Jeanie Hannaman

By Rev. Michael P. Orsi, CNSNews - Carli Pierson, an attorney and member of the USA TODAY editorial board, recently revealed in an op-ed that she’s “someone who occasionally goes to Mass.” Like many intermittent Catholics, she feels empowered to criticize the Church for being out of touch with the realities of life today.

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.

By Darrick Taylor, Crisis Magazine - That younger priests are drawn to the older rite and to traditional spirituality I have long known, but seeing this priest made visible for me the generational divide within the priesthood today. It is one of those topics that can be delicate to speak of but is almost impossible to ignore: younger priests care more about orthodoxy, liturgy, and tradition than those ordained in previous decades.

By Carl R. Trueman, First Things - Years ago, when teaching at a seminary, I was responsible for the course on the ancient church. In every class I have ever taught, I have regarded it as my chief task to introduce students to the great primary texts on the subject at hand; in this course, I made sure that they became acquainted with John Chrysostom’s On the Priesthood. ....