Jeanie Hannaman
January 5, 2026
By Anthony Esolen, The Catholic Thing - Will not “blood” be one of the evangelist’s most crucial motifs? Will not “flesh” be taken up in the very next line? Why must all the mysterious suggestions be reduced to the bald and the banal, as if John were transcribing the minutes for a committee?... If such a thing is held as inseparable from the Novus Ordo, along with the rest of the flattening – if, I say – then novus would be the wrong word. Praeteritus, rather, for a bygone fad, like loud polyester slacks, or that palma Felicis. Bishops, I beg you, take heed.
January 5, 2026
By Franciscan Media, January 5 - Perhaps because the United States got a later start in the history of the world, it has relatively few canonized saints, but their number is increasing... Saint John Neumann was born in what is now the Czech Republic. After studying in Prague, he came to New York at 25 and was ordained a priest. He did missionary work in New York until he was 29, when he joined the Redemptorists and became its first member to profess vows in the United States. ...
By Randall O'Bannon, Ph.D., LifeNews - As you see in the accompanying chart that we have linked to, we have made substantial progress in reducing the number of abortions and lowering the abortion rate over the past thirty years. At the same time, though, as long as abortion is legal, each year we will keep adding to the total of lives lost to America’s greatest holocaust.
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