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Ash Wednesday 2021… Vatican Offers Guidance On Ash Distribution Amid Pandemic

January 19, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Ash Wednesday 2021… Vatican Offers Guidance On Ash Distribution Amid Pandemic

By HANNAH BROCKHAUS VATICAN CITY (CNA) — The Vatican gave guidance on January 12 about how priests can distribute ashes on Ash Wednesday amid the coronavirus pandemic.The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments published a note directing priests to say the formula for distributing the ashes once to everyone present, rather than to each person.The priest “addresses all those present and only once says the formula as it appears in the Roman Missal, applying it to all in general: ‘Repent, and believe in the Gospel,’ or ‘Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return’,” the note said.It continued: “The priest then cleanses his hands, puts on a face mask and distributes the ashes…Continue Reading

A Book Review… What Does It Mean To Be Human?

January 18, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… What Does It Mean To Be Human?

By JUDE DOUGHERTY O. Carter Snead. What It Means To Be Human: The Case For The Body In Public Bioethics. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; 2020. O. Carter Snead is director of the Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, a professor of law, and concurrent professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame.The subject is public bioethics which Snead defines as the governance of science, medicine, and biotechnology in the name of ethical goods. Public ethics is about procreation, pregnancy, babies, wasting illnesses, devastating injury, desperate enrollees in clinical trials, fearful patients, the disabled, the dying and the dead. Public ethics is the realm of often bitter disagreement.Snead finds that in public discourse, contending sides frequently invoke irrelevant…Continue Reading

Equality And The Loss Of Identity

January 17, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Equality And The Loss Of Identity

By DONALD DeMARCO Philosophy is not the exclusive province of the specialist. It is for every thinking person. The problem lies in the fact that so many people do not know how to apply philosophy. Consider the notion of equality, for example. Many think that it is a free-floating value that does not require being rooted in something other than itself. As a result, they apply equality willy-nilly to areas where things are not equal. The unfortunate consequence of this reckless application of equality is, in many case, the loss of identity. In this sense, therefore, applying equality where it does not belong can be destructive.Equality is justified when it is anchored in truth. At mealtime, servings of food should…Continue Reading

Exploiting The Capitol Riot To Kill Trump

January 16, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Exploiting The Capitol Riot To Kill Trump

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN (Editor’s Note: Patrick J. Buchanan’s column was released on January 12 and this issue of The Wanderer went to press on January 14.) + + Donald Trump has stumbled and fallen, and the establishment is not going to let slip this last opportunity to stomp him and his movement to death.On Sunday, January 10, Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a startling ultimatum:Either Vice President Mike Pence and the Trump Cabinet invoke the 25th Amendment, declare the president “unfit” for office, and remove him within 24 hours, or House Democrats will vote to impeach him again.As the Senate, which would have to hear the case and hold the trial, does not meet again until January 19, the day…Continue Reading

Be Not Afraid

January 15, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Be Not Afraid

By FR. MICHAEL P. ORSI (Editor’s Note: A priest of the Diocese of Camden, N.J., Fr. Michael P. Orsi currently serves as parochial vicar at St. Agnes Parish in Naples, Fla. He is host of Action for Life TV, a weekly cable television series devoted to pro-life issues, and his writings appear in numerous publications and online journals. His TV show episodes can be viewed online at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyFbaLqUwPi08aHtlIR9R0g.) + + The Gospel reading for the last Sunday of Advent was an account of the Annunciation in the Book of Luke (1:26-38). This is the moment when the angel, Gabriel, announces to Mary, the young virgin girl, that she will bear the Son of God, and assures her that she need…Continue Reading

A Book Review… Back To The Beginning

January 14, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… Back To The Beginning

By JIM VALOIS The Genesis Documents by Michael Gladieux can be obtained from the publisher: https://www.kolbecenter.org/product/the-genesis-documents-e-book-pdf/. Who am I? Where do I come from? What am I doing here? Mankind has pondered these questions for many millennia. The ancient book of Genesis claims to provide answers to these queries and more.In The Genesis Documents by Michael Gladieux, the reader is given substantive insight into the sacred text by learning from the greatest minds of the Church, archaeological finds, and current science.This is not a book for the intellectually timid, yet it will be accessible to many readers. Gladieux, a computer analyst, has distilled 30 years of thought and prayer on this topic. In this one book you have a library…Continue Reading

“A Martyr Who Died Laughing”… Cause Of Priest Imprisoned By Nazis And Communists Advances

January 13, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on “A Martyr Who Died Laughing”… Cause Of Priest Imprisoned By Nazis And Communists Advances

By COURTNEY MARES Rome (CNA) — The sainthood cause of a Catholic priest who was imprisoned by both the Nazis and the Communists has advanced with the conclusion of the initial diocesan phase of the cause.Fr. Adolf Kajpr was a Jesuit priest and journalist who was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp after publishing Catholic magazines critical of the Nazis. One issue in 1939 in particular had a cover that depicted Christ conquering death represented with symbols of Nazism.Five years after his liberation from Dachau in 1945, Kajpr was arrested by the Communist authorities in Prague and sentenced to 12 years in a gulag for writing “seditious” articles.Kajpr spent more than half of his 24 years as a priest imprisoned. He…Continue Reading

The Worst Of Days For Trump & Trumpists

January 12, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Worst Of Days For Trump & Trumpists

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN President Donald Trump, it turns out, was being quite literal when he told us January 6 would be “wild.”And so Wednesday was, but it was also disastrous for the party and the movement Trump has led for the last five years.Wednesday, the defeats of Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in Georgia’s runoff elections were confirmed. This translates into the GOP losing the Senate for the next two years.Chuck Schumer now replaces Mitch McConnell as majority leader.And the new 50-50 split will put Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, the president of the Senate on January 20, in position to cast the deciding vote on every major issue where the two parties are evenly divided.Wednesday, there also came…Continue Reading

Xavier Becerra… Attacks Freedom Of Speech And Freedom Of Conscience

January 11, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Xavier Becerra… Attacks Freedom Of Speech And Freedom Of Conscience

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has a record of attacking the freedom of speech and freedom of conscience.It is not surprising, therefore, that Joe Biden has decided to name him secretary of Health and Human Services. They have shared values.In 2018, Becerra filed a brief in the Supreme Court in the case of National Institute of Family Life Advocates v. Becerra. The question: Could California force pro-life pregnancy centers to promote government-funded abortions?Specifically, a California law required pro-life centers to provide their patients with a notice that said: “California has public programs that provide immediate free or low-cost access to comprehensive family planning services (including all FDA-approved methods of contraception), prenatal care, and abortion for eligible…Continue Reading

Thought And Action

January 10, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Thought And Action

By DONALD DeMARCO A physicist friend of mine told me that one of his students wanted to become a physicist but hated mathematics. My colleague laughed at contradiction. This odd separation of ends from their indispensable means is, however, not all that unusual. All my students, for example, want to be happy, but a rather small percentage of them are willing to accept the means necessary to attain that desirable end.Here is one of the great paradoxes of life: The concrete stands on the shoulders of the abstract. Therefore, it is so easy for students to separate them from each other, the former being evident and tangible, while the latter remains hidden and intangible.Nonetheless, as reason tells us, an unseen…Continue Reading