Jeanie Hannaman

May 2, 2025

Cardinal Dolan, Bishop Barron to Serve on Trump’s New Religious Liberty Commission, by Tyler Arnold

By Tyler Arnold, CNA - Two members of the Catholic hierarchy in the United States — Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Bishop Robert Barron — have been tapped to serve on a new presidential commission on religious liberty created by President Donald Trump on Thursday, May 1... Trump signed an executive order creating the Religious Liberty Commission in the White House Rose Garden surrounded by faith leaders from various traditions. The announcement coincided with the country’s National Day of Prayer.

May 2, 2025

The Brew: Trump Cleans House, Firing Signal-Gate Culprits. Will He Hire True Loyalists Now? by John Zmirak

By John Zmirak, The Stream - A month ago, when the Signal-Gate fiasco broke out (which saw a leftist, Trump-hating smear merchant, Jeffrey Goldberg, included in a highly classified military planning call), I suggested the most likely culprits were National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong. Each of them is part of the interventionist, neocon wing of the GOP... Hard-core America Firsters are celebrating this decision as a move that will help prevent a repeat of the chaos and futility of Trump’s first term in office, subverted as he was by incessant leaks, backstabs, and fake Deep State investigations. But will Trump go far enough in replacing establishment GOP obstructionists with those who genuinely support the platform he ran on? ...

May 2, 2025

Daily Scripture Readings and Meditations: The Miraculous Sign of Jesus

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word - John 6:1-15 - 1 After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. 2 And a multitude followed him, because they saw the signs which he did on those who were diseased. 3 Jesus went up on the mountain, and there sat down with his disciples. 4 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. 5 Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a multitude was coming to him, Jesus said to Philip, "How are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?" 6 This he said to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. ...

May 2, 2025

Why I Want the Next Pope to Address the Moral Collapse of Our Digital Age

By Gia Chacón, National Catholic Register - ‘He must name the idols of our age — comfort, digital distraction, radical autonomy and indifference — and challenge us to something greater…’... The last three popes each confronted a defining crisis of their time. John Paul II stood face-to-face with the brutal realities of communism and answered them with spiritual defiance and moral clarity. Benedict XVI responded to a rising tide of relativism, defending the Church’s intellectual foundations with humility and brilliance. Francis stepped into a world fractured by violence, division and indifference, calling for encounter where the world had chosen isolation.