Jeanie Hannaman

April 1, 2025

Saint of the Day for April 1: Hugh of Grenoble

By Franciscan Media - Today’s saint could be a patron for those of us who feel so overwhelmed by all the problems in the world that we don’t know where to begin... Hugh, who served as a bishop in France for 52 years, had his work cut out for him from the start. Corruption seemed to loom in every direction: the buying and selling of Church offices ...

March 31, 2025

Virtue Over Individualism Is the Call That Leads to True Flourishing, by Thomas Casemore

By Thomas Casemore, Catholic Herald - In a recent ethics lesson, I introduced a class to the concept of Virtue Ethics. Not all of my pupils were entirely convinced, something which shouldn’t have surprised me given the zeitgeist in which these young students are steeped... Virtue Ethics, in brief, is an Aristotelian ethical theory that seeks to find the “golden mean” between the vices of excess and deficiency. This “golden mean” is a virtuous characteristic... Such virtuous acts, Aristotle says, should then be repeated until they become habit. And then, by becoming habit, they become embodied as character.

March 31, 2025

Can JD Vance Deliver a Commencement Address At a Catholic University? by David G. Bonagura, Jr.

By David G. Bonagura, Jr.. Catholic World Report - Vice President JD Vance is currently the rock star of the conservative Catholic world. His youth, style, upbringing, conversion, young family, and proximity to President Donald Trump have collided to make him the runaway favorite in a CPAC poll ranking the potential 2028 GOP presidential candidates... When Vance was announced as a special speaker at the March for Life on January 24, 2025, he instantly overshadowed the previously announced keynote, Governor Ron DeSantis, a fellow Catholic and one of the most successful pro-life politicians our nation has known.

March 31, 2025

Reflections on the Counter-Revolution in America, by Victor Davis Hanson

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness - When Donald Trump entered office, he faced a number of choices that had confronted the last three Republican presidents, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush. They all had the choice to either shrink government and reduce deficits or slow government growth while cutting taxes... They had the choice of using American power to restore deterrence by invading belligerents (e.g., Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan) or targeting enemies without deploying ground troops to change governments.