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The Eyes Of Memories Past

December 23, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on The Eyes Of Memories Past

By DEREK BECHER Ever since the first time I heard my father’s cherished Christmas carols echoing softly throughout the cozy, softly glowing rooms of our small country home, when I was just a young child, something stirred inside, shivering my soul, that seemed to mean peace, and joy. I couldn’t quite explain it, but it didn’t matter, for it seemed so right and wonderful.And now, listening to those same lovely harmonies in the comfort of my own home, I’m taken back to a fond childhood Christmas memory. I’m there, sitting in wonder, listening to those familiar sounds of Christmas, watching the smile, still on his face, as his happy but watery eyes look beyond the sparkling tinsel out into the…Continue Reading

Who Are Now The Least Among Us?

December 22, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Who Are Now The Least Among Us?

By JOANNE BUTLER In every Christmas season we hear good words about kindness, mercy, and love. But this year is different. This year is a plague year.Although a COVID vaccine is becoming available, there’s a vicious war over who will have access to it. While there’s general agreement that healthcare workers should be at the front of the vaccination line, there’s a battle over who will be in the succeeding cohorts. Teachers? Elderly people? First responders?Particularly, how do we, as followers of Jesus Christ, address this issue? Because if we fail to have a Christ-like approach, the utilitarians among us will make the decisions.Adherents of utilitarianism look at the relative worth of things and (yes) people. A utilitarian would question…Continue Reading

1,700 Professors . . . Respond To “Wave Of Accusations” Against John Paul II

December 20, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on 1,700 Professors . . . Respond To “Wave Of Accusations” Against John Paul II

(CNA) — Hundreds of professors have signed an appeal defending St. John Paul II following criticism of the Polish Pope in the wake of the McCarrick Report.The “unprecedented” appeal was signed by 1,700 professors based at Polish universities and research institutes. The signatories include Hanna Suchocka, Poland’s first female prime minister, former foreign minister Adam Daniel Rotfeld, physicists Andrzej Staruszkiewicz and Krzysztof Meissner, and film director Krzysztof Zanussi.“An impressive long list of John Paul II’s merits and accomplishments is being challenged and erased today,” the professors said in the appeal.“For young people, who were born after his death, the deformed, false and belittled image of the Pope could become the only one they will know.”“We appeal to all people of…Continue Reading

Pope Francis Proclaims Year Of St. Joseph

December 19, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Pope Francis Proclaims Year Of St. Joseph

VATICAN CITY (CNA) — Pope Francis announced a Year of St. Joseph Tuesday, December 8 in honor of the 150th anniversary of the saint’s proclamation as patron of the Universal Church.The year begins December 8, 2020, and concludes on December 8, 2021, according to a decree authorized by the Pope.The decree said that Francis had established a Year of St. Joseph so that “every member of the faithful, following his example, may strengthen their life of faith daily in the complete fulfillment of God’s will.”It added that the Pope had granted special indulgences to mark the year.The December 8 decree was issued by the Apostolic Penitentiary, the dicastery of the Roman Curia that oversees indulgences, and signed by the major…Continue Reading

Archbishop Chaput . . . Joe Biden Should Not Be Permitted To Receive Communion

December 17, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Archbishop Chaput . . . Joe Biden Should Not Be Permitted To Receive Communion

(CNA) — Archbishop Charles Chaput stated that Joe Biden should not receive Holy Communion because of his support for the “grave moral evil” of abortion.Writing in the magazine First Things on December 4, the archbishop emeritus of Philadelphia also warned that individual bishops who publicly announce their intention to give Biden Communion risk doing a “serious disservice” to Biden, and to the rest of the American bishops.Biden will become the second baptized Catholic to be sworn in as U.S. president. During his campaign he frequently referenced his Catholicism while taking stances in direct opposition to various aspects of Church teaching, including his support for enshrining unrestricted access to abortion in federal law.“By his actions during the course of his public…Continue Reading

Schumer Wants Biden… To Transfer Wealth From Auto Mechanics To Harvard Grads

December 16, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Schumer Wants Biden… To Transfer Wealth From Auto Mechanics To Harvard Grads

By TERENCE P. JEFFREY Jim and Jill were born a little more than a year apart to the same unmarried mother in Southern California.Jim was adopted by a working-class family in the San Fernando Valley, where the father made his living as an auto mechanic and the mother as a maid.Jill was adopted by an upper-middle-class family in Pasadena, where the father was a lawyer and the mother stayed home.Jim was a decent high school student and football player — but not good enough at either to win a college scholarship. When he graduated from the 12th grade, his father encouraged him to follow in his own hardworking footsteps as a constantly employed but only modestly paid auto mechanic. He…Continue Reading

Being A “Pro-Choice Pastor”. . . Is Like Being A Moloch-Worshiping Christian

December 15, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Being A “Pro-Choice Pastor”. . . Is Like Being A Moloch-Worshiping Christian

By MICHAEL L. BROWN (LifeSiteNews) — It is one thing to be a radical, feminist atheist marching down the streets of D.C. and proclaiming your “right” to abortion. It is another thing to be a “pro-choice pastor,” as Senate candidate Raphael Warnock claims to be, using the Bible to justify abortion. This is as morally compromised as it is theologically confused.Yet Warnock is unashamed of his position, tweeting on December 8: “I am a pro-choice pastor.” Worse still, as of this writing, his tweet has more than 215,000 likes, representing almost half of the 500,000 followers of the Rev. Raphael Warnock Twitter account.How can a reverend support abortion? How can a preacher of the Gospel, whose sacred text is the…Continue Reading

Catholic High Schools In Michigan . . . Sue Over Coronavirus Order Keeping Them Closed

December 14, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on Catholic High Schools In Michigan . . . Sue Over Coronavirus Order Keeping Them Closed

(CNA) — Two high schools in the Diocese of Lansing have joined a lawsuit against a public health order keeping schools in Michigan closed for in-person learning, calling the order “scientifically, educationally and constitutionally unjustified.”Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced December 7 an extension of public health orders meant to curb the spread of the coronavirus until December 20. The orders had originally gone into effect November 18 and were due to expire at the end of the day December 8, the Detroit Free Press reported.They include continued restrictions on indoor dining as well as a 12-day extension of a ban on in-person learning for high schools, colleges, and universities.Tom Maloney, the Lansing Diocese’s superintendent of schools, said that the order “confirms…Continue Reading

The Art Of Loose Thinking

December 13, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on The Art Of Loose Thinking

By DONALD DeMARCO Loose thinking occurs when a person widens his argument so that it includes alien elements. Barack Obama offered us an excellent example of loose thinking when he defended the legalization of same-sex marriage by stating that it is about time that someone can marry the person he loves.Love is far more inclusive than marriage. We can love our parents, siblings, children, and married friends, but we cannot marry them. Marriage demands love, but love does not demand marriage. If one’s belt is too loose, his pants will not stay up; if his reasoning is too loose, his argument will not hold up. Loose talk starts rumors that are often devoid of truth. A sound argument respects truth…Continue Reading

RIP Jerome Hronek 1919-2020

December 12, 2020 Featured Today Comments Off on RIP Jerome Hronek 1919-2020

Last week, those of us associated with The Wanderer lost a good and loyal friend who was an avid promoter and reader of our weekly newspaper.Jerome Hronek, 101 years old, was called home by his Creator. Jerome was a faithful Catholic and a true patriot who served his country in one of the toughest battle theaters in World War ll, the Asia Pacific Islands.I had the honor of meeting this one of a kind gentleman three years ago when I interviewed him for The Wanderer. I will miss his friendship and will always cherish the memory of a man whose character is seldom replicated in the generations that have followed. I know Jerome would appreciate prayers for his soul from…Continue Reading