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Criminal Probe Of PA Rep. Sims Needed

May 15, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Criminal Probe Of PA Rep. Sims Needed

By BILL DONOHUE (Editor’s Note: Catholic League President Bill Donohue on May 9 commented as follows on Rep. Brian Sims.) + + + On May 7, the Catholic League contacted every member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. We sought their support for our call to censure Rep. Brian Sims for his unprovoked bullying and his vicious anti-Catholicism. (See p. 3A of this week’s Wanderer for a report about this.) Sims harassed an elderly Catholic woman for praying in front of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Philadelphia, and on another occasion he became equally aggressive attempting to intimidate three teenage girls. He even offered $100 to anyone who would identify the girls, hoping to have protesters show up at their…Continue Reading

Is Bolton Steering Trump Into War With Iran?

May 14, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Is Bolton Steering Trump Into War With Iran?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Last week, it was Venezuela in America’s gun sights. “While a peaceful solution is desirable, military action is possible,” thundered Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. “If that’s what is required, that’s what the United States will do.” John Bolton tutored Vladimir Putin on the meaning of the Monroe Doctrine: “This is our hemisphere. It’s not where the Russians ought to be interfering.” After Venezuela’s army decided not to rise up and overthrow Nicholas Maduro, by Sunday night, May 5, it was Iran that was in our gun sights. Bolton ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln, its carrier battle group and a bomber force to the Mideast “to send a clear and unmistakable message to the Iranian regime…Continue Reading

California Attorney General . . . Investigating LA Archdiocese Sex Abuse Files

May 13, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on California Attorney General . . . Investigating LA Archdiocese Sex Abuse Files

LOS ANGELES (CNA) — The California Attorney General’s Office has written a letter to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, announcing that it will be conducting an investigation of its handling of sexual abuse allegations involving minors, starting with accusations made as early as 1996. The letter was dated May 2, and addressed by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to Archbishop José Gomez. It was obtained and reviewed by The Los Angeles Times. In the Angelus News, the diocesan paper for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, archdiocesan spokesperson Carolina Guevara said that “the archdiocese has not officially received the letter from the attorney general; however, we will be responding cooperatively as we have with the past three grand jury investigations of…Continue Reading

The Importance Of Mirth

May 12, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on The Importance Of Mirth

By DONALD DeMARCO The relentless diet of bad news that the media bring to our attention on a daily basis can be most distressing. And, as we know only too well, the bad news does not exclude the Catholic Church. It is not irreverent to reach for a flagon of mirth as an antidote, if only a temporary one, against the tsunami of bad news that has been so wearisome. We can say this with confidence since Christ Himself was not without a sense of humor. He referred to Peter, who betrayed Him three times, as the “rock” on which He would build His Church. He must have smiled at Nicodemus who thought being born again required returning to his…Continue Reading

Want To Make Money? Work For The Government

May 11, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Want To Make Money? Work For The Government

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY (Editor’s Note: Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor-in-chief of CNSnews.com. Creators Syndicate, www.creators.com, distributes his column.) + + + Which class of full-time, year-round American workers has the highest median earnings? Is it the class that works for private-sector employers? Is it the class that works for the government? Or is it the entrepreneurial class, those of whom employ themselves? According to the Census Bureau Personal Income Table 07 (PINC-07), the competition isn’t close. When it comes to making money in the modern United States of America, government workers win. Among Americans who actually earn income by working, they are the upper class. In 2017, according to PINC-07, there were 115,704,000 Americans who worked full-time (at…Continue Reading

Archbishop Chaput Condemns Harassment Of Pro-Life Women

May 10, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Archbishop Chaput Condemns Harassment Of Pro-Life Women

PHILADELPHIA — Archbishop Charles Chaput, OFM Cap., on May 8 issued a statement on the harassing of women protesting abortion, saying in part: “Over the past few days, videos have gone viral on social media featuring State Rep. Brian Sims aggressively harassing young and elderly women who were peacefully praying outside of a Planned Parenthood Clinic in Philadelphia. “These videos, which Rep. Sims took himself, have rightly sparked broad outrage and garnered much attention in the press. His actions were unbecoming of an elected official. There is much bitter irony that he claims to be a champion for the rights of all women yet he trampled on the rights of others and disgracefully shamed them in public. It was particularly…Continue Reading

Dominican Priest . . . California Confession Bill Threatens All Religions

May 9, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Dominican Priest . . . California Confession Bill Threatens All Religions

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CNA) — If California moves forward with its proposed law trying to force priests to violate the seal of confession, it is not just Catholicism but all religions that will suffer, said a Dominican priest in a recent op-ed. Writing Sunday, April 28 in USA Today, Fr. Pius Pietrzyk, assistant professor of canon law at St. Patrick Seminary in Menlo Park, Calif., warned: “If this bill passes, no religion is safe.” “If a core principle as deeply ingrained in Catholic tradition and doctrine can be wiped away this easily by the state, no fundamental rights of religion or conscience are safe.” The proposal, California Senate Bill 360, would seek to require priests to violate the sacramental seal of…Continue Reading

Redesigning Notre Dame Would Complete Its Destruction

May 8, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Redesigning Notre Dame Would Complete Its Destruction

By FAY VOSHELL (Editor’s Note: Fay Voshell holds an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary, which awarded her the prize for excellence in systematic theology. Her thoughts have appeared in many online magazines, including American Thinker, The Christian Post, National Review, RealClearReligion, CNS, and Russia Insider. LifeSiteNews featured this essay on April 25.) + + + (LifeSiteNews) — Some say they saw the figure of Jesus appear in the flames that devoured so much of Notre Dame Cathedral. They felt that Christ was perhaps the reason the whole edifice was not destroyed. To those hardened doubters concerning the presence of Christ in any way, shape, or form — past, present or future — the people who saw Christ walking among the…Continue Reading

The Notre Dame Tragedy And The Sri Lanka Easter Massacre… A Time To Mourn And Reflect

May 7, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on The Notre Dame Tragedy And The Sri Lanka Easter Massacre… A Time To Mourn And Reflect

By JAMES MONTI The opening days of the Easter Season are liturgically days of joy, their rhythm and pace set by the return of the Alleluia and the Gloria, of white vestments and golden altar frontals. Yet if we have had a spiritually fruitful Holy Week, these days of sunlight are also deeply hued and sobered by what we experienced during the preceding liturgical days of Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, and Good Friday. For many, Holy Week of 2019 has left an indelible mark, tinged by two tragedies that strike at the heart of who we are as Catholics and what the holiness of God’s sanctuary, the sacredness of human life, worthy divine worship, and our Catholic patrimony mean to…Continue Reading

Notre Dame De Paris Still Stands!

May 6, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Notre Dame De Paris Still Stands!

By JOHN J. METZLER Despite the terrible fire which collapsed the roof and destroyed large parts of the fabled Gothic cathedral, despite the collapse of its iconic spire in the midst of the inferno, and despite the near apocalyptic pyre which engulfed the medieval church, Notre Dame de Paris still stands as a stunningly beautiful testament to Civilization and Culture and to Christianity. The world watched and wept as the media covered the conflagration as almost surrealistic images of the beloved medieval cathedral poured forth with billows of smoke and flame. Can this happen? Is it true? Memories of September 11 darted through the embers to the melancholic soundtrack of fire brigade sirens, as the dry wooden roof exploded into…Continue Reading