Jeanie Hannaman

March 25, 2025

Protecting Kids Online Means Empowering Parents, by Ken Blackwell

By Ken Blackwell, Patriot Post - App stores must secure parental approval and age verification before a minor under 16 years old can download an app of any kind... When I was growing up in Ohio in the 1960s, there was no such thing as a private teenage world. My friends and I all knew each other’s parents, and we were held accountable for our speech and our behavior by a network of moms and dads who knew one another. While local communities were knit more closely together back then, things are very different in America today. ...

March 24, 2025

Evangelium Vitae After Thirty Years, by Richard A. Spinello

By Richard A. Spinello, Catholic World Report - John Paul II’s encyclical should serve as a constant reminder that there is no room for ambiguity, equivocation, or proportionate reasoning when it comes to the defense of human life and the need to treat all human beings... March 25, 2025, the Solemnity of the Annunciation, marks the 30th anniversary of St. Pope John Paul II’s great encyclical Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life)... This prophetic work, one of several encyclicals that focus on the key theme of anthropology, has lost none of its intellectual vigor or deep wisdom. ....

March 24, 2025

Mainline Protestant Churches Shrinking Because of Liberal, Pro-Abortion Theology, by Rachel Quackenbush

By Rachel Quackenbush, LifeNews - Progressive theological shifts may be contributing to the steep declines in both membership and finances that mainline Protestant denominations in the United States continue to face, according to a recent report from the Associated Press (AP)... While circumstances vary, the March 14 AP News report highlighted a shared pattern among several groups: internal divisions and declining participation often follow moves toward more progressive positions on doctrine and culture.

March 24, 2025

Archbishop Naumann Condemns Kansas ‘Black Mass’ As Hate Speech Targeting Catholics, by Clare Marie Merkowsky

By Clare Marie Merkowsky, LifeSiteNew - Kansas Abp. Joseph Naumann denounced the satanic “black mass” planned for later this month as “hate speech.” ... During a March 20 interview on the EWTN, Abp. Naumann described the satanic “black mass” planned for March 28 at the Kansas capitol building as “hate speech” against Catholics, stressing the importance of prayer as a spiritual weapon... “Their intention is to create chaos, and they’re exercising really hate speech... They’re simply trying to mock Christianity,” Naumann continued. “If they were trying to do this to an Islamic group or they were trying to do this to a Jewish group, I think it wouldn’t be allowed.” ...