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New E-Book Takes A Look… What 2014 Family Synod May Warn Us About 2015 Synod

September 11, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on New E-Book Takes A Look… What 2014 Family Synod May Warn Us About 2015 Synod

By DEXTER DUGGAN From when the Lord Jesus was born into earthly time, born into a religious people often anticipating a political Messiah, and worldly rulers fearing one, intriguers have woven themselves into the life of the Body of Christ. Some of them perhaps truly expected their activity would be broadly beneficial. Even those with only self-centered goals may have persuaded themselves of the rightness of their undertakings. Even back when the Church was mainly a minor pilgrim in the Mediterranean. Today, the size of the prize is far greater. The 21st-century Vatican is as natural a target for those seeking to manipulate mighty outcomes as the U.S. Pentagon is for military spies from elsewhere, or a banking headquarters for…Continue Reading

Orthodox Rabbi . . . Says Pope Emeritus Benedict Should Speak Out Before Synod

September 10, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Orthodox Rabbi . . . Says Pope Emeritus Benedict Should Speak Out Before Synod

By PEGGY MOEN ST. PAUL — Orthodox Rabbi Yehuda Levin of Brooklyn, a longtime pro-life, pro-family activist, in a September 9 telephone interview with The Wanderer said he is “calling upon the eminent Pope Benedict…to weigh in before the Synod” against same-sex marriage and civil unions, as well as “on all the negative things that are going on.” Rabbi Levin offered his view that Benedict has “got to be a fighter for this,” given “the volume of the negative stuff” and because “God and His people are under attack in a vicious way,” particularly in their efforts to defend marriage. He said he is calling upon the Pope Emeritus “as a plea…to come out with great clarification.” Rabbi Levin has…Continue Reading

Can A Christian Be A County Clerk In America?

September 9, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Can A Christian Be A County Clerk In America?

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY (Editor’s Note: Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor-in-chief of CNSnews.com. Creators Syndicate distributes his column. All rights reserved.) + + + Can a Christian be a county clerk in the United States? This is a question it now appears may ultimately be decided by five Supreme Court justices. With it, too, will ride such questions as: Can a Christian be a doctor? A nurse? A public school teacher? In June, when five justices declared that the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment creates a right to “same-sex marriage,” Justice Clarence Thomas issued a warning. “In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution, it is a religious institution as well,” Thomas wrote in his…Continue Reading

Making A Fool Of The Conscientious

September 8, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Making A Fool Of The Conscientious

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK We continue to get letters about the proposals by Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton to forgive the student loans held by recent college graduates. Sanders’ and Clinton’s plans differ slightly from each other, and seem to change from day to day, but the goal is the same: to permit American students to graduate from college “debt free.” Both plans would require large tax increases, or an enormous increase in the national debt, if financed through government borrowing. W.B. of Virginia writes, “Loan forgiveness makes a fool of my son who received his master’s degree in engineering by working 20 hours weekly for five years. It is the government’s way to reward bad behavior and punish good…Continue Reading

Media Try Calling The Shots . . . But Trump Talks Past Arrogant Interrupters To Reach The People

September 7, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Media Try Calling The Shots . . . But Trump Talks Past Arrogant Interrupters To Reach The People

By DEXTER DUGGAN As the Donald Trump tornado continued howling over the land, the question remained whether this big wind blew for good or ill. Or rather, good for whom and ill for whom? Because it seemed likely to benefit some faction, fraction or formidable force, but not all of them together. It couldn’t have blown into being without a reason. Was Trump truly a frustrated tycoon with conservative sympathies who finally tired of the political game-playing pulling down the nation, and he resolved to rout it? Or did he conceal being a representative of what he actually comes from, the anti-conservative donor class, jumping into the fray to undercut the large assortment of conservative GOP presidential aspirants for 2016?…Continue Reading

Christians Must Walk The Walk

September 6, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Christians Must Walk The Walk

By REY FLORES Ever since the Supreme Court ruling on the abomination known as same-sex “marriage,” emboldened same-sex couples carrying their Obama-issued carte blanche are smugly walking into their respective state courts demanding to be treated like queens as they apply for state-issued marriage licenses. This was the likely expectation since the Supreme Court dropped that huge rainbow-colored glitter bomb on us this past summer. Then there are people who are refusing to issue those licenses, like the Rowan County, Ky., court clerk whose name is Kim Davis. She has refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, and she is scheduled to face a federal judge as I am writing and submitting this column to my editor. Davis and…Continue Reading

As Ninth Horrors Video Appears… GOP Leader Says Wait Until 2017 To Cut PP Tax funding

September 5, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on As Ninth Horrors Video Appears… GOP Leader Says Wait Until 2017 To Cut PP Tax funding

By DEXTER DUGGAN What more must the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) reveal in its Planned Parenthood sting videos before the Republican Party grows a spine? Having chosen the fetal position itself, the GOP should have gestated some backbone by now. Since the videos began to be released on a general weekly schedule in mid-July, viewers have seen a march of horrors of aborted babies having their organs cruelly harvested reminiscent of National Socialist Germany, except it’s not Adolf Hitler’s treasury that makes the money off this. Having destroyed the babies’ lives as worthless, abortionists turn right around and sell the valuable organs they needed to survive for profit. But grown-up Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) seemed as…Continue Reading

Settling For Second Best

September 4, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Settling For Second Best

By DONALD DeMARCO The basic mistake that Adam and Eve made was to opt for the second best. They left a privileged life in Paradise and journeyed east of Eden where they would suffer pain and death. They preferred to sever their tie with God and make it on their own. The gap between the best and second best in this case, however, is wide enough to allow entrance to all the evils of the world. Choosing the second best is not advisable. And yet, we continue to make this egregious mistake. We choose, as did our primal parents, the illusion of autonomy over the reality of transcendence. Sigmund Freud, as Philip Rieff asserts in his excellent work, The Triumph…Continue Reading

A Portrait Of St. Peter

September 3, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on A Portrait Of St. Peter

By PHILIP TROWER I don’t know about you, but I have always found St. Peter one of the more endearing, if not the most endearing, of all the main figures in Holy Scripture. By endearing I mean a particular kind of lovableness which one wouldn’t necessarily apply to everyone one loves, or even loves most. One’s mother, for instance. But it is real enough all the same, and it is partly to highlight this quality in the prince of the apostles that I have written this sketch. It makes him so easy to feel at ease with. He doesn’t have a brilliant mind like St. Paul. He is not a natural leader like King David, and he is not a…Continue Reading

Is The Pope A Marxist?

September 2, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Is The Pope A Marxist?

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK Is the Pope a Marxist? You are hearing the charge more and more frequently of late, especially in the wake of Pope Francis’ visit to South America in early July. The headline in The New York Times on July 12 read: “In a Fiery Speech, Francis Excoriates Capitalism.” The article went on to quote Francis’ remarks in a speech in Asuncion, Paraguay, where he described the unfettered pursuit of money as “the dung of the devil.” The Times called attention to Francis’ insistence that “poor countries should not be reduced to being providers of raw material and cheap labor for developed countries.” Prominent defenders of free market theory, such as Stephen Moore of the Heritage Foundation…Continue Reading