Jeanie Hannaman

April 30, 2025

Lower Drug Prices: A Great Deal for America, by Steve Cortes

By Steve Cortes, American Greatness - Prescription drug prices have soared 46.2% since 2020—now President Trump has the chance to finish the fight he started and finally deliver lower costs for every American... Last November, Americans sent a clear election message and delivered President Trump a clear mandate: Prices are way too high. While inflation has hit our grocery stores (up 23.6% since 2020) and housing costs (up 30.9% since 2020), there’s another cost outpacing the rest when it comes to price hikes. Prescription drugs have jumped 46.2% since 2020, forcing Americans to pay the highest price in the world for life-saving medications. No wonder citizens are angry.

April 30, 2025

Pope Benedict’s Time-Bomb, by Joseph Pearce

By Joseph Pearce, Substack (What We Need Now) - If there’s one thing worth celebrating this year, it’s the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Spirit of the Liturgy, Cardinal Ratzinger’s great gift to the Church. Published five years before he became pope, Ratzinger’s seminal work of liturgical scholarship might yet prove to be his greatest and most enduring legacy. Its publication heralded the beginning of the restoration of the splendor of the liturgy and stemmed the tide of the liturgical vandalism of the post-conciliar period, which had seen the dumbing-down of the liturgy to the lowest common denominator of crass vulgarity.

April 30, 2025

Fr. Kevin Drew: The Papal Election that Trumped Communism

Fr. Kevin Drew, Catholic Exchange - In 1949 the Englishman George Orwell wrote a book titled 1984. It was about life in a totalitarian state—one that held total control over peoples’ lives. Orwell invented terms used in the book that resonate today: Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, Newspeak. Today the term Orwellian is used to describe official deception, secret surveillance, and manipulation of the past. One famous quote from 1984 is: “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”... In 1968 students in the city of Krakow, Poland, organized an unofficial lecture titled “Orwell’s 1984 and Poland today.”

April 30, 2025

These are the Cardinals from the U.S. and Canada Participating in the Conclave, by Francesca Pollio Fenton

By Francesca Pollio Fenton - Cardinals from around the world have made their way to the Vatican to participate in a centuries-old tradition known as a conclave — a meeting in which the College of Cardinals gathers to elect a new pope... The Catholic Church currently has 252 cardinals; however, only 135 of these cardinals can vote in the conclave because a cardinal must be younger than 80 years old to vote... Pope Francis during his pontificate appointed 108 of the 135 cardinal electors. ...