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The Pope, The President, And The Right To Life

March 28, 2014 Frontpage Comments Off on The Pope, The President, And The Right To Life

By FR. FRANK PAVONE (Editor’s Note: Fr. Frank Pavone is the national director of Priests for Life. This commentary on the March 27 meeting between Pope Francis and President Obama is reprinted with permission from priestsforlife.org. All rights reserved.) +    +    + Pope Francis and President Obama met in Rome today, and the meeting has naturally generated commentary, both before and after the fact, including by the president himself at the National Prayer Breakfast last month. I am confident that the meeting itself will bear good fruit. I am not so confident that the commentary about it will bear as much fruit. What I mean is that I believe we are heading for a media and blogosphere circus in which…Continue Reading

As We Seethe Against The Elite . . . Book Notes How Abortion Destroys Nations’ Values

March 27, 2014 Frontpage Comments Off on As We Seethe Against The Elite . . . Book Notes How Abortion Destroys Nations’ Values

By DEXTER DUGGAN Like many others, observer Robert W. Merry is looking for the answer to “when will the American people rise up politically with a full-throated cry of ‘Give us back our democracy’? That, incidentally, is one of the most powerful recurrent themes of our history.” At The National Interest journal’s web site on March 24, its political editor, Merry, looking for the rise of “the political volcano,” wrote that “seldom in our history has there been such a gap between the sensibilities of the American people and the willingness of government officials to ignore and trample those sensibilities.” Also on March 24, at National Review Online, political writer Quin Hillyer reported that “on issue after issue nationwide,” Louisiana…Continue Reading

Bill De Blasio And Subsidiarity

March 26, 2014 Frontpage Comments Off on Bill De Blasio And Subsidiarity

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK We are taught from childhood to not assume the worst about those who disagree with us; to consider the likelihood that they are motivated by good intentions, even when we are convinced that their recommendations would make things a mess. I have been trying to do that in regard to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s campaign against New York City’s charter schools. (Charter schools are privately run but publicly financed schools, operating separately from the red tape and union rules that hamstring the public schools.)

The Importance Of March 25

March 25, 2014 Frontpage Comments Off on The Importance Of March 25

By DONALD DeMARCO March 25 is the Solemnity of the Annunciation, the day that Mary said “yes” to conceiving Christ. Consistent with the inaugural day of Christ’s life in her womb, the Nativity, or birth of Christ, is exactly nine months later, on December 25. March 25, appropriately, is the International Day of the Unborn Child, in agreement with the notion that human life begins at conception. Also, on this date, March 25 (in 1995), Blessed John Paul II issued Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life). Toward the end of this most important encyclical, the Holy Father refers to Mary’s second “yes” that she made on the day of the cross. “When Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom…Continue Reading

Relocated Catholic Campus . . . Welcomes Video-Game Professionals To Network Event

March 24, 2014 Frontpage Comments Off on Relocated Catholic Campus . . . Welcomes Video-Game Professionals To Network Event

By DEXTER DUGGAN Although one belief about video games equates them with violence and immorality, there’s a positive side to this electronic entertainment, too — production of family-friendly puzzle games and adventure games, said the head of a southern California Catholic school that prepares students for careers in media and business. Derry Connolly, Ph.D., president of John Paul the Great Catholic University, told The Wanderer that from what he observed, these gaming executives are like “50-year-old teddy bears…just jolly people” who’d be happy to be home playing games with their own children. Connolly’s school hosted an event in February to network with San Diego-area gaming professionals and show off what its new campus has to offer, hoping to provide interns…Continue Reading

Does The President “Believe In This Country”?

March 23, 2014 Frontpage Comments Off on Does The President “Believe In This Country”?

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK I find it intriguing to talk to those who are eager to give “the inside scoop” about their line of work. I am talking about the people who will pull you close and give you a “wink-wink” about the “way things really are” in their world: waiters and waitresses who inform you about how “daily specials” are used to con diners into buying certain dishes, stockbrokers who will key you in on how shady brokerage houses can make big money selling over-hyped stocks to gullible investors, political insiders who scoff at the clueless folks who know nothing about how influence-peddlers and lobbyists shape legislation.

Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic… Presidential Power: A Rescuer, Not A Nemesis

March 22, 2014 Frontpage Comments Off on Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic… Presidential Power: A Rescuer, Not A Nemesis

By STEPHEN M. KRASON (Editor’s Note: Stephen M. Krason’s “Neither Left nor Right, but Catholic” column appears monthly [sometimes bimonthly]. He is professor of political science and legal studies and associate director of the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at Franciscan University of Steubenville. He is also co-founder and president of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists. He is the author of several books including The Transformation of the American Democratic Republic [Transaction Publishers: 2012], and most recently published an edited volume entitled Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Child Protective System [Scarecrow Press: 2013]. This column originally appeared in Crisismagazine.com. All rights reserved.) +    +    + Conservative voices are railing against excessive presidential power in this Obama…Continue Reading

The Wanderer Interviews Archbishop Kurtz… “The Truth Is Written In Our Hearts”

March 21, 2014 Frontpage Comments Off on The Wanderer Interviews Archbishop Kurtz… “The Truth Is Written In Our Hearts”

By REY FLORES I recently had the opportunity to interview Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, archbishop of the Archdiocese of Louisville, Ky., and also president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. The interview included questions on the HHS mandate, same-sex marriage, the liturgy, and more. +    +    + Q. What are your hopes and expectations for the Supreme Court decision on the HHS mandate? A. We certainly look forward to a favorable decision to relieve the Little Sisters of the Poor and all Catholic entities as we seek to serve others. By end of June we would like to have some direction from the Supreme Court of the United States and have Catholic organizations relieved of requirement of objectionable participation…Continue Reading

McCain Backs Off A Bit . . . But Media Hucksters Hold To Their SB 1062 Deceit

March 20, 2014 Frontpage Comments Off on McCain Backs Off A Bit . . . But Media Hucksters Hold To Their SB 1062 Deceit

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Outraged consumer reporters would be clogging the aisles of a grocery store that routinely sold stinking, spoiled food in tightly sealed bags and lied about the posted prices. You thought 90 cents a pound? Actually, $9.90 a pound. Sorry, suckers, you’re stuck with the bill. So what are consumers of news to think when liberal media massively lie and lie again and seem to think they can get away with it? Any consumer reporter would leap into action if a fuming mom showed up at the newspaper office carrying two grocery sacks full of garbage and a check-out tape totaling $800. However, if dripping garbage knowingly is spewed by the newspaper or television station, news…Continue Reading

Are Atheism And Conservatism Compatible?

March 19, 2014 Frontpage Comments Off on Are Atheism And Conservatism Compatible?

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK It was no surprise that there was considerable give-and-take in the comments section that followed Charles C.W. Cooke’s column in the online edition of National Review on February 26. Cooke, a graduate of Oxford and staff writer at National Review, argued that Brent Bozell, the director of the conservative watchdog group the Media Research Center, was gravely wrong when he criticized the Conservative Political Action Conference for inviting a group called the American Atheists to participate in its annual gathering in Washington in March. Bozell had written that the invitation to the atheist group was “an attack on conservative principles” and “an attack on God Himself. American Atheists is an organization devoted to hatred of God.”