Jeanie Hannaman

By Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing - Should Catholics celebrate St. Valentine’s Day?  The best recommendation for celebrating it at all, I think, is that in our tradition three different martyred saints have been called “Valentine,” and the feast day for all three of them is February 14th... At least so states the Catholic Encyclopedia, in an article by judicious scholar, Fr. Herbert Thurston, S.J., famous for his skepticism about legends: One is described as a priest at Rome, another as bishop of Interamna (modern Terni), and these two seem both to have suffered in the second half of the third century ...

By Fr. Brian A. Graebe, The Catholic Thing - This year marks the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, arguably the most consequential gathering in Christian history. The still-young Church, then emerging from centuries of persecution, found itself torn apart by a debate over the identity of Jesus Christ... The crisis began when a priest from Alexandria in Egypt named Arius argued – contrary to the long-standing but as-yet-undefined Catholic position – that the Son, the Second Person of the Trinity, was created by God the Father. For the Arians, Jesus was the highest creature, the closest to the Father, but was not co-equal and co-eternal with Him.