Jeanie Hannaman

By Gideon Lazar, Crisis Magazine - In a recent article, Philip Primeau argued that Jesus should not be considered a “faithful Jew.” Primeau has a very rightful concern that this turn of phrase feeds religious indifferentism and thereby discourages evangelism. Primeau is a good friend of mine, and I think he has nothing but good intentions in his article. Indeed, from our conversations about this, I think we agree with much of the substance of the matter. ...

By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú, National Catholic Register - (Pope Leo XIV) emphasized that “wherever the name of Christ is preached, injustice recedes proportionally, for, as the Apostle Paul asserts, all exploitation of man by man disappears if we are able to receive one another as brothers and sisters.”... Within this “perennial doctrine,” the Holy Father emphasized the importance of caring for the “home” that God the Father “has entrusted to us as diligent stewards, so that no one irresponsibly destroys the natural goods that speak of the goodness and beauty of the Creator.”... “Nor, much less, subjects oneself to them as a slave or worshipper of nature, since things have been given to us to attain our end of praising God and thus obtaining the salvation of our souls,” the Holy Father stated, citing St. Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises.

By Fr. Kevin Drew, Catholic Exchange - Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division... Christ warned us that families would bust apart because of Him.  Father against son and mother against daughter.  Throw a person’s in-laws into the mix, and Christ comes off as some sort of divine homewrecker... We see how our world is wrought with division.  Do we attribute this to Christ?  Of course not. The point is that Christ has to come first.  We have to love God and then love neighbor—in that order. ...