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The Malignant Virus Of “Invincible Ignorance”

September 11, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on The Malignant Virus Of “Invincible Ignorance”

By CHRISTOPHER MANION Again and again we hear the refrain.“Follow your conscience.”We know all too well that a poorly formed conscience can cheer on all sorts of malevolent mischief. The importance of conscience invites scrutiny of the formation of the conscience, and of the teaching which that formation imparts.When my hometown congressman, Notre Dame graduate Joe Donnelly, was dithering before the vote on Obamacare twelve years ago, he received a call from Fr. Ted Hesburgh, CSC. Fr. Hesburgh, prompted by Nancy Pelosi, had called to urge Donnelly to vote for Obamacare. He told the dithering Donnelly, “Just follow your conscience.”To no one’s surprise, Donnelly’s conscience had been quite ill-formed at Notre Dame, so he voted “Aye” in support of federal…Continue Reading

Miracles

September 10, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Miracles

By JOE SIXPACK Miracle: A surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency (Webster).Miracle: A sensibly perceptible effect, surpassing at least the powers of visible nature, produced by God to Witness to some truth or testify to someone’s sanctity (Modern Catholic Dictionary).Ours is a very cynical world. Because we live in a post-Christian era where God is not only no longer believed in but actually mocked, miracles are seen as phenomena that can’t be explained only because we lack the technology to fully understand certain laws of nature. This cynicism has affected the Christian world as well. Even among our separated Protestant brethren…Continue Reading

California Recall, Arizona Audit . . . Questions About Election Accuracy, Upcoming And Past

September 9, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on California Recall, Arizona Audit . . . Questions About Election Accuracy, Upcoming And Past

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Desperation about elections figured prominently in California and Arizona as September began.The possibility that black conservative Republican Larry Elder might replace white leftist Democrat and bad Catholic Gavin Newsom as governor in a recall election in politically left-wing, multiracial California set off alarm bells for Democrats who would do anything to defeat Elder.Meanwhile, Arizona’s Republican attorney general, Mark Brnovich, issued a sharp rebuke to his state’s Republican-majority Maricopa County Board of Supervisors. They had fought for months against the GOP-majority Arizona State Senate’s subpoenas requiring necessary information to complete its audit of the accuracy of 2020 election results. Brnovich said the supervisors had to comply with the order.On August 26 Brnovich issued an opinion determining…Continue Reading

Popular Cardinal Burke Has Seen Himself As A Servant

September 8, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Popular Cardinal Burke Has Seen Himself As A Servant

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX —- The outpouring of Mass intentions, prayerful wishes, good will, and concern for the recovery of Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke from COVID-19 might at least partly be due to the way he conducted himself with ordinary people during his rise to the cardinalate. They recognized a friend.Sohrab Ahmari, a New York Post opinion journalist and convert to Catholicism, said this in an appreciation of Burke by admirers posted August 20 at the Crisis Magazine site:“. . . it’s his fundamental gentility and decency that most touches the heart. So far from the caricature painted by the claque of philistines who cover Rome for the secular and Catholic press, this prince of the Church and son of…Continue Reading

A Beacon Of Light . . . Catholics Crave Authentic Teachings

September 7, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on A Beacon Of Light . . . Catholics Crave Authentic Teachings

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.) + + A few weeks ago I had a conversation with a parishioner who asked me this question, “Why have so many Catholics left the Church?” My answer to this question was: “Catholics don’t leave the Church; they simply stop coming! When we are baptized into the Catholic Church we are considered Catholics for life.” This short dialogue between a parishioner and myself caused me to bring this question to prayer. The answer was one I…Continue Reading

To Vax Or Not To Vax?

September 6, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on To Vax Or Not To Vax?

By DEACON MIKE MANNO The question of the hour: Do we vaccinate or not? And if not, what to expect?The answer to the second question is: Expect plenty, you will be treated like an outcast, accused of spreading the virus, and, in some quarters, called a murderer. And those are just the nice things they will say.That’s the state of things today. And it starts from a political calculation which is derived from critical theory: set the public against one another by accusing one side of suppressing the other. In this case it is the minority non-vaxers that are the threat to the now oppressed vaxed class.We’ve seen it with race (critical race theory), and now it might be called…Continue Reading

Biden Tucks His Tail On Afghans . . . But Phony Catholic Prez Ready And Roaring To War Against Texas Babies

September 5, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Biden Tucks His Tail On Afghans . . . But Phony Catholic Prez Ready And Roaring To War Against Texas Babies

By DEXTER DUGGAN If Joe Biden does as good a job for permissive abortion as he did for Afghanistan, abortion is doomed.Just think, as abortionists are rounded up by the hundreds to be jailed, Biden will give a talk at the White House congratulating himself for the great work he accomplished defending Roe v. Wade. Maybe have some Pentagon medal get pinned on his chest.The wording of an actual September 1 statement from the White House in Biden’s name said: “Today, Texas law S.B.8 went into effect. This extreme Texas law blatantly violates the constitutional right established under Roe v. Wade and upheld as precedent for nearly half a century.“The Texas law will significantly impair women’s access to the health…Continue Reading

A Beacon Of Light… The Lord, The Giver Of Life

September 5, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on A Beacon Of Light… The Lord, The Giver Of Life

By FR. RICHARD BRETON (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.) + + A few weeks ago, we began our current series dedicated to teaching the faith. To assist us in this responsibility, we have been journeying through the first section, or pillar, of the Catechism that deals with understanding the Creed. We gained a better understanding of the importance of believing in Someone, rather than in something. This opened our minds and hearts to a better appreciation of who God is in our lives, especially as Father and…Continue Reading

Biden Takes Responsibility — Sort Of

September 4, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Biden Takes Responsibility — Sort Of

By CHRISTOPHER MANION “Biden Has His Worst Week Yet.”The headline has become almost routine. Unfortunately, week after week, it’s been right.But never so right as it is today.Last Thursday, August 26, Joe Biden appeared at a crucial press conference addressing the suicide attack at the Kabul Airport. Hundreds were killed, including thirteen U.S. Service members.In a painfully scripted performance, Biden blamed Donald Trump, pretended to take responsibility, and then turned to “The first person I’ve been instructed to call on” at NBC News.Faced with the worst of his crises — all of them of his own making — Biden has talked tough, stiff-armed questions, and obeyed his nameless “instructors.” When he met family members of Service Members killed in Kabul,…Continue Reading

The Crash

September 3, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on The Crash

BY JOE SIXPACK One day, about half a lifetime ago, my five-year-old son was “helping” me perform regular maintenance on the fishing boat motor in the garage. He was handing daddy tools and asking tons of questions, as five-year-old boys do. Preparing to put in new spark plugs, I took the old ones out of the motor and dropped them into a pan on the floor. He asked, “Daddy, what are those things?”“They’re spark plugs.”“What do they do?”How on earth do you explain the workings of an internal combustion engine to a five year old? So for the sake of simplicity, I replied, “They make the motor go.”He picked up one of the old spark plugs and stood looking at…Continue Reading