Jeanie Hannaman

By Janet E. Smith, Crisis Magazine - Many who have written on the needed characteristics of the next pope have said such things as “The next pope needs to call the bishops to proclaim the faith boldly; to restore respect for the sacraments; to unify the polarized elements of the Church.” Few pundits note that purging the Church of the Lavender Mafia, of the homosexual priests and bishops who run the Church, is arguably the most important and the most difficult of all tasks a new pope will face.

By Thomas V. Mirus, Catholic Culture - St. Alphonsus Liguori wrote in Uniformity with God’s Will: We must unite ourselves to God’s will not only in things that come to us directly from his hands, such as sickness, desolation, poverty, death of relatives, but likewise in those we suffer from man—for example, contempt, injustice, loss of reputation, loss of temporal goods and all kinds of persecution. On these occasions we must remember that whilst God does not will the sin, he does will our humiliation, our poverty, or our mortification, as the case may be. ....

By Fr. Dn. Christopher B. Warner, Catholic World Report - In an age of radical individualism and ideological rebellion against every form of authority, the Catholic tradition offers a necessary and urgent corrective. Rooted in Sacred Scripture, developed by the Fathers of the Church, refined by St. Thomas Aquinas, and clarified by the Magisterium, the Christian understanding of authority is neither authoritarian nor permissive. It is a structured reflection of divine love. Authority is granted to leaders by God, not for domination, but to promote the common good and guide souls to their supernatural end.