Jeanie Hannaman

April 24, 2024

Catholic Group Proposes Legislation to Keep Dioceses Financially Accountable for Clergy Sex Abuse of Minors, by Emily Mangiaracina

By Emily Mangiaracina, LifeSiteNew - Dioceses can shirk financial penalties by filing bankruptcy after sex abuse lawsuits. Roman Catholic Faithful's Project Rape Accountability would instead force financial accountability in such cases... The watchdog group Roman Catholic Faithful publicly announced on Tuesday its newly launched “Project Rape Accountability” that proposes a federal legislative amendment that would prevent the discharge of dioceses’ debts arising from the sexual abuse of minors.

April 24, 2024

Catholic Charities of San Antonio Accused of Misappropriating Federal Funds to Buy Airfare for Migrants, by Warner Todd Huston

By Warner Todd Huston, Breitbart - Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Antonio is defending itself after becoming the target of critics who claim that it improperly used federal funds to buy airfare for illegal aliens to fly to their choice of destinations in the U.S... Two South Texas lawmakers blasted the charity on Thursday for using federal funds to purchase the airfare and said that the funds are intended to reimburse nonprofits for food, shelter, and humanitarian expenses, not free travel programs for President Joe Biden’s illegal aliens. ... Catholic Charities of San Antonio admitted to the station that it had been allotted $10.8 million in funding to care for migrants in their area and that it used the funds to buy plane tickets for illegals. ...

April 24, 2024

Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation: Believe in Me – That You May Not Remain in Darkness

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word -John 12:44-50 - And Jesus cried out and said, "He who believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me. And he who sees me sees him who sent me. I have come as light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness. If any one hears my sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. ....

April 24, 2024

Towards a Female Pontiff of an Emasculated Church

By Kevin Beary, The Remnant - Of course, women priests and popes are part of a bigger package containing all sorts of theological surprises... To make the Church less masculine: this is the task that Pope Francis has given the International Theological Commission. Or at least, that is the official translation of the Italian word Francis used, smaschilizzare, which the English-language media rightly translated as "demasculinize", i.e. "emasculate, castrate". "Rendere meno maschile," which Francis did not say, would translate literally as "to make less masculine."