Jeanie Hannaman

By  Gavin Ashenden, The Catholic Herald - It’s not that I’m jealous of Fr Mike Schmitz and his success in producing an app that takes you through the Catechism in one year – and which has been downloaded millions of times – but I’m certainly inspired. The Catechism is one of the richest resources in the Catholic Church; Protestantism falls apart into thousands of splinters without an authoritative presentation of what the Church believes and teaches... It’s one of the reasons so many people convert to Catholicism from Protestant denominations. In a society where so many people feel cast adrift without moorings, there is an ever-increasing hunger for something that contains the ring of truth .....

By Matthew McDonald, National Catholic Register - A Catholic CIA director had previously unknown back-channel dealings with two popes during the 1960s, according to a memo in the newly released JFK files... But what those dealings were isn’t clear... The revelation, reported by The New York Times on Friday, turned up at the end of a June 1973 seven-page memo from a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency employee that is part of the thousands of documents pertaining to President John F. Kennedy. President Donald Trump ordered the documents released shortly after taking office in January 2025.

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - Vatican officials assure us that Rupnik will face a canonical trial—eventually. But even before a judgment is passed, in light of his notoriety, wouldn’t it seem obvious that the Vatican should not be featuring his work? Yet Vatican News—a part of the Dicastery for Communications, which in theory should present the Church to the world in the best possible light—continues to give Rupnik special prominence. The use of his work can no longer be dismissed as oversight of happenstance; it is deliberate. The cries of outrage, and the continued suffering of Rupnik’s victims, have no impact. The Vatican is not listening.