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Education As Catering To Desires

September 4, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Education As Catering To Desires

By DONALD DeMARCO G.K. Chesterton had the enviable knack of sizing up a situation and responding to it with accuracy, brevity, and wit. Concerning the problems concerning education in his time, which continue to plague us today, he said, “Without education, we are in the horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” G.K., needless to say, is not contradicting himself. He is simply drawing attention to the fact that there is a wide gulf between the truly educated person and those who fancy themselves as educated.St. John Paul II, whose writing was direct and devoid of irony, believed that the real danger to the future is utilitarianism which reduces the human person to a bundle of desires to…Continue Reading

Winners And Losers From The Ukraine War

September 3, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Winners And Losers From The Ukraine War

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “There never was a good war or a bad peace,” wrote Ben Franklin at the end of the American Revolution.But that depends on the warmakers and the causes for which they fight.Six months into the war in Ukraine, launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 24, when he could not get the U.S. or Kyiv to rule out admission of Ukraine to a NATO alliance aimed against Russia, who appear to be the winners and who the losers?While Russia has made gains in the east of Ukraine, the Donbas, and in the South adjacent to Crimea, captured Mariupol, and turned the Sea of Azov into a Russian lake, its losses have been massive.The invading Russian…Continue Reading

Cardinal Visits Bishop Abducted By The Nicaraguan Dictatorship

September 2, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Cardinal Visits Bishop Abducted By The Nicaraguan Dictatorship

By DAVID RAMOS MATAGALPA, Nicaragua (CNA) — The archbishop of Managua, Nicaragua, Leopoldo Cardinal Brenes, met with the bishop of Matagalpa, Rolando Alvarez, hours after the bishop had been abducted by the Daniel Ortega dictatorship during the early hours of August 19.In a statement released this afternoon, the archbishop reported that the “physical condition” of Alvarez “has deteriorated,” but “his mind and spirit are strong.”In its message that afternoon, the Archdiocese of Managua expressed “its solidarity and closeness with the sister Diocese of Matagalpa, in the face of the sad event experienced this morning.”“The Archbishop Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes had the opportunity to visit and talk with Bishop Alvarez in a residence of his relatives, showing his fraternal esteem in the…Continue Reading

The Anti-Life Legacy Of Sen. Patrick Leahy

September 1, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on The Anti-Life Legacy Of Sen. Patrick Leahy

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY When President George H.W. Bush nominated U.S. Appeals Court Judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court in 1991, Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa both served on the Senate Judiciary Committee.They still serve there today.But Leahy, who is 82, is not running for reelection this year. Grassley, who turns 89 next month, is.How Leahy and Grassley handled Thomas’ confirmation process will help define their legacies.Grassley sought to determine whether Thomas would legislate from the bench or seek to apply the law as intended by the legislature that enacted it.“In my first question, I hope that you will reaffirm what you said along this line in your confirmation hearings for…Continue Reading

Cardinal Becciu “Reinstated” By Pope Francis?

August 31, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Cardinal Becciu “Reinstated” By Pope Francis?

By ANDREA GAGLIARDUCCI ROME (CNA) — Angelo Cardinal Becciu, the former prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints who resigned from all positions in the context of an alleged financial scandal, has said he will participate in the next consistory on August 29-30.(Editor’s Note: The Wanderer went to press this week on August 25.)He said he will also participate in the consistory for creating new cardinals on August 27.Becciu announced the news during a private Mass celebrated in Golfo Aranci in his native Sardinia, where he is spending a holiday.If true, the decision appears to have come directly from Pope Francis.Since the Pope’s decision to remove Becciu from office was personal, it is likely that the invitation to…Continue Reading

The Catholic Servant Benefit Dinner . . . Inspires Supporters To Witness With Reverence And Gentleness

August 30, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on The Catholic Servant Benefit Dinner . . . Inspires Supporters To Witness With Reverence And Gentleness

By PEGGY MOEN MINNEAPOLIS — “Consider it a harbinger of Heaven,” said a wise old Jesuit at the end of a gathering of like-minded friends decades ago.And such was the August 17 Catholic Servant 23rd Annual Benefit Dinner, held at the Church of St. Helena here. The Catholic Servant is a monthly newspaper distributed free for Catholics in St. Paul-Minneapolis. And the featured speaker was a Jesuit, Fr. James Kubicki, a noted author and retreat director. Over one hundred attended this delightful dinner and program.Following the social hour and dinner, John Sondag, editor of The Catholic Servant and director of religious education at St. Helena’s, introduced the many Catholic Servant writers at the banquet. One of them, Rachel Lu, commented:…Continue Reading

Gov. Walz, Attorney General Ellison . . . Oppose Minnesota’s Commonsense Abortion Laws

August 29, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Gov. Walz, Attorney General Ellison . . . Oppose Minnesota’s Commonsense Abortion Laws

By PAUL STARK MINNEAPOLIS (LifeNews) — On July 11, a judge in Ramsey County District Court eliminated a number of longstanding, bipartisan, and commonsense abortion laws in Minnesota.No longer does Minnesota require parental notification prior to abortions performed on minors. No longer does Minnesota ensure that women receive informed consent information before they undergo the procedure. No longer do those performing surgical abortions have to be physicians. These woman-empowering and abortion-reducing laws were struck downMinnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison — who is tasked with defending Minnesota’s laws — then decided not to appeal the judge’s extreme and constitutionally groundless decision.That’s no surprise. Ellison had recently held a press conference with Planned Parenthood to tout the availability of abortion in our…Continue Reading

What Can We Learn From Shakespeare?

August 28, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on What Can We Learn From Shakespeare?

By DONALD DeMARCO Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, has stated that schools must look beyond “dead white men such as Shakespeare and Shelley to make the curriculum more diverse.” In response, Joseph Pearce, Catholic editor of St. Austin Review, comments that “Bousted has managed to combine racism, sexism, and ageism in one fell swoop in her prejudice against Shakespeare and others” who were born white, male, and suffered the misfortune of dying.We need Shakespeare to expose the very immoralities that Bousted allegedly renounces: Iago’s unconscionable racism leveled against Othello and the reprehensible prejudice against Shylock in the Merchant of Venice. Portia, the heroine of The Merchant of Venice, and Cordelia, the faultless daughter of King…Continue Reading

Is “Autocracy” America’s Mortal Enemy?

August 27, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Is “Autocracy” America’s Mortal Enemy?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN In the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden declared to the nation and world: “We are engaged anew in a great battle for freedom. A battle between democracy and autocracy.”On her trip to Taiwan, Speaker Nancy Pelosi echoed Biden: “Today, the world faces a choice between democracy and autocracy. America’s determination to preserve democracy here in Taiwan and in the world remains iron-clad.”But is this truly the world struggle America is in today?Is this the great challenge and threat to the United States?Are autocracy and democracy in a climactic ideological crusade to determine the destiny of mankind?For if that is the future, it is surely not America’s past.Indeed, in the two-century rise of…Continue Reading

Rosaries Are Flying Off The Shelves… After The Atlantic Article Suggested A Link To “Extremism”

August 26, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Rosaries Are Flying Off The Shelves… After The Atlantic Article Suggested A Link To “Extremism”

By JOE BUKURAS BOSTON (CNA) — Three online shops that sell rosaries have reported a boost in sales following a controversial article published Sunday, August 14, in The Atlantic magazine which attempted to link the rosary to right-wing extremism in the United States.In the article, Daniel Panneton claimed, “The rosary has acquired a militaristic meaning for radical-traditional (or ‘rad trad’) Catholics.”“Militia culture, a fetishism of Western civilization, and masculinist anxieties have become mainstays of the far right in the U.S. — and rad-trad Catholics have now taken up residence in this company,” he continued.The article sparked a frenzy of comments on social media, as Catholics shared photos of their rosaries. Some observed that the article’s thesis had an anti-Catholic bias.Shannon…Continue Reading