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Domestic Prophet, Priest & King

January 15, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Domestic Prophet, Priest & King

BY JOE SIXPACK There is a crisis in the Church and world today. It’s called manhood. The most endangered species in the world is not a whale or a buffalo or a feline in the wild or even a rat the EPA uses to keep some poor farmer from being able to farm his land. The most endangered species in the world is men. But even men can be divided into subspecies, and so the absolute most endangered species is the Catholic man who believes in and lives his faith.But even the Catholic man has his problems — problems that make him contribute to his own demise. The current generation of Catholic men who are in their twenties, thirties, and…Continue Reading

The Aeneas Option

January 14, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on The Aeneas Option

By PAUL KRAUSE T.S. Eliot called Virgil’s Aeneid “our classic.” Read any work of Western literature prior to 1960 and it will be replete with Virgilian themes and references, both implicit or explicit. The Western humanities tradition, as we know, has fallen on hard times in the push to destroy and defund everything Western and replace it with whatever the nihilistic left deems socially and politically relevant.But Virgil’s masterpiece was socially and political relevant in his days and remains so in our own.The central theme of the Aeneid is pietas, or piety. While we may think of piety as Christians praying the rosary, in first-century Rome piety meant dutiful sacrifice. In fact, piety means duty. What, then is the duty…Continue Reading

Beware Of Dems… Trump’s Defense Of Religious Liberty, Voting Integrity Contrasts With Opposition’s Record

January 13, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Beware Of Dems… Trump’s Defense Of Religious Liberty, Voting Integrity Contrasts With Opposition’s Record

By DEXTER DUGGAN President Trump’s statement defending religious liberty, which recalled the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket by English King Henry II exactly 850 years earlier, served as a stark reminder of the drastically different view held by Democrat Joe Biden, who thinks traditional believers must be suppressed by government in order to reward the radical secularists in Biden’s base.An equally drastic contrast exists between dominant media’s continued ferocious political falsehoods against Trump, even though they boasted now that Trump soon would leave the presidency, and fawning adoration for cognitively impaired bad Catholic Biden.The Wanderer published the text of Trump’s statement on page A8 of its January 7 hardcopy issue, “Proclamation on 850th anniversary of the martyrdom of St. Thomas…Continue Reading

A Beacon Of Light . . . The Light Shines In Darkness

January 12, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on A Beacon Of Light . . . The Light Shines In Darkness

By FR. RICHARD D. BRETON JR. (Editor’s Note: Fr. Richard D. Breton Jr. is a priest of the Diocese of Norwich, Conn. He is currently the parochial vicar of St. Andrew Parish in Colchester and St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Lebanon. He received his BA in religious studies and his MA in dogmatic theology from Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, Conn.) + + On Sunday, January 10, 2021 we celebrated the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord. This feast ends the Christmas Season. This is done in a unique way. The Feast of the Baptism of the Lord unites the moment of the Incarnation and the manifestation of Christ to all nations through the Magi. This…Continue Reading

Shattered Trust

January 11, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Shattered Trust

By DEACON MIKE MANNO It’s nice to be back after a few weeks battling COVID. Unfortunately, from Thanksgiving through Christmas I’ve been home, away from my writing, and worst of all, away from my post at the Church. It wasn’t a fun experience, but I knew as soon as my wife said to me, “Go get it yourself,” that it was over.So now I’m back — well, mostly back — thinking again about things that keep me up at night and praying that it’s God’s will that things go back to normal; like maybe 1960 normal! Anyway, as we enter the New Year, it might be a fitting time to mourn the losses that have shattered our trust. Let me…Continue Reading

After Trump Shows Off His Support . . . The Unfeeling Elite Show They Don’t Know Anything About Unifying Nation

January 10, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on After Trump Shows Off His Support . . . The Unfeeling Elite Show They Don’t Know Anything About Unifying Nation

By DEXTER DUGGAN As a new year arrives, people often make predictions for the coming 12 months, and resolutions about being better.Making credible predictions became very easy after the events of Wednesday, January 6, in Washington, D.C., while resolutions to be better contrasted against a worsening existence nationally.Predictions apparently very likely to come true were that the fractured political system would break even more as corporate, tech, and media billionaires kept trying to ram through their complete political takeover with marionette pro-Beijing Democrat Joe Biden and his handlers.This was accentuated with the suspiciously contrived narrow victories of two new radical left-wing Democrat U.S. senators from Georgia in January 5 runoff elections, giving the Democrats crucial new power on Capitol Hill.And…Continue Reading

Catholics Must Mount The Counteroffensive

January 9, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Catholics Must Mount The Counteroffensive

By CHRISTOPHER MANION What a week.Many faithful Catholics were praying that Our Lady would choose the Feast of the Epiphany to bestow upon our beloved country special graces that might deliver us from the impending doom of an all-abortion-all-the-time takeover in Washington.Our Lady certainly responded with graces, as she always does, but perhaps not with the results that many had prayed for.Instead, we saw the hammer come down hard. With the slimmest of margins, both of Georgia’s Senate seats were awarded to radical pro-abortion Democrats, giving the U.S. Senate a slim but solid left-wing majority. A million Trump supporters in Washington saw the last vestige of deliverance from the stolen elections dissolve with Vice President Pence’s announcement that he saw…Continue Reading

One In Seven

January 8, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on One In Seven

BY JOE SIXPACK John was spending the summer on his uncle’s farm. As is the case with young boys, John found a lot of things he liked to do on the farm. On Sunday, though, he grumbled that he had to go so far with his uncle to Holy Mass.His uncle said nothing of John’s grumbling, but on market day he brought home seven large, juicy peaches from his own orchard and gave them to his nephew. John thanked him warmly, because he loved those juicy peaches.Later, when the uncle asked John if he could spare one of the seven peaches, the boy replied, “Sure, Uncle. Take as many as you want. After all, they came from your own orchard.”…Continue Reading

George Cardinal Pell… Says Trump Made A Positive Contribution To The Christian Cause

January 7, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on George Cardinal Pell… Says Trump Made A Positive Contribution To The Christian Cause

By PEGGY MOEN “On the whole, I think [President] Trump has made a positive contribution to the Christian cause,” said George Cardinal Pell during a December 16 virtual press conference. Ignatius Press hosted the event.Ignatius held the press conference to mark the release of Cardinal Pell’s Prison Journal, volume one, now available at Ignatius.com and also on Amazon. Volume one runs through July 13, 2019.Wanderer readers will recall from John Young’s reporting that Cardinal Pell was released from prison on April 7, 2020 after the High Court in Australia overturned all his convictions on charges of “historic sexual abuse” (see The Wanderer, April 30, 2020, p. 5A, “The Pell Verdict: Some Reflections” by John Young). Those charges were based on…Continue Reading

The Virtue Of Empathy

January 6, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on The Virtue Of Empathy

By DONALD DeMARCO Edith Stein (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) began writing her doctoral dissertation, The Problem of Empathy, shortly after spending a year as a nurse in the service of the Red Cross. In her capacity as a nurse she learned how we can know the inner experiences of others. Her dissertation, which she ably defended, was a compelling retort to the isolated individualism and skepticism that prevailed in her time.For Dr. Stein, her personal life and her philosophy were profoundly intertwined. Her empathy for others ultimately was the consequence of God’s empathy for her. Empathy is a profoundly human virtue, yet it has implications of the Divine.The world, unfortunately, continues to be deficient in empathy. We are…Continue Reading