Jeanie Hannaman

By Jonathan Liedl, EWTN News - In a tranquil rural setting dedicated to the Virgin Mary, pilgrims immerse themselves in spring-fed waters believed by many to have miraculous healing properties... at the national Marian shrine of Subukia, to be precise... Owned by the Kenyan Catholic Conference of Bishops, the rural site in the Diocese of Nakuru has been a spiritual center for the East African nation for the past 30 years. Every year, as many as 200,000 people come to the 200-acre Village of Mary, Mother of God, for Marian devotions, Mass and reconciliation services ...

By Fr. Mario Alexis Portella, Crisis Magazine - Showing charity, after the example of Our Lord Jesus Christ, toward Muslims—and for that matter other non-Catholics—is best manifested by the ardent desire to see them become, in the fullest sense of the notion, children of God. This can only be arrived at by the grace of the Sacrament of Baptism, something the interreligious dialogue is missing altogether... Instead, what is promoted is a naturalistic concept that solely focuses on arriving at common values with religions that deny Christ. Indeed, such ideas were condemned by Pope Pius XI in his Encyclical Mortalium Animos (1928).

By Regis Martin, Crisis Magazine - It has long been a commonplace in the Christian life—scriptural sanction for which can be found in 1 John 4:20—that unless we love the neighbor we see everywhere, it will not be possible to love the God we see nowhere. For unlike the neighbor whom we cannot escape, indeed, we find him at every turn, God is easily evaded owing to His being pure spirit. While free to appear in the time/space continuum in which the rest of us live, God will not ordinarily show up there, the fact of His omnipresence not usually manifested in obvious and material ways.

Catholic Culture - Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary: O God, who prepared a fit dwelling place for the Holy Spirit in the Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, graciously grant that through her intercession we may be a worthy temple of your glory. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever... In the midst of the second world war Pope Pius XII put the whole world under the special protection of our Savior's Mother by consecrating it to her Immaculate Heart, and in 1944 he decreed that in the future the whole Church should celebrate the Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary