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Respecting Women . . . Catholic Doctor Tells Why He Stopped Prescribing Contraception

May 2, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — What’s St. Peter asking at the Pearly Gates to decide if people are qualified to enter Heaven? If the hopeful entrant is a woman, the saint wants to know if she’s bringing 10 men with her, according to James Asher, DO, vice president of the Catholic Physicians Guild of Phoenix, affiliated with the national Catholic Medical Association. Asher said a priest told him this story to illustrate the importance of the moral example women should give to men. “We men are kind of weak and brain-damaged, and we need women to keep us in line” and “hold us to a higher standard,” Asher told The Wanderer during an April 23 interview. He chuckled that perhaps…Continue Reading

False Choices On Capitalism

May 1, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK In this space in the March 9 issue of The Wanderer, we featured a discussion of an article entitled “Confessions of a Capitalist Convert” by Arthur C. Brooks, the president of the American Enterprise Institute. Brooks’ article appeared in the February 20 edition of the Jesuits’ America magazine. Brooks’ thesis was that the “modern miracle” of lifting the great mass of mankind “from starvation-level poverty” in the last fifty years can be attributed not to “the success of international organizations like the United Nations (as important as they are) nor benevolent foreign aid that pulled billions back from the brink of starvation. Rather, the responsibility lay with five interrelated forces that were in the midst of…Continue Reading

Facing The Future With Faith

April 30, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off

By REY FLORES The British news tabloid The Daily Star published a report last week about a “clairvoyant” who predicts that on May 13, 2017, the 100th anniversary of the Marian apparition in Fatima, Portugal, World War III will start. This same “messenger of God” claims to have also predicted President Trump’s victory in last year’s presidential election. He also predicts that World War III will end on October 13, 2017, the 100th anniversary of the last apparition in Fatima, but after much “devastation, shock and death.” While we as Catholics are not to believe in clairvoyance, divination, and other supernatural dark arts, we do believe in the Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima and her very own words. “Russia…Continue Reading

Bumbling With The Federal Budget . . . While Pols Try To Drive Away Their Own Voters

April 29, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off

By DEXTER DUGGAN As both major political parties maneuvered during complex last-minute negotiations over the federal budget, they also threatened to deprive their own ranks of supporters. Fighting over spending figures was traditional. Trying to create a deficit among their own membership numbers was unsustainable. In late April the Democratic Party’s new chairman, radical leftist Tom Perez, who served as Barack Obama’s secretary of Labor, said every Democrat has to be pro-abortion; it’s not negotiable to take any other stand. Using standard leftist code because Democrats often are ashamed of their own abortion stand, Perez said, “Every Democrat, like every American, should support a woman’s right to make her own choices about her body and her health. That is not…Continue Reading

Patron Of Cancer Patients . . . The Miraculous Cure Of St. Peregrine

April 28, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off

By RAY CAVANAUGH Standing for long periods of time as a penance, St. Peregrine Laziosi (b. 1265) developed a severe infection in his right leg. However, the night before his scheduled amputation, he had a vision of Jesus coming down from the cross to touch his leg, and proceeded to find his leg cured forever. Peregrine is now revered as the patron saint of cancer patients and others facing serious health issues. His liturgical feast day is May 4 (though he is celebrated by some — such as those in his northern Italian hometown of Forli — on his May 1 date of death). There was a time when he had been stridently opposed to the Church. In the turbulent…Continue Reading

Is Macron The EU’s Last Best Hope?

April 27, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN For the French establishment, Sunday’s presidential election came close to a near-death experience. As the Duke of Wellington said of Waterloo, it was a “damn near-run thing.” Neither candidate of the two major parties that have ruled France since Charles De Gaulle even made it into the runoff, an astonishing repudiation of France’s national elite. Marine Le Pen of the National Front ran second with 21.5 percent of the vote. Emmanuel Macron of the new party En Marche! won 23.8 percent. Macron is a heavy favorite on May 7. The Republicans’ Francois Fillon, who got 20 percent, and the Socialists’ Benoit Hamon, who got less than 7 percent, both have urged their supporters to save France…Continue Reading

Faith On Trial… Neil Gorsuch, Meet Scrap Tires

April 26, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off

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.) + + + We don’t normally think of scrap tires as having much to do with religious liberty, but this month they do and will provide a good test of newly confirmed Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch’s First Amendment jurisprudence. New to the court, and immediately after a controversial confirmation process, one of the first cases in which Justice Gorsuch will take part pits a failed nineteenth-century constitutional amendment, the State of Missouri, a church-sponsored day care, and religious freedom over…Continue Reading

American Education: Quo Vadis?

April 25, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK The term “quo vadis” is often associated with a 1951 movie of that name, with Robert Taylor and Deborah Kerr playing Roman Christians persecuted during the time of the Emperor Nero. The origin of the term is the scene in the apocryphal Acts of Peter wherein Peter meets the risen Jesus on a road outside Rome and asks our Lord, “Quo vadis?” (In English, “Where Are You Going?”) I don’t come across it much any longer, but there was a time when the term was used as a colloquial expression among Catholics, referring to where an individual stood in his life’s journey in the faith. J.M. did not use the term specifically in his recent correspondence,…Continue Reading

Piling On Sean Spicer

April 24, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK There are two logical ways that Sean Spicer could have responded when he was attacked for his statement, “Even Hitler did not use chemical weapons during World War II,” which Spicer made during his condemnation of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s use of poison gas against his own people. The first is the way Spicer did respond; the second is the way I think he wanted to respond. The critics piled on Spicer. They accused him of anti-Semitism, of insensitivity, with being ignorant. They demanded his resignation, contending that only an evil man or a dunce could have said what he said in light of Hitler’s use of poison gas in the concentration camps against European Jews.…Continue Reading

Loving Our Teenagers

April 23, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off

By REY FLORES When our daughters were still little, my wife Mary and I swore up and down that we would never refer to our children as “teenagers” once they reached their teenage years. We both got it in our heads and pontificated to anyone who would listen that we would teach our children to be “young adults” instead of “teenagers.” The term “young adult” seemed to carry a sense of responsibility with older generations — before the term “teenager” came into the modern vernacular. As children in past generations hit puberty, they also were expected to start behaving more like young ladies and gentlemen. The Baby Boomer generation was the first generation to be labeled as teenagers. They are…Continue Reading

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