Jeanie Hannaman

May 10, 2024

The #1 Vocation Killer, by Kennedy Hall

By Kennedy Hall, Crisis Magazine - The reason we still have a vocations crisis isn't poor catechesis or smaller families. It's something more insidious... Unless you have been living under a rock, I am sure you are aware that the Church is experiencing a vocation crisis. The numbers are bleak, and they have been for decades. Sure, there are bright spots here and there, mainly with traditional orders and societies of priests who often ordain more priests in a single seminary than the entire nation of Ireland did last year. ...

May 10, 2024

A World Without the Ascension, by Michael Pakaluk

By Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing - The Feast of the Ascension seems on a par with Easter. It gets equal attention in the creeds: “On the third day, he arose from the dead. He ascended into heaven.” It is the first doctrine Jesus preaches upon his Resurrection. He tells Mary Magdalene, “go to my brethren and say to them” – not, “I am risen” – but rather “I ascend to my Father and to your Father, to my God and your God.” (John 20:17) She saw that he had risen. The Lord did not need to tell her that. But He does tell her, as a matter of first importance, that He will ascend.

May 10, 2024

Male and Female He Created Them (Part 2 of Thinking it Through: The Church and “Gender Change”), Dr. Jeff Mirus

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - The real issue in gender change is not an abstract “nullifying of differences” in the sense that they ought to be ignored in matters of rights, privileges, and human respect whenever the differences are genuinely irrelevant (see Part 1: Nullifying differences). Rather, the problem lies in refusing to accept the differences which God has deliberately designed into human nature—the differences which constitute our identities as his beloved sons and daughters in Christ.

May 10, 2024

Taxpayers Fund $150 Billion of Perks Annually for Illegal Aliens, Including Biden’s ‘Parolees,’ Such as…, by Craig Bannister

By Craig Bannister, MRC TV - Thanks to Pres. Biden’s program providing “parole” to illegal aliens from countries like Haiti and Cuba, the American taxpayer is footing the bill for a host of costly benefits available to those who circumvent the legal immigration process, the House Budget Committee was informed Wednesday... “They come in illegally; we are granting them citizenship-like status,” Rep. Josh Brecheen (R-OK) noted a hearing titled “The Cost of the Border Crisis.”... Under Biden’s parole scheme, which continues to be challenged in court, immigrants immediately become entitled to taxpayer-funded benefits, Brecheen said.