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Pro-Abort Democrat Party… Positions Itself As If Church Doesn’t Object

December 12, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Pro-Abort Democrat Party… Positions Itself As If Church Doesn’t Object

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — The officially strongly pro-abortion Democratic Party took advantage of the Catholic Church once again, but two communications specialists at the headquarters of the Diocese of Phoenix didn’t reply to questions from The Wanderer. It’s nothing new when Democrat pro-abortionists try to cuddle up with Catholic imagery and Catholics to gain their votes — just as long as no one calls the Dems to account for championing grave violations of fundamental moral law, like slaughtering tens of millions of preborn babies. If the Church won’t care about such violations, why should it be surprised when its credibility fails? Two incidents occurred here recently. Radically pro-abortion and far-leftist Democrat Kyrsten Sinema got national publicity when she campaigned…Continue Reading

This One Is Inexplicable… What Were They Thinking?

December 11, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on This One Is Inexplicable… What Were They Thinking?

By MIKE MANNO Well, I certainly didn’t expect this. In all my years following the legal battles involving religious liberty, this just might be a first. In Edisto Beach, S.C., the town has a civic center which it rents out for “civic, political, business, social groups, and others.” Recently it denied the rental application of a church, Redeemer Fellowship. Now at this point you would expect that the argument would be that the church is a religious organization and renting to it would violate the “separation” of church and state. But you would be wrong. The town does rent to religious institutions. In fact it already rents out its facilities for church office space, Bible studies, ministry training, and the…Continue Reading

Remembering President George H.W. Bush . . . How The Media Spigot Runs Hot And Cold For Friends And Foes

December 10, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Remembering President George H.W. Bush . . . How The Media Spigot Runs Hot And Cold For Friends And Foes

By DEXTER DUGGAN The media spigot was running full gush yet again after President George H.W. Bush left this life. The words flooded out that he was a tower of civility and courtesy, a model of moderation, an example so sorely needed today for us all. The spigot gets turned on, and it gets turned off. Better to bring your own bottled water than expect to get truth serum from this faucet. Bush One hadn’t always fared so well in this liquid environment. Still, just a few months ago the spigot spewed the same juice when Sen. John McCain’s death arrived —what a mighty example for us all, a lesson of civility we so sorely need, bipartisanship and cooperation instead…Continue Reading

A Leaven In The World . . . Apologia

December 9, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on A Leaven In The World . . . Apologia

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK Everyone makes mistakes. Not everyone, however, can admit it. It’s a matter of theological truth that “to err is human,” because, in fact, sin is a mistake and we are all sinners. One who has put opinion to paper in black and white for nearly 20 years and in nearly 900 columns for this newspaper, as have I, has had ample opportunity to commit uncured ideas to print, to choose words that appear to impute motives or to overstate a case of praise or blame. Mea culpas must be ever at hand for expression of the necessary attempt at reconciliation with those who feel unjustly treated. Explanations must be offered in those cases where misunderstandings…Continue Reading

Fireside Reading For Christmas

December 8, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Fireside Reading For Christmas

By CHRISTOPHER MANION This Christmas, good readers should celebrate good writing. And we should also share it. In the spirit of Christmas cheer, we offer here some suggestions that should brighten any smile and invite another log on the fire in every home. We begin with Faith and Politics (Ignatius Press), a selection of Pope Benedict XVI’s writings that cover a wide range of issues touching on politics while “insisting on the centrality of the question of God.” Wasting no time, the Pope gets right to the point: “the unredeemed state of the world consists precisely in the failure to understand the meaning of creation, and the failure to recognize truth; as a result, the rule of pragmatism is imposed,…Continue Reading

Remembering George H.W. Bush

December 7, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Remembering George H.W. Bush

By BILL DONOHUE Catholic League President Bill Donohue on December 5 recalled his memories of the late President George H.W. Bush: During the 1988 presidential campaign, I was a Bradley Resident Scholar at The Heritage Foundation. My first book, The Politics of the American Civil Liberties Union, published in 1985, was the magnet that landed me the job. It was also a time when Michael Dukakis, the Democratic nominee for president, loudly proclaimed that he was “a card-carrying member of the American Civil Liberties Union.” It didn’t take long before those working for Vice President George H.W. Bush contacted me hoping to obtain inside information on the organization: Bush was running for president. I happily gave the Bush team what…Continue Reading

Strickland And Mueller Napalm Martin’s Bridge

December 6, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Strickland And Mueller Napalm Martin’s Bridge

By SHAUN KENNEY Expanding just a bit on last week’s discourse regarding the tête-à-tête between Bishop Joseph Strickland of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, and Fr. James Martin, SJ — author of Building a Bridge and consultant to the Vatican Communications Office — it seems as if Strickland’s critique earned a rather lengthy response from Martin that is worth a deeper dive. Charitably, Martin had the decency not to call Bishop Strickland a member of the “Catholic alt-right” for his defense of the Magisterium (duly noted). Nor did he call Gerhard Cardinal Mueller a member of a vast neo-Nazi network for defending Church teaching (also, duly noted). Martin offers two points. First and foremost, Martin insists that he is not…Continue Reading

In New Book On Clergy… Pope Francis Addresses Homosexuality

December 6, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on In New Book On Clergy… Pope Francis Addresses Homosexuality

VATICAN CITY (CNA) — In a just-published book-length interview, Pope Francis addressed gifts and challenges for clerical and religious vocations, among them the challenge of homosexuality in the clergy. “The issue of homosexuality is a very serious issue that must be adequately discerned from the beginning with the candidates, if that is the case. We have to be exacting. In our societies it even seems that homosexuality is fashionable and that mentality, in some way, also influences the life of the Church,” the Pope says in the book The Strength of a Vocation, released December 3 in ten languages. In an excerpt from the book, released November 30 by Religión Digital, the Pope said he is concerned about the issue…Continue Reading

Martin’s “Catholic Alt-Right”: The Slander Of A Weak Argument

December 5, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Martin’s “Catholic Alt-Right”: The Slander Of A Weak Argument

By SHAUN KENNEY Allow me to continue my admiration/bewilderment relationship with Fr. James Martin, SJ, vis-à-vis his characterization of his critics as the “Catholic alt-right” — a title that most likely is intended to extend to this publication, but for whom Martin reserved for his troika of critics: Church Militant, LifeSiteNews, and the Lepanto Institute. NBC News didn’t exactly do a full-length article on this, but it will be just enough for Martin to carry back to Fr. Antonio Spadaro, SJ, at the Vatican communications office and share with folks at La Croix International, a French-based site designed to be a simulacrum of what the “reformers of the reform” see in their critics. Of course, the media do not exactly…Continue Reading

Interview With Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke . . . The Faithful Are Suffering…But Schism Can Never Be Right

December 5, 2018 Frontpage, Our Catholic Faith Comments Off on Interview With Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke . . . The Faithful Are Suffering…But Schism Can Never Be Right

By PEGGY MOEN (Editor’s Note: This interview took place in Rome on October 22, 2018, the Feast of St. John Paul II, during the final week of the October 3-28 Synod on Young People, the Faith, and Vocational Discernment and before its conclusion. See The Wanderer, November 1, 2018, p. 1 for an article based on this interview.) + + + Q. Your Eminence, the first thing I wanted to ask is, many Catholics, following this Summer of Shame, think they are living through the worst period of Church history. Do you agree? Cardinal Burke: It’s certainly among the worst, if not the worst. The Church has had other periods of great scandal. But this has dimensions about it that…Continue Reading