Jeanie Hannaman

By John M. Grondelski, Crisis Magazine - Without addressing here either whether or how we might speak of “infinite” dignity as related to the human person or commenting on specific issues Dignitas covers, let me make some preliminary observations about the document’s overall approach... I admit a certain ambivalence about organizing this document around “human dignity.” I do that not because I dispute that we need to develop a true concept of dignity serviceable for public discourse but because I do not think we are there yet—and am unsure we’ve adequately prepared the ground to support that discussion, especially with non-Catholic circles.

By David Carlin, The Catholic Thing - In the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council, many Catholics, especially young priests and seminarians, were imbued with the so-called “spirit of Vatican II” – a spirit that hoped to carry reforms and improvements of the Church well beyond the reforms and improvements actually designated by the Council... I remember a young priest telling us from the pulpit one Sunday that the Church, despite having been in existence for more than 1,900 years, had never really understood the meaning of Catholicism until the arrival of Vatican II. ...

By Theodore Bunker, Newsmax - Father Gerald Murray, pastor of the Holy Family Church in New York City, told Newsmax on Tuesday that the recent solar eclipse reminds us of the "mysterious creation out there" that "we should try to understand."... Murray said on "American Agenda" that "Every day when the sun rises, it's a reminder that God's in charge because He put the sun there and we didn't. And the fact that we're still alive, that we have intelligence and energy."