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Open Letter To U.S. Bishops Attending The Synod… The Church’s Teachings On The Family Need No Updating

May 22, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Open Letter To U.S. Bishops Attending The Synod… The Church’s Teachings On The Family Need No Updating

By MICHAEL HARTNETT (Editor’s Note: Michael Hartnett lives with his family in the Chicago area, where he works as a project manager and public policy analyst. He has authored or coauthored numerous published reports that address federal transportation, environmental, and pension and retirement policies. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida and a master’s degree in public affairs from the University of Texas at Austin. Currently, he is studying at The Institute for Lay Formation, University of St. Mary of the Lake, in Mundelein, Ill.) + + + To the American Bishops participating in the Synod on the Family, I was disturbed recently to learn that my diocese has felt it necessary to survey the faithful regarding…Continue Reading

Is It Really All Our Fault?

May 22, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Is It Really All Our Fault?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN As Middle America rises in rage against “fast track” and the mammoth Obamatrade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, The Wall Street Journal has located the source of the malady. A recent lead editorial began: “Here we go again. In the 1990s Pat Buchanan launched a civil war within the Republican Party on a platform targeting immigration and trade. Some claimed Pitchfork Pat was the future of the GOP, though in the end he mainly contributed to its presidential defeats.” But, woe is us, “the GOP’s Buchanan wing is making a comeback.” Now it is true that, while Nixon and Reagan won 49-state landslides and gave the GOP five victories in six presidential contests, the party…Continue Reading

Everyone God Creates Is Very Good

May 21, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Everyone God Creates Is Very Good

By JOHN PAUL LAVALLEE (Editor’s Note: John Paul Lavallee, a student at Our Lady of Lourdes, Bethesda, Md., wrote this pro-life essay that has won local and national awards. Wanderer columnist Fr. Kevin M. Cusick met this young man at a recent Maryland Right to Life banquet. Fr. Cusick points out that John Paul, who has autism, dictated his essay because he cannot read or write. Someone read the essay out loud for him at the banquet. (The Lavallee family granted The Wanderer permission to reprint John Paul’s essay. All rights reserved.) + + + I have many friends with autism, Down syndrome, and other disabilities. Some of them would have been aborted if their parents did not respect their…Continue Reading

The Withering Of The Episcopal Church

May 20, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on The Withering Of The Episcopal Church

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK I recently came across an article on the Huffington Post website entitled “The Withering of a Church Between Pastors” by Mark Osler, a professor of law at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis. Osler describes how “my Episcopal church is fading before my eyes. Several months ago (because I usually arrive later for services), I would find myself wedged into the last few seats in the back of the church. Then a few months ago, I began to find plenty of seats, even for a latecomer. Now, there is row after row of empty pews as I walk in. The service is short, in large part because the offering is taken and communion distributed in…Continue Reading

Arizona Disdain For McCain . . . Rand Paul Talk Brings A Deeper Message To Phoenix Area

May 19, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Arizona Disdain For McCain . . . Rand Paul Talk Brings A Deeper Message To Phoenix Area

By DEXTER DUGGAN TEMPE, Ariz. — When national political candidates make speaking stops around the country, an additional message also can get delivered with heavy local implications. Just before Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul stepped to the microphones for a campus appearance at Arizona State University in this Phoenix suburb, Arizona GOP State Sen. Kelli Ward presented the libertarian-inclined Paul to the cheering crowd after asking, “Who is here because they want to fight for freedom?” The audience cheered at Ward’s question. Throughout the United States, Paul, a U.S. senator from Kentucky, is well-known for strong opposition to the overweening type of national-security government favored by none other than Arizona’s senior U.S. senator, John McCain. Since he became a national…Continue Reading

Crossing The Line On Commencement Speakers

May 18, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Crossing The Line On Commencement Speakers

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK The Cardinal Newman Society continues to provide important information about what is taking place at Catholic colleges these days. The organization’s April 22 press release provided a troubling list of this year’s commencement speakers and honorees at eight Catholic colleges. It should be kept in mind that in 2004 the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a document, Catholics in Political Life, requiring Catholic institutions to withhold honors and platforms for opponents of Catholic teaching. The eight colleges listed by the Newman Society are not doing that. Let’s go through the list: The College of Our Lady of the Elms (Elms College) in Chicopee, Mass., will host Cong. John Lewis of Georgia, who has “earned 100 percent…Continue Reading

Losing Our Religion

May 17, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Losing Our Religion

By REY FLORES “The United States is a significantly less Christian country than it was seven years ago. That’s the top finding — one that will ricochet through American faith, culture, and politics — in the Pew Research Center’s newest report, America’s Changing Religious Landscape, released Tuesday [May 12]” — USA Today. + + + Are we really losing our religion or is this the latest in a volley of attacks on Christianity by the mainstream media? I find studies like these, especially the ones about Christianity, unfounded for a number of reasons. The main reason is that many secular institutions conduct surveys with random test subjects that oftentimes represent an already indoctrinated and dumbed-down sector of society. If I…Continue Reading

It’s Time To Speak Up . . . The Silence Of The Synod On Life And Family Issues Was Deafening

May 16, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on It’s Time To Speak Up . . . The Silence Of The Synod On Life And Family Issues Was Deafening

By JOHN SMEATON (Editor’s Note: John Smeaton has worked in the pro-life movement for 41 years, and currently serves as president of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children [SPUC], the world’s oldest pro-life organization. He delivered a longer version of this article at the second annual Rome Life Forum on Saturday, May 9. (LifeSiteNews provided this text. All rights reserved.) + + + When the pro-life movement came into existence almost 50 years ago it was in response to the legalization, and rapid spread, of abortion around the world. Our task was to secure legal protection for unborn children. However, in recent decades we have witnessed the culture of death expand into new areas of human life: including,…Continue Reading

Republican Leadership . . . More Eager To Help Obama’s Agenda Than Pro-Lifers’ Rights

May 15, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Republican Leadership . . . More Eager To Help Obama’s Agenda Than Pro-Lifers’ Rights

By DEXTER DUGGAN Like the legislative process in the nation’s capital, navigating Washington, D.C.’s, complex street system can be confusing to newcomers. It helps to have a traffic cop to show the way. However, there’s a problem when Officer Barack Obama at his whim declares streets to be one-way, closed down, or full-throttle through a school zone, and national lawmakers are perfectly willing to help him flout the rules. The least the lawmakers could do is demand that lawless Obama stay within the marked lanes sometimes. But why bother when the White House and the Republicans’ congressional majority appear to share the same big-items agenda? In mid-May, Republicans on Capitol Hill were fighting to help untrustworthy Obama pass his controversial…Continue Reading

Is A UK Crackup Ahead?

May 14, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Is A UK Crackup Ahead?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN David Cameron is the most successful Tory Party leader since Margaret Thatcher. Yet history may also record that his success led to the crackup of his country, and Great Britain’s secession from the European Union. How did Cameron’s Tories capture their majority? First, they compiled a strong record to run on. More critically, they attacked the Labor Party of Ed Miliband as too far left to govern, and warned that a Labor government would be hostage to a secessionist Scottish National Party, without whose votes Miliband could never reach a majority in Parliament. Labor could not shake off the charge, because it was true. The attack on the SNP as a subversive party secretly allied with…Continue Reading