Jeanie Hannaman

By Darrick Taylor, Crisis Magazine - I am not at all surprised His Holiness intervened to provide cover for Cardinal Cupich, since he is both a friend and, by all accounts, a benefactor—as Cupich is believed to have played a role in his rise to the throne of St. Peter. But his comments are revealing for other reasons. In them, His Holiness repeated opinions about the death penalty which confirm that, at least on that issue (and others), he is indeed a “progressive” who appears to equate the death penalty with abortion in terms of moral gravity. It is also revealing because of the way he framed the issue using political terms, “prolife” being a term associated with public policy and not Catholic doctrine.

By McKenna Snow, Catholic Vote - A new actor has been cast to play Jesus in the 2027 two-part film The Resurrection of the Christ, Mel Gibson’s long-awaited sequel to the 2004 movie The Passion of the Christ, according to Variety... Finnish actor Jaakko Ohtonen, 36, will be stepping into the lead role, replacing Jim Caviezel, who portrayed Jesus in the first movie... The reason for the changes is reportedly due to expenses... Variety reported that a source close to the production told the outlet that the studio would have had to digitally de-age people’s faces in the sequel, which “would have been very costly.”