Jeanie Hannaman

By Matthew McDonald, Joe Bukuras, EWTN News - A hermit in Kentucky who publicly identified as transgender this past weekend has prompted questions about how the Catholic Church should deal with such cases in religious life given the Church’s opposition to what Pope Francis has called “gender ideology.”... The announcement has also raised questions about how the hermit, a female who identifies as a man, got religious training at a Benedictine monastery for men.

B. S. Flanders, OnePeterFive, Editor - As I discussed in the previously mentioned article, the true ecumenism with the east has virtually resolved the Miaphysite dispute, and thus the Coptic Church is one of the closest eastern traditions to the full reconciliation of Eucharistic communion. But it seems, sadly, that these orthodox aims are not at the heart of the pontificate of Francis, nor the priorities of His Eminence, Tucho “Heal Me with Your Mouth” Fernández.

By Daniel Payne, CNA - A Virginia council of the Knights of Columbus will be permitted to hold its annual Memorial Day Mass in a federal cemetery after the National Park Service (NPS) backed down and allowed the group to hold the observance... Knights of Columbus Petersburg Council 694 had filed a temporary restraining order against NPS after the park service forbade the council from holding its annual Memorial Day Mass at Poplar Grove National Cemetery.