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The Spirituality Of The Traditional Latin Mass

August 2, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on The Spirituality Of The Traditional Latin Mass

By JAMES MONTI In the course of each day, in the course of each hour, the single most important event that unfolds upon the face of the Earth is the celebration of Mass. It is first and foremost the re-presentation of the supreme sacrifice of Our Lord on Calvary for the salvation of the world, but also the ultimate means by which man responds to the unfathomable riches of Christ by offering to God the utmost worship and praise. This is true of every validly celebrated Mass.Yet it is likewise true that how the Mass is celebrated can make a considerable difference in just how efficaciously our souls will respond to the unfathomable riches of the Mass. This is precisely…Continue Reading

A Beacon Of Light… Faith In The Midst Of Chaos

August 1, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on A Beacon Of Light… Faith In The Midst Of Chaos

By FR. RICHARD D. BRETON, Jr. Today’s world is filled with so much confusion and chaos. There are times when people feel lost. Lost, because they don’t know where to turn or in whom they can find solace. Loneliness and depression are often the results of the chaos and confusion that exist in today’s world, and sadly, this often leads to untimely deaths or even suicide. The world is lost and is misguided in the liberal ideologies that have destroyed the moral compass of society. The “new compass” of society leads to only one place: selfishness!With this in mind, I want to focus on the parable of the Lost Coin. This parable is found in St. Luke’s Gospel: “Or suppose…Continue Reading

The Abortion Wars: Who’s Violent And Who’s Not?

July 31, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on The Abortion Wars: Who’s Violent And Who’s Not?

By DEACON MIKE MANNO Last month an online publication, Rewire News Group, published an article, “Anti-Abortion and Fascist Violence Are One and the Same,” by Garnet Henderson. Speaking of abortion clinics, the first sentence of the article sets the tone: “How can clinics stay safe as the anti-abortion movement — with its deep ties to white supremacy and Christian nationalism — becomes more aggressive?”Ms. Henderson goes on in her article conflating abortion protests, those protesters that enter abortion clinics, such as Red Rose Rescue, the January 6 riots, and true acts of violence against abortion clinics, such as the well-known abortion clinic bombings in the 1980s and suggests that they are all related to white supremacy and gun violence:“Given the…Continue Reading

Missing In Action . . . Who Displaced America’s Traditions And Replaced Them With Opposites?

July 30, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Missing In Action . . . Who Displaced America’s Traditions And Replaced Them With Opposites?

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — It had been your dream to open an Italian restaurant in honor of your mother. You succeeded and everything went fine. Pleased customers spread the word and brought in more business for you.One day you hired a new head cook who suggested more Italian dishes to add to the menu, which you thought was a good idea. Business increased again. Then the cook proposed that you expand your appeal further by offering people books to read while they ate. He could set up a few shelves of volumes by the front door. You doubted doing this but figured it wouldn’t hurt to humor him.Every week, it seemed, he added some more books to the shelves.…Continue Reading

Happy Birthday, Humanae Vitae

July 29, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Happy Birthday, Humanae Vitae

By CHRISTOPHER MANION Humanae Vitae turned 55 this July, but the controversy surrounding it began long before its promulgation in 1968. And there, once again, we find the University of Notre Dame and its president, Fr. Theodore Hesburgh, CSC, at the center of the story.On Laetare Sunday, March 20, 1966, Fr. Hesburgh conferred the University’s Laetare Medal on Patty and Pat Crowley, a Catholic couple from Chicago who had founded the Christian Family Movement (CFM) in 1949.The Medal, which Notre Dame describes as “The Most Prestigious Award Given to American Catholics,” has been conferred on various luminaries since 1883. Among past awardees are John F. Kennedy, Ed Muskie, Tip O’Neill, Joe Biden, and Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr.The…Continue Reading

In Illinois… Forced Rentals For Illegals

July 28, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on In Illinois… Forced Rentals For Illegals

By BARBARA SIMPSON Anyone who has paid any attention at all to the situation at our Southern border, knows that we, as American citizens, have a great problem with people entering this country illegally and taking advantage of the benefits due to American citizens.There are millions of them, and we have no idea where they are or what they are doing. It seems as though every day the situation gets worse, depending on how you look at it.The latest that I saw deals with the state of Illinois and how it interprets its Human Rights Act. There is a new law in the state which deals with landlords and their rights to rent or sell their properties.The new law is…Continue Reading

A Book Review… The True And Timeless England

July 27, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on A Book Review… The True And Timeless England

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY Faith of Our Fathers: A True History of England by Joseph Pearce: Ignatius Press, 2023; Ignatius.com. Joseph Pearce’s Faith of our Fathers: A True History of England, is a fascinating and informative survey of the history and literature of England — the ancient Albion — in the light of the Catholic faith, with a view to discovering the “True and Timeless England,” of which figures like Alfred the Great, St. Edward the Confessor, St. Thomas More, Shakespeare, and St John Henry Newman, are the best exemplars.The book begins with the idea expressed in William Blake’s poem, Jerusalem, that according to legend, the Christ Child came to England with St. Joseph of Arimathea. While, as Pearce says,…Continue Reading

You Think It’s Hot Here?… Limitless God Sets Limits On What Badly Sinful Leaders Get Away With

July 26, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on You Think It’s Hot Here?… Limitless God Sets Limits On What Badly Sinful Leaders Get Away With

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Mid-July’s heat wave blazing in locations around the globe including Phoenix recalled one day and night I spent in Death Valley’s Furnace Creek, Calif., which reportedly had set marks for the highest recorded daytime, ground-surface and nighttime temperatures in the world — although none of these at the time I was there.Other locations never went as high as 134 degrees (Furnace Creek) or 122 degrees (Phoenix), but people elsewhere still knew how enveloping high-pressure systems made them feel.I was in a group making a walk to call attention to the pro-life cause more than 40 years ago. And we spent the night in a modern, Western-style hotel at Furnace Creek with a breakfast buffet, not…Continue Reading

Hooray For Hollywood

July 25, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Hooray For Hollywood

By CHRISTOPHER MANION The current labor unpleasantness in the film and media industries is nothing new. It calls to mind how strikes, rumors of strikes, and similar union operations work on the ground.Fifty years ago, I was working my way through grad school as a roadhouse musician when the South Bend Country Club asked me if I’d be interested in entertaining at a private party on St. Patrick’s Day.As a loyal Son of the Old Sod, I quickly agreed.But members of the local musicians union — as I recall, the “American Federation Of Musicians” — were not my big fans, because I performed as a single act and was I was making more than any of their members were, so…Continue Reading

Defamation By The Defamers

July 24, 2023 Frontpage Comments Off on Defamation By The Defamers

By DEACON MIKE MANNO There are two interesting defamation lawsuits working their way through the judicial system that become interesting in whom each names as a defendant; in both cases it is someone who holds themselves up as the pure anti-hate people.One involves an old favorite punching-bag of ours, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and the other is the attorney general of the state of New York, Letitia James.The SPLC, as you may recall, was once an honored civil rights organization that was in the forefront of equal protection under the law. Sometime after the enactment of strong civil rights legislation — on both state and federal levels — followed by favorable results from the courts, the organization turned…Continue Reading