are going up broadly across many products and services. And they are going up quickly. Inflation is here. It’s already bad, and there are many signs that it could…Continue Reading

Biden Tough Guys In Action . . . That Nighttime Knock On The Door Not A Friendly One For Conservatives

November 21, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Biden Tough Guys In Action . . . That Nighttime Knock On The Door Not A Friendly One For Conservatives

By DEXTER DUGGAN Sowing fear and resentment among Americans while treating lawbreaking aliens as kings and queens further disfigures the morally pockmarked Joe Biden administration.This leaves some observers to wonder how such a nefarious government could be trusted to keep its sneaky hands off preparations for the 2022 elections that could deprive Biden’s Democrats of their congressional majorities.Meanwhile, Biden’s predatory conduct on the secular front seems likely to grow bolder if he sees that even the Catholic bishops with a direct say over his religious behavior fail to name and confront his sacrileges. Predators smell fear.Those media that seek to avoid or minimize the severe disruption that Biden seeks to inflict should pay attention to Marxist lady Saule Omarova, his…Continue Reading

Bishops Approve Continued Desecration Of The Eucharist

November 20, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Bishops Approve Continued Desecration Of The Eucharist

By CHRISTOPHER MANION The USCCB’s fall meeting came and went in Baltimore, with no surprises. The assembled bishops at the Marriott Waterfront Hotel were admittedly daunted, and possibly haunted, by the recent publicity stunts featuring Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi and sponsored by Pope Francis, so their sellout on the much-maligned “weaponizing the Eucharist” charade was a done deal months ago. This week they voted to adopt without fanfare a document on the Eucharist, a ploy designed to deflect criticism for their doing nothing about it.Perhaps they were pondering the threat of Sen. Pat Leahy, the Catholic pro-abortion senator from Vermont. In 2007, Leahy told a reporter that “I’ve always thought that those bishops and archbishops who for decades hid…Continue Reading

The Level

November 19, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on The Level

By JOE SIXPACK A little boy was watching his father work as he was building a piece of furniture. The man was using a level to make certain the board he was planing was straight. The little boy thought this was fascinating, but also a lot of extra work.“What’s the use of being so careful, Dad? That board looks all right.”“Guessing won’t do when building furniture, Son,” his father explained. “You have to be spot-on; otherwise, your job will be a failure. Many people guess at too many things.”“What kind of things, Dad?”“At living the right way, for instance. They live the way they feel like living, and God doesn’t like that.”“We ought to have a level to live by,…Continue Reading