Jeanie Hannaman

By Fr. Wayne Sattler, Catholic Exchange - From the very dawn of creation, our need to carefully discern spirits has been clear. With all the generations of saints who have diligently put themselves to this practice, you might think we would have it down to a science. But discernment of spirits is not a science; it is a battle... In this battle, there is no rhyme or reason to “the tactics of the devil” (Eph. 6:11). Flesh and blood are not able to calculate or predict the principalities and powers with whom we struggle against. ....

By LifeSiteNews staff - This morning Pope Francis released a formal “Note” to accompany his “Final Document of the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops,” that is, the final document for the Synod on Synodality, which included a significant number of non-bishops... In his “Note,” the Pope asked that the content of this “Final Document” be accepted as part of his Magisterium, that is, his authoritative teaching as the Successor of Peter, the earthly head of the Christian Church—or, as Pope Francis described himself, the “Bishop of Rome.”

National Gallery of Art, The National Gallery of Art - Simon Vouet studied in Rome during the first decades of the seventeenth-century, succumbing to the pervasive, pan-European influence of Caravaggio's realist revolution in contemporary painting. In 1627, King Louis XIII called Vouet home to Paris to be his court painter, and Vouet refined Caravaggio's innovations into a style that would become the French school of painting so exquisitely represented by the Gallery's newly acquired Madonna and Child... The cult of the Virgin was in full swing during this period, inspiring the king to dedicate the empire to her in 1638. ...