Jeanie Hannaman

By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing - I’m hardly the only one to have had such an unforgettable, life-changing experience there. During Vespers at Notre Dame on Christmas Day 1886, the great modern poet Paul Claudel, previously a non-believer, recorded, “In an instant, my heart was touched, and I believed.”... For all its tumultuous history since the French Revolution, Notre Dame has still been, you might say, the beating heart of France.

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - Whatever else you read today, don’t miss the opinion by Justice Neil Gorsuch in the Supreme Court case of Dr. A v. Kathy Hochul... Unfortunately, Justice Gorsuch was writing in dissent. The Court’s majority ruled against health-care workers in New York, who had said that mandatory vaccination violates their religious freedom, since it requires them to violate their consciences (by taking a vaccine developed with the use of fetal tissues) or lose their jobs.

By Casey Chalk, Crisis Magazine - In the affluent West, even with slightly declining life expectancies—and a pandemic that has claimed thousands of lives—it can be easy to downplay or simply ignore our mortality. If we take reasonably good care of ourselves and have a decent health insurance policy, we have a good chance of living into our 70s, if not 80s or 90s. But for many Christians around the world, especially those in Muslim-majority countries, that’s often not the case.

By Robert L. Judge, Catholic East Texas - The Church teaches that faith is a theological virtue. This means faith comes from God as a gift and not something that we obtain on our own. The Catechism of the Catholic Church confirms this when it says, “Faith is a gift from God, a supernatural virtue infused by him” (153)... But we often hear people claim that they do not have faith. If someone claims they do not have faith, does that mean God has chosen not to give this person the gift of faith?