Jeanie Hannaman

By Kevin Wells, Crisis Magazine - For many whose homes cling to banks of the bayou—rock-ribbed Louisiana Baptists, staunch anti-papists, nonbelievers, and the long-ago fallen away—the bell echoes in the backcountry like a rooster’s crow announcing the dawn of something forgotten or pushed away. Long-closed doors to the trace of a memory begin to open and set in motion first steps back to their centuries-old Nova Scotian roots... And what a wonderful unfolding of grace this must be for Cajun-born Fr. Michael Champagne, the Religious Superior of the Community of Jesus Crucified, who, a decade ago, imagined how a Eucharistic procession down the heart of the bayou might move something deep in souls.

By Scott Ventureyra, Crisis Magazine - For decades, many assumed technology would accelerate secularization. People feared that artificial intelligence, in particular, would be the cold instrument of a transhumanist future, erasing the last remnants of faith. Yet, ironically, AI is now functioning as an apologist for God. A recent exchange between British atheist Alex O’Connor (“Cosmic Skeptic”) and ChatGPT, later reviewed by renowned Christian philosopher and theologian William Lane Craig on his Reasonable Faith podcast, demonstrated just how deeply the classical arguments for God are woven into our intellectual tradition.

By Fr. Kevin Drew, Catholic Exchange - “A gun is a tool, Marion, no better or no worse than any other tool; an axe, a shovel, or anything.” ... A newly hired ranch-hand said that to a concerned mother after she objected to the man giving her young son some shooting lessons.  It’s from the 1953 movie Shane, where a silent and kindhearted man arrives seemingly out of nowhere and helps some poor farmers in their desperate fight against a greedy, land-hungry rancher.