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As GOP Yanks Bill . . Rally Speaker Warns That Foes Will Try To Buy Off Pro-Lifers

February 4, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on As GOP Yanks Bill . . Rally Speaker Warns That Foes Will Try To Buy Off Pro-Lifers

By DEXTER DUGGAN SAN FRANCISCO — Looking out at a sea of listeners filling City Hall’s expansive Civic Center Plaza here, a speaker compared the pro-life movement’s progress to where the civil-rights movement was in the late 1960s or early 1970s — a social force gaining enough clout that opponents try to buy it off. Many of the tens of thousands present here for the Walk for Life West Coast rally and march on January 24 were keenly aware that national Republican Party leadership had just shocked Washington, D.C., by yanking a bill to restrict late abortions off the U.S. House calendar and replacing it with a weaker measure against abortion funding. Veteran Baptist pastor and civil-rights advocate Clenard Childress…Continue Reading

Fiorina Points Out . . . Wide Effects Of Supposedly Private Abortion Decision

February 3, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Fiorina Points Out . . . Wide Effects Of Supposedly Private Abortion Decision

By DEXTER DUGGAN Possible Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina pointed out during a talk in Washington, D.C., that abortion has far-reaching consequences for families — instead of being the private, individual decision that champions of permissive abortion claim. People soon would be gathering in the nation’s capital to march for life, Fiorina said on January 20, in recognition that “the life we save may make all the difference in the lives of others.” Fiorina, the former president of high-tech Hewlett-Packard Co., spoke at a program at the conservative Heritage Foundation co-hosted by the National Review Institute educational organization, titled, “Welcoming every life: Choosing life after an unexpected prenatal diagnosis.”

Is The Problem Radical Islam? Or Violent Extremists?

February 2, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Is The Problem Radical Islam? Or Violent Extremists?

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK How should we introduce our children to the debate over the Obama administration’s decision not to use the terms “radical Islam” and “Islamic terrorists” to describe groups such as ISIS and the killers of the editors of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo? It can be a confusing topic: Does it really make a difference if we describe the killers as “radical Islamists,” or — as the administration prefers — “violent extremists” with a “warped view of Islam.” It is easy to picture a modern Rip Van Winkle scratching his head in confusion. What is the distinction that is being drawn if one argues the Paris terrorists are not “radical Islamists,” but rather individuals with a…Continue Reading

The Lepanto Institute Commits To Victory For Our Church

February 1, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on The Lepanto Institute Commits To Victory For Our Church

By REY FLORES A few years back, after I had left my position as director of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development at the Archdiocese of Chicago, I attempted to continue the reformation work we started internally at the CCHD, but doing it independently. And without the threat of a gaggle of liberal clergy hounding me for disrupting their leftist social justice projects. After being targeted by the Obama administration’s IRS while applying for a 501c3 status, I gave up the effort. In addition, God opened another door for me where I could work with terrific researchers already doing the type of work I had intended to do with my own organization. I had the honor of working with Michael…Continue Reading

Archbishop Gomez… “No One Has Right To Decide Who Can Live And Who Can Die”

January 31, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Archbishop Gomez… “No One Has Right To Decide Who Can Live And Who Can Die”

  By TERENCE P. JEFFREY (Editor’s Note: Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor in chief of CNSnews.com. Creators Syndicate provided this column.) + + + When should it be legal for a doctor — or anyone else — to deliberately take an innocent human life? Politicians in both parties need to listen to the answer Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles gave to this question as he offered a requiem Mass on January 24 for aborted babies. “Only God, who is the Lord of our beginning and the Lord of our ending, can make the determination of the beginning and end of life,” he said. “The right to life, as we know, is the foundation of every other right and…Continue Reading

Bill Donohue And Charlie Hebdo: Bull’s Eye!

January 30, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Bill Donohue And Charlie Hebdo: Bull’s Eye!

  By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK For those who have not followed the brouhaha, Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, is being raked over the coals for his statement to reporters that “Muslims have a right to be angry” about the irreverent manner in which Muhammad was depicted in the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, and that the editor of the magazine “didn’t understand the role he played in his tragic death. . . . Killing in response to insult, no matter how gross, must be unequivocally condemned. That is why what happened in Paris cannot be tolerated. But neither should we tolerate the kind of intolerance that provoked this violent reaction.” The Washington Post described…Continue Reading

Pope Francis Approved Family Synod’s Controversial Mid-term Report Before Publication: Synod Chief

January 29, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Pope Francis Approved Family Synod’s Controversial Mid-term Report Before Publication: Synod Chief

  Hilary White and Patrick B. Craine    ROME, January 29, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The lead organizer of the Vatican’s Synod on the Family has revealed that Pope Francis approved the controversial mid-term report from the meeting before it was published. Until now, Pope Francis’ role in the document’s publication has been left to conjecture. The Relatio post disceptationem, as it is called, was intended as a provisional summary of the debate from the Synod’s first week. But after it was released it was strongly criticized by numerous Synod fathers, including Cardinals Raymond Burke, Gerhard Muller, George Pell, and Wilfrid Napier, some publicly and some behind meeting doors. Some critics have even described it as the worst official document in…Continue Reading

Against Terrorism — But For What?

January 29, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Against Terrorism — But For What?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Following the Charlie Hebdo massacre, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said that France “is at war with terrorism, jihadism, and radical Islamism.” This tells us what France is fighting against. But what is France fighting for in this war on terror? For terrorism is simply a tactic, and arguably the most effective tactic of the national liberation movements of the 20th century. Terrorism was used by the Irgun to drive the British out of Palestine and by the Mau Mau to run them out of Kenya. Terrorism, blowing up movie theaters and cafés, was the tactic the FLN used to drive the French out of Algeria. The FALN tried to assassinate Harry Truman in 1950 at Blair…Continue Reading

Goodbye, Omaha . . . Religious And Political Leaders’ Open-Borders Welcome Helps Submerge U.S.

January 28, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Goodbye, Omaha . . . Religious And Political Leaders’ Open-Borders Welcome Helps Submerge U.S.

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Omaha, Neb., anchored in the Midwest heartland, is more than a two-hour flight by commercial jet northeast of Phoenix, the capital of Arizona and a two to three-hour drive from the Mexican border. However, in the globalists’ open-borders, broken-fences world, Omaha might as well sit in the middle of Arizona’s Sonoran desert. You can thank, among others, Barack Obama, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), and Wall Street behemoths. They seemingly never saw a fence they liked unless it’s protecting their own White House, chanceries, or investment hives. Don’t bother to save up for a vacation in Latin America. That territory already has come right to you, minus the relaxation. On January 13, Nebraska’s…Continue Reading

Red Mass Speaker From Illinois… Tells Public Officials Of Importance Of Conscience

January 27, 2015 Frontpage Comments Off on Red Mass Speaker From Illinois… Tells Public Officials Of Importance Of Conscience

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — An Illinois bishop reminded the annual Red Mass for public officials here that honoring conscience truly can require that a price be paid, even though “conscience” also is invoked by those who want to exempt themselves from following God’s law expressed in Church teaching. Thomas Paprocki, bishop of Springfield, told listeners at St. Mary’s Basilica here on January 20 that his diocese’s Catholic Charities lost a $6 million contract with the state of Illinois because, honoring orthodox moral teaching, the diocesan adoption services wouldn’t place children with homosexual or cohabiting couples. Paprocki, an accomplished prelate who also is an attorney and a hockey player, told his audience at the evening service that he would reflect…Continue Reading