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Bigot Hosts White House Media Dinner

May 2, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Bigot Hosts White House Media Dinner

By BILL DONOHUE (Editor’s Note: Catholic League President Bill Donohue commented April 26 on the choice of Trevor Noah as the host of this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. This week’s issue of The Wanderer went to press on April 28.) + + On April 30, Comedy Central star Trevor Noah will host the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. It says a lot about those in the White House and the media that they would pick such a bigot.On two occasions in the past few years, we contacted his bosses at Viacom (and ViacomCBS), and he initially tapped his brakes, only to start up again with his attacks on Catholics. We all know that if he had said anything…Continue Reading

The War Of The Ages

May 1, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on The War Of The Ages

By DONALD De MARCO We are appalled by war, and rightly so. But, in general, we take a more tolerant view of the fundamental causes of war, which are the Seven Deadly Sins. The vices of pride, envy, anger, sloth, lust, gluttony, and avarice are the root causes of personal dissolution, but also of global disasters. If we want to avoid war, we must first avoid allowing the Seven Deadly Sins to rule our lives.Virtuous people do not start wars. Their commitment is to life. Society is composed of individual persons. If these members are virtuous, society itself will be virtuous. The cultivation of life virtues will ensure the prevention of war which is the end result of the vices…Continue Reading

The French Center Holds — In A World Coming Apart

April 30, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on The French Center Holds — In A World Coming Apart

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.”So wrote William Butler Yeats in the wake of the Great War of 1914-1918 that had ravaged the Christian civilization he had known.In France on Sunday, April 24, the center held, as President Emmanuel Macron rolled up a crushing 59 percent to 41 percent victory in the runoff election against ethno-nationalist Marine Le Pen.Four years ago, Le Pen got 34 percent in the runoff. And the highest vote that her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the National Front, ever received was 18 percent. While Marine Le Pen lost on April 24, her positions continue to attract converts.So terrified of Le Pen was the European establishment that before that Sunday’s…Continue Reading

Top Vatican Cardinal . . . Sees “Legitimate Concerns” About Germany’s “Synodal Path”

April 29, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Top Vatican Cardinal . . . Sees “Legitimate Concerns” About Germany’s “Synodal Path”

VATICAN CITY (CNA) — A top cardinal at the Vatican has confirmed Pope Francis’ apprehension about Germany’s “Synodal Path,” telling EWTN in an exclusive interview that critics have raised “legitimate concerns” about the controversial reassessment of Church teaching on sexual morality and other critical issues.“I very much hope that the German bishops will not simply defend themselves but really enter into a dialogue. Because there are legitimate concerns behind this that have to be taken seriously,” Kurt Cardinal Koch said Thursday, April 14.The Swiss cardinal, president of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, spoke to EWTN Vatican Bureau Chief Andreas Thonhauser for the EWTN news magazine Vaticano. The interview aired Sunday, April 24.In the same conversation, Koch also discussed the…Continue Reading

“Open Borders” Biden Is Remaking America

April 28, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on “Open Borders” Biden Is Remaking America

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion.”So reads Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution.Historically, that constitutional duty — to protect America’s states against invasion — has been the province of the president of the United States, the chief executive, who today is Joe Biden.How did Biden’s predecessors do in discharging their duty to secure America’s borders?During the War of 1812, President James Madison assigned the defense of New Orleans against an invading British army that had just burned the Capitol and White House to Gen. Andrew Jackson.On January 8, 1815, Jackson crushed the battle-hardened and numerically superior British…Continue Reading

French Election Countdown… Status Quo Vs. Gamble?

April 27, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on French Election Countdown… Status Quo Vs. Gamble?

By JOHN J. METZLER (Editor’s Note: The Wanderer went to press this week on April 21, three days before the final French election. This article was written on April 18.) + + France faces a dilemma. Does a successful and prosperous West European state wish to gamble with its future? Or does that state, feeling the popular anxiety from high food and fuel prices, crime, and a constricting COVID pandemic, still hold to the status quo?Now with the second round of the French Presidential elections upon us, the choice and political rematch is between the incumbent President Emmanuel Macron and his Eurosceptic opponent Marine Le Pen of the once politically reviled National Front but now rebranded populist National Rally.During the…Continue Reading

Margaret Sanger . . . From Her Grave, She Leads A Culture Of Death

April 26, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Margaret Sanger . . . From Her Grave, She Leads A Culture Of Death

By TOM TAKASH Without a doubt, the most influential and the most admired woman among the radical feminists in my lifetime has been Margaret Sanger. Long before Helen Gurley Brown, Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Germaine Greer, and so many others made their claim to freeing women from being “pregnant and barefoot in the kitchen,” Margaret Sanger proposed to an apathetic and somewhat naive world that women could turn their backs on motherhood and love of family.She worked tirelessly to destroy family life and to “free women” from the “slavery” that she claimed crippled them. She wanted to bring an end to large families, and further to stop what she saw as the “breeding of the unfit and inferior races.”Sanger was…Continue Reading

A Movie Review . . . “Fr. Stu,” A Metaphor For Our Times

April 25, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on A Movie Review . . . “Fr. Stu,” A Metaphor For Our Times

By PEGGY MOEN Don’t be put off at the beginning of this movie — the language really is as crude as has been reported, and it comes in a relentless barrage, especially by the main character, Stuart Long, the future Fr. Stu, as played by Mark Wahlberg.Its usage, however, does make sense, as the story unfolds, showing a man who is a boxer who wants to be an actor but is getting a little old for either profession. He moves from Montana to Hollywood, hoping to be discovered while he works in a supermarket.His mother (played by Jacki Weaver) worries about him from Montana, doubting his chances for success – although Stu does get a role in a mop commercial.…Continue Reading

Faith And Politics

April 24, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Faith And Politics

By DONALD DeMARCO Faith and Politics (2006) is Sen. John Danforth’s book title. Sen. Danforth is well-versed in both religion and politics. He is an ordained Episcopal priest, former three-term U.S. senator, and former ambassador to the United Nations. By “faith,” he is alluding to Christianity. He finds a serious problem, however, with that religion.“If Christianity,” he writes, “is supposed to be a ministry of reconciliation and has become, instead, a divisive force in American political life, something is terribly wrong, and we should correct it.”What the senator finds wrong, however, is not so much Christianity itself, but the division caused by the rift between the authentic Christians who seek reconciliation and the Pharisees who, in his view, do not.…Continue Reading

Should We Commit To Fight Russia — For Finland?

April 23, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Should We Commit To Fight Russia — For Finland?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN The prime ministers of Sweden and Finland, Magdalena Andersson and Sanna Marin, both signaled Wednesday, April 13 that they will likely be applying for membership in NATO.The “prospect” is most “welcome,” says The Washington Post: “Finland and Sweden Should Join NATO.”The editorial was titled “A Way to Punish Putin.”Before joining the rejoicing in NATO capitals, we might inspect what NATO membership for these two Nordic nations would mean for the United States.Finland is a nation the size of Germany, but with a population only four percent of that of Russia and a border with Russia that is 830 miles long.Should Finland join NATO, the United States, under Article 5 of the NATO treaty, would be obligated…Continue Reading