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A Familiar Situation

July 8, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on A Familiar Situation

By JOE SIXPACK A woman went to her priest to complain that her husband mistreated her. The priest knew the woman became angry at every little thing her husband did, and that she caused him to become angry with her nagging tongue. So Father concocted a little remedy for the situation.The priest handed the woman a bottle and said, “Here you are. Take this medicine, and it will cure your anger and quarreling.”“But what kind of medicine is it?” asked the woman.“It’s miraculous water.”“Miraculous water? What do I do? Sprinkle it on my husband?”“No, not at all. All you have to do is keep some in your mouth. As long as you do that, he’ll never feel any desire to…Continue Reading

The Bishop Strickland Hour . . . A Message For Our Time

July 8, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on The Bishop Strickland Hour . . . A Message For Our Time

The Wanderer will post The Bishop Strickland Radio Hour on our website every Wednesday. A shepherd known for his courageous defense and promotion of the Catholic faith, Bishop Strickland takes on the issues of the day. His message should be heard by all serious Catholics. This program should be distributed far and wide as Bishop Strickland brings us the message of the Gospel each week.

A Beacon Of Light… Divine Light Shines Through The Sacraments

July 7, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on A Beacon Of Light… Divine Light Shines Through The Sacraments

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.) Today begins a series of articles on the seven sacraments and how each is a portal through which Divine Light shines!What is a sacrament? According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, a sacrament is: “An efficacious sign of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us…Continue Reading

Religious Liberty Battles And The Corruption Of Children

July 6, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Religious Liberty Battles And The Corruption Of Children

By DEACON MIKE MANNO, JD It what appears to be foreshadowings of litigation to come, two cases have caught my attention recently.In the first, Pastor James Domen is the founder and president of Church United in California. Formerly a homosexual, after finding Christianity, he rejected that lifestyle, married a woman, and fathered three children.The purpose of Church United is to “equip faith leaders to positively impact the political and moral culture in their communities.” In his church’s online presence he talks about his past experience with homosexuality and how he overcame it.That was until his online hosting service, Vimeo, decided that his videos were hate speech and defamatory, and violated Vimeo’s standards which forbid any content that promotes Sexual Orientation…Continue Reading

Be Careful With Words?. . . John Roberts, Other Revolutionaries Twist Definitions

July 5, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Be Careful With Words?. . . John Roberts, Other Revolutionaries Twist Definitions

By DEXTER DUGGAN Just to make sure they’re absolved of all their lurking racism and bigotry, will the former Dixie Chicks figure out they’ll have to rename themselves the Nancy Pelosi Chicks (or perhaps the Nancy Pelosi Old Hens), or maybe the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Birdies or Bernie Sanders Cluckers? (The Joe Biden Sick Man Chicks just won’t cut it.)Somehow for year after year the title Dixie Chicks was accepted effortlessly for the very successful Texas-bred female trio. The name was regarded as denoting the easygoing, sweet-home South.When the group became identified with opposing President George W. Bush’s Iraq war early in the new millennium and thereby won liberal plaudits, no lefties said the musicians couldn’t be real anti-warriors if they…Continue Reading

Dealing With Shakedown Artists

July 4, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Dealing With Shakedown Artists

By CHRISTOPHER MANION The current wave of violence riots, and looting often bring quieter accomplices. These can include various forms of intimidation that corrupt social comity but suffer no consequences for doing so. Let’s consider an example from south of our border.In El Salvador, opening a business takes a lot of work. There’s a great sense of exhilaration when you open the doors on the first day.But not for long. Soon a youngster stops by and offers to “take care of” your place. Keep it “safe.”You laugh and tell him, “Everything’s OK, we already have insurance.”Then he comes back with an older companion who is not so nice. The tough guy explains that his informal syndicate provides a different kind…Continue Reading

A Book Review… A Very New Book About A Very Old Idea

July 3, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on A Book Review… A Very New Book About A Very Old Idea

By DEACON JAMES H. TONER Integralism: A Manual of Political Philosophy by Thomas Crean and Alan Fimister. Editiones Scholasticae, 2020; paperback, 290 pages. Available at amazon.com. One of Moliere’s characters — a certain M. Jourdain — is at once stunned and delighted to learn that he has spoken prose all his life. Practicing Catholics, similarly, should be stunned and delighted to learn that, by the grace of God, we have been integralists all our lives. In Christian Prayer, a volume used by many who pray the Liturgy of the Hours, there is a brief, but beautiful and meaningful, petition: “Form our lives in [Thy] truth, our hearts in [Thy] love” (p. 617).Integralism, as the cover of this new volume tells…Continue Reading

ACLU, Dem AGs… Try To Force Catholic Medics To Sin

July 3, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on ACLU, Dem AGs… Try To Force Catholic Medics To Sin

By DEACON MIKE MANNO, JD Of all the outrages being committed by the progressive left these days, few would compare with the attempts by a coalition of Democratic state attorneys general and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to force Catholic hospitals and health-care workers to perform elective hysterectomies for women seeking to “transition” to men, to perform “trans” surgeries, and to require all to perform abortions.The party of death and its secular arm, the ACLU, have filed two federal lawsuits to strip away from Catholic hospitals and medical personnel their right to decline to perform certain medical procedures as a matter of faith or conscience.“The last thing anyone should want right now is fewer hospitals. And yet, that may…Continue Reading

As Nation’s Social Temperature Soars . . . Trump Takes Stage On A Summer Day In Southern Arizona

July 2, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on As Nation’s Social Temperature Soars . . . Trump Takes Stage On A Summer Day In Southern Arizona

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Life goes on at 110 degrees, this time every year.It was a normal sunny, low-humidity June day In Phoenix at 107 degrees by mid-afternoon, with the temperature to edge a few degrees higher before starting to come down with the evening. It’s what desert-dwellers here expect annually, and accommodate routinely.However, social temperatures had been turned sharply higher around the nation with violent leftist-incited tension by the time President Trump arrived here on June 23 to speak to cheering thousands of young people who Trump described as the future of the nation. KFYI Radio news (550 AM) said some of the attendees had lined up by 3 a.m. — more than 12 hours earlier.Was the social…Continue Reading

A Fitting Challenge

July 1, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on A Fitting Challenge

BY JOE SIXPACK A missionary priest who worked among the native people of the Himalayan Mountains used to tell of an astounding custom among the people. Since murder was considered the most horrible crime that could be committed, the punishment was always death.When a murder had been committed but no one knew who the murderer was, everybody in the village was obliged to pass by the victim’s body, which was placed in the main street, and as each person passed the body he placed his hand on the corpse and took a solemn vow that he had no part in the crime; an incredibly hard but fitting challenge for the guilty party.The Fifth Commandment is: You shall not kill. As…Continue Reading