Jeanie Hannaman

By Father Nnamdi Moneme, Integrated Catholic Life - At the end of one of my talks to a lay group on heroic charity and sanctity, one of the attendees said to me, “You know, Father, I just cannot practice such selfless charity. Jesus can do so because He is God, but I am only human.” I cannot tell you how many times I have heard that last line... Yes, we will always be human. We can never be divine like Jesus nor like the angels. But how true is it that we are only human? Are we left at the mercy of our natural powers alone? We will surely feel that heroic charity and sanctity are impossible for us when we come to see ourselves as only human ....

By Joseph Pearce, Catholic World Report - “We are builders of bridges, not of walls,” said Bishop Giovanni Angelo Becciu, a senior member of the Roman Curia, in January 2017. His words were a reaction to President Trump’s ordering restrictions on immigration during the present incumbent’s first term of office... The best way to respond to Bishop Becciu’s words would be to remind him of the social teaching of the Catholic Church and especially the teaching of subsidiarity. The Church’s teaching on subsidiarity, as iterated and reiterated in papal encyclicals by Leo XIII, Pius XI and John Paul II, is that matters ought to be handled at multiple appropriate levels of organization and should not be devolved to large central governments.