Jeanie Hannaman

By Regis Martin, Crisis Magazine - What moves the earth and the planets and all the stars above? The answer is Love... Getting ready the other day to fly out to Denver for our son’s wedding, I found myself mulling over what exactly I might be expected to say at the rehearsal dinner. At the very least I should tell everyone what an honor and joy it is to be here in order to pay tribute to the love of two people united in a sacrament made by God which we are privileged to witness.

By Catholic World News - Pope Francis also asks us to open the Church to everyone, whoever they are. Todos, todos, todos (All, all, all): the divorced and remarried, gays, transgenders... But in some parts of the world, welcoming gays is seen as scandalous. Many Catholic bishops in Africa see it as an attempt to impose a decadent Western ideology on the rest of the world. Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo of Kinshasa, president of the organization that represents all the Catholic bishops of Africa, sees it as the symptom of a decadent Western culture. A few weeks ago he declared: “Little by little, they [Westerners] will disappear. We wish them a happy disappearance.”