Jeanie Hannaman

March 4, 2025

The Color Purple: The Hue Reflects the Reason Behind the Penitential Season, by Jack Figge

By Jack Figge, National Catholic Register - As Catholics journey towards Calvary, they undertake many particular practices and devotions during the Lenten season... For 40 days every Lenten season, purple linens adorn the altar, and priests don violet chasubles for Mass and Stations of the Cross services. Behind the practices, traditions and liturgies of Lent are a wealth of spiritual traditions and theological reasons for this 40-day spiritual journey that Catholics enter into as a period of fasting and penance to prepare to celebrate the resurrection of the Lord.

March 4, 2025

EXCLUSIVE: Cardinals Must Beware of ‘Anti-Christian’ World When Choosing a New Pope

By Michael Haynes, Snr. Vatican Correspondent, LifeSiteNews - As the Church faces deepening crises, Cardinal Gerhard Müller told LifeSiteNews that, at the next concalve, the cardinals must not look for a pope in the image of his predecessor, but rather a true successor of St. Peter who upholds Christ’s teachings without compromise... “I hope that there is in the College of Cardinals a deeper reflection about the condition and the situation of faith and the Church in this post-Christian, or anti-Christian world, the Western world,” said Gerhard Cardinal Müller.

March 4, 2025

The Stream: Be Careful: This Is Serious, by Victor Davis Hanson

By Victor Davis Hanson, The Stream - In 2016, the world was set on its ear when Donald Trump took the White House. We’ve seen what happened before and after that four-year period — and now that he’s back, White House press briefings have become the hottest thing on television. ... But if you’d like a deeper understanding of the Deep State and what Trump is actually up against, check out this hour-long lecture from Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson as he details exactly what the Left has been up to for decades, why he’s using some of the tactics you’ve seen from him so far, and why our return to normalcy is something that needs to be covered in continuous prayer.

March 4, 2025

Catholics Are Rapidly Losing Ground, by Eric Sammons

By Eric Sammons, Crisis Magazine - A new survey shows that for every 100 new Catholics, more than 800 people leave the Church. As bad as that is, the news is actually worse when we look more closely at the numbers. Radical changes are needed... Last week the Pew Research Center released a new survey on religion in America; their first major study of this type since 2014. Upon the survey’s publication, I could almost hear a collective groan from Catholics, since we’ve come to approach such polls with a sense of dread. The question isn’t, “Will it be bad?” The question is, “How bad will it be?”