Jeanie Hannaman

February 11, 2025

Catholic Organization That Funds Pro-Abortion Groups Lays Off 50% of Its Staff After Losing USAID Funds, by Steven Ertelt, Grace Porto, Joshua Mercer

By Steven Ertelt, Grace Porto, Joshua Mercer, LifeNews - A Catholic organization that funds pro-abortion groups has laid off 50% of its staff after losing USAID funds... Catholic Relief Services (CRS) was the top recipient of funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Forbes reported Feb. 3... According to Forbes, CRS, a nonprofit, received $4.6 billion from 2013 to 2022... At the same time, CRS has been the subject of controversy in the past for supporting pro-abortion aid programs.

February 11, 2025

Vandals Within, by Anthony Esolen

By Anthony Esolen, The Catholic Thing - Cultural knowledge is evaporating, so – let’s make sure that missives from bishops use the lingo of contemporary journalism, vaporous and ridden with cliches, and let’s discourage priests from spending time to unfold the meaning of Scripture... Let’s talk about the “marginalized,” and not bother to notice the children right in front of our noses, seething with resentment because their divorced parents have married again and pitched them into chaos. ...

February 11, 2025

Altar Rails and Borders, by R. R. Reno

By R. R. Reno, First Things - Catholicism in the United States and Europe is heading toward trouble. The presenting issue is immigration. Vice President JD Vance criticized the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops for their hostility to “commonsense immigration enforcement.” Cardinal Timothy Dolan issued a testy response, calling Vance’s remarks “scurrilous.”... The American bishops are trying to cleave to the Vatican line on this issue. Pope Francis is always critical of those who propose to tighten border enforcement and limit immigration.

February 11, 2025

U.S. Hospitals Canceling Child ‘Trans’ Treatments Following Trump’s Order, by Susan Berry, Ph.D.

By Susan Berry, Ph.D., CatholicVote - Several major children’s hospitals in the United States have stopped giving puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and trans-related surgeries to minors in the wake of President Donald Trump’s executive order that threatens to withhold federal funding from institutions that continue the harmful treatments and procedures... On Jan. 28, Trump signed an executive order titled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” in which he affirmed: “Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions.