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Profoundly Pro-Life Pagan Philosophers

January 23, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Profoundly Pro-Life Pagan Philosophers

By KEVIN VOST (Editor’s Note: Dr. Kevin Vost, Psy.D, is a Catholic author, speaker, professor, radio host, and television guest. In 2016 Angelico Press published his book, The Porch and the Cross: Ancient Stoic Wisdom for Modern Christian Living. We welcome his first contribution to The Wanderer.) + + + While enjoying my first issue of The Wanderer (January 4, 2018), I was particularly struck by Professor Jude P. Dougherty’s tribute to Edith Hamilton. Hamilton’s The Greek Way was among the first books I encountered in my teens that led to a lifelong love of our classical heritage. The article’s last lines read as follows: “Through examples and emphasis she leaves no doubt that Greek philosophy prepares one for the adoption…Continue Reading

A Book Review… Priests As Builders Of Western Civilization

January 22, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… Priests As Builders Of Western Civilization

By MITCHELL KALPAKGIAN Heroism and Genius: How Catholic Priests Helped Build — And Can Rebuild — Western Civilization, by William J. Slattery (Ignatius Press: San Francisco, 2017), 272 pp. $24.95. Available through www.ignatius.com or call 1-800-651-1531. A work of great erudition and comprehensive scope, Fr. Slattery’s eloquent book provides a survey of the seminal ideas that shaped Western civilization, ideas founded in Catholic moral and social teachings taught or introduced by the renowned and humble priests who served God and loved their neighbor throughout the ages. While many historical books examine the various ages through the policies of kings and rulers or through the major wars of the era or through the importance of dominant intellectual ideas, Slattery’s unique point…Continue Reading

A Nation Of Sheep

January 21, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on A Nation Of Sheep

By DONALD DeMARCO In a sociology text book (Sociology) that has been widely used in Canadian universities, the author makes the following statement: “Canadian society could not continue to exist unless the thousands of new members born each year eventually learned to think, believe, and behave as Canadians. . . . The continuity of our society requires that children come to embrace societal values as their own.” The reality, however, is that Canadian society does continue to exist despite the fact that its citizens have radically different ways of thinking and believing. The statement, of course, is essentially political. People, if they are thinking at all, think as human beings endowed, as they are, with the faculty of reason. What…Continue Reading

Bishop Schneider… Explains The Kazakhstani Profession Of Truths On Marriage

January 20, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Bishop Schneider… Explains The Kazakhstani Profession Of Truths On Marriage

By CARL BUNDERSON ASTANA, Kazakhstan (CNA/EWTN News) — Fidelity to the words of Christ makes it necessary to profess the truth about sacramental marriage, Bishop Athanasius Schneider told Catholic News Agency (CNA) in a recent interview. Bishop Schneider, an auxiliary bishop of Maria Santissima in Astana, was a drafter of the “Profession of the immutable truths about sacramental marriage” issued by three Kazakhstani bishops December 31, 2017. The bishops stated it is not licit to admit to sacramental Communion Catholics who are divorced and remarried, if they are not living according to the longstanding discipline of the Church. The three bishops — Bishop Schneider, along with Archbishop Tomash Peta of Maria Santissima in Astana and Archbishop Jan Pawel Lenga, bishop…Continue Reading

Planned Parenthood Now Offers “Transgender” Hormone Therapy

January 19, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Planned Parenthood Now Offers “Transgender” Hormone Therapy

ORLANDO, Fla. — Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, has expanded its services to offering “transgender” hormone therapy, according to a January 10 report from Liberty Counsel. Planned Parenthood’s 2016-2017 annual report states: “We’re expanding access to care — from pioneering research on self-injectable birth control to offering new services for our transgender patients. Planned Parenthood has focused on expanding services to people who are too often overlooked by the larger medical community — including trans patients. Seventeen states now have Planned Parenthood health centers that provide hormone therapy.” While masquerading as a “health-care” provider for women, Planned Parenthood works more to exploit women, provide abortions, and now promote gender confusion. The health-care centers and clinics annually perform one-third…Continue Reading

Chinese Government Destroys Major “House Church”

January 18, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Chinese Government Destroys Major “House Church”

BEIJING (AsiaNews) — New details have come to light about the forced demolition of the Golden Lampstand Church in the city of Linfen on January 9. The faithful have also released a video of the building being destroyed, while they were forced to watch from a distance as the walls, the tower, and the cross crumbled to ruins. Witnesses say that the faithful cried as they viewed the disaster. Linfen, a city of 4.5 million inhabitants in Shanxi, since 2009 hosted the sacred building, built with the contributions of the entire Protestant community of about 60,000 faithful. The church cost 7 million yuan (about 911 thousand euros). The place of worship was at risk of being destroyed in 2009, when…Continue Reading

Toadies For Evil

January 17, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Toadies For Evil

By DEACON JAMES H. TONER “Be on your guard! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him” (Luke 17:3). Like the rest of us, priests are sinners — a fact made only too clear during the past two decades. At work is something I call the “Paired Power Principle,” by which I refer to someone or something that can do great good but, if depraved, can also effect great evil. The Latin expression corruptio optimi pessima (the corruption of the best is the worst) catches the exact sense of this. It is evil enough when one of us sins; how much more regrettable is it, then, when those among us, specifically ordained to bring people to…Continue Reading

Restoring The Sacred Humility In The Sacred Liturgy

January 16, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Restoring The Sacred Humility In The Sacred Liturgy

By JAMES MONTI One of the most serious and endemic problems in how the sacred liturgy is celebrated in many parishes in our own age is a conspicuous lack of humility. Certain contemporary hymns seem calculated to drum into the congregation how supposedly holy, gifted, lovable, and prophetic they are, with scarcely a word about how sinful they are. A misunderstanding as to what “active participation” in the sacred liturgy truly means has in some cases turned the sanctuary into a sort of theatrical stage where parts are doled out in what seems like an “affirmative action” program to appease power-hungry laity who think the Church is “too clerical.” Some priests appear to think that they are entertainers with an…Continue Reading

Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic… The Sexual Harassment “Crisis” — Time For Some Clear Thinking

January 15, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Neither Left Nor Right, But Catholic… The Sexual Harassment “Crisis” — Time For Some Clear Thinking

By STEPHEN M. KRASON (Editor’s Note: Stephen M. Krason’s Neither Left nor Right, but Catholic column appears monthly [sometimes bimonthly]. He is professor of political science and legal studies and associate director of the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at Franciscan University of Steubenville. He is also co-founder and president of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists. Among his books are: Abortion: Politics, Morality, and the Constitution; The Transformation of the American Democratic Republic, and most recently Catholicism and American Political Ideologies. This column originally appeared in Crisismagazine.com.) + + + The sexual harassment frenzy of the last few months — and it can only be called a frenzy — is disturbing in many ways, and decent and…Continue Reading

Revisiting “The Four Loves”: The Four Rights

January 14, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Revisiting “The Four Loves”: The Four Rights

By DONALD DeMARCO C.S. Lewis’ The Four Loves, which was published in 1960, is a classic. The author succeeded with his accustomed wit and wisdom in showing how four kinds of love — affection, friendship, amorous love, and charity — are both distinctive as well as interrelated. He penned this work just three years before he passed away. Had he lived a little longer he may have bequeathed to our confused world The Four Rights. The four rights that I will attempt to delineate are also both distinctive as well as interrelated. As a method of demonstrating these two characteristics, I have chosen a third person narrative. Let us imagine the evolving life of Thomas who is intimately involved with…Continue Reading