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No Rest From Bogeyman . . . From Calif. Recall To Milley Phone Call, Dems Still Cast Trump As Evil Genius

September 19, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on No Rest From Bogeyman . . . From Calif. Recall To Milley Phone Call, Dems Still Cast Trump As Evil Genius

By DEXTER DUGGAN Gone from White House power since January, Donald Trump still seemed to be the most consequen-tial political figure in the day’s headlines, national radio talk hosts Clay Travis and Buck Sexton noted on September 15.California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom had just survived a recall election by running against private citizen Trump, the radio hostsobserved, while, they said, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff allegedly usedTrump as an excuse to engage in what would amount to a treason-ous contact with the head of the Communist Chinese military.The allegation that Gen. Mark Milley reportedly colluded is in the new book Peril (Simon & Schu-ster), by journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, about the conclusion of the Trump presi-dency and the start of the Joe Biden one.Milley reportedly was so concerned…Continue Reading

Biden Finds Virus Mandate Allies In The Population Controllers

September 18, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Biden Finds Virus Mandate Allies In The Population Controllers

By CHRISTOPHER MANION Dr. Leanna Wen is a major player on the Left. She’s a college prof, a Washington Post columnist, and a medical analyst for CNN.We last saw her when she was fired from her post as president of Planned Parenthood in July.Why?She had committed the deadly sin of lamenting the death of the unborn child she had lost in a miscarriage.As president of Planned Parenthood, Dr. Wen had been one of the earliest and most strident advocates of vaccination against the China Virus, and her campaign continues. Last week she turned up the volume by leading the cheers for Joe Biden’s onerous vaccine “mandate.”Until White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki announced the mandate on September 9, both she and Biden had…Continue Reading

The Seed

September 17, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on The Seed

By JOE SIXPACK A successful businessman was growing old and knew it was time to choose a successor to take over his business. He didn’t trust his children or any of the members of his board to take over, so he decided to try something different.The elder gentleman called together all his junior executives to meet with him. He said, “It’s time for me to choose a new CEO for my company, as I wish to retire and enjoy some of the fruits of my labor. I’ve decided to choose one of you to take my place.”The young executives were shocked, but the boss continued, “I’m going to give each one of you a seed today…a very special seed. I…Continue Reading

Speaker Says . . . Even St. Francis Of Assisi Didn’t Understand His Direction Until God Prompted Him

September 16, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Speaker Says . . . Even St. Francis Of Assisi Didn’t Understand His Direction Until God Prompted Him

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Even one of the best-known saints of all hadn’t understood the paths God wanted him to follow without repeated prompting, a speaker told the Institute of Catholic Theology (ICT) as its new series of sessions began with the waning of summer.The young Francis of Assisi, like his family and townsfolk, thought he was destined for greatness, but the general belief was this would be achieved through the nobility or knighthood, Rick Perry, a theology teacher at St. Mary’s High School here, told the September 4 session. The ICT is an evangelization program based here at St. Thomas the Apostle Parish.However, Perry cited the passage from Mark where Jesus said that he who would be first…Continue Reading

Doctor Dying Of Cancer… Passing Time With A Catholic Physician As He Awaits Stepping Into Eternity

September 15, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Doctor Dying Of Cancer… Passing Time With A Catholic Physician As He Awaits Stepping Into Eternity

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Words we think of in the context of a traditional marriage ceremony — “for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health…from this day forward until death do us part” — are words that actually apply to other acquaintances we make in life as well, although in differing degrees than having them as spouses.In October 2016 a longtime pro-life physician here who did some writing and who admired my writing in The Wanderer got in touch with me for the first time through a mutual acquaintance. He was James Asher, D.O., a military veteran and officer of the Catholic Medical Association’s guild in Phoenix.We started getting together to eat and…Continue Reading

A Beacon Of Light . . . Faith Seeking Understanding

September 14, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on A Beacon Of Light . . . Faith Seeking Understanding

By FR. RICHARD D. BRETON JR. (Editor’s Note: Fr. Richard D. Breton Jr. is a priest of the Diocese of Norwich, Conn. He received his BA in religious studies and his MA in dogmatic theology from Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, Conn.) + + Last week I mentioned we would begin a series of articles devoted to helping us understand our faith better. To know our faith better means to know Christ better! The great St. Anselm helps us in this endeavor when he coined the phrase: fides quaerens intellectum, or faith seeking understanding. In this, St. Anselm was challenging the philosophers of his time, who believed that faith was nothing more than believing what you had to…Continue Reading

Accept Or Tolerate?

September 13, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Accept Or Tolerate?

By DEACON MIKE MANNO Several years ago one of my students, opining on the rising LGBT movement, suggested a live and let live philosophy and argued that it was our responsibility to accept their lifestyles. My response was that acceptance implied approval, while what she was suggesting implied only toleration.Tolerate differences, I suggested to her, but don’t let your tolerance be interpreted as approval of a lifestyle with which you disagree.I don’t know how wise those words were, but they came to mind while trying to make sense out of the sharp polarization we find in America today. If you follow this column you know that I’ve been a student of history and politics since well before I could vote…Continue Reading

No Limit To Wild Pols . . . Bishops Can’t Afford To Wait Longer To Rein In Scandal Of Biden, Pelosi

September 12, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on No Limit To Wild Pols . . . Bishops Can’t Afford To Wait Longer To Rein In Scandal Of Biden, Pelosi

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Joe Biden pivoted to attack Texas’ heartbeat law protecting preborn babies in order to take the focus off his debacle in Afghanistan, national radio talk host Hugh Hewitt said on September 3.If that was Biden’s motive, that would be as crazy as trying to take the focus off his frequent gibberish statements by instead advocating pulling the legs off puppies, except Biden would have to euphemize it by saying something like “extracting canine tissue.”He’d probably favor pulling off puppies’ arms, too, unless his staff gets the word to bleary Biden that puppies don’t have arms.But human babies have both arms and legs, and the entire point of abortion is to destroy their bodies. Because this…Continue Reading

The Malignant Virus Of “Invincible Ignorance”

September 11, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on The Malignant Virus Of “Invincible Ignorance”

By CHRISTOPHER MANION Again and again we hear the refrain.“Follow your conscience.”We know all too well that a poorly formed conscience can cheer on all sorts of malevolent mischief. The importance of conscience invites scrutiny of the formation of the conscience, and of the teaching which that formation imparts.When my hometown congressman, Notre Dame graduate Joe Donnelly, was dithering before the vote on Obamacare twelve years ago, he received a call from Fr. Ted Hesburgh, CSC. Fr. Hesburgh, prompted by Nancy Pelosi, had called to urge Donnelly to vote for Obamacare. He told the dithering Donnelly, “Just follow your conscience.”To no one’s surprise, Donnelly’s conscience had been quite ill-formed at Notre Dame, so he voted “Aye” in support of federal…Continue Reading

Miracles

September 10, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Miracles

By JOE SIXPACK Miracle: A surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency (Webster).Miracle: A sensibly perceptible effect, surpassing at least the powers of visible nature, produced by God to Witness to some truth or testify to someone’s sanctity (Modern Catholic Dictionary).Ours is a very cynical world. Because we live in a post-Christian era where God is not only no longer believed in but actually mocked, miracles are seen as phenomena that can’t be explained only because we lack the technology to fully understand certain laws of nature. This cynicism has affected the Christian world as well. Even among our separated Protestant brethren…Continue Reading