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As Biden Flails . . . Is U.S. Becoming Failed Nation Just Sheltering Increasing Refugees From Its Defeats?

September 2, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on As Biden Flails . . . Is U.S. Becoming Failed Nation Just Sheltering Increasing Refugees From Its Defeats?

By DEXTER DUGGAN The cop on the beat patrols a tough neighborhood. He keeps getting in gunfights with thugs, but the thugs repeatedly win and kill the neighbors he’s trying to protect. The kindly but ineffective cop ends up with his house filled with all the children orphaned due to his failures on the job.That might resemble the supposedly mighty U.S. government today, which hasn’t outright won a war since 1945, World War II. Which was all of 76 years ago. Some U.S. citizens might have been born, lived a full lifespan, and died without seeing their nation as the declared victor of an actual war.Why does the U.S. go to war at all? To make the war territories tolerable…Continue Reading

Thinking Things Over

September 1, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Thinking Things Over

By CHRISTOPHER MANION “Our responsibility to history is already clear: to answer these attacks and rid the world of evil” — President George W. Bush to Congress, September 14, 2001.“We will not permit the terrorists, these vicious and evil men, to hijack a peaceful religion and to impose their will on America and the world. We fight now, and we will keep on fighting until our victory is complete. We cannot know every turn this war will take. But I’m confident of the outcome. I believe in the strong resolve of the American people. I believe good triumphs over evil” — President George W. Bush to soldiers of the 101st Airborne deploying to Afghanistan, Fort Campbell, Ky., November 21, 2001.“The…Continue Reading

A Beacon Of Light . . . Fatima’s Message Of Peace And The Just War Theory

August 31, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on A Beacon Of Light . . . Fatima’s Message Of Peace And The Just War Theory

By FR. RICHARD D. BRETON JR. (Editor’s Note: Fr. Richard D. Breton Jr. is a priest of the Diocese of Norwich, Conn. He received his BA in religious studies and his MA in dogmatic theology from Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, Conn.) + + Last Sunday the Church celebrated a great Solemnity of Mary as she was assumed body and soul into Heaven. This solemnity and the many other Marian feasts and memorials provide us with an opportunity to reflect on many aspects of our Marian Traditions.Today, however, there is none more important to our times than the message of peace revealed at Fatima. On May 13, 1917, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, and mother…Continue Reading

Harold Hill In The White House

August 30, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Harold Hill In The White House

By DEACON MIKE MANNO As many of you will remember I live in Iowa — West Des Moines — to be exact. My house is about 130 miles south of Mason City, the boyhood home of Meredith Willson, creator of that wonderful musical, Music Man and the artful Harold Hill, er, Professor Harold Hill, music connoisseur.Hill, of course, was a flim-flam man who, with no music experience, tried to sell the good people of River City on the idea of a city band. That was the scam, he sold the townsfolk on the idea, took orders for band instruments and uniforms, then planned to skip town before the uniforms and instruments arrived without giving the promised music lessons.Yet he’s caught…Continue Reading

Afghan Tragedy Shrivels Prez . . . Will Biden Be Diminished Enough Now For Bishops To Rebuke Him?

August 29, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Afghan Tragedy Shrivels Prez . . . Will Biden Be Diminished Enough Now For Bishops To Rebuke Him?

By DEXTER DUGGAN Would Joe Biden’s newly diminished public image make him realize that he no longer should get away with his public pose of being a practicing Catholic and his sacrilege of receiving the Eucharist while energetically promoting the Culture of Death internationally?Although Biden’s physical and moral impairment already were plain to those who cared about what mattered, dominant leftist media mainly still had portrayed him as a capable politician and admirable man. And these foes of traditional morality were charmed by the notion they could portray his sacrilege as acceptable Catholicism.But even they gave up the pretense about Biden’s capability and talent over the specific issue of his surrendering Afghanistan to the barbarity of the Taliban in mid-August.Not…Continue Reading

The Dog Days Of August, Then And Now

August 28, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on The Dog Days Of August, Then And Now

By CHRISTOPHER MANION Early one morning 50 years ago this week, I was awakened by a bomb blast. Apparently, somebody had blown up a house two doors down the street.But that was nothing new. After all, I was in in La Paz, Bolivia, and not back home in Indiana. And Bolivia was having another revolution, a pretty commonplace event in those days.Che Guevara had been killed five years before — and that story has a Catholic angle. An Irish priest from Achill Island, who was a missionary for the White Fathers, served as a chaplain to the Bolivian military after having served in Burundi during the early 1960s. There he had witnessed clashes between the Tutsis and the Hutus, the…Continue Reading

Sultan Schlamyl

August 27, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Sultan Schlamyl

By JOE SIXPACK In 1852, the people of the Caucasus Mountains in the southern part of the Russian Empire were ruled over by a just sultan named Schlamyl. He wanted to clean out corruption and bribery from among his people, so he made a law that anyone convicted of bribery should be punished with fifty lashes with the whip in front of all the people.To everyone’s surprise, the first person to be caught in the act of bribery was Schlamyl’s own mother. He was grief stricken that his mother should do this grave act against his law, and for three days he struggled with himself about what he should do. On the fourth day he appeared before all the people,…Continue Reading

Fund-Raising Program . . . Enables Pro-Life Centers To Have Ultrasound Machines To Save Preborn Babies’ Lives

August 26, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Fund-Raising Program . . . Enables Pro-Life Centers To Have Ultrasound Machines To Save Preborn Babies’ Lives

By DEXTER DUGGAN (Wanderer Editor’s Note: In the coming weeks, The Wanderer’s website will feature a podcast about this remarkable pro-life initiative.) Every September, people in the U.S. and elsewhere devote a moment of silence to recall the approximate 3,000 lives lost to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, in New York City, Washington, D.C., and rural Pennsylvania.If people were to devote such a quiet moment for every 3,000 preborn babies killed by abortion in the U.S., “We would be silent for 118 years,” said Diego Wendt, the co-founder of a charity fund-raising program to buy ultrasound machines for pro-life pregnancy centers.That figure for abortion deaths doesn’t even include other countries, Wendt said — a total of 62 million…Continue Reading

Afghanistan’s Saigon Scenario

August 25, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on Afghanistan’s Saigon Scenario

By JOHN J. METZLER PARIS — Sadly, we have seen this movie before. In the spring of 1975 the collapse of South Vietnam coming to a crescendo with the fall of Saigon indelibly marking a generation. Cities like Pleiku, Da Nang, and Hue in this contemporary saga are Kunduz, Kandahar, and Herat. Now with the Taliban’s stunning success over the beleaguered and ineffective Afghan Army, the same tragic fate awaits Afghanistan as the Taliban capture Kabul.“Afghanistan is spinning out of control,” warned UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. He added, “Humanitarian needs are growing by the hour.”America’s frustrating twenty year military commitment in Afghanistan was coming to an end in any event. It was certainly time to go and both sides…Continue Reading

A Beacon Of Light . . . My Tour Of Beautiful Churches Along The Mississippi

August 24, 2021 Frontpage Comments Off on A Beacon Of Light . . . My Tour Of Beautiful Churches Along The Mississippi

By FR. RICHARD D. BRETON JR. (Editor’s Note: Fr. Richard D. Breton Jr. is a priest of the Diocese of Norwich, Conn. He received his BA in religious studies and his MA in dogmatic theology from Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, Conn.) + + Over the last few weeks I had the pleasure of taking a much-needed vacation. During my vacation I traveled throughout the United States and visited friends and colleagues. I began by visiting the beautiful Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Unique in their own right, these cities have histories that blend together to make them the unique places they are today. Of the two cities, St. Paul captured my heart. Towering above the…Continue Reading