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Merry Christmas, And A Fighting New Year . . . Elitists, Dems, And Courts Can’t Be Allowed To Get Away With Steal

December 22, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Merry Christmas, And A Fighting New Year . . . Elitists, Dems, And Courts Can’t Be Allowed To Get Away With Steal

By DEXTER DUGGAN

The slim phone in your pocket gives every day you immediate access to more information and contacts than the most powerful politician in the world had a century ago. Still, it doesn’t let you reliably peer into the future.
As 2019 ended, who foresaw the horrors that 2020 would deliver? They included a pandemic that was politically manipulated and also featured unnecessary economic destruction, as well as U.S. left-wingers’ vicious physical assaults from coast to coast. Who cares to guess now what 2021 could hold?
In addition, the pandemic was used as an excuse to facilitate massive U.S. voting fraud with unsecure balloting that supposedly deprived the popular Republican President Donald Trump of a second term. Popular, that is, except among those used to telling everyone else how to think and act, live and breathe.
The pandemic germs added up to biological warfare from a Communist China that opposed “America First” Trump and had good reason to hope for a more obeisant attitude from a Democrat Party president.
Perhaps it could be said that dictators in China in late 2019 had more of a feel for what was on the menu for 2020 than any of the restaurant owners to be driven out of business by Beijing’s muck.
However, it appeared possible that Chief Justice John Roberts’ Supreme Court, and an assortment of lower courts, had no understanding of how they fueled an insurrectionary spirit in the U.S. by sidestepping key questions about the fraud that initially put befuddled Dem presidential hopeful Joe Biden on a magic carpet beyond accountability.
The pro-Biden dominant media only glowed with pleasure at compromised courts’ heavy-handed light touch to use peripheral procedural questions and avoid the meat of the pressing major issues before them.
It wouldn’t be the first time that insensate elitists refused to recognize what was happening until events were beyond their ability to stop them.
The majority of voters who had been won over by resilient Trump glowered at the vote steal engineered by an elite that saw nothing wrong with delivering this nation’s fate into the shaky old hands of cognitively impaired Democrat immoralist Biden, who had trouble even remembering names and places, but was very alert at planning to impose Dem leaders’ favorite big sins on the nation.
Not only were hundreds of millions of U.S. citizens thus endangered by elitists’ iniquitous maneuvering, but also billions of other people around the world who had been benefiting from Trump’s leadership, not the least of which were entire nations in the volatile Mideast astoundingly arriving at peace deals even as the U.S. elections drew near on November 3.
All too typically, dominant U.S. media shrugged off Trump’s latest Mideast achievement, although they never lost their lust to conjure hoaxes and lies against this Republican who was even surprised himself at how deep and far the establishment corruption in the U.S. went.
Enjoy your year-end holidays, but be ready to ring in the New Year fighting, because establishment globalists plan all they can to ram Biden into the White House and you into a declining new Venezuela.
U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) told a December 16 Senate meeting on election integrity that he was hearing from ordinary constituents that they felt they had been disenfranchised, that their votes didn’t matter, that the election was rigged.
This was six weeks after Election Day but they hadn’t cooled down about a national vote widely shown to have been stolen — but the John Roberts-led judiciary feared to anger dominant left-wing elitists. As for the rest of the nation, they apparently could go to the Hades that Biden’s agenda was all ready to deliver them to.
Roberts and his black-robed brethren, even ones appointed by Trump, often refused to simply listen to vital legal arguments. They might well push this nation further to the edge with their aloof intransigence rather than calm the turmoil.
Leftists seem to have persuaded Roberts that he somehow is preserving the supposed majestic institution of the High Court by adopting their priorities. But an institution built on the skulls of tens of millions of preborn babies has a rotten foundation, one to go down in the history of horror, like Cambodia.
“Well, I’ll tell you what,” Sen. Hawley told the Senate hearing. “Seventy-four million Americans are not going to shut up, and telling them that their views don’t matter and that their concerns don’t matter and they should just be quiet is not a recipe for success in this country. It’s not a recipe for the unity that I hear now the other side is suddenly so interested in after years, years of trying to delegitimize President Trump.”
On December 14 talk host Glenn Beck said the Supreme Court refusing to listen to arguments won’t make the problem go away. Beck likened this to known cheaters on a school examination driving down everyone else’s grade on a curve, but the teacher refusing to listen to class complaints.
Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo said on December 15 that an intel source told her Trump actually was re-elected. “An intel source telling me that President Trump did, in fact, win the election. He says that it is up to the Supreme Court to hear suits from other cases across the country to stop the clock. This follows the High Court’s refusal to hear the lawsuit from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton challenging results in four swing states.”
In November 2016 many Hillary Clinton supporters were aghast that she lost. But they had been misled in part by the elitists’ own phony polls for months. In the early hours right after Election Day, Hillary’s loss was confirmed, then they spent years insisting on an equally phony hoax that the Russians stole the win for Trump.
In 2020, however, key swing states simply stopped counting their votes after the polls closed on November 3, apparently because the results for Trump were so strong that even their algorithms that were fixed to favor Biden had to be further adjusted. The elite didn’t plan to let Trump win a second time, but even they were caught off guard by the power of his legions.
Early on November 4, Trump fumed that the arrival of his impending victory simply was stopped.
As the days passed, more and more of the fraudulent methods marshalled for Biden came to light, but courts usually waved these revelations away.
Trump’s supporters weren’t grousing that he lost, but that he won but blatantly was being cheated of the victory by corrupt swamp dwellers eager to drag the U.S. back into stagnation and evil.
Back on November 29 independent investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson already had put together a lengthy list of serious election irregularities at her website (sharylattkisson.com): “What you’ve been asking for: A (fairly) complete list of (some of) the most significant claims of 2020 election miscounts, errors, or fraud.”
Conservative commentator Mark Steyn, guest-hosting on Rush Limbaugh’s national radio program on December 14, expressed frustration at the ruling class’s airy refusal to call Biden’s massive vote-steal to account.
Steyn said he’s not in favor of Antifa-style burning down things, but if a state doesn’t even guarantee the security of your vote, it has lost your allegiance, and civil disobedience is your resort.
He said vote-stealers didn’t even care if videos showed Republican poll watchers being pushed out; the thieves were doing it and getting away with it.
Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) already had suffered a spinal removal and reverted to crawling as best he could on his hands and knees. McConnell hadn’t favored Trump’s candidacy for president, but once the Manhattan billionaire won the White House, he managed to teach McConnell some lessons about political courage and getting results.
Alas, on December 15, even though Trump still was fighting the fraud in the courts, McConnell decided to congratulate Biden as president-elect, along with Biden’s anti-Catholic, radically pro-abortion running mate, Kamala Harris, whom McConnell also saluted.
Trump shot right back at Surrender Mitch, tweeting, “Too soon to give up. Republican Party must finally learn to fight. People are angry!”
The Washington Examiner posted on December 16 that McConnell’s behavior “triggered a deluge of accusations of treason from high-profile Trump supporters on Twitter and from voters who see a Republican establishment closing ranks.” The Examiner also said McConnell reportedly quietly had been asking his fellow GOP senators not to join any more of Trump’s efforts.
The Epoch Times posted on December 16 that Cong. Mo Brooks (R., Ala.), Cong.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene (R., Ga.) and Cong.-elect Barry Moore (R., Ala.) planned to challenge the Electoral College result supposedly giving the presidency to Biden — a key technical move in January that actually might block him.
At the same December 16 Senate hearing where Hawley spoke, conservative-libertarian U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) said there was voting fraud. “The courts have not decided the facts. The courts never looked at the facts. The courts don’t like elections, since they stayed out of it by finding an excuse. . . . But the fraud happened. The election in many ways was stolen, and the only way it’ll be fixed is by in the future reinforcing the laws.”

Nevada Voter Fraud

At the same hearing, investigator-attorney Jesse Binnall said Nevada’s “election was inevitably riddled with fraud,” featuring mail voting without sufficient safeguards. The number of mail-in ballots rocketed from about 70,000 in 2016 to more than 690,000 this year, he said.
Among the numbers, Binnall said: More than 42,000 people voted more than once; more than 19,000 people voted who didn’t live in Nevada and weren’t students or serving in the military; about 8,000 voted from nonexistent addresses; more than 15,000 votes were cast from commercial or vacant addresses, and almost 4,000 non-citizens voted. In addition, such illegal inducements to vote were given as raffle tickets and gift cards.
There were 130,000 unique instances of voter fraud in Nevada, and likely more, Binnall said, explaining these numbers weren’t estimates or statistical sampling but actual cases.
Few would argue that this fraud was engineered to give Trump the win.
Ballotpedia shows Biden beating Trump by fewer than 34,000 votes in Nevada, out of just over 1,405,000 votes cast.
Using the excuse that he just didn’t want to impose his views on others, campaigning Biden had tried to claim he was a good Catholic while promising to promote massive permissive abortion and taxpayer funding for it as much as he could.
However, Biden was more than ready to impose left-wing mandates and superstitions on everyone else no matter how much they objected, including ruinous edicts supposedly to combat climate change.
The absolute minimum wage should be $15, Biden insisted, obviously feeling deeply guilty at his own ill-gotten exorbitant wealth. Tell you what, Joe, just distribute some of your own multimillions to teenage employees at struggling small businesses and see if that makes you happier.

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Many Catholic prelates tried to dodge the incongruity of Biden waving a rosary in one hand and an abortion curette in the other, including the national capital’s own Wilton Cardinal Gregory, who would help Biden commit sacrilege by giving him the Holy Eucharist.
However, some didn’t let Democrat politics overrule foundational religious obligations. For instance, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone posted at his Catholic San Francisco website on December 14 to commend the recent comments by Archbishop Charles Chaput, OFM Cap., against giving Biden Communion. Cordileone cited how politicians commit bad example by defiant actions that confuse the issue.
“Especially compelling is the situation of Catholics who are prominent in public life, precisely because of the great influence they have on shaping the cultural attitudes and moral values of our society,” Cordileone said.
“It is a cause of no little scandal when such people profess to be observant Catholics while championing causes that directly violate the inherent dignity of human life, one of the fundamental natural truths integral to the core teachings of the Catholic faith.”
Denver Archbishop Samuel Aquila is another prelate who backed Chaput’s opposition to Biden’s sacrilege.
Rob Haney, a retired chairman of the Phoenix-based Maricopa County Republican Party, told The Wanderer on December 15 that the High Court’s refusal even to consider the lawsuit from Texas contesting the 2020 election boded ill.
“More than a thousand years ago, the prelates of the Catholic Church, through faithfulness to God’s Commandments and natural law, created the culture we now know as Western civilization,” Haney said. ”At this writing, the irony is that corrupt Catholic bishops in the Vatican and throughout the world, with the concurrence of Catholic Supreme Court justices, may have destroyed what remains of Western civilization.”
In effect, he said, Catholic Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Sonia Sotomayor “all voted to accept the extensive voter fraud. By doing so, they allowed the Democrat Party to continue their attacks on traditional marriage, religious freedom, and innocent life. . . .
“When they had the opportunity to hear the evidence, they refused,” he said. “And as a consequence, they enabled the officials to perpetrate this fraud on the American people. These justices surely knew that by allowing these questionable voting procedures to go unchallenged, they were assuring fraudulent elections for the foreseeable future.
“Millions of babies will be killed by abortion, voter fraud will continue unabated, and the tyranny by the socialistic Democrat Party will destroy the constitutional republic we have been blessed to know,” Haney said.
On the other hand, Catholic Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito were alone in seeking to hear the case.

A Beacon Of Light… Living The Twelve Days Of Christmas

December 22, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on A Beacon Of Light… Living The Twelve Days Of Christmas

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.)

  • + + “And there were in the same country shepherds watching and keeping the night watches over their flock. And behold an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the brightness of God shone round about them; and they feared with a great fear. And the angel said to them: Fear not; for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, that shall be to all the people: For, this day, is born to you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord, in the city of David. And this shall be a sign unto you. You shall find the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger.
    “And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army, praising God, and saying: Glory to God in the highest; and on earth peace to men of good will” (Luke 2:8-14).
    On December 25, we will celebrate the Incarnation of Christ the Lord. The above quote from St. Luke’s Gospel is the narrative of the announcement of the Birth of Christ. The yearly celebration of Christmas is truly a time … Continue Reading

Christmas: The Turning Point Of History

December 21, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Christmas: The Turning Point Of History

By FR. JOHN A. HARDON, SJ

(Editor’s Note: This historic Christmas commentary by the late Fr. John A. Hardon, SJ, appears on the website www.therealpresence.org/archives.)

Most people take for granted that we number the years as we do. This year is 1990 AD. But behind the number is not only a fact of history; it is the turning point of history. It separates two ages in the annals of the human race: “Before Christ” (BC) and “in the year of the Lord” (AD), since the birth of Jesus Christ.
There is more than passing value in asking ourselves, what do we mean when we say that Christmas Day literally divides two eras of mankind: the centuries before Bethlehem and the now almost two millennia since Mary gave birth to her Son, wrapped Him in swaddling clothes and laid Him in a manger.
No one has written more eloquently than St. Paul about the condition of the human race before the coming of Christ. Both Jews and Greeks were all under sin.
“There is not one just man; there is none who understands; there is none who seeks after God.
“All have gone astray together; they have become worthless. There is none who does good, no, not even one. Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is beneath their lips; their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood; destruction and misery are in their ways. And the path of peace they have not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes” (Romans 3:10-18).
All that we know about the pre-Christian world verifies this strong language of the Apostle. Abortion and infanticide … Continue Reading

Has A Chinese Virus Made Us More Like The People’s Republic?

December 20, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Has A Chinese Virus Made Us More Like The People’s Republic?

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY

Something that began in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 continues, a year later, to have a monstrous impact on the way Americans live their lives.
We are less free today because a Chinese virus came our way — and because of the way some politicians have reacted to it.
Start with the science: COVID-19 originated in China.
“As COVID-19 began spreading in Wuhan, China, it became an epidemic,” says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Because the disease then spread across several countries and affected a large number of people, it was classified as a pandemic.”
Specifically, as this column has reported before, the CDC confirmed that the first 11 cases of COVID-19 in the United States all traced back to Wuhan, China. Nine were in people who had just returned from Wuhan. Two were in people who lived in the same household as one of those nine.
As of December 15, according to the CDC, there have been 16,317,892 COVID-19 cases in the United States and 300,032 deaths.
In addition to sickening and killing people, this Chinese virus has made the way Americans live — under restrictions imposed by government — a bit more like the way people live in the People’s Republic.
In China, says the State Department’s human rights report for 2019 (before the pandemic), the “government restricted freedoms of peaceful assembly and association.”
“Concerts, sports events, exercise classes, or other meetings of more than 200 persons require approval from public security authorities,” says … Continue Reading

Bishop Strickland . . . I Will Not Accept A COVID Vaccine Derived From Aborted Babies

December 19, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Bishop Strickland . . . I Will Not Accept A COVID Vaccine Derived From Aborted Babies

Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas has taken a strong stand on the possibility of a coronavirus vaccine containing fetal cell lines of aborted babies, according to a report from LifeSiteNews.
As many COVID vaccines are beginning to be rolled out or have been already, His Excellency continued to caution Catholics in his diocese and elsewhere to look into these morally objectionable vaccines. In the latest episode of The Bishop Strickland Show, as well as in recent tweets, he addressed these concerns.
“The bottom line for me is, does it [the vaccine] actually contain the markers, the DNA, of aborted children? If it does, I’m not going to accept it,” he declared.
He expressed encouragement for others who will not accept such a vaccine either, given that it violates Church teaching.
His Excellency further said that everyone, especially Catholics, should be more informed on the morality of vaccines. He directed them to a group called Children of God for Life.
“Children of God for Life…gives you lots of information and it lists the vaccines that are ethically produced that do not contain the DNA of children and the vaccines that do.”
Strickland also noted the involvement of Planned Parenthood in this “atrocity.”
Bishop Strickland further discussed several points of a recent letter he wrote to his diocese, in which he said that the cause of division in America today is that “as a nation, we have rejected the idea that we are under God.”
(Wanderer Editor’s Note: Readers may also wish to consult the Charlotte Lozier Institute, www.lozierinstitute.org, 202-223-8073, for more information on the vaccines.)
In a related … Continue Reading

All Roads Lead To Rome

December 18, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on All Roads Lead To Rome

BY JOE SIXPACK

A young Jew living in North Africa fell in love with a Protestant minister’s daughter and asked his permission to marry her. The minister told the young fellow he’d never give his daughter’s hand to an unbelieving Jew.
Later, however, the minister told his daughter he’d give his consent to marriage, but only if she could convert the young man to Christianity. The Jewish lad accepted the challenge, and the young couple began an earnest study of religions. They compared books, discussed teachings, studied Scripture, and went as in depth as they could. In the end, both the boy and the girl converted . . . to the Catholic Church.
A similar story involves Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman. Newman was a Protestant and a founding member of the Oxford Movement. Newman’s colleagues asked the young scholar to write a history of Christianity, and he accepted the assignment. On the very day Newman’s history was rolling off the printing presses, he was received into the Catholic Church.
When asked what could make a non-Catholic man become a Catholic, he responded, “To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant.”
There can be only one Church founded by Jesus Christ. He never founded a plurality of churches, but only one. He didn’t say, “Upon this rock I will build my churches,” but rather “Upon this rock I will build my church.”
The Church founded by Jesus Christ must find its origins with the apostles — which is called apostolicity. The true Church must trace its origins in an unbroken line to Jesus … Continue Reading

The Fatherhood Of God

December 17, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on The Fatherhood Of God

By DEACON JAMES TONER

There is nothing theologically mistaken in using the term “The Lord’s Prayer” (Matt. 6:9-13), but Catholics of my age were raised to refer to it as the “Our Father,” which I think is more comforting than the other term. What a blessing it is to be assured that we are all children of God, a truth which Catholics must always affirm. “I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me,” we are divinely told (2 Cor. 6:18; cf. Romans 8:16).
This profound and covenantal truth is, in fact, the greatest and most powerful consolation we can have in this vale of tears (Psalm 83:6-7, 13 DRB). God loves us. God creates, sustains, and teaches us. God desires, though, that we freely and generously respond to His love with our own love, and we are endowed with the liberty to choose or to repudiate His Way and His Will.
Too rarely are we warned that being children of God is not a “guarantee,” but is, rather, our free choice. We are at liberty to renounce that status by our deeds and declarations. There is a simple way to teach this: We are, in a sense, stronger than God. That is, we may push God away at any time, and He will not resist us. We are called to trust in His divine will, knowing that He will respect our human wills. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches, the core of sin consists in our preferring ourselves to God (n. 398). For a time or for all eternity, then, we can refuse … Continue Reading

Speaker Recalls Life Of Jan Tyranowski . . . The Youth Leader Who Influenced Future Pope John Paul II

December 16, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Speaker Recalls Life Of Jan Tyranowski . . . The Youth Leader Who Influenced Future Pope John Paul II

By DEXTER DUGGAN

PHOENIX — Who knows how far the influence of a comment may go? A Polish priest’s remark in a homily in 1935 that “It’s not difficult to be a saint” ended up affecting the thinking of Karol Wojtyla, the young man who would become St. John Paul II, a speaker told a Zoom meeting of the Institute of Catholic Theology (ICT), headquartered here at St. Thomas the Apostle Church.
The priest’s observation first changed the life of the Venerable Jan Tyranowski, an introverted Polish man born at the beginning of the twentieth century who was asked to become a Catholic youth leader and who passed on this outlook to Wojtyla, a member of his group, Simone Rizkallah in Southern California told the Zoom meeting on December 5.
Rizkallah’s background provided by the ICT says she has studied at the St. Albert the Great Center for Scholastic Studies in Norcia, Italy, at the Phoenix Institute at the International Theological Institute in Trumau, Austria, and at the Tertio Millennio Seminar in Krakow, Poland.
Introducing her as the speaker, ICT Director Eric Westby, Ph.D., said Rizkallah was in Poland last year, along with Catholic commentator George Weigel and others, studying the social teaching of St. John Paul.
Rizkallah said she hadn’t heard of Tyranowski before and was very interested to learn more about a man who had been a major influence on the future Pope. “John Paul II wouldn’t have become John Paul II without Jan Tyranowski,” she said.
Tyranowski lived during the Nazi occupation of Poland that caused concern among the clergy they might all be deported, so lay leaders would be needed to carry on the life of the Church in their absence.
“That’s fine and good to be involved in politics” in threatening times, she said, but is the power that changes the world politics or spirituality? Tyranowski understood that “a hidden life, a small life” changes the world, she said.
One hears about “the universal call to holiness,” Rizkallah said, but “I’m personally called” to this role as well. She said it’s fascinating to see people lined up for Confession, publicly showing “I’m a bad person” who needs reconciliation. Rizkallah said she has “a little bit of a bad temper…I have all these character flaws.”
Tyranowski took a vow as a lay celibate and prayed four hours a day, she said, adding that people don’t have to pray that much, but maybe … Continue Reading

A Beacon Of Light… Rejoice In The Lord!

December 15, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on A Beacon Of Light… Rejoice In The Lord!

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.)

This past Sunday we celebrated the Third Sunday of Advent. The Introit Antiphon for the Mass is: “Gaudete in Domino semper: iterum dico, gaudete. Modestia vestra nota sit omnibus hominibus: Dominus enim prope est. Nihil solliciti sitis: sed in omni oratione petitiones vestrae innotescant apud Deum. * Benedixisti Domine terram tuam: avertisti captivitatem Jacob” (Missale Romanum).
The English translation is: “Rejoice in the Lord always: again I say, rejoice. Let your modesty be known to all men: for the Lord is nigh. Be nothing solicitous: but in every prayer let your petitions be made known to God. * O Lord thou hast blessed thy land: thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob.”
The Third Sunday of Advent marks the halfway point of our Advent journey. Therefore the Introit Antiphon of the Mass begins with the word: Rejoice! Indeed, we should be rejoicing because the Lord is nearby. Each year the Third Sunday of Advent recalls the anticipation of the Birth of Christ, but it also reminds us to stay vigilant! We must be vigilant because we are awaiting the Second Coming.
As a youngster I could not wait for the Third Sunday of Advent. This excitement was twofold. First, I knew Christmas was getting closer. Second, I knew there was something special about this day.
The two previous weeks of Advent were symbolic of the penitential aspect marked by purple. The Third Sunday of Advent invited us to Rejoice! This was made manifest by the color rose. The color rose signifies a glimpse of the Light that will be … Continue Reading

It’s Up To Trump’s Fans . . . To Stop Beijing-Linked, Itchy U.S. Totalitarians

December 13, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on It’s Up To Trump’s Fans . . . To Stop Beijing-Linked, Itchy U.S. Totalitarians

By DEXTER DUGGAN

The disgust is mutual.
They think we’re backward, deplorable, superstitious, trouble-making, malign religious fools who must be suppressed for everyone’s good including our own.
We know they’re lying, arrogant, vote-stealing, Beijing-linked, itchy totalitarians who’d like to make the United States into another hopeless Venezuela as long as they get the remaining goodies.
Both of these groups can’t be correct. But one is.
The Lord God and Fallen Angel Satan each can say the other one is evil, but they’re not both correct. It’s hardly that we’re as good as God, but their agenda comes from Satan.
Massive, taxpayer-funded abortion, suppression of religious conscience and liberty, tight left-wing direction of educational bodies and entertainment, censorship of communications, race-obsessed regimentation, abhorrence of individual economic opportunity, severe sexual disorientation — just a sample of the leftist nightmare without end.
Welcome to the midst of Christmas season 2020 — which is about as uneasy as the first one was. Oh, the Romans had applied their brand of “peace” to the Mediterranean world, but a baby in a stable would topple the establishment.
Peasant revolts work when the unrest is wide enough and the self-congratulatory elite sufficiently deluded by their magic mirrors if not being entirely clueless.
If Donald Trump’s campaign were alleged to have committed only one-one hundredth of the presidential-election fraud that creepy Joe Biden’s campaign credibly is accused of, the judicial system would be ablaze with inquiries into how Trump was wrecking … Continue Reading

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‘All-star,’ ‘brilliant jurist’: Pro-life leaders thrilled Trump nominated Barrett to Supreme Court

September 26, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett is “an absolute all-star” and “a judicial role model for the next generation,” pro-life leaders said today.  If confirmed, Barrett will replace pro-abortion Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died just…Continue Reading

Farewell, Uncle Di: Father Paul Mankowski, RIP

My editorial career has brought me into close contact with quite a few impressive thinkers. I have worked with famous authors, with noted theologians and philosophers, with canny political strategists, with at least a half-dozen Nobel Prize winners. Among them…Continue Reading

VIDEO: BLM mob threatens, chases Rand Paul down streets of DC

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 28, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky found himself the target of left-wing violence yet again Thursday night as protesters swarmed him as he was leaving the White House, chasing him and his wife…Continue Reading

Planned Parenthood acknowledges Margaret Sanger’s ‘racist legacy’, continues abortions

CNA Staff, Jul 21, 2020 / 11:05 am MT (CNA).- The New York affiliate of the nation’s largest abortion provider said Tuesday it will remove the name of its founder, Margaret Sanger, from its Manhattan building because of her support…Continue Reading

Statue of Virgin Mary beheaded at Tennessee parish

CNA Staff, Jul 15, 2020 / 10:40 am MT (CNA).- A statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary was attacked this weekend at a parish in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the third reported incident against a statue of Mary occuring in the same…Continue Reading

21 doctors tell bishops Communion on tongue ‘safer’ than in hand

June 26, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Twenty-one Austrian doctors have authored a letter appealing their country’s Bishops’ Conference to lift the de facto ban on receiving Holy Communion on the tongue, which has been enforced since Communion in the hand was…Continue Reading

Catholic priest among defenders of St Louis statue

CNA Staff, Jun 27, 2020 / 09:36 pm MT (CNA).- Fr. Stephen Schumacher, a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, was among the defenders of a prominent statue of the city’s namesake as protesters called for its removal Saturday.…Continue Reading

‘I cannot remain silent’: Madison Catholic bishop condemns destruction of religious statues

Denver Newsroom, Jun 24, 2020 / 04:08 pm MT (CNA).- As rioters across the United States target statues depicting historical figures, the Bishop of Madison, Wisconsin on Tuesday denounced that destruction, along with calls to destroy some depictions of Jesus…Continue Reading

John Roberts tries to suppress Reagan’s letter

After three and a half years of legal wrangling, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in August of 1985 ordered the 16,433 mangled babies’ bodies found in Woodland Hills in 1982 to be turned over to the Guerra-Gutirrez-Alexander Mortuary…Continue Reading

Pope Francis declares Catholic sister killed in Satanic ritual a martyr

Vatican City, Jun 19, 2020 / 12:40 pm MT (CNA).- Pope Francis declared Friday that Sister Maria Laura Mainetti, an Italian religious sister killed by three teenage girls in a Satanic sacrifice, was a martyr for the Catholic faith. The…Continue Reading

Bishop Schneider: Catholics and Muslims share no common faith in God, no common adoration

June 8, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Bishop Athanasius Schneider has once more raised his voice concerning the controversial February 4, 2019 Abu Dhabi Statement on Human Fraternity where Pope Francis and a Grand Imam jointly declared, among other problematic statements, that God wills…Continue Reading

German cardinal criticizes ‘synodal path,’ exhorts German Church to ‘remain Catholic’

COLOGNE, Germany, June 5, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, the head of the Archdiocese of Cologne in Germany, has called on the Church in Germany to strengthen its identity as part of the one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic…Continue Reading

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Interview With Cardinal Burke . . . Discriminating Mercy: Defending Christ And His Church With True Love

  By DON FIER (Editor’s Note: His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, Patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and Founder of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse, Wis., graciously took time out of his busy schedule to grant The Wanderer a wide-ranging interview during a recent visit to the Shrine. Included among the topics…Continue Reading

Developing Lives Of Peace After The Heart Of Mary

By RAYMOND LEO CARDINAL BURKE (Editor’s Note: His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke delivered the address below at the 32nd Annual Church Teaches Forum, “The Message of Fatima: Peace for the World,” Galt House, Louisville, Ky., July 22, 2017. The address is reprinted here with the kind permission of Cardinal Burke. All rights reserved. This is part one of the…Continue Reading

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Bishop Schneider explains why Christians must never take abortion-tainted COVID vaccine

Bishop Schneider’s position was articulated in a paper released last week that was signed by himself and Cardinal Janis Pujats, Bishop Joseph Strickland, and Archbishops Tomash Peta and Jan Pawel Lenga. The statement was spurred by the push of bishops across the world to support a COVID vaccine despite it being tainted with cells from aborted babies. Bishop Schneider explained that he and his brother bishops who signed the statement understand the gravity of what they have suggested in that refusing the COVID vaccine may lead to harsh…Continue Reading

">Cardinal Burke: Forces of the ‘Great Reset’ have used COVID to advance ‘evil agenda’

Supreme Court rejects Texas’s push to overturn Biden victory

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a widely panned bid by Texas to overturn President-elect Joe Biden‘s election win, delivering a devastating blow to the long-shot legal campaign waged by President Trump and his allies since his electoral defeat. The ruling was a repudiation to Trump, as well as the 18 GOP state attorneys general and 126 House Republicans who had backed the lawsuit. The challenge sought to nullify Biden’s wins in Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia and Pennsylvania —…Continue Reading

US judge refuses to lift order allowing at-home medical abortions during pandemic

CNA Staff, Dec 10, 2020 / 05:01 pm MT (CNA).- A federal judge on Wednesday refused to lift an order barring Food and Drug Administration requirements that the abortion pill be administered in person, after the US Supreme Court sent the case back to a lower court in October. In July, Judge Theodore D. Chuang of the US District Court for the District of Maryland ruled that the FDA listing of the abortion pill regimen…Continue Reading

Vatican congregation issues new norms for ecclesiastical institutions of higher education

Vatican City, Dec 10, 2020 / 06:00 am MT (CNA).- The Vatican’s Congregation for Catholic Education issued Wednesday three new instructions on ecclesiastical institutions of higher education.  The congregation issued the new norms concerning the affiliation, aggregation, and incorporation of such institutions Dec. 9, in Italian, French, Spanish and Polish. Archbishop Vincenzo Zani, the congregation’s secretary, told Vatican News that the instructions sought to strengthen the worldwide network of ecclesiastical institutions.  The instructions state that ecclesiastical institutions of higher education must apply to…Continue Reading

The Bishop Strickland Hour – Week of September 29

Who Are Now The Least Among Us?

By JOANNE BUTLER In every Christmas season we hear good words about kindness, mercy, and love. But this year is different. This year is a plague year.Although a COVID vaccine is becoming available, there’s a vicious war over who will have access to it. While there’s general agreement that healthcare workers should be at the…Continue Reading

1,700 Professors . . . Respond To “Wave Of Accusations” Against John Paul II

(CNA) — Hundreds of professors have signed an appeal defending St. John Paul II following criticism of the Polish Pope in the wake of the McCarrick Report.The “unprecedented” appeal was signed by 1,700 professors based at Polish universities and research institutes. The signatories include Hanna Suchocka, Poland’s first female prime minister, former foreign minister Adam…Continue Reading

Pope Francis Proclaims Year Of St. Joseph

VATICAN CITY (CNA) — Pope Francis announced a Year of St. Joseph Tuesday, December 8 in honor of the 150th anniversary of the saint’s proclamation as patron of the Universal Church.The year begins December 8, 2020, and concludes on December 8, 2021, according to a decree authorized by the Pope.The decree said that Francis had…Continue Reading

Archbishop Chaput . . . Joe Biden Should Not Be Permitted To Receive Communion

(CNA) — Archbishop Charles Chaput stated that Joe Biden should not receive Holy Communion because of his support for the “grave moral evil” of abortion.Writing in the magazine First Things on December 4, the archbishop emeritus of Philadelphia also warned that individual bishops who publicly announce their intention to give Biden Communion risk doing a…Continue Reading

Schumer Wants Biden… To Transfer Wealth From Auto Mechanics To Harvard Grads

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY Jim and Jill were born a little more than a year apart to the same unmarried mother in Southern California.Jim was adopted by a working-class family in the San Fernando Valley, where the father made his living as an auto mechanic and the mother as a maid.Jill was adopted by an…Continue Reading

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Our Catholic Faith (Section B of print edition)

The Hearts Of The Fathers

By FR. ROBERT ALTIER Solemnity Of The Holy Family (YR B) Readings: Sirach 3:2-6, 12-14;Col. 3:12-21Luke 2:22-40 In the first reading today, Sirach tells us that God has set a father in honor over his children and that a mother’s authority over her sons is confirmed by God. I have been reading a book that addresses the proper ordering of…Continue Reading

Catholic Replies

Editor’s Note: In a soon-to-be-published biography, Pope Benedict XVI was asked about a phrase he uttered in his first homily as Pope in 2005. He had asked at that time that the faithful “Pray for me, that I may not flee for fear of the wolves.” Did this mean, Peter Seewald asked, that the Holy Father had foreseen what was…Continue Reading

Cardinal Zen . . . Jimmy Lai Arrest Is Part Of Campaign Of “Political Intimidation”

By ED CONDON WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNA) — Joseph Cardinal Zen Ze-kiun has warned that the recent arrest of Jimmy Lai shows a rise in “political intimidation” against journalists in Hong Kong, part of a systematic erosion of basic freedoms, including religious freedom, by the Chinese government in recent months.In an interview with Catholic News Agency, the emeritus bishop of Hong…Continue Reading

A Leaven In The World . . . God Is Not “Contactless”

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK Many small businesses have closed as a result of extensive lockdowns. The situation for those who remain is desperate. Ingenuity has resulted in a host of new business practices as a result, many of which will probably carry over to a time in the future when things may return to what we recall as normal.Now…Continue Reading

The One True God

By FR. ROBERT ALTIER Fourth Sunday Of Advent (YR B) Readings:2 Samuel 7:1-5, 8b-12, 14a, 16Romans 16:25-27Luke 1:26-38 In the second reading today, St. Paul proclaims glory forever to the only wise God through Jesus Christ. The glory St. Paul gives to God is according to His Gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ made known to the nations to…Continue Reading

Catholic Heroes . . . St. Robert Southwell, SJ

By DEB PIROCH The Burning Babe As I in hoary winter’s night stood shivering in the snow,Surpris’d I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow;And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near,A pretty Babe all burning bright did in the air appear;Who, scorched with excessive heat, such floods of tears did shedAs though…Continue Reading

Catholic Heroes . . . St. Mary Of Egypt

By DEB PIROCH There are so many “Marys” in the two millennia of the Church’s history that hearing her name might not trigger an immediate reaction. Yet she is an ancient ascetic dating back to the fourth and fifth centuries.Today as I write this — before you will read the text in The Wanderer — we heard during the Mass…Continue Reading

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