Jeanie Hannaman

February 21, 2025

At CPAC, Vance Talks Faith, Says Policies Should Help ‘Choose Life’ and ‘Start Families’, by Tyler Arnold

By Tyler Arnold, CNA - U.S. Vice President JD Vance advocated for government policies and cultural values that encourage Americans to “choose life” and “start families” during an interview on the main stage of the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Feb. 20 in National Harbor, Maryland... “[People need to] stop thinking about babies as inconveniences to be discarded,” Vance said in a Thursday morning interview with Mercedes Schlapp (CPAC)... “We’ve got to start thinking of them as blessings to cherish,” Vance said. Washington, D.C. Newsroom

February 21, 2025

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Issues Health and Human Services Guidance: ‘There Are Only Two Sexes’, by Kate Quiñones

By Kate Quiñones for CNA - HHS stated Wednesday that “there are only two sexes, female and male,” defining sex as “unchangeable and determined by objective biology.”... The announcement comes in the wake of President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14168, which affirms the biological reality of sex, as well as Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation last week as secretary of the HHS... “There are only two sexes, female and male, because there are only two types of gametes... An individual human is either female or male based on whether the person is of the sex characterized by a reproductive system with the biological function of producing eggs (ova) or sperm.”

February 21, 2025

Overcoming Spiritual Dryness, by Bill Kifer

By Bill Kifer, Catholic Exchange - When I was little, I watched my mother prepare bread. After mixing the ingredients, she’d sprinkle dusty, sweet flour on the counter and push the heels of her hands deep into the dough. She kneaded until it became a spongy mound and the flour had vanished. She’d place it in a bowl and cover it with a towel... “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened” (Mt. 13:33). This was the purpose of my mother’s kneading, to thoroughly mix the yeast with the other ingredients. ...

February 21, 2025

WATCH: Bishops Insult The Faithful By Declaring They DESERVE YOUR TAX DOLLARS, by Anthony Stine

By Anthony Stine, Return to Tradition, YouTube - Plus: A Modernist Priest And An Anglican Priestess walk into a bar… When your argument for why you need to continue with a deeply unpopular financial program is based entirely on emotional manipulation you've got problems.