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Lent: Finding Joy In Gratitude And In Suffering

March 6, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Lent: Finding Joy In Gratitude And In Suffering

By REY FLORES Once again, my favorite season of Lent is coming around, bringing us a new hope in the midst of sacrifice. As I grow older and go through life’s trials and tribulations, I have learned to embrace suffering as something good, something edifying. Without suffering, how would we learn true gratitude and how else would we know what true happiness is? A better way to put it is this way: Had Jesus not endured everything from His agony in the garden, His scourging, the via crucis, and ultimately His crucifixion, there would have been no eternal salvation, or the opportunity of it, for any of us. What is true happiness, you ask? From what I continue to learn…Continue Reading

The Vendetta Against Cardinal Pell . . . His Guilt Was Not Established Beyond Reasonable Doubt

March 5, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on The Vendetta Against Cardinal Pell . . . His Guilt Was Not Established Beyond Reasonable Doubt

By JOHN YOUNG Australian George Cardinal Pell has been found guilty in a Melbourne court of sexual abuse of two boys under the age of 16, including oral sex, and is now in prison awaiting sentencing: probably a term of several years. An appeal is being lodged by his legal team. But is he guilty? Most of the media are certain he is, with some notable exceptions. I believe he is innocent and that the jury should certainly have brought in a verdict of not guilty. There has been a gross miscarriage of justice. First let us look at the background. Cardinal Pell is one of the most orthodox bishops in the Church and has never hesitated to uphold orthodoxy…Continue Reading

All The News That’s Fit To Print

March 4, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on All The News That’s Fit To Print

By MIKE MANNO My dad was a printer by trade. Before I was born, he had his own print shop in Philadelphia. It wasn’t like today’s print shops where you can print from a master made on your computer, or even a typewriter. It was the old- fashioned kind of printing where type was set and photos and logos were first turned into engravings and then into metal plates. The city wanted my dad’s property. He didn’t want to sell, but my mom’s family had some connections with the Republican bigwigs who ran the city at that time, so dad’s property was sold for top dollar. He finally moved my mom and me to Des Moines, Iowa, where he worked…Continue Reading

Unbelievable Media Undercut Selves . . . Smearing The Benevolent While Sanitizing The Gruesome

March 3, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Unbelievable Media Undercut Selves . . . Smearing The Benevolent While Sanitizing The Gruesome

By DEXTER DUGGAN After Donald S. Smith, the film producer who made the groundbreaking Silent Scream pro-life film in the mid-1980s, died in late January at age 94, his obituary in The New York Times was 15 paragraphs long under a two-column headline, with a one-column photo of Smith seated by a bookcase in his younger days. The Times wasn’t brushing off his death. But the Times was mad, as it usually is when the welfare of its beloved massive permissive abortion is questioned. When people doubt abortion, the Times is far, far angrier than seeing the injustice of actually tearing off the limbs of countless preborn babies, or injecting poison into their hearts, or sucking out their brains. In…Continue Reading

By Their Fruits Shall Ye Know Them

March 2, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on By Their Fruits Shall Ye Know Them

By CHRISTOPHER MANION As the Rome “summit” on sex abuse ended, USCCB President Daniel Cardinal DiNardo said, “These have been challenging, fruitful days.” What fruits did the summit bear? “New mechanisms,” he said. We wonder, what happened to the cardinal’s profound resolve of last November, thoroughly to investigate the McCarrick scandal with transparency, accountability, justice, and results? Did Pope Francis shut him down? It raises the question, who runs USCCB these days — could it be Cardinal Cupich? Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley, OFM Cap., is undaunted. He still wants to see the Vatican’s final report on the McCarrick investigation. Meanwhile Los Angeles Archbishop José Gómez surprises us with his observation that, “at its heart,” the abuse-and-cover-up crisis has been caused…Continue Reading

Left’s Latest Demand: Race-Based Reparations

March 1, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Left’s Latest Demand: Race-Based Reparations

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Having embraced “Medicare-for-all,” free college tuition, and a Green New Deal that would mandate an early end of all oil, gas, and coal-fired power plants, the Democratic Party’s lurch to the left rolls on. Presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren both called last week for race-based reparations for slavery. “Centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, legal discrimination and segregation, and discrimination that exist today have led to a systemic wealth gap between black and white Americans,” Harris told The New York Times. “I’m serious about taking an approach that would change policies and structures and make real investments in black communities.” Echoed Sen. Warren: “We must confront the dark history of slavery and government-sanctioned discrimination in…Continue Reading

No One Expects The Secular Inquisition!

February 28, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on No One Expects The Secular Inquisition!

By SHAUN KENNEY The last few weeks have been a train wreck for the legacy media. Almost all of the wounds have been self-inflicted, with Nick Sandmann of Covington Catholic High School now pursuing a $250 million defamation suit against The Washington Post — and good for him. I won’t bore you with the litany of horribles from the media desperately eager to craft a narrative to fit a worldview. The point is that their outlook on humanity isn’t just diametrically opposed to precisely half of America, but it is opposed to basic concepts of reality. By the time this reaches your hands, there will be a stronger-than-even likelihood that the Mueller investigation will have released its report to the…Continue Reading

Smoke And Mirrors At The Vatican… Credibility Is A No-Show At Sex Abuse Summit

February 27, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Smoke And Mirrors At The Vatican… Credibility Is A No-Show At Sex Abuse Summit

By JOSEPH MATT In November of last year at the height of the McCarrick scandal — with the laity’s outrage at a fever pitch and the bombshell Viganò testimony sending shockwaves through the Vatican — the American bishops were in a frenzy to address the tidal wave of sex abuse and cover-up headlines at the USCCB’s fall meeting. The laity’s outrage was so palatable and the pressure so intense it appeared as though maybe the bishops this time around might get serious about addressing the crisis that has been crippling the Church for decades — sexual abuse, cover-ups, and homosexuality in the priesthood. As the bishops’ meeting convened last November the topic front and center was the McCarrick case, highlighted…Continue Reading

Along The Southern Border . . … When Laws Are Trampled Down Is When Walls Have To Rise

February 27, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Along The Southern Border . . … When Laws Are Trampled Down Is When Walls Have To Rise

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — A San Diego woman told The Wanderer how she had seen life change since she moved to the southern California ocean-side hub just north of Mexico decades ago. When obeying lawful border regulations had been regarded as more important, there was less need to emphasize physical border security, said “Sally,” a woman who asked that her real name not be used. However, with drug cartels turning more active and unauthorized crossings northward as a problem, an evening jaunt to Tijuana by Americans wasn’t thought of so lightly. San Diego used to be regarded as a quiet Navy town, and its residents would cross southward for dinner and drinks and some sporting events, Sally said. “It was more…Continue Reading

Living In The Age Of Fake Accusations

February 26, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Living In The Age Of Fake Accusations

By REY FLORES These days, anyone can hurl an accusation against anyone else, and if the political narrative favors the radical secular left, the fake news media and Hollywood celebrities will run with the story, before any solid facts are established, and make a huge deal out of it. The biggest one being this complete money pit called the Robert Mueller “Russian collusion” investigation, alleging that President Trump was “colluding” with the Russian government to steal the 2016 presidential election from Hillary Clinton. Word coming out of Washington, D.C., is that after two years, there is little, if anything to report. Mueller will walk away looking like a complete fool, egg on his face and all, with his tail between…Continue Reading