Jeanie Hannaman

By Rev. Peter M.J. Stravinskas, Catholic World Report - Did you ever walk into a theater while the last showing was still going on, so that you saw the end of the film before the beginning? That is something like the experience Peter, James, and John must have had on Mount Tabor, as they got a kind of sneak preview of Jesus’ glory. Peter especially loved it up there on that mountain. It was comfortable; there was no suffering; there were no enemies, only close friends. And Peter wanted to stay.

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - Of course that conclusion is not a new discovery. Ralph Martin, Eduardo Echeverria, and Edward Peters are only the latest in a fairly long line of loyal Catholics who have been dismissed from their posts not because of any misconduct or incompetence, but because their views, while fully in keeping with orthodox Catholic thought, were uncongenial to their ecclesiastical superiors. Anyone who works for the Church—as seminary instructor or religious-education director or newspaper editor or music director—could face the same fate. ...

By Veronica Burchard, Crisis Magazine - What Does Rerum Novarum Really Say?... As I read it, disbelief gave way to outrage. How misled I had been! This was no evenhanded critique of socialism on the one hand and capitalism on the other! It was a strong condemnation of socialism backed by a vigorous, principled defense of private property and the family. And, even more radically for our day, it was an explanation of why socialism hurts the poor rather than helps them. ...