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Following The Line Of Providence

March 3, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Following The Line Of Providence

By DONALD DeMARCO The cynic will deny the existence of Providence. That is because he wants to be the sole master of both his dowry and his destiny. What he does not realize is that God has, so to speak, beaten him to the punch. It was God, not he, who granted him existence, placed inclinations in his being, and provided him with the means to fulfill those inclinations. We do not invent our destiny, no more than we choose our parents and our place of birth. We pursue it. Without God, we can do nothing.As we have just celebrated Black History Month, it is most fitting to recall how Wilber Wilberforce (1759-1833) saw his role as fulfilling the providential…Continue Reading

Sr. Deirdre Byrne . . . Assists Afghan Family With Escape To Freedom

March 3, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Sr. Deirdre Byrne . . . Assists Afghan Family With Escape To Freedom

By JONAH McKEOWN DENVER (CNA) — When Sr. Deirdre “Dede” Byrne picked up the phone in December 2021, a young man on the other end of the line told her something disturbing — and difficult to believe.My mother is a doctor, he told the sister. You worked with her more than a decade ago in Afghanistan, at a U.S. camp near Pakistan. And now her life is in grave danger.Some people might have dismissed the call as an elaborate hoax, but the details caught Sr. Byrne’s attention. A military veteran, Sr. Byrne had indeed been stationed at Camp Salerno, about six miles from the Pakistani border, around 2008. It was there that she crossed paths with Dr. M. (We are…Continue Reading

Did We Provoke Putin’s War In Ukraine?

March 2, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Did We Provoke Putin’s War In Ukraine?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN When Russia’s Vladimir Putin demanded that the U.S. rule out Ukraine as a future member of the NATO alliance, the U.S. archly replied: NATO has an open-door policy. Any nation, including Ukraine, may apply for membership and be admitted. We’re not changing that.In the Bucharest declaration of 2008, NATO had put Ukraine and Georgia, ever farther east in the Caucasus, on a path to membership in NATO and coverage under Article 5 of the treaty, which declares that an attack on any one member is an attack on all.Unable to get a satisfactory answer to his demand, Putin invaded and settled the issue. Neither Ukraine nor Georgia will become members of NATO. To prevent that, Russia…Continue Reading

In Honor Of Two Gems… Rush Limbaugh And P.J. O’Rourke

March 1, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on In Honor Of Two Gems… Rush Limbaugh And P.J. O’Rourke

By BARBARA SIMPSON (Editor’s Note: This article first appeared February 18 World Net Daily reprinted here with permission.) + + I don’t know about you, but it seems as though every week, another of the people who have been a part of my life in one way or another — dies. The media are filled with their obituaries.These aren’t people I knew personally but who have been a part of my life because of their professions — writers, actors, comedians, politicians. They are people who are known through the media because of their work, and over the years, I have enjoyed and loved their work.As happens with people like that, fans like me often feel we “know them personally,” and…Continue Reading

An Added Perspective On The Covid-19 Vaccines

February 28, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on An Added Perspective On The Covid-19 Vaccines

By JOHN G. BOULET, MD I read with great interest Fr. Brian Harrison’s critique of Bishop Athanasius Schneider’s public dissent from statements of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) that “under certain conditions it is morally acceptable for Catholics to receive medications which involved the use of cell lines from aborted infants.” [See The Wanderer, January 6, 2022, p. 4B.]I agree with Fr. Harrison’s view of the situation, disavowing, nonetheless, any pretense of any theological background of my own, and as always attesting to the necessity for all Catholics to assent to the teachings of Holy Mother Church: that is to say, I have no “credentials” or “office” by which even to state that I am in…Continue Reading

Please Don’t Take My Fish Fry Away

February 27, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Please Don’t Take My Fish Fry Away

By REY FLORES (Editor’s Note: To honor Rey Flores’ memory, we have been reprinting several of his most memorable articles. Here is one from Lent 2021.) + + “You are my fish fry, my favorite fish fry, you make me happy, when I crave fish. You’ll never know just how much I miss you, please don’t take my fish fry away.” + + With a lot of people still being scared half to death from the COVID pandemic, that and everyone taking extra precautions, we’ve learned to live in a new world of masks and a media-fueled fear pandemic. Is it real? Is it not? Are the COVID death statistics true or blown up by the big pharma and big…Continue Reading

Are Democrats Kicking Away Their Future?

February 26, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Are Democrats Kicking Away Their Future?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Not so long ago, Democrats seemed the party of the future.“Inevitable!” predicted some pundits, for demography is destiny.Moreover, in 2020, Democrats, who had won the popular vote six times in seven presidential elections, swept the popular vote again, by 6 million ballots. And they captured both houses of Congress.The future did seem to be theirs.Progressives dominated the major culture-forming institutions of society — academia, the media, Hollywood — not to mention the vast bureaucracy of America’s national administrative state.Their core constituencies — women, the young, blacks, Hispanics — were growing as a share of the electorate, while the core Republican constituencies — white males, seniors — were shrinking.One sensed a confidence among Democrats that one or…Continue Reading

Hitchcock Won’t Correct The Record, So We Will

February 25, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Hitchcock Won’t Correct The Record, So We Will

By CHRISTOPHER MANION “The Trump movement was in many ways an ecumenical manifestation of the Wanderer Catholic underground of conspiracy theories, old religious and ethnic grudges, economic ignorance, resentment, and alienation from the entire modern world, an amalgam that for a time saw Ron Paul as its messiah and that above all yearned for the emotional release that a demagogue could provide” — James Hitchcock, Abortion, Religious Freedom, and Catholic Politics (Transaction Publishers, 2016, $100).This fervid charge was the final salvo in Catholic historian James Hitchcock’s last attack on The Wanderer.We reviewed Hitchcock’s book at length four years ago this week (see link below for the full text), and time has not been friendly to the longtime professor at St.…Continue Reading

Beijing’s “Belt And Road” Reaches Buenos Aires

February 24, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on Beijing’s “Belt And Road” Reaches Buenos Aires

By JOHN J. METZLER For nearly a decade now, China’s “Belt and Road” commercial infrastructure initiative (BRI) has been expanding globally.Usually, and most notably, countries which sign up are poor or unduly dependent on Beijing’s largesse and bulging coffers. Places like Burma, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan have willingly joined the dragon’s embrace. In Africa many states predictably signed on: Djibouti, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Tanzania. But when the BRI initiative reached Greece and linked up with the port of Piraeus, people began to focus. What’s the real mission of this global BRI?As the world waited apprehensively for Russian actions in Ukraine and watched the Beijing Winter Olympics unfold, an unlikely Latin American political player visited both Moscow and Beijing. Argentina’s…Continue Reading

A Book Review . . . Spice Up Your Lenten Meals And Devotions

February 23, 2022 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review . . . Spice Up Your Lenten Meals And Devotions

By PEGGY MOEN The Lenten Cookbook by David Geisser, with essays by Scott Hahn. Sophia Institute Press, Manchester, NH, 2022. Hardback, 212 pages; $29.95. Visit www.sophiainstitute.com or call 1-800-888-9344 to order. Tired of eating and serving the same old store-bought, dried-up Hot Cross Buns during Lent? We recommend The Lenten Cookbook by David Geisser, with essays on Lenten observances by Scott Hahn. Geisser is one of the leading chefs in Switzerland and he has served as a Swiss Guard under Pope Francis. Hahn, a theology professor at Franciscan University of Steubenville, will be known to many Wanderer readers because of his numerous books and talks explaining the Catholic faith.This cookbook offers a remarkable range of recipes, for soups and salads…Continue Reading