Jeanie Hannaman

March 21, 2025

It’s Time to Defund Planned Parenthood, by John Mize, Jeffrey Barrows

By John Mize, Jeffrey Barrows, First Things - What do you call a billion-dollar corporation that annually swallows millions in government funding but fails to deliver comprehensive medical care to women? Planned Parenthood... Planned Parenthood collects $699.3 million taxpayer dollars per year—approximately $2 million taxpayer dollars per day—and claims to provide comprehensive healthcare and pregnancy services. Yet 97.1 percent of those “services” provided are elective abortions; only 1.6 percent are prenatal support.

March 21, 2025

Saint of the Day for March 21: Blessed John of Parma (1209–1289)

By Franciscan Media - The seventh general minister of the Franciscan Order, John was known for his attempts to bring back the earlier spirit of the Order after the death of Saint Francis of Assisi... He was born in Parma, Italy, in 1209. It was when he was a young philosophy professor known for his piety and learning that God called him to bid good-bye to the world he was used to and enter the new world of the Franciscan Order. After his profession, John was sent to Paris to complete his theological studies. Ordained to the priesthood, he was appointed to teach theology at Bologna, then Naples, and finally Rome.

March 21, 2025

On “Synodality”—And Why the Hydra Doesn’t Run the Church, by Dr. Jeff Mirus

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - The Vatican’s announcement of a three-year extension of the synodal process, after so much energy already expended on such an ill-defined goal, is cause for either lamentation or derision, depending on one’s mood. In either case, this is an ongoing program which I hope we can all be spared. Why? Because I am convinced that this ongoing Vatican craze is not only just another form of bureaucratic inefficiency, but also a very real danger to the the proclamation of the Gospel. It is very like putting the multi-headed Hydra of Greek mythology in charge of the Church.

March 21, 2025

Batflu Memoir, by David Warren

By David Warren, The Catholic Thing - We have “experience” now, I read in the media... Perhaps the main thing we have “learned” is that lockdowns, business closures, mask mandates, travel restrictions, quarantines, social distancing, contact tracing, &c, were either useless against the Batflu, or made it worse – the medical versions of “the process is the punishment.”... I wrote “learned” sarcastically. In fact, the worthlessness of each of these proposed remedies was fully known and demonstrated in all previous “pandemics.” The public health “experts” were in a position to warn us against each of these old wives’ tales, but falsely promoted them in the name of “science.”