Jeanie Hannaman

CatholicVote Feed - Ukraine agreed March 11 to a US-proposed immediate 30-day ceasefire with Russia, contingent upon Russia’s reciprocal commitment... This agreement prompted the Trump administration to lift its suspension of military aid and resume intelligence sharing with Kyiv​... U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio emphasized that the success of the ceasefire now depends on Russia’s response. “The ball is now in Moscow’s court,” he stated. The ceasefire proposal encompasses a halt to all forms of combat, including frontline engagements, aerial operations, and naval activities​.

By Francis X. Maier, The Catholic Thing - The late great Henry Ford famously argued that “history is bunk.”  The past, so the reasoning goes, is a millstone around humanity’s neck, a depressing, Old World obstacle to progress.  And that’s clearly one of the conceits buried deep in the American psyche. We Americans are different.  We’re a “city upon a hill,” the kind mentioned in the Sermon on the Mount.  We’re an entirely “new order of the ages” – words, in their original Latin, that are stamped right on our nation’s Great Seal.

By Ashlynn Lemos, LifeNews - The Satanic Grotto is set to “dedicate the grounds and [the Kansas]legislature to the glory of Satan,” later this month... In a statement posted on Facebook, the group announced its intentions, saying, “We will be performing rites to the Black Mass and indulging in sacrilegious blaspheme. God will fall and Kansas will be embraced by the black flame of Lucifer. Hail Satan.” ...

By Fr. Kevin Drew, Catholic Exchange - Eight hundred years ago in Belgium, as a third of Europe was dying of the Bubonic Plague, a group of men quit their jobs and dedicated themselves to tending the sick and the dying.  They became known as the Alexian Brothers, named after St. Alexis of Rome... The new religious order distinguished itself by accepting patients no one else wanted, including those who suffered from mental disorders.  Caring for the mentally ill then became a charism of the Alexian Brothers. They came to America in the 1800s, starting hospitals in Chicago in 1866 and St. Louis in 1869.