Jeanie Hannaman

By Joseph Pearce, Crisis Magazine - Perhaps there is no better test of the health of a culture than the way that it treats its children. The Canaanites sacrificed their own infants to Moloch; the Carthaginians slaughtered children to Baal; and the Aztecs and Mayans sacrificed children to feed their demonic gods until the Christian conquistadors put an end to the barbarism. Now, in our self-proclaimed “post-Christian” culture, mothers slaughter their own children on the altars erected to their own narcissistic self-empowerment or the narcissistic self-empowerment of their no-strings-attached sexual partners. ...

By Mark Bauerlein, Frist Things - Catholic schools aren’t Catholic enough. One often hears the complaint, and I believe that it applies to most Catholic schools. Among the deficiencies is a canonical one, a tendency to overlook a crucial learning outcome that all high school graduates ought to have realized: a rich sense of the Catholic heritage instilled by coursework in the arts, sciences, and theology. If we want eighteen-year-olds to have a sufficient Catholic formation, teachers should assign more readings that foster a historical understanding of the faith ....