Jeanie Hannaman

December 12, 2024

5 Practical Tips to Power Up Your Advent, by Shaun McAfee

By Shaun McAfee, National Catholic Register - Advent is a time to align our hearts with the hope of Christ’s coming... When most people hear “penitential season,” they tend to imagine ashes on foreheads, solemn hymns and the intensity of abstinence and fasting. But when it comes to Advent, a season similarly steeped in the idea of preparation and penance, we tend to have it wrapped in the excitement of Christmas... So, what exactly makes Advent a penitential season? And how can we embrace it in a way that deepens our spiritual life while keeping our spirits lifted?

December 12, 2024

Nativity Scene Will be Displayed at the US Capitol for the First Time in American History, by Grace Porto

By Grace Porto, LifeNews - For the first time in United States history, a Nativity will be on display at the U.S. Capitol. The display will be on the southeastern steps in front of the House of Representatives Dec. 10... According to a newsletter from the Christian Defense Coalition, the display comes after Rev. Patrick Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition, won a federal court case in May that ruled that the steps of the U.S. Capitol building are a public forum. Thus, peaceful demonstrations can take place on the steps of the building.

December 12, 2024

Vatican Quietly Removes Listing for LGBT Jubilee ‘Pilgrimage’ From Calendar, by Michael Haynes

By Michael Haynes, LifeSiteNews - After significant public attention to an LGBT-specific pilgrimage for the Jubilee, the Vatican has deleted the event from its online public calendar... From some time in the afternoon (Rome time) of December 10, the entry for one of the approved Jubilee pilgrimages to Rome was deleted from the official website. As of time of writing, the entry for the September 5-6, 2025 pilgrimage of the “Associazione la Tenda di Gionata e altre associazioni” – or “Association of Jonathan’s tent and other groups” – is no longer active.

December 11, 2024

Are We Doomed to Forever Wars? by Jason Jones

By Jason Jones, Crisis Magazine - Syrian Christians and other minorities throughout the region have well-established reasons to worry about the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime. The toppling of the Syrian government was sudden, performed by militants with ties to Al Qaeda and ISIS, and looked exactly like another of the U.S. foreign policy establishment’s proxy regime-change wars—which in the past have again and again led to the rape, slaughter, and ethnic cleansing of minorities in nations like Iraq and Libya.