Jeanie Hannaman

By Msgr. Charles Fink, The Catholic Thing - But what Jesus’ friends and followers experienced on Easter morning and the days thereafter was impossible.  They had seen him scourged to within an inch of his life, then crucified, then pierced through the heart with a soldier’s lance, finally laid in a tomb.  There is no record before or since of anybody’s having endured all that, only to come back, scars, wounds and all, but fresh as a daisy, more alive than ever, capable of things no ordinary living person was ever capable of.

By Matt Archbold, National Catholic Register - In an age obsessed with scanning, measuring and proving, the Shroud invites modern minds to reconsider the Resurrection — and the God behind it... “Know this first of all, that in the last days, scoffers will come with scoffing, living according to their own desires.” — 2 Peter 3:3... It is perhaps the most famous piece of cloth in the world. For centuries, the Shroud of Turin has captivated the imaginations of the devout, the skeptical, and those unable to find the remote to turn off the History Channel during Easter Week.

By Nicole Weatherholtz, NewsMax - As the Vatican's College of Cardinals gathers next week to select a new pope, Father Gerald Murray of St. Joseph's Church in New York City told Newsmax that he expects it will pick someone with "a more traditional view of Catholic doctrine" than the late Pope Francis held... "That's going to be the big challenge for the College of Cardinals," Murray said Wednesday on "Wake Up America." "My estimation is that they're going to return to a more John Paul II-, Benedict-style and substance of governance in the church. Pope Francis did many good things, but he also caused a lot of confusion, sad to say, by contradicting John Paul II and Benedict."