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A Most Consequential Presidency

August 29, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on A Most Consequential Presidency

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN As Donald Trump is about to be nominated for a second term, how his presidency has already altered the orientation of his party is on display.Under Trump, the GOP ceased to be a party of small government whose yardstick of success was how close it came to a balanced budget.Trump signed on this spring to $3 trillion in deficit spending to rescue the economy from a depression into which the government had shoved it to control the spread of the coronavirus. He is prepared to spend a trillion dollars more.By opening new lands and seas to exploration, building pipelines, permitting fracking and slashing regulations, Trump has brought the U.S. to an energy independence which other presidents…Continue Reading

I AM, Therefore I Think… My Rejoinder To Descartes

August 28, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on I AM, Therefore I Think… My Rejoinder To Descartes

By JOHN G. BOULET, MD (Editor’s Note: Dr. Boulet is a pediatric emergency room physician. He notes that his father, a World War II ace fighter pilot who was a POW in Germany, was a longtime Wanderer reader.) + + René Descartes’ Cogito Ergo Sum expresses succinctly the approach to reality that gained ground in the early Middle Ages and which to this day defines modernity: “Descartes’ status as the father of modern philosophy is almost unquestioned,” according to Scott Hahn and Benjamin Wiker’s Politicizing the Bible (Crossroad Publishing [2013], p. 259).The crisis of modernity — the repudiation of the Divinity; the ennui ending in despair; the loss of any sense of identity of mankind and purpose to our existence…Continue Reading

Staffer “Elated” By Harris VP Pick… USCCB Says She Spoke In “Personal Capacity”

August 27, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Staffer “Elated” By Harris VP Pick… USCCB Says She Spoke In “Personal Capacity”

(CNA) — The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said Friday, August 14 that a staff member who recently said she was “elated” by the selection of Sen. Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s presidential running mate was not speaking on behalf of the conference.“At no point are Conference staff authorized to speak on behalf of the bishops in support of, or in opposition to, candidates for elected office,” said James Rogers, chief communications officer for the bishops’ conference.“Because the comments in question may have led to confusion among the faithful, let me be clear,” he said in the August 14 statement. “As Catholics, we are each called to evaluate candidates for public office by how closely their policies align with Gospel…Continue Reading

A Movie Review . . . A New Vision Of This Most Important Miracle

August 26, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on A Movie Review . . . A New Vision Of This Most Important Miracle

By REY FLORES As I was a lapsed Catholic from the time I was twelve until I got married at 33, I knew little or nothing at all about many aspects of our faith. While I did attend a couple of Catholic schools as a child from 1972 through 1981, and I am grateful to my late mother for her commitment to affording us an education, members of my generation were the first post-Vatican II victims of modernism. The “boomer” teachers, including some nuns, did little to truly provide us with a quality Catholic education.It wasn’t until we began home-schooling our kids that I started learning more about the sacraments, the beatitudes, Church history and theology, but especially the wonderful…Continue Reading

A Book Review… The Whole Of Catholic Existence

August 25, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… The Whole Of Catholic Existence

By JAMES BARESEL The Wit and Wisdom of Father George Rutler, published by Sophia Press: 2020, available in paperback and on Kindle at amazon.com. Evelyn Waugh once wrote that one of the authors whom he read most frequently was Msgr. Ronald Knox, from whose books he could, at one and the same time, receive both spiritual edification and literary pleasure. Even in an age when that combination was not uncommon, Knox was able to achieve it to a truly rare degree, surpassed in English prose only by St. John Henry Newman. Today that tradition is largely a matter of history. Largely.There remains one Anglophone priest who has maintained it, whose works are at least the equal of those from the…Continue Reading

Catholic Left Is Decisively Pro-Abort

August 24, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Catholic Left Is Decisively Pro-Abort

By BILL DONOHUE (Catholic League President Bill Donohue commented as follows on August 20.) + + Anyone who follows the Catholic Left knows that it rejects the Church’s teachings on abortion, contraception, marriage, Ordination, and other issues. Some are quite open about it; others less so. The National Catholic Reporter is mostly in the former camp.In the past few weeks, the Reporter has published a slew of articles that in one way or another support abortion rights.On August 11, it ran a piece titled, “Catholic Discourse on Black Lives Matter Must Amplify Women Founders.” Black Lives Matter is an enthusiastic supporter of abortion, despite the fact that a disproportionate number of black babies are aborted.On August 17, it posted a…Continue Reading

Nihilism Is In The Air

August 23, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Nihilism Is In The Air

By DONALD DeMARCO During the McCarthy era everyone, seemingly, was a Communist. During the present era, everyone, seemingly, is a racist. Thinking appears to be a mass phenomenon. It is the unusual person who resists mass indoctrination and honestly tries to figure things out on a realistic and objective basis. Philosophizing, however, is not nearly as popular as conforming. And since the masses are in power, it is the thinking person who becomes the easy target of criticism.“If you live today,” wrote Flannery O’Connor, “you breathe in nihilism.” As a gifted writer, Miss Flannery sought to expose nihilism and encourage her readers to breathe in the purer air of the Christian message, which, essentially, is love for all of God’s…Continue Reading

The Progressive Racism Of The Ivy League

August 22, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on The Progressive Racism Of The Ivy League

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN If the definition of racism is deliberate discrimination based on race, color, or national origin, Yale University appears to be a textbook case of “systemic racism.”And, so, the Department of Justice contends.Last week, Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband charged, “Yale discriminates based on race . . . in its undergraduate admissions process and race is the determinative factor in hundreds of admissions decisions each year.“Asian Americans and whites have only one-tenth to one-fourth of the likelihood of admission as African American applicants with comparable academic credentials. . . .“Yale uses race at multiple steps of its admissions process resulting in a multiplied effect of race on an applicant’s likelihood of admission.“Yale racially balances its classes.”Yale defends…Continue Reading

Liberty Counsel Reports . . . California Church Ordered To Stop Worship

August 21, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Liberty Counsel Reports . . . California Church Ordered To Stop Worship

VENTURA, Calif. — A Ventura County state judge issued a temporary restraining order to Pastor Rob McCoy of Godspeak Calvary Chapel Church prohibiting the church from meeting under Gov. Newsom’s unconstitutional COVID-19 no singing and no worship orders.Liberty Counsel does not represent the church but is working with the pastor and his legal counsel.The state court order also names Does 1 to 1,000, meaning the injunction includes every person who attends the church or who will attend the church. Anyone who dares visit the church to worship could be held in contempt of court.However, Gov. Newsom’s orders allow the church to feed, shelter, and provide social services, but the same people in the same building cannot worship. In order words,…Continue Reading

Vatican Says . . . Baptisms Administered “In Name Of The Community” Are Invalid

August 20, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Vatican Says . . . Baptisms Administered “In Name Of The Community” Are Invalid

By HANNAH BROCKHAUS VATICAN CITY (CNA) — The Vatican’s doctrinal office issued August 6 a clarification on the Sacrament of Baptism, stating changes to the formula to emphasize community participation are not permitted.The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) responded to a question about whether it would be valid to administer the Sacrament of Baptism saying, “We baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”The formula for Baptism, according to the Catholic Church, is “I baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”The CDF ruled August 6 any Baptisms administered with the formula “we baptize” are invalid and anyone for…Continue Reading