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Liberalism And The Crisis Of Catholicism

August 16, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Liberalism And The Crisis Of Catholicism

By PAUL KRAUSE (Editor’s Note: Paul Krause is a recent graduate of Yale’s Divinity School. His writings have appeared in Crisis Magazine, Forbes Online, and other publications.) + + + Can the Catholic Church be liberal? The answer to that question is probably self-evident to those with a strong knowledge of Church teachings and history. But given the current malaise and crisis facing the Church: loss of self-confidence, increasing self-doubt, retreat, and the clamoring to “get with the times,” we must understand the temptation that liberalism offers and crisis that it poses to the Church — especially in the United States but also much of the Western World. There are two basic understandings of liberalism. One is academic and philosophical,…Continue Reading

Fight For Flake’s Senate Seat… Candidates Eager To Win, But Seasoned Aide Cautions On D.C. Dirt

August 15, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Fight For Flake’s Senate Seat… Candidates Eager To Win, But Seasoned Aide Cautions On D.C. Dirt

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — “All candidates have warts. You have to find the less warty” among the hopefuls, an experienced political aide told a Tea Party group’s evening meeting here as Arizona’s upcoming primary election on August 28 had voters pondering whom to pick. Earlier during the July 30 meeting, Marcus Kelley, who worked both at the Arizona State Capitol and in Washington, D.C., expressed strong doubt that all political corruption can be swept away, although he didn’t defend it. “Just the thought we are going to clean up the corruption in Washington, D.C. — we are fooling ourselves,” said Kelley, the administrative assistant to conservative Republican Andy Biggs when Biggs was president of the Arizona Senate. Biggs subsequently…Continue Reading

Why We Need Trump’s Religious Liberty Task Force

August 14, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Why We Need Trump’s Religious Liberty Task Force

By REY FLORES Three weeks ago, Attorney General Jeff Sessions made the official announcement that President Donald J. Trump had asked him to create the Religious Liberty Task Force within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). The Washington Times reported that the task force will be led by Sessions, and co-chaired by the associate attorney general, the assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Policy, and members from other Justice Department divisions, including the Office for Civil Rights and the Office of Legal Counsel. Of course, the radical leftists have responded in their predictable, loathsome, and tiresome way. In a very “Chicken Little”-like reaction, NBC’s Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove wrote that Sessions’ task force is “part of a dangerous…Continue Reading

Reprinted From The Wanderer Newspaper June 21, 2007 . . . Dallas Charter, Five Years Later

August 13, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Reprinted From The Wanderer Newspaper June 21, 2007 . . . Dallas Charter, Five Years Later

Editors Note: This was reprinted from The Wanderer Newspaper, the issue dated June 21, 2007, on the 5 year anniversary of the Dallas Charter. We will be featuring these reprints on a regular basis on our website. By CHRISTOPHER MANION Five years ago this month, American bishops met in Dallas to address the scandal of clerical sex abuse and chancery coverups that had finally exploded into public view. It was a critical test for the bishops, as they confronted the greatest crisis in the history of the Catholic Church in the United States. Sadly, they failed the test. Instead of apologizing and getting their house in order, they initiated a “ Charter” that placed heavy burdens on priests and laity,…Continue Reading

The Battle Of The Sexes — Twenty-First Century Style

August 13, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on The Battle Of The Sexes — Twenty-First Century Style

By MIKE MANNO Years ago the battle of the sexes was the conflict between men and women over their respective gender roles. Today the battle, in some respects, is still over gender roles but not necessarily between men and women but between the cis-gendered, a person who identifies with the sex of his birth, and the transgendered, those who don’t. And the worst part is that it is playing out in our schools. Back in the 1970s, Congress passed Title IX, a federal civil rights law, as part of the Educational Amendments of 1972. It was adopted to protect students from sex discrimination in educational programs that received federal funds. As issues involving persons with same-sex attractions and later those…Continue Reading

Who’ll Be Able To Brag Of Big Catch?. . . Fishing For Clues About What Elections Are Telling Us

August 12, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Who’ll Be Able To Brag Of Big Catch?. . . Fishing For Clues About What Elections Are Telling Us

By DEXTER DUGGAN Looking for definitive insights into early August U.S. election results may be like searching for a big fish hooked by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s dubious, unending probe of alleged Russian collusion to win the 2016 presidential election for Donald Trump. Having landed nothing important yet, Mueller’s anglers swear the catch is right there below the surface. Just wait until it gets reeled in — if only the fish will please put the barb into its mouth and start yanking on the line. Like the elusive Russian collusion, the proportions of what mattered to voters in 2018 may not be plain until it’s flipping on the dock the evening of Election Day, November 6. There’s plenty of partisan…Continue Reading

Call Me Jerry

August 11, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Call Me Jerry

By CHRISTOPHER MANION A local pastor gave a surprisingly good sermon the other day. A short one, too (that’s why I remember it). “Don’t confuse the Church with the bishops, or even the Pope,” he said. “The Church is spotless, her teachings true, beautiful, and good. But bishops — even the Bishop of Rome — are sinful men like the rest of us. “At the same time, we must bear in mind that priests and bishops do possess real authority by the virtue of their Ordination and consecration. They defend the Church’s magisterial teachings on faith and morals in the face of a hostile world, and they teach them to us. That’s their divinely ordained role. But there’s a lot…Continue Reading

Apple Is Not As American As Apple Pie

August 10, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Apple Is Not As American As Apple Pie

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY (Editor’s Note: Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor-in-chief of CNSnews.com. Creators Syndicate, www.creators.com, distributed this column.) + + + Last week, Apple became the first U.S.-based corporation to see its market value top $1 trillion. But is it really an American company? “Apple imports chips, antennae, and sensors from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the United States, and Europe into China where Foxconn (a Taiwanese firm) and others assemble them into iPhones,” the Washington Post reported in March. “About half of all iPhones now are made in a huge manufacturing facility in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou,” The New York Times reported in 2016. So, the richest of all corporations makes its signature product in a…Continue Reading

When Shepherds Become Wolves

August 9, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on When Shepherds Become Wolves

By SHAUN KENNEY The Catholic University of America announced last week that they were stripping Theodore Cardinal McCarrick of his honorary degree, the first time this has ever been done in the 140-year history of the nation’s premier Catholic institution. During the university’s long history, it has been no stranger to controversy. The Americanist heresy was first identified and rooted out, claiming the career of its first rector — Bishop Keane of Richmond. The ghost of Americanism hasn’t quite dissolved from the Catholic hierarchy in America. One of its chief errors as defined by Pope Leo XIII was that — as moderns — Catholics today were better suited to leverage and discern the Holy Spirit, an error condemned for no…Continue Reading

Fr. Pavone Says . . . Pastors Shouldn’t Fear Restrictions On Allowing Pro-Life Activity

August 8, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Fr. Pavone Says . . . Pastors Shouldn’t Fear Restrictions On Allowing Pro-Life Activity

By DEXTER DUGGAN Thanks to the Trump administration, pastors needn’t be concerned about their churches losing tax-exempt status because they’ve provided political information, a veteran priest and pro-life activist told The Wanderer during a July 30 telephone interview. While Fr. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life (priestsforlife.org), reviewed various efforts that the Florida-based international Catholic organization is making to educate voters as the November midterm elections approach, he mentioned President Trump’s executive order issued in May 2017. “If there were ever a year when pastors do not have to be concerned about that,” Pavone said, Trump “has made so clear” through his executive order that “the federal government is not going to punish churches for speaking about politics.”…Continue Reading