Jeanie Hannaman

March 25, 2025

RFK Jr. and the Approaching Death of Major Media, by Scott McKay

By Scott McKay, The American Spectator - It’s been rumored for quite some time, and on Monday it popped all over X: Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to announce very soon that pharmaceutical advertising on television will be a thing of the past... There are many facets to this. You’ll hear from some quarters that it’s a First Amendment issue, that pharmaceutical companies should have the right to advertise just like any other legal business can. That’s one argument. Another argument is that only the U.S.A. and New Zealand allow drug ads on the tube, or at least prescription drug ads.

March 25, 2025

Why Tolkien Made March 25 the Day the Ring Was Destroyed, by Joseph Pearce

By Joseph Pearce, National Catholic Register - It is unlikely that many people will think that Frodo Baggins, the diminutive hero of The Lord of the Rings, has much to do with the season of Lent. What has a hobbit to do with the habit of fasting? What has The Lord of the Rings to do with the Lord who died for us on the cross? What on earth has Middle-earth to do with the reason for the Lenten season?... These are good questions to which J. R. R. Tolkien hints at an answer when he says that “The Lord of the Rings is, of course, a fundamentally religious and Catholic work.”

March 25, 2025

Fr. Jerry Pokorsky: Intrinsically Evil Acts and Repentance

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture - An “intrinsically evil act” is evil in itself. Presumed mitigating circumstances and good intentions cannot transform the nature of an intrinsically evil act into a good act. The Church clusters inherently evil acts around the Ten Commandments: blasphemy, murder, adultery, contraception, fornication, theft, lies, and so on. We are quick to notice the intrinsic evil speck in the eye of others but fail to see the intrinsic evil plank in our own eye (to bungle the words of Jesus).

March 25, 2025

Children: Culture, and Demography, by Joseph Shaw, PhD

By Joseph Shaw, PhD, OnePeterFive - Over the last decade or two, we have become used to the fact that we are facing a demographic winter. For some time this fact had to struggle to be heard, because of the entrenched idea that the problem was the opposite, a population explosion that would overwhelm the world’s capacity to produce food. Although this theory was dominant in the 1970s and 1980s, and lingers to this day in some circles, it was always very dubious and for a long time now has been clearly false. ...