Jeanie Hannaman

February 17, 2025

Rev. Jerry J. Pokorsky: The Church’s Dysfunctional Culture of “Respect and Obedience”

By Rev. Jerry J. Pokorsky, The Catholic Thing - Subservience is ever ancient, ever new. In that respect, the hierarchy of the Church is not much different than the hierarchies of business and government. But servile obedience can foster a culture of self-destructive tyranny even within the institutional Church... By God’s design, the Church is a hierarchy, not a democracy. The successor of Saint Peter is at the top of the pyramid – or, from another point of view, at the bottom of an inverted pyramid. The office of the papacy identifies the pope as the “servant of the servants.”

February 17, 2025

Americans Should Feel Uneasy About the New Archbishop of Washington, by Damian Thompson

By Damian Thompson, The Spectator - Pope Francis is a surprisingly partisan observer of American politics. For most of his life he was, like a typical Argentinean, viscerally but vaguely anti-American. By the time he became pope in 2013, he and the Democratic Party had embraced the ideology of the globalist left. And so they forged an alliance — one the Pope may soon regret, now that Republicans in the White House and on Capitol Hill are beginning to grasp the scale of the Vatican’s corruption.

February 17, 2025

Catholics Should Care About Monetary Policy, by David Brady

By David Brady, Crisis Magazine - One of the most fascinating aspects of politics in the late-19th century was the deeply ideological nature of discourse. Average citizens had opinions not just on hot-button social issues and perhaps loose convictions on the size of government, but they had opinions on complex topics like monetary policy as well... Monetary policy is a term that scares normal people... But monetary policy is vitally important, and it should be cared about once more, especially by Catholics.

February 17, 2025

How Trump Could Transcend Reagan To Be The Greatest Life-Affirming President Ever, by Judie Brown

By Judie Brown, The Federalist - In his first weeks as president, Donald J. Trump dove right in and took some significant pro-life actions. He started by signing the Mexico City Policy, which prevents federal money from funding out-of-country abortions. He pardoned jailed pro-lifers and released them from prison. He removed Biden’s pro-abortion government website. He penned an executive order declaring that life begins at conception. And he enforced the Hyde Amendment, which bars federal funds from paying for domestic abortions... These actions all mark incredible strides in the effort to return our country to a nation that respects and cherishes all human beings, but they are only a start.