The Wanderer is a lay Roman Catholic weekly newspaper published in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and distributed to a national market.
Unlike diocesan publications or those of religious institutes, the newspaper is independent of ecclesiastical oversight.
[1][2][3][4] The Wanderer gives the following self-description: It was originally published in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in German to minister to German immigrants to Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the Dakotas who were being "attracted to and influenced by Masonic and quasi-Masonic German-language newspapers and organizations."
That tendency was condemned by Pope Leo XIII in his 1899 apostolic letter, Testem benevolentiae nostrae.
[5] According to The Wanderer, through the Vatican II years, a dispute over Vatican II led to Walter Matt leaving The Wanderer to his brother, Alphonse Matt, and founding The Remnant in 1967.