Jeanie Hannaman

By Bishop Joseph Strickland, Pillars of Faith - We live in a time when the world seems to be unraveling before our eyes. Nations are in turmoil. Wars and rumors of wars fill the headlines. Moral confusion spreads like a fog across cultures and generations. What was once clearly recognized as truth is now debated, denied, or even condemned... And many look at this and say: this is a political crisis … a cultural crisis … a failure of leadership among nations... But I say to you today: The crisis in the world is not merely a failure of governments – it is a failure of grace refused, and at times, grace neglected or obscured at the altar. 

By Peter M.J. Stravinskas, Catholic World Report - Our saint of the day, Athanasius of Alexandria, was probably born in that city between 296 and 298 A.D., a hub of the Greco-Roman world at that time, culturally, politically, intellectually, and morally. It was in that city that, centuries earlier, Jewish scholars rendered the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek, giving us the Septuagint text, used by all the authors of the New Testament. Athanasius had a stellar education, fluent in both Greek and Coptic—although he admits ignorance of Hebrew.