Jeanie Hannaman

April 9, 2025

The Selective Morality of the Christian Social Justice Left and Right, by Jason Jones

By Jason Jones, Crisis Magazine - But after all these years, I’ve come to a sad conclusion: the bleeding-heart Christian social justice Left and the bold, assertive Christian Right are both willing to vigorously defend the vulnerable only when it doesn’t threaten their first-world privileges. Each side champions the vulnerable, but their fervor comes in waves, and it always stops short when the demands of justice come close to the feet of their most cherished idols.

April 9, 2025

Msgr. Charles Pope: A Different Look at the Cross

By Msgr. Charles Pope - When I was young and throughout my seminary years, I usually contemplated the crucifix and Jesus’ suffering on the Cross somberly. It was my sin that had put Him there, that had made Him suffer. The Cross was something that compelled a silent reverence in me, and suggested that I meditate deeply on what Jesus had to endure. I would often think of John, Mary, and the other women beneath the Cross, mournfully beholding Jesus’ slow, painful death.

April 9, 2025

Saying “Yes” to the Latent, Lenten Power of “No”, by Ronald L. Jelinek, Ph.D.

By Ronald L. Jelinek, Ph.D., Catholic World Report - As we approach Holy Week, perhaps we can refamiliarize ourselves with the gifts we have been given to reclaim our power of self-control. We can pray for the virtue of temperance. We can practice abstinence–both from meat on Fridays and, more generally, from other tempting things which have a hold on us. We can fast–on Good Friday, of course–but perhaps also at other times with intermittent fasting.

April 9, 2025

Congress and 18 States Poised to Defund Planned Parenthood, by Chuck Donovan

By Chuck Donovan, LifeNews - The federal government, and up to 18 state governments, are inching their way toward Medicaid defunding of affiliates of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, for many decades the nation’s premier funder and supplier of abortion... The battle has shifted back and forth over that time thanks to changes in the party holding the White House and statehouses. But it has been drawn out for another key reason, and that is the early and wily decision by Planned Parenthood’s leadership and allied groups to promote passage of multiple public funding streams that aid their programs.