Jeanie Hannaman

By Deacon Michael Bickerstaff, Integrated Catholic Life - Truth, Goodness, Beauty, along with Unity, are what Catholics refer to as the transcendentals. The transcendentals are qualities of persons and things that transcend material things and the particular moment in time. These qualities are rooted in being and find their source in God... the late Father Thomas Dubay, wrote, “Truth, beauty and goodness have their being together, by truth we are put in touch with reality which we find is good for us and beautiful to behold. In our knowing, loving and delighting the gift of reality appears to us as something infinitely and in-exhaustively valuable and fascinating.” ....

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet, Human Life International - To most who entered Auschwitz, it must have seemed nothing less than a black hole of evil—a place with such a concentrated gravitational field of darkness, that it swallowed all light and all goodness... It must have seemed to many who entered there that Auschwitz was definitive proof of the superior power of evil over goodness and of the powerlessness of goodness... That is, until St. Maximilian lit his candle in the darkness, thereby scattering the shadows and filling the place with the light of love.

By Steven Thomas, Catholic Exchange - We have experienced a unique moment in U.S. Catholicism.  For the first time in our history, or in any country’s history, we have witnessed our Eucharistic Lord in the form of a cross processed across the entire country.  Let me repeat, it’s never been done before in history, until now!... Why do I bring this up?  Because this is a crucial part in the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart.  The Triumph is not the end in itself, but the fruit of the Triumph is the reign of the Sacred (and Eucharistic) Heart... We will know the Triumph is here when we see its fruit.  Oh, I certainly hope our bishops have seen the blood in the water with this Eucharistic Pilgrimage.  The key is to not take your foot off the enemy’s neck—double down, aim even higher!

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - Back in the 1970s and 1980s, I used to wonder why mercy was so much emphasized in contemporary Catholicism, especially since it seemed to be stressed most by those who were leaning as far away as they could from the clear and specific teachings of Christ and His Church and the need to adhere to them. Suddenly the emphasis was on the “deep reality” that we are all wounded and that we must all depend not so much on hard truths as on God’s mercy.