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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 […]
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 […]
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 Rhineland. By a decree of […]
God Comes To Meet Man
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 […]
Restoring The Sacred
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 […]
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 […]
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 of Baptism so that, as […]
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 to do so. If every […]