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Is Due Process An Outdated Concept?

December 3, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Is Due Process An Outdated Concept?

By MIKE MANNO It hasn’t been that long ago that we should have already forgotten the lessons learned from the Justice Kavanaugh confirmation. The judge, having a heretofore sterling reputation, was assailed from the left as some type of sexual predator. It was claimed that as a teenager he had groped a young student, although the accuser could not remember exactly when, or where, or if the groping might have been from another man. But she was sure it happened. There followed a litany of other accusations that the judge had arranged for everything from the gang raping of coeds to spiking punch bowls. And all through the judge’s ordeal, there were those who claimed that “accusers” must always be…Continue Reading

Threat Of War On The Border . . . Part Of The Overall Political Battle In U.S.

December 2, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Threat Of War On The Border . . . Part Of The Overall Political Battle In U.S.

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Donald Trump’s election as president was attributed at least partly to many people being fed up with the old, failed system. But the old way of doing things seemed as tasty as ever to some politicians cooking up their plans and programs once the midterm elections had passed. Arizona’s newly elected U.S. senator whose pedigree was radical left, Democrat Kyrsten Sinema, had campaigned as a bipartisan moderate who rejected old warhorses like Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.). On July 3 Politico headlined that if she were elected senator, Sinema flatly said she wouldn’t vote for Schumer as party leader. Politico said she was staking her “surprisingly strong campaign” on such elements as “a…Continue Reading

Politics And Our Paralyzed Prelates

December 1, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Politics And Our Paralyzed Prelates

By CHRISTOPHER MANION Today America’s bishops confront their greatest challenge since Vatican II. Their aimless forays into politics, their meandering on magisterial moral teachings, and their endless scandals have caught up with them. As a body, they are handicapped more than anything else by their own malfeasance. The Wanderer recently reported how the USCCB’s longtime Executive Director of Government Relations identifies a dominant group of bishops that “regards the Church as a platform for political interests.” This group enjoys the support of “key authorities in Rome,” he adds. The other dominant group, while composed of truly pastoral shepherds, is nonetheless often intimidated into silence and inaction. That’s why the political bishops have dominated in the conference’s agenda for many years.…Continue Reading

Trump’s Crucial Test At San Ysidro

November 30, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Trump’s Crucial Test At San Ysidro

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Mass migration “lit the flame” of the right-wing populism that is burning up the Old Continent, she said. Europe must “get a handle on it.” “Europe must send a very clear message — ‘we are not going to be able to continue to provide refuge and support’.” Should Europe fail to toughen up, illegal migration will never cease to “roil the body politic.” And who is the lady who issued the dire warning and dispensed the tough-love advice to Europe? Marine Le Pen? No. It is Hillary Clinton, spouse of the Great Triangulator. Democrats may have piled on Clinton for selling out progressivism, but her political instincts here are dead on. She has grasped something her…Continue Reading

Despite Archbishop’s Complaint… Regis University Defends Drag Show

November 29, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Despite Archbishop’s Complaint… Regis University Defends Drag Show

DENVER (CNA) — Officials at a Catholic university defended a campus “drag show” and classroom measures designed to support the gender identity preferences of students, even after their local bishop said the university’s plan is at odds with Catholic teaching. “I do not intend to change my position of support for our faculty and students,” Denver’s Regis University provost Janet Houser wrote in a November 16 email to faculty. Houser’s email referenced complaints from Denver’s Archbishop Samuel Aquila to university administrators, and a response from the university’s president. On October 29, Houser and the university’s Queer Resource Alliance sent a letter to faculty members suggesting they attend an on-campus “Drag Show featuring student performers,” along with other campus events commemorating…Continue Reading

Where Did Sunday Go?. . . Southwest Biblical Conference Hears Of Scripture’s Transforming Power

November 28, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Where Did Sunday Go?. . . Southwest Biblical Conference Hears Of Scripture’s Transforming Power

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Violations of the First and Third Commandments probably are the offenses least confessed — the injunctions to honor God above all and to keep holy the Sabbath — an official with the Life Teen Catholic youth ministry told the third annual Southwest Biblical Conference here. He certainly didn’t mean to say that people were intentionally making bad Confessions in this context, but that the specialness of Sunday had disappeared from their thinking. Mark Hart, executive vice president for Life Teen International, said that by the time Monday arrives, “how quickly we forget Sunday” because so little attention had been paid to its observance amid worldly demands like absorbing entertainment offered by Netflix. The conference theme…Continue Reading

Judicial Decision… Within The United States Constitutional System

November 27, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Judicial Decision… Within The United States Constitutional System

By JUDE P. DOUGHERTY Statutes are created by decisions of legislative bodies, but the power of the courts to interpret statutes is in effect the power to remake them. In a memorable passage, though one that I have not been able to trace to its precise source, the Episcopal eighteenth-century Bishop Benjamin Hoadly said, “Whoever has the authority to interpret written or spoken laws is he who is truly the law giver to all intents and purposes, and not he who first wrote and spake them.” The recognition of the element of interpretation introduces a number of questions pertinent to interpretation. Do extra legal principles or considerations rightfully play any part in decision making? Is there a basis for interpretation…Continue Reading

Atheists In The Pulpit

November 26, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Atheists In The Pulpit

By MIKE MANNO Thanksgiving is a great time of the year. The upcoming holiday season is awaiting and, hopefully, our families, friends, and those we love are filled with the spirit of the season. It’s fitting, then, as we move toward the First Sunday in Advent we first celebrate the Solemnity of Christ the King. The Solemnity is the last Sunday of the liturgical year and, in its own way, it prepares us for the New Year which will lead us through Advent’s expectation of the Messiah to the Birth of Our Savior on Christmas Day, His life, teaching, death, and Resurrection. It’s a story as old as the New Testament and has been retold by Christian communities for some…Continue Reading

This Saturday Evening We lost a Good Shepherd . . .

November 25, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on This Saturday Evening We lost a Good Shepherd . . .

The Diocese of Madison reports: It is our sad duty to inform you of the death of Most Reverend Robert C. Morlino, Bishop of Madison. Bishop Morlino died tonight, Saturday, November 24th, at approximately 9:15 pm at St. Mary Hospital in Madison at the age of 71. Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace.   Just three months ago The Wanderer ran this story praising Bishop Morlino for his courageous and candid response to the current crisis in the Church. https://thewandererpress.com/uncategorized/a-shepherd-for-our-time/    

Illegal Marchers’ New Tactic . . . Could Be The Tool To Trample U.S. Sovereignty Into The Dust

November 25, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Illegal Marchers’ New Tactic . . . Could Be The Tool To Trample U.S. Sovereignty Into The Dust

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — If thousands of lower-class conservatives were being escorted across the United States in buses, trucks, and trains in order to physically overwhelm the U.S. House of Representatives’ chamber so that Democrat politicians couldn’t claim their new majority power there in January, the dominant media would have no end of questions about how this came to be, so they could stop it. Who’s financing all the transportation? Providing all the food and drink? All the medicine? Doing the organizing? The overnight shelters? Why are men with “Republican National Committee” T-shirts prominent in running this road show? The mass movement is all too real, but it’s coming up through Mexico to the U.S. southern border instead of…Continue Reading