Jeanie Hannaman

By Fr. Kevin Drew, Crisis Magazine - (Recently) I was home visiting my mother, and there was a bulletin on her table from St. Francis parish, brought over by my sister who attends early morning Mass.  Inside the bulletin in big black font was the phrase “Pray for Vocations.”  Directly above the phrase was the liturgical minister assignments for the weekend Masses.  In the “Altar Server” column, there was 1 boy and 11 girls.  In the “Communion Ministers” column, there were 5 men and 25 women.  The column for “Greeter” contained 1 man and 7 women... The parish was told to pray for priests while its sanctuary was flooded with women and girls.

By Father Jeffrey Kirby, National Catholic Register - On this Memorial Day, we pause as a nation and remember those who have died in defense of our freedoms. As we honor our fallen heroes, we can best revere their memory by extolling the virtues they exemplified... Some years ago, I was visiting Arlington National Cemetery and came across a large headstone that had the simple inscription “Pietas.” There were no names or dates or accolades on the stone, as if to say this one word said it all... When the Latin word pietas is translated into English, we have the word “piety.” Regrettably, piety has an effeminate connotation in some corners and in general the English word doesn’t hold the gravitas of the Latin term.