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The Obligation To Be Intelligent

November 3, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on The Obligation To Be Intelligent

By DONALD DeMARCO Intelligence is very much like water. It does not have much pizazz but just as water is necessary to sustain life, intelligence is necessary to sustain a moral life. Intelligence in action is quiet, hardly noticeable, and certainly not newsworthy. By contrast, protest has all the opposite features. It is clamorous, attention-getting, and eminently newsworthy. Protest, apart from the object against which it is directed, also has great appeal to the protester. Protesting often flatters the protester as bold, adventurous, righteous, and a champion of freedom. The personally exhilarating aspects of protesting, therefore, may obscure whether or not the protest is truly an expression of intelligence. People in America have a constitutional right to protest. But they…Continue Reading

Minnesota Filmmakers Appeal Ruling Against Their Creative Freedom

November 2, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Minnesota Filmmakers Appeal Ruling Against Their Creative Freedom

MINNEAPOLIS — A pair of St. Cloud, Minn., filmmakers on October 20 appealed a court order from September that dismissed their lawsuit challenging a state law that allows Minnesota officials to control the stories they tell. The law forces them to use their creative talents to promote same-sex marriages if they produce films that celebrate marriage between one man and one woman. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing Carl and Angel Larsen and the company they own, Telescope Media Group, argued before a federal district court against dismissal and in favor of an order that would suspend enforcement of the law against the Larsens while their case proceeds. The court denied that request and ruled in favor of the state’s motion…Continue Reading

The True Price Of A Good Catholic Book

November 1, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on The True Price Of A Good Catholic Book

By JAMES MONTI Undoubtedly many of you have known what it is to have your life changed by at least one good book. Catholic books have been doing this for centuries. And they can even make men into saints. Who can forget how the ambitious young soldier Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) was transformed after he was given as reading material Ludolph of Saxony’s Life of Christ and the collection of saints’ lives known as The Golden Legend? Rather than merely occupying us for just a matter of minutes or at best a few hours as movies and television and Internet presentations do, a book can engage our minds for many days and often for weeks, and thus a book has…Continue Reading

A Book Review… Understanding Justice Scalia On Law, Faith, And Life

October 31, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… Understanding Justice Scalia On Law, Faith, And Life

By JUDE DOUGHERTY Scalia, Antonin. Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith and Life Well Lived. Edited by Christopher J. Scalia and Edward Whelan. New York: Crown Forum, 2017. xi +418 pp. First, some facts about this remarkable man: Antonin Gregory Scalia was born March 11, 1936, in Trenton, N.J. Graduating from Xavier High School in Manhattan, New York City, he attended Georgetown University and later Harvard Law School. After a year of study in Europe, he began a law career, first in the firm of Jones Day in Cleveland (1951-1967), then as professor of law at the University of Virginia (1967-1971). He then served in a number of government posts until he joined the law faculty of the University of…Continue Reading

After White Mass . . . Physicians’ Dinner Told That Threats To Health Professionals Still Loom

October 30, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on After White Mass . . . Physicians’ Dinner Told That Threats To Health Professionals Still Loom

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — The assault against the conscience of Catholic medical workers will continue despite Barack Obama’s departure from the presidency, but seeing the practice of medicine as dedication to a vocation is good for the physician’s own welfare, not just the patient’s. These two themes were struck by two different speakers at a dinner following the annual White Mass for medical professionals of the Catholic Physicians Guild of Phoenix on October 21. The guild’s vice president, James Asher, D.O., recalled that at the group’s 2016 White Mass, many attendees feared the seemingly likely result of the upcoming November national election. A widely shared expectation was that radical pro-abortion Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton would defeat proclaimed pro-life…Continue Reading

Can Doctrinal “Development” Flout The Laws Of Logic?

October 29, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Can Doctrinal “Development” Flout The Laws Of Logic?

By FR. BRIAN HARRISON, OS (Editor’s Note: Fr. Brian Harrison’s article is reprinted from OnePeterFive.com here with the kind permission of the executive director. All rights reserved. Please also see Fr. Harrison’s earlier article on this subject for The Wanderer, issue of June 1, 2017.) + + + Speaking in Rome on October 11, 2017 (55th anniversary of the opening of Vatican Council II), at a conference promoting the “New Evangelization,” Pope Francis made known his will for the Catechism of the Catholic Church to be revised so as to condemn capital punishment as absolutely immoral in principle. He declared the death penalty to be “in itself contrary to the Gospel” (“in sé stessa contraria al Vangelo”). In an effort…Continue Reading

A Book Review… The Witness Of The Legion Of Mary In China

October 28, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… The Witness Of The Legion Of Mary In China

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY Perseverance Through Faith: A Priest’s Prison Story, by Fr. W. Aedan McGrath, edited by Theresa Marie Moreau (Xlibris, 216 pages; $29.99 hardcover, $19.99, paperback. Available on Amazon.com). The Legion of Mary was founded by Frank Duff in Dublin, Ireland, on September 7, 1921 and spread all over the world during the twentieth century. Duff died on November 7, 1980, 37 years ago this month, and his cause for canonization is proceeding. Fr. W. Aedan McGrath, an Irish Missionary priest, was the person largely responsible for spreading the Legion throughout China in the late forties and early fifties, before the Communists unleashed an all-out attack on the Marian society, accusing it of wanting to overthrow Communist rule.…Continue Reading

Does Common Sense Have A Future?

October 27, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Does Common Sense Have A Future?

By DONALD DeMARCO In an anthology entitled, The Future of Thomism, the distinguished Thomistic philosopher Josef Pieper observes: “There is something peculiar and even strange in the situation of philosophy today.” It is as if, Pieper asks, reflecting the prevailing mood of contemporary skepticism, “Why philosophy at all?” G.K. Chesterton a few years earlier made a similar observation about the virtual disappearance of philosophy: “Since the modern world began in the sixteenth century, nobody’s system of philosophy has really corresponded to everybody’s sense of reality; to what, if left to themselves, common men would call common sense.” Both Chesterton and Pieper are lamenting the sharp decline of a philosophy that begins with common sense, one congruent with that of St.…Continue Reading

Restoring All Things In Christ… Christendom Celebrates 40th Anniversary

October 26, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Restoring All Things In Christ… Christendom Celebrates 40th Anniversary

By ZACH SMITH (Editor’s Note: Zach Smith is the public relations specialist at Christendom College.) + + + In 1977, the world was quite similar to how it is today — only tamer. The culture was in chaos, people were leaving Catholicism, and higher education was becoming increasingly secular. Every different group imaginable was clamoring for their constitutional rights, abortion was becoming part of the fabric of society, and traditional marriage and the family were being undercut by the premarital sex and divorce culture. It was a dark time, and yet, it was in that year that a candle was lit, one that has only burned more brightly and spread in the forty years since. Historian and Catholic convert Dr.…Continue Reading

Creation And Evolution Revisited

October 25, 2017 Featured Today Comments Off on Creation And Evolution Revisited

By PHILIP TROWER The purpose of this article is, insofar as possible, to answer the objections of my old friend Fr. Brian Harrison to my article “Creation, the CCC, Evolution, and the Angels” which appeared in The Wanderer on July 13, 2017. Fr. Harrison’s article appeared in the September 7th issue. Roughly his position, to which he admits to being a recent “convert,” seems to be that favored by the Kolbe Society or Centre in the United States, and by what in England are called Low Church Protestants. God created the universe in six 24-hour days and all suffering and disorder stem from the disobedience of Adam and Eve alone. Such too, as we all know, would have been the…Continue Reading