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By RAYMOND DESOUZA

More Historical Proofs That Jesus Claimed To Be Divine

By RAYMOND DE SOUZA In this article we continue where we left in the previous one: providing more historical proofs

By DONALD DEMARCO

A Dozen Roses And A Dozen Thorns

By DR. DONALD DEMARCO We are experiencing a leadership crisis. In Canada, an ineffective prime minister has resigned under pressure.

Mgr. Pope

On The Role Of The Angels At The Second Coming

By Mgr. POPE The content of this post comes from a series I have been teaching at the Institute of Catholic

FR. KEVIN CUSICK

Faith In Florida

A Leaven In The World . . . A generous brother priest volunteered to cover my Sunday Masses once this month. Freeing

ARCHIVES -- COMMENTARY

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR . . . The Wanderer May

SURE CURE FOR COMMUNISM Editor, THE WANDERER: Mark Twain once said that every-body talks about the weather but very

Looking Beyond The Conclave

June 10, 2025 No Comments

By CHRISTOPHER MANION While Catholics await the white smoke to rise above the Sistine Chapel, we pray that the cardinals gathered there will hear the voice of the Holy Spirit and act on it. Amid the anticipation, however, a stubborn fact remains: whatever their choice of a new Supreme Pontiff, the challenge confronting the American laity will remain. And that challenge is grave indeed. The American hierarchy suffers from exhaustion, a historic numbness of spirit that can no longer be disguised. Their leaders have allowed chaos and confusion to be sown. Some quietly blame Pope Francis, and he certainly deserves it; some blame the laity — haven’t millions left the pews? But few bishops blame themselves. When Bishop Joseph E. Strickland of Tyler, Texas, suggested in 2018 that they do a little soul-searching, his days were numbered. Since 2002 they had hung together, lest they hang separately, continuing their cover-ups and billion-dollar payoffs. The guilty refused to quit — every one of them — so

A Dozen Roses And A Dozen Thorns

May 16, 2025 No Comments

By DR. DONALD DEMARCO We are experiencing a leadership crisis. In Canada, an ineffective prime minister has resigned under pressure. In the United States, one presidential candidate withdrew because of a cognitive disability, while another had virtually nothing to offer. The man who became president has frightened the wits out of many. And the Head of the Church in Rome has, to put it lightly, acted in a peculiarly non-Popish way. How does such unreliable individuals rise to the top of government? Why do the appointed leaders fail to lead? For the ancient Greeks, three things were required to be a good leader: logos (the ability to reason well), ethos (moral character), and pathos (a sensitivity for others). It is not common for people to possess all three of these traits. But they seem entirely absent in the people who are running today’s governments. In the current world, the three things that help secular candidates to be elected are money, charisma, and a good speaking

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The Stranglehold of Evil Upon Our Nation

By JOSEPH MATT Satan continues to tighten his grip on the direction of our culture. In just the past couple

By RAYMOND DESOUZA , Latest

Live Your Faith

How Do We Get To Know The Truth? By RAYMOND DESOUZA Many people confuse truth with personal opinion, as if our

By DONALD DEMARCO , Latest

Clarifying Two Meanings Of Hope

By DONALD DeMARCO We are inescapably creatures of the future. This is why we live in hope. We need a reason

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The Third Sunday of Lent, Year C

Readings: Ex. 3:1-8a, 13-15; 1 Cor. 10:1-6, 10-12; Luke 13:1-9 By Fr. ROBERT ALTIER In the readings today, we are given

By Fr. RICHARD BRENTON , Latest

Beacon of Light – March 20, 2025

BY FR. RICHARD BRENTON The Simplicity Of St. Joseph's Life: A Model For Contemporary Catholics The esteemed convert to Catholicism,

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The Vatican Announces Plans for a Global Christian Unity Summit

Historic Christian Summit Aims to Strengthen Unity Among DenominationsIn a move towards greater unity, the Vatican has announced a historic Global

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By RAYMOND DESOUZA

More Historical Proofs That Jesus Claimed To Be Divine

By RAYMOND DE SOUZA In this article we continue where we left in the previous one: providing more historical proofs that Jesus actually claimed to be divine, which deny the assertion that all religions are different path to God, as Pope Francis said in Asia to young people, and that Bishop Barron said to Ben Shapiro that Jesus was a privileged way. Let us investigate the historical evidence: 1. Jesus claimed to be omnipotent, to possess all divine power, therefore equal to the Father in Divine power. For instance, “All power is given to Me is Heaven and on earth…I

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Live Your Faith

How Do We Get To Know The Truth? By RAYMOND DESOUZA Many people confuse truth with personal opinion, as if our preferences would change reality as we please. In matters involving religion, the assertion that all religions lead to God, regardless of their inner contradictions, is manifestly and demonstrably wrong. It’s as simple as that. In last week’s installment, we saw that truth is the agreement of our mind with reality. The first way to find this out is to realize that our minds can apprehend the truth by our own personal experience: a fire burns, a man is not

This Week’s Homily

The Cathedral of Saint Paul March 25, 2025

Learn your faithdon fier

By DON FIER

God Comes To Meet Man

By DON FIER Last week, a topic was taken up that was immediately addressed in the first chapter of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC): man’s capacity to know God by reason alone. It was demonstrated in two basic, commonsense ways that “by natural reason man can know God with certainty, on the basis of His works” (CCC, n. 50). The supporting arguments focused around what we can directly observe or easily discern in two of God’s most magnificent works of creation, “the physical world and the human person” (CCC, n. 31). This week, we will turn our attention

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By JAMES MONTI

Restoring The Sacred

Meditating Upon The Scourging Of Christ Through Scripture And Art By JAMES MONTI Everything about Lent directs our thoughts toward the Passion of Christ. For Christ Himself has invited us to the Passion, to be with Him in His suffering, to witness with the eyes of the soul what He suffered, to get so close to Him in His sufferings that we become willing to partake of those sufferings in ourselves, in our own lives. From Gethsemane onward, He beseeches us: “… remain here, and watch with me” (Matt. 26:38). He summons us: “Follow me” (Luke 5:27). He instructs us,

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Fr. ROBERT ALTIER

Sunday Sermon for March 30, 2025, The Fourth Sunday Of Lent, Year C

Readings: Josh. 5:9a, 10–12; 2 Cor. 5:17–20; Luke 15:1–3, 11–32 By Fr. ROBERT ALTIER In the Gospel reading today, we hear the beautiful story of the love of a father whose son took half of everything the father owned and squandered it all. The young man came to his senses, only after he had descended about as low as one can imagine, and decided to go back to his father’s house and offer himself to be a hired hand. He knew the gravity of what he had done and realized he no longer deserved to be called the son of

A Leavan In The World

FR. KEVIN CUSICK

Faith In Florida

A Leaven In The World . . . A generous brother priest volunteered to cover my Sunday Masses once this month. Freeing up the weekend enabled me to connect weekdays of two adjoining weeks resulting in a more generous period for a drive to Florida where my father and extended family now reside in the Space Coast area. Two brothers are retired there and nieces are marrying and transitioning there. One of these, with her husband and two baby boys, lives blocks from the Atlantic Coast. As well, my father had long nursed plans to transition to

Raymond Cardinal Burke's Message For The Third Week Of Lent

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Mgr. Pope

On The Role Of The Angels At The Second Coming

By Mgr. POPE The content of this post comes from a series I have been teaching at the Institute of Catholic Culture on the mission of the angels. Angels are ministering spirits mystically present and active throughout creation, in the events of Scripture, in the liturgy, and in our lives. The fundamental source for these reflections is Jean Cardinal Danielou’s book The Angels

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Archives is a weekly feature of The Wanderer that features news, articles and commentary over the past 157 years that not only provides a glimpse into the past but sometimes offers interesting insights and sound advice for the present.

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Throw Back . . . The Wanderer Archives Revisited

A Look Back . . . The Wanderer May 19, 1939 .. . . Frequent Confession

By FR. FRANCIS RIPLEY Paragraph seven of the revised rite of Penance insists that "frequent and careful celebration of this sacrament is also very useful as a remedy for venial sins. This is not a mere ritual repetition or psychological exercise, but a serious striving to perfect the grace

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ARCHIVES -- NEWS

World News . . . The Wanderer May 11, 1939

Persecution in the Third Reich Simultaneously with unverified reports from Rome that German-id Vatican relations are improving, and that an entente may soon be reached, comes news of further Nazi onslaughts against Church, the SCHOOLS DISSOLVED IN THE RHINELAND April 18, 1939, was a black day for Catholic

archives -- commentary

ARCHIVES -- COMMENTARY

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR . . . The Wanderer May 11, 1939

SURE CURE FOR COMMUNISM Editor, THE WANDERER: Mark Twain once said that every-body talks about the weather but very few try to do anything about it. The same comment might be made about the conversion of America. We could make many more converts if we would only try

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