Jeanie Hannaman

April 5, 2025

Texas AG Ken Paxton Sues San Antonio for Illegally Funding Abortion Travel, by Steven Ertelt

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the City of San Antonio on Friday, because the city illegally used taxpayer money to fund abortion travel, in violation of state law and the Texas Constitution... The lawsuit, filed in Travis County District Court, points out that San Antonio appropriated $100,000 in taxpayer funds to support abortion travel that results in killing babies, including airfare, gas reimbursements, hotel stays, and other costs. Paxton argues this allocation undermines Texas’ strict abortion laws, which ban nearly all abortions except in cases where a pregnant woman’s life or major bodily function is at risk.

April 5, 2025

Living In the End Times Does Not Give Us a Pass, by Dr. Jeff Mirus

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - Even before he became Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger had a remarkable insight into the spiritual crisis of the modern world: Creation is defined as dependence, origin ab alio [from another]. Its place is taken by the category of self-creation, which is accomplished through work. Since creation equals dependence, and dependence is the antithesis of freedom, the doctrine of creation is opposed.... Indeed, it ought to be clear by now that a fundamental rejection of our status as creatures lies at the root of a great many human problems and discontents, as well as misguided solutions. A primary example is transgenderism. ....

April 5, 2025

5 Million and Counting Ineligible Names Off Voter Rolls, by Fred Lucas

By Fred Lucas, The Daily Signal - About 5 million ineligible names were removed from voter registration rolls across the United States since 2019, Judicial Watch announced—with almost 1 million of those coming from New York City... The conservative-leaning government watchdog group has taken legal action against state and local governments for voter list maintenance under the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, which includes a requirement that election officials clear voter lists of the names of dead people, as well as the names of people that moved to another jurisdiction.

April 5, 2025

Daily Scripture Readings and Meditations: Reaction to Jesus’ Words

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word - John 7:40-53 - 40 When they heard these words, some of the people said, "This is really the prophet." 41 Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "Is the Christ to come from Galilee? 42 Has not the scripture said that the Christ is descended from David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?" 43 So there was a division among the people over him. 44 Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him. ...