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What Price Victory — In The Coronavirus War?

April 18, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on What Price Victory — In The Coronavirus War?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN The same day the number of U.S. dead from the coronavirus disease hit the 15,000 mark, we also crossed the 15 million mark on the number of Americans we threw out of work to slow its spread and “bend the curve.” For each American lost to the pandemic, 1,000 Americans have lost their jobs because of conscious and deliberate decisions of the president and 50 governors. Some 60,000 citizens, we are told, will likely be lost in this pandemic. Are we prepared to accept 60 million unemployed to “mitigate” those losses? What price victory in this good and necessary war to kill the virus? Is it unseemly or coldhearted to ask? At what point do we…Continue Reading

A Book Review . . . Looking Beyond Secular Notions Of Beauty

April 17, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review . . . Looking Beyond Secular Notions Of Beauty

By JOHN TUTTLE Beauty: What It Is & Why It Matters by John-Mark L. Miravalle (2019) is available from Sophia Institute Press. Visit sophiainstitute.com or call 800-888-9344. Beauty: What It Is & Why It Matters is a magnificent and manageable volume leading its reader down the path of the transcendentals. In what might be one of the best works of Catholic literature published in the past year, John-Mark L. Miravalle makes us look beyond the secular notion that beauty is a matter of personal preference. We see beauty in a fresh light as he makes us consider beauty for what it is: an absolute that cannot be redefined, as grounded in certainty as truth and goodness — and just as…Continue Reading

The Wonder Of Things

April 16, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on The Wonder Of Things

By JOHN YOUNG Creation is so wonderful that it would seem unbelievable if we didn’t actually experience it. But we usually don’t see the wonder, partly because we are so accustomed to it. Why does anything exist rather than nothing? Looking at the things of our experience we see that they didn’t have to exist, and might well not have existed: That is, they are contingent, dependent on other things for their being. But reality can’t be made up entirely of things that depend on other things for their existence. Reason tells us that there must be a being different from all the things we experience because it must be a necessary being: One that cannot not exist. This is…Continue Reading

The Hidden Fire . . . How The Faith Endures Behind Closed Doors

April 15, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on The Hidden Fire . . . How The Faith Endures Behind Closed Doors

By JAMES MONTI The English scholar Alison Shell has described the underground Catholic Church in post-Reformation Britain as “a catacomb culture, defined by secret or discreet worship” (Shell, Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination, 1558-1660, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, p. 16). For English Catholics living under the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603) and King James I (1603-1625), the “Recusants” as they were called, the only available venue for divine worship in most cases was one’s own home or that of a trusted Catholic neighbor. For many generations, the only church that could be attended was that of the “Domestic Church.” This was no easy matter, for there were those outside who were determined to shut down even…Continue Reading

A Book Review… A Journey Of Faith

April 14, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… A Journey Of Faith

  By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY Donal Anthony Foley reviews Union with God According to St. John of the Cross, by Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, Sophia Institute Press, 192 pages, paperback and Kindle. Visit sophiainstitute.com or call 800-888-9344. Union with God According to St. John of the Cross is for all those who are sincerely seeking God, and it aims to give its readers an idea of what this union actually means so they will have a sufficient incentive to set out on the journey of faith which will lead to that union. This book is, then, a guide to living the life of detachment, renunciation, and openness to the Holy Spirit which is required in order to reach…Continue Reading

Or Other Hospitals . . . Will St. Joseph’s Hospital In Phoenix Ever Be Catholic Again?

April 13, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Or Other Hospitals . . . Will St. Joseph’s Hospital In Phoenix Ever Be Catholic Again?

By JAMES ASHER, DO PHOENIX — Members of the Catholic Medical Association of Phoenix — a component organization of the Catholic Medical Association — recently received a letter from their chaplain announcing that as of March 19, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center here had been granted permission to reserve the Blessed Sacrament and begin having daily Mass. In addition, a new Collaborative Mission Committee between St. Joseph’s, Common Spirit Health, Creighton University, and the Diocese of Phoenix had been formed. The purpose of the committee among other things was to “ensure that…important medical ministries of the Diocese of Phoenix are working within the ethical and religious guidelines of the Church.” It was further noted that “the process of the…Continue Reading

The Courage To Be

April 12, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on The Courage To Be

By DONALD DeMARCO We can learn a great deal from English words that have a Greek origin. “Pandemic” refers to something that affects “all the people” (pan + demos). “Panic” can be just as contagious as a viral epidemic. According to Greek mythology, Panikos of Pan was said to cause contagious fear in crowds. We know that a pandemic can cause panic. Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl has observed that a social crisis can trigger a “psychic epidemic.” The ancient Greeks certainly knew about great calamities. But they also believed that there were two opposing forces that were at work in the world. “Pandemonium” refers to demons (daimon) being everywhere. Pandemonium’s antithesis is “enthusiasm,” which refers to the god within (entheos). And…Continue Reading

Kissinger’s Call For A New World Order

April 11, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Kissinger’s Call For A New World Order

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Among the works that first brought Henry Kissinger to academic acclaim was A World Restored, his 1950s book about how the greatest diplomats of Europe met at the Congress of Vienna to restore order to a continent shattered by the Napoleonic Wars. The balance-of-power peace these men achieved lasted — with the significant exception of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 — for the full century, from 1815 to 1914. Writing in The Wall Street Journal Friday, April 3, Kissinger declared that it is now an imperative that the world’s leaders, even as they deal with the raging pandemic, begin to make the “transition to the post-coronavirus order.” “Failure to do so could set the world on…Continue Reading

With No Public . . . Pope Francis Will Offer Easter Liturgies In St. Peter’s Basilica

April 10, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on With No Public . . . Pope Francis Will Offer Easter Liturgies In St. Peter’s Basilica

By HANNAH BROCKHAUS VATICAN CITY (CNA) — Pope Francis will follow a slightly modified schedule this year for the liturgies of Holy Week and Easter, which will all take place inside St. Peter’s Basilica and without the presence of the public, the Vatican announced March 27. The Vatican published the Pope’s revised schedule, after the coronavirus pandemic forced a change to the papal Masses and services, usually attended by thousands of people. The Masses of Holy Week and the Easter Triduum, April 5-12, will now take place at the Altar of the Chair inside St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican announced, confirming that they will be celebrated “without the participation of the public.” Besides the change in location, Pope Francis will…Continue Reading

Letter To Priests For Holy Thursday 2005

April 9, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Letter To Priests For Holy Thursday 2005

By POPE JOHN PAUL II (Editor’s Note: The Wanderer went to press this week on April 2, the fifteenth anniversary of the death of Pope St. John Paul II. Below we reprint his Holy Thursday Letter to Priests for 2005, dated March 13 from Gemelli Hospital.) + + + Dear Priests! In this Year of the Eucharist, I particularly welcome our annual spiritual encounter for Holy Thursday, the day when Christ’s love was manifested “to the end” (cf. John 13:1), the day of the Eucharist, the day of our priesthood. My thoughts turn to you, dear priests, as I spend this time recuperating in hospital, a patient alongside other patients, uniting in the Eucharist my own sufferings with those of…Continue Reading