Jeanie Hannaman

January 27, 2025

The Little-Known Story of John Wayne’s Deathbed Conversion to Catholicism

By The Editors, Church Pop - His first major exposure to Catholicism came from his first wife, Josephine Alicia Saenz. They married in 1933 and had four children together. She was Catholic, so they got married in a Catholic church and he agreed to raise the children Catholic... Josephine was something of a socialite, and frequently had dinner parties with other Catholics in Hollywood, including priests and nuns. They sent their children to Catholic schools. In general, he was pulled into Catholic cultural circles and spent a lot of time at Catholic churches and around Catholics.

January 27, 2025

‘Les Femmes’: Moms and Wives Defending Marriage and the Family, by Jeff Minick

By Jeff Minick, Chronicles - Among the books in my collection is Judith Martin’s Miss Manners Rescues Civilization, in which the author addresses “lapses in civility.” I dip into this hefty volume from time to time, less for edification than for the pleasure of her tart observations... In the last three years, several female writers—wives and mothers for the most part—have also sought to rescue civilization, not just from social gaffes but from the radical ideologies infecting our culture and threatening the ruin of marriage and the family...

January 27, 2025

Fr. Paul D. Scalia: The Ecclesial Body’s Authority

By Fr. Paul D. Scalia, The Catholic Thing - The Acts of the Apostles recounts Saint Paul’s conversion three different times. Some details vary, but one is constant. When Saul of Tarsus, lying on the ground outside Damascus, looks into the blinding light and asks who it is, the response is the same in each telling: “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.” Saul was forever changed by that revelation... I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. Our Lord makes no distinction between himself and his Church

January 27, 2025

Msgr. Charles Pope: On The Wonder of the Word of God – A Homily for the Third Sunday of the Year

By Msgr. Charles Pope - The gospel for this Sunday is continued next week, so I will postpone the analysis of it until then. Instead, I will focus on the first reading, from Nehemiah 8. It is a wonderful meditation on the glory and wonder of the Word of God and it deserves our attention... The background of the text is that in 587 BC, Israel had been conquered by the Babylonians and the survivors of the war were led into exile in Babylon. After 80 years the Persians conquered the Babylonians. Cyrus, King of Persia, permitted the Jews to return to the Promised Land ....