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The Popes, Marian Devotion, And The New Evangelization

July 4, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on The Popes, Marian Devotion, And The New Evangelization

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY Part 3 This is the third article in a series which looks at Marian devotion, and the New Evangelization, in the light of the teaching of recent Popes. It is noteworthy, that even before St. John Paul II became Pope in 1978, he had adopted the Latin phrase “Totus Tuus” as his episcopal motto, as an expression of his personal consecration to our Lady, following the example of St. Louis de Montfort, whose writings he had studied closely as a young man. Throughout his pontificate, the Pope did what he could to spread devotion to the Blessed Virgin, by means of his encyclicals, pastoral letters, general audiences, and homilies, realizing that an understanding of her role…Continue Reading

Although Their Adversaries Seem Strong . . . Law-School Interns Are Reminded That Even Old USSR Collapsed

July 3, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Although Their Adversaries Seem Strong . . . Law-School Interns Are Reminded That Even Old USSR Collapsed

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Almost ready to start applying their new knowledge to battle moral challenges around the globe, law-school students at a dinner here were reminded that the Soviet Union once was regarded as an invincible adversary, but it finally collapsed in relatively short order. The Christian law students from 11 countries, interns in this year’s Blackstone Legal Fellowship, had just spent nearly two weeks of intense preparation before leaving Phoenix for summer assignments where they’d be facing today’s forces of secularism and coercion that are on the march to defeat historic morality. One of the interns at the lectern recalled at the June 18 dinner that the Soviet Union itself was thought to be unbeatable. However, after…Continue Reading

Culture Of Life 101 . . . “The ‘Gay’ Case Against Abortion”

July 2, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Culture Of Life 101 . . . “The ‘Gay’ Case Against Abortion”

By BRIAN CLOWES (Editor’s Note: Brian Clowes has been director of research and training at Human Life International since 1995. For electronic copies of previous articles on homosexual “marriage,” the special rights agenda, and the role of homosexuality in the Church crisis, e-mail him at bclowes@hli.org.) + + + “Feminists and political liberals have argued for decades now that a woman should have an unrestricted right to an abortion, for any cause or for no stated cause at all. How can they now complain if women decide to abort fetuses identified as homosexual? This question involves both abortion and gay rights — the perfect moral storm of our times” — Rev. Albert Mohler. + + + Since before Roe v.…Continue Reading

Protecting Hatred Preserves Freedom

July 1, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Protecting Hatred Preserves Freedom

By ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO The tragedy of a mass murder in Charleston, S.C., obviously motivated by racial hatred, has raised anew the issue of the lawfulness of the state expressing an opinion by flying a Confederate flag at the statehouse, and the constitutionality of the use of the First Amendment to protect hate speech and hate groups. The state has no business expressing opinions on anything, and it is required to protect hate. Here is the law. Let’s start with the proposition that hatred of persons is a profound disorder, and it is no doubt motivated by far deeper errors of thought and judgment than admiration for a flag. I recognize that to some in our society, the Confederate flag…Continue Reading

NATO-Russia Collision Ahead?

June 30, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on NATO-Russia Collision Ahead?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “U.S. Poised to Put Heavy Weaponry in East Europe: A Message to Russia,” ran the headline in The New York Times. “In a significant move to deter possible Russian aggression in Europe, the Pentagon is poised to store battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, and other heavy weapons for as many as 5,000 American troops in several Baltic and Eastern European countries,” said the Times. The sources cited were “American and allied officials.” The Pentagon’s message received a reply June 16. Russian Gen. Yuri Yakubov called the U.S. move “the most aggressive step by the Pentagon and NATO since the Cold War.” When Moscow detects U.S. heavy weapons moving into the Baltic, said Yakubov, Russia will “bolster…Continue Reading

The Myth Of Autonomy

June 29, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on The Myth Of Autonomy

By DONALD DeMARCO I Never Sang for My Father, a 1970 film based on Robert Anderson’s play by the same name, features a father who identifies himself as a “self-made man” who struggled hard for everything he achieved. Toward the end of the play, the father, now elderly and incapacitated, offers a desperate declaration of his self-sufficiency: “(Shouting.) I don’t want anyone to come in. I can take care of myself. Who needs you? Out!. . . . I have lived each day of my life so that I could look any man in the eye and tell him to Go To Hell!” Such bravado is bitterly ironic given what soon takes place. “One day, sitting in his wheelchair and…Continue Reading

More On The Particular Judgment

June 28, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on More On The Particular Judgment

By JAMES LIKOUDIS As pointed out in a previous article (The Wanderer, July 3, 2014, p. 8B), the “silence regarding this particular dogma from all too many pulpits together with funeral Masses that focus on celebrating the life of the deceased and are replete with eulogies (amounting to instant canonization) have tended to make the Particular Judgment disappear from the mental horizon of too many Catholics, who steeped in sin, sit comfortably in the pews of their parishes.” Suppressed, in fact, in the life of too many parishes, is the truth that all must give at death an accounting to God of their lives to receive eternal bliss or damnation. Hardly mentioned is the awesome nature of the soul’s appearing…Continue Reading

Cardinal Sarah Says . . . Allowing Communion For Divorced And Remarried “Insults Christ”

June 27, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Cardinal Sarah Says . . . Allowing Communion For Divorced And Remarried “Insults Christ”

By MARY JONES ROME (LifeSiteNews) — Robert Cardinal Sarah, the highly respected prefect for the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments at the Vatican, appointed in 2014 by Pope Francis, has made it abundantly clear since last October’s Extraordinary Synod on the Family that any attempt to detach Catholic teaching from “pastoral practice” is a form of “heresy and a dangerous schizophrenic pathology.” Speaking on May 20 at the John Paul II Pontifical Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Rome, at the presentation of the Cantagalli book series Family, Work in Progress, the cardinal sent a clear message to Walter Cardinal Kasper and followers. Kasper has been the main protagonist since the 2014 consistory…Continue Reading

France’s Terri Schiavo . . . Shocks The Nation With Video Showing He’s Alive

June 26, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on France’s Terri Schiavo . . . Shocks The Nation With Video Showing He’s Alive

By JEANNE SMITS (Editor’s Note: Jeanne Smits writes from Paris for LifeSiteNews, which made this commentary available. All rights reserved.) + + + The friends of Vincent Lambert — France’s Terri Schiavo — are true to their promise. Since the European Court of Human Rights ruled on June 5 that there is nothing wrong with deciding to stop giving foods and fluids to a brain-damaged, poly-handicapped person on the strength of hearsay, in order to make him die because “he would not have wanted to live that way,” France has awakened with a shock to the fact that the young man is alive. On the day of the June 5 hearing in Strasbourg, a college friend of Vincent’s, Emmanuel Guépin,…Continue Reading

Culture Of Life 101 . . . “Why Are Homosexual Activists So Afraid of ‘Ex-Gays’?”

June 25, 2015 Featured Today Comments Off on Culture Of Life 101 . . . “Why Are Homosexual Activists So Afraid of ‘Ex-Gays’?”

By BRIAN CLOWES (Editor’s Note: Brian Clowes has been director of research and training at Human Life International since 1995. For electronic copies of previous articles on homosexual “marriage,” the special rights agenda, and the role of homosexuality in the Church crisis, e-mail him at bclowes@hli.org.) + + + “The 19th century writer Oscar Wilde is revered by many in the gay and lesbian community but, believe me, if he were alive now, he’d be totally exasperated with the whining, hysterical malcontents who dominate today’s gay lobby” — John McKellar of Homosexuals Opposed to Pride Extremism (HOPE). + + + Homophile propagandists jealously protect a very important secret — homosexuals can leave their lifestyle. Why is this so important? If…Continue Reading