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St. Corona: Finding The Spotlight Amid A Pandemic

April 14, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on St. Corona: Finding The Spotlight Amid A Pandemic

By RAY CAVANAUGH For the better part of 2,000 years, she remained about as obscure as a saint could remain. In fact, we don’t know for sure about the location or even the specific century of her martyrdom. But because this particular saint’s name is Corona, she has suddenly become a lot more relevant. Her place of origin remains unknown. Most sources say that she was martyred in Roman-occupied Syria in AD 170. According to the prevailing account: A Roman soldier (now known as St. Victor) suffered torture and execution for his Christianity. Corona, reportedly the teenage wife of a different soldier and very likely a Christian herself, extended comfort to the solider in his agony and voiced her objection…Continue Reading

What’s A Pro-Lifer To Do?

April 13, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on What’s A Pro-Lifer To Do?

By DEACON MIKE MANNO, JD Cong. Dan Lipinski (D., Ill.) lost his bid for a ninth term in Congress in the Democratic primary last month. I don’t know the man and I don’t live in his district, but I was disappointed anyway. Why? Cong. Lipinski was one of the last staunchly pro-life Democrats in Congress. That is a national tragedy. It’s also a tragedy for the party of my former allegiance. As many of you know, my background is as a working journalist and, oddly enough, as an active Democrat. Before becoming a lawyer and a deacon, I worked for several newspapers and after leaving the media served as a political apparatchik for the Democrats. I held elective public office…Continue Reading

The Wrath Of Germs Or Of God?. . . If We Don’t Agree On Defining Disease, How Do We Overcome It?

April 12, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on The Wrath Of Germs Or Of God?. . . If We Don’t Agree On Defining Disease, How Do We Overcome It?

By DEXTER DUGGAN Yes, even amid a pandemic, there’s little to no agreement on what are facts, or should be accepted as facts, and what is political advantage-seeking. There’s a political way to get a flu shot or a tooth filling? Conservative talk host and writer Dennis Prager observed on March 31, “If there is one thing on which you’d think left and right could agree, it would be the proper response to the present coronavirus. After all, COVID-19 doesn’t distinguish between left and right: Conservatives and liberals are just as likely to contract and even die from it.” Yet on the left, Prager added, the general conviction is that in order to avoid mass death, the world’s economy must…Continue Reading

The Easter Vigil

April 12, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on The Easter Vigil

Is Abortion A “Preeminent Right”?

April 11, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Is Abortion A “Preeminent Right”?

By CHRISTOPHER MANION When various states began enforcing their Wuhan Virus shutdown policies in March, the impact was immediate. Yes, the ban on religious services during Holy Week and Eastertide was devastating, as we have all learned firsthand. However, the impact on the economy was profound as well. Consider: In the past month, across the country millions of businesses small and large were forced to close. Entire supply chains shut down. In the hospitality industry alone, millions lost their jobs. With grit, prayer, and hope, those affected hunkered down. Not one of them sued. Do you know who did? Abortionists. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a pediatric neurologist, was already an abortion extremist. We recall that, last year, he endorsed a…Continue Reading

The Stations Of The Cross

April 10, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on The Stations Of The Cross

But “Final Step” Not Yet Attained… Mass And Eucharist Restored To Phoenix Hospital

April 10, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on But “Final Step” Not Yet Attained… Mass And Eucharist Restored To Phoenix Hospital

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — The restoration of Mass and the Eucharist to St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center here was described as comfort in the COVID-19 pandemic as well as symbolic of Easter hope. These Catholic mainstays had been removed a decade ago when Thomas Olmsted, the bishop of the Diocese of Phoenix, decertified the hospital’s religious status because of various violations of Catholic medical ethics that came to his attention, not only one publicized direct abortion performed there in 2009. However, the vice president of the Catholic Medical Association of Phoenix (CMAP) told The Wanderer on April 1 that because of financial pressures and a widespread lack of traditional medical ethics these days, he was “very pessimistic” about…Continue Reading

Despite COVID-19 Threat… Texas’ Mission Of Divine Mercy Asks For Trust In God

April 9, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Despite COVID-19 Threat… Texas’ Mission Of Divine Mercy Asks For Trust In God

By DEXTER DUGGAN The leader of a monastery of religious contemplatives in the hill country of rural Texas that offers on-site retreats for laypeople urges that the world trust in God during the COVID-19 pandemic. The motto of the Mission of Divine Mercy (MDM) is “Faith, so that God can act.” The mission recalls Jesus’ messages of trust and mercy revealed to the twentieth-century Polish nun Sr. Faustina Kowalska, who was canonized on April 30, 2000, by Polish-born Pope John Paul II. That Pope instituted the Feast of Divine Mercy on the Sunday after Easter, with a novena devotion leading up to it beginning on Good Friday. Further information about this observance and the conditions for the special indulgence that…Continue Reading

Chilean Native On Pandemic . . . “I Pray We All Take Life And Eternity More Seriously Now”

April 8, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Chilean Native On Pandemic . . . “I Pray We All Take Life And Eternity More Seriously Now”

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Luz Fuenzalida is a Chilean native who became a U.S. citizen and is a veteran pro-life activist. She witnesses for life by trying to persuade pregnant mothers going into abortion clinics to change their minds and bring God back into their lives. An interview in the March 17, 2016, hard copy issue of The Wanderer presented her work doing this. (Page 3A, “Latina pro-lifer tells how to save moms and babies from abortion.”) Fuenzalida also has been concerned about the general decline in morality, and how illegal immigration hurts the law-evading families. Following is an edited March 30 Q-and-A interview with Fuenzalida on how she sees life now. Q. What reaction do you see among…Continue Reading

General Grant’s Catholic Encounter

April 7, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on General Grant’s Catholic Encounter

BY JOE SIXPACK After serving his term as president, U.S. Grant went with his wife on a world tour. One of the stops on their trip was the Vatican. When Grant was presented to the Pope, the Holy Father said, “I want to thank you for the religious privileges you granted to Catholic soldiers in your armies.” Thinking back, the general couldn’t recall any special privileges he’d granted to Catholics. Perceiving this, Pope Leo XIII explained, “I’m referring to the fact that before every battle you told your officers to allow the Catholic soldiers an opportunity to go to Confession.” Grant replied rather directly, as was his manner, “I did that as a military measure, because my soldiers fought better…Continue Reading