Jeanie Hannaman

By Eric Sammons, Crisis Magazine - It’s been noted by many people that Catholicism in real life often bears little resemblance to Catholicism online. If, for example, you went to a typical Catholic parish and took a poll asking, “Is Francis the pope?” you’d likely get a 100% positive response... Yet if you spend even a little time interacting with Catholics on social media, it won’t be long before you encounter someone insisting that “Jorge Bergoglio isn’t really the pope.”

By Auguste Meyrat, Crisis Magazine - In response to the Dutch government’s new environmental regulations that would universally hinder farmers and effectively put at least 30 percent of them out of business, farmers took to the streets to protest. Many of them blocked roadways with their tractors and even set bales of hay on fire in front of various city halls. As one Dutch farmer put it, “We cannot invest. Our fathers, our uncles, cannot invest in the future. And so as young farmers we also have no prospect of…taking over a farm.”