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A Book Review . . . Learn About Varied And Miraculous Portraits Of Mary

July 20, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY Miraculous Images of Our Lady by Joan Carroll Cruz (TAN Books, 488 pages, Kindle and paperback). Miraculous Images of Our Lady examines one hundred famous portraits or statues of our Lady, which can be found in countries ranging from Argentina to the United States. The author restricts herself to the following categories when choosing particular images — that they must have had a miraculous origin, such as the Tilma of Our Lady of Guadalupe, or be composed of an unusual substance, or have bled or wept, or changed location, or have a reputation for miraculous favors.Although some of the images chosen are exquisitely beautiful, some are quite commonplace in appearance, such as the original painting associated…Continue Reading

Vengeance Is Not Justice

July 19, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off

By DONALD DeMARCO Rioters are savvy enough to call for justice, not vengeance. They know that justice is a great value, whereas vengeance is essentially barbaric. They understand only too well that they would gain no support whatsoever if they were clamoring for vengeance.Unfortunately, their rhetoric does not represent what they are really calling for. They recognize that justice is a worthy ideal, but are in no mood to work for it. Placards reading “Abolish the police,” “Defund the police,” “One bad cop, all bad cops,” for example, do not serve the cause of justice. Vengeance is easy and immediate; justice is difficult and requires time.The difference between justice and vengeance relates to the difference between anarchy and civilization. History…Continue Reading

Can Trump Pull A Truman?

July 18, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN On July 22, 1988, after the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, the party nominee, Gov. Michael Dukakis, enjoyed a 17-point lead over Vice President George W. Bush.Five weeks later, on Labor Day, Dukakis was down eight points, the same margin by which he would lose the election. He had lost 25 points in one month.What had happened? During August, Republican attack groups elevated and relentlessly pounded what might be called Dukakis’ Bay State radical liberalism.He had proudly called himself a card-carrying member of the ACLU. He had vetoed a bill requiring the Pledge of Allegiance in Massachusetts’ schools. He was against imposing the death penalty. He had issued weekend passes to convicted killers such as the…Continue Reading

Poll On Abortion… Brings Bad News For Biden

July 17, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off

By BILL DONOHUE (Catholic League President Bill Donohue commented July 7 on a Gallup poll on abortion that does not bode well for Joe Biden.) + + A new Gallup survey on abortion reveals that this is an issue that should worry Joe Biden. It found that 24 percent of Americans say that the candidate they will vote for must share their position on abortion. Significantly, this was true of 30 percent of those who are pro-life, but only 19 percent of those who are pro-abortion. Trump is pro-life and Biden is pro-abortion.Independents, as compared to Republicans and Democrats, are more likely not to rate abortion as a threshold issue. But even here the news for Biden is not auspicious.A…Continue Reading

A Book Review… The Purpose Of Art Is To Reveal

July 16, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off

By JUDE DOUGHERTY Boixados, Alberto. Myths of Modern Art. Translated from the Spanish by Reed and Roxolana Armstrong, University Press of America, Lanham, MD: 1991. Pp, xiii +129. Alberto Boixados, surveying the art of his day, shows how far art has degenerated in the twentieth century with the emancipation of the artist from tradition. In Paris alone, he can offer, for example, the glass pyramid which disrupts the harmony of the Louvre, and the Center Pompidou that was built in an old and noble quarter, disfiguring its streets and skyline. He finds, in examining Picasso’s painting and motivation, that there is a short distance from Picasso to Trotsky. Deliberate emancipation from history, he maintains, constitutes a special kind of subversion,…Continue Reading

But Rip Trump’s Patriotic Speech . . . Dominant Media Restrain Selves Reporting On Left-Wing Thugs

July 15, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off

By DEXTER DUGGAN An important character in the early twenty-first century novel The Devil Wears Prada is a very negative editor who dresses herself from this Italian fashion house.If the Devil is still fashion-conscious in 2020 — and doesn’t he always try to present his evils in an appealing way? — he boldly wears the Marxist hammer and sickle (not for the first time), and editors fall all over themselves in admiration.Today’s left-wing assortment of rioters, looters, and arsonists still gets the benefit of the doubt of being “peaceful protesters” from elitists, although the radicals’ ill will can’t get much plainer, petulantly denouncing America’s Independence Day as “the Farce of July” and “the Fourth of You Lie.”The Catholic News Agency…Continue Reading

Perspective: “It Is What It Is” Vs. “I Am Who Am”

July 14, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off

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.) + + In any effort to evangelize non-Christians, we must begin with a better understanding of their perspective, which perforce pertains to their perception of reality.A comprehensive overview of how adherents to non-Christian religions, or of self-described agnostics or atheists, view reality, is beyond my purview here; but we will attempt to provide a fair appraisal of a worldview that is so alien that we Christians must take a step back just to begin to see where we are “invisible to ourselves”…Continue Reading

Nagasaki: Atomic Bomb Recipient, Catholic Stronghold

July 13, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off

By RAY CAVANAUGH Whether or not one feels the United States was justified in using nuclear weapons, their use forever changed our world and how people think about warfare and its consequences.When the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki 75 years ago this August 9, it was attacking a city that had a much stronger Catholic background than many would assume.Nagasaki has been the historical center of Japanese Catholicism, home to Catholics who maintained their faith amid severe persecution. The most notable example of such persecution involved the 26 Martyrs of Japan, who were crucified in Nagasaki in 1597. This group of 26 (who were canonized by Pope Pius IX in 1862) consisted of 17 Japanese laymen, six Franciscan…Continue Reading

Age Of Anxiety

July 12, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off

By DONALD DeMARCO W.H. Auden wrote The Age of Anxiety as an extended poem. This literary effort, written in 1947, won him the Pulitzer Prize the following year. It also inspired Leonard Bernstein to set the poem to music, producing The Age of Anxiety, Symphony No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra. Anxiety appears to be having a long run in the art world. It is the title of Liam Scarlett’s 2014 ballet and Peter Townshend’s 2019 novel. The root of the anxiety these artists are alluding to relates to man’s search for meaning and identity in a world that is increasingly dominated by science and technology.Compounded with the technological dominance of modern life is the absence of a solid basis…Continue Reading

American Revolution 2.0… How Did We Get Here?

July 11, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off

By REY FLORES What we are facing today is part of a decades-long strategic plan. Kid yourselves not. The evil radicals on the Marxist left are not through with their attacks on America and on the Christian world.It is a multi-pronged attack which started decades ago and is now in full throttle. It is an attack on cultural “essentials” like life, marriage, and family. It is an attack on our God-given constitutional rights of sovereignty and freedom. And now, it is the age-old and timeless attack against religious freedom and our faith in the one triune God.This is how it happened, or how we allowed it to happen.In 1921, The Birth Control League of America was founded in New York…Continue Reading

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