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Pope Francis Extends Synod On Synodality To 2024

October 27, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Pope Francis Extends Synod On Synodality To 2024

By COURTNEY MARES (Wanderer Editor’s Note: See Fr. John T. Zuhlsdorf’s wdtprs.com blog for October 17, where he asks: “A ‘perpetual synodal’ [‘walking together’] Church? What could go wrong?” Fr. Zuhlsdorf also quotes from Ed Pentin of the National Catholic Register: “Today’s announcement of a two-year process for the upcoming synod on synodality (‘walking together’) appears to reflect the ideas of Jesuit Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, who viewed synodality as a vehicle for questioning Church teaching.”) + + VATICAN CITY (CNA) — Pope Francis announced on Sunday, October 16 that the Synod on Synodality will be extended to 2024.Speaking in his Angelus address on October 16, the Pope shared his decision to divide the Synod of Bishops into two sessions…Continue Reading

“October Surprise” A Nuclear Attack?. . . Campaigning Warns Of Dangers With White House “Fool”

October 26, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on “October Surprise” A Nuclear Attack?. . . Campaigning Warns Of Dangers With White House “Fool”

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — “October surprise” traditionally means a damaging unexpected element injected into a political campaign shortly before the November elections, with the hope that the target of the surprise wouldn’t be able to respond sufficiently and save his candidacy.But can it be a surprise if it’s something right out where everyone could think about it — even if they’re discouraged by others from doing so?Could this year’s surprise be nuclear war? Although a person profoundly hopes not, this hasn’t been a hidden issue after Russian President Vladimir Putin openly threatened the use of his nuclear fist in the war he started in Ukraine.And how would the United States respond? Horribly, the prime nuclear power in the world…Continue Reading

An Open Letter To Our Bishops

October 25, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on An Open Letter To Our Bishops

By GARY YARBROUGH, MD (Editor’s Note: Dr. Gary Yarbrough wrote this October 3, 2022 open letter to the U.S. bishops and we are privileged to publish it here. In his letter, Dr. Yarbrough cites the words of the Prophet Ezekiel and the example of St. John Vianney to persuade the bishops to work to clear out the morass in which the local Church is mired.) + + There is in man a desire for being clean. As a doctor I have seen it in homeless people who come into the hospital and have their first shower in months. We all have that desire for cleanliness, not just physically but emotionally and spiritually as well.In the Catholic faith we are fortunate…Continue Reading

Woke Child Care

October 24, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Woke Child Care

By DEACON MIKE MANNO When I was growing up, apparently in a place lost to time, my mother did not work, and none of my friends’ mothers worked except for those few who were helping run family businesses. One of my great memories of that time were my friend’s parents who ran a bakery, the Spudnut Shop, right across from the school, where occasionally we’d miss the first bell after a round of glazed donuts.Life was great back then; everything was, but I digress.Today child care is a must for many parents, especially in single-parent families. There are, of course, numerous reasons for this and there are scores of sociologists throughout the United States who have determined why this new…Continue Reading

Friendship Is Threefold . . . Renewing Our Friendship With God

October 23, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Friendship Is Threefold . . . Renewing Our Friendship With God

By DONALD DeMARCO God is the source of all love and life. Without these two great gifts we are nothing. Our most fundamental response, then, should be one of appreciation. But appreciation can be superficial, such as appreciating a fine painting. If someone gave us the painting, then we should feel gratitude. Thus, we should feel gratitude to God since He bestowed these gifts on us.Going a step further, God’s gifts, unlike the painting, are not exterior to us, but remain an essential part of us. Therefore, we should maintain an abiding friendship with God.All human beings should maintain a friendship with God. Friendship is possible because love is available. Just as there can be no dance without music, there…Continue Reading

Promising Rumbles From Under The Rubble

October 22, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Promising Rumbles From Under The Rubble

By CHRISTOPHER MANION The Democrat Party is slouching toward unanimous support of abortion in every stage of pregnancy. Unfortunately, Catholics Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi are leading the way. Every Democrat candidate in the country supports policy — or else.Joe Biden pounds the table, promising that he will sign a bill authorizing abortion up to birth nationwide as soon as Congress passes it. Because Joe routinely blurts banalities, his Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre makes it clear: Yes, Joe means it.The position is so extreme that only North Korea and Communist China and their ilk allow it. But Nancy Pelosi distinguishes her support from theirs on theological grounds: It’s “sinful” to oppose abortion, she said last week. For her source, she…Continue Reading

Amerika — The New Police State

October 21, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Amerika — The New Police State

By JOSEPH MATT As we approach the final week of the midterms — vote as though your life depends on it — because inevitably it does. Remember elections have consequences. We are reminded of that on a daily basis as we witness the escalating food and gas prices, the immigration crisis, the rampant crime, and perhaps the most troubling — the total discard for the First Amendment.Nothing exemplifies this more than the rash of FBI raids on dozens of pro-life activists in recent weeks. These are citizens who pre-Biden Department of Justice were presumed innocent until proven guilty — NO MORE. These arrests are designed to intimidate and silence the pro-life cause. They are nothing short of intimidation and an…Continue Reading

The True Origins Of The Mass

October 21, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on The True Origins Of The Mass

By JOE SIXPACK Part 2 In last week’s installment, we looked at how God demanded to be worshipped in the Old Covenant. We looked at how He established the Levitical priesthood, told the priests how they were to dress, how He wanted the liturgy performed, and the establishment of the Arc of the Covenant. He also demanded obedience to everything He commanded concerning His worship, or the people would face severe consequences. All of this was a prefigurement of what we have in the New Covenant priesthood and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.But what happened to the Old Covenant when Jesus established the New Covenant? How did that affect the Old Covenant and how God was to be worshipped…Continue Reading

Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic . . . Tilting Toward Authoritarianism: The Recent Actions Of Biden’s DOJ

October 20, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic . . . Tilting Toward Authoritarianism: The Recent Actions Of Biden’s DOJ

By STEPHEN M. KRASON The recent actions of federal law enforcement, engineered by the Department of Justice, have been shocking and unsettling in terms of their implications both for the peaceful post-election transition of political power and the future of civil liberties in America. The raid on Trump’s residence in Mar-a-Lago, Fla., and the storming of the residence of pro-life activist Mark Houck in eastern Pennsylvania represent an ostensible willingness of the political left when it gains power to push aside the rule of law in the interest of political advantage and ideology. They show that the Left — which seems to have completely taken over the Democratic Party — is ready to embrace practices that are outrightly authoritarian in…Continue Reading

The Human Heart’s Hunger For Personal Piety

October 19, 2022 Frontpage Comments Off on The Human Heart’s Hunger For Personal Piety

By JAMES MONTI Many of our Wanderer readers are likely familiar with Caravaggio’s masterpiece, The Calling of Saint Matthew (1599-1600). While there is so much to reflect upon in this timeless painting, what is perhaps most remarkable is the commanding gesture of our Lord, who stands on the right side of the scene, His right arm raised and extended as if He were opening the Red Sea like Moses, pointing his finger directly at the bearded figure of Matthew, seated at a money table on the left side of the room. It brings to mind the right arm and hand of God the Father infusing life into Adam in Michelangelo’s ceiling fresco of the Sistine Chapel (c. 1508-1512).And indeed our…Continue Reading