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This Journalist Saint . . . Died For Freedom Of The Catholic Press

May 18, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on This Journalist Saint . . . Died For Freedom Of The Catholic Press

By ABEL CAMASCA (Wanderer Editor’s Note: Pope Francis canonized Titus Brandsma on May 15, 2022, and May 15 is the date of this week’s issue of The Wanderer. The prayers of St. Titus, an anti-Nazi journalist, are especially needed now when so many media outlets espouse an anti-life philosophy.) + + (ACI Prensa) — World Press Freedom Day was celebrated May 3 and the courage to get the truth out has sometimes cost the lives of Catholic journalists, among them St. Titus Brandsma, a Carmelite priest whose efforts cost him his life at the hands of the Nazi regime.Brandsma (1881-1942), a native of the Netherlands, was a great devotee of St. Teresa of Jesus who reformed the Carmelite Order, and…Continue Reading

A House United

May 17, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on A House United

By FR. JOHN P. LOVELL As co-founder of the Coalition for Canceled Priests (CFCP), I am often asked what my biggest headache is and what is one of my greatest joys at the Coalition. I laugh because the answer is one and the same: our annual conference. In June of 2021 Craig Holuj and I founded the CFCP and in less than two weeks, we organized a thousand-person event in Lombard, Ill., which we dubbed “Breaking the Silence.” It was a wonderful evening featuring Fr. Altman, who was not canceled yet, and me, explaining the plight of priests who were sidelined not for any crime, but for standing up for the truth of our faith.The event was simple and only…Continue Reading

Growth In Shooting Rampages . . . Result Of The Left’s Program To Yank Down The Social Guardrails

May 16, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Growth In Shooting Rampages . . . Result Of The Left’s Program To Yank Down The Social Guardrails

By DEXTER DUGGAN When I first heard on a telephone call that shots reportedly were fired not far from where President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade was as he visited Dallas on November 22, 1963, I thought that someone was just shooting off firecrackers.Five years later, in 1968, as I watched California Gov. Ronald Reagan on television routinely descend an airliner boarding ramp, I thought “Get down!” because of the intangible possibility that he might be shot from a distance.In five years, the social environment had changed drastically, from when personal safety for a political personality had been taken for granted to when simply being out in the open seemed risky.Kennedy was riding in an open convertible in Texas when he…Continue Reading

Tucker Carlson Charges Fox With “Fraud,” “Breach Of Contract”

May 15, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Tucker Carlson Charges Fox With “Fraud,” “Breach Of Contract”

By PATRICK DELANEY (LifeSiteNews) — On the heels of announcing the relaunch of Tucker Carlson’s highly popular show on Twitter, news has surfaced that the ousted Fox News host accused the network of “fraud” and “breach of contract” while demanding documents that suggest intended legal action.According to a Tuesday, May 9 report from Axios, attorneys representing Carlson issued an “aggressive letter” to Fox officials that positions the former host to “argue that the noncompete provision in his contract is no longer valid” due to the network’s having “breached the contract first.”If such a contention prevails, this would allow the formerly top-rated primetime host to launch his own show or media enterprise on a competing network.Carlson’s present contract with Fox extends…Continue Reading

California Killing

May 14, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on California Killing

By BARBARA SIMPSON California is a state that has a lot to brag about — a wonderful climate, the entire environment, the successful commercial ventures that have flourished there, the wide and excellent educational system, and certainly a population that represents so many ethnicities and religious beliefs.While there is now a slow movement of residents out-of-state, it is still a place that residents have much to be proud of — as long as they leave out the terribly high taxes that they pay for the “privilege” of living there and what those taxes are used for.But there is something else going on in the state that many, if not most, Californians may not be aware of. As reported by San…Continue Reading

When Biden Thanked Communist China For Helping To Fund The U.S. Government

May 13, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on When Biden Thanked Communist China For Helping To Fund The U.S. Government

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY During President Barack Obama’s first term, there was a massive spike in the annual deficits run by the federal government.In fiscal 2008, which ended a little more than a month before Obama was elected, the annual federal deficit was $458.55 billion, according to the White House Office of Management and Budget.In fiscal 2009, the year Obama was inaugurated, it spiked to $1.4 trillion.In December 2007, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the American economy had started into a recession that would not end until June 2009. In October 2008, the month before Obama was elected (and the first month of fiscal 2009), Congress enacted the Troubled Asset Relief Program to respond to that recession.…Continue Reading

Tucker Carlson And The Struggle For Civilizational Sanity

May 12, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Tucker Carlson And The Struggle For Civilizational Sanity

By JOSH HAMMER On April 28 I attended The Heritage Foundation’s 50th Anniversary Gala, a sprawling and swanky affair featuring many fine presentations, a surprise Dierks Bentley mini-concert for the country music enthusiasts (yours truly among them) and an extravagant post-dinner fireworks show over the Potomac River. But the highlight of the evening, bar none, was former Fox News star Tucker Carlson’s electric keynote address and his (all-too-brief) colloquy on stage afterward with Heritage’s exceptional new president, Kevin Roberts.Carlson’s speech was both wildly entertaining and poignant, at times slapstick funny and at other times humorously self-deprecating about his Episcopalian faith. But as Carlson began to reach his peroration, the key substantive takeaway he wished to impart unto his audience became…Continue Reading

Starving For Beauty

May 11, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Starving For Beauty

By PAUL KRAUSE “How can we love anything but the beautiful?” So wrote St. Augustine. Beauty was once a hallmark of Catholic theology and Catholic identity.In a world now stripped bare of beauty, intentionally so, as it takes our mind away from the transcendent, and, therefore, away from God, the want for beauty by so many still offers a great spiritual opportunity to be reconnected with the Divine. From the pageantry of liturgy to sacred music, the imperative of Beauty is something that nourishes the soul.The Anglo-Irish philosopher Edmund Burke is probably the most important philosopher of beauty in the modern age (as well as being an important political philosopher). His Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful outlines the essence…Continue Reading

Honoring Alice Von Hildebrand . . . A Review Of Remnant Of Paradise

May 10, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Honoring Alice Von Hildebrand . . . A Review Of Remnant Of Paradise

By JAMES MONTI Remnant of Paradise: Essays by Alice von Hildebrand, with Remembrances by Her Friends. Edited by John Henry Crosby. Steubenville, OH: Hildebrand Project, 2023. + + Whenever death claims one of the great minds and great hearts of the Church, we feel a bit more alone in this Vale of Tears, made so by the painful absence of a great hero or heroine of our faith who for many years inspired us by his or her words and actions to hope in Christ. But when such a soul has left behind a tangible legacy in the form of writings, we are given at least the solace of hearing their voice anew in turning to the pages of wisdom…Continue Reading

Reasoning About Abortion

May 9, 2023 Featured Today Comments Off on Reasoning About Abortion

By HARLEY PRICE (Editor’s Note: This article is based on one of the 46 essays in Price’s new book, Give Speech a Chance: Heretical Essays on What You Can’t Say or Even Think, available from fgfbooks.com and Amazon.) + + In the aftermath of the Dobbs decision, the argument about abortion has once again taken center stage in American electoral politics (assuming, that is, that abortion is still a subject deemed arguable by progressives, and that, in any case, it is possible to argue about euphemisms).In no other department of progressive politics has language become more corrupted by Orwellian inversions of meaning than abortion. Almost fifty years after Roe v. Wade, the propagandists of abortion continue to refer to it…Continue Reading