Jeanie Hannaman

By Carl E. Olson, Catholic World Report - And this brings us back to where we started, with St. John XXIII’s inaugural address. The council rightly saw that we need to take the logic of the Mass and proclaim it with new analogies, images, and fervor, in order to wrest back our imaginations from the increasingly secular world. But we haven’t succeeded. In part because the epistemological categories of the modern West are so powerful, and its lure so seductive, that we’re like the protagonist in La Dolce Vita, half remembering what we once knew through a haze. ...

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - In a remarkably piece of alarmist propaganda, responding to the Alabama court decision that ruled a frozen embryo has legal rights, the New York Times columnist lamented that the US today “is awash in religiosity when it comes to human reproduction.” I confess that I hadn’t noticed. The public debate—at least as conducted in outlets like the New York Times tends to begin and end with the invocation of the word “choice.”