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Want To Bring Back The Nones? Bring Back The Eucharist

June 20, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Want To Bring Back The Nones? Bring Back The Eucharist

By SHAUN KENNEY Remember those certain places that your parents told you never to go, but you did anyway? That’s Twitter…a place designed to share thoughts in 160 characters or less that has become a place where witticism and cutting remarks triumph over intellect and consideration. Of course, given the concert between socialism and corporatism, it should come as no surprise that men such as Fr. Kevin M. Cusick — a contributor to The Wanderer — fell afoul of the powers that be. Fr. Cusick’s thought crime? Remarking that women should be modestly dressed inside a church. Having just come from a part of the world where the penalty for wearing skirts that show ankles is death (or at the…Continue Reading

It Wasn’t By Accident . . . How Did U.S. Have Such A Burden Of Immorality Loaded Onto Its Back?

June 19, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on It Wasn’t By Accident . . . How Did U.S. Have Such A Burden Of Immorality Loaded Onto Its Back?

By DEXTER DUGGAN Promising to bring “transparency” to the workings of Washington, D.C., is about like promising to bring bright light to a locked, windowless cell ten thousand feet below ground. It would take a lot of explosive power to open up that chamber. What happens on the surface in governing this nation, or probably any nation, is what rumbles up to the surface from the less obvious, or even more obvious, networks of ideologies, interest groups, their lobbyists and manipulators, and other actors. After Brett Kavanaugh was proposed to become an associate justice of the Supreme Court last summer by President Trump, the scandalous circus of frenzied opposition to a supposed foe of Roe v. Wade was merely the…Continue Reading

The Catholic Who Declared Independence

June 18, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on The Catholic Who Declared Independence

By RAY CAVANAUGH When the 13 American colonies announced their separation from the British Crown on July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence they issued would become one of the most important documents in the English language. Some 56 patriots would risk their necks to sign this document. Only one, however, was a Catholic. His name was Charles Carroll. He was born on September 19, 1737, in Annapolis, Md. “From his youth he was a singularly devout and scrupulously practical son of the Church,” according to The American Catholic Quarterly Review (volume XXIV, 1899), which added that the two foremost items in Carroll’s life were Catholicism and America. Carroll’s earliest formal education took place at a secret Jesuit school in…Continue Reading

The Bible… Is It A Hate Book Or Just A Hated Book?

June 17, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on The Bible… Is It A Hate Book Or Just A Hated Book?

By DEACON MIKE MANNO, JD You would think that the Bible, on the whole, would be pretty noncontroversial. That, of course, isn’t true today, if it ever was. Today there are wholesale attacks on Scripture, not all of it, mind you, just the parts in which the attackers disagree. Biblical values, especially those involving sex, marriage, and family, are now disputed even among mainstream thinkers. And because those values contradict many of today’s socially acceptable lifestyles, many view it as authorizing hate against those who don’t fully embrace its teaching. Case in point — not that you need it pointed out — is the ever-evolving concept of marriage, homosexual relations, and the newest idea to float this boat: gender non-conformity.…Continue Reading

Young Girl Wiser Than Aged Biden… Dems Hug Close The Misdeeds Of Abortion And Socialism

June 16, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Young Girl Wiser Than Aged Biden… Dems Hug Close The Misdeeds Of Abortion And Socialism

By DEXTER DUGGAN When a 13-year-old girl with most of her life ahead shows more knowledge and valor than a 76-year-old man who had decades to develop those virtues but signally failed, something seems amiss in this land. Barely teenaged Addison Woosley was among those asking for Raleigh, N.C., to become a sanctuary city for preborn babies as she described ultrasounds illustrating the fate of the helpless infant trapped by an abortionist, according to a spate of videos and news reports. These weren’t her opinions but observable facts. “On ultrasounds the baby tries to run away from the disturbing instruments that try to kill the baby. The baby’s mouth opens wide in a scream when being killed. These babies are…Continue Reading

A Modest Proposal

June 15, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on A Modest Proposal

By CHRISTOPHER MANION As Democrats prepare for their presidential primary debate marathon, there’s one issue they won’t be talking about. That’s the abject failure of American cities and states that are run by Democrats. In California, the homeless multiply amidst filth and human waste in major coastal cities. Meanwhile, the Democrats now offer free, taxpayer-funded health care to millions of the illegal aliens living in the state, inviting millions more to come. New York City is infested by rats, but not by new industry: Amazon abandoned its plan for a new headquarters in Queens after left-wing opposition led by socialist Cong. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.). Across the Hudson, New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the country. So many…Continue Reading

What The Catholic Integralists Get Wrong

June 14, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on What The Catholic Integralists Get Wrong

By SHAUN KENNEY During the Second Vatican Council, there was an open debate on the question of religious freedom. More accurately, the question was whether the American model of open religious freedom was the most optimal mode of existence for the Catholic Church in the world or was it the Spanish model where the Church functioned externally but alongside the state. Critics of the American model insisted then (and now) that religious freedom was something alien and even antithetical to the idea of Catholicism. Religious freedom implied individual autonomy, which could only erupt in licentiousness. Culture followed politics, ergo the sluices of the state whether through education, pro-family policies, or rigid anti-leftism would serve as the tools to restore Christendom…Continue Reading

It Used To Be A Great State . . . California Launches Its Latest Full-Frontal Attack On Religion

June 13, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on It Used To Be A Great State . . . California Launches Its Latest Full-Frontal Attack On Religion

By BARBARA SIMPSON (Editor’s Note: This column first appeared on WorldNetDaily, June 2, 2019.) + + + Does it surprise anyone that a major effort to break the seal of Confession of the Catholic Church is happening in what used to be the “great” state of California? It doesn’t surprise me and I have lived here long enough to consider myself a Californian, despite that I was born and raised on the East Coast. When I first moved here years ago, there was a sense of openness and freedom quite different from the East — and I loved it. But all that is gone, and Californians today find themselves enveloped in a never-ending grasp of liberal politicians. Not only is…Continue Reading

California Gov. Newsom . . . Another Catholic Quick-Change Artist In A Bloodied Costume

June 12, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on California Gov. Newsom . . . Another Catholic Quick-Change Artist In A Bloodied Costume

By DEXTER DUGGAN There’s nothing subtle when pro-abortion Catholic politicians put on their actress face paint. Left-wing Democrats Nancy Pelosi of California and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York sport Ash Wednesday crosses so big and black on their foreheads that these symbols of religious devotion almost might have been applied with a brush that paints kitchen walls. But as our Lord said, it’s not the outside appearance that counts. “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like tombs having been whitewashed, which indeed outwardly appear beautiful, but inside they are full of bones of the dead, and of all impurity.” Political thespians act the role of faithful Catholics for the merest moment, then abandon that script as soon…Continue Reading

Tiananmen Square… Remembering Or Rationalizing?

June 11, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Tiananmen Square… Remembering Or Rationalizing?

By JOHN J. METZLER UNITED NATIONS — We all remember where we were when the Tiananmen Square crackdown occurred. I recall a Friday evening episode of the TV program Dallas being interrupted as the news switched live to Beijing. Only moments later, Chinese police forced their way into the CBS News transmission trailer and shut down the broadcast. The Tiananmen Square demonstrations in the heart of the Chinese capital were ending in a chaotic bloodbath. Hundreds if not a few thousand unarmed pro-democracy protesters were killed that bloody night in Beijing. The world watched in horror as the comfortable stereotypes of a “changed China” were suddenly smashed as China was brutally thrust back to the sanguinary Maoist era, all on…Continue Reading