Yearly Archives: 2026
If there was ever a close-up, in-person example of the impact of a bad idea, it is the District of Columbia’s embrace of former President Joe Biden’s DEI lunacy five years ago. The District’s sane leaders could have written off Joe as a doddering dolt or even put him in a straitjacket — but no, […]
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 […]
Archbishop John Aloysius Murphy (1905–1995), whose life, like that of St. John Henry Newman (1801–1890), spanned the better part of the century in which he lived, is a man worthy of remembrance for several reasons. During his tenure as Bishop of Cardiff (Wales) from 1949 to 1961, he became rightly known as “The Builder.” When […]
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 […]
By William Jerry U.S. Cardinals Urge White House To Pursue ‘Genuinely Moral’ Foreign Policy: Three U.S.-based Catholic cardinals issued a joint statement urging a fundamental reexamination of American foreign policy, rejecting war as a tool for narrow national interests and calling for military action to be used only as a last resort in extreme circumstances. […]
By CHRISTOPHER MANION Forty-two years ago, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed Jan. 22 as “National Sanctity of Human Life Day.” Last week, President Donald J. Trump celebrated that proclamation with an inspiring note of gratitude honoring the pro-life movement. As usual, it was ignored by the secular media. “On July 4, 1776,” the president wrote, “our […]
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 […]
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 […]
Last week, The Wanderer lost one of its most beloved columnists. Dexter Duggan died from unexpected recently diagnosed stage-four cancer, bringing to a close almost 50 years of faithful weekly contributions as a columnist for The Wanderer. His columns were a constant presence in the paper, and his dedication was unmatched — he was known […]
