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May Catholics Attend Same-Sex Weddings?

March 18, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on May Catholics Attend Same-Sex Weddings?

By FR. BRIAN W. HARRISON, O.S. (LifeSiteNews) — Before we address the question posed in the title, another more familiar one comes to mind: May Catholics attend a family member’s heterosexual wedding if it’s known to be invalid? Some theologians argue that if the foreseeable result of not attending the wedding will be a definitive rupture with our loved one, then attendance is acceptable, provided we make our disagreement known to him or her in some way.More traditional theologians argue that even with that proviso, the very fact of attendance inevitably signals a message of “we’re-basically-OK-with-this” to the family member and everyone else present at the ceremony and subsequent festivities.One of the most respected moral theologians of recent times, the…Continue Reading

Mercy Sunday Around The Corner . . . Pastor Recalls How One Man Learned Of Its Emissary, St. Faustina

March 17, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Mercy Sunday Around The Corner . . . Pastor Recalls How One Man Learned Of Its Emissary, St. Faustina

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — A Phoenix pastor recalled that when he held a similar position at a Catholic church in suburban Mesa, Ariz., a man came to him bearing a letter from Phoenix Diocesan Bishop Thomas Olmsted, saying to take this man seriously.The man, a retired Scottsdale, Ariz., attorney, recounted that he had been on a cruise ship just pulling out of port in Florida when he “had a massive heart attack” that left him clinically dead, but responders brought him back to life, the pastor told a Zoom meeting of the Institute of Catholic Theology (ICT) here on March 6.Once he was in the hospital, the man, who had attended church only on Christmas and Easter, was visited…Continue Reading

A Beacon Of Light… Human Dignity And Jesus’ Example Of Selfless Love

March 16, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on A Beacon Of Light… Human Dignity And Jesus’ Example Of Selfless Love

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.) + + Continuing our Lenten journey, we have reached the base of Calvary. It is here we will reflect on the Tenth and Eleventh Stations. These two stations are uniquely connected because they both deal with human dignity.The battle rages on before us regarding the dignity of the human person. From the evils of abortion to the confusion on end-of-life issues and euthanasia, and everything in between, we have a duty to bring the Light of…Continue Reading

Back To The Classics… New York Governors And Scandal

March 15, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Back To The Classics… New York Governors And Scandal

By DEACON MIKE MANNO If you are a frequent, or even semi-frequent, reader of this column you know that I am a notorious history and political buff. Bring me a good story from history or politics and I’m an eager listener. That may be why I — like so many others — am intrigued by the stories surrounding that Emmy Award-winning governor of New York and bestselling author of American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic, which is currently an Editors’ Pick as “best nonfiction” on Amazon, Andrew Cuomo.It appears that all his greatness may be evaporating in the wake of a couple of, shall we say, missteps. Apparently, his fictional account of how he single-handedly battled the dreaded…Continue Reading

C’mon, Cave, Man . . . Will Declining Biden Keep Forcing His Primitive Policies on U.S.?

March 14, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on C’mon, Cave, Man . . . Will Declining Biden Keep Forcing His Primitive Policies on U.S.?

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Wearing tee-shirts that celebrate Joe Biden, the chief executive of the nation whose laws they’re defying by their invasion, illegal immigrants flooding into the United States will find paradox after paradox. There might as well be billboards at the border saying, “Welcome to the U.S., the country you’ll help to make more pagan.”How could this be when many of them come from mainly Catholic countries? Because bad Catholic Biden’s anti-Catholic Democrat Party, which eagerly lures them here, is counting on their upcoming votes to be cast in ignorance.Those votes for Democrat victories would mean maintaining and increasing their power to wage rabid culture war against traditional values.Start with this: Remember when the strong Democrat ally…Continue Reading

Grifting Too Far From The Shore

March 13, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Grifting Too Far From The Shore

By CHRISTOPHER MANION In the past years, The New York Times has criticized many among Trump’s family and supporters as “grifters,” a term which denotes folks who cash in while claiming to represent “high principle.”Of course, that’s a temptation that assails the multitude. Just look at Washington, where billions are made each year by graduates of Capitol Hill (both members and staffs) and the Deep State bureaucracy in their second careers, their profession discreetly described as “lobbying.”Lobbyists go to their former colleagues and agencies to secure legislation and taxpayer dollars for their clients. Who are their clients? They are “tax feeders” ranging from government contractors to foreign governments, especially the “pariah” countries. That group includes several African countries, Latin American…Continue Reading

He Practiced What He Preached

March 12, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on He Practiced What He Preached

By JOE SIXPACK The saintly Archbishop Gaspard Mermillod (1824-1892) of Geneva, Switzerland, had the good and pious custom of paying a last visit to the Blessed Sacrament every evening. He would then lock the doors to the cathedral for the night. Returning to the altar, he would make a deep and respectful genuflection, kiss the floor as a sign of reverence before the Blessed Sacrament and then retire to his home.One evening, believing himself to be alone in the cathedral, he finished his devotions as usual. When he got up from his knees, he was startled by a noise. Suddenly the door of a confessional opened and a very distinguished looking lady stepped out.“What are you doing here at this…Continue Reading

A Portuguese Lenten Tradition . . . In The Steps Of Christ Crucified

March 11, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on A Portuguese Lenten Tradition . . . In The Steps Of Christ Crucified

By JAMES MONTI While the holy season of Lent presents several different aspects to us, patterned to imitate the forty days of our Lord in the desert and summoning us to conversion and repentance, it is first and foremost permeated by the theme of the Sacred Passion, for its specific purpose in coming at this time of the liturgical year is to prepare us to celebrate in the fullest possible measure the Church’s annual commemoration of the suffering, death, and Resurrection of Christ par excellence, Holy Week.In late medieval and early modern Europe, and most especially in those countries and regions where Catholicism had successfully stood strong against the stultifying incursion of the Protestant Reformation, as well as those places…Continue Reading

Recognizing God’s Role… New Religious Community Serves Arizona Native American Missions

March 10, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Recognizing God’s Role… New Religious Community Serves Arizona Native American Missions

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Asked by The Wanderer why someone should consider joining his relatively new religious community, Brother Xavier replied matter-of-factly, recognizing the importance of God’s role in everyone’s life: “Because He’s calling them.”Brother Xavier was standing on the back patio of a north Phoenix home whose family was participating in the fourth annual fund-raiser for the Franciscan Friars of the Holy Spirit on February 27.A large monitor allowed guests to follow the virtual event after they had an al fresco dinner of meat and vegetable lasagna, vegetable and fruit salads, brownies and bread, along with assorted beverages, while the sun set behind a high hill just west of the home of Larissa and Ronn Rodgers. “We call…Continue Reading

A Beacon Of Light… “Weep Not For Me, But Weep Rather For Yourselves”

March 9, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on A Beacon Of Light… “Weep Not For Me, But Weep Rather For Yourselves”

By FR. RICHARD D. BRETON JR. (Editor’s Note: Fr. Richard D. Breton Jr. is a priest of the Diocese of Norwich, Conn. He is currently the parochial vicar of St. Andrew Parish in Colchester and St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Lebanon. He received his BA in religious studies and his MA in dogmatic theology from Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, Conn.) + + As we continue the arduous road to Calvary, our hearts are reeling with emotions. This Lenten journey has exposed within us those areas where we have failed to love Jesus. The Fifth and Eighth Stations of the Cross, awaken within us the part of humanity we dislike the most. The humanity of ourselves!Today we…Continue Reading