Yearly Archives: 2026
The immigration debate that rages in the United States and Western Europe today focuses on the impact of immigrants, both legal and illegal, in their countries of destination. In order better to understand that impact, it’s worth taking a look at where they’re coming from. The majority of Third World countries’ populations suffer from poverty. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
