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Are Americans Getting Less Religious?

March 8, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Are Americans Getting Less Religious?

By DEACON MIKE MANNO The Pew Research Center is reporting that its latest surveys indicate that Americans attend religious services less often than previous estimates suggested. But it did issue a warning about the various methods used and the possible effect that the coronavirus may have had on the numbers.In the report, Pew took the effort to explain that the method of conducting its polls has changed, making it a little more difficult to track changes of opinion. Prior polls had been conducted by in-person phone interviews; however, polls are now taken online with no personal involvement by a pollster; the respondent basically answers in isolation.According to the report: “Survey respondents tend to indicate higher levels of religiosity when answering…Continue Reading

Illegal-Entry Highway Deaths . . . Show Part Of Picture Of Damage Being Done By Unbalanced Media

March 7, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Illegal-Entry Highway Deaths . . . Show Part Of Picture Of Damage Being Done By Unbalanced Media

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — On the same day that a veteran Arizona major television news anchor explained why she was leaving her job, at least 13 illegal immigrants left this earthly life in a highway collision more than a 230-mile drive west of here near California’s border with Mexico.Both events on March 2 involved the condition of media reporting these days.Although TV anchor Kari Lake didn’t go into details during a video about what displeased her, she plainly said that journalism had become unrecognizable from what it was when she first walked into a newsroom in 1992.The Arizona Daily Independent quoted Lake on March 2, “I think in a way the nastiness toward me is meant to scare other…Continue Reading

Introducing A New “Reality” By Legislative Fiat

March 6, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Introducing A New “Reality” By Legislative Fiat

By CHRISTOPHER MANION On February 25, the House of Representatives, by a vote of 211 to 195, passed H.R. 5, the “Equality Act.”Here is the official summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, in full, with my comments in parentheses: Equality Act This bill prohibits discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity in areas including public accommodations and facilities, education, federal funding, employment, housing, credit, and the jury system.(In brief: Very little of everyday life is left out.)Specifically, the bill defines and includes sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity among the prohibited categories of discrimination or segregation.(Includes, perhaps, but does not define. And it is hardly “specific.”)The bill expands the definition of public accommodations to include places or…Continue Reading

The Truest, Most Courageous Love

March 5, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on The Truest, Most Courageous Love

By JOE SIXPACK St. Felicitas was a widow of the second century. She and her seven sons were very strong and devoted Catholics. Despite the Roman persecution against the faith, and despite the threat of horrid tortures and death, Felicitas and her sons not only practiced their faith fervently but also quite openly.Indeed, their open and fervent practice of the faith won many souls to Christ and His Church. This angered the pagan priests, who complained to Emperor Antoninus. They told the emperor that this family was drawing many of the people away from worship of the gods, which made the gods displeased. The only way the gods could be appeased, they told the emperor, would be when Felicitas and…Continue Reading

Please Don’t Take My Fish Fry Away

March 4, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Please Don’t Take My Fish Fry Away

By REY FLORES “You are my fish fry, my favorite fish fry, you make me happy, when I crave fish. You’ll never know just how much I miss you, please don’t take my fish fry away.” + + With a lot of people still being scared half to death from the COVID pandemic, that and everyone taking extra precautions, we’ve learned to live in a new world of masks and a media-fueled fear pandemic. Is it real? Is it not? Are the COVID death statistics true or blown up by the big pharma and big media corporations? It’s still somewhat all up in the air.About a year ago when this whole thing started, everything basically came to a screeching halt.…Continue Reading

Diocesan Official Says . . . It’s “A Red Herring” To Ask About Being “A One-Issue Voter” Over Abortion

March 3, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Diocesan Official Says . . . It’s “A Red Herring” To Ask About Being “A One-Issue Voter” Over Abortion

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Government allowing innocent humans “to be attacked and killed” cannot continue, an official of the Catholic Diocese of Phoenix said as he gave a talk on St. John Paul II’s mission to defend and ennoble the human person. It was titled, “John Paul II’s Contributions to Catholic Social Teaching.”Mike Phelan, director of the diocese’s Office of Marriage and Respect Life, reviewing some of the twentieth century, recalled that Germany’s morally weak Weimar Republic, which followed World War I, already showed disgust toward the handicapped and mentally ill, so the successor Nazi-ruled government didn’t have to change any language about how to treat them.He added later, “We could be in the United States at our Weimar…Continue Reading

A Beacon Of Light… Jesus Meets His Mother And Veronica

March 2, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on A Beacon Of Light… Jesus Meets His Mother And Veronica

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 we journey through the second week of Lent, we will be reflecting on the Fourth and Sixth Stations of the Cross: Jesus meets His afflicted Mother and Veronica wipes the face of Jesus.In the Fourth Station, we find ourselves amid the crowd that is gathering along the streets to watch the spectacle of Jesus carrying His cross. Jesus has just gotten up from the first fall and struggles to continue to Calvary. Then…Continue Reading

Religious Schools And The First Amendment… Is There A Difference Between “Status” And “Use”?

March 1, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Religious Schools And The First Amendment… Is There A Difference Between “Status” And “Use”?

By DEACON MIKE MANNO There is an interesting school choice case from Maine that is sitting at the door of the Supreme Court on appeal from the First Circuit Court of Appeals that could settle a legally thorny problem if the court decides to accept it.The state of Maine has a law that allows local school districts to pay the tuition for students to attend either private or public secondary schools where the district does not have a public high school. Thus the local districts have the option of providing the school or simply paying the tuition for its students to attend another school of choice.Those other schools of choice can be outside the state.Unfortunately, that choice appears to be…Continue Reading

Bleary Biden Bad Enough . . . But He’s The One Who Gives Us Nominees Like Baby-Bashing Becerra

February 28, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Bleary Biden Bad Enough . . . But He’s The One Who Gives Us Nominees Like Baby-Bashing Becerra

By DEXTER DUGGAN Joe Biden’s minefield of his own making was bigger than potentially blowing up a few cow pastures. Just over a month after his inauguration, members of the cognitively impaired Democrat’s own party began signing a letter requesting that Biden “end the sole authority you have to launch a nuclear attack, and to install additional checks and balances into the system.”It remained to be seen, as this article was written overnight on February 24-25, if the White House would quash the seriously embarrassing letter to a president who has a way of talking in word salads that betray a seriously confused mind.The February 22-dated letter noted that a U.S. president isn’t obligated to consult with anyone else before…Continue Reading

Notre Dame Awaits The Call On Instant Replay

February 27, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Notre Dame Awaits The Call On Instant Replay

By CHRISTOPHER MANION Twelve years ago this May, the University of Notre Dame welcomed to its campus the newly elected Barack Obama as an honored guest, speaker, and recipient of an honorary degree. For Notre Dame, it was a great coup: Atlanta Archbishop Wilton Gregory, now cardinal archbishop of Washington, had already hailed Obama’s election as “a great step for humanity, a sign that in the United States the issue of race and the problem of discrimination have been overcome.”Fr. John Jenkins, CSC, university president, wanted Notre Dame to play a part in that historic journey. He extended an invitation to Obama, telling the class of 2009 that “as the first African-American holder of this office, [Obama] has accelerated our…Continue Reading