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The Debate Over Antonin Scalia’s Replacement

March 7, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on The Debate Over Antonin Scalia’s Replacement

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK I can picture myself — if I were a modern high school student — trying to make sense of all the shouting between Republicans and Democrats over how to proceed with replacing the recently deceased Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. I think I would be asking myself what people think is so important about whether a Supreme Court Justice is an “originalist,” like Scalia, or an advocate of interpreting the Constitution as a “living document.” The teenage version of myself would be scratching his head over why this question would matter to anyone other than historians and constitutional law scholars. What difference would it make to the average citizen if President Obama gets to pick…Continue Reading

What’s So Funny About Peace, Love, And Understanding?

March 6, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on What’s So Funny About Peace, Love, And Understanding?

By REY FLORES Is it just me or have people become ruder, less patient, and more uncaring in the last decade? Perhaps it’s cyberspace and the anonymity of our social media activities where I have noticed that people become downright mean to each other, having the “courage” to spout off whatever they want — knowing that it’s unlikely they’ll ever have to answer for their misbehavior. Road rage seems to be on the increase as well as I see people cutting each other off, making crass hand gestures at each other, or just plain driving recklessly without concern for the safety of themselves or others. There’s a level of anonymity there as well, but it is definitely more likely to…Continue Reading

Luther 1517-2017 . . . Five Hundred Years Of Heresy And Doctrinal Confusion

March 5, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on Luther 1517-2017 . . . Five Hundred Years Of Heresy And Doctrinal Confusion

By RAYMOND DE SOUZA, KM Part 1 (Editor’s Note: This is the first installment in a series by Wanderer contributor Raymond de Souza on Henry VIII’s book defending the seven sacraments against Martin Luther. De Souza edited this updated version of Henry’s work, which is presented to readers in this series. In the text below, de Souza explains more about the book. (This series will appear on a regular basis, as space allows.) + + + In 2017 — alongside the 100th anniversary of the Apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima — a tragic anniversary will be celebrated in Germany and elsewhere: five hundred years since the Lutheran so-called “reformation,” more appropriately called a “deformation.” Lutherans and people of many…Continue Reading

Of Cabbages And Kings

March 4, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on Of Cabbages And Kings

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK “The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: “Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax — “Of cabbages — and kings.” Is it just old fogies who think society is going downhill? If you think that, ask yourself what Huckleberry Finn would look like if Mark Twain were writing the book today. Why would he be different from the meth-head, tattooed, body-pierced Mississippi River town layabouts of today? They say the Clinton team has an army of political advisers to help Hillary project the correct image. Why, then, doesn’t someone work with her on that open-mouthed cackle of a laugh? Even career leftists cringe when they hear it. I’m beginning to…Continue Reading

Abortion Survivor . . . Baby Chava Enters World To Scent Of Orange Blossoms, Then Departs

March 3, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on Abortion Survivor . . . Baby Chava Enters World To Scent Of Orange Blossoms, Then Departs

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — As orange blossoms just began to scent the air in neighborhoods here, a prematurely budded new human life also appeared in late February. In about 10 months, the little white blossoms will be succeeded by fully ripe oranges. The new baby didn’t stay around for a taste. The days are warm and the nights are cool on the desert now. In that evening air, about 50 pro-lifers turned out for a prayer vigil on the sidewalk in front of a large hospital after learning of an alert on Facebook by “Pro-Life Arizona” that a baby who survived an abortion and reportedly breathed was transported to this location the previous afternoon. The vigil-keepers started arriving before…Continue Reading

Hillary Vs. The Donald

March 2, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on Hillary Vs. The Donald

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN In a Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump race — which, the Beltway keening aside, seems the probable outcome of the primaries — what are the odds the GOP can take the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court? If Republicans can unite, not bad, not bad at all. Undeniably, Democrats open with a strong hand. There is that famed “blue wall,” those 18 states and D.C. with a combined 242 electoral votes, just 28 shy of victory, that have gone Democratic in every presidential election since 1988. The wall contains all of New England save New Hampshire; the Acela corridor (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland); plus Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois, and Wisconsin in the…Continue Reading

Decriminalizing Public Urination In NYC

March 1, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on Decriminalizing Public Urination In NYC

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK You have to give the leftists credit: They are persistent. Think back to the early 1990s, when New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton put in place the “broken windows” theory about police enforcement during Rudolph Giuliani’s time as mayor. The policy became so widely applauded that even the liberal establishment refrained from criticism. That didn’t last. The left regrouped, and now, as we speak, the City Council in New York City is seriously proposing the decriminalization of public urination. I’m serious: This isn’t an early April’s Fool joke. It is hard to image a more dramatic turnabout from the broken windows theory. There are lessons to be learned here about what motivates the left in…Continue Reading

But Media Prefer Different Narrative . . . Pope Notes That Latino Reform Should Begin At Home

February 29, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on But Media Prefer Different Narrative . . . Pope Notes That Latino Reform Should Begin At Home

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Some words Pope Francis recently spoke about Mexico didn’t get as much attention in or by the media as his alleged condemnation of Donald Trump’s conscience on wall-building, where the headlines soared higher than that planned border barrier. So Francis urging Mexican self-improvement didn’t get the gleam like the media spotlight on the supposed shame of the billionaire Republican presidential candidate. The self-help counsel from the Pope was reported, but it didn’t feed the left-wing narrative that the people of the United States have an obligation to shoulder most or all of Mexico’s shrugged-off responsibilities. Reuters news service reported that in poverty-riddled Ecatepec on February 14, Francis “urged his listeners to struggle to make Mexico…Continue Reading

A Movie Review . . . Risen: The Greatest Manhunt In History

February 28, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on A Movie Review . . . Risen: The Greatest Manhunt In History

By REY FLORES Not since I viewed Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ had I been so excited to watch a movie about Jesus. Risen, however, isn’t so much about Jesus as it is about one man who, like many of us, came to believe in God’s time under his own special circumstances. God’s time for this man was Jesus’ Resurrection from the dead. I couldn’t imagine a more powerful way for one to start believing in our risen Lord than to be given the task of finding the holiest of fugitives. Set exactly at the time of Jesus’ crucifixion and Resurrection, Risen was released by no accident at the beginning of this season of Lent. Hollywood, perhaps, isn’t…Continue Reading

Karl Rahner, Paul VI, And John Paul II . . . Regarding Morally Difficult Situations

February 27, 2016 Frontpage Comments Off on Karl Rahner, Paul VI, And John Paul II . . . Regarding Morally Difficult Situations

By JOHN F. KIPPLEY (Editor’s Note: John F. Kippley is the author of Sex and the Marriage Covenant: A Basis for Morality and other books and articles. With his wife Sheila, he is a coauthor of Natural Family Planning: The Complete Approach and cofounder of NFP International. This commentary appeared on his blog [johnkippley.com] and is reprinted with permission.) + + + The real issue raised by the ambiguous statements of Pope Francis and [Vatican spokesman] Fr. Federico Lombardi is this: Are there situations when you can do something that is morally evil in order to accomplish some good? Can you do something you regard as a lesser evil in order to avoid what you regard as a greater evil?…Continue Reading