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Maria Divine Mercy . . . New Ebook, Newspaper Coverage Focus Fresh Attention On Internet Seer

February 14, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Maria Divine Mercy . . . New Ebook, Newspaper Coverage Focus Fresh Attention On Internet Seer

By DEXTER DUGGAN An anonymous international Internet seer without ecclesiastical authorization apparently didn’t like it when an Irish Sunday newspaper publicized what seemed to be her name as February dawned. Although “Maria Divine Mercy” (MDM) claims a direct line to God warning of the “end times,” she hadn’t revealed her own identity since she began presenting her apparently widely followed apocalyptic messages online in 2010. The closest she came was during an interview with a Pennsylvania religious radio station in 2011, when she said she was an Irish mother of four from a Catholic background. Since then, she reportedly avoided revealing her voice. The Wanderer wrote her up last year, in the May 29, 2014, issue, based on an interview…Continue Reading

A Worthless Piece Of Paper

February 13, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on A Worthless Piece Of Paper

By ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO President George W. Bush was fond of saying that “9/11 changed everything.” He used that one-liner often as a purported moral basis to justify the radical restructuring of federal law and the federal assault on personal liberties over which he presided. He cast aside his oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution; he rejected his oath to enforce all federal laws faithfully; and he moved the government decidedly in the direction of secret laws, secret procedures, and secret courts. During his presidency, Congress enacted the Patriot Act. This legislation permits federal agents to write their own search warrants when those warrants are served on custodians of records — like doctors, lawyers, telecoms, computer servers, banks,…Continue Reading

The State Of The Union Speech . . . Why Obama Is On The Offensive?

February 12, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on The State Of The Union Speech . . . Why Obama Is On The Offensive?

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK I listened to Geraldo Rivera’s New York City talk show the morning after President Obama’s State of the Union speech. Rivera’s reaction was the same as that of many commentators, but in more colorful language. He couldn’t get over how this “skinny, confident dude” was so “in your face” toward the Republicans in the Congress and the majority of the country who elected them in last fall’s elections. Rivera informed his audience that he likes a president who “doesn’t back down” when the going gets tough, who “had guts enough” to push for his proposals even though he knew there was not a chance that the Republican majority in Congress would enact them into law.

Are Statues Idols? Why Statues And Idols Are Two Different Things

February 11, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Are Statues Idols? Why Statues And Idols Are Two Different Things

By RAYMOND DE SOUZA, KM Part 1 For quite some time I have been intrigued by the constant repetition common among non-Catholics that to have statues in church or at home smacks of idolatry. I remember the first time I was pushed against the wall by a Baptist man in a conversation: He simply said to me that it was a shame that such an evident Bible teaching was blatantly and systematically ignored by the Roman Catholic Church: God clearly forbade the carving of images, idols, and of honoring them. And yet Catholics fill up their churches and homes with images of saints and angels, which are abhorrent to God’s saints and His angels. In those days I did not…Continue Reading

When Is Bullying Permissible?

February 10, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on When Is Bullying Permissible?

By DONALD DeMARCO He is now a journalist, but he remembers, with painful clarity, a learning experience he had when in grade 7. He had made the politically incorrect act of writing the word “fireman.” His teacher, an apostle of gender-free nouns and “inclusive” language, slashed a big red X across the offending word and replaced it with “firefighter.” “The severity of that slash,” he recalls, “thick and bleeding with disapproval — was mortifying because, even as a kid, I recall thinking that my teacher thought I was sexist.” Can we categorize the teacher’s action as bullying? There are four types of bullying: physical, verbal, emotional, and cyber. Emotional bullying occurs, according to one authority, when “one partner might make…Continue Reading

More On Pope Francis Vs. Joseph Farah

February 9, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on More On Pope Francis Vs. Joseph Farah

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK The January 22 edition of First Teachers was devoted to syndicated columnist Joseph Farah’s disagreement with Pope Francis on the question of evolution. Farah took issue with Francis’ assertion that the theory of “evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve.” Farah described the Pope’s position as “his story” of creation, not “His story,” going on to ask, “If the Fall of Man is just an allegory, one wonders why Jesus would have had to come to atone for man’s sins?” Farah added, “If the pope doesn’t believe the foundational aspect of the Bible, does he believe any of it? If he does, he…Continue Reading

Child Not Quite What Was Ordered . . . The Shady World Of Surrogacy Exposed In Italy

February 8, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Child Not Quite What Was Ordered . . . The Shady World Of Surrogacy Exposed In Italy

By ROBERT CLARKE (Editor’s Note: Robert Clarke, litigation staff counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom in Vienna, Austria, wrote this commentary. ADF is an international, alliance-building legal organization that advocates for religious freedom, the sanctity of life, and marriage and the family in numerous courts and consultative bodies worldwide. (ZENIT News Agency provided this text. All rights reserved.) + + + Recently, the European Court of Human Rights issued a judgment in Paradiso and Campanelli v. Italy, which reveals a lot about the shady world of surrogacy. The court ruled that Italy was able to deny registering a child to an Italian couple because the child was born by a surrogate mother in Russia and had no biological genetic link to…Continue Reading

Students Convene . . . On How To Reach Out, Move Culture Away From Abortion

February 7, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Students Convene . . . On How To Reach Out, Move Culture Away From Abortion

By DEXTER DUGGAN SAN FRANCISCO — Pro-lifers trying to save mothers and their unborn babies outside abortion clinics need to be approachable and personable, an official with one of the nation’s sidewalk outreach programs told a daylong student conference here. If the pregnant woman “feels you are judging her, she will shut down on you” and not listen, Lauren Muzyka, executive director of Sidewalk Advocates for Life (sidewalkadvocates.org), told the West Coast national conference of Students for Life of America (SFLA) here on January 25. About 420 students attended the conference the day after the Walk for Life West Coast marched through downtown San Francisco. Two days earlier, the conference registration desk told The Wanderer, about 2,300 students were at…Continue Reading

Needed: Moral Boldness, Not Tepidity

February 6, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Needed: Moral Boldness, Not Tepidity

  By LAWRENCE P. GRAYSON The recent atrocities against the staff of Charlie Hebdo created a worldwide outpouring of support for freedom of expression. Some one million people, including over 40 heads of state, marched in Paris to exhibit a commitment to a liberal, tolerant social order and against terrorist extremism attempting to impose censorship through fear. The satire used in Charlie Hebdo is extreme and often obscene, with blasphemous depictions of Christianity, Judaism, and to a lesser extent Islam. The reaction of the Islamic jihadists has been violent, destructive, and murderous. As with many issues that evoke strong emotions, two opposing positions toward freedom of expression have crystallized. One holds sacred an unrestrained, libertine view of self-expression, even if…Continue Reading

The Modern Civil Rights Movement And The Path To Socialism

February 5, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on The Modern Civil Rights Movement And The Path To Socialism

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK Before beginning, let me make clear what is not my point: I am not arguing that Martin Luther King, if he had not been killed, would be an opponent of the civil rights movement of today. There is no way of knowing that. If anything, the case can be made that he would have evolved politically in the same manner that former allies of his in the 1960s evolved. I am thinking of people like Elijah Cummings, John Conyers, and Maxine Waters. They are ardent supporters of the government-enforced racial preferences and wealth redistribution programs that are central to the modern civil rights movement. There is not a dime’s worth of difference between their views and…Continue Reading