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By JAMES MONTI , Latest

RESTORING THE SACRED . . . The Reality Of The

The Lenten season comes each year as a veritable retreat for the Church throughout the world, a particularly “acceptable time”

By DONALD DEMARCO , Latest

A Bishop Ahead Of His Time By DONALD DEMARCO

Archbishop John Aloysius Murphy (1905–1995), whose life, like that of St. John Henry Newman (1801–1890), spanned the better part of

By Fr. KEVIN CUSICK , FR. KEVIN CUSICK

A Leaven In The World . . . Lent, Ben Sasse, And

Lent is upon us once again and with it another opportunity for grace and conversion. This most penitential season begins

By RAYMOND DESOUZA

We Know There Is A God From The Beautiful Laws

By RAYMOND DE SOUZA You must have noticed that there are plenty of laws in Nature: in physics, chemistry, biology,

By RAYMOND DESOUZA

Why Be A Christian? Why Not Moslem, Buddhist, Hindu? Part

By RAYMOND J DE SOUZA In Singapore, Pope Francis stated rather matter-of-factly that all religions are pathways to God, or

A Leaven In The World . . . Don’t Get Distracted From The Real War
By Fr. KEVIN CUSICK

March 6, 2026 No Comments

The Catholic commentariat, in the wake of the opening salvos of the war in Iran, has, if you’ll forgive the pun, exploded. Many voices are untethered from Catholic just-war and social teaching. Some are rendering final judgment without a knowledge of all the facts, some of which may not be revealed until the conflict is over. I am sure my prayers for its quick and benign conclusion are not the only ones in God’s hearing at the moment. Tragically, we now count four American service members among the thousands who have already died as a result. A girls’ school was struck on the first day of the conflict and over 150 students were killed. Some of those offering their take on the war in light of Catholic just-war teaching are offering sage and measured counsel for the benefit of the many who might not be sure at the moment just what to think. Among these are Phil Lawler and Robert Royal. Lawler, in “Exploring Just-War

Cheer, Cheer For Old Notre Dame!
By Dr. CHRISTOPHER MANION

March 6, 2026 No Comments

It’s been a rough ride, but the Fighting Irish finally have something to celebrate this St. Paddy’s Day. In recent weeks, The Wanderer has reported on the latest controversy that has embroiled Our Lady’s University. In January, Notre Dame Provost John T. McGreevy appointed Susan Ostermann as the new director of the university’s Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies. Professor Ostermann is an ardent abortion advocate who scarcely veils her disdain for pro-lifers. Of course, that community includes a sizable number of Notre Dame students. As we will see below, university officials have often ignored such concerns in the past, but this time around the campus pro-life community, supported by a surprising number of members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, decided enough was enough. Catholic Notre Dame came to life. On Feb. 11, Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend issued a public statement objecting to the Ostermann appointment. By Feb. 24, when he led students gathered at the Grotto

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By Fr. KEVIN CUSICK , Latest

A Leaven In The World . . . Don’t Get Distracted From The Real War By Fr. KEVIN CUSICK

The Catholic commentariat, in the wake of the opening salvos of the war in Iran, has, if you’ll forgive the pun,

By Dr. CHRISTOPHER MANION , Latest

Cheer, Cheer For Old Notre Dame! By Dr. CHRISTOPHER MANION

It’s been a rough ride, but the Fighting Irish finally have something to celebrate this St. Paddy’s Day. In recent weeks,

By JAMES MONTI , Latest

RESTORING THE SACRED . . . The Reality Of The Sacred Passion By JAMES MONTI

The Lenten season comes each year as a veritable retreat for the Church throughout the world, a particularly “acceptable time” (2

By Dr. CHRISTOPHER MANION , Latest

The Swill Of DEI By Dr. CHRISTOPHER MANION

If there was ever a close-up, in-person example of the impact of a bad idea, it is the District of Columbia’s

By Fr. KEVIN CUSICK , Latest

A Leaven In The World . . . Lent, Ben Sasse, And Memento Mori By Fr. KEVIN CUSICK

Lent is upon us once again and with it another opportunity for grace and conversion. This most penitential season begins on

By DONALD DEMARCO , Latest

A Bishop Ahead Of His Time By DONALD DEMARCO

Archbishop John Aloysius Murphy (1905–1995), whose life, like that of St. John Henry Newman (1801–1890), spanned the better part of the

By William Jerry , Latest

News Notes By William Jerry

By William Jerry U.S. Cardinals Urge White House To Pursue ‘Genuinely Moral’ Foreign Policy: Three U.S.-based Catholic cardinals issued a joint

By JOSEPH MATT , Latest

The Stranglehold of Evil Upon Our Nation By JOSEPH MATT

By JOSEPH MATT Satan continues to tighten his grip on the direction of our culture. In just the past couple

By RAYMOND DESOUZA , Latest

Live Your Faith By RAYMOND DESOUZA

How Do We Get To Know The Truth? By RAYMOND DESOUZA Many people confuse truth with personal opinion, as if our

By DONALD DEMARCO , Latest

Clarifying Two Meanings Of Hope By DONALD DEMARCO

By DONALD DeMARCO We are inescapably creatures of the future. This is why we live in hope. We need a reason

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By RAYMOND DESOUZA

We Know There Is A God From The Beautiful Laws Of Nature By RAYMOND DESOUZA

By RAYMOND DE SOUZA You must have noticed that there are plenty of laws in Nature: in physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, algebra, geometry, etc. Scientists did not invent the laws of nature, they just discover them. Even the smallest speck of dust, is, in all its movements and changes, subject to fixed natural laws. The same holds for living things — plants, animals, and men: each species grows, develops, and acts in the same way. They follow the specific laws of their own nature. The entire universe is bound together into one vastly and incredibly complicated whole, like a great,

By RAYMOND DESOUZA

Why Be A Christian? Why Not Moslem, Buddhist, Hindu? Part 1: Investigating The Claim Of Miracles By RAYMOND DESOUZA

By RAYMOND J DE SOUZA In Singapore, Pope Francis stated rather matter-of-factly that all religions are pathways to God, or different languages about God. Let us investigate this question, which smacks of religious indifferentism. Everyone knows that there are many religions in the world today, all claiming to be true. Many were founded by individuals who claimed to be ‘prophets’ of God — or of the gods, depending. In this context, why should we be Christian at all? Why not be a Moslem, a Jew, a Buddhist, a Hindu, an animist or whatever sort? How could a man

This Week’s Homily

The Cathedral of Saint Paul March 25, 2025

Learn your faithdon fier

By DON FIER

God Comes To Meet Man By DON FIER

By DON FIER Last week, a topic was taken up that was immediately addressed in the first chapter of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC): man’s capacity to know God by reason alone. It was demonstrated in two basic, commonsense ways that “by natural reason man can know God with certainty, on the basis of His works” (CCC, n. 50). The supporting arguments focused around what we can directly observe or easily discern in two of God’s most magnificent works of creation, “the physical world and the human person” (CCC, n. 31). This week, we will turn our attention

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By JAMES MONTI , Latest

RESTORING THE SACRED . . . The Reality Of The Sacred Passion By JAMES MONTI

The Lenten season comes each year as a veritable retreat for the Church throughout the world, a particularly “acceptable time” (2 Cor. 6:2) for all of us to begin anew the pursuit of perfection in the spiritual life. As in a typical retreat, that pursuit opens with the acknowledgment of our need for repentance and the confession of our sins, both fostered by our acts of self-denial that are an essential feature of this liturgical season. The cycle of weekday readings for the Masses of Lent go a long way in spiritually directing and nourishing our efforts to repent and

By JAMES MONTI

Restoring The Sacred By JAMES MONTI

Meditating Upon The Scourging Of Christ Through Scripture And Art By JAMES MONTI Everything about Lent directs our thoughts toward the Passion of Christ. For Christ Himself has invited us to the Passion, to be with Him in His suffering, to witness with the eyes of the soul what He suffered, to get so close to Him in His sufferings that we become willing to partake of those sufferings in ourselves, in our own lives. From Gethsemane onward, He beseeches us: “… remain here, and watch with me” (Matt. 26:38). He summons us: “Follow me” (Luke 5:27). He instructs us,

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Fr. ROBERT ALTIER

Sunday Sermon for March 30, 2025, The Fourth Sunday Of Lent, Year C

Readings: Josh. 5:9a, 10–12; 2 Cor. 5:17–20; Luke 15:1–3, 11–32 By Fr. ROBERT ALTIER In the Gospel reading today, we hear the beautiful story of the love of a father whose son took half of everything the father owned and squandered it all. The young man came to his senses, only after he had descended about as low as one can imagine, and decided to go back to his father’s house and offer himself to be a hired hand. He knew the gravity of what he had done and realized he no longer deserved to be called the son of

A Leavan In The World

By Fr. KEVIN CUSICK , FR. KEVIN CUSICK

A Leaven In The World . . . Lent, Ben Sasse, And Memento Mori By Fr. KEVIN CUSICK

Lent is upon us once again and with it another opportunity for grace and conversion. This most penitential season begins on Ash Wednesday with the stern admonition, “Meménto, homo, quia pulvis es, et in púlverem revertéris.” “Remember, man, you are dust.” “Remember, man, you will die.” For many public figures on the internet it has become fashionable to sport the ashen cross on the forehead each year as Lent begins. It adds a note of seriousness or gravitas, I suppose, to their blog videos and internet feeds. Ben Sasse is dying. As are we all.

FR. KEVIN CUSICK

Faith In Florida

A Leaven In The World . . . A generous brother priest volunteered to cover my Sunday Masses once this month. Freeing up the weekend enabled me to connect weekdays of two adjoining weeks resulting in a more generous period for a drive to Florida where my father and extended family now reside in the Space Coast area. Two brothers are retired there and nieces are marrying and transitioning there. One of these, with her husband and two baby boys, lives blocks from the Atlantic Coast. As well, my father had long nursed plans to transition to

Raymond Cardinal Burke's Message For The Third Week Of Lent

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Mgr. Pope

On The Role Of The Angels At The Second Coming

By Mgr. POPE The content of this post comes from a series I have been teaching at the Institute of Catholic Culture on the mission of the angels. Angels are ministering spirits mystically present and active throughout creation, in the events of Scripture, in the liturgy, and in our lives. The fundamental source for these reflections is Jean Cardinal Danielou’s book The Angels

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Archives is a weekly feature of The Wanderer that features news, articles and commentary over the past 157 years that not only provides a glimpse into the past but sometimes offers interesting insights and sound advice for the present.

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Throw Back . . . The Wanderer Archives Revisited

A Look Back . . . The Wanderer May 19, 1939 .. . . Frequent Confession

By FR. FRANCIS RIPLEY Paragraph seven of the revised rite of Penance insists that "frequent and careful celebration of this sacrament is also very useful as a remedy for venial sins. This is not a mere ritual repetition or psychological exercise, but a serious striving to perfect the grace

archives -- news

ARCHIVES -- NEWS

World News . . . The Wanderer May 11, 1939

Persecution in the Third Reich Simultaneously with unverified reports from Rome that German-id Vatican relations are improving, and that an entente may soon be reached, comes news of further Nazi onslaughts against Church, the SCHOOLS DISSOLVED IN THE RHINELAND April 18, 1939, was a black day for Catholic

archives -- commentary

ARCHIVES -- COMMENTARY

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR . . . The Wanderer May 11, 1939

SURE CURE FOR COMMUNISM Editor, THE WANDERER: Mark Twain once said that every-body talks about the weather but very few try to do anything about it. The same comment might be made about the conversion of America. We could make many more converts if we would only try

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