Jeanie Hannaman

March 3, 2025

Daily Scripture Readings and Meditations: Give – and You Will Have Treasure in Heaven

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word - Mark 10:17-27 - 17 And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" 18 And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. 19 You know the commandments: `Do not kill, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.'" 20 And he said to him, "Teacher, all these I have observed from my youth." ....

March 3, 2025

Bishop Donald J. Hying: The Church’s “Ultimate Trial”

By Bishop Donald J. Hying, Catholic World Report - CCC # 675: The Church’s ultimate trial. Before Christ’s second coming, the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. The persecution which accompanies her pilgrimage on earth will unveil “the mystery of iniquity” in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh.

March 3, 2025

The Politicization of Procreation, by John M. Grondelski

By John M. Grondelski, The Catholic Thing - A recent issue of The Atlantic carried Kristen Brown’s report, “The Coming Democratic Baby Bust,” which argues that the first Trump Administration was marked by a sharp fall in births in Democratic locales. Brad Wilcox from the Institute of Family Studies (IFS) and the University of Virginia has also just brought out a study speaking of a “Trump bump,” offering statistics that during Trump I, Republican counties had higher than expected fertility, Democratic ones lower ....

March 3, 2025

How the Trump Administration Can Support Healthy Marriage, by Rachel Sheffield

By Rachel Sheffield, Daily Signal - Vance also touted President Donald Trump as being “the most pro-family, most pro-life American president of our lifetimes.”... The most pro-life and pro-child institution that exists is marriage. Healthy marriage is the bedrock of healthy families and children. Declining marriage rates drive down birth rates. Married women are far less likely to have an abortion. And children raised by their married parents have on average the best outcomes on a host of factors: physical and emotional health, educational achievement, and poverty risk.