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A Book Review . . . More Than One Valuable Resource Among Many

November 8, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on A Book Review . . . More Than One Valuable Resource Among Many

By JAMES BARESEL Probes: Deep Sea Diving into Saint John’s Gospel, by Peter Kreeft. (Ignatius: 2019). Order at Ignatius.com. One of the most effective methods of indoctrination used by teachers, professors, and leaders of study groups is one which purports to ask students to “think for themselves” while in reality directing them to think on the basis of presuppositions which are merely taken for granted, as though not in need of justification let alone open to debate. The result is that the students, regardless of the questions they give to the questions they are asked, are formed in a habit of mind which assumes the truth of the presuppositions on the basis of which they were asked to think. So,…Continue Reading

Trust The Church Of God

November 7, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Trust The Church Of God

By SHAUN KENNEY So the “boomerang” really did turn out to be a Pachamama. Not the Pachamama, as apparently there is no one single Pachamama, but one of many pachamama or however the plural of such outrages might be described. Either way, to say I’m flummoxed is an understatement. Nevertheless, Pope Francis concluded the Amazonian Synod with a few notable remarks. First and perhaps to the open relief of many, the “boomerangs” weren’t in the hall at all, replaced by a statue of our Lady and at the behest of bishops who refused to attend unless our Lady’s image was present and the pachamama were gone. Maike Hickson reported this development for LifeSiteNews.com on October 28. Second, Pope Francis opened…Continue Reading

Citing Ratzinger Book . . . Speaker Says God Wants People To Make Saints Of Others

November 6, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Citing Ratzinger Book . . . Speaker Says God Wants People To Make Saints Of Others

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — The question isn’t whether a Christian loves God, but whether he prefers God above all else, an instructor told an audience looking into a book assembled from three sermons that Joseph Ratzinger gave in 1964, decades before he became Pope Benedict XVI. Simone Rizkallah spoke for a program that lasted nearly three hours at the Phoenix-based Institute of Catholic Theology (ICT) on October 19, saying that while God “delights in us…do we delight in Him?” The book is What It Means to Be a Christian, originally published in 1965 in Munich, then reissued in 2005, the year Cardinal Ratzinger was elected Pope, by Libreria Editrice Vaticana (the Vatican Publishing House) and also Ignatius Press, based…Continue Reading

The Decline Of Belief… “Not Afraid To Burn In Hell”

November 5, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on The Decline Of Belief… “Not Afraid To Burn In Hell”

By DEACON MIKE MANNO, JD I was listening to the latest debate by the Democratic aspirants for the presidency when, during a commercial break, Ron Reagan, the late president’s son and spokesman for the Freedom From Religion Foundation, came on the air to tell us that he — and presumably the foundation — was “alarmed by the intrusions of religion into our secular government.” Reagan then launched into a pitch for support of the foundation as the “most effective association of atheists and agnostics working to keep state and church separate.” Then he concluded, “Ron Reagan, lifelong atheist, not afraid of burning in Hell.” Of course the immediate response was summed up nicely by Rush Limbaugh: “Here’s this group out…Continue Reading

The Amazon Synod, Joe Biden, And Other Catastrophes

November 4, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on The Amazon Synod, Joe Biden, And Other Catastrophes

By PEGGY MOEN The Amazon Synod has now slogged to its dreary end, leaving a trail of predictable, disastrous recommendations for a Church mired in error and discontent. The cream of Church leadership has weighed in on the Instrumentum Laboris and other run-ups to the synod, predicting deeper disasters if their venomous suggestions should come to fruition. To an extent, that fruition has occurred — according to an October 26 Catholic News Agency report, “The meeting for the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazonian region has approved a final document which calls for the ordination of married men as priests and for women to be considered for diaconal ordination” (see p. 8B of this week’s Wanderer for the full report;…Continue Reading

A Courageous Priest . . . Reminds Biden Soul In Peril Despite Others Ducking Issue

November 3, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on A Courageous Priest . . . Reminds Biden Soul In Peril Despite Others Ducking Issue

By DEXTER DUGGAN In the Sunday morning Communion line, a hot-tempered retiree started slugging his wife until she dropped to the floor. The pastor, fearful of creating a ruckus, simply gave the man the Host when he stepped forward, then the wife, too, when she staggered up. The same sort of attack occurred the following Sunday. The husband was steamed because the Mrs. hadn’t fixed his early breakfast the way he liked. Another battering on the third Sunday. She had laughed on Saturday when his favorite college football team fumbled away a victory on television, and he still was boiling. Finally, a member of the parish council took the pastor aside and questioned his ignoring this scandal. The priest snapped…Continue Reading

Canon Fire

November 2, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Canon Fire

By CHRISTOPHER MANION Every few years, a priest does his job — in this case, following canon law — and it raises a ruckus. On Sunday, October 27 former Vice President Joe Biden, Democrat candidate for president, attended the 9:00 a.m. Mass at St. Anthony’s Parish in Florence, S.C. When Biden approached to receive Communion, Pastor Robert Morey quietly refused him. Fr. Morey was obeying canon 915, which reads, “Those upon whom the penalty of excommunication or interdict has been imposed or declared, and others who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin, are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.” The following Monday, Fr. Morey wrote in a statement to the Florence Morning News: “Sadly, this past Sunday, I had…Continue Reading

A Miter With Beef . . . A Shepherd Who Shepherds

November 1, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on A Miter With Beef . . . A Shepherd Who Shepherds

By JOSEPH MATT Wanderer readers will be quite pleased and excited with this announcement. We have been blessed with a couple of additional contributors to our catechetical section “Our Catholic Faith,” and we are starting their columns this week (see page 1B in print edition). One of those columnist should be very familiar to Wanderer readers — a man whose devotion and witness to the Catholic faith is both inspiring and refreshing at this critical point in our Church’s history. There is a saying in Texas, “All hat and no cattle,” a phrase that might be applicable to much of the hierarchy in the Catholic Church today — “A lot of Shepherd but not much shepherding.” Well, that phrase most…Continue Reading

Why We Need Great Saints

October 31, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on Why We Need Great Saints

By JAMES MONTI It is in late autumn, as the days grow shorter and colder and the liturgical year draws near to its close, and the month of remembering the faithful departed begins, that Holy Mother Church bids us to raise our eyes from the surrounding darkness to behold the blazing light of the Heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the saints. The Solemnity of All Saints’ Day on November 1 opens Heaven, as it were, to give us an inviting glimpse of the everlasting joy of those who while on Earth heard the Word of God and kept it with a generous heart. The churches of the Baroque Era from the 1600s and 1700s express this particularly well, with their…Continue Reading

December Pro-Life Gala In Washington . . . To Honor Surprise Guest With Bernard Nathanson Award

October 30, 2019 Frontpage Comments Off on December Pro-Life Gala In Washington . . . To Honor Surprise Guest With Bernard Nathanson Award

By DEXTER DUGGAN A December “Life Is Beautiful Gala” in Washington, D.C., will be another step in her mission by a woman who promised a repentant, dying abortion pioneer that she’d work to reverse the pro-abortion revolution that he came to regret. A “very important” surprise guest is to be at the gala to receive an award, the woman said. In 1969 Bernard Nathanson, MD, a man with a mission, co-founded NARAL, whose acronym originally meant the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws. But by 1979, in his book Aborting America (Doubleday), Nathanson wrote of how he deeply had come to regret his advocacy for permissive abortion. Although it took Nathanson just a decade to make a complete…Continue Reading