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Academic Racism?

August 23, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Academic Racism?

By DEACON MIKE MANNO When a bill is passed by Congress or a state legislature, the president or the state governor usually hosts a public signing ceremony. It is, of course, a way to get some good publicity for the executive — “See, I’m getting stuff done for you” — and it gets their names mentioned, mostly favorably, in the news.That’s what happens most of the time. I suppose there are times when an executive is signing something very controversial where the signing is done behind closed doors, sometimes in the dead of the night, hidden in darkness. Those times are few and far between, but they do raise questions about what the legislation being signed into law really does.This…Continue Reading

Hope To Cast Him From White House . . . Will An Insider Be Brave To Reveal Some Secret On Declining Biden?

August 22, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Hope To Cast Him From White House . . . Will An Insider Be Brave To Reveal Some Secret On Declining Biden?

By DEXTER DUGGAN Will Joe Biden and his teammates including Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi have stepped aside or been removed from their posts by about the time you read this? That may be too optimistic a hope for the beginning of the restoration of the United States. However, other recent major events have moved quickly.To sweep these bad political players from the board, all it would take is for whistleblowers to reveal disastrously damaging evidence from behind the scenes about the machinations and embarrassments in the daily flow of the cognitively impaired, immoral government head and his enablers.Even more so than previously, the 78-year-old bad Catholic prez seemed to have trouble getting through the hours without turning to covert…Continue Reading

Abortion Industry Leader Attacked For Truth-Telling

August 21, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Abortion Industry Leader Attacked For Truth-Telling

By CHRISTOPHER MANION On July 16, 2019, Dr. Leana Wen, president of Planned Parenthood, was fired from her position by what she called a “secret meeting” of the organization’s Board of Directors.The group’s public explanation focused on her inadequate management skills.Wen replied that she left due to “philosophical differences over the direction and future of Planned Parenthood.” The organization wanted to prioritize abortion care while she wanted to advocate for a “broad range of public health policies,” she said.Ho-hum? Maybe not. Because just eleven days before being fired, Wen had written an op-ed for The Washington Post in which she disclosed that she had recently suffered a miscarriage that was “devastating in a way that I couldn’t have anticipated.”And now,…Continue Reading

Jimmy And Carrying The Cross

August 20, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Jimmy And Carrying The Cross

By JOE SIXPACK Jimmy was a twelve-year-old boy, ordinarily good and obedient to his parents. But one afternoon his mother told him he couldn’t go swimming. Jimmy went swimming anyway, and his mother found out. When Jimmy returned, his mother told him how disappointed she was over his disobedience. Jimmy told her he was sorry, and that he wouldn’t do it again.His mother said, “Well, Jimmy, I forgive your disobedience, but I still have to punish you. You can’t ride your bike for a week.”Jimmy thought of a way to cut down his punishment. After dinner, he offered to dry the dishes for his mother. This was very unusual, if you knew Jimmy. His mother saw right through the plan,…Continue Reading

Siren Song Of Technology . . . If Temptation Weren’t Alluring, No One Would Bother To Buy It

August 19, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Siren Song Of Technology . . . If Temptation Weren’t Alluring, No One Would Bother To Buy It

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — The hugely best-selling twentieth-century novelist Taylor Caldwell wrote with a religious sensitivity of complex moral situations. Her own rambunctious life was an example not to be emulated at every turn.She portrayed a visit by the devil as that of a charming fellow, not a filthy demon. After all, if temptation were repellent, who would fall for it? Eating the apple in the Garden of Eden supposedly offered great wisdom, not the awful expulsion from Paradise. The serpent hadn’t signed the businessmen’s pledge for truth in advertising.During the same recent day that I happened to recall this tale of temptation’s empty allurement, I later had an experience that served as a reminder of its daunting reality.This…Continue Reading

Brighter Days Ahead For The Gospel of Life?

August 18, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Brighter Days Ahead For The Gospel of Life?

By CHRISTOPHER MANION Dr. Janet Smith, distinguished professor of theology and one of America’s most valiant defenders of Humanae Vitae, sat down with us recently at the Population Research Institute’s Humanae Vitae Project.How is the encyclical doing after 53 years?The good news is, the worst is behind us, “For the most part, it’s been ignored by the priests and the hierarchy over the years,” Dr. Smith reports. And that means that many among the laity have never heard of it.Why? “They haven’t been taught by the priests and the hierarchy.”Nonetheless, Dr. Smith senses the promise of a revival of the Church’s teaching on family, sex, and marriage.On the practical level alone, many women now realize that the pill is an abortifacient,…Continue Reading

A Beacon Of Light… The Popes And True Love Waits

August 17, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on A Beacon Of Light… The Popes And True Love Waits

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.) + + As of the publishing of this article, I am away on a much-needed vacation. Because of the need to get this column in early, I have decided to share with you a homily I preached to a group of young people participating in a program called True Love Waits. These young people ranged in age from eighth grade through high school.The True Love Waits Program has been offered in many of the parishes of…Continue Reading

Behind The Grisly Pitt Panther

August 16, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Behind The Grisly Pitt Panther

By DEACON MIKE MANNO I don’t know if I speak for everyone, but I do think that most of us take pride in the institutions from which we have graduated. That may be a little more difficult when one of those institution is a Jesuit college, but I manage and hope that you do, too.And like many of you I happily wear T-shirts and sweatshirts emblazoned with their names and images of their mascot — yes, even the blue jay!Anyway I thought of that this morning when I read from several sources that the University of Pittsburgh would like to become the distribution hub for fetal parts. I don’t know what kind of mascot it has for that, but I…Continue Reading

But The Mighty Can Fall Quickly . . . Some In GOP Join Senate Dems, Shoving Through Biden’s War On U.S.

August 15, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on But The Mighty Can Fall Quickly . . . Some In GOP Join Senate Dems, Shoving Through Biden’s War On U.S.

By DEXTER DUGGAN It was Anti-Christmas in August courtesy of the U.S. Congress’ Satan Clause, the wicked eternal elf all covered with soot that wasn’t off a chimney wall. He was whipping along a team of gargoyles with names including Fancy Nancy and Blurry Biden pulling a spiky sleigh of prickly gifts that you pay to receive. Blurry, it was said, couldn’t find his own nose in a firestorm.The gifts? The current ruinously expensive spending legislation that you never requested and that only benefits the sleigh driver’s family of political demons.And his clause? You can’t sleep, breathe, medicate, or eat without permission from his massive bureaucracy workshop along the turgid Pole-tomac. Permission to sleep? Better ask if it’s for lying…Continue Reading

Democrats Borrow $5 Trillion From Our Grandchildren

August 14, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Democrats Borrow $5 Trillion From Our Grandchildren

By CHRISTOPHER MANION Democrats hate Trump so hard it hurts.To feel better, they’ve just borrowed $5,000,000,000,000 from your grandchildren to pass out to their cronies, all of whom hate you.They’ve done so much for you, and you’re ungrateful!So they’ve decided not to pay back the loan.That sums up current legislative agenda of the Democrat Party. And in a classic show of ingratitude, nineteen Senate Republicans cheered them on and joined them in passing the trillion-dollar “Infrastructure” bill.By the way, adjusted for inflation, that “loan” amounts to more than the total cost of the U.S. participation in the Second World War. And Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) claims that the total amount Democrats want to spend is closer to $9.5 trillion.Archbishop…Continue Reading