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Wikipedia: A Reliable Source?

October 7, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Wikipedia: A Reliable Source?

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK I have been hearing for years that it is unwise to use the website Wikipedia.com for my research because, people say, “anyone can put anything in there.” Which is largely true. Wikipedia — a combination of “wiki,” the Hawaiian word for quick, and encyclopedia — is a collection of nearly 5 million articles in its English version, written and edited by people who feel they have expertise to offer on a particular subject. This means that when you look up a topic on Wikipedia you are reading articles by anonymous individuals, who may or may not know what they are talking about. The people who run the website state that they “strive for articles that document…Continue Reading

A Leaven In The World… The Hug And The Shrug: Kim Davis And The Pope

October 6, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on A Leaven In The World… The Hug And The Shrug: Kim Davis And The Pope

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK As with all things Catholic and all things in life, we must always put the most charitable interpretation on events that come to our attention. If they come to our knowledge through sinful curiosity, it is, of course, none of our business. In our voyeuristic culture, however, where the news cycle knows no sleep and many people record their entire existence on the Internet, it becomes increasingly heroically virtuous to observe private boundaries in our culture and to ask that others do the same. In this milieu almost every word and action of Pope Francis is recorded, analyzed, and spun. To our Holy Father Pope Francis we owe a great deal in the way of…Continue Reading

On The 50th Anniversary Of Dei Verbum . . . The Inerrant Truth Of God’s Word

October 5, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on On The 50th Anniversary Of Dei Verbum . . . The Inerrant Truth Of God’s Word

By JOSEF FROULA (Editor’s Note: Professor Josef Froula has taught dogmatic theology at Holy Apostles College and Seminary since 2003. He holds a master’s in humanities, a master’s in dogmatic theology, and is pursuing a doctorate in education.) + + + November 18, 2015 marks the golden jubilee of the promulgation of Dei Verbum, the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation. This momentous document of the Second Vatican Council sought to clarify the nature and scope of divine Revelation by answering the following questions. How does God manifest Himself to us? How do we participate in His life and knowledge? Can we really trust the words of Scripture? With so much dissent and disagreement among Catholics of our day, it seems…Continue Reading

Homily of Pope Francis during the Mass for the opening of the 14th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops

October 4, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Homily of Pope Francis during the Mass for the opening of the 14th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops

HOLY MASS FOR THE OPENING OF THE XIV ORDINARY GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE SYNOD OF BISHOPS HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS Vatican Basilica 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 4 October 2015 [Multimedia] “If we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us” (1 Jn 4:12). This Sunday’s Scripture readings seem to have been chosen precisely for this moment of grace which the Church is experiencing: the Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the family, which begins with this Eucharistic celebration. The readings centre on three themes: solitude, love between man and woman, and the family. Solitude Adam, as we heard in the first reading, was living in the Garden of Eden.…Continue Reading

Boehner’s Self-Defeat . . . Will It Finally Teach GOP Establishment To Fight?

October 4, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Boehner’s Self-Defeat . . . Will It Finally Teach GOP Establishment To Fight?

By DEXTER DUGGAN A rumor was afoot that John Boehner would be challenged for the U.S. House speakership in two weeks, after immediate budget negotiations were out of the way, former California Cong. Robert Dornan told The Wanderer during a September 20 telephone talk. Congress can be a glacial institution, big, cold, and slow-moving, a source of frustration to conservative reformers who want to hack away at its corruption. If Republican Boehner were removed, said Dornan during the call, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would have to wonder what happens to him once his established relationship with the leader of the other congressional chamber is gone. The glacier, for a change, strapped on racing wheels. By the time Dornan and…Continue Reading

The Enigma That Is Pope Francis

October 3, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on The Enigma That Is Pope Francis

By REY FLORES Now that the dust has settled from Pope Francis’ little Fiat 500 during his papal visit to the United States, I can reflect on some of what I learned from the entire event. I learned mainly that most people in America don’t know what the heck they’re talking about when it comes to the Catholic Church, the Pope, and what it all means. Certainly the propaganda news media do all they can to co-opt, distort, or misrepresent who Pope Francis is and what his words mean, further confusing just about everyone, including many Catholics. It doesn’t help that Pope Francis tends to shoot from the hip and speak from his heart; sometimes his message can be easily…Continue Reading

Pope’s World And The Real World

October 2, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Pope’s World And The Real World

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Pope Francis’ four-day visit to the United States was by any measure a personal and political triumph. The crowds were immense, and coverage of the Holy Father on television and in the print press swamped the state visit of Xi Jinping, the leader of the world’s second-greatest power. But how enduring, and how relevant, was the Pope’s celebration of diversity, multiculturalism, inclusiveness, open borders, and a world of forgiveness, peace, harmony and love is another question. The day the Pope departed Philadelphia, 48 percent of Catalonia, in a record turnout of 78 percent, voted to deliver a parliamentary majority to two parties that advocate seceding from Spain. Like the Scots in Britain, the Walloons in Belgium,…Continue Reading

From Courtroom To Campaign Trail . . . CMP’s Videos Continue Making An Impact

October 1, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on From Courtroom To Campaign Trail . . . CMP’s Videos Continue Making An Impact

By DEXTER DUGGAN Sting videos from the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) about abortionists’ greed and cruelty continue to prove their visual power, both because of people who say to view them and people who want to censor them. Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina kept bringing Planned Parenthood videos up in her campaign after she rocked the second GOP debate, by issuing a challenge to watch them, while the National Abortion Federation (NAF) continued trying to block the release of additional CMP videos it feared would expose its practices. After the southern California-based CMP began releasing the videos in mid-July, the NAF dashed off to a strongly pro-abortion federal judge in San Francisco, William Orrick, appointed by Barack Obama, to…Continue Reading

Pope Francis at daily Mass: joy of the Lord our strength

October 1, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Pope Francis at daily Mass: joy of the Lord our strength

(Vatican Radio) The joy of the Lord is our strength, and in Him we discover who we really are: this was the focus of Pope Francis’ reflection following the readings of the day at Mass in the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta on Thursday morning, the feast of St. Therese of Lisieux. The Holy Father focused especially on the need to cultivate nostalgia – deep yearning – for God in the Christian life. Drawing on the First Reading, from the Book of the Prophet Nehemiah, Pope Francis reflected on the people of Israel, who, after long years of exile, had at last returned to Jerusalem. He recalled that, in the years of Babylonian captivity, the people always remembered their…Continue Reading

President Xi’s Swag Vs. The Pope’s Black Fiat

September 30, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on President Xi’s Swag Vs. The Pope’s Black Fiat

By JOHN J. METZLER UNITED NATIONS — Both Pope Francis and China’s president visited the United States at the same time. Two men whose paths nearly intersected, but not touch, in New York at the United Nations are each leaders of 1.2 billion people: the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, and Comrade President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China. Pope Francis arrived amid White House pomp and circumstance ceremonies, rather improbably in a little black Fiat. President Xi went around in black limos as one would expect. Pope Francis, a Jesuit from Argentina, brings a pastoral message, but often swerves into politics. President Xi, a Politburo hardliner, visits America both with his business portfolio and with the…Continue Reading