Jeanie Hannaman

January 20, 2021

Deadly Week Sees at Least 10 Bishops Die From COVID-19, by Inés San Martín

By Inés San Martín, Crux - A South African who’d been tapped by Pope Francis to replace Cardinal Wilfried Napier as archbishop of Durban died on Sunday of COVID-19... Archbishop Abel Gabuza was appointed by Francis as coadjutor of Durban in Dec. 2018, and had been in the hospital at least since Jan. 10, when Napier shared on Twitter that his coadjutor had tested positive for COVID-19 and was in the ICU...

January 20, 2021

Doing Justice to St. Joseph (Part 2), by Michael Pakaluk

By Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing - As a Catholic, I believe that “sola scriptura” is wrong. Scripture is not sufficient by itself as a rule of Christian faith. It’s obviously wrong, too, because Scripture cannot say what counts as Scripture or not. So the Church is necessary too... But perhaps you have tended to think of this matter along these lines: there are many things we need to believe as Christians, which are only implicit, or not even clearly stated, in Scripture. Baptism is the crucial sacrament of salvation. But infant baptism is taught only implicitly ...

January 20, 2021

My Catholic Beliefs Landed Me in Twitter Jail, by Eric Sammons

By Eric Sammons, Crisis Magazine - As we’ve all heard, Twitter and other social media platforms are intensifying their crackdown on any Wrong Opinions that might be expressed on their platforms. I decided to test Twitter’s policies by making the following tweet... I’m simply stating my own beliefs, which, although they are considered controversial today, are all simply statements of Catholic teaching or common sense... Well, Leftists are nothing if not predictable. A few days later I received a notice that this tweet had caused my account to be locked for “hateful conduct:”

January 20, 2021

Report: Joe Biden Set to Promptly Reverse Pro-Life Policies

Catholic News Agency - President-elect Joe Biden is expected to promptly roll back pro-life policies the Trump administration put in place, NBC News reported on Monday... Biden, who will become the second Roman Catholic president when he is sworn in to office on Jan. 20, is believed to be seeking to repeal the Trump administration’s Protect Life Rule and the expanded Mexico City Policy. The Protect Life Rule prevents organizations which perform or refer for abortions from receiving Title X family planning funds. It effectively stripped Planned Parenthood of approximately $60 million annually in federal funding.