By DEXTER DUGGAN
One description of U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine immediately refuted itself.
The Virginian was described as “squeaky clean” in a July 22 profile of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s choice to be her vice presidential running mate.
Even if Kaine actually had been so squeaky, he quickly would have disqualified himself from that description upon agreeing to run alongside the mountain of corruption, callousness, and deceit that calls itself Hillary.
If you pride yourself on your high ethics, you don’t agree to help win the White House for a restlessly, relentlessly divisive woman who knows no lows as to how deeply she can descend.
A man who lies down with vipers will get up filled with poison.
Among her many shameful adventures, Hillary had helped trash women who were victimized by her wily sex-predator husband, Bill. “Sisterhood” made no more claims on Hillary’s loyalties than the fundamental moral requirements of the Catholic Church made on Kaine’s conscience.
Kaine used to have some qualms around the edges about the extremism of abortionists’ culture of death. But he wasn’t the first Catholic or other brand of Democrat politician who decided that tens of millions of defenseless babies’ lives could be traded away for more power, fame, and wealth.
Hillary welcomed him into her magic clan of corruption after verifying Kaine was totally pro-abortion. The Catholic Church was to be used by her as a convenient line in his résumé.
Even Hillary remains dear to a merciful God, but every day she remains in this unrepentant condition makes her a bit more distant from Him — and less inclined to save her soul when the day of ultimate judgment confronts her, as it must.
The Tempter who wants her in his fires forever will croak, “You know you’ve done too much evil. It’s too late for you.” Every day, Hillary makes herself more vulnerable to believing this.
The dominant media will share the blame if she ultimately suffers this dreadful fate. Rather than warn her where her path would lead, even at the level of mere earthly punishment, they were too pleased at how she planned to shove through the left-wing extremism they loved.
Nor is only Kaine to blame for his malformed Catholic conscience, although he’ll stand alone before God at judgment, like everyone else.
So many times, Catholic prelates who could have provided necessary instruction to their flocks failed in their responsibilities. Rather than act as true shepherds, it seemed easier to them to avoid correcting an unfriendly media, or losing Democratic Party friendships, or making enemies at Catholic political bureaucracies.
The turmoil in recent decades, both religious and social, no doubt made many prelates more reluctant to act. But one act of cowardice only led to another one, to arrive at the present point, where left-wing politicians who support massive abortion and aggressive sexual disorientation claim to be faithful, practicing Catholics with every right to receive the Eucharist.
On July 25 LifeSiteNews.com called attention to a post by a priest, Fr. Richard Heilman, at the “Roman Catholic Man” blog, headlined, “It’s My Fault.”
“As we look at this horrible, horrible 2016 presidential election,” Heilman wrote, “I believe the problem is not the party. The problem is us. Better yet, the problem is me. I am not going to get into what I believe all of us priests and bishops have done or have not done — I leave that up to their own personal discernment. I can only speak for myself.
“I am a weak spiritual leader who has led us to a place where ‘conservatives’ cannot get elected or stay in office without making horrible compromises. I take the blame on this one,” he continued.
“. . . This election isn’t about the decline of a political party, it is about the decline of faith in America,” Heilman concluded. “Don’t blame the party — blame weak Catholic leaders, like me. It’s my fault!”
Also addressing this issue, Fr. Thomas Petri, OP, vice president and academic dean at Washington, D.C.’s, Dominican House of Studies, warned Kaine against showing up in his Communion line. Petri explained that he takes canon law seriously — which would exclude the ill-disposed Kaine from receiving the Eucharist.
A renewal of moral discipline in the Church even can begin with steps like these priests’.
“Lock Her Up”
Meanwhile, political developments marched along as the Democrats met for their national convention in Philadelphia, the week after Republicans convened in Cleveland.
Idealistic supporters of left-wing presidential candidate Bernie Sanders were slapped with some harsh political education. Sanders, who had spent months castigating Hillary’s crimes and corruption, told his supporters to vote for her anyway in November as she neared being nominated in late July.
The revolution Sanders had started with his candidacy slipped beyond his control as many of them said no to his newly defeatist counsel. They’d never vote for her. Some even began advising, “Lock her up” — the same recognition of Hillary’s lawbreaking that Republicans supposedly were so cruel to chant the previous week in Cleveland.
And Sanders’ supporters had all the more reason to reject surrendering because newly leaked emails showed they had been right all along that the supposedly impartial Democratic National Committee unfairly conspired to help Hillary beat Sanders for the nomination.
Within the DNC, there even was some speculation whether Sanders’ religious attitudes could be used against him, in light of his Jewish heritage.
One can only imagine the incessant, incandescent headlines if Republican officials were revealed trying to defeat a national candidate over Jewish beliefs. But dominant left-wing news media realized the harm in this case to their beloved Democrats, so they muted this coverage and preferred to speculate on who leaked the DNC information.
Also, a continued sore spot was Hillary having knowingly exposed U.S. secret information to possible examination by foreign actors when she conducted her business as secretary of state on a private server rather than secure government channels.
The obvious reason was that she wanted to keep her seriously corrupt activities secret from Americans, including arranging illegal payoffs for her from foreign governments, even if this enabled hostile agents to examine the emails.
Although some Democrats said Russia could use such information to help elect Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, syndicated radio talk host Hugh Hewitt suggested the contrary — that if Hillary were elected president, Russia would own her because it could blackmail her about everything it learned.
Trump suggested during a free-wheeling, extended news conference on July 27 that if Russia got her missing emails, “I think you (Russia) will probably be rewarded mightily by our press” for letting people see what’s in the disputed content.
When Hillary’s campaign quickly bleated that Trump was inviting a foreign power to invade U.S. security, some pundits said her campaign fell into Trump’s trap. If her missing emails were only about yoga lessons and wedding plans, as she claimed, what’s the danger in revealing them?
Mixed Messages
Trump’s holding the news conference exposed another Hillary weakness: She’s afraid to face the media freely although they’re ideologically in her pocket, but Trump takes one question after another from a media he knows hate him. Which of the two hopefuls sounds more in command?
Many voters, though, continued to wonder where Trump’s true sympathies lie on issues important to them. The Democratic convention had a procession of avid pro-abortionists as speakers, but no one like a spokeswoman for the Little Sisters of the Poor or impressive pro-life activist Lila Rose got the lectern to speak at Trump’s GOP convention about Barack Obama’s depredations against life.
Trump did, however, have a pro-homosexuality activist speak who used the familiar ploy that it’s a “culture war” only if tradition-minded people try to resist the aggression being forced on them by the other side. It never seems to be a war when the other side launches its sudden sweeping attacks in the first place.
After last week’s issue of The Wanderer went to press, Trump concluded his acceptance speech to the GOP convention on July 21 by saying, “God bless you, and good night. I love you.”
However, many social conservatives didn’t feel much of an embrace from Trump.
Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, likened pro-lifers to Trump’s “secret friends,” people it’s best not to get too close to.
In an article posted July 26 at LifeNews.com, Hawkins said, “We now have the most pro-life platform in the history of the party, yet the Republican candidate for president couldn’t find time in his 90-minute acceptance speech to mention the preborn.”
On the other hand, she said, the Democratic National Convention was about to ratify “a platform that for the first time calls for taxpayer-funded abortions in any stage of pregnancy, something more than 60 percent of Americans oppose, and give every major leader of the out-of-touch abortion lobby a speaking slot during the convention.”
Someone Trump did give a major GOP speaking role on the same night as Trump’s own acceptance speech was businessman and homosexuality advocate Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal.
Thiel spoke about entrepreneurship but also misrepresented the “bathroom” issue, saying it was just “a distraction from our real problems. Who cares?” It’s just a debate “about who gets to use which bathroom,” he said.
Not at all. It’s government aggression to force unwilling people to have their own privacy and security invaded. Thiel, who has libertarian sympathies, should understand that excess.
He attacked “fake culture wars (that) only distract us from our economic decline.”
In fact, he has used his own weapons to wage that war. Thiel has been helping push the homosexual agenda onto the United States.
On June 21, LifeSiteNews.com reported that Thiel had donated to an organization established to challenge California voters’ approval of traditional marriage in Proposition 8, and his PayPal company canceled a plan to establish an operations center in North Carolina as punishment for that state’s legislation to protect bathroom privacy.
Speaking to cheering GOP convention-goers, Thiel portrayed the bathroom issue as a minor matter, even though the Obama administration’s sweeping edict, unsupported by any established legal tradition, mandates invasions of sleeping quarters, locker rooms, changing rooms, and bathrooms by someone of the opposite sex.
LifeSiteNews.com reported: “Trump’s mixed message on social issues was further augmented by the choice to feature Thiel because of PayPal’s record of support for Planned Parenthood and homosexual activism.”
The pro-life news service added: “The global payment processing company bowed several years ago to homosexual activist pressure to deny service to a Christian ministry and a Christian blogger because of their so-called ‘hate’ and ‘extremism’.”
The Wanderer asked one Republican activist who had supported a different candidate for the GOP nomination to comment on the two major parties’ tickets and their prospects. He replied by alluding to Democrats’ perceived hostility to traditional religion, and Trump’s seeming lack of interest in it.
“I’m too depressed to comment,” he said. “It is the party that boos God versus the nominee who didn’t even mention Him. Wake me up when it’s over, please.”
He asked not to be identified because of Trump supporters thinking he’s trying to “sabotage” the party nominee.
This issue of The Wanderer went to press before the Democratic National Convention concluded on July 28.
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