Jeanie Hannaman

By Matthew Balan, CNA - The proposal is to shrink the city’s parishes from 61 parishes to 26 parishes... Hundreds of Catholic residents of Baltimore packed the Cathedral of Mary, Our Queen on Tuesday evening to give their often-impassioned reactions to a process that could lead to the closure of two-thirds of the city’s parishes. ...

By Austin Ruse, Crisis Magazine - A baby was born to my daughter Gigi’s teacher in our parish Montessori school. The baby lived in the classroom for a few years. I don’t think that baby’s feet touched the ground for two full years. They kept a closely guarded list of the girls who got to carry her next... In this part of Northern Virginia, we have large families all around us. It is lovely to see teen boys gathering around to cuddle a baby. Babies are healing for everyone, little girls and teen boys.

By Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent, LifeSite News - Some 560 public Rosary rallies are expected to take place across Ireland on May 11, as Irish Catholics are urged to join in the public witness of faith organized by Ireland Needs Fatima... As has been their custom for a number of years, Irish Catholics will take to the public arena to pray the Rosary together, marking the feast of Our Lady of Fatima. Organized by the Irish Society for Christian Civilisation (ISFCC) via their Ireland Needs Fatima campaign, the Rosary rallies will be “asking God to save Ireland from today’s chaos, immorality, and secularism.”