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For The Love Of God

February 26, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on For The Love Of God

By JOE SIXPACK When St. Anthony of Padua was only five years old, he once heard a knock at the door late at night. It was wintertime, and the weather outside was very cold and snowy. Little Anthony ran to the window to see who was knocking at the door on such a blistery night.He saw standing in the deep snow another little boy who was barefoot and dressed in pitifully worn and torn clothing, carrying a bag on his back. When Anthony opened the door, the little boy came into the warm house. He was shivering from the cold, and his feet were numb and almost frozen.“Thank you,” said the little boy. “I’m glad to get warm and rest…Continue Reading

Schumer And Pelosi Would Deny Americans Freedom Of Conscience

February 25, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Schumer And Pelosi Would Deny Americans Freedom Of Conscience

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were ferocious advocates of religious freedom — when the question revolved around consuming peyote.In the 1980s, as the Supreme Court’s summary would later explain in the case of Employment Division v. Smith, a “private drug rehabilitation organization” in Oregon fired two employees “because they ingested peyote.”These employees, however, did not ingest the drug for recreational purposes. They did it, the court’s summary explained, “for sacramental purposes at a ceremony of their Native American Church.”Even so, Oregon denied the two unemployment payments “under a state law disqualifying employees discharged for work-related ‘misconduct’.”The issue for the Supreme Court: Was Oregon violating the First Amendment right to the free…Continue Reading

Medical Guild Members… Hear Homily On Ethics Of COVID-19 Vaccines

February 24, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Medical Guild Members… Hear Homily On Ethics Of COVID-19 Vaccines

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — The director of medical ethics of the Catholic Diocese of Phoenix reviewed ethical considerations involved with receiving a vaccine for COVID-19 in a homily to members of the Phoenix guild of the Catholic Medical Association.Fr. Ignatius Mazanowski, who also is chaplain to the Phoenix guild, spoke during a February 13 evening Mass for the guild’s members at St. Joan of Arc Church in north Phoenix offered by the pastor, Fr. Dan Connealy.Although the Mass was in the main church, St. Joan of Arc has a chapel with an altar that was used at the nineteenth-century Philadelphia home of the wealthy Drexels, one of whose daughters, St. Katharine Drexel, became a pioneering missionary nun to Native…Continue Reading

A Beacon Of Light… The Weight Of Humanity Causes Jesus To Collapse

February 23, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on A Beacon Of Light… The Weight Of Humanity Causes Jesus To Collapse

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 continue our Lenten journey together to Calvary, this week we will reflect on the Third, Seventh, and Ninth Stations of the Cross. Having accepted condemnation and accepted the responsibility to carry the cross, these stations collectively represent the fall of Jesus. After being scourged and having received the crown of thorns, Jesus began the journey to His crucifixion.Three times, the weight of humanity caused Jesus to collapse. Imagine, Jesus was carrying the…Continue Reading

Truth, Reconciliation, And The Distribution Of Wealth

February 22, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Truth, Reconciliation, And The Distribution Of Wealth

By DEACON MIKE MANNO It’s tough for conservatives these days. We lost an administration (by hook or by crook) that, on balance, embraced our values. It mattered not whether you personally approved of Mr. Trump or his conduct, conservatives, if they are honest, will admit that his policies reflected conservative and Christian policies, again, on balance.But that administration has been replaced by Mr. Biden’s; one that rejects the principal tenets of conservativism just as Mr. Biden personally rejects the principal tenets of the Catholic Church. In addition, it is not just turning the page from a conservative administration to a liberal one; it seems that we have turned our entire society from one which endeavored to breathe the fresh air…Continue Reading

Making Political Converts . . . Before Dave Rubin Had Second Thoughts, Rush Limbaugh Paved The Way

February 21, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Making Political Converts . . . Before Dave Rubin Had Second Thoughts, Rush Limbaugh Paved The Way

By DEXTER DUGGAN “Political correctness” had been more than oppressive, but social controllers got worse with telling society — meaning you — to go “woke.” No longer did you have to speak only a certain way, but now show that you believed the craziest things as the new normal, like men invading women’s lavatories as a right mandated by Democrat usurper President Joe Biden.You’re ordered not to “offend” anyone, meaning you can’t be sensible. But isn’t wokeness and its ancillaries offending many people so that they become more conservative in response? Not that you’ll see much attention given to this question in dominant media, which likes things just fine the worse they get going leftward.However, veteran conservative talk host Mark…Continue Reading

Pelosi Bashes Trump While Biden Digs In

February 20, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Pelosi Bashes Trump While Biden Digs In

By CHRISTOPHER MANION The news isn’t too good on the Left — so Nancy Pelosi is taking a page from Big Brother. She’s desperate to distract us from Democrat disasters that are piling up like snowdrifts in a Minnesota blizzard.Democrats hogtied Capitol Hill for weeks with impeachment when they should have been working. They wanted the Senate Show Trial to last forever, threatening to calling witnesses and beating the Trump Drum until spring. Then Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) threatened to call Pelosi as the first witness, and they suddenly backed off. Pelosi is ultimately responsible for Capitol security, and Graham wants to know if she turned down police requests for reinforcement long before the events of January 6.No, Nancy…Continue Reading

The Death Of A Distinguished Person

February 19, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on The Death Of A Distinguished Person

By JOE SIXPACK A very holy young priest who loved the souls of his parishioners made an announcement one Sunday morning after Mass. He said, “A distinguished person of the parish has died. The funeral will be held Wednesday at nine o’clock.”Since Father never mentioned the distinguished person’s name, the whole parish was abuzz about who the person might be. They tried and tried to figure it out but couldn’t, so curiosity filled the church on Wednesday morning. In fact, the church was so full that people had to stand in the back.When the casket was opened, the people filed past to see the remains of the distinguished person. Many people gasped in surprise as they looked into the casket.After…Continue Reading

The Coming Abortion Wars

February 18, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on The Coming Abortion Wars

By JUDGE ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO Amid arguments in the Senate over whether the impeachment of former President Donald Trump is constitutional, and in the House over whether $1.9 trillion is enough money to borrow and distribute to select taxpayers and institutions, there have been rumblings among Democrats to make it more difficult for the Supreme Court to invalidate or permit states to gnaw away at Roe v. Wade.Roe v. Wade is the 1973 Supreme Court opinion that essentially establishes — within the privacy of the patient-physician relationship — the right to choose to abort a baby in the womb. The opinion holds that during the first trimester of pregnancy, the states have no interest in regulating abortion beyond the health…Continue Reading

Speaker Tells Zoom Audience . . . About The Life, Sufferings, And Sanctity Of St. Pio

February 17, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Speaker Tells Zoom Audience . . . About The Life, Sufferings, And Sanctity Of St. Pio

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Saints are warriors on a spiritual battlefield, some of them with physical wounds to show.The twentieth-century Italian friar and mystic Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, canonized in 2002 by Pope John Paul II only a third of a century after he died in 1968, was widely known for his stigmata, but the suffering of those unearthly bleeding wounds reflecting Christ’s crucifixion wasn’t the only assault on his flesh. Sometimes demons beat his body.St. Pio’s life was the topic of a February 6 talk by Zoom through the Institute of Catholic Theology (ICT), an evangelization program based here at St. Thomas the Apostle Church, given by Jen Arnold, a Phoenix writer, catechist, and mother of five children.Arnold…Continue Reading