Jeanie Hannaman

January 21, 2020

Is Mass Civil Disobedience Our Future? by Patrick J. Buchanan

By Patrick J. Buchanan - Americans have a long history of breaching laws in the name of a higher law or God-given rights… The patriots of Boston gathered an arsenal at Concord in defiance of the British. To protest a tea tax imposed by parliament, they dressed as American Indians and threw shiploads of imported tea into Boston Harbor… Shays’ Rebellion in Massachusetts, to protest debt collections in 1786-87, and the 1794 Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania, to protest a tax, both had to be crushed with force… Abolitionists supported the violation of fugitive slave laws, the enforcement of which Lincoln endorsed in his first inaugural as a national necessity to restore and preserve the Union.

January 21, 2020

The Senate Impeachment Trial: 8 Things You Need to Know, by Thomas Jipping, Elizabeth Slattery

By Thomas Jipping, Elizabeth Slattery, HeritageFoundaiton - The House of Representatives has chosen members to participate in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, and they have presented the articles of impeachment to the Senate… This is only the third impeachment trial of a president in our nation’s history, with the others occurring in 1868 for Andrew Johnson and 1999 for Bill Clinton… Here are eight things you need to know as the Senate prepares to begin Trump’s impeachment trial… 1. When Will the Trial Begin, and How Long Will It Last? ….

January 21, 2020

Why Do Christians Believe in Hell? by Michael Pakaluk

By Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing - Why Do Christians Believe in Hell? Because Christendom has affirmed it, Jesus clearly teaches the reality of Hell in the Bible, and Hell’s reality resonates with an honest account of our own experience… That’s not the answer theologian David Bentley Hart gave earlier this month, when the New York Times offered him a perch to discuss the misguided beliefs of his fellow Christians. The Bible is so unclear about Hell, he wrote, while it is clear about universal salvation, that the doctrine of Hell must be purely an expression of the ill will of Christians. They hate their fellow human beings so much that they want them to spend eternity in torment.

January 21, 2020

False Shepherd, Part III: ‘We Are in Schism’, by Joseph M. Hanneman

By Joseph M. Hanneman, Church Militant - "We are in schism." Father John A. Hardon, S.J., minced no words when summing up the situation between Rome and the Catholic Church in the United States in the late 1990s. Few understood the inner machinations of the Holy See better than Hardon, a highly respected theologian and author of dozens of books on the Catholic Faith… After unsuccessfully lobbying the curia of Pope St. John Paul II to remove Illinois Bp. Daniel L. Ryan for sexual misconduct, Fr. Hardon told associates the pope felt powerless to force reform on the American bishops. "The Holy Father wants to prevent a de facto break — a formal, explicit schism — with Rome," he said.