Jeanie Hannaman

By Kate Scanlon, EWTN News - In the midst of the pandemic, the National Catholic Bioethics Center continues its work providing consultation and education on bioethical issues in accordance with the teachings of the Catholic Church… Joseph Meaney has been at the helm of the NCBC since June 2019, when he succeeded John Haas as the center’s president… Before joining the NCBC, Meaney worked with Human Life International for 21 years, and he has a Ph.D. in bioethics from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome. He spoke recently with EWTN News producer Kate Scanlon about what drew him to the field of bioethics, the work of the NCBC and concerns presented by the current health crisis.

By Joseph Pronechen, EWTN News - The great influenza epidemic of 1918 stretched into the following year, bringing very harsh times for hundreds of millions around the world… Two of its victims, a brother and sister, became the two youngest non-martyred saints in the Catholic Church — St. Francisco Marto and St. Jacinta Marto. Of course we know them as two of the three seers of Fatima. Both suffered from the influenza and died from it and (in Jacinta’s case) its complications.