On September 22, a giant of Catholic journalism died—and genuine Catholic journalism might well have died with him. Paul Likoudis was a crack reporter for The Wanderer, America’s oldest national Catholic newspaper—founded in 1867, published in German until 1954, and banned by Hitler in the 1930’s. Likoudis joined the paper in 1986 and immediately began...
Author: Christopher Manion (Christopher Manion)
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Ruminations Amidst the Ruins
In the winter of 1987-88, Sen. Dan Quayle of Indiana decided that he wanted the VP spot on the Republican ticket as the most “conservative” candidate. He started his quiet campaign by running the idea by my boss, Sen. Jesse Helms. After all, if Jesse wouldn’t support him, it would have been pointless to go...
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Radical Thoughts on Turkey
This will mark an historic turning point. The tension in Turkey has been intense. Not any more. Erdogan will now “cleanse the military,” as he put it. In other words, he will make sure that the military is never again able to defend what it considers to be its prime mandate: the secular democratic constitutional...
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We’re All Racists Now
“For Democrats, it’s the gift that keeps giving: If all else fails, just call Republicans racists . . . ” —Neil Cavuto, FOX News Well, everything else is indeed failing, but the racism racket is working so well that it won’t be going away any time soon. Al Sharpton sees “white supremacism” everywhere among Obama’s...
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A New Church and a New Country
Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles tirelessly advocates for illegal aliens. A native of Mexico, he has an ardent love of his homeland and his people. He testifies frequently on Capitol Hill in favor of various amnesty-related issues, always in the name of the Catholic Church. He promotes the same theme before various groups of...
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The Bishops’ Quest for Amnesty
In January, when the Catholic Church in the United States was supposedly devoting all of Her efforts to preventing taxpayer funding of abortion in ObamaCare, America’s Catholic bishops took a distracting detour, announcing a nationwide “Justice for Immigrants” campaign. Their goal: to distribute millions of postcards to parishes throughout the country so Catholics could demand...
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The Bishop’s Hot Tub
The American Catholic Church has leaned left for so long that it’s hardly news any more. This began way back when Cardinal Gibbon overruled Pope Benedict XV’s plea for peace during the Great War and pledged to President Wilson the undying fighting loyalty of millions of American Catholic boys (including my father, to whom Gibbon...