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A Book Review… From Whence Our Legitimacy

January 7, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… From Whence Our Legitimacy

By JOHN LYON Remi Brague, The Legitimacy of the Human. South Bend, Ind.: St. Augustine’s Press; 2017. Translated by Paul Seaton. “Who can tell mankind that it ought to have being?” From whence, in other words, the warrant for our being? The whatness of human being may be indubitable: We act, we do, in a more or less species-specific manner. But from whence our legitimacy? We live in an intellectual climate in which the oxymoronic phrase “man makes himself” appears to dominate. (That “man makes himself,” Brague observes, “can be said, because language is an obedient child. But can it be thought?”) In this climate self-assurance ironically requires the periodic issuance of bills of rights, plus the deduction therefrom of…Continue Reading

Will War Derail Trump’s Reelection?

January 6, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Will War Derail Trump’s Reelection?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future,” Yogi Berra reminded us. But on The McLaughlin Group, the TV talk show on which this writer has appeared for four decades, predictions are as mandated as was taking Latin in Jesuit high schools in the 1950s. Looking to 2020, this writer predicted that Donald Trump’s great domestic challenge would be to keep the economy firing on all cylinders. His great foreign policy challenge? Avoiding war. When one looks at the numbers — unemployment at or below 4% for two years, an expansion in its 11th year, the stock market regularly hitting all-time highs — Trump enters his reelection year with a fistful of aces. One has…Continue Reading

Why I Was Absent From These Pages . . . Life Can Change In A Moment, But God Endures

January 5, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Why I Was Absent From These Pages . . . Life Can Change In A Moment, But God Endures

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — When I say I walked along an urban Phoenix sidewalk in my pajamas in broad daylight in December, I hasten to add that I was in medical confinement for physical, not mental, reasons, and I did my stroll with the encouragement of my physical therapists for fresh air and exercise. Also, from a little distance the dark pajamas looked like a respectable jump suit, and it can be agreeably warm in the desert here in December. The sidewalk wasn’t right next to the city street, but went around the perimeter of the three-story physical-therapy center’s building, maybe 30 feet away from that street. When you’re driving around town at 35 mph, I bet you don’t…Continue Reading

Pope Appoints New Archbishop For Booming African Diocese

January 4, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Pope Appoints New Archbishop For Booming African Diocese

BAMENDA, Cameroon (CNA) — Pope Francis has promoted an African bishop known for his emphasis on family, community, and traditional values. In an announcement released on December 30, the Holy See Press Office confirmed that the Pope has named Bishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya as the new archbishop of Bamenda in Cameroon. Bishop Fuanya, 54, has served as the bishop of Mamfe, also in Cameroon, since 2014. He came to international attention during the 2018 meeting of the Synod of Bishops on young people, faith, and vocational discernment. In contrast to the situation in many European countries, Fuanya said during the synod, the Church in Cameroon and in many parts of Africa is growing — including among young peoples. [Wanderer Editor’s…Continue Reading

Understanding Democrats’ March Toward Electoral Defeat

December 30, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Understanding Democrats’ March Toward Electoral Defeat

By TUCKER CARLSON and NEIL PATEL After months of false starts and threats and endless posturing, Donald Trump has joined Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton as the third American president impeached by the House of Representatives. Democrats started promising to do this before the president was elected. Still, it feels kind of weird, surprising, surreal even, that it actually happened. Why? Because impeachment is a terrible idea for the country. At this point, there is no chance the Democrats can remove the president. And in trying, they will only hurt themselves. The polls are clear. Yet — and here is the fascinating part — they did it anyway. Maryland Cong. Jamie Raskin explained why: “The president’s continuing course of conduct…Continue Reading

A Christmas Reflection… Freedom To The Captives

December 29, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on A Christmas Reflection… Freedom To The Captives

By GEORGE A. KENDALL Whenever the subject of Christmas comes into my mind, it is almost invariably followed by the thought of Charles Dickens’ classic, A Christmas Carol, which I have been reading and rereading since I was 13 years old. It is the story of a man imprisoned in himself by his own greed, yet freed in the end by a miracle of grace (which is always a miracle). The following thoughts will, I hope, make my meaning clearer. One way to think of the disorder of our times is to see it as a reversal of the roles of the normal and the perverted, treating the latter as the norm, the “default setting,” so to speak, and treating…Continue Reading

Christmas And The Shepherd Boy

December 28, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Christmas And The Shepherd Boy

By DEREK BECHER Madelyn slipped on her black dress shoes, tying the black buckles behind her ankles. With her white stockings and her red dress, and the pretty little white and green bow in her dark hair, she looked Christmassy and classy as she sat patiently waiting to go to the Christmas Eve service. Along with her parents, for the first time since she was a baby, she was visiting her grandparents for the holidays, and she was excited about going to Mass on her grandparents’ sleigh to the old country church, and listening to her grandfather sing in the Christmas Eve choir. It was a short trip to the church, under than 20 minutes, and it was just below…Continue Reading

White House Hosts Catholic Leaders For Religious Freedom Briefing

December 27, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on White House Hosts Catholic Leaders For Religious Freedom Briefing

By MATT HADRO WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNA) — The White House hosted dozens of Catholic leaders on Monday afternoon, December 16 for an internal briefing on life and religious freedom issues. The off the record briefing, held in the Indian Treaty room of the Executive Office Building, focused on “life, religious freedom, and other issues pertinent to the Catholic faith community,” according to an invitation provided to participants. Attendees also had the opportunity to share their observations or concerns with the administration. Catholics in attendance included former Kansas congressman Tim Huelskamp, now a senior political advisor for CatholicVote.org; Patrick Reilly, president of the Cardinal Newman Society; and Stephen D. Minnis, president of Benedictine College in Atchison, Kans. Several nuns were also…Continue Reading

When God Chose His Mother

December 26, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on When God Chose His Mother

By JOHN YOUNG An acquaintance of mine put forward a view of why God chose Mary of Nazareth, rather than some other woman, to be the mother of Jesus. The reason, he suggested, was that of all women God saw that she was the most fitting. But he had it back to front. God chose to make her, rather than someone else, to be the only woman fit for this honor. So He didn’t look for someone who had been conceived immaculate: He chose her to be conceived immaculate. Actually the same principle applies to everything created by God, and in this respect His decisions are radically different from ours: We look at a situation and are guided accordingly in…Continue Reading

’Twas The Morning Of Christmas

December 25, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on ’Twas The Morning Of Christmas

By DONALD DeMARCO ’Twas the morning of Christmas And all through the land A stillness presided, Both glorious and grand. The whole world was expecting A birth from above, An emissary of good will and brotherly love. Time stopped for a moment To make way for eternity, Made possible by Mary’s blessed maternity. After two millennia we continue to sing Of the very first Christmas And the birth of a King.