Jeanie Hannaman

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - The range of news stories we cover is really quite remarkable. There are nearly always stories in all three Catholic news categories: Perhaps we should call them the good, the bad and the ugly. I’ll illustrate what I mean by selecting a few stories from the past three days.

By Matthew J. Ramage, Ph.D., Catholic World Report - The pope from Bavaria was especially well attuned to the shortcomings of mainstream environmentalism, and he considered it too important a matter to leave in the hands of the anti-humanists whose agenda pervades the movement today... “Those who can recognize in the cosmos the reflections of the Creator’s invisible face tend to have a greater love for creatures and greater sensitivity to their symbolic value.” This was central lessons imparted by Pope Benedict XVI in his poignant homily for the 2010 World Day of Peace.

By Matthew McDonald, Joe Bukuras, EWTN News - A hermit in Kentucky who publicly identified as transgender this past weekend has prompted questions about how the Catholic Church should deal with such cases in religious life given the Church’s opposition to what Pope Francis has called “gender ideology.”... The announcement has also raised questions about how the hermit, a female who identifies as a man, got religious training at a Benedictine monastery for men.

B. S. Flanders, OnePeterFive, Editor - As I discussed in the previously mentioned article, the true ecumenism with the east has virtually resolved the Miaphysite dispute, and thus the Coptic Church is one of the closest eastern traditions to the full reconciliation of Eucharistic communion. But it seems, sadly, that these orthodox aims are not at the heart of the pontificate of Francis, nor the priorities of His Eminence, Tucho “Heal Me with Your Mouth” Fernández.