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Did The GOP Just Dodge A Bullet?

May 29, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Did The GOP Just Dodge A Bullet?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN When he took the floor of the Senate to reject the Democrats’ January 6 Commission, Mitch McConnell may have salvaged his party’s chances to recapture the House in 2022.For that commission, being spun as a “bipartisan” effort to learn what “really happened” in the Capitol that fateful day, is a Democratic scheme to have the left’s version of events on January 6 enshrined as the official history of the United States.And what is the left’s version?It is that the forced entry and five-hour occupation of the Capitol by hundreds of Trumpists was “an attempted coup d’etat,” an “armed insurrection,” an act of “domestic terrorism,” the “worst attack on the Capitol since the British burned it down…Continue Reading

A “Solomonic” Choice . . . Fr. Chow Appointed Bishop Of Hong Kong

May 28, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on A “Solomonic” Choice . . . Fr. Chow Appointed Bishop Of Hong Kong

By FR. BERNARDO CERVELLERA VATICAN CITY (AsiaNews) — The new bishop of Hong Kong is Fr. Stephen Chow Sau-yan, hitherto provincial of the Chinese province of the Jesuits, which includes Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and the People’s Republic of China.The appointment by Pope Francis was released May 17 at noon and had been expected for a long time, after the death in 2019 of Msgr. Michael Yeung Ming-cheung. Throughout this period the diocese had been entrusted to John Cardinal Tong as apostolic administrator.The initial reactions from Hong Kong, from faithful and priests, are positive. The new bishop is seen as a Solomonic and balanced choice by the Vatican after more than two years in which the Catholic community of Hong…Continue Reading

Vignettes Of Faith From A Missionary’s Writings

May 27, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Vignettes Of Faith From A Missionary’s Writings

By JAMES MONTI Readers who regularly read this column may recall that last December we presented an account of Christmas among the American Indians of the frontier Northwest as celebrated by the Jesuit missionary, Fr. Pierre Jean DeSmet (1801-1873). It is truly a blessing to posterity that Fr. DeSmet left a vast paper trail of his life in the form of journal accounts and letters describing in the minutest detail all he saw and witnessed during his many years of missionary labors. These include utterly fascinating descriptions of the natural wonders he witnessed not only across the vast wilderness of the American Northwest, but also during his long sea voyages as he traveled to Europe and back to recruit more…Continue Reading

Will Roberts And Kavanaugh . . . Stand With The Unborn Or The Unjust?

May 26, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Will Roberts And Kavanaugh . . . Stand With The Unborn Or The Unjust?

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, both nominated by Republican presidents, have both written absurd opinions on abortion laws.The case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, which the Supreme Court will hear this year, could give them an opportunity to redeem themselves.At issue in this case is a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after a baby’s fifteenth gestational week. The question: Can a state prohibit doctors from killing unborn babies who are not yet old enough to survive outside the womb?In the 2016 case of Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, Chief Justice John Roberts joined the minority of justices who opposed the court’s decision to knock down less consequential abortion regulations that Texas…Continue Reading

The Dunkirk Miracle . . . Recalling The Spiritual Dimension Of The Historic Event

May 25, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The Dunkirk Miracle . . . Recalling The Spiritual Dimension Of The Historic Event

By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY It is now more than seventy years since the famous World War II evacuation from Dunkirk (Dunkerque) in northern France, which took place between May 26 and June 4, 1940. This great event, which enabled the bulk of the British Army to escape from Nazi-dominated Europe, was a great military and naval feat, but at the same time it has a lesser known spiritual dimension.The British Expeditionary Force had been sent to help with the defense of France after the invasion of Poland in September 1939. But the blitzkrieg (“lightning war”) tactics of the German army, after they invaded Belgium, Holland, and France early in May 1940, left the Allies, numbering over 300,000 men, facing a…Continue Reading

Abortion Debate Heats Up Among Politicians And Prelates

May 24, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Abortion Debate Heats Up Among Politicians And Prelates

By CHRISTOPHER MANION Before I Formed You in the Womb I Knew You, the pastoral letter Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone released on the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker, has sent tremors through the hierarchy as well as the political world.The most notable response to his letter came six days later, addressed to Los Angeles Archbishop and USCCB President José Gomez. Written by Luis Cardinal Ladaria, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), the letter constitutes a “Get Out Of Jail Free” card for pro-abortion Catholic politicians in the United States.Cardinal Ladaria telegraphs that message first by adopting the language of the abortion industry, addressing such politicians as “pro-choice.” But are they really the problem? Perhaps the…Continue Reading

The God Who Is Not There

May 23, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on The God Who Is Not There

By DONALD DeMARCO The National Day of Prayer, observed each year on the first Thursday of May as designated by the United States Congress, is an occasion when people are asked “to turn to God in prayer and meditation at churches, in groups, and as individuals.” Each president is required by law to sign a proclamation on this special day to encourage all Americans to pray.The modern law formalizing this day was enacted in 1952 during the time of the Korean War by Harry S. Truman. The enacting of the National Day of Prayer was inspired by Rev. Billy Graham when he said: “What a thrilling, glorious thing it would be to see leaders of our country today kneeling before…Continue Reading

Bibi & Hamas — Only Winners In Gaza War

May 22, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Bibi & Hamas — Only Winners In Gaza War

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN “Israel is Winning Battles, Hamas is Winning the War.”So ran the headline in The Jerusalem Post atop an analysis of the Gaza war, which began, “The IDF is registering great achievements in Operation Guardian of the Walls, but meanwhile the house appears to be collapsing from within.”Hard to disagree.Consider this New York Times commentary about Israel’s prime minister from the runner-up to the Democratic presidential nominee in the primaries of 2016 and 2020, Sen. Bernie Sanders:“Mr. Netanyahu has cultivated an increasingly intolerant and authoritarian type of racist nationalism . . . (and) legitimized these forces . . . by bringing them into the government. . . . Racist mobs that attack Palestinians on the streets of…Continue Reading

Fr. Weinandy… Pro-Abort Catholic Pols Politicize Sacraments

May 21, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on Fr. Weinandy… Pro-Abort Catholic Pols Politicize Sacraments

(CNA) — Dissenting Catholic politicians abuse and politicize the Eucharist when they receive the sacrament while promoting policies and actions contrary to the faith, such as legal abortion, according to theologian Fr. Thomas Weinandy, OFM Cap.Catholic politicians who reject Church teaching but then present themselves for Holy Communion “are using — and so abusing — the Eucharist for seemingly political purposes — to present themselves as ‘devout’ Catholics,” Fr. Weinandy, a Capuchin Franciscan, said in a May 1 essay for The Catholic Thing, “Politicizing the Eucharist.”“What should most concern the Church is that such Catholic politicians do not simply hold many things that are in opposition to the Catholic faith, but they also actively attack, through the laws they propose…Continue Reading

“Before I Formed You In The Womb I Knew You” By The Most Rev. Salvatore Joseph Cordileone, Archbishop Of San Francisco

May 20, 2021 Featured Today Comments Off on “Before I Formed You In The Womb I Knew You” By The Most Rev. Salvatore Joseph Cordileone, Archbishop Of San Francisco

(Wanderer Editor’s Note: Christopher Manion in last week’s Wanderer hailed “a brave archbishop” for issuing “a call to arms” on the evil of abortion backers — especially pro-abort officeholders — receiving Holy Communion. Manion wrote:(“On the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone published his first pastoral letter, Before I Formed You in the Womb I Knew You [full text at inthewomb.org]. It addresses the ‘Human Dignity of the Unborn, Holy Communion, and Catholics in Public Life,’ and gets right to the point: Abortion is a grave evil; cooperating with it is evil too; reject that teaching, or ignore it, and you shouldn’t receive the Eucharist; if you’re in public life, you run the risk of…Continue Reading