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Chosen To Lead Arizona GOP . . . Persistent Trump Backer Kelli Ward Finally Enters Winner’s Circle

February 6, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Chosen To Lead Arizona GOP . . . Persistent Trump Backer Kelli Ward Finally Enters Winner’s Circle

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — When Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) stepped to the microphones for a talk at Arizona State University in suburban Tempe in May 2015, he wasn’t the only politician in the room with thoughts of running for a higher office. Paul had then just jumped in to a run for the White House for 2016, while the woman who introduced him to a crowd of more than 400 people at the ASU student fitness center, Arizona GOP State Sen. Kelli Ward, was thinking of challenging incumbent Sen. John McCain in the Grand Canyon State’s 2016 Republican primary election. Both Paul and Ward had libertarian-conservative instincts, which both of them referred to in their comments. Ward presented…Continue Reading

Iowa’s Heartbeat Law Overturned

February 5, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Iowa’s Heartbeat Law Overturned

By MIKE MANNO On January 22, the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, and only days after hundreds of thousands marched in the nation’s capital in support of overturning that decision, a state district court judge released his opinion that Iowa’s Heartbeat legislation was unconstitutional. The Heartbeat law, in effect, prohibited abortions once a fetal heartbeat could be heard. It was passed by a Republican legislature and signed into law last May by Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds. If allowed to stand, the law would have been the strictest abortion law in the nation, and possibly a vehicle to eventually overturn the permissive abortion Roe ruling. (See last week’s Wanderer, p. 7B, “State Judge Strikes Down…Continue Reading

A Leaven In The World . . . Cardinal Dolan: Save Your Soul!

February 4, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on A Leaven In The World . . . Cardinal Dolan: Save Your Soul!

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK In a recent New York Post front-page article, Timothy Cardinal Dolan asks “why” Gov. Cuomo signed a permissive abortion law. Virginia, Rhode Island, and other states are now also discussing doing the same. What would be the reason for asking a question which neither he nor anybody else may ever be able to answer? That’s another conundrum that begs the same question. We can only guess. It appears that the well-heeled abortion lobby is in a panic as a result of rumors that Roe v. Wade’s days may be numbered. One thing that Cardinal Dolan’s ruminations certainly enable, however, is further inaction on his part, whose brief from the Lord is not to act the…Continue Reading

As Pro-Lifers Keep Up Their Hard Work . . . They Ask In Vain For Cardinal To Do His Share

February 3, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on As Pro-Lifers Keep Up Their Hard Work . . . They Ask In Vain For Cardinal To Do His Share

By DEXTER DUGGAN January’s large annual pro-life demonstrations in the U.S. serve as an important public witness that also is growing in other countries, the leader of an international Catholic pro-life organization told The Wanderer. “I see this on a global scale . . . I’m watching these occur around the world,” Fr. Shenan Boquet said in a January 21 interview, between the national March for Life in Washington, D.C., that he attended on January 18 and the Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco a week later, where he spoke. Boquet, president of the Virginia-based Human Life International (hli.org), has traveled one million miles to more than 80 countries, its website says, adding that he “offers guidance to…Continue Reading

Weapons And Loose Canons

February 2, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Weapons And Loose Canons

By CHRISTOPHER MANION When the New York legislature passed one of the most extreme and vicious abortion laws in the world, the crowd in the chamber stood up and cheered. After Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the bill, he ordered the spire of Manhattan’s “Freedom Tower” to be lit up in pink. Timothy Cardinal Dolan, New York archbishop, was livid. He made the rounds with media appearances, condemning the governor and calling the law “ghoulish, grisly, gruesome.” Not surprisingly, he was met more than once with a question: Should Cuomo be excommunicated? In different settings he had several observations: “Excommunication should not be used as a weapon. Too often, I fear, those who call for someone’s excommunication do so out of…Continue Reading

Where Horses Are Lacking, Donkeys Trot

February 1, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Where Horses Are Lacking, Donkeys Trot

By SHAUN KENNEY If one requires some sort of preface to the entire week (and to this week’s column), one is reminded by way of First Things of the words of Richard Pipes, a noted Russian historian who commented on how the Bolsheviks managed to overrun their native country so quickly — by co-opting the populace through guilt. To wit: “Like the protagonists in Dostoevsky’s The Possessed, the Bolsheviks had to spill blood to bind their wavering adherents with a band of collective guilt. The more innocent victims the Bolshevik Party had on its conscience, the more the Bolshevik rank and file had to realize that there was no retreating, no faltering, no compromising, that they were inextricably bound to…Continue Reading

Identity Politics And Religious Liberties

January 31, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Identity Politics And Religious Liberties

By MIKE MANNO For many orthodox Catholics, like myself, and a good number of sincere followers of other faiths, the issue of religious liberty and conscience rights are the bedrock principles upon which we build our political ideology. Other issues, while important, we look at with varying degrees of interest. But for those of us who feel as I do, religious liberty and rights of conscience are the sine qua non of liberty itself. Thus, much of my public expression has focused on protecting and defending those rights, and in many cases, warning about infringements on them. My earliest contributions to The Wanderer in the early 2000s, as well as numerous freelance articles and op-eds, and now a weekly column…Continue Reading

Cardinal Dolan . . . All Bark And No Bite

January 30, 2019 Frontpage 3 Comments

An Open Letter To Cardinal Dolan By JOSEPH MATT Your Eminence: God has blessed you with a great gift and has chosen you for a position given to very few people in His Church — a Catholic cardinal and archbishop of New York. This incredible office carries much responsibility and a great deal of public witness to the Catholic faith. Your actions have a direct effect on millions of Catholics and non-Catholics alike. In other words, your actions and word carry a lot of power. The Catholic community and millions of murdered babies are crying out for your leadership. You are in a position to make a significant impact on a life and death issue. Your recent comments fronted by…Continue Reading

46th Roe V. Wade Anniversary… Youthful Enthusiasm Dominates MCCL March

January 29, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on 46th Roe V. Wade Anniversary… Youthful Enthusiasm Dominates MCCL March

By PEGGY MOEN ST. PAUL — As with the national March for Life, MCCL’s March here on January 22, the forty-sixth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, boasted large numbers of youth coupled with a young, hopeful spirit. Before the Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life program began, Will Herrmann, a 29-year-old computer programmer from Bloomington, Minn., told The Wanderer that he is indeed “the pro-life generation” — as his sign and many other signs proclaimed. “I actually just came from the March for Life in D.C. It was overwhelmingly young people — so inspiring to see that,” he said. Hermann estimated that 80 percent of the Washington, D.C., pro-life marchers were under age 30. In contrast, the fractured, shrinking Women’s March of…Continue Reading

A Crisis Of Truth . . . What We Can Do About It

January 28, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on A Crisis Of Truth . . . What We Can Do About It

By JOSEPH MATT Pontius Pilate asked Christ, “What is truth?” – Two millennia later, society remains as blind and confused as was Pilate, as many members of the Catholic Church struggle for an answer to this same question. Our world is suffering from a crisis of truth. “All the evils which poison men and nations and trouble so many hearts have a single cause and a single source: ignorance of the truth — and at times even more than ignorance, a contempt for the truth and a reckless rejection of it.” This quote by Pope St. John XXIII truly reflects the cloud of relativism and outright disregard and rejection of truth that permeates our society, both throughout our culture and…Continue Reading