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Jeanie Hannaman – Page 210 – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Jeanie Hannaman

October 20, 2025

Non-Catholic Prime Minister Receives Communion at St Peter’s, by Niwa Limbu

By Niwa Limbu, Catholic Herald - The Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, received Catholic Communion in St Peter’s Square yesterday, despite not being a Catholic... According to Catholic teaching, the Eucharist is reserved for those in full communion with the Church — baptised Catholics who affirm this teaching and who are spiritually prepared to receive it. Non-Catholics are normally excluded, except in rare cases where they share the Church’s faith in the Eucharist and cannot access a minister of their own community.

October 18, 2025

Bishop Michael F. Burbidge’s Statement on President Trump’s Fertility Care Benefit and IVF Advocacy

By Most Rev. Michael F. Burbidge, Catholic Diocese of Arlington, VA - The White House yesterday announced new fertility initiatives intended to promote the growth of American families. President Trump announced the creation of a new optional fertility insurance benefit that will allow employers to offer a range of fertility care services alongside longstanding medical, dental, and vision benefits. Certainly, this is a welcome opportunity for all employers, and especially for the Church and its apostolates, to enhance their healthcare coverage by offering new or expanded coverage for ethical fertility care, including treatments like NaProTechnology that address and resolve underlying causes of infertility. Unfortunately, the White House is also promoting unethical and unjust IVF procedures as a part of its fertility initiative.

October 18, 2025

Deacon Michael Bickerstaff: What Does Living for the Kingdom Look Like?

By Deacon Michael Bickerstaff, Integrated Catholic Life - The wealthier and more comfortable we become, the more we seem to forget the outward-focused life God has called us to live. The two great commandments – love your God and love your neighbor – become lost in a life that is turned in on itself... Many of you would agree that one of the great errors and sins of our time is self-absorption. It would appear from our readings that the same was true in Israel during the life of Christ and also eight centuries earlier when Amos preached and wrote God’s prophetic message.

October 18, 2025

Daily Scripture Readings and Meditations: The Holy Spirit Will Teach You What to Say

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word - Luke 12:8-12 - 8 "And I tell you, every one who acknowledges me before men, the Son of man also will acknowledge before the angels of God; 9 but he who denies me before men will be denied before the angels of God. 10 And every one who speaks a word against the Son of man will be forgiven; but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. ...

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