Jeanie Hannaman

By Monica Seeley, Catholic World Report - How typical of kids to get right to the heart of things! They give me hope that, as Erika Kirk said, her husband’s voice “will remain and it will ring out louder and more clearly than ever.”... I have hope that Charlie Kirk’s death will help galvanize the pro-life movement in this country. My prayer is that his voice will be amplified by the voices of countless young people who are compelled by his death to stand up and speak out... If that’s the Charlie Kirk effect, his death will not be in vain.

By Jules Gomes, The Stream - In an unprecedented turn of events, Pope Leo XIV has capitulated to China’s decision to abolish two historic dioceses established by Pope Pius XII and to recognize, in their stead, a new diocese instituted unilaterally by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)... On September 10, the Holy See Press Office announced that Leo had agreed to the suppression of the dioceses of Xuanhua and Xiwanzi, created in 1946, to “promote the pastoral care of the Lord’s flock and to attend more effectively to its spiritual good.”... The Vatican revealed that Leo had also approved the CCP-created diocese of Zhangjiakou in place of the dioceses of Xuanhua and Xiwanzi, an ecclesiastical fabrication of the state-controlled Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (CPCA), also known as the Patriotic Church.