Jeanie Hannaman

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - The daily news provides us with innumerable stories which could have been uplifting but instead have become horror stories because of patently bad decisions. Of course, a few stories are the direct result of good decisions. But in general, good decisions do not make news unless they are strong decisions running against the general tide of public opinion (in which case they will be widely lamented as stunningly bad decisions).

By Msgr. Charles Fink, The Catholic Thing - Father Charles Fink, on the current Vatican determination to suppress the traditional Mass: "After all, it’s a lot easier to bully a little guy who is no threat to anyone than to stand up to real bullies who have on their side most of the media, including the entertainment industry, and so much of the West’s intelligentsia."

By Peter M.J. Stravinskas, Catholic World Report - St. Thomas Aquinas wrote: “The wind symbolizes the temptations and persecution the Church will suffer due to lack of love. For, as St. Augustine says, when love grows cold, the sea becomes rougher and the boat begins to founder. Yet the wind, the storm, the waves and the darkness will fail to put it off course and wreck it.” As Our Lord chides the Apostles, we should hear Him speaking to us as well, 2000 years later: “Why are you afraid? Have you no faith?”