Jeanie Hannaman

By Peter Wolfgang, Catholic Culture - This is not unique to Generation X, of course. There were good people fighting these—or other—battles long before us. And good people will be fighting these—or other—battles long after us. My point is not to dunk on any other generation. Only to note the good fortune of mine—or that portion of mine—who were blessed to be young when Pope St. John Paul II outlined his bracing vision of a culture of life marching against a culture of death. And who chose to follow that vision, instead of the lesser ones which the world urged on us.

By Dave Armstrong, National Catholic Register - In the Old Testament sacrificial system, there was a difference between the sacrifice itself and the offering of the sacrifice to God... The Bible describes the procedure that took place on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), in Leviticus 16:11-16. First, the sacrifice was made by the high priest, and then blood was taken from it (both from a bull and a goat) into the Holy of Holies (the holiest part — the inner sanctum — of the Temple, and the Tabernacle, before the Temple) and sprinkled onto the mercy seat between the two cherubim, which was above the ark of the covenant, where God was specially present (Exodus 30:6).