Jeanie Hannaman

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - Four years after an unprecedent assault on Americans’ fundamental freedoms, some important truths are finally emerging into plain sight... Under questioning on Capitol Hill, Dr. Anthony Fauci was forced to concede: That the rule requiring six feet of “social distancing” was not based on science (unless a high-school science project qualifies)... That vaccines did not provide a lasting defense against Covid (thus the need for one booster after another), nor did they prevent transmission. ...

By Matthew McDonald, EWTN News - The long limbo of Pope Benedict XVI’s former longtime personal secretary may be ending soon... Archbishop Georg Gänswein, who fell from influential papal aide to no assignment in the Catholic Church, will soon be appointed papal nuncio to the three Baltic countries, according to a report from an Italian Catholic news outlet. The story, published by La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana and citing unnamed sources, said the archbishop will become papal nuncio to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania — a position that also includes similar duties in neighboring Latvia and Estonia.

By Darrick Taylor, Crisis Magazine - The Church of Rome is beset by many serious problems at this hour, but one of its chief ailments is that it is badly governed, to put it mildly. We are living through one of those times in history where the “successors” of a previous generation of rulers have failed miserably on many fronts. It is not surprising that so many people have become nostalgic for earlier, more successful eras in the Church’s history, even if their vision of the past is skewed by romantic notions... The Church is clearly in decline and its ability to influence society is weakening.