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Liberal Nuns

June 21, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Liberal Nuns

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK Like most Catholics who grew up in the middle years of the 20th century, I have a difficult time figuring out the endgame of the nuns in groups such as Network and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR). (I am going to use the term “nun” in what follows as it is used colloquially, even though some may object that it applies only to women religious who live cloistered lives.) The modern liberal nuns are a mystery to me, poles apart from the Dominican sisters who taught me in grade school. In fact, it seems to be a high priority of modern liberal nuns to make sure that we understand that new reality.

The Sick Derangement Of Liberals

June 20, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on The Sick Derangement Of Liberals

By REY FLORES (Editor’s Note: Rey Flores wrote this column before the June 14 shooting at the Congressional Baseball Game practice. See his online commentary posted that day at www.thewandererpress.com.) + + + It seems to be that every day in America since Donald J. Trump became our 45th president, the radical left-wing maniacs have gone more and more berserk and they are now treading very dangerous waters. If it’s not some failed has-been comic posing with a bloody mock severed head of President Trump, it’s a bunch of talentless actors in New York’s Central Park staging a modern version of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar — complete with the Caesar character represented by an actor who is made up to look…Continue Reading

Gunfire At Ballpark . . . Democrat Leaders’ Cowardice Helps Propel Nation Toward Breakdown

June 19, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Gunfire At Ballpark . . . Democrat Leaders’ Cowardice Helps Propel Nation Toward Breakdown

By DEXTER DUGGAN If more political leaders had stood up for basic moral beliefs, there probably would have been less of the growth of left-wing extremism that enabled hysteria culminating in the shooting attack on Republican members of Congress on a Virginia baseball field in mid-June. However, with each step further left that the national Democratic Party took in recent decades, prominent figures like Catholics Cong. Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Tim Kaine. and Gov. Andrew Cuomo joined the march in the role of avid pro-abortionists, supporters of homosexual privilege, and advocates of a politicized “morality” that detested its opposition. No accusation seemed too wild. Even the imaginary idea that Republican Donald Trump managed to conspire with Russia to steal the presidential…Continue Reading

University Of Mary’s President… Says We Need To Rediscover Contemplation

June 18, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on University Of Mary’s President… Says We Need To Rediscover Contemplation

By PEGGY MOEN MINNEAPOLIS — Asked by The Wanderer what advice he would give to someone planning to transform a Catholic college, Msgr. James Patrick Shea, president of the University of Mary, said “hiring for mission” is paramount. “Find people who love the Lord and the faith,” he said, and then put them in “key positions.” These key people can then build a campus culture that supports contemplation, said Msgr. Shea, who earned a licentiate in philosophy at Catholic University, and studied theology at the Gregorian and Lateran universities in Rome. Monsignor was speaking at the Church of St. Helena here at the 21st Annual Benefit Banquet for The Catholic Servant, a locally based monthly newspaper. In his June 7…Continue Reading

A Telling Tip Of The Red Hats

June 17, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on A Telling Tip Of The Red Hats

By CHRISTOPHER MANION Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis’ encyclical published last year following the two Synods on the Family, became profoundly controversial because of a line that Pope Francis later famously forgot that he had written. According to that text, relegated to a footnote (no. 351) to paragraph 305, those in “irregular situations,” including adulterous civil marriages, might receive “the help of the sacraments.” But which sacraments? Confession, repentance with a “firm purpose of amendment,” and absolution? Or Holy Communion, received with a dash of wistful regret and comfortable adultery, shorn of any intention to regularize the irregular. After all, sacramental marriage is only an “ideal.” The text of the encyclical is intentionally turgid, reaching a “fog factor” of ten out…Continue Reading

Are We Nearing Civil War?

June 16, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Are We Nearing Civil War?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN President Trump may be chief of state, head of government and commander in chief, but his administration is shot through with disloyalists plotting to bring him down. We are approaching something of a civil war where the capital city seeks the overthrow of the sovereign and its own restoration. Thus far, it is a nonviolent struggle, though street clashes between pro- and anti-Trump forces are increasingly marked by fistfights and brawls. Police are having difficulty keeping people apart. A few have been arrested carrying concealed weapons. That the objective of this city is to bring Trump down via a deep state-media coup is no secret. Few deny it. The past week, fired Director of the FBI…Continue Reading

Catholic High Schools In The 21st Century

June 15, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Catholic High Schools In The 21st Century

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK (I am going to offer some observations about the state of American Catholic high schools based upon what I have seen in the part of Connecticut where I live. I am confident that the situation here is similar to that which obtains in most of the country. If not, I welcome readers’ reactions to provide balance. Fire away.) My grandchildren attend the public high school in the Connecticut town where they live. But I get to hear parents of Catholic high school students talk about their experience quite a bit. Their sons are on my grandsons’ youth hockey teams and I occasionally shoot the breeze with some of them with our noses pushed up against the glass surrounding the ice. Now and…Continue Reading

Liberal Rhetoric Turns to Actual Violence

June 14, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Liberal Rhetoric Turns to Actual Violence

Rey Flores On a sunny and warm June morning in Alexandria, Virginia, the unhinged, maniacal liberal left finally crossed over from portraying violent acts against President Trump on film and on stage, to real-life attempted murder. Sixty-six-year-old James T. Hodgkinson from Belleville, Illinois, a huge Bernie Sanders supporter, decided to take everything that the fake, and dangerous, “news” media has been brainwashing the American public with, and put it into action. In preparation for the 56th Annual Congressional Baseball Game scheduled for June 15, 2017, several Republican congressmen were practicing at a public baseball field in Alexandria, Virginia, in the early morning hours on Wednesday, June 14. That’s when a man asked another observer if it was Democrats or Republicans…Continue Reading

Liberalism And “Manly Men”

June 14, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on Liberalism And “Manly Men”

By JAMES K. FITZPATRICK There is no video of the “body slam” of Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs by Greg Gianforte in the final days of Gianforte’s successful bid for Montana’s open congressional seat, so it is difficult to make a judgment about how inappropriately Gianforte behaved. Obviously, there is a difference between a violent physical attack meant to do bodily harm (which Jacobs alleges), and a tussle over a microphone rudely shoved in Gianforte’s face, during which Jacobs and Gianforte fell to the ground (which is Gianforte’s story). But something out-of-order took place. Gianforte was charged with misdemeanor assault and will appear before a Montana judge. The negative newspaper and intense cable news coverage may have damaged Gianforte’s reputation, but…Continue Reading

No Sooner One Than Another… Writing About Terrorist Attacks Is Like Trying To Write On Waves

June 13, 2017 Frontpage Comments Off on No Sooner One Than Another… Writing About Terrorist Attacks Is Like Trying To Write On Waves

By DEXTER DUGGAN Writing about Islamist terror is like trying to write on rolling water. No sooner does one wave of murder smack against the beach than another red wave sweeps in, effacing yesterday’s writing. Actually, it’s more like trying to write on flaming gasoline from the Mideast. Paris, Berlin, Nice, Brussels, Istanbul, San Bernardino, Orlando, multiple German sites — soon the unusual city may not be one that was attacked by Islamists, but one that hasn’t been attacked yet. In late May, Poland’s conservative prime minister, Beata Szydlo, warned against what isn’t a terrorist threat but a terrorist actuality, telling other European leaders to “rise from your knees and from your lethargy or you will be crying over your…Continue Reading