Jeanie Hannaman

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture - We’ve seen the bumper sticker: “COEXIST.” Like “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” it’s hard to argue with the aspiration. But the slogans are purposely ambiguous and blur the distinction between good and evil. The proponents expect believers to surrender to their Godless secular religion. The survival tactics of Nicodemus help us navigate a politically correct hostile environment... Nicodemus appears several times in the Gospel of St. John. ...

By Deacon Michael Bickerstaff,  Integrated Catholic Life - CLEANSING THE TEMPLE IN OUR SOULS - By His life, passion, death, and resurrection, Jesus mediated a New and Everlasting Covenant in which He formed the Church – the Family of God. He restored us to new life, a share in the Divine Life, a life of grace through faith in which we can truly live and worship according to the design of God. He provides grace sufficient for an authentic, satisfying life, fully lived.

By Hans Boersma, First Things - The Lord is into feeding his people. He does it time and again. Each time, he tests them with an impossible situation. Each time, there is a realist failing the test in unbelief—Moses, Gehazi, Philip and Andrew. And each time, the Lord performs a feeding miracle, so that people end up being stuffed... These stories may hardly seem appropriate for Lent. When we are in the middle of fasting, we do not need stories of sumptuous meals. Fair enough, except John’s account of the feeding of the five thousand itself reminds us that it is Lent: “And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.”

By Jules Gomes, The Stream - Jesuit Wokeness - The Jesuits finally booted the Slovenian priest (Jesuit, Fr. Marko Ivan Rupnik) from their ranks in June 2023 — not because he had violated his vow of chastity by sexually abusing approximately 25 nuns, or for that matter his vow of poverty (Rupnik was running a million-euro art company) — but because he broke his vow of obedience by infringing upon the travel restrictions his superiors had imposed on him... The sordid details of Rupnik’s bedroom sexcapades with the religious sisters ....