Jeanie Hannaman

By Tyler Arnold, CNA - A criminal investigation into the Archdiocese of New Orleans is based on a suspicion that it may be linked to child sex trafficking, according to allegations presented in a search warrant granted to Louisiana State Police... The affidavit requesting the search warrant... alleges that multiple sex abuse victims provided statements that claim they were transported to other parishes and outside of Louisiana, where they were sexually abused. It further alleges a scheme within the archdiocese in which abused children were instructed to provide “gifts” to certain priests, which were meant to signal that the children were targets for sexual abuse.

By Matthew Becklo, Catholic World Report - Tim Sullivan’s recent piece for the AP on the state of the (Catholic) Church in America ... Sullivan looks at recent developments at St. Maria Goretti parish in Madison, Wisconsin, and Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, arguing that they’re emblematic of a broader shift across the U.S. toward a “new, old” Church: Latin and Gregorian chant in the liturgy, cassocks, and habits on priests and religious, and dogma and doctrine back in the conversation.

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - Was it sheer frustration that prompted a group of Catholic scholars to issue their open letter charging Pope Francis with heresy?... Thus began a piece that I posted here exactly five years ago today. The same question now arises in response to a new statement, signed by many of the same people, demanding the Pope’s resignation... As I said in 2019, so I repeat today: I share the frustration. But as I also remarked five years ago: Who could make the authoritative judgment that the Pope had fallen into heresy and therefore lost his authority? Certainly not a handful of independent scholars. ...