Jeanie Hannaman

By Francis X. Maier, The Catholic Thing - As we get older, the temptation to be dissatisfied with our lives can grow.  A fear of aging, along with memories of past failures and mistakes, can obscure the good in the world around us.  A culture of consumption, distractions, and anesthetics, which is what we’ve created, feeds on that restlessness and profits from the anxiety that so often animates our desires.  In the process, it steals something uniquely human from us.  It reduces us to a bundle of material appetites.

By Michael Haynes, LifeSite News - The Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, has confirmed to LifeSiteNews that the Holy See intends to renew its secretive deal with Communist China later this year... Cardinal Parolin affirmed that the highly controversial Sino-Vatican deal that the Holy See has with the Communist authorities in Beijing is set for renewal this autumn... Parolin stated “with reference to your question about the Holy See’s agreement with China … we hope to renew it.”... “We are also in dialogue on this point with our Chinese interlocutors." ...