Jeanie Hannaman

By St. Francis of Assisi, The Catholic Thing - The Lord gave to me, Brother Francis, thus to begin to do penance; for when I was in sin it seemed to me very bitter to see lepers, and the Lord Himself led me amongst them and I showed mercy to them. And when I left them, that which had seemed to me bitter was changed for me into sweetness of body and soul... And the Lord gave me so much faith in churches that I would simply pray and say thus: “We adore Thee Lord Jesus Christ here and in all Thy churches which are in the whole world, and we bless Thee because by Thy holy cross Thou hast redeemed the world.”

By Msgr. Robert J. Batule,  The Catholic Thing - As students are returning to school this week, chances are very good that campus unrest will return as well with the new academic year. And given the presidential election, the national media – television especially – will bring enormous attention, once again, to the grievances of a class of people that we should call cultural Marxists, whose ideas on alienation harken back to the class antagonism of Europe in the nineteenth century... But first, who are the cultural Marxists? Let’s start with who they are not.

By Julian Kwasniewski, Crisis Magazine - Today, the GPS robs us of so much fun. The unknown is at an all-time level of scarcity. Safety, better equipment, and the fact that everything has already been done makes adventuring rather hard... But a hundred years ago, great men roamed the earth. One of these was Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a pioneering pilot, writer, and poetic philosopher. I’ve just been reading his autobiography, Wind, Sand and Stars. It is eloquent, exciting, and mystical, and I highly recommend it for summer reading. ...

By Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent, LifeSiteNews - A homosexual priest designed a new image for Fr. James Martin’s LGBT conference featuring Jesus Christ with Pope Francis and two homosexual couples... As announced by Outreach, the pro-LGBT group formed by Fr. Martin, S.J., a new image was produced by a priest friend of Martin’s in time for the annual Outreach conference.