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The Poster Boy For Biased Federal Judges

December 4, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on The Poster Boy For Biased Federal Judges

By BARBARA SIMPSON (Editor’s Note: This article first appeared November 22 on World Net Daily [www.wnd.com] and is reprinted here with permission. All rights reserved. Barbara Simpson has a 20-year radio, TV, and newspaper career in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. (See also the related article on the Simpson trial on p. 1A of this week’s issue.) + + + As I watch the news of what is transpiring in this country, I find it hard to continue believing that we have an honest system of justice under which good and truth ultimately will prevail — whether we’re talking about politics and the travails of President Trump against his political enemies, or federal trials held across the country that…Continue Reading

A Book Review . . . What Is The Good To Which We Are Ordained By Nature?

December 3, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review . . . What Is The Good To Which We Are Ordained By Nature?

By JUDE DOUGHERTY Berquist, Richard. From Human Dignity to Natural Law: An Introduction, Washington, D.C. (The Catholic University of America Press: 2019). Pp. Xvi + 242. Conversant with contemporary literature in the field of ethics, Richard Berquist has chosen to avoid professional disputes in favor of a commonsense treatment of his subject. Drawing upon his long experience in the classroom, he offers what must be called a refreshing approach to his subject matter, a method that is well worth emulating. Dr. Berquist is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul. He is the author of A Commentary on the Posterior Analytics of St. Thomas. After a brief period of teaching at St. John’s University,…Continue Reading

“Give Me One More Thing, A Grateful Heart”

December 2, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on “Give Me One More Thing, A Grateful Heart”

By DONALD DeMARCO “The proud man counts his newspaper clippings,” Bishop Sheen once remarked, “the humble man his blessings.” Counting one’s blessings is an expression of gratitude. The grateful person understands that the giver is more important than the gift, and therefore should be honored. Adam and Eve were given much, but they were lacking in the one thing they could give back: gratitude. One may recall the lyrics to the Irving Berlin song from the 1954 movie, White Christmas: “When I’m worried and I can’t sleep, I count my blessings instead of sheep.” Gratitude can confer benefits on the grateful recipient, namely, peace of heart. Like mercy, as Shakespeare states in The Merchant of Venice, gratitude is twice blessed.…Continue Reading

The Death Of Dialogue

December 1, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on The Death Of Dialogue

By DONALD DeMARCO Language exists for the purpose of communication. It unites people by allowing them to share a common experience of reality. The Word was made Flesh and dwelt among us. God is the Word and the Logos. Dialogue means speaking across the Logos, or sharing in the meaning of that which is both real and rational. There can be no communion, community, or dialogue in the absence of meaning that is accessible and knowledgeable for all people. The Trinity is an eternal dialogue between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Concomitant with the eclipse of God, language no longer communicates something that is real, and therefore sharable by everyone. It has degenerated into an ideology that supports one…Continue Reading

Is Macron Right? Is NATO, 70, Brain Dead?

November 30, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Is Macron Right? Is NATO, 70, Brain Dead?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN A week from when this column was written, the 29 member states of “the most successful alliance in history” will meet to celebrate its seventieth anniversary. Yet all is not well within NATO. Instead of a “summit,” the gathering, on the outskirts of London, has been cut to two days. Why the shortened agenda? Among the reasons, apprehension that President Donald Trump might use the occasion to disrupt alliance comity by again berating the Europeans for freeloading on the U.S. defense budget. French President Emmanuel Macron, on the hundredth anniversary of the World War I Armistice, described NATO as having suffered “brain death.” Macron now openly questions the U.S. commitment to fight for Europe and is…Continue Reading

Chinese Bishop In Hiding . . . He Refused To Register With Communist Authorities

November 29, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on Chinese Bishop In Hiding . . . He Refused To Register With Communist Authorities

(From combined sources) FUJIAN, China — A Catholic bishop in China is reportedly on the run from state authorities after refusing to register with the state-sponsored Church. Bishop Vincenzo Guo Xijin is believed to be in hiding in the Diocese of Mindong after leaving the residence of the local state-sponsored bishop, according to a November 21 report from Catholic News Agency. Bishop Guo is considered a leader in the Chinese underground Catholic Church, which refuses to submit to the state-sponsored Church which is in turn under the authority of the Chinese Communist Party. Priests in China are required to register with the government in order to be able to minister openly. In the process of doing so, they are expected…Continue Reading

“The Catholic Gentleman”. . . Calls For Genuine Masculinity And Suggests How To Achieve It

November 28, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on “The Catholic Gentleman”. . . Calls For Genuine Masculinity And Suggests How To Achieve It

By JOHN TUTTLE The twenty-first century is a period of human development in which sexuality is terribly disfigured, misunderstood, and exploited. This breeds a confusion among many men and women in regards to their own identity and their relation to their brothers and sisters. Sam Guzman’s The Catholic Gentleman is one of a number of books to have been written in recent years which addresses men’s longing for authenticity, true love, and masculinity. Guzman’s message is never sugarcoated or watered down. On the contrary, he challenges his readers because life, in practically every respect, is constantly an uphill struggle. The author’s style is one which is easily digested, quickly understood, and not without its own literary merit: a fine work…Continue Reading

The Beauty Of Fidelity To The Sacred Liturgy — And Beyond

November 27, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on The Beauty Of Fidelity To The Sacred Liturgy — And Beyond

By JAMES MONTI Before relating word for word the institution of the Holy Eucharist at the Last Supper, St. Paul begins by stating, “…I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you” (1 Cor. 11:23). The apostle’s description of the very first Mass and the Lord’s command to celebrate it time and again isn’t simply a dispassionate narration of the event. He is in fact faithfully delivering the words and actions of the very essence of the Mass as he himself faithfully received them, that the will of the Lord for its repeated celebration across the ages might be faithfully carried out. It is a matter of fidelity to the Lord, of fidelity to His Commandments, of fidelity…Continue Reading

A Book Review… A Model Of Positive Internationalism

November 25, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… A Model Of Positive Internationalism

By JAMES BARESEL The War for America’s Soul by Sebastian Gorka (2019); 255 pages. Available in Kindle and hardcover editions at amazon.com. Longtime readers of The Wanderer are likely to be encouraged by publication of The War for America’s Soul, the latest book from the pen of Sebastian Gorka, a strategic analyst and former member of the Trump administration who now works as a political pundit. But since the book is meant to be no more than a summary introduction to a variety of topics of importance in contemporary American political life (rather than a thorough, let alone groundbreaking, work of scholarly research of political philosophizing), they are also likely to find little in it which they have not already…Continue Reading

St. John Henry Newman: Light In Winter

November 24, 2019 Featured Today Comments Off on St. John Henry Newman: Light In Winter

By DONALD DeMARCO Light in Winter is the title of the second volume of Meriol Trevor’s definitive biography of John Henry Newman. It may have been a source of considerable inspiration, if not grace, for Miss Trevor to have written the biography while living in one of the cottages at Littlemore, Newman’s original retreat, where he prayed, fasted, and studied before being received into the Catholic Church in 1845. St. John Henry Newman’s great work was to shed light in a darkened world. “Light,” for one of the Church’s more recently canonized saints, is theological, helping to clarify the reality of God and the teachings of the Church, as well as philosophical, illuminating the proper object of the intellect, which…Continue Reading