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Divorce Is Always Hard . . . But It Doesn’t Have To Be Violent

July 25, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Divorce Is Always Hard . . . But It Doesn’t Have To Be Violent

By CHRISTOPHER MANION “Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division” (Luke 12:51). As revolutions go, the preambles take more time than the main event. The revolution we are currently witnessing has been percolating for years. The actors are bipartisan: as M. Stanton Evans once put it, “The Democrats race towards the abyss; the Republicans obey the speed limit.” The Evans Principle has ruled since Democrat Woodrow Wilson, with Cardinal Gibbons’ blessing, launched the United States on a messianic campaign to “Make the World Safe for Democracy.” The Federal Reserve, the Income Tax, and the direct election of senators, all adopted in 1913, contributed to the diminution of local communities,…Continue Reading

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

July 24, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on This Weeks . . . The Bishop Strickland Hour . . . A Message For Our Time

The Kingdom Of Unreality

July 24, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on The Kingdom Of Unreality

By GEORGE A. KENDALL I woke up very early one morning recently and found myself lying there for a couple of hours, brooding about the situation in the world today: the China virus, the worldwide rioting stirred up by far-left groups in response to the killing of George Floyd, the chaotic political situation, and the mess in the Catholic Church, which ought to be a source of spiritual help in this dire situation but is finding it harder and harder to speak with any authority.Now, progressives are starting to tell us that if Trump is re-elected, the blue states are likely to secede, and thus break up the United States. Those of us on the right are inclined to think…Continue Reading

Liberals Can Become Conservatives . . . But Will Catholic Dems Distance Selves From Party Extremism?

July 23, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on Liberals Can Become Conservatives . . . But Will Catholic Dems Distance Selves From Party Extremism?

By DEXTER DUGGAN Radio talk host and writer Seth Leibsohn recalled for his audience how he began his journey away from the political left.Raised in a liberal family, the Phoenix-born Leibsohn went to a socialist bookstore in high school — back in 1987 — but was surprised that the first work he saw prominently displayed was “an anti-Israel screed that swallowed whole the PLO line that Israel should not exist and that it did exist at the expense of Palestinian human and civil rights,” Leibsohn told his listeners at the Phoenix-based KKNT (960 AM) on July 8.The PLO is the Palestine Liberation Organization.Leibsohn, who went on to become a conservative political activist on the national level and a producer in…Continue Reading

The Three Mirrors

July 22, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on The Three Mirrors

BY JOE SIXPACK Theresa, a young lady from a good Catholic family, had gone off to college, the first time in her life being on her own. When she settled in, she realized she’d left home without her hand mirror. Theresa called her mother and asked her if she could send the forgotten mirror. Theresa’s mother agreed and promptly sent a package.When the package arrived, Theresa opened it to first find a note from her mother: “Enclosed are three mirrors. The first will show you as you are. The second will show you as you will be. The third mirror will show you as you ought to be.”The first mirror she took out was her ordinary hand mirror, the one…Continue Reading

A Beacon Of Light … Confirmation And Battling The Forces Of Darkness

July 21, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on A Beacon Of Light … Confirmation And Battling The Forces Of Darkness

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.) Last week we discussed the first sacrament of initiation which is Baptism. We learned that Baptism cleanses us from original sin and makes us a member of God’s family. In Baptism we also receive special graces to assist us in our new journey of faith. Today we will examine the second Sacrament of Initiation which is…Continue Reading

The Powers Of Hell

July 20, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on The Powers Of Hell

By DEACON MIKE MANNO, JD During the past month I, like most of you, have been horrified by the new societal goings on. The murder of a black man in Minnesota has been used as justification for riots, lootings, and now an attempt to erase the cultural heritage of America.I don’t want to say “I told you so,” but back in March of 2018 I did sound a warning, (“It’s the culture, Stupid!” The Wanderer, March 1, 2018).Okay, I did want to say “I told you so,” probably because I’ve been wrong about so many things that when I make a really good point I feel like the blind squirrel who found the acorn. Anyway, I digress.I wrote then: “By…Continue Reading

From Old Tombstone To Today . . . What You’re Allowed To Say Can Spell Dangerous Results

July 19, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on From Old Tombstone To Today . . . What You’re Allowed To Say Can Spell Dangerous Results

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — When families get together for social gatherings, the saying goes, don’t talk about religion or politics. That could upset emotions.Well, what did acquaintances talk about around the saloon card tables in, say, Tombstone, Arizona Territory, in the latter nineteenth century? Just whiskey and gambling?As of 1881, the year of Tombstone’s fabled October 26 gunfight at the OK Corral, the end of the Civil War was only 16 years in the past. That nightmarish conflict, whose end included the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, must still have been a raw memory for many.But how many Westerns give us saloon dialogue about any topics of that time except perhaps slighted honor, liquor, card cheating, or rustling?In fact,…Continue Reading

The Pandemic And The Prelates

July 18, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on The Pandemic And The Prelates

By CHRISTOPHER MANION During the pandemic, the term “comorbidity” came into view as an important, even critical, ingredient in assessing the prospects for infection, severity, and survival from the Wuhan Virus. As the virus spread, it quickly became evident that its effects were more severe when contracted by those with serious pre-existing medical conditions like asthma, high blood pressure, obesity, and diabetes.The lockdowns responding to the virus had an impact that transcended the medical dimension. As its repercussions spread, they revealed another set of “comorbidities” — that is, conditions that disposed some in society to suffer from the lockdowns more than others.One of those conditions was simply being religious. And there, Catholics were hit especially hard. Sure, atheists were quarantined…Continue Reading

American Revolution 2.0… How We Will Win

July 17, 2020 Frontpage Comments Off on American Revolution 2.0… How We Will Win

By REY FLORES “A house divided against itself cannot stand” — Abraham Lincoln, June 16, 1858. In last week’s Wanderer (p. 7B), I addressed the problems we are facing today because of a decades-long campaign against all that is good, which has finally come to an ugly head.Like the proverbial frog in a pot of water, the enemies of God, worldly and other-worldly, have come after everything that we know to be free, holy, and sacrosanct. They have been turning up the heat little by little and now we realize that we are in some seriously hot water.Our freedoms are being quickly eroded by the very government that was instituted by the founding fathers of our nation to do the…Continue Reading