Jeanie Hannaman

By David Carlin, The Catholic Thing - The religion of nationalism, however, unlike the religion of Communism, didn’t necessarily see itself as the enemy of Christianity.  In some countries it imagined that it could co-exist with the old faith and that the two – nationalism and Christianity – could, so to speak, marry one another, or at least cohabit, locked in a not-quite-licit embrace.  In the United States, for instance, being a good Christian made you a better American nationalist, and being an American nationalist made you a better Christian.  Or so at least it has been widely felt.

By Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, Cap., The Catholic Thing - Many people, including Catholic bishops and numerous Christians throughout the world, have condemned the blasphemous event that took place during the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics in Paris. As almost everyone now knows, there was a mocking display of the Last Supper where Jesus was portrayed as an obese female dressed in white. She was surrounded by a gaggle of drag queen “apostles,” and a young girl was also – we should worry why? – included in this hypersexualized and sacrilegious depiction.

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture - Evil is unnatural. Evil deforms our natural existence and brings misery and death. Satan abuses creation to glorify evil; he hates nature; he disfigures nature, and he abuses nature. But not without our cooperation... Satan tempts Jesus in the wilderness to change rocks magically into bread and to take a swan dive off the precipice of the temple for the devil’s derisive entertainment... Satan uses the splendor of God’s handiwork to goad Jesus in devil worship, reversing the natural order of creator and creation. Satan similarly tempts us to choose the unnatural, the abnormal, and the bizarre.