Jeanie Hannaman

June 13, 2020

Fr. Mike Schmitz: Family: Your Shortcut to Holiness (Video)

By Fr. Mike Schmitz, Ascension Presents - Fr. Mike explains how being at home with our family is one of God’s favorite ways to make us holy—if we are honest about the areas where we need to grow in our relationships with family members... Fr. Mike has observed that college students often have a profound encounter with Jesus through their college’s Catholic community. They find that they are praying more, receiving the sacraments more, participating in more service opportunities, and so on. Then they get back home for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or—in the most recent cases—a lockdown.

June 13, 2020

Catholic Exchange: Warnings From Archbishop Viganò: Our Current Crisis & the Eternal Struggle

By Catholic Exchange - In recent months we have been witnessing the formation of two opposing sides that I would call Biblical: the children of light and the children of darkness. The children of light constitute the most conspicuous part of humanity, while the children of darkness represent an absolute minority. And yet the former are the object of a sort of discrimination which places them in a situation of moral inferiority with respect to their adversaries, who often hold strategic positions in government, in politics, in the economy and in the media. ...

June 13, 2020

Andrew Cuomo, Bill de Blasio Let Thousands of Rioters Protest, But Limit Church Services, by Tom Ciesielka

By Tom Ciesielka, LifeNews - New York’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo, his Attorney Gen. Letitia James, and NY City Mayor Bill de Blasio are being sued... for violation of civil rights by prejudicial orders and selective enforcement... Thomas More Society Special Counsel Christopher Ferrara explained the key points of the lawsuit: “These orders, both the emergency stay-home and reopening plan declarations, clearly discriminate against houses of worship. They are illegally content based, elaborate, arbitrary and pseudo-scientific. ...

June 13, 2020

We’re Being ‘Persecuted’: Catholic Dad Calls Out Cardinal Cupich for Severely Restricting Sacraments, by Martin Bürger

By Martin Bürger, LifeSiteNews - A Catholic dad in Illinois, dismayed over Cardinal Blase Cupich placing severe post-pandemic restrictions on the resumption of public Masses in the Archdiocese of Chicago, has launched a public campaign to have churches fully reopened... Joe Lazar, a father and pro-life activist, has launched a campaign called “Reopen my Church.”... “Catholics in the Archdiocese of Chicago are being persecuted by our local leadership in an unprecedented fashion,”