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From a makeshift pulpit inside an Indiana Quality Inn, a baby-faced priest angrily denounces the Jews, saying they mean to "destroy all Christian nations." In offices in State Line, Pa., an intense, bespectacled man tirelessly recounts how the 1911 Catholic Encyclopedia "predicts the anti-Christ will come from Jewry" and warns of the Jews' role in the coming "New World Order." At a gathering near the Philadelphia airport, men in priests' collars and brown monk's robes rage against the "Judeo-Masonic" conspiracy to destroy the Catholic Church, the "Marxist-Jewish" scheme to wreck American schools, and even an elaborate 9/11 plot, "predicted by...

Actually, Virginia,Father Gruner is Not Suspended The latest article in The Wanderer’s never-ending series on the "suspension" of Father Nicholas Gruner depends upon an Orwellian notion of justice no Catholic can accept: punishment without a crime, guilt without a conviction. by Christopher A. Ferrara      Even a five-year-old knows when an injustice has been committed: "That’s not fair!" is a concept any child can understand. The capacity to recognize and be outraged by injustice is one of the things that distinguish men from the lower animals.      Man’s God-given sense of justice tells him, first of all, that one cannot be punished for...

<p>The controlling theme of the recall is that we the people will reshape politics by replacing one of them, an insider, with one of us, a citizen outsider. And from the moment he sat down on Jay Leno's couch last month and announced himself a candidate, Arnold Schwarzenegger has cast himself for that outsider's role. "I'm going to go to Sacramento and reform politics as we know it," the actor says.</p>