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Breakup Of The West?

June 2, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Breakup Of The West?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN By the time Air Force One started down the runaway at Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily, to bring President Trump home, the Atlantic ahad grown markedly wider than it was when he flew to Riyadh. In a Munich beer hall Sunday, May 28, Angela Merkel confirmed it. Europe must begin to look out for itself, she said, “take our fate into our own hands….The times in which we could rely fully on others, they are somewhat over.” Merkel’s apprehensions are understandable. A divorce could be in the cards. During his visit to NATO in Brussels and the G-7 in Sicily, Trump, with both his words and body language, revealed his thinking on who are friends…Continue Reading

Beneath The Olive Trees Of Rome

June 1, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Beneath The Olive Trees Of Rome

By JUDE P. DOUGHERTY Readers of The Wanderer are not likely to be subscribers to the online Islamic journal Rumiyah, but a current issue may be of interest. The June 2017 issue instructs the reader on how to effectively conduct a terrorist attack, what to attack, and how to achieve maximum impact. Each issue opens with a quotation attributed to Abu Hanza al Mahajir: “O muwahhidin, rejoice by Allah, we will not rest from our jihad except beneath the olive trees of Rome.” The index to Issue Nine lists articles on “Ruling Belligerent Christians,” “Just Terrorist Tactics,” “Establishing the Islamic State,” “Military and Covert Operations,” and a historical treatise with reference to Jews and Christians, entitled “They Took Their Scribes…Continue Reading

Has Capital Punishment Always Been “A Mortal Sin”?

May 31, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Has Capital Punishment Always Been “A Mortal Sin”?

By FR. BRIAN W. HARRISON, OS In a homily preached at Domus Sanctae Marthae on May 11, Pope Francis made some observations about the ethical status of capital punishment. In this article I wish to explain how his teaching here is seriously at variance with the doctrine of all his Predecessors and two successive universal catechisms, and to consider how faithful Catholics should respond to it. First, what exactly did the Pope say? The original Italian-language report of the homily can be found here: http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/it/cotidie/2017/documents/papa-francesco-cotidie_20170511_in-cammino.html As is usual in the official reportage of these “meditations” given at weekday papal Masses (which are also published in the Vatican’s newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano), the Pope’s own words are not reproduced in full. Instead,…Continue Reading

What We Might Expect From The Supremes In June

May 30, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on What We Might Expect From The Supremes In June

By DEACON MIKE MANNO (Editor’s Note: Deacon Mike Manno, an attorney, is director of deacons for the Diocese of Des Moines and host of Iowa Catholic Radio’s Faith On Trial program [www.iowacatholicradio.com]. He can be reached at deaconmike@iowacatholicradio.com.) + + + The Supreme Court is due to issue its final rulings for the term by the end of June. Among the pending cases are a couple that haven’t received the attention they deserve, but that court watchers interested in religious freedom are following. The first is a consolidation of three cases that are challenging the church exemption from compliance with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, more commonly known as ERISA. Due to increasing financial irregularities in pension…Continue Reading

The Round Table Is Broken

May 29, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on The Round Table Is Broken

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK I don’t think it is nostalgia that leads me to believe that the hostility between Americans on the left and the right has never been as intense as it is today. I can imagine Robert Taft and Adlai Stevenson discussing in a civil manner the issues that divided Republicans and Democrats back in the 1950s. Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill were able to do that in the 1970s. But can you picture Susan Rice and Donald Trump in such a setting? Or Rush Limbaugh and Bill Maher? I can’t. Rice would look as if her hair were on fire. These days, conservatives and liberals don’t like each other, don’t respect each other, don’t trust each other.…Continue Reading

Losers Vs. The World

May 28, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Losers Vs. The World

By REY FLORES If Islamophobia is the fear, intolerance, or hatred of Muslims and Islam, and anti-Semitism is the fear, intolerance, or hatred of Jews and Judaism — then what do we call the fear, intolerance, or hatred for Christians and Christianity? In 2012, Mark Movsesian, director of the Center for Law and Religion at St. John’s University, wrote an interesting piece titled “Christianophobia,” for The Institute of Religion and Public Life’s First Things blog: “The hostility to Christianity one encounters in the West is mostly ideological. What we have is a struggle between competing worldviews, one of which seeks to win by excluding the other, which it sees as irrational, from public debate. This strategy is illiberal, ill-informed, and…Continue Reading

President Trump’s Peace Mission . . . Challenges Ancient Faiths To Unite Against Terror

May 27, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on President Trump’s Peace Mission . . . Challenges Ancient Faiths To Unite Against Terror

By DEXTER DUGGAN Donald Trump stepped into land-mine land seeking a future where buried but boiling animosities would be disarmed. On his first foreign trip as president, Trump purposefully traveled a peace crescent from Saudi Arabia through Israel to the Vatican in late May, seeking to unite against modern terrorism the three major ancient faiths all recognizing the rise of their religions just east of the Mediterranean Sea. The tousle-haired Trump who, left-wing media babble, hates Muslims, carried himself with executive bearing among Arab and other Muslim-majority nations’ leaders at a regional summit in Riyadh, urging their unity in the effort. “This is not a battle between different faiths, different sects, or different civilizations. This is a battle between barbaric…Continue Reading

A Special Prosecutor for Criminal Leaks

May 26, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on A Special Prosecutor for Criminal Leaks

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Who is the real threat to the national security? Is it President Trump who shared with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov the intelligence that ISIS was developing laptop bombs to put aboard airliners? Or is it The Washington Post that ferreted out and published this code-word intelligence, and splashed the details on its front page, alerting the world, and ISIS, to what we knew? President Trump has the authority to declassify security secrets. And in sharing that intel with the Russians, who have had airliners taken down by bombs, he was trying to restore a relationship. On fighting Islamist terror, we and the Russians agree. Five years ago, Russia alerted us that Tamerlan Tsarnaev had become a…Continue Reading

Conquering Addiction Through Faith And Willpower

May 25, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Conquering Addiction Through Faith And Willpower

By RAY CAVANAUGH An incorrigible alcoholic and estranged Catholic, Dublin laborer Matt Talbot finally reached a point where he felt he had no choice but to abandon the bottle and return to the Church. The remaining four decades of his life were marked by hard work, prayer, and daily Mass. More than 90 years after his death, his story of redemption has inspired people on both sides of the Atlantic. June 19 marks his day of commemoration. The second of twelve children, Talbot was born on May 2, 1856. Both his schooling and sobriety ended at age twelve. His first job entailed delivering messages for a company that handled the bottling tasks for Guinness. Enjoying the perquisites, he came home…Continue Reading

Bishop Of Manchester… There Is “No Justification” For Horrific Attack

May 24, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Bishop Of Manchester… There Is “No Justification” For Horrific Attack

By HANNAH BROCKHAUS MANCHESTER, United Kingdom (CNA/EWTN News) — After a terrorist attack killed 22 people — mostly youth — at a theater in Manchester the night of May 22, local Bishop John Arnold condemned the act, saying there is no justification for such violence. “The citizens of Manchester and members of the Catholic community are united in condemning the attack on the crowds at the Arena. Such an attack can have no justification,” Bishop Arnold said in a May 23 statement via the diocese’s Twitter account. In a series of tweets, he thanked the emergency services “for their prompt and speedy response which saved lives. We join in prayer for all those who have died and for the injured…Continue Reading