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The Loveliest Lullaby

December 20, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on The Loveliest Lullaby

By LAWRENCE BRAZIER Could there be a song that is universally known to all Christians and many more of other denominations? It is said that the Advent classic, Silent Night, is sung in 52 languages. It was composed 200 years ago this coming Christmas. Here is the story of how it all began. + + + Consider the catastrophe. A performance is expected, everything is set, anticipation runs high and then your organ breaks down on Christmas Eve. A mouse nibbling at the bellows was suspected. One might consider some hopeful tinkering, but all is to no avail and there are worshippers waiting to give praise. What is to be done? Most church members would fall on to their knees…Continue Reading

Christmas In Stone Harbor

December 19, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Christmas In Stone Harbor

By FR. MICHAEL P. ORSI “The ocean clean, the evergreen, the prettiest picture you’ve ever seen. It’s Christmas in Stone Harbor, with all the Kernans at the rectory” (to the tune of Christmas in Killarney). + + + Christmas is a special holiday for families. People travel far and wide to celebrate with the ones they love. Because of church services, it is often difficult for a priest to enjoy kith and kin. But, that never stopped the clan Kernan from sharing this special time together. Fr. Gene was the oldest of eight children. He often said, “We didn’t have much, but we had each other.” The size of the family gave them a tremendous sense of an open house.…Continue Reading

’Twas The Week Before Christmas

December 18, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on ’Twas The Week Before Christmas

By MIKE MANNO Well, next week is the big day and we eagerly await the annual visitation of that jolly fat man who brings Christmas cheer around the world. Yes, it’s that jolly fat man that is the center of our season; we used to think it was Jesus and His Birth that we celebrate. Apparently, that’s wrong. You see, the mere mention of the name Jesus will bring you condemnation. Interestingly, reference to God, or the Almighty doesn’t seem to have the negative connotation that the mention of Jesus does. Now it’s perfectly normal to wonder why, after all, the jolly fat man is based on a saint, but nobody says that anymore. Saint is a reference that is…Continue Reading

A Leaven In The World… Proclaim The Humanity Of The Unborn Child

December 17, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on A Leaven In The World… Proclaim The Humanity Of The Unborn Child

By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK You know the stereotype: hidebound, uneducated Christians clinging to their guns and religion, rejecting new ideas, and particularly science, out of fear of being wrong or found guilty of enslavement to mere superstition. When it comes to the humanity of the preborn boy or girl, however, the Christians have science on their side. You don’t have to read Catholic sources to learn this. Take a look at theatlantic.com: “The first time Ashley McGuire had a baby, she and her husband had to wait 20 weeks to learn its sex. By her third, they found out at 10 weeks with a blood test. Technology has defined her pregnancies, she told me, from the apps that track…Continue Reading

First Christmas… Was Hardly Only Time When Rulers Persecuted Their People

December 15, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on First Christmas… Was Hardly Only Time When Rulers Persecuted Their People

By DEXTER DUGGAN The first Christmas wasn’t surrounded by a welcoming world but hostility and oppression that bore down not only on the manger but most people beyond it, who endured as they could. The society was under Roman rule that, personified in King Herod, feared the birth of a helpless baby, much like today with Planned Parenthood on the throne. Cruel kings maintaining their rule worry about rivals. When the wise men departed after worshipping Jesus, they took a different route toward home lest Herod learn of the Child’s location and have Him slain. How long will people in each era endure the oppression of burdensome rulers and their servile courtiers who proclaim only what the rulers want announced?…Continue Reading

The Year Of No More Secrets

December 15, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on The Year Of No More Secrets

By CHRISTOPHER MANION It’s fair to say that 2018 had its ups and downs. In the long run, the celebration of Humanae Vitae’s fiftieth birthday certainly comes in first in the category of good news. Like so many bedrocks of the faith, the more unpopular this vibrant document has become among the elites of our secular culture, the more its principles and even its predictions have been proven to be on the mark. Want an uplifting way to celebrate this Christmas? Get a really big stocking — make that two — and stuff them with copies of Why Humanae Vitae Is Still Right (Ignatius Press). Editor Janet Smith, the unanimous gold-medalist in explaining this beautiful teaching, has brought together a…Continue Reading

For Her Feast Day . . . A Love Letter To Our Lady Of Guadalupe

December 14, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on For Her Feast Day . . . A Love Letter To Our Lady Of Guadalupe

By REY FLORES “When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, let it be” — Let It Be lyrics by The Beatles. + + + On December 12, we Catholics celebrate the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Patroness of the Americas, and the Patroness of the Unborn. My own mother Alicia has always told me that she prayed that I would be born on the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Her prayers were answered. My birthday has been my saving grace as far as I’m concerned. I am not implying that my being born on our Lady’s feast day makes me any more special than any…Continue Reading

Strickland And Mueller Napalm Martin’s Bridge

December 13, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Strickland And Mueller Napalm Martin’s Bridge

By SHAUN KENNEY Expanding just a bit on last week’s discourse regarding the tête-à-tête between Bishop Joseph Strickland of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, and Fr. James Martin, SJ — author of Building a Bridge and consultant to the Vatican Communications Office — it seems as if Strickland’s critique earned a rather lengthy response from Martin that is worth a deeper dive. Charitably, Martin had the decency not to call Bishop Strickland a member of the “Catholic alt-right” for his defense of the Magisterium (duly noted). Nor did he call Gerhard Cardinal Mueller a member of a vast neo-Nazi network for defending Church teaching (also, duly noted). Martin offers two points. First and foremost, Martin insists that he is not…Continue Reading

Pro-Abort Democrat Party… Positions Itself As If Church Doesn’t Object

December 12, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on Pro-Abort Democrat Party… Positions Itself As If Church Doesn’t Object

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — The officially strongly pro-abortion Democratic Party took advantage of the Catholic Church once again, but two communications specialists at the headquarters of the Diocese of Phoenix didn’t reply to questions from The Wanderer. It’s nothing new when Democrat pro-abortionists try to cuddle up with Catholic imagery and Catholics to gain their votes — just as long as no one calls the Dems to account for championing grave violations of fundamental moral law, like slaughtering tens of millions of preborn babies. If the Church won’t care about such violations, why should it be surprised when its credibility fails? Two incidents occurred here recently. Radically pro-abortion and far-leftist Democrat Kyrsten Sinema got national publicity when she campaigned…Continue Reading

This One Is Inexplicable… What Were They Thinking?

December 11, 2018 Frontpage Comments Off on This One Is Inexplicable… What Were They Thinking?

By MIKE MANNO Well, I certainly didn’t expect this. In all my years following the legal battles involving religious liberty, this just might be a first. In Edisto Beach, S.C., the town has a civic center which it rents out for “civic, political, business, social groups, and others.” Recently it denied the rental application of a church, Redeemer Fellowship. Now at this point you would expect that the argument would be that the church is a religious organization and renting to it would violate the “separation” of church and state. But you would be wrong. The town does rent to religious institutions. In fact it already rents out its facilities for church office space, Bible studies, ministry training, and the…Continue Reading