Jeanie Hannaman

October 9, 2023

Catholic Vote: Biden Admin Official: Abortion in the Military is Vital to National Security

Catholic Vote NEWS FEED // Biden administration national security official John Kirby called abortion “necessary healthcare” this week, arguing that the Pentagon’s controversial policy of using taxpayer dollars to pay for abortions in the military is vital to national security... Kirby also alleged that Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s, R-AL, ongoing hold on senior military nominees in protest against the abortion policy is “impairing national security.”

October 9, 2023

Vatican Backtracks on Synod Media Blackout, by Elise Ann Allen

By Elise Ann Allen, Crux - Despite Pope Francis’s insistence on a media “fast” during this month’s Synod of Bishops, Vatican officials have said that engagement with the press is a personal decision, and participants who choose to give interviews will not be “punished”... The clarification came after German Cardinal Gerhard Müller, a former head of the Vatican’s doctrinal office and a figure seen as a critical of the synod, gave an Oct. 5 interview to EWTN.

October 9, 2023

Reflections on Israel’s New Existential War, by Victor Davis Hanson

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness - So again why did Hamas mount such a long-planned and multifaceted assault on Israeli towns, public buildings, soldiers, and civilians?... The invasion was not so much a surprise attack, in the conventional Pearl Harbor sense, as a carefully calibrated land, sea, and ground effort at mass killing and hostage taking. It was designed to execute noncombatants, grab Jews for bargaining leverage, and to shock Israelis through their pre-civilizational desecration of the bodies of the dead.

October 9, 2023

The Vatican Synod Abandons the Foot of the Cross to Serve as a Jester in Pilate’s Palace, by Jason Scott Jones

By Jason Scott Jones, The Stream - What is the warm, beating heart of Christian ethics? To cleave to Jesus Christ, wherever He goes, whatever He does. Sometimes that will mean standing as the witness to staggering glory, as at the Transfiguration. Or wondering at miracles of healing and forgiveness. At the end of time, it will mean being gathered to help judge the nations, as Christ returns in glory... But most of the time, for most of us, in this fallen world cleaving to Christ means helping Him carry the cross. Or standing with Mary at Calvary, getting spat on by the crowds and menaced by Caesar’s soldiers.