Jeanie Hannaman

By Rev. Peter M.J. Stravinskas, The Catholic Thing - In these last days of May, we pray the novena to the Holy Spirit (May 30-June 7), in preparation for Pentecost. And it’s useful to reflect on what the Holy Spirit did for the Blessed Virgin Mary, making her both Mother of Jesus and Mother of the Church.  By this approach, we cap our honoring of Mary during her month of May. We honor the Holy Spirit, and we honor also all Christians who have taken seriously the work of the Holy Spirit after the example of Mary.

By Charles Coulombe, Crisis Magazine - Then, after record conversions recorded in many countries at the Holy Saturday vigil, Pope Francis died on Easter Monday; a frankly unpleasant and divisive pontificate came to an end. On May 8, Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected pope as Leo XIV. Eight days later, in White Castle, Louisiana, Nottoway, the largest antebellum plantation home in the southern United States, burned to the ground. May 20 was the 1,700th anniversary of the opening of the Council of Nicaea. Disparate as all these events are, they each have a significance that is not unrelated to the others. ...