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An Interview With Cardinal Zen… The Vatican Lost Everything, Got Nothing

February 28, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on An Interview With Cardinal Zen… The Vatican Lost Everything, Got Nothing

By MATT HADRO WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNA) — Joseph Cardinal Zen, emeritus bishop of Hong Kong, on February 11 met with congressional leaders on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. After that meeting, the cardinal gave an exclusive interview to Catholic News Agency in which he discussed the Church in China, the Holy See’s agreement with the Communist regime, and his relationship with Pope Francis and the Vatican secretary of state, Pietro Cardinal Parolin. The following is a transcript of the cardinal’s interview with CNA. It has been edited for length and clarity. Q. Your Eminence, can you tell us about the situation of the Church in China? A. More and more, the Church is under persecution [in China]. Both the official…Continue Reading

Amazonian Dreaming

February 27, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Amazonian Dreaming

By ROBERT ROYAL (Editor’s Note: This column first appeared on the website The Catholic Thing [www.thecatholicthing.org]. Copyright 2020. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.) + + + Querida Amazonia, Pope Francis’ Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation (released February 12), is, at a first reading, a mostly pleasant surprise. It shows little of the freewheeling radicalism that bulked large — in the synod hall and Vatican gardens, and even on the streets, during the Synod last October. He quotes copiously from his own texts, to be sure, but also from St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. So much so that Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, a powerful voice in current Church debates, has called the Exhortation an effort at reconciliation. That may —…Continue Reading

Priest With Brain Tumor… “Embraces It Willingly” For Victims Of Clergy Abuse

February 26, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Priest With Brain Tumor… “Embraces It Willingly” For Victims Of Clergy Abuse

INDIANAPOLIS (CNA) — When Fr. John Hollowell went to Mayo Clinic for brain scans after what doctors thought was a stroke, he received a shocking diagnosis. The scans revealed that instead of a stroke, he had a brain tumor. While it is a serious diagnosis, Hollowell, a priest of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, said he believes the tumor was an answer to prayer. “When the scandals of 2018 broke out, most of you know that they have affected me deeply, as they have most of the Church,” he wrote in his blog, On This Rock. “I prayed in 2018 that if there was some suffering I could undertake on behalf of all the victims, some cross I could carry, I…Continue Reading

A Book Review… Significant, But Some Concerns Are Warranted

February 25, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… Significant, But Some Concerns Are Warranted

By JAMES BARESEL And Rightly So: Selected Letters and Articles of Neil McCaffrey, published by Roman Catholic Books, P.O. Box 2286, Fort Collins, CO 80522 When I recently saw an advertisement for And Rightly So: Selected Letters and Articles of Neil McCaffrey, I was immediately if moderately curious. Though my knowledge of Mr. McCaffrey did not extend much beyond the fact that he had played a role in the world of publishing, I had begun to seriously examine the condition of the Church when his son Roger was editor of Latin Mass Magazine, which, despite some disagreements, I found to be among the more helpful periodicals of those then in publication. I have also long been familiar with the younger…Continue Reading

Where Things Stand After The Las Vegas Debate

February 24, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Where Things Stand After The Las Vegas Debate

By NEIL PATEL After watching the Las Vegas Democratic debate, it’s becoming less and less clear how the Democrats plan to defeat, or even challenge, President Donald Trump this fall. As a conservative Republican watching just for kicks, the debate was amazing — tons of drama and entertainment value. But if you are a Democrat committed to getting rid of Trump, it was probably not so much fun. In fact, it had to have been depressing to watch. There were fireworks and interesting storylines, but when the smoke cleared, who was left to take on Trump? Sen. Elizabeth Warren came out scorching against Michael Bloomberg: “So I’d like to talk about who we’re running against, a billionaire who calls women…Continue Reading

The Illuminating Wit Of Our 16th President

February 23, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on The Illuminating Wit Of Our 16th President

By DONALD DeMARCO Washington and Lincoln stand as America’s most prominent heroes. Therefore, writes journalist George H. Smyth Jr., “Our nation has most rightly and fittingly made the birthdays of these, her illustrious sons, legal holidays, to inspire us to a purer, nobler, holier manhood.” These words, once echoed by many, no longer seem right and fitting. The birthdays of these two illustrious presidents have been absorbed into Presidents’ Day, which in turn, has been overshadowed by using February as an opportunity to advertise car sales. Removing the spotlight from Washington and Lincoln is a grave misfortune at a time when both political greatness and unswerving patriotism are either disputed or are no longer in fashion. Washington and Lincoln are…Continue Reading

If Duterte Wants Us Out, Let’s Go

February 22, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on If Duterte Wants Us Out, Let’s Go

  By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has just given us notice he will be terminating the Visiting Forces Agreement that governs U.S. military personnel in the islands. His notification starts the clock running on a six-month deadline. If no new agreement is negotiated, the VFA is dissolved. What triggered the decision? Duterte was offended that one of his political allies who led his anti-drug campaign in the islands, which involves extrajudicial killings of drug dealers, had been denied a U.S. visa. Yet, Duterte has never been an enthusiast of the U.S. presence. In 2016, he told his Chinese hosts in Beijing: “I want, maybe in the next two years, my country free of the presence of foreign…Continue Reading

The Face of God Was Seen That Day

February 21, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on The Face of God Was Seen That Day

By ROBERT N. BORGHESE A veil separates the face of God From our world of flesh. Is it ever breached? The mystic said the most sublime act Sets another before you. Unconditional human love reflects the face of God; And God is love. When Jesus said there is no greater love Than to lay down your life for a friend, The face of God was seen that day. The Commandant said that ten would die In place of one that had escaped; But one had a family and was distraught. Father Kolbe said in answer to the evil option Take me for I a family naught For what God has joined together None can separate. That day ten did walk…Continue Reading

A Champion of the Catholic Faith . . . Sister Mary Louise RIP

February 20, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on A Champion of the Catholic Faith . . . Sister Mary Louise RIP

  Sister Mary Louise Matt, beloved aunt of Joseph Matt, the current publisher of The Wanderer was called to her eternal reward this past week. In an age that saw many changes in the Catholic church including within the sisterhood as conforming to the culture of the times – Sister Mary stood tall among her peers passionately teaching and defending the Catholic faith against the headwinds of the modernists influence on the Church even within her own order. Many a student and acquaintance was privileged to be formed in the Faith under Sister Mary.  She insisted on wearing her habit in public and was quick to correct anybody who spoke contrary to the teaching of the Gospel. Her love for the Catholic…Continue Reading

Coronavirus, St. Jacinta And St. John Bosco

February 19, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Coronavirus, St. Jacinta And St. John Bosco

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY By one of those curious coincidences, the current threat from the Chinese coronavirus has come to prominence just as we celebrate the centenary of the death of St. Jacinta of Fatima, a death which can be attributed to complications arising from the Spanish flu pandemic which afflicted the world between January 1918 and December 1920. It is thought that this disease infected up to 500 million people worldwide and led to between 50 and 100 million deaths. St. Jacinta was the perfect example of how to behave in the face of death at a young age. Our Lady had told her that she would have to go to two hospitals but not be cured; rather she…Continue Reading