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The False Gospel Of Social Justice

June 30, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on The False Gospel Of Social Justice

By PAUL KRAUSE In the midst of chaos and our increasingly graceless and loveless world we must always be on guard — especially from our own clerics — of the promotion of the false gospel of social justice. A recent Catholic school newsletter I read quoted a cleric, “God’s grace calls us not only to win back our whole selves for God, but to win back our whole world for God.” So far so good. Until the end, “We cannot separate personal conversion from structural social reform.”That this comes in a Catholic school newsletter shouldn’t be surprising. Since the Catholic educational establishment rebelled against God’s Law and Church Truth after the promulgation of Humanae Vitae, most Catholic schools have become…Continue Reading

A Book Review… A Thorough And Understandable Treatment Of The Faith

June 29, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… A Thorough And Understandable Treatment Of The Faith

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY Donal Anthony Foley reviews This Is the Faith: A Complete Explanation of the Catholic Faith, by Canon Francis Ripley (TAN Books, 484 pages, Kindle and paperback). This is the Faith by Canon Francis Ripley (1912-1998), an English priest, is a substantial paperback which was originally published in 1951. It is a comprehensive treatment of the teachings of the Church which started out as a series of talks given over a period of three years to non-Catholic inquirers about the faith.Canon Ripley was well-qualified for this work since he was the superior of the Catholic Missionary Society, and a very zealous, intelligent, and dedicated priest, who was also much involved with the work of the Legion of…Continue Reading

The Philosopher In The Mass Age

June 28, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on The Philosopher In The Mass Age

By DONALD DeMARCO Gabriel Marcel’s book Man Against Mass Society (1952) is a reaffirmation of the fact that good philosophy is never irrelevant to the times in which we live. Marcel’s thesis is twofold. On the one hand, it examines the phenomenon of “mass society.” On the other hand, he explores the duty of the philosopher. These two concerns represent the very opposite poles of the human spectrum.His analysis of the masses is unsparing, yet insightful and vitally needed. “The masses are of their very essence — I repeat, of their very essence — the stuff of which fanaticism is made: propaganda has on them the convulsive effect of an electric shock. It arouses them not to life, but to…Continue Reading

How Long Will The Vandals Run Amok?

June 27, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on How Long Will The Vandals Run Amok?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN The left’s war on America’s past crossed several new frontiers last week.Portland’s statue of George Washington, the Father of his Country and the first president of the United States, the greatest man of his age, was toppled and desecrated.While the statue stood, an American flag was draped over its head and set ablaze. After it was pulled down, a new fire was set on another American flag spread across the statue, and also burned. The vacated pedestal was painted with the words, “You’re on Native Land.”In Portland also, a statue of Thomas Jefferson that stood at the entrance of a high school named for the author of the Declaration of Independence was torn down. In New…Continue Reading

Amid Abuse Trial In Argentina . . . Bishop Zanchetta Returns To Work At The Vatican

June 26, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Amid Abuse Trial In Argentina . . . Bishop Zanchetta Returns To Work At The Vatican

By COURTNEY MARES VATICAN CITY (CNA) — Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta has returned to work at the Vatican amid an ongoing trial in Argentina, where he has been charged with sexual and financial misconduct.Holy See Press Office Director Matteo Bruni told Catholic News Agency June 15 that Zanchetta had resumed his work at the Vatican while “remaining available to the Argentine judicial authorities.”Bruni said that Zanchetta’s work at the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA) — the Vatican’s central reserve bank and sovereign asset management body — “does not interfere in any way with the investigations.”Zanchetta, the former bishop of Orán, Argentina, has been accused of “aggravated continuous sexual abuse” of two adult-aged seminarians, as well as fraud…Continue Reading

Will Joe Biden Become Our First Female President?

June 23, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Will Joe Biden Become Our First Female President?

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY Some Americans were hopeful in 2016 that Hillary Clinton would become our first female president. She did not. But now Joe Biden may do it. Excuse me, you might ask, isn’t Biden a man? Well, he is for now — under the Biden gender rules. But he need not be next year. “Transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our time,” Biden tweeted on January 25. On his campaign website, he has put in writing what he means by transgender equality. This includes how the government will determine what a person’s “sex” is. “Biden believes every transgender or non-binary person should have the option of changing their gender marker to ‘M,’ ‘F,’ or ‘X’ on…Continue Reading

A Book Review… Censorship By The Leftists Reveals Their Fears

June 22, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… Censorship By The Leftists Reveals Their Fears

By JAMES BARESEL Peter Hasson’s The Manipulators: Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Big Tech’s War on Conservatives (Regnery: 2020); 256 pages. Available at https://www.regnery.com/books/ or call 202-216-0600. That major Internet and social media companies work to restrict, suppress, and hide the expression of conservative ideas on the platforms they provide their users will not come as to news to readers of The Wanderer. If any readers have not yet heard that such companies do so in close cooperation with leftist politicians, particularly in France and Germany, that fact will come as no surprise. Peter Hasson’s The Manipulators: Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Big Tech’s War on Conservatives goes beyond the obvious and well-known tip of the iceberg to show just how brazen…Continue Reading

With All Your Faults, I Love You Still

June 21, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on With All Your Faults, I Love You Still

By DONALD DeMARCO The Good Book, which makes no concession to political correctness while conveying a message that survives the test of time, tells us: “Where there is no vision, the people perish” (Prov. 29:18). In this respect, it differs radically from the daily newspaper. The difference between these two sources of information may be compared with the difference between eyesight and vision. The roots of eyesight are in the optic nerve. One sees what is going on in the moment. The roots of vision are in the heart. The heart sees what the eye cannot see. It focuses on something grander, something good that has not yet come into being. A nation must have a vision in order to…Continue Reading

Cancel The White Men — And What’s Left?

June 20, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Cancel The White Men — And What’s Left?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “Can we all just get along?” That was the plea of Rodney King after a Simi Valley jury failed to convict any of the four cops who beat him into submission after a 100-mile-an-hour chase on an LA freeway. King’s plea came after the 1992 LA riots, the worst since the New York City draft riots in 1863 when Lincoln had to send in federal troops. In the aftermath of today’s protests and riots after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, we hear similar calls. President Donald Trump must “reach out” and “unify the nation.” But how? Many of these calls for unity come from the same elites who are all-in on tearing us apart…Continue Reading

The Eucharist, The New Heavens And Earth, And Citizenship

June 19, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on The Eucharist, The New Heavens And Earth, And Citizenship

By FR. FRANK PAVONE (Editor’s Note: Fr. Frank Pavone is national director of Priests for Life [www.EndAbortion.us]. For key election-related resources, visit www.ProLifeVote.com. This article was written on June 9, before the weekend of Corpus Christi.) + + + We are living in unsettling times. A viral pandemic made us prisoners in our homes, separated from loved ones, from work, from the normal routines of our day-to-day lives. Then as we were just taking steps to emerge from this, the nation was roiled by violent protests and mob rule. Scripture tells us we await and also work for new heavens and a new earth, and these realities are foreshadowed by the Eucharist. This weekend, we will focus on this central…Continue Reading