Jeanie Hannaman

By Filip Mazurczak, Catholic World Report - May 8th marked the eightieth anniversary of the end of World War II, the bloodiest conflict in human history, in which more than fifty million human lives were lost... Today, our world is once again marked by bloody conflict, and it is an appropriate time to remember three unsung blessed martyrs of that cruel period—Bernhard Lichtenberg, Stefan Wincenty Frelichowski, and Emilian Kovch—as intercessors for our war-torn world.

By Dr. Jules Gomes, The Stream - Statements Leo made upon receiving an honorary doctorate in October 2023 from the Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo in Chiclayo, Peru, where he was presiding as Bishop Robert Prevost, surfaced late Wednesday... “A Catholic cannot truly claim to be ‘pro-life’ by maintaining a stance against abortion while simultaneously advocating in favor of the death penalty,” he declared. “Such a position would lack coherence with Catholic social teaching.”... Citing Bernadin, he observed that issues from “genetic research, abortion, capital punishment, [and] modern warfare to the care of the terminally ill” are “fundamentally rooted in one essential Catholic principle: the loss of even a single human life is a profoundly significant event.”

By Fr. Mario Alexis Portella, Crisis Magazine - On May 14, in his “Address to Participants in the Jubilee of Oriental Churches,” Pope Leo XIV not only praised “the unique spiritual and sapiential traditions that they preserve, and for all that they have to say to us about the Christian life, synodality, and the liturgy,” he also highlighted how the Oriental Churches have “a unique and privileged role as the original setting where the Church was born.”