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Notre Dame And The Obamacare Mandate

September 15, 2014 Frontpage Comments Off on Notre Dame And The Obamacare Mandate

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK First Teachers has found Sycamore Trust (sycamoretrust.org) to be a trustworthy source on what is happening at the University of Notre Dame. (The trust is an association of Notre Dame graduates dedicated to preserving the Catholic identity of the university.) We are sad to relay to our readers the latest information from Sycamore Trust’s newsletter about how the school is dealing with the requirement in Obamacare that employers provide coverage for contraceptives, including abortifacients, in their health insurance programs. Fasten your seatbelt. According to Sycamore Trust, “Notre Dame is complying with the contraceptive mandate in renewing its student health insurance program for 2014-15. Aetna, the insurer, will now provide students with free abortifacients and contraceptives. Moreover,…Continue Reading

Has Hillary Ever Been Right?

September 14, 2014 Frontpage Comments Off on Has Hillary Ever Been Right?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Sen. Rand Paul raises an interesting question: When has Hillary Clinton ever been right on foreign policy? The valkyrie of the Democratic Party says she urged President Obama to do more to aid Syrian rebels years ago. And last summer, she supported air strikes on Bashar Assad’s regime. Had we followed her advice and crippled Assad’s army, ISIS might be in Damascus today, butchering Christians and Alawites and aiding the Islamic State in Iraq in overrunning Baghdad. But if the folly of attacking Assad’s army and weakening its resistance to ISIS terrorists is apparent to everyone this summer, why were Clinton, Obama, and Secretary of State Kerry oblivious to this reality just a year ago? Consider…Continue Reading

An Unhappy Summer For Liberty

September 13, 2014 Frontpage Comments Off on An Unhappy Summer For Liberty

By ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO   At the root of the chaos in the Middle East and here at home are governments that respect no limits on their exercise of power. Public officials — who are supposed to be our public servants — routinely behave as if they are our masters. They reject the confines of the Constitution, they don’t believe that our rights are inalienable, and they fail to see the dangerous path down which they are leading us. It is a path to an authoritarian America, predicted by the British writer George Orwell in his dark and terrifying novel 1984, in which governmental power was fortified by fear at home and war abroad. President Obama has dispatched 60,000 NSA…Continue Reading

Dissenter Invited To Address Priests… Diocese Of San Diego Won’t Comment

September 12, 2014 Frontpage Comments Off on Dissenter Invited To Address Priests… Diocese Of San Diego Won’t Comment

By DEXTER DUGGAN The San Diego Catholic Diocese declined to comment to The Wanderer about a major speaker scheduled for its diocesan priests’ annual convocation who, some local Catholics say, is well-known for his opposition to basic Church teaching, including on homosexuality. “We respectfully decline the invitation to comment for this article,” diocesan chancellor Rodrigo Valdivia promptly emailed on September 2 when this newspaper asked about Fr. Timothy Radcliffe, OP, former master general of the Dominican order, and the Catholics’ request that the speaking invitation to him be withdrawn. An August 18 letter from five San Diego-area Catholics linked to a number of references about Radcliffe’s views and record. The Catholics sent the letter to a local priest believed to…Continue Reading

The 40 Pro-Life Film Should Be Aired On PBS

September 11, 2014 Frontpage Comments Off on The 40 Pro-Life Film Should Be Aired On PBS

By REY FLORES It was last week that PBS aired After Tiller, a documentary about the four last late-term abortionists left in America after abortionist George Tiller was gunned down a few years back by an obviously mentally unstable person. PBS, the Public Broadcasting System, is a publicly funded broadcasting entity that many of us grew up watching. What once was a respite from mainstream commercial television has now become just one more platform to push pro-abortion propaganda and other anti-Christian agendas, like homosexuality. As a child, I enjoyed the daily visit to Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood or a stroll down Sesame Street. As I grew older, I enjoyed all of the National Geographic programs featuring all sorts of wildlife and…Continue Reading

The Great Disease Of The Modern World

September 11, 2014 Frontpage Comments Off on The Great Disease Of The Modern World

By DONALD DeMARCO “The disease afflicting the modern world,” wrote Jacques Maritain, “is above all a disease of the intellect.” How serious is this disease? Scripture has adequately warned us: “If your eye is worthless, your whole body will be in darkness” (Matt. 6:23; Luke 11:34). The mind provides light so that we can see where we are going and know what we are doing. Who would drive an automobile with his eyes shut? Driving while under the influence of alcohol is a criminal offense, underscoring the importance of a clear head and a sound mind. Yet, it is all too common for people in our generation to live under the influence of a culture that disdains clear thinking and…Continue Reading

Has Hillary Ever Been Right?

September 10, 2014 Frontpage Comments Off on Has Hillary Ever Been Right?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Sen. Rand Paul raises an interesting question: When has Hillary Clinton ever been right on foreign policy? The valkyrie of the Democratic Party says she urged President Obama to do more to aid Syrian rebels years ago. And last summer, she supported air strikes on Bashar Assad’s regime. Had we followed her advice and crippled Assad’s army, ISIS might be in Damascus today, butchering Christians and Alawites and aiding the Islamic State in Iraq in overrunning Baghdad. But if the folly of attacking Assad’s army and weakening its resistance to ISIS terrorists is apparent to everyone this summer, why were Clinton, Obama, and Secretary of State Kerry oblivious to this reality just a year ago? Consider…Continue Reading

Loving Those Who Hate Us

September 9, 2014 Frontpage Comments Off on Loving Those Who Hate Us

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK I haven’t checked with reputable theologians to determine if the way I deal with our Lord’s directive that we “forgive our enemies” and “love those who hate us” is sound. But I think it is. What I do is interpret Jesus’ words as a requirement that I not wish ill of those who wish me ill. I wish them good health and happiness in this world and the next. But I don’t go beyond that. I do not think I am required to like them or to make them part of my life. Nor do I think I have an obligation to forsake the appropriate criminal and civil punishment for their misdeeds. “Loving our neighbor” does…Continue Reading

On Loving The Church

September 8, 2014 Frontpage Comments Off on On Loving The Church

By FR. MARVIN DEUTSCH, MM These days, because of all the attacks on the integrity of the Church, especially since the sex scandals, I think it is very important that we take a look at the Church as a divine institution, the way Jesus, the Son of God, created it and promised to be with it until the end of time. I would like to begin this essay on the Church with a quote from the Gospel of St. John (chapter 17). The night before Jesus died on the cross for our sins, He prayed to His heavenly Father for His future followers that they would be united in the truth. Jesus said: “I do not ask that you take…Continue Reading

Malcolm Muggeridge On School Sex Education

September 7, 2014 Frontpage Comments Off on Malcolm Muggeridge On School Sex Education

By JAMES LIKOUDIS Fifty years of formal classroom sex education in our schools both public and Catholic have apparently taught nothing to millions in our society who gaze blindly at the moral debris all around them: families broken by divorce, fatherless children, widespread fornication, promiscuity, and adultery, the horrific number of unborn children killed, and the spread of homosexual activity and AIDS as well as other sexually transmitted diseases. The boasted promises of such organizations as the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS), Planned Parenthood, the American Humanist Association, the National Education Association, the National Catholic Education Association, and other “progressive” groups that a “scientific sex education” in our schools would ensure a “healthy” view of human…Continue Reading