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Brownshirts & Republican Wimps

March 18, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN The Donald Trump rally in Chicago was broken up by a foul-mouthed mob that infiltrated the hall and forced the cancellation of the event to prevent violence and bloodshed. Brownshirt tactics worked. The mob, triumphant, rejoiced. And the reaction of Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and John Kasich? All three Republican rivals blamed — Donald Trump. With his “dangerous style of leadership,” Trump stokes this anger, mewed Rubio, “This is what happens when a leading presidential candidate goes around feeding into a narrative of bitterness and anger and frustration.” Rubio implies that if Trump doesn’t tone down his remarks to pacify the rabble, he will be responsible for the violence visited upon him. Kasich echoed Rubio: “Donald…Continue Reading

Sometimes Mercy Is Cruel

March 17, 2016 Frontpage 1 Comment

By JOHN YOUNG There is a tendency to see justice and mercy in opposition, as though the application of mercy involves a weakening of justice, and vice-versa. The assumption is then made that mercy should be followed rather than justice. But this attitude leads in practice to a lack of mercy. Take the question of euthanasia. It is called mercy killing, with the assumption that it is merciful to put people to death in some cases of severe suffering. This may appear reasonable from a narrow perspective, but only if essential elements are overlooked. The most essential truth ignored is that no one has the moral right to take an innocent human life — not even the person whose life…Continue Reading

Benedict XVI Gives Rare Interview . . . Says The Church Has Lost Missionary Zeal

March 16, 2016 Frontpage 1 Comment

By MAIKE HICKSON Pope Benedict XVI on March 16 gave an interview to Avvenire, the daily newspaper of the Italian Bishops Conference, in which he looked back upon some of the unfruitful developments that followed in the wake of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), criticizing the loss of missionary zeal. The well-informed Giuseppe Nardi, from the German Catholic news website Katholisches.info, is perhaps now the first to have reported in the German language on this significant interview. Pope Benedict reminds us of the formerly indispensable Catholic conviction of the importance of the salvation of souls: “The missionaries of the 16th century were convinced that the unbaptized person is lost forever. After the [Second Vatican] Council, this conviction was definitely abandoned.…Continue Reading

To Be Or Not To Be A Person

March 16, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off

By LAWRENCE P. GRAYSON “The Doctor Will Kill You Now.” This chapter heading in Ramesh Ponnuru’s book, The Party of Death, reflects the chilling view of a detached, business-like, dystopian society. It also is a prescient and ominous description of an expanding culture of death. Procured human extermination, whether at the beginning of life or at its end, is becoming socially acceptable and more commonplace. A clinic in Maryland is attempting to make abortion chic. Its facility resembles a high-end salon with wood floors, plush upholstery and attractive pictures on the walls; its clients are offered hot tea and soft robes as they wait to have their children killed. The now-defunct Dalton Books chain once categorized a book on how…Continue Reading

In The Rite Of The Washing Of The Feet… Cardinal Sarah Gives Scope To Celebrant Priest Whether Or Not To Include Women

March 15, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off

By MAIKE HICKSON A letter from Pope Francis to Robert Cardinal Sarah, the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments was published January 21, 2016, (http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2016/01/21/0041/00085.html), in which Pope Francis decreed that, at the ceremony of the Washing of the Feet (in the Ordinary Latin Rite) on Holy Thursday, the priest may wash the feet not only of men, but also of women. On January 21, Edward Pentin gave a thorough overview of these proposed and permitted changes in the National Catholic Register (http://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/pope-changes-rules-for-washing-of-the-feet-on-holy-thursday), to include the further explanations and instructions as published by the office of Cardinal Sarah himself. In the wake of this general papal decree, some local bishops have further ordained…Continue Reading

Will The Oligarchs Kill Trump?

March 15, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Narrow victories in the Kentucky caucuses and the Louisiana primary, the largest states decided on Saturday, March 5, have moved Donald Trump one step nearer to the nomination. Primaries in Michigan, Mississippi, and Idaho on March 8, and in Florida, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, and North Carolina on March 15, may prove decisive. If Marco Rubio does not win his home state of Florida, he is cooked, as is Gov. John Kasich if he does not win Ohio. Ted Cruz already looks to be the last man between Trump and a GOP nomination that has gone, in the last seven elections, to George H.W. Bush, Bob Dole, George W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney. All five…Continue Reading

Who’s Nominee?. . . Dornan Sizes Up Wild Presidential Race

March 14, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off

By DEXTER DUGGAN In a presidential-election year that looks more like a wild rodeo for candidates, a former congressman from southern California was ready to predict who the major parties finally will put forward for the fall campaign: Donald Trump for the Republicans and Joe Biden for the Democrats. Robert Dornan, an outspoken Republican conservative and Catholic, spoke with The Wanderer for an hour and a quarter during the day while voters were making their presidential preferences known in four states on March 8. Dornan served nine terms in the U.S. House and also worked as a television and radio talk host and actor. By the end of the night, Trump had won three states, diverse Mississippi, Michigan, and Hawaii,…Continue Reading

Fr. Lombardi: With All Due Respect…

March 13, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK I was pleased when I heard that Fr. Federico Lombardi, SJ, the director of the Holy See Press Office, was going to clarify what Pope Francis said about Donald Trump and his views on immigration while on the plane from Mexico to Rome in mid-February. After reading Lombardi’s statement I was less pleased. In fact, it bugged me. Sorry, Father, with all due respect, it came across like one of those non-apology apologies we get from a politician when he puts his foot in his mouth. Lombardi didn’t offer anything as hackneyed as “the Holy Father was taken out of context and regrets if anyone interpreted his words in the wrong way,” but he came close.…Continue Reading

Check Out Terrific Culture Of Life Studies Program

March 12, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off

By REY FLORES St. Joseph and the Gift of Fatherhood is the latest offering from the terrific Culture of Life Studies Program, which is a series of life-affirming supplemental lessons for both schoolteachers and home-schooling parents, and which was just endorsed by Raymond Cardinal Burke. The CLSP is the brainchild of American Life League President and Co-Founder Judie Brown and a few of the CLSP team members who are making the rounds at a number of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) Home-Schooling Conferences this year, as well as the Great Home-School Convention in Cincinnati, March 31 through April 2. The CLSP was the American Life League’s response to the modern culture waging open war against marriage, the family, preborn…Continue Reading

Latina Pro-Lifer . . . Tells How To Save Moms And Babies From Abortion

March 11, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Just as various sorts of mothers approach abortion clinics with their preborn babies’ lives in the balance, various sorts of pro-life women are outside the clinics to try to redirect the moms’ footsteps and their futures. A longtime sidewalk counselor told The Wanderer that while ultrasound images are “fabulous” to persuade mothers to choose life for their babies, it’s even more important for the women to win their own interior spiritual battle. Victory in this battle will protect both mother and baby, said bilingual Arizonan Luz Fuenzalida, a native of Chile who became a U.S. citizen. Fuenzalida said she often makes contact with abortion-inclined Latinas outside the abortuaries, who also may be illegal immigrants and…Continue Reading

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