Jeanie Hannaman

March 14, 2025

Independent Catholic News: ‘Open Borders’ Bishop To Lead Border Wall March

By Independent Catholic News, (Complicit Clergy) - On the Memorial of St Oscar Romero, Monday, 24 March at 6pm, in San Jacinto Plaza in downtown El Paso, Texas, the Hope Border Institute, Bishop Mark J Seitz of the Diocese of El Paso and local community leaders and organizations will hold a March & Vigil in Solidarity with Migrants. The March and Vigil will take place against the background of the closure of the US-Mexico border to asylum seekers, harsh rhetoric against those who have immigrated to the United States, and threats of mass deportation.

March 14, 2025

Christmas in Lent, by Michael Pakaluk

By Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing - The earliest day that Ash Wednesday can fall is February 4th. The Christmas season most liberally construed lasts until Candlemas, the Feast of the Presentation, on February 2nd. Therefore, it would be possible for the Christmas season to go directly into Lent with just one day in between, Mardi Gras. This is not common. The last time it happened was 1818, and the next will be 2285. In any case, we see that it is possible for Christmas and Lent to be conjoined but impossible for them to overlap.

March 14, 2025

Saint of the Day for March 14: St. Maximilian (274 – March 12, 295)

By Franciscan Media - We have an early, almost unembellished account of the martyrdom of Saint Maximilian in modern-day Algeria... Brought before the proconsul Dion, Maximilian refused enlistment in the Roman army saying, “I cannot serve, I cannot do evil. I am a Christian.”... Dion replied: “You must serve or die.”... “I will never serve. You can cut off my head, but I will not be a soldier of this world, for I am a soldier of Christ. My army is the army of God, and I cannot fight for this world. I tell you I am a Christian.”

March 14, 2025

Immaculate Conception: How the Church Fathers Saw Mary as the New Eve, by Dave Armstrong

By Dave Armstrong, National Catholic Register - Many Church Fathers referred to the Blessed Virgin Mary as the New Eve or Second Eve, meaning that she said Yes to God and obeyed him at the Annunciation, as opposed to Eve disobeying, leading to the fall of mankind. This was an analogy to St. Paul’s statement: “As in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive” (1 Corinthians 15:22, RSV; cf. 15:45). St. John Henry Cardinal Newman alluded to the development of this notion ....