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What Is America’s Mission Now?

January 12, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on What Is America’s Mission Now?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Informing Iran, “The U.S. is watching what you do,” Ambassador Nikki Haley called an emergency meeting Friday, January 5 of the Security Council regarding the riots in Iran. The session left her and us looking ridiculous. France’s ambassador tutored Haley that how nations deal with internal disorders is not the council’s concern. Russia’s ambassador suggested the United Nations should have looked into our Occupy Wall Street clashes and how the Missouri cops handled Ferguson. Fifty years ago, 100 U.S. cities erupted in flames after Martin Luther King’s assassination. Federal troops were called in. In 1992, Los Angeles suffered the worst U.S. riot of the 20th century, after the LA cops who pummeled Rodney King were acquitted…Continue Reading

The Irish Anticipate A Papal Visit

January 11, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on The Irish Anticipate A Papal Visit

By JOHN BURKE GALWAY — The island of Ireland is expecting a papal visit just when it is bedeviled by interrelated moral, religious, and political issues. It is not yet certain whether Pope Francis will say the closing Mass at the World Meeting of Families, taking place in Dublin from August 21-26, but the Vatican usually makes official confirmation of overseas visits six months in advance. There is speculation here that an announcement will come on February 11, the very day that the entire Irish hierarchy will be in Galway for the installation of its new bishop. A diocesan spokesman told The Wanderer that American bishops would be welcome to attend, since the late Richard Cardinal Cushing of Boston dedicated…Continue Reading

ADF Calls 2017 A Banner Year For The First Amendment

January 10, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on ADF Calls 2017 A Banner Year For The First Amendment

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Alliance Defending Freedom wrapped up 2017 at the forefront of the largest legal battles in defense of the First Amendment. With a critical victory at the U.S. Supreme Court and other wins, ADF action in defense of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of conscience — including artistic freedom — is having far-reaching effects for the good of all Americans. “The government has no business preventing any American from engaging in free speech, nor should it use its coercive power to force anyone to promote a message with which they disagree,” said ADF Senior Counsel David Cortman. “ADF has been honored to be involved in many important cases this past year, and chief among those…Continue Reading

They Won’t Stop With Marquette. Or Georgetown. Or Notre Dame.

January 9, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on They Won’t Stop With Marquette. Or Georgetown. Or Notre Dame.

By SHAUN KENNEY It was George Will that offered me the most succinct definition of American patriotism, that being a certain assent to a specific creed: that human beings were endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these were life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Marquette University — a Jesuit institution that has seemingly forgotten its inheritance — finds itself embroiled in a First Amendment case where a 41-year tenured professor, John C. McAdams, finds himself the target of the caprice of a graduate teaching assistant who, after advising a Catholic student at a presumably Catholic institution that opposition to same-sex marriage was “homophobic” and commanding conformity to the secular religion of the day, managed not…Continue Reading

Let’s Teach Those Dirty, Bigoted Bakers

January 8, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Let’s Teach Those Dirty, Bigoted Bakers

By MIKE MANNO In the days between Christmas and New Year’s, the high gods of secularism rose once again to teach unbelievers, those poor wayward Christians, that their beliefs are no longer tolerated by the enlightened illuminati of our time; and that if you dare to dissent from the new cultural orthodoxy you will be crushed by the weight of the avenging state until you are left broken and your lives destroyed. So said the state of Oregon through its appeals court, as it crushed a poor family that only wanted to live by their arcane Christian beliefs by baking sweet treats for their clients and friends. Instead, the novelty of same-sex marriage, where a woman will leave her family…Continue Reading

Catholic Media School . . . Hopes To Become A Talent Hub For Catholic Apostolates Around Nation

January 7, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Catholic Media School . . . Hopes To Become A Talent Hub For Catholic Apostolates Around Nation

By DEXTER DUGGAN ESCONDIDO, Calif. — John Paul the Great Catholic University here always has aimed to prepare a primarily lay student body to evangelize society for Christ while working in the world. Now it’s looking into attracting existing Catholic apostolates around the nation to congregate in this area, at least by establishing branch offices if not their headquarters, so the school could act as a direct talent hub for them, the school’s president told The Wanderer. “Our big focus in 2018 is how can we be a hub of new evangelization and media,” Derry Connolly, Ph.D., said during a December 27 interview in his campus office on Grand Avenue, which runs through the center of town in this suburb…Continue Reading

Online California Catholic Publisher . . . Tells About Beefing Up Coverage

January 6, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Online California Catholic Publisher . . . Tells About Beefing Up Coverage

By DEXTER DUGGAN SAN DIEGO — Black-and-white newspapers brought current events to Victorian mansions housing well-to-do readers more than a century ago here in the Golden Hill neighborhood rising above downtown San Diego. Sharp color photos of breaking news events weren’t possible in papers back then, printed with hot-metal methods. Popular commercial radio was in the future, and the possibility of the global Internet unthinkable. But decade succeeded decade, technology changed, newspaper pages were designed on electronic monitors, and this San Diego neighborhood no longer was so upscale. From an office building in Golden Hill, above the first-floor Flying Panther tattoo shop and Ballet Basics studio, successful local publisher and pro-life activist Jim Holman looks out on a changed media…Continue Reading

Will War Cancel Trump’s Triumphs?

January 5, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Will War Cancel Trump’s Triumphs?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Asked what he did during the French Revolution, Abbé Sieyes replied, “I survived.” Donald Trump can make the same boast. No other political figure has so dominated our discourse. And none, not Joe McCarthy in his heyday in the early 1950s, nor Richard Nixon in Watergate, received such intensive and intemperate coverage and commentary as has our 45th president. Whatever one may think of Trump, he is a leader and a fighter, not a quitter. How many politicians could have sustained the beatings Trump has taken, and remained as cocky and confident? And looking back on what may fairly be called The Year of Trump, his achievements have surprised even some of his enemies. With the…Continue Reading

GOP President And Congress Still Funding Planned Parenthood

January 4, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on GOP President And Congress Still Funding Planned Parenthood

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY Two months before his upset victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump made an unambiguous commitment that helped rally pro-life Americans to his cause. He promised to defund Planned Parenthood. Now, almost a year into his presidency — during which time the Republican Party has controlled both houses of Congress — he has not delivered on that promise.  “I am committed to: Defunding Planned Parenthood as long as they continue to perform abortions, and re-allocating their funding to community health centers that provide comprehensive health care for women,” Trump wrote in a September 2016 letter to pro-life leaders. Planned Parenthood has now released its 2016-2017 annual report. It says its affiliates

Schools And Universities Remain The Best Refuge

January 3, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Schools And Universities Remain The Best Refuge

By SHAUN KENNEY One of my complaints about the so-called Benedict Option is that it isn’t much of an option at all. Lived to its fullest extent, the Catholic Church is the Benedict Option — what one might charitably call a more communitarian lifestyle versus what others would perhaps rightly call a ghettoized Christianity. For myself, I have no stomach for retreat. Nor did the presupposed genesis of the Benedict Option idea — Alasdair MacIntyre. That the concept of the Benedict Option is lifted from the very last sentence of MacIntyre’s After Virtue doesn’t seem to bother its proponents. That MacIntyre himself rejects the entire project ought to. What is MacIntyre’s grand solution to resist what he terms as a…Continue Reading