Jeanie Hannaman

May 9, 2024

Midwest Catholicism Is Humble, Yet Powerful — Just Like Mary, by Jonathan Liedl

By Jonathan Liedl, EWTN News - The National Eucharist Pilgrimage’s ‘Marian Route’ highlights how the Church in the Midwest has had an overflow impact that belies the region’s lowly status... Midwesterners are used to being overlooked. After all, this is the part of the U.S. known as “flyover country” by coastal denizens. Even the region’s most prominent metropolis, Chicago, is known as “The Second City,” a nickname that originated as a put-down, made by a visiting journalist from the nation’s “first city,” New York.

May 9, 2024

Jesus Willingly Died for All Our Sins — So Please Stop Blaming the Jews for ‘Committing Deicide’, by Jules Gomes

By Jules Gomes, The Stream - A new bill in Congress has refired an old controversy. Let’s examine the issue more closely... Who killed Jesus? Online mobs of traditionalist Catholics, led by social media celebrities like Taylor Marshall and Catholicism’s newest convert, Candace Owens, are insisting that the New Testament blames the “Jews” for the heinous crime of deicide... How is it that the very Catholics who claim to be ultra-loyal to the teaching authority of the Roman Church are brazenly violating its definitive rulings, which categorically repudiate the antisemitic trope of collective Jewish guilt for Jesus’s crucifixion?

May 9, 2024

Nullifying Differences: (Part 1 of Thinking it Through: The Church and “Gender Change”), by Dr. Jeff Mirus

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - The recent exchange of letters discussing transgendered persons between Sr. Jeannine Gramick and Pope Francis led Sister Jeannine to write an article about it which was jointly and propagandistically published on the New Ways Ministry’s daily blog and in the National Catholic Reporter. One hardly knows what to make of this exchange, which is why we must think more deeply than these correspondents did in order to make sense of the issue. ...

May 9, 2024

Biden HHS Redefines ‘Lawfully Present’ To Give ‘Free’ Health Care To Illegal Immigrants, by Christopher Jacobs

By Christopher Jacobs, The Federalist - So much for a border crisis. The Biden administration recently finalized regulations that will provide taxpayer-funded benefits to individuals who came into this country lacking authorization, by defining them as “lawfully present.”... The final rule follows regulations proposed last spring. It will have the same major effects as the initial proposal by expanding access to taxpayer health benefits for specified populations, but seems craftily drafted in a way to avoid, or at least minimize, legal challenges.