Jeanie Hannaman

Fr. Nnamdi Moneme, OMV, Catholic Exchange - The risen Christ met His disciples behind locked doors, when they were afraid and terrified: “On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst” (Jn. 20:19-31). And what did Jesus do then?... He did not try to drive the Jews away and prevent His disciples from any imminent harm. Neither did He ask His disciples to double-lock the doors for their safety. On the contrary, He offered them inner peace—that which He had won for them by His passion, death, and resurrection. “Peace be with you,” Jesus said.

By Janet E. Smith, Crisis Magazine - Many who have written on the needed characteristics of the next pope have said such things as “The next pope needs to call the bishops to proclaim the faith boldly; to restore respect for the sacraments; to unify the polarized elements of the Church.” Few pundits note that purging the Church of the Lavender Mafia, of the homosexual priests and bishops who run the Church, is arguably the most important and the most difficult of all tasks a new pope will face.

By Thomas V. Mirus, Catholic Culture - St. Alphonsus Liguori wrote in Uniformity with God’s Will: We must unite ourselves to God’s will not only in things that come to us directly from his hands, such as sickness, desolation, poverty, death of relatives, but likewise in those we suffer from man—for example, contempt, injustice, loss of reputation, loss of temporal goods and all kinds of persecution. On these occasions we must remember that whilst God does not will the sin, he does will our humiliation, our poverty, or our mortification, as the case may be. ....