Jeanie Hannaman

April 9, 2025

Brian Goes to Washington, by Joshua Mercer

By Joshua Mercer, Catholic Vote - I just got off the phone with Brian... Today’s hearing was a moment of immense pride for American Catholics to see a faithful member of our Church, a devoted husband and father of nine, testify to the shared goals of our great nation and our Church: a deep and authentic human flourishing... During the hearing, Brian noted a few of the common interests the Holy See shares with the United States – resolving the many wars around the world, protecting human life, ending human trafficking, giving relief to persecuted Christians around the globe, and promoting religious freedom for all.

April 9, 2025

There Will Come Soft Rains, by Francis X. Maier

By Francis X. Maier, The Catholic Thing - I was reminded of this recently while reading yet another lurid tale about Elon Musk. Musk is now something of a hate magnet. He’s routinely cast as the dangerous, unelected Tech Bro of Washington’s Boogeyman-in-Chief. A late March Wall Street Journal report highlighted the DOGE master’s role in disrupting NASA’s plans for a return to the moon. According to the Journal, Musk has pressed the agency to pursue a manned mission to Mars instead. This would arguably benefit his own company, SpaceX, in a perceived conflict of interest. And it would fit very comfortably with Musk’s lifelong personal goal of colonizing Mars. “Occupy Mars” is the slogan on his favorite tee shirt.

April 9, 2025

What Would It Take to Destroy the United States? by Victor Davis Hanson

By Victor Davis Hanson, The Daily Signal - Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I was looking at the news this week and I thought of an experiment. What if you really wanted to destroy the United States? What if you’d had ill intention for America? What would you do? What agenda would you pursue?.... And then I started thinking of civilizations. What was the stuff of civilizations that made them work? And it’s basic: their borders, their finances, their unity, their fuel, their food. So, if you really wanted to, in civilizational terms, destroy the United States, the first thing I would do if I were an enemy of the United States is I would destroy the borders.

April 9, 2025

Fr. Jeffrey Kirby: During Passiontide, the Church Doubles Down on Lent

By Father Jeffrey Kirby, National Catholic Register - Laetare (“Rejoice”) Sunday was a gracious pause to our Lenten penance. After enjoying its light-heartedness, the Church now doubles down. With the flowers, music and rose vestments of Laetare Sunday behind us, we are now called by the Church into the somber “second phase” of Lent. It is time for us to enter Passiontide... During the first part of the Lenten season, we focused on examining where we stand in our own relationship with the Lord Jesus and on acts of penance, as we try to heed the call of St. Paul: ....