Jeanie Hannaman

By E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH, (Blog), National Catholic Register - How can anyone truly understand the piercing bolt of pain, sustained by divine love, running between the Sacred Heart of Jesus and that of his mother, Mary, as he hung dying on the cross? Yet he still thought of us first, as Jesus proclaimed, “Woman, behold your son!” Then he said to the disciple (John), “Behold your Mother!” (John 19:26-27)... With her heart, perfectly formed and shaped by and for her Son, she immediately embraced this relationship with all humankind. Despite her excruciating sorrow, she took all of us under her mantel as mother.

By Julian Kwasniewski, Catholic Exchange - The vocation of raising a family and especially that of a stay-at-home mother has, in our day and age, become almost a fate worse than death. There is an idea that your twenties are a time for wild (and naughty) fun, and it’s not until your thirties that you turn boring, “resigning” yourself to marriage and kids. But Catholic mom Bridget Workman views her story differently, and her life proves otherwise; her story is not “boring” nor is her life confining. She sees it as expressing an arc that naturally arises from her pursuit of the Transcendentals.

By Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, Cap., The Catholic Thing - All four Gospels tell of Jesus cleansing the temple. The Gospel of John, however, provides the most detail about what took place, which bears witness that the Evangelist was present at this event. (John 2:13-22)  Jesus went to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover, the feast that commemorated both the Israelites’ passing out of slavery in Egypt and the covenant that God made with the Jewish people in the wilderness.

By Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, Kath - As was to be expected: the “Synodal Way” has long since become lost in the pathless. The defiant attempts of professional Catholic “officials” to close their eyes to this reality will – like their “Synodal Path” – end in frustration. What remains is the careless waste of millions in church tax money and, what is much worse, discord on central questions of faith and morals, even within the episcopate, and thus serious damage to unity with the entire church. There is already talk of heresy and schism. ...