Jeanie Hannaman

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.”

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - Unfortunately, with rare exceptions, it has been a consistent pattern in the current pontificate to emphasize the good things which our dominant culture already recognizes as good (concern for the environment, fraternity among peoples, affirmation of the other, etc.), while downplaying the goods which the dominant culture abhors (such as privileging the truth, rejecting cultural falsehoods, and understanding the common good in terms of the natural law). This requires neither faith nor repentance but merely self-interest, and so it is self-defeating. ...